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   :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 08:36:53 JST :blank:

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   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
   • Sexy Moon
   • Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed:
   • Alex Gleason
   • l:3nya
   @l @sjw @p @Moon definitely, the code to hack is
   https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/blob/e8d35256653d196fd7c0daba8673a74dfe40a8e8/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex#L664
   
   the simplest way would be to fetch activities from the DB as normal
   and then if there's not enough activities
   fire off a GET /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses request to their instance, iterate with Pleroma.Object.Fetcher.fetch_object_from_id(id)
   and redo the DB query
   
   figuring out the max_id=pagination might be a bit complicated though, the id's being snowflake<time,rand> might make up for it though
   
   @alex thoughts?
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     l:3nya (l@a.awootism.club)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 08:37:00 JST l:3nya

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     • Sexy Moon
     • Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed:
     @i @sjw @p @Moon javascript will only work for web clients. but there's also mobiles.
     
     it should be possible to modify akkoma to make it load posts for foreign users on a fly. at least i think so. for me it's a little weird that it isn't implemented already. i don't know details of the implementation tho. (i will check pleroma/akkoma issues someday, maybe it was already proposed)
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 08:37:01 JST :blank:

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     • Sexy Moon
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     • l:3nya
     @l @sjw @p @Moon yeah activitypub isn't quite friendly when it comes to sharing posts
     
     you could limit it to post made in the last week, or a set number for each user just to get a taste
     your instance will accrue tons of posts either way
     
     but the idea of backfilling them on demand is a bit more complicated
     as there's no mastoapi for it, and pleroma-fe would not know of it
     you could probably hack with with a *monkey user javacript
     but that's outside of my knowledge
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     l:3nya (l@a.awootism.club)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 08:37:02 JST l:3nya

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     • Sexy Moon
     • Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed:
     @i @sjw @p @Moon the thing with backfilling is complicated af. some users may have thousands of posts and if we take a lot of users db is gonna get crazy as i understand.
     
     and i haven't come to any good solution to select which users to backfill. if we take all the users followed from the instance, then, again, it will be a crazy amount of posts. idk if its possible to backfill 'in real time'. like, when the user from the instance scrolls a user from another instance, it automatically gets posts from it. and you don't need to go to other instance's site.
     
     so i am not sure about backfilling.
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 08:37:03 JST :blank:

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     • Sexy Moon
     • Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed:
     • l:3nya
     @l @Moon @p @sjw whoops, wrong article
     
     https://blog.soykaf.com/post/how-federation-works/
     
     also that backfill tool sounds fun enough to make, want it done?
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 08:37:04 JST :blank:

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     • Sexy Moon
     • Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed:
     • l:3nya
     @l @sjw @p @Moon the trick is that pleroma comes with a /relay by default, and it's not too hard to scrape them from /api/v1/instance/peers
     
     you probably already have instances in mind you want to follow
     if you do not here's a thread were i post 2k relays with instructions
     
     https://declin.eu/notice/AWDxxJ0r6SlAEZxF0i
     
     
     as for federation, activitypub only works on follows, and fetching objects interacted by the people your instance follows
     for details see https://blog.soykaf.com/post/activity-pub-in-pleroma/
     
     there's also no tool made to backfill, but it should be possible
     you'd have to scrape the post url's of the instances/people you want
     and then fetch it via search, or script it more directly with a mix/iex task
     looping over that through Pleroma.Object.Fetcher.fetch_object_from_id(id)
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     l:3nya (l@a.awootism.club)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 08:37:05 JST l:3nya

     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     • Sexy Moon
     • Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed:
     hey instance admins how do i improve federation at my instance? is there some good articles about it?
     
     i know i can sub to relays and follow a shitton accounts manually. i've already subbed to all relays i found and some instance-specific relays, but it sucks.
     
     also, i dislike opening profiles and seeing them empty. is there some good ways to implement automatic backfilling?
     
     @p @Moon @sjw (idk who else to mention)