Notices by chris@mitra.northumbria.me

@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.

@silverpill
If you delete a remote cached file should the system reload it from remote if you view the post? This doesn't appear to be happening. After reading the backup and restore process I deleted a file

rm volumes/web/media/9d93aad389b07cd86222c3c8d46b9bedd58fcaea66a6a4d6c6d738e6e01106a4.jpg

This image is still missing when I redisplay the post.

#mitra #backup #remoteimage