Notices by Julian Fietkau (julian@fietkau.social), page 2

@hongminhee Nice. 🙂 Does it do anything to the username part?

@gamingonlinux @rdnielsen The "Mastodon effect" is a real thing, but its impact will depend heavily on how a site is set up. I'm surprised a news site would struggle with it.

Discussion on the Mastodon GitHub here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23662 A fix seems to be currently planned for 4.4.0.

What am I doing this weekend? Learning #TypeScript, #Deno, and @hongminhee's #Fedify all at the same time, for a project which I'm hoping will be used by many people.

What could possibly go wrong? 💪

@blaine @ch0ccyra1n So I do a lot of stuff in Python including my little ActivityPub projects, and I've found that @takahe has the ActivityPub parts split off into a composable library: https://github.com/jointakahe/taktivitypub

They say it's early in development but it's probably more mature than mine. 😄

It'd be nice to have a framework of sorts in Python that combines AP, WebFinger, HTTP signatures and all that stuff, without the fixed microblogging use case.

So basically yeah I agree!

@PersistentDreamer Pixelfed is an ActivityPub-powered social platform that @dansup is developing. It's focused on photo and image sharing. It's interoperable with Mastodon, so you can follow Pixelfed users from here if you want to. https://pixelfed.org

The above screenshot documents and incident where a post on Meta's Threads was automatically marked as spam for mentioning Pixelfed. This is likely because Pixelfed is a competitor to Instagram and Meta is petty.

@aral @sarajw Going by his GitHub comments, I wouldn't be surprised if Ryan changes the plan to opt-in after sleeping on it. Making a protocol bridge 100% opt-in comes with some thorny interaction design challenges, but the "prompted opt-in" idea that a few people have brought up seems workable. I think that's what I would do in his shoes.

@denisbloodnok @aral @sarajw I do tend to be optimistic with people. 😄

Of course I'm not in his head, but I empathize. He was up pretty late last night of his timezone replying to people, and in that time got the two puzzle pieces "move towards opt-in" and "how an opt-in process could work in practice" figured out, only missing the final commitment. I wouldn't have made a big statement at like 2:30am either, I would've gotten some rest and come back refreshed.

But maybe I'm wrong. We'll see! 🙂

@denisbloodnok @aral @sarajw @yala

Called it. 💪

https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835#issuecomment-1942046208

@scottjenson @Danc @edk Around 2006 some German HCI researchers investigated what makes an interactive system intuitive to use, concluding that it has more to do with familiarity (= ability to transfer existing domain knowledge into it) than simplicity. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/1784197.1784212

One of the authors later taught HCI in Hamburg. It's where I picked up the notion that systems for professionals (of any kind) often look more like airplane cockpits than stove panels. Complex tasks beget complex tools.

@scottjenson @Danc @edk Their writing alludes to the responsibility of designers to foster capability growth instead of only aiming for the lowest common denominator, but stops short of making process suggestions.

I brought up the parallels to game design to Kindsmüller then. Somewhere I've got slides connecting the Mohs et al. IUUI model to @Danc's layers of mastery (https://lostgarden.home.blog/2007/02/04/one-billion-buttons-please-should-we-build-features-for-experts-or-newbies/). But he mostly waved me off. The guy never could find any room for games in his conception of design. 😄

@renchap I appreciate this approach, Renaud. 🙂 Is there anywhere people can follow the progress on this work yet, like a GitHub issue or an FEP draft? I get asked about this pretty often and I've been linking people your roadmap thread from a month back as the "latest update".

@aral Hey Aral, I gave you a shout out while talking to @fediversereport about the philosophy behind my recent weekend project Pinhole :fietkau_software: https://fietkau.software/pinhole and why I built it to be anti-scalable. Thanks for the inspiration! 🙂 If they end up using the full quote, your name should appear in their next newsletter.

@killyourfm Can't do any reorganizing here, they're already next to each other on all my computers. 🧡💙