Notices by chris@mitra.northumbria.me

@christianp Maybe as a Rust expert @silverpill can confirm this, but from what I've heard Rust is not for "quick" jobs. It believe it has an unusual memory allocation paradigm which, like everything in Rust, is strictly compiler enforced so that when your not so quickly written code compiles it is likely to be big free and robust.

Anyway don't you mathematicians have plenty of domain specific languages already‽

@silverpill @adiz

What if we allow drag-n-dropping images from there to the post editor? That would make image reuse a bit easier.

I'd vote for that ability!

@silverpill @ozoramore_dev I confirmed this with a screenshot, but the combination of my eyesight and phone screen doesn't make it obvious or indeed discernable in ordinary reading.

Is this an accessibility issue or the same for everyone?

#Mitra #Accessibility

@silverpill @ozoramore_dev

Are you sure about that? They look the same to me.

I can't believe that the UK would even contemplate deporting an 8 year old and an 12 year old to Brazil alone. This is the letter the home office sent the 11 year old:

“I am satisfied that there are no serious or compelling reasons to grant you settlement. I am satisfied that you could return to Brazil and continue your education in Brazil where you would have the option to attend an English-speaking school.

Whilst this may involve a degree of disruption in family life this is considered to be proportionate to the legitimate aim of maintaining effective immigration control.”

I'm ashamed at the actions of this country.

#UkPolitics #Shameful #Children #Immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone

@OhOkKay

@silverpill should this display on Mitra? I can see a poll from Mastodon.

RE: https://beige.party/users/OhOkKay/statuses/114685852829260075

@silverpill @kidz @duy Following hashtags.

@silverpill @kidz @duy
Oh, I'm sure that there must be a reason that embedded images are not displayed, but that's another thing if like.

@silverpill OK, thanks very much.

@silverpill I have found what I think is probably a bug, in Mitra but one of virtually no consequence. I thought you would like to know even if you decide not to fix it

I have been playing with Writefreely and the user name is the same as that of my Mitra instance apart from with a different subdomain :

chris@mitra.northumbria.me
Chris@writefreely.northumbria.me

The post is flagged as mentioning me, even though it doesn't. I suspect this is something to do with matching the username and will effect hardly anyone and not be important for anyone who is effected.

#Mitra #Bug

@silverpill The post URL is https://writefreely.northumbria.me/first-post just incase that's useful to you.

@silverpill @Monad @b0y @NGIZero @cjd

As a novice observer that appears to me the main downside of ActivityPub, there are multiple incompatible ways of doing the same thing. Very often it seems to be the Mastodon way and the FEP (everyone else's) way.

@silverpill I'm going to answer in a couple of messages. Firstly from my account on socialhome.network if I search for myself on Mitra or for you the user is not found. However if I search for a friend on Mastodon as soon as I enter the name I see his profile page with a '+' to follow.

@silverpill secondly, I can successfully search for and follow the socialhome user from my Mitra instances. However I don't see anything I publish on socialhome, even if it has an explicit mention.

Similarly if I mention my socialhome user in Mitra I don't see the post in socialhome.

Hmm .. Mitra doesn't seem to talk with Socialhome.

https://socialhome.network/

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra

#Mitra #Socialhome #FediverseInteroperability

@silverpill @japananon Using the bleakfuture docker images it was completely painless.

I then had to modify my backup script where it called
podman exec -it pod1mitra mitra list-local-files

@silverpill @s_ol

> But it should work everywhere if we make the public part top level and post subscriber-only content as a reply.

That would work nicely in most front-ends if the topnlevel post is a headline and preface. For subscribers it would give them enough to see whether it not they wanted to read the article and for non-subscibers it would act as a 'teaser'.

@silverpill @grishka This is true, but you would see the result of an algorithm applied to the subset of Fediverse posts that the relay applies to. If a relay were to subscribe to a large number of other relays and servers and effectively cover the Fediverse, would it end up as resource-hungry as Bluesky? I suspect the resource requirements for three AT protocol are because of the design decision to act like non-frderated systems, where if an algorithm boosts your post it is boosted for everyone with similar interests.

I can see the possibility of topic based relays in a federated environment. These relays would have to be able to say to other relays and instances "give me everything related to Chipmunks" or whatever, and collect a smaller stream of relevant posts from a larger number of sources. This might be more scalable.

@silverpill @mikedev I'm far from an expert, but could it be so that you can add multiple account aliases if consolidating several Fediverse accounts into one?

@silverpill I'll give that a go later, but from a practical point of view, if I ever run anything more than a personal instance, when backing up files id probably add all the files from the last few days as well as local ones (find . -mtime -7) to improve user experience.