Notices by Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 19:05:39 JST Paul Wilde @ente And Blob said "Let there be blobcats" and there were blobcats -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 07:45:40 JST Paul Wilde @evan well, I think the only possible response here is to ask if you are an expert in posts about unrelated topics or an expert in something else but posting about posting about unrelated topics which is unrelated to your actual field of expertise? -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 05:44:29 JST Paul Wilde @admin actually, I've just linked up to that relay with my Pleroma instance fine... are you using the full url with "/actor" at the end? -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 05:42:24 JST Paul Wilde @admin That is the correct place, but the relay appears to be giving a HTTP 500 error (Internal server error)
It's not clear whether that's on the relay end or your end - do the logs show anything? -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 07:02:19 JST Paul Wilde @admin @blaine Yep, you can't have centralized governance over a decentralized system. -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 06:05:20 JST Paul Wilde @dungbeetle @Gargron @admin I don't know, I have issues with the words "traction" and "audience" to be honest, they simply don't sit right with me in this context.
"audience" gives a vibe of "listen to me, I am your hero", and "traction" sends signals of "hey, don't miss out on this!"
Maybe I'm the only one, but the fact those things don't exist here make me think otherwise (ignoring the technical reasons why they don't exist here) -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 02:00:27 JST Paul Wilde @admin @Gargron
TL:DR: "Hi, I used to work for Twitter, and I'm here to fix Mastodon" -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 02:00:24 JST Paul Wilde @admin @Gargron Joking aside, I think there's one critical flaw in the entire argument: Unlike Twitter, we have compatible alternatives.
Mastodon is popular because it works well, the features are right for the majority of people. Those that want different features have found out about Pleroma or Misskey, or any other alternative with features that are more in-tune with what they want and have migrated over. Twitter has not had this, so trying to apply corporate case studies for improvement logic is flawed right from the start.
Stop trying to make the Fediverse something it isn't!!!!
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 03:46:44 JST Paul Wilde @admin @actsukrit I just had to check myself there actually. I don't think there is an upper limit... well, there sort of is at 100,000, but this too is configurable... at least in Pleroma forks.
no idea on tumble limits, but I'd hope it's less than 100,000 :blobcatreading: -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 03:34:08 JST Paul Wilde @actsukrit @admin yep, the 500 char limit is just for Mastodon users, any other platform can have whatever limit they like (it's configurable in everything but Mastodon I think).
there is an upper limit of about 10,000 chars though at which point posts are dropped -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 05:51:39 JST Paul Wilde @anderscs @kino @admin I'm not sure if they could mine it as such, the data isn't on their server.
Sure they could parse posts to gather information - but this is a public forum, so anyone could do that really.
Plus there's rate limiting. My instance only allows 3 timeline requests every 5 seconds for unauthenticated users - so actually gathering any sort of useful data would be a long task.
In the end I'm sure if they ever tried anything suspect then instances would block federation with them and that'd be the end of it. -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 04:15:08 JST Paul Wilde @kino @admin @anderscs right, they can't force, but they could implement features that could effectively break federation with them leading to other platforms to either having to implement the feature or be left with a perceived "fault". and perception matters.
the other side is a platform holding a lot of users and/or public awareness of ActivityPub can also hold back development of the project by not implementing things, this has happened again with Mastodon, but I think other platforms have got bored and are just implementing things anyway now -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 04:14:31 JST Paul Wilde @admin @anderscs ah, OK, thanks. they have experience with AP then so that's a benefit -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:54:25 JST Paul Wilde @anderscs @admin I'm worried too... aren't tumblr owned by Yahoo? not a great business to be fair.
but, the great thing about the fediverse is separate bubbles can exist, so just because they're implementing ActivityPub does not mean we have to federate with them.
my concern would be them implementing features that would force other platforms to implement the same. Mastodon has done this already, but generally their intentions have been for the greater good, I'm not so sure about Tumblr. -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 06:21:57 JST Paul Wilde One of these days I'm going to decide what software I like... back on vanilla Pleroma again ? -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 09:18:39 JST Paul Wilde @deidyomega Nim -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 01:51:28 JST Paul Wilde I'll just pop myself in here...
Yep, other software calls the "federated" (or explore) timeline "The Whole Known Network" - key word being "known". As your instance members follow more people, those remote followees posts will show up in your federated timeline.
Simple as that really ? -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 23:48:11 JST Paul Wilde @admin @p yes... check my codeberg repo (or pinned post in bio), I am running Rebased in a podman (drop in replacement for docker) container. theoretically my setup scripts should work for docker too though -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 23:28:17 JST Paul Wilde @admin @p also, to help with a balanced view on Rebased vs Akkoma... I have set up and used both, and I can answer some things
for me, Rebased seems a much more "professional" system. I mean this more in the way it looks, and so it is much more aligned with the expectation of a new user coming from, say, twit or FB, and looks good enough to help maintain a professional look of a brand.
I don't mean that in such a way to Akkoma is worse, but Akkoma feels more "fun" and generally feels less restricted I.e. say what you want.
both if these are fine ways of running a server, and one is not better than the other because of it, but it does mean they suit different use cases and ultimately can't easily be compared because of this. -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 19:59:38 JST Paul Wilde So far very happy with the @soapbox FE - I think it may be worth switching to the #Rebased (previously Soapbox BE) backend as well.
@alex - are there any pitfalls I should watch out for when converting a Pleroma BE to Rebased? Or will a database migrate more or less do the job?