Notices by Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io), page 2

@eibhear @gutocarvalho offices and companies don't shut down over night, you do know that, right?

@eibhear @gutocarvalho that is actually what is legally being signed up for when you are the director of a branch of a multinational company

You're not just a mouth piece, you have a responsibility to ensure the company abides by local laws.

@noellabo @django ah, not on mobile

@django @noellabo looks like Fedibird is currently violating the Mastodon license terms since Mastodon is AGPLv3, so forks *must* release their source code.

Something that should theoretically be possible is maintaining separate collections of actors to address content to, and software should be able to handle that.

e.g., followers is a collection intrinsically managed by the protocol: Accept(Follow) adds that actor to the collection for your followers. (All follows on the fediverse are really follow requests, no matter what)

Would of course require activitypub servers to be aware of these additional collections in order to handle delivery correctly, but this feels like something that should exist but doesn't in mainstream fedi software.

I think only @bonfire implements this maybe?

Like why can't I create a family collection or a close friends collection & share activities just with those actors through addressing?

I can also help remote servers by sending Add and Remove activities to indicate that I've updated those collections. (Maybe it'd be Accept(Add)? Or Undo(Accept(Add))? )

Looks like maybe @silverpill's mitra does use these custom collections for addressing?

Actually, looking closer at @bonfire, I don't think they do use custom collections of actors for addressing like this? I think they're actually maybe unfurling that collection into the addressing fields for the activity itself?

@Ashedryden they've crammed AI and other useless garbage into him and it's making him sick.

@mattly I received a prompt the other day that asked if their feed was a useful use of my time 😂

@mauve @distributed that might have unintended side-effects

@mauve like flooding peoples timelines with the backfilling of posts

@mauve I think there's a bug to the contrary

@mauve I don't have it off top of my head but follow from /app/lib/activitypub/activity/create.rb

@mauve yeah, I've heard of like, birdsite bridge that did similar backfilling clogging up people's timelines, but that might be specific to that implementation.

@cheeaun
1. yes, /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server advertises it, if that's a 404, assume no support.

2. yes, per the PKCE specification.

Documentation coming soon

@dansup @hongminhee

Long complicated reason: mastodon currently uses a legacy attachment manager package for Rails and it's ridiculously complex to upgrade to ActiveStorage or something else without needing to reupload all media (which would potentially be prohibitively expensive for server operators & require publishing update to all existing notes & actors containing media)

- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/5729
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7414
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30352

@dansup @pixelfed

E.g., a system like this if used to, say, detect slurs, wouldn't really understand reclaimed slurs or vernacular context, so could actually add harm or restrictions to marginalised users speech or reach.

@dansup @pixelfed

I would be pretty surprised if this didn't come with some significant performance issues (probably somewhat fixable) — also wondering if you've looked at something like SQRL language & runtime?

You'll also likely want a warning about the scunthorpe problem & to just move matching activities to a manual approval queue (rather than dropping completely)