Notices by Jackson Palmer (ummjackson@mastodon.social)

@aral @ai6yr @paul It's scary how effective it is... they receive far too little public scrutiny imo.

@aral @ai6yr @paul Literally from Mozilla.org

@ai6yr @paul It's just amusing to me that Mozilla gets on an ethical high horse about not being like other Silicon Valley tech companies, when it's really run no differently than a bad startup.

Putting this here so I’m motivated to finish up the spec https://socialjson.org

Seeing more sites and news outlets have stopped updating their RSS feeds. Not a good sign.

I've personally ceased posting there and won't engage with the #Bluesky platform again, until they get serious about basic Trust & Safety concepts.

They just raised $8M in funding, but somehow it took them months and a wave of terrible usernames showing up on their feeds to block using slurs in usernames.

#Bluesky appears to be in meltdown mode.

Last night they were bombarded with slur usernames and haphazardly applied a patch to enforce a blocked word list on sign up.

Nobody from their usually chatty team has posted in 24 hours. No explanation, no apologies, no "we're going to hire someone who knows Trust & Safety".

Personally not a fan of the @username@instance.tld format that the fediverse uses... especially the @ at the beginning, which is entirely redundant.

Much prefer the simple instance.tld/@username format.

Is something broken on .social? I just started seeing posts from people I do not follow in my Home feed. Have made sure they're not boosts/replies.

@mmasnick @Gargron "XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles" is the funniest thing I've read today.

For anyone new to Mastodon and/or the fediverse and struggling with discovering people to follow, or just wanting to keep up with the news - check out https://feditrends.com/

I've been maintaining it since earlier this year and hope that it might help make your transition a little easier.

The "you have to pay to view content, because AI companies are scraping us" line we're seeing from social media sites like Twitter and Reddit is just a convenient excuse.

This is simply decades-old unsustainable funding models and dried up venture capital runway finally coming home to roost. Plain and simple.

@mastohost @aral @dominick That feels like an optimization waiting to happen? I had assumed things were either happening concurrently/async or being offloaded to different queues...

@aral @mastohost @dominick Those extra background tasks make sense, but are you saying the architecture is such that those operations block concurrent processing of outgoing HTTP requests? I imagine performance could also be improved by not sitting around waiting for a response on all 3k of those HTTP requests.

@aral It looks like you're running a single user instance, how could performance be that bad? Is it because of your # of followers?

@dominick Actually... reading into this a bit more. Sending 3k HTTP requests shouldn't be a lot of work, this sounds more like a Sidekiq issue specifically. Hmm.

@dominick Wow, that's unsustainable and a huge problem.

@aral @dominick @mastohost I'd be curious to know how many outgoing HTTP requests per second are occurring and whether *that* is the bottleneck vs. Sidekiq itself.

It's hard to get away from chattiness if you want to remain decentralized - but 3k requests per second should be a walk in the park even on fairly modest hardware.

Does anyone have a sample ActivityPub app or example script that simply Follows remote actors and is then able to receive updates? Looking for a super lightweight example to play with.

#development #activitypub #mastodev

Maybe a naive #mastodev question, but are their pagination/cursoring parameters for the "Context" method?

I'm not seeing it in the documentation at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/#context

If a post has 40+ replies, will they *all* be returned? #development