Notices by Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp), page 2

@trwnh @thisismissem @mauve Oh interesting. But also: why not use arrival date for future dated posts and creation date for back dated posts? (Genuine question btw. I'm sure I'm missing some weird edge case race condition)

@jenniferplusplus @trwnh @thisismissem @mauve I see what you mean by time created vs when it should be presented. That said, if we consider the context of pulling from an outbox to backfill, then the context seems pretty clearly (to me, I could be wrong) "do not show this in the home timeline, this is just for filling in our database for views more generally"

DOES Mastodon pull from the outbox? I didn't observe it doing it at all

@jenniferplusplus @trwnh @thisismissem @mauve I see the transient language in the spec but it's about ids and guids and referencing things globally. I don't read it as saying anything about activities being temporary things that can be thrown away (though they allow for the possibility). Every time I've worked with an Event/Object model (at least in years as an MMORPG dev) we consider both Events & Objects to be first-class entities. All of these things should be first-class and treated as such

@fediforum I'm already registered but can only make Saturday due to work -- will the schedule be roughly shaped the same all three days? Like room for demos on all days, etc?

Just saw this story and still processing it...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/

> the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.

@ntnsndr this was so good!!

@rose_alibi people who don't think about language, for one

"Dear asshole,

Congratulations on losing your job. I hate you." (confetti)

(Texting) "Someone wished my dog a happy birthday but they didn't know he died last week, I'm so torn up about it" (SMS app overlays birthday cake and smiling emoji)

I want to draw special attention to our Quick-Start Guide For Fediverse Governance Decisions. It is a collection of current best practices for server governance we found during our interview process. If you're an admin/mod, or thinking of becoming one, give it a read!

https://fediverse-governance.github.io/images/quick-start.pdf (PDF)

Also feel free to forward to any admins or mods in your life :AngelDevil:

Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

@colby @eaton @Edent @simon mine is designed to only show posts from the originating user though, so multiple participants isn't something it's designed to handle

@simon @colby @eaton @Edent my assumption is I don't have a moral right to rehost other people's content I've quoted so I just render it as a URL

I have multiple monitors controlled by Linux Mint Debian Edition (Cinnamon desktop). Sometimes when I wake my computer from sleep it only displays the login/password prompt over part of the display. You can see open applications and the desktop even without logging in, just by waking up the computer!

This seems... bad? I am having a ton of trouble searching for solutions since I can't really properly name the problem I'm having.

Anyone going to be in Portland, Oregon USA for FOSSY next week? I'm speaking about the Fediverse governance research I did with Erin Kissane (not @-ing so she doesn't get @-ed, as you do)

https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/250/

I am also available for recommendations for things to do around town, such as: oscilloscope museum https://vintagetek.org/

#FOSSY2024 #FOSSY

Uhhhhhh Google Wallet is having a normal one

@rose_alibi @liza I'm Iranian so I have answers for this

https://www.unicornsinthekitchen.com/albaloo-polo-persian-sour-cherry-rice/

https://figandquince.com/sharbat-eh-albaloo-sour-cherry-syrup/

@clarity oh that's funny because in my head the tired thing is a game about Beginnings (but I see your point here too)

@polotek @janl yeah Suspense is sort of trying to mitigate the thing where every single individual async component has its own loading indicator and pops in. It lets you draw a line around components (technically just children of the Suspense component) and have finer control over when the sub-components pop in, what order they pop in, etc.

this is not me saying it's GOOD btw, haha

I am really pleased to announce that I will be joining the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center! They exist "to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good" and I hope to use my time there to keep on building cool stuff that makes the internet a little nicer and better.

More here: https://tinysubversions.com/notes/joining-asml/

New #Hometown release is coming tomorrow, aligned with the Mastodon security update that is happening. This is going to result in a forced upgrade to Mastodon v4.2.x for everyone who wants the security features (since v4.0 isn't supported by the Mastodon team anymore).

This will bring a lot of changes to Hometown. I've done my best to maintain the quality of our pastel themes, and local posting still works, and of course exclusive lists are now part of main Mastodon. More in the docs tomorrow!

I'm sure many of you have seen the Threads list of servers they have defederated from.

https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers

I think it's really interesting that "No publicly accessible feed" is a criterion for defederation. It's definitely a cover-your-ass type move: if they can't scan your public feed then they can't really know who you are so they might as well preemptively defederate.

This, and other behavior from Threads, leads me to believe that they are about as scared of the fedi as we are of them.