Notices by Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social)

@silverpill @julian @technical-discussion ideally you would traverse everything and replace anything you don't understand with "id" references.

But anyway, I feel like we're getting too carried away about a very niche aspect of the whole thing. Almost like on that SocialHub forum.

In my own AP extensions I always just act like C2S doesn't exist because I've never seen it used in practice, and it's wildly impractical to use anyway.

@julian do you mean fetching the `replies` collections to make threads as complete as possible? I've been doing that for a long time already :D

Never seen those FEPs, will take a look

#Smithereen now supports pinned posts.

#activitypub #mastodev

Oh my fucking god iOS 26 is so laggy. I especially like how the icons in settings take time to load. A real person sat down and wrote the code to make it do that.

"touch to view detailed information"... as if you wouldn't try doing it on your own anyway?!

- Many transitions feel even more jarring because of how abrupt they are. When glass elements change between light and dark for example. Or whatever this crap is.

More observations:
- Feature onboarding is bad enough, but that X in that place, really, Apple?
- The dynamically adjusting shadows that they prided themselves on so much feel jarring.

@dansup @andypiper @loops how do you even end up with two separate codebases like that...

@dansup @andypiper @loops wait, it's STILL not federated? How were you boosting your videos with this account then?

@tchambers Mastodon Android app also has this, made out of my frustration at FOSDEM last year because it was difficult to get people to open my profile to follow me. About half the time I just took their phone and typed my username myself

@tchambers but *where* do I show it?

On a related note, I'm proud of this remote interaction modal I made

Huh, interesting. Now I received this personally as an email and they *only* talk about those 4 countries, the worldwide rollout in 2027 is conspicuously missing. I still don't have my hopes up though.

Being able to install patched versions of apps made by commercial entities isn't something nice to have for me. It's a hard requirement. It's how I fight back against enshittification and keep myself saner.

Google, go fuck yourself with a cactus.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html?m=1

@Gargron IMO the only long-term solution to this is Android getting completely separated from Google. The "annoy users into submission" approach they take with Play Protect right now is already very much overstepping.

@gamingonlinux I wouldn't recommend using a Russian IP because that gets you cloudflared alarmingly often and when you least expect it
https://mastodon.social/@grishka/111934602844613193

@tchambers @mastodonmigration @laurenshof @cheeaun @rolle @scottjenson @zeldman

Smithereen fixes the DM UX thing by actually treating direct messages as something entirely separate from posts. Different UIs, dedicated inbox and outbox pages, a button in each profile to send a message, addressing in a separate field like in an email client instead of mentions. I don't even allow setting per-post visibility on my side (but I do store and enforce it for incoming posts/comments)

@dansup @reiver very encouraging to see an article that opens with, literally, "getting a Canadian visa is not easy: you'll have to collect lots of documents and there's always the risk of rejection"
https://t-j.ru/news/canada-entry-rules/

@reiver
> See you there?

Nope, no way am I getting a Canadian visa. It wasn't easy even before my country became an outcast, and now it could as well be impossible.

@morrick reminds me of that conversation I had on Twitter with a guy who works for JetBrains. He absolutely could not comprehend the idea (heh) that the existing design might be so satisfactory to someone that they simply aren't open to any change at all, but especially change for its own sake.