NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

This caused a real mess here in Australia. Organised crime stepped in to consolidate a lucrative black market, exacerbated by already high excise taxes on tobacco products. I suspect the same will happen in Belgium -- the euphoria will be short lived and punctuated with a huge increase in street violence surrounding anybody who sells tobacco products. What you are unlikely to see is any decrease in the availability of vapes.

Glad you made it. Here it's 30, a few light clouds,  and a lot of pesky flies.

Seriously, that's so yesterday.

Yeah, I might set that on my single-user instance. For spam prevention, it isn't so much post limits, but reply limits. Especially on the platforms that don't have any reply controls. I might add that as well, as it is tracked separately from top-level posting. That fits my general belief that fediverse projects should not set policy, but provide the tools so that individual instances can easily implement whatever policies they desire/require -- and not be forced to play whack-a-mole with spammers as their only means of defense. That gets old real fast.

Most of my projects have the ability to set total post limits and number of connections limits, though sites rarely set them. Many set file storage limits; though - since we otherwise give every person unlimited cloud storage by default. I don't have any problem letting a site admin define posts-per-day as a quota policy or a payment tier policy, if anybody sees a need to do so. Would be trivial to implement. So trivial that I did it whilst posting this reply...

Could somebody please request/insist that poll updates SHOULD or maybe even MUST include an updated timestamp? Otherwise update activities could be processed out of order, with potentially conflicting or incorrect results.

Thanks.

My favourite is playing "pop goes the weasel" at the eulogy.

We always have it with lots of different berries, like your recipe. Yes, guava works.

Here's what I see. sfba.social serves the San Francisco Bay Area, where it would still be the 27th or the middle of the night. I

In Australia, it's about 15:27 on Saturday the 28th.

Looks more to me like somebody from Oceania (Australia, etc.) with an account on a US server. Everything in the activity appears to be correct, and the displayed time is correct for somebody on this side of the planet,  so I think the US (mastodon) server just wasn't expecting to host people in a different timezone than it was configured for.

Funny because on this side of the pond, the name of the conservative faction of government is literally "the Liberal Party".

Add a bit of passionfruit or kiwi and you've got our favourite Xmas dessert here in the South Pacific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlova_(dessert)

I didn't know that the US only has fireworks in large cities now and there are no longer any drunk yayhoos in the country shooting off fully-automatic firearms and throwing cherry bombs and 1/4 sticks of dynamite around to celebrate. It's been a few years since I left and I guess things have changed.

To be fair, I do watch the Sydney fireworks on TV. They're spectacular, but I'll still sedate the livestock. Our yayhoos aren't quite as well armed, but they can still make a fair bit of noise.

I guess you've never had to get a rampaging bull back in the paddock after he's trashed all the fences. Great fun. We literally sedate our livestock on New Years -- as does everybody in these parts. It's to keep the damages and liability costs within reason.

I am unsure to what extent Mastodon search federates. But I did hear somebody refer to it as federated. I think the idea was that all searches take place on your own server, and only searches content that has federated to it already. That's also why they rely on "it's illegal to look for my post on your server" permissions; which I'll call out for the snake oil that it is. It might be your content, but it's on my server and you can't physically stop somebody from doing anything they want in the privacy of their own home.

My goal was to provide something that's fully integrated with opensearch and also lets you search remote servers (assuming you authenticate and/or have permission to do so). The next step would be to build a distributed search engine to let you search through your followers' sites (which might take several minutes or more to return results) and then a background task version to extend that to the known fediverse (which conceivably could run overnight). I didn't get to that before I hung up my developer hat -- as I decided I needed to live more of my life before it's all gone.

I'll offer what I think is a better approach, but I won't try to sell it to you. Note that Mastodon also has what they call federated search - but seems to require AWS infrastructure and imaginary permissions that only apply to those who choose to be bound by them.

Do what you want.

https://fediversity.site/help/develop/en/Federated_Search

"and there is practically no movement to fix it"

Conversation Containers FTW.

G'day. Minor heat wave, and gusty. High 30s. Stay hydrated folks.

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

I would probably use 'url' for related links, and tend to use 'attachment' for things like images or maps that are physically attached to the post.