Notices by Rimu (rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 11

@smallcircles @hrefna @jenniferplusplus Or... now hear me out...

You could use a dynamically-typed language that can cope with this fine and get on with building something.

Right tool for the job, seems like.

@cvennevik This is why I only write backend apps. 😊

@cvennevik Oh cool! Well, I guess you don't *have* to use js modules... They are a fairly recent addition to the language.

@cvennevik Any decent web framework should provide a command you can run to start up a temporary development web server.

E.g. yarn run
Or
flask run

@alcinnz I've been really enjoying Flask for the last 4 years. Currently building some fediverse software with it!

@th Fantastic!

So much spam gets posted to Usenet through Google Groups that the only way to make it readable is to block all posts coming in through Google Groups. It's been a plague on Usenet for years and years.

@Joekw But there's a lot more you might have to do also, like editing, deleting, blocking, reporting, replies and it will spiral fast.

None of it is rocket science (the hardest part is signatures https://join.piefed.social/2023/11/19/anti-forgery-measures-in-activitypub-signatures/, hopefully you can find a library for that rather than rolling your own) but it's kinda painful and slow as you're dealing with interop between lots of different software and the spec is pretty loose.

@Joekw If you just want to have a profile that can be followed (so you're only serving activitypub JSON, not receiving and parsing anyone else's) then it's relatively easy.

Follow is one of the simpler activities, with little if any variation between implementations. For details, check out https://join.piefed.social/2023/11/18/subscribe-and-unsubscribe-to-a-community-follow/

Sharing the gaming activity would be like making a RSS feed with extra steps and rather than using XML it's JSON.

Inspired by https://nickpunt.com/blog/deescalating-social-media/, I've added a function to #PieFed so authors can acknowledge their mistakes and de-escalate difficult discussions.

I'm committed to building a happier & healthier social media. Read more at https://join.piefed.social/

@stim3on It was a great day, thanks for the reminder :)

@dave ChoreBuster automatically generates a fair chore schedule for everyone in the household. It has apps for Android and iOS.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.chorebuster.mobile

@timberwraith Any social media platform that does not immediately IP ban people with 88 in their user name is dropping the ball.

#piefed

@NewtonMark Sadly it is only 17,000 entries and there is a lot of repetition. 5866 unique email addresses.

https://midgard.antifa.se/register/

https://antifa.se/2023/12/04/afa-research-vi-offentliggor-midgards-kundregister/

@nazgul I've bought a few months worth of WorldNomads back when I was a nomad. It was fine. Didn't need to use it though...

@kslazinski What is the minimum payment threshold? i.e. how much do you need to earn to trigger a payment from Apple?

@sphygmus Great, thanks for that! I remember seeing it 6 months ago but I had no hope of finding it again. I'll definitely be taking those ideas seriously.

I wish PieFed was anywhere near ready for the Beehaw migration but realistically it's months away from being a contender.

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @yaneerbaryam @whn Yeah.

Or maybe the conditions that make it more likely to catch Covid (parents working in medical setting, retail, crowded housing, etc) also make it more likely to catch other airborne respiratory diseases?

@siderea Thank you so much for this great thread! You've given me a lot to think about.

I have been moderating all kinds of online spaces since the early 00s. Forums, FB groups, wikis, etc etc. All of that experience will inform the construction of the moderation tools on the fediverse platform I'm building (https://join.piefed.social/).

Your thread helped me get more conscious about the bigger picture of those tools, the "social engineering" that is going on.

@gnu2 No.

I'm going to need to to prioritise interoperability based on ROI (effort to code vs amount of users reached) so Lemmy/Kbin will be first, followed by Mastodon, Pixelfed and Peertube. Then we'll see.

#kbin has been forked, with many of the kbin developers moving to the new fork, called "Mbin"

https://kglitch.social/m/updates@kbin.melroy.org/t/70081/Mbin-is-born-Fork-of-kbin/top

#fediverse