Notices by Julian Lam (devnull@crag.social), page 3

So #Mastodon's implicit opinion that building your own community comes secondary to the creation of content for the #fediverse seems to be doing itself a disservice.

Each individual node has a local feed, but it's an afterthought at best. You can chat with people in your local network, but you have to go out of your way to do it.

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I keep hearing about how #Mastodon is too complicated for people to grok, and I can't help but think that this is entirely a marketing problem. #Mastodon positions itself as THE #fediverse, each instance being one way to connect to it, but not much more (the lack of local/instance-only toots reinforces this).

It's like the whole idea that each individual instance can have their own subculture, memes, and posts is secondary to this grand idea of the fediverse. No wonder people don't get it!

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#FoodForThought — a lot of #Fediverse implementors are Fedi-first, but in @nodebb's case, we're adding #ActivityPub integration to already existing and established forums. It makes me wonder whether I should think about individual users' #consent to have their content federated outside of the local instance.

All along I assumed I'd just build in a global on-off switch for AP integration, but maybe we need more granular user-level opt-in/out here 🤔

#nodebbActivityPub

@aral indeterminate checkboxes are definitely a thing. We use them in @nodebb when we need to render a checkbox state that is not explicitly checked.

@thisismissem Electrical tape is your friend 😅

@dansup @pixelfed hey, get back to me when your project supports Redis, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL 😉

@Haste @pollute_my_lungs hopefully I can help! I'm slowly bringing @nodebb to the Fediverse 🙂 forums never left, they just took a sideline for a bit.

It's high time for a resurgence.

@dansup @pixelfed did you want push notifications? I found using ntfy.sh was the easiest dead simple way to get notifications going for #nodebb

Yesterday: "#threads will be an unmitigated disaster for the #fediverse, defederation is paramount"

Today: "hi guys please like and subscribe to my threads account here 👉 .."

Doing some initial research on becoming an #ActivityPub implementor. Does my app have to listen to every single Activity type in order to be considered compliant?

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#activity-types

@evan @erincandescent @cwebber @tsyesika so many new awesome people to follow! 🙂

Whoever it is (and perhaps it's a team effort) who did the legwork to make the documentation prose-y, you're doing invaluable work!

There's nothing worse than well-intentioned but nigh-impenetrable spec 😬

@evan I would like for you to know that my bedtime reading tonight is the #ActivityPub spec. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I'd be reading a #W3C recommendation before bed but here we are.

Dry reading it is not.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

#fedidev

@jerry has been so prolific in his work spinning up new #fediverse services lately there's like a 20% chance he is going to spin up a domain registrar next.

https://newsroom.squarespace.com/blog/googledomains

I've been musing passively about how I can develop locally while still making #ActivityPub requests in order to test with real HTTP requests, and was pretty close to just deploying my code on a test subdomain (and then making the call to my #Mastodon server — crag.social), but then realized I could just stand up two #NodeBB instances on my machine and have them gab to each other instead

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#fedidev #nodebbactivitypub #dogfooding

@dansup @darnell @gabek @syuilo @Gargron @owncast it's the curse of #foss, everyone likes using the software, but maintaining it? Oh ho nononononono...

#NodeBB is much the same, two core contributors, and a nice bunch of helpful folks on our community forum as a sounding board.

I'm excited to get NodeBB on the #fediverse to open things up a bit 😅

@luceos @smallcircles @deadsuperhero @nodebb @atomicpoet @fediversenews that's wonderful to hear! We're big fans of you here at #nodebb 🙂

Maybe we'll be the first two forums able to speak to each other, wouldn't that be neat...

We can lob trolls from the safety of our own forum instances LOL

@deadsuperhero @nodebb @atomicpoet @fediversenews that's very interesting. I'm especially interested if what is rumoured in that topic (that Flarum is also interested in #ActivityPub integration) is true. It sounds like a really good opportunity to work together to make something really really cool.

Knowing nothing and judging just by the screenshots it looks like Discourse wants to have the entire forum broadcast out, instead of user-by-user? Interesting approach.