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@fwtl we have a small team, and are seeking developers to join!

having full end-to-end control of two of the biggest fediverse platforms is a rare thing.

it means real progress: comment controls, unified messenger, ephemeral stories.

it also helps legitimize smaller projects doing incredible work — emissary, gotosocial and beyond.

we're living the fairytale 🫶

#ActivityPub #Together

I am the developer of @supapp, an open source, modular instant messenger for the fediverse.

Coming soon!

@stefan @liaizon We don't yet federate the hidden state, but soon will.

If you have a Loops.video account, you can see this in action here (press Load more until you see the Show hidden comments button): https://loops.video/v/5YvxWOxcRa

(Hidden comments require auth, but I'm going to remove that limitation in the next update)

@liaizon @stefan So?

If the Pixelfed/Loops user wants to disable comments, and other software doesn't respect that, why would the Pixel/Loops user care about ghost threads/replies?

We're focused on providing better/safer experiences for our users, and if other platforms don't abide by that, okay, but I'm not sure it's as pressing of an issue as you think it is.

We will get this fixed with interactionPolicy, people love our platforms because we have supported this for years.

@liaizon @stefan Pixelfed has had comment controls since 2019, and Loops just shipped "Hide comments" support, but I agree we can do more, I'm working on extensive comment controls for both Pixelfed and Loops.

@liaizon In theory yes, but in the real world, I've heard from many people that Pixelfed is the best photo sharing platform on AtProto (via Bridgy) and similar for Loops.

When you try to do everything, the experience is limited, and that's quite evident from the feedback and experiences I've had.

@plutocrash Yeah I’m working on that now!

@fribygda Yeah I will be adding a new section for services hosted in Canada! Other devs can suggest their platforms too

The most popular fediverse platforms are not American.

That's awesome. Together we're proving that a world of thriving alternatives exist beyond the USA.

We need to embrace that.

So I started https://MadeInCanada.social for my fellow Canadians.

Let's show the world how magical #ActivityPub is

FediCon was such a blast, met so many cool people.

Can you recognize any?

Looking forward to the next one

#FediCon #ActivityPub

So one tricky aspect I had to solve with Loops is how we use a hashid of the snowflake id for videos, comments and replies in public links, but also deference them to their full ActivityPub permalink.

I built a `matchUrlTemplate` helper that uses regexes to match our url schemas in a way that supports `/v/abcdefg1-` and `/ap/users/1/video/1234567890` links.

It works great, and I will be bringing this to Pixelfed to improve federation support

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/blob/main/app/Federation/Handlers/LikeHandler.php#L150-L175

#LoopsDev #ActivityPub

Implementing QuotePosts in Loops is taking a tad longer than expected.

I don't understand why they require a QuoteRequest handshake if the interactionPolicy is public, seems overengineered and wasteful to me.

#ActivityPub #QuotePosts #FEP044f

@julian @mayel please dont use me as an example, the hype I built is very real and Loops and Pixelfed are thriving and open source.

@bojanlandekic the long numbers are the keys to each video, but are long, so we convert them to a shorter alphanumeric string by leveraging a longer "alphabet" to represent the numbers more efficiently.

Loops also uses snowflake ids for ActivityPub actor identifiers!

I noticed that Mastodon has adopted this too, great to see. I will be bringing this to Pixelfed later this year as well

https://browser.pub/https://loops.video/ap/users/1

#Loops #ActivityPub #LoopsDev

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/115876278291815667

They also are ActivityPub objects that expand to the full id

We use snowflake ids, then hashids in permalinks that expand. It's beautifully simple, yet clever.

d9VqOD2_gu => 236972985113375774

https://browser.pub/https://loops.video/v/d86zgftFT9?rid=d9VqOD2_gu

#ActivityPub

The beauty of #ActivityPub

Yes, Loops federates, and admins can enable any remote instance video posts to appear in local follower feeds AND you can even include them in the For You page

https://joinloops.org/join-the-beta

#Loops #Fediverse #interoperability