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box464, 4 months ago to random

Kind of a rant, sorry. I see this happening in multiple projects lately.

Good gracious people. If someone wants to contribute time and code to the #fediverse let them do it! It’s not in your preferred programming language? MOVE ON. I promise you’ll find your flavor elsewhere.

Don’t disparage their choice. Let them be. Even support them with a like or a boost and then go find another open source repo you feel comfortable with.

peertube, 4 months ago to random

We are in the process of developing a mobile application in 2024 🎉 :peertube:

Before starting the technical development, we felt it was important to understand the expectations of people who are watching #PeerTube videos.

We're looking for a few people to take part in a short 30 minutes video conference during the week of 15-19 January to find out more about your needs and opinions regarding the adaptation of PeerTube as a mobile application.

Send us a direct message if you're interested!

box464, 4 months ago to random

The proliferation of #ActivityPub is exciting. But don't dismiss those that want to defederate with corporate socials. The #fediverse was built by individuals escaping the harassment they faced on those platforms.

If you don't agree with your server admin's decision to federate with a specific domain, you can block it on your own. You have the power!

This seems preferable to an admin making the decision for all users.

Are there loopholes I'm not aware of here?

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#block-domain

box464, 5 months ago to random

#Misskey and #Firefish Advent Calendars - learn something new about these platforms each day of December! It feels very indieweb / geocities and I love it.

My fellow english speakers - it will require the use of a translation service, but those are in about every browser nowadays, so no excuses.

Side note: What word keeps being translated as "mackeral" - is it "platform" or "instance"? 😆

https://firefish.bloggy.naskya.net/

https://adventar.org/calendars/8755

box464, 5 months ago to random

So many #fediverse announcements, making my head spin. :pensive_party_blob:

kbin collections, grouping magazines privately or as shared collections

Peertube v6 chapters, scrubbing and password protected videos

Pixelfed official apps in stores by end of year.

Sup, a federated messaging app, initial release by end of year.

Sharkey post imports from a wide array of social sites (and replies to posts for Masto and X)!

MarsEdit includes Mastodon support

Funkwhale groundwork for caching

box464, 6 months ago to random

I’m starting to get intrigued by a new category of social media app. The idea is to not only to support fedi platforms with Mastodon compatible APIs, but also additional platform specific features like emoji reacts in Misskey, or even Nostr and Bluesky if you’re into that.

Instead of jumping from app to app, you view all content without losing the unique aspects of each.

@Feditext
@Kaiteki
@me (Sora)
@MonaApp

#Fediverse #MastodonApps

box464, 7 months ago to random

Managing hashtags submitted with an #ActivityPub note is not as simple as you'd think. Hashtags are collected into a separate node in the Note object.

Firefish and Friendica for example, have their hashtag entry below the content. You've got to do cartwheels to combine those with any a user may have added in the note text itself, removing duplicates.

Then ensure you maintain the integrity of the note text but also add any missing tags so they are visible to end users.

🤸‍♂️🤸‍♀️🤸

#FediDev