Notices by Nik (nikclayton@mastodon.social)

@apps are you periodically pruning the cache with a worker?

That's unreliable, for the same reason scheduled boosts aren't reliable.

https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/pull/2139 is the fix I made in #pachli.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116766336607908530

@Gargron Who at Mastodon GmbH is responsible for public policy, outreach, and lobbying?

@digdilem @KimSJ @crystallinefire @glyph @rmi

> It's hard to get enough of something that almost works.
> - Vincent Felitti, MD (writing about alcohol addiction, but the analogy holds)

RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/116607927615843059

I'm not sure that highlighting what appears to be a fairly accurate and cited LLM generated search result is an effective argument against LLM generated search results.

Especially when better arguments against them exist.

@dansup @benpate maybe not a great example, given all the ignored questions on that PR.

@fesshole Charley Boorman? https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/13132/monday_7th_march_2022.html

@apps where are the API docs? A quick check on the website didn't turn up anything obvious.

If you're waiting for the #tusky timeline rewrite before new features arrive then you will probably enjoy #pachli, https://pachli.app.

You're already familiar with the UI, and there are countless quality of life improvements.

Well, not literally countless. I've listed some of them at https://gist.github.com/nikclayton/2244d5ce547706983ca9f79a76ebbabd

And #quoteposts at the end of this month.

@realcaseyrollins Don't know I'm afraid, I work on #Pachli, https://pachli.app (does have edits, initial work on quotes should be in the release at the end of this month, does also have many other features, covered at that site).

I haven't worked on #Tusky in ~ 2 years, https://nikclayton.writeas.com/update-5-on-stepping-back

@apps

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/quotes/#general-recommendations-for-clients

> Additionally, if a status has a quote, you should remove/hide from its contents any element with the quote-inline CSS class, as this will be used for fallback and will otherwise be redundant.

@realcaseyrollins when you refer to censorship, which specific sites do you want to use that you think are censored?

"political violence" is a phrase invented by politicians to separate "violence against politicians" from "violence committed by politicians".

@apps How do you distinguish between "Post is missing from the timeline because the server didn't include it" and "Post is missing from the timeline because the original author deleted it"?

To put it another way, is the app inadvertently showing posts that have been deleted by the original author?

Same question, but for edits. If you cache a post in the timeline at version 1, and it's subsequently edited to version 2, does the app show version 1?

@apps Got more details on that last point?

Google refusing to allow an app on Play unless it censors content on a competing service should be big news, if true.

@jotaluis @apps I believe that's a misunderstanding then (/cc @grishka).

You have to provide **in-app** reporting (cite: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/14747720?hl=en-en).

I made this work with #Pachli's existing report capability, and wrote https://pachli.app/csae/.

@tyil @iftas Here's an object lesson in the problems that can happen if you do that, and that most people are woefully under prepared for.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240923122229/https://blog.strangeobject.space/posts/2024-09-23-shutting-down.html

@esk @thisismissem @mekkaokereke @dma As a (non-Fedi) benchmark, #Metafilter (/cc @jessamyn) costs about $250K a year, and most of that is moderator staff cost.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k_OtgtWwh80LyvukFOZYvYWTkv8rEKgj

@inthehands Not sure why you thought that was sarcastic. Trying to form a mental model of how Word interprets formatting instructions ("Why does the formatting change when I collapsed two paragraphs into one?") and then giving instructions to Word based on that mental model meets the definition.

Contrast that with pounding on the keyboard trying to get it to do what you want without understanding what's going on.

@hbuchel why does "it's largely a tech instance" matter?

I confess, I don't understand peoples' obsession with specific servers. It feels like as if when you joined Reddit your account was somehow limited to posting to a specific subreddit.

I appreciate there's a critical server connectivity limit below which reach and discovery are affected, and new users might not be best served by those smaller servers, but apart from that...?

@hbuchel if Hachyderm is

1. Sufficiently well connected that discovery and search works well
2. Sufficiently well moderated
3. Not going to ask a user to leave if they post about non-tech topics

then I'm not sure how it's a bad recommendation.

I'm assuming people want to follow accounts of people they know, and their primary discovery mechanism is posts that are boosted into their feed.