Aral Balkan
Oh ffs, Mastodon, why can’t I set these limits from the administration interface on an instance for one.
(It’s a rhetorical question. It’s because Mastodon isn’t optimised for instances of one. Then again, that’s why I’m working to try and birth the Small Web… longest pregnancy ever, mind you.)
PS. I don’t manage my own instance. If I did, I could, of course, configure it. But it shouldn’t require that.
Aral Balkan
@the1goit Haha, I hadn’t even noticed that :)
CC @MonaApp
The1goit :v1:
@aral did the failure notification have a stroke?
Travis F W
@aral seems like there should be a single-user mastodon fork. Or a single-user mode to enable.
Aral Balkan
@travisfw There are lighter-weight ActivityPub clients. I just don’t have the time or wherewithal to migrate. The next thing I’ll be self hosting (in parallel with my Mastodon instance for the foreseeable feature, because they fulfill somewhat overlapping but separate needs and because the Small Web stuff will be rather primitive for a while yet) will be my own Small Web place :)
Aral Balkan
@konstantin Yeah, that’s the other thing that rubs me up the wrong way. Don’t make me fork your software just to raise my own character limit on my own instance!
Konstantin 🏳️🌈
@aral Just this week I was looking for the character limit ... it meeds me to edit ruby files to change it 😅. It would be great if Masto borrows inspiration from other flavours like Akkoma/Pleroma where settings like this are accessible and easy to toggle.
Aral Balkan
@nellie_m I might have picked up a few nasty habits, having lived there for over a decade :)
nellie-m
“….isn’t optimised…” being a very polite British understatement.
David Nelson
@aral Silly question time, what would be the expected behavior of other instances you federate with when the post is pushed out to them? Ignore the post entirely? Strip off the media? Accept the file anyway regardless of their own limits? Don’t mean this question in a snarky way, but it seems like adjustable size restrictions would get sticky on anything that federates.
Aral Balkan
@dmnelson Not a snarky question at all. And rather cuts to the heart of the problem with ActivityPub… the way I’m thinking of handling it with the Small Web is by making the poster responsible and making notifications links. If you want to post a 1GB video, you go ahead. Everyone will load it from your instance. Seems only fair :)
Aral Balkan
@dmnelson Then again, you can do that with the Small Web because every place (domain) belongs to a single person. Not so much with a the semi-centralised (federated) model.
Aral Balkan
@alex Ah, yes, that guy. He does keep harping on about it ;)
Alex Hyett
@aral @travisfw I just had to search what “Small Web” was. Found a great article. This guy looks familiar 🤣
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