Notices by Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social)

@dansup of course, I'm just asking how you handle it for Mastodon DMs. Because I myself have given up on trying to group messages into conversations entirely, I display them like emails.

@dansup how do you deal with branching replies and someone adding and removing mentions in the middle of a thread?

@dansup so you do separate them into conversations? How does that work with federation?

@mariusor do you have any examples of actors that have a ed25519 key?

I'm adding support for multiple public keys per actor in Smithereen for future-proofing purposes. Are there any signature algorithms other than RSA currently in use on the fediverse? ECDSA maybe?

#ActivityPub #mastodev

@dansup by the way, what's this with seemingly every gay from North America being obsessed with this whole drag thing? I.. just don't get it? Among Russian-speaking gays hardly anyone ever brings up this whole concept. For all intents and purposes, it seems entirely absent from our culture.

@dansup but that's Bluesky-like centralization

@dansup Android has always been more powerful than iOS because of the intent system tbh. Any action that an app can perform in another app can be handled by *any* app. That's how you get replaceable launchers, dialers, SMS apps, web browsers, photo galleries, camera apps, email clients, etc.

@dansup how would you do federated global search tho? It's a requirement for dating apps. I've never used Grindr, but Hornet that we use in Russia shows a grid of profiles sorted by distance as one of its main views. There is a social component to it (you can follow people and post) but it's very much secondary.

Android 17 has this nice feature where if you update an app (even via adb) while it's open, it'll relaunch it automatically after the update is done installing.

@dansup imo ActivityPub and ATProto are both vers

@dansup device fragmentation is mostly a non-issue starting with Android 5

@dansup it's not like iOS development is any less of a mess

"You should target the latest Android version" but at the same time no instructions on how to do that, lol. A classic case of Google being Google.

Ok I'm getting somewhere

Now here's the first obstacle: how do I make these apps talk to something I control instead of the real VK servers. For testing I could just put things into /etc/hosts I guess? Oh and I also have to do the self-signed SSL certificate thing because they all use HTTPS for authentication (and only for it, all API calls happen over plaintext HTTP)

Place your bets which ones of these VKontakte apps I'll be able to make work with Smithereen

One thing I didn't realize is that these apps are new enough to know about `execute`. Smithereen does have that, it's even better than VK's but fully backwards compatible. However, the code that they execute surely assumes things about older API response formats 🤔

Added + concatenation for arrays: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen/commit/bfa3dfdbaf8a63edd2d97edeff5b9452414aee59

Now friends.get returns a permission error for some reason. It shouldn't do that. A token that was obtained using password grant should bypass all permission checks, but for some reason, in this particular case, it doesn't, hmm.

Thanks @samhenrigold for nerd-sniping me into this whole thing btw :P