Notices by Jay (jsit@social.coop)

When quote-posts become baked into #Mastodon and available via the API, I hope clients stop fetching quoted posts on their own.

Part of Mastodon's implementation will be the ability for people to prevent quote-posting of their content, and to "withdraw" their posts from anywhere they were quoted.

"Faking" quote-posts by merely fetching the post object from within the client will not respect these preferences and intentions of the quoted user.

@Ctrl_R Yes, of course anybody *can* fetch something that isn't followers-only. Just like you *can* log out of Twitter and see tweets from someone who has blocked you.

But adding that extra hurdle makes it inconvenient and therefore less likely.

@Ctrl_R Anybody adequately motivated could easily steal my car, but I still lock the doors.

@Ctrl_R This analogy could get messy if we explore it any longer, but my point is that impediments to doing bad things, even imperfect impediments, are good.

Responsible developers will make Mastodon clients that obey user’s wishes, and the extra effort required to find the quoted post will likely deter enough people to make the feature worthwhile.

@Ctrl_R Oh, I mean, when Mastodon *does* have native quote posts available via their API, where the native user preferences are respected, then the third-party fetching should stop. It's deliberately circumventing a safety feature at that point.

@BeAware I definitely paid more than I needed to. I didn’t even check Amazon before checking eBay, as I reflexively avoid Amazon whenever possible. eBay has other listings at similar prices, though, and the seller had a good rating. What a weird racket.

@BeAware

I bought a CD on eBay. It just arrived in an Amazon box, with a gift receipt, along with six metal rings -- evidently for horse bridles -- also with gift receipts.

The only possible explanation is that the eBay seller didn't even possess the CD. They sent it as a gift to me from Amazon, and added the 75¢ rings to hit the free shipping minimum.

And I paid way more on eBay than I would have on Amazon.

Is there any Mastodon-like ActivityPub software that auto-fetches replies from unfollowed accounts? I'd love to just host my own instance, but I hate that it means you don't see so much content. Does #GoToSocial do this?

In other words, what’s the best #ActivityPub software for a single-user instance?

@i @justine @galileo I feel like the only people/instances who participate in relays are trolls and bigots and Nazis and spammers and other weirdos.

"Image Playground" is truly one of the dopiest things Apple has released in recent years.

Will somebody please get @theonion@threads.net to federate

I had my first real-life encounter with gen z slang on Halloween when a trick-or-treater said to me -- and I am not making this up -- "skibidi toilet to your brother"

@dansup How can I create an account?

Media Log: Train to Busan (2016)

Watched: Oct 21, 2024

#NowWatching #movies #MediaLog

Does a link become trending on #Mastodon if only *one* account posts it, but hundreds of others boost it?

The fact that Mullenweg keeps harping on #WPEngine’s lack of upstream contributions — something that is by no means required by anybody using #WordPress — demonstrates how weak he knows the copyright claim is.

If it were a strong case, he could just quietly file the cease and desist and not go on and on about the values of open source, which are irrelevant to whether a copyright has been violated.

@annika What font is that?

I don’t know about everybody else but have you tested that #Threads #fediverse sharing account options link? It just opens a browser for me.

I’m on the latest version of the Threads iOS app.

https://www.threads.net/settings/account/fediverse