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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:23:06 JST Alex Gleason
   Whenever people search "alternatives to Mastodon" they find lists like "Awesome Fediverse", Fediverse.party, etc which exclude Soapbox on purpose for political reasons. We've tried getting added to those lists to no avail. We have an SEO problem. So if you're looking for a way to contribute, simply creating resources that include Soapbox would be very helpful.
   
   Soapbox is powering some of the largest sites on the Fediverse, and so far word-of-mouth has been effective. But we still shouldn't let them silence us in that way.
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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:25:50 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @alex Be like Steve Jobs. On the bottom of all Soapbox post put "Powered by Soapbox FE."
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:25:50 JST Alex Gleason

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     @polarisera I think we have the ability to do that, actually.
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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:32:09 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @alex Does Fediverse have a "meta" non-visible field?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:32:09 JST Alex Gleason

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     @polarisera Emoji reacts look like {"type": "EmojiReact", "emoji": "?"}

     Unsupported servers see the unknown type and just drop them. To do as you suggest, it’d have to look like {"type": "Note", "content": "blah blah unsupported ?", "emojiReact": "?"}

     Good idea but probably not worth the effort.

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     @alex Or better yet, when someone uses a non-standard react, send a message "This user reacted with [emojji] using Soapbox FE." to indicated the lack of cross-fedi compatibility.
     
     they can wonder why masty doesn't have reacts.
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     heyarnold (heyarnold@outpoa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:32:29 JST heyarnold

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     well, friend... fediverse.party is not an easy website to use. First time I looked at it... it looked like a box of Christmas lights and it was a terrible mobile experience. fediverse.party isnt the problem. All these sites that help people find instances really suck.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:32:53 JST Alex Gleason

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     @heyarnold You're right.
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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:35:34 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @alex What happens when servers have different post lengths when federating? Does it send a message as to why, etc, cut it short, break it up?"
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:35:34 JST Alex Gleason

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     @polarisera In Pleroma/Rebased the local limit and remote limit are individually configurable. Remote limit is 100,000 by default, before it starts truncating posts.
     
     Mastodon does a similar thing, but both limits are hardcoded and are lower numbers.
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     heyarnold (heyarnold@outpoa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:35:50 JST heyarnold

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     there is a way better way to do it. Anyone with a sound mind can do it and dominate the search results.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:35:53 JST Alex Gleason

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     @heyarnold Well help me out.
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:39:11 JST 

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     @alex @polarisera Doesn't sound that good, might result in lots of spam. Emoji reacts are organic on servers that support them, they have the separate box in frontend and notification type that can be selectively muted. If we do a fallback like this for servers that do not have them, it will just result in lots of messages that clutter the thread and do the exact opposite of positive PR.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:40:44 JST Alex Gleason

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     • anime graf mays ?️?
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     @graf @polarisera Yep. Soapbox used to show it as well. It was removed because Pleroma didn't support it before, but now it does.
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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:40:45 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     @alex @polarisera the frontend version is displayed on older versions of husky (some poast users have builds mid way through 2021 based on the soapbox build version)
     
     the bots show it, for example graf_ebooks will show you it's posting from "graf_ebooks", same with pixelpix and others. would be neat to add it to the actual website because one of the best things about twitter was bullying people for using shitty devices
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:42:12 JST Alex Gleason

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     @otso It's configurable by the admin. "Profiles require authentication"
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     otso (otso@pleroma.karjalazet.se)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 00:42:14 JST otso

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     @alex
     
     the battle is about free speech, yes, but why are Soapbox instances closed, you can't discover users on them?
     
     I tried Soapbox once but I don't use it for that reason.
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     Hyolobrikator (hyolobrika@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 04:35:52 JST Hyolobrikator

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     @alex What about alternativeto.net? Is Soapbox being excluded there or has no one tried submitting it?
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     potato (potato@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 04:50:05 JST potato

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     @alex
     It's a shame they play these games because Soapbox is legitimately nicer than these other fediverse frontends.
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     tallship@misskey.de's status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 04:50:36 JST tallship

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     Excluding #Fediverse platforms borders on the criminal. Considering the cold, hard, dry statistics askew as a result of such evil data manipulation that the Fediverse is supposed to be free of, I suppose there's not much distinction between that and the current Fried/FTX fiasco in moral, ethical terms.

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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 23:57:55 JST Alex Gleason

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     @ryan Do you mean server-to-server? It's impossible to guess the fronted from a user agent, but in federation we still use "Pleroma" for Rebased. It wouldn't surprise me if some people are blocking that on the nginx level.
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     𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 (ryan@rebased.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 23:57:56 JST 𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘

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     Are we running into a lot of people actually blocking certain front-end user agent strings on the nginx level yet? Are they going to break something and do we break something if we mitigate it?
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     Darren (terrorofdemons@rcsocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 03:08:30 JST Darren

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     @alex I'm not smart enough to help in a technical way, but as a regular ol' user, I can say I really like Soapbox. It's a good experience.

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