Notices by Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social)

@dansup

The amount of busywork app stores create for developers in this day and age is absolutely insane. The bureaucracy has long surpassed government agencies.

You used to be able to check two boxes, pay 25$ and publish any apps. Now you get this crap several times a year with nothing changing from your side. They must have dedicated departments that keep inventing new ways to fuck with you.

What exactly is gained here by writing "last week" instead of the precise timestamp? It's not like there's a lack of space there either.

I see this UX mistake very often. It's maddening. GitHub is one of the worst offenders. Instagram is also guilty of this with its "3214 weeks ago".

@dansup sure

I like it how "right" Smithereen UI looks in Windows 7 lol

Twitter's AI bot is promoting Mastodon. Nice.

@tchambers
▶️ I will finally release Smithereen 1.0

Making progress on #Smithereen:
- Added the "saved photos" system album and the corresponding button in the photo viewer to save images there
- Added the ability to attach album photos to anything that things can be attached to — posts, comments, DMs

#activitypub

I finally translated my #ActivityPub tutorial to English: https://grishka.me/blog/activitypub-from-scratch/

(several people at this year's FOSDEM asked me about this)

@Gargron @seindal @Mastodon more precisely, if the gap popped out from behind the top edge of the screen, it will load above, otherwise it will load below.

I wasn't posting much news about #Smithereen lately — fixing that!

The core functionality of photo albums is now done. You can create albums, upload photos, comment on them, and like them. It's all properly federated (between Smithereen servers only). There's a brand new photo viewing UI too. Two of them, actually, desktop and mobile.

Remaining features for 0.9 include:
- "System" albums — profile pictures and saved photos
- Tagging
- Profile picture update posts
- Groups feed

#activitypub

So I made a macOS thing. It's a fidget spinner, but with a twist.

Made possible thanks to @samhenrigold posting about his own experiments with these private APIs.

People in the #fediverse development community are posting about "SWF" but this is the only thing I think about when I see that acronym

@dansup I need it for some older scripts that use mysql (not mysqli), but 8.x does the same. The maintainer seems to have deleted all the packages, and their index as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"why do you hate Linux so much?"

"why do you hate CLI so much?"

I'm adding new profile fields to #Smithereen, so I would like to ask the fediverse about what kinds of contact info one would expect to be able to add to their profile. So far I've seen:
- Personal website/blog
- Matrix
- XMPP
- Telegram
- Signal
- Phone number
- Twitter
- Email

I've not yet seen these in fediverse profiles but they are mainstream enough that won't hurt to add:
- Instagram
- Facebook
- VKontakte
- Snapchat
- Discord

Is there anything I missed?

#ActivityPub #mastodev

I made a FEP for an important part of my groups implementation: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/db0e/fep-db0e.md

#ActivityPub #mastodev

@mikedev @silverpill actually, Smithereen has private (invite-only) and closed (manual approval + invites) groups, and I do have an authentication/permission mechanism to go on top of FEP-400e, what I called "actor tokens". I have it documented here: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen/blob/master/FEDERATION.md#access-control-in-non-public-groups

Never made it a FEP because I thought that the whole FEP process was dead. Should I make one?

Since reposts/boosts are now stored as actual posts, albeit with a bunch of special-case handling in many places, they now appear in profiles too.

Smithereen's native type of repost will be the "quote-post", the one that creates its own separate comment thread. All this is specifically for compatibility with the rest of the fediverse predominantly using the Announce activity for reposting.