Notices by Raphael Lullis (raphael@mastodon.communick.com), page 3

@pfefferle @evan @naturzukunft @julian

I've been *dying* to find a way to work on just that: https://raphael.lullis.net/a-plan-for-social-media-the-what-the-why-the-who/

Any chance the fine folks at Automattic can hire and/or sponsor my work on it?

@jackmjenkins no? the thing in Brazil has nothing to do with moderation.

One of the most typical mistakes from newbies in chess is that they refuse to think what would be the best move *for their opponent*. Let's say they learn a opening gambit. They will spend 50, 100, 200 games trying that gambit with the *hope* that their opponent will fall for it. When they don't, they just ragequit or move on, thinking that they need to find a different gambit to use.

Follow up to my idea of getting https://cupid.careers integrated with #activitypub .

I could've simply written a bot that uses the Mastodon API to interact with the followers and send all the questions as polls. Or;

I could have spent some days grokking out https://codeberg.org/Vocata/vocata to have my application running as a client of the service. Or;

I could spend an indeterminate amount of time writing my own AP library for django.

Guess which one I chose?

Two weeks in, and now I have a service that can accept follow requests and create questions activities. But that's it. I was hoping to get a PoC ready before the 1st of the month and to promote it before Hacker News "Who is hiring?" threads.

Two weeks where I could've launched the MVP and worry about the details later, but instead I went "Let's play with this new toy" mode.

To be fair, though, I learned a lot. Vocata has some powerful ideas there. It's just a pity that I couldn't get it to work past the "it runs and I can create an actor to be followed" stage. I wonder why @nik is not working on it any longer.

@stefan @BeAware

Be careful what you wish for.

The old "information wants to be free" adage is not just a quip for pirates to justify download of copyrighted material . It's also a good reminder that any technology that is created to limit transparency *will be subverted in favor of ruling elite*.

I for one *do not* want an internet where I can not browse freely. "Consent-based mechanisms" work at personal, local level, not at a global one.

@stefan @BeAware

robots.txt is no contract, no one should expect to be protected from being crawled just because they placed some hints indicating what user agents are welcome.

Relying on consent and general good behavior is just bad digital hygiene. I'd rather people just acknowledged that and make it a basic principle: do not post anything on the open web unless you are sure you don't mind it being available to any present or future malicious/adversarial entity.

I feel like a sense of capitulation going on here. The rate of sign-ups on Communick is down to pre-Xitter acquisition levels.

Is it just me or is it a general thing? Any instance that is actually thriving, or should I dial down any remaining ambition that I have?

@corruptian that's also a possibility. The question then becomes: what are people doing instead?

@jeff @evan @dansup @pixelfed

As far as I know, only Takahe (https://jointakahe.org) offers that.

@evan

Somewhat agree. IPFS makes sense to use as a caching layer and certainly it could help reduce operational costs of a Mastodon instance, but it's too slow to be the main server and it is impractical for mobile clients.

What I'd like to see is the possibility to send multiple URIs when storing/sending information about attachments. This one leave to the client to figure out whether to use a HTTP link or IPFS, or magnet links, or embedded data...

@marcan

I don't see any "technical" issue with curl|sh, but do you really think that normalizing the act of downloading and executing random code from the internet is a good idea, without any social proof?

Sure, my mom wouldn't be doing curl|sh anyway but I'm thinking of a linux newbie who learns that "it is okay to curl|sh" and ends up installing all sorts of crap in their system.

@stefan

From the W3C spec: all objects distributed by the ActivityPub protocol MUST have unique global identifiers (...) must fall into one of the following groups:

- Publicly dereferencable URIs, such as HTTPS URIs, with their authority belonging to that of their originating server. (Publicly facing content SHOULD use HTTPS URIs).
- null

Does this mean an Actor ID can be resolvable through some protocol other than http? E.g, DNS?

@pixelfed @Mrfunkedude we can do better than that. Let's make a deal: https://communick.com can host a Matrix server for you, pro-bono.

@pixelfed Matrix is federated. Something happened with one room, you are free to create another.

Your reaction is akin to saying "I had trouble getting my favorite handle on pixelfed.social, so I am going to go back to Instagram".

@silverpill +1 for gateways instead of gateway, if you allow me some bikeshedding.

@evan

Hi! I sent you a DM yesterday, but I had other people reporting that my DMs were not making to their inboxes. Did you get it?

Crazy idea of the day: how could I integrate https://cupid.careers into the Fediverse?

If you don't know, it's a "OkCupid for Jobs" site that I did a couple of years ago. People answer questions and the system tries to find other people who are the most aligned with your professional values and the companies.

@evan , how would one go about it? Make an account that publishes the questions as polls, and internally collect the responses?