Notices by hexaheximal (hexaheximal@mastodon.social)

@dansup Why not Valkey/Redict?

It would make a lot more sense to replace a formely-FLOSS component with a still-FLOSS fork of it than to replace it with a different component that is still not FLOSS.

@dansup What about Wafrn though?

A made-by-Pixelfed fediverse Tumblr replacement would definitely be interesting, but the concept of a fediverse Tumblr replacement has been done before, and I'm not really sure how this would be much different.

@dansup @virtuous_sloth Not necessarily. I think that they just tried something without realizing the massively chaotic impact it would have.

...I say this as someone who has done something here without realizing the massively chaotic impact it had, although this probably isn't even *that* bad.

@dansup I don't think joking about this is a good idea. This should not be a matter of discourse, but rather trying to find a solution that at least most people are happy with instead of fighting with each other.

It's not even enabled by default, and looks to me like an experimental feature that is just starting to be tested and isn't quite ready for a stable release yet.

The privacy concern is real, and valid, but I would focus on the approach taken. That's where the discussion should be.

@dansup I found the commit: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/commit/a55bd6d2bd7b11aed653f4614836caed4103bec3

I get why something like that would be implemented from a privacy perspective, but randomizing it is by far the worst approach as (like you have just shown) it manipulates legitimate fediverse statistics tools.

In my opinion, it would make far more sense to either report all of the counts as 0 or simply return a 403 Forbidden response.

@dansup ???

Quick PSA about https://frequency.app:

1. It's not actually the unique platform it tries to make itself look like. It's a Mastodon fork.
2. *In violation of Mastodon's AGPLv3 license*, Frequency is proprietary, or at the very least does not provide any link to the source code.
3. They paywall signups.

This isn't anything particularly new and interesting. It's just yet another corporate leech on the fediverse...

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Frequency #FrequencyApp

@Jain for a second there I thought it was going to be some more fedi meta, but then of course the post is a few blobcats

@Jain blobcat!!!

I have had this photo lying around for almost a month now... it's probably about time to finally post it.

postmarketOS device group photo! :D

#PostMarketOS #MobileLinux #Linux #FLOSS #ChromeOS #GooglePixel #GooglePixel3a #Pixel3a #Nexus #Nexus5

IT WORKSSSS

#Mediaberry

@eff Like with all other EFF-created websites, it's REALLY well-polished. I don't even know where to begin...

fedi

@Jain and I thought I had very little sleep...

Saw this in mov.im and the first thing I thought of is... WHY DOESN'T THE FEDIVERSE HAVE THIS?!

I obviously don't know much about the XMPP microblogging implementation, but I saw that they did this and I think that this is how it *should* be done.

Making a simple opt-in mechanism is the ideal scenario.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #AskFedi #AutoDNI

@soop Special thanks to @Jain for the vectorized blobcat :)

@soop found it!

@soop I made a really cool one a while back, let me see if I can find it :)

Since getting a high quality audio file for it requires a soundcloud account... here's the audio file, have fun fedi :)

===== Attribution info =====
LEMMiNO - Cipher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0q5PR1xpA0
CC BY-SA 4.0
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@me I think the best move would be to make it standardized and interoperable. If that ends up being how this goes I'll probably even add it to my ActivityPub implementation at some point in my neverending quest to make modules (plugins) for literally everything.