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I make things for the #Fediverse & #smallNet

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Once upon a time, was a mathematician, computer scientist, data scientist, software engineer, industrial researcher 🌞

The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞

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atomicpoet , to Random stuff
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Whenever I’m at a Korean restaurant, they have K-pop playing on multiple TV screens.

And I get exhausted just looking at these music videos. Is there K-pop out there where the girls just chill out and relax?

reiver ,
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@atomicpoet

There is a Korean area near Lougheed Mall.

There are a lot of Korean stores and restaurants in the area.

Many don't play k-pop on their TVs. Many don't even have TVs.

(I was there, again, yesterday — on Saturday.)

atomicpoet , to Random stuff
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“Asian eyes”, also known as epicanthic eye-folds, are not entirely Asian. They actually occur amongst human populations all over the world.

People of European and African descent often have them. Mind you, they don’t occur as often as in Asians but they’re not rare either.

Well known celebrities of European descent that have epicanthic eye-folds include Bjork, Jennifer Lawrence, and Renee Zellweger (before she had plastic surgery to remove them).

I was actually telling my wife, who is Asian, that I find that physical trait highly attractive. She found that surprising since so many folks in Asian nations get plastic surgery to get rid of them.

Anyway, she better not get rid of her great eyes. 😅

reiver ,
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@atomicpoet

The Khoisan people are an example from Africa.

reiver , to Random stuff
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Wow! —

MS-DOS 4.0 has been released as open-source software under the MIT license.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

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atomicpoet , to Random stuff
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The most well-known 4-bit video game console is the Speak & Spell.

It had both a display and cartridges.

Speak & Spell is still made today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)

reiver ,
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@atomicpoet

I had the Speak & Math as a kid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Math

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maegul , to Random stuff
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Sorry, don't know who/what to tag (probably an official akkomane account on another server/platform is good best practice) ...

getting plenty of timeouts and "Server is Down" errors on akkomane.social

Started about 5 minutes ago, still happening now.

@christophertrottier

@atomicpoet

@reiver

reiver ,
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@maegul @christophertrottier @atomicpoet

Are you able to look in the "Network" portion of the web-browser "Developer tools"?

If "yes", what do you see?

reiver , to Random stuff
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1/

Let's talk about

Akomma is Fediverse software — like Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and many others.

is a fork

But —

What is an "akkoma"‽
Where did that name come from‽

Why is the tag-line for Akkoma:
"magically expressive social media"‽

And what is the meaning behind the Akkoma logo‽

tchambers , to Random stuff
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Those worried Threads might scrape the Fedi for AI training data should rest assured that EVERY bit of the public Fedi is ALREADY being scraped and used by all the AI players. Because it is free and public, compared to this:

"Rates vary by buyer and content type, but Braga said companies are generally willing to pay $1 to $2 per image, $2 to $4 per short-form video and $100 to $300 per hour of longer films. The market rate for text is $0.001 per word."

https://www.reuters.com/technology/inside-big-techs-underground-race-buy-ai-training-data-2024-04-05/

reiver ,
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@tchambers

I posted this back before the "AI hype" started.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/110208447114206197

atomicpoet , to Fediverse News
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So far, only 2,800 Threads accounts have turned on Federation. Of the ones I see, they’re quite active.

I suspect the reason for the minuscule federated accounts is because Threads users can’t see replies from the Fediverse yet. Why would you turn on federation if you’re oblivious to interactions from the Fediverse?

Nevertheless, we’ll see what happens once communication becomes two-way.

@fediversenews

reiver ,
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews

There are also quite a number of steps to turn on federation for a Threads account.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/112191768847355806

reiver , to Random stuff
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I was curious how a Threads account shows up on the Fediverse.

I have seen Threads users on the Fediverse — but I noticed that when I tried looking up many people, they didn't show up.

Later, I saw mention of Threads users having to enable Fediverse.

This is how a Threads user turns on "Fediverse sharing" on their Threads account.

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matty , to News from fediverse
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This is a really silly question but is it possible to make Neocities be compatible with ActivityPub?

reiver ,
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@matty @tezoatlipoca

In addition to the stuff I did —

I think you also need an "activity" version of your blog post.

(I.e., "application/activity+json".)

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There might be more, too — but I haven't yet checked what the minimum things Mastodon (and other Fediverse software) need.

reiver ,
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@maegul

@governorkeagan

The URL to get a fully-managed Lemmy server from is here:

https://spacehost.one/lemmy

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maegul , to Random stuff
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How is the Fedi NOT going to end up like email is today (ie, Gmail, outlook, employers and fringes)?

Not sure I’ve seen anyone talk about this much? With the spam incidents, talk of allow-list federation modes and the seemingly natural tendency for big instances (ATM, ~30% all MAU), and you know, threads/meta joining … it seems like an unsurprising outcome especially should the user base increase.

Single user instances already seem painful enough to not be worth it for even many who can.

reiver ,
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@maegul

What do you feel are the difficult things about having a single-user solo instance for many?

(Maybe the issues can be addressed.)

dansup , to Random stuff
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Minus 50, winters finally arrived ☺️

reiver ,
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@dansup

Holy fuck!

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reiver , to News from fediverse
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For better or worse, the Mastodon client-server API is the (de facto) standard client-server API for the Fediverse.

If you are building a Fediverse server — implementing the Mastodon client-server API instantly makes all sorts of Fediverse client software work with your server.

If you are building a Fediverse client — using the Mastodon client-server API instantly makes your client work with most Fediverse servers — even ones that aren't Mastodon.

reiver , to Random stuff
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There are people who worry about information, history, and culture being lost.

They want to preserve it — preserve it for themselves and future generations.

They try to save it — save files, save books, save articles, save photos, ... save anything they feel is important.

These people are called archivists.

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In some ways, ActivityPub & the Fediverse matches an archivist's dream —

Done right, ActivityPub & the Fediverse can make saving information, history, and culture easier.

How‽ — Boosting something is saving it, because a copy of what you boosted is stored on your server.

And if you are on your own server — you are saving it to your own (server) computer.

reiver , to Random stuff
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I wrote an initial draft on Small-Net

https://changelog.ca/topic/smallnet/

I have more work to do, but —

I am looking for feedback.

reiver , to Random stuff
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A font designed to be easier to read.

Including those people who having trouble seeing.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Pro
https://github.com/jacobxperez/atkinson-hyperlegible-pro

nixCraft , to Random stuff
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Turbo Pascal turns 40. who here remembers this one?

reiver ,
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@nixCraft

Turbo Pascal was the 3rd programming language I learned.

nixCraft , to Random stuff
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Print "Hello World" and I will guess which programming language you use 🥵

reiver ,
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@nixCraft

package main

import (
"fmt"
)

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello World")
}

reiver , to Random stuff
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A demo of Akkoma with the Mangane front-end.

A look at the home-page before logging in.

reiver OP ,
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A demo of Akkoma with the Mangane front-end.

A look at someone's profile page.

reiver OP ,
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A demo of Akkoma with the Mangane front-end.

A look at the home-feed.

reiver OP ,
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A demo of Akkoma with the Mangane front-end.

Choosing an emoji reaction.

reiver , to Random stuff
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A preview of

It is something that myself and @sia have been working on.

is a site meant to help with onboarding onto the Fediverse

This is a rough wireframe for the home-page of . I.e., this in NOT the final design. But something where you can get a feel for how the home-page might function.

Feedback welcome!

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reiver , to Privacy
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with @atomicpoet & @reiver

Should search on the Fediverse be opt-in or opt-out?

Google doesn't care if you want search to be opt-in.

The difference between 'privacy' and 'obscurity'.

ATOMICPOET: "[some] people believe their posts [on the Fediverse] aren't discoverable because when you do a search for them on Mastodon you can't find them." "But — here's the problem. Google still indexes those posts. And people really only discover that — really after the fact, right? I've had a number of people talk to me and they've said to me — "hey can you remove stuff from your server because Google is indexing that stuff", right?" "And — this is a problem with the Fediverse. The Fediverse exists It exists because — well, federation means you're copying stuff from one server to another server, right?" "And if you've opted to — there's different levels of visibility on the Fediverse, right? So there's obviously "direct", in which you send a message and only one person — the person you tag — actually only the people you tag see those messages. Those are, those are direct visibility. The next one is "followers only" — So only people who follow you can see your posts, right?Okay. And then there is "unlisted" where you don't have to be a follower to see a post, but it does not show up in public timelines. Okay. " Now, so far so good — the final rung of visibility is "public", right? I've had a lot of people send public posts on the Fediverse and they believe that they're not being indexed. But unfortunately they are. And you know, it's hard to explain to these people, to a lot of people how, you know — simply how privacy works because — I get the sense quite ..."

reiver , to Random stuff
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with @atomicpoet & @reiver

Are Friendica & Guppe part of the Threadiverse? Or is the Threadiverse just Lemmy & Kbin?

How many people joined Mastodon during the Reddit-migration?

REIVER: "The Fediverse has grown quite a bit. We also had quite a spike [in growth] — it was kind of a side effect [of] when Reddit was making some changes to how they dealt with their APIs and charging application developers and whatnot." "It brought a lot of people over to a section of the Fediverse called the Threadiverse. Which includes Lemmy, and Kbin — and maybe also Guppy and Friendica, because they have group support also. But a lot of people came over there [to the Threadiverse], mostly to Lemmy, BUT — while this was happening, there were a lot of people joining Mastodon also. So there was a spike [of people joining Mastodon] during this [the Reddit-migration to Lemmy & Kbin], even though Mastodon was not the target — or where people were exodusing to." "I remember watching this and at some points, I remember it being like, you know, about 6,000 people were joining [Mastodon] per hour, right‽ Which is quite interesting."

reiver , to News from fediverse
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There are a lot of different types in the ActivityStreams Vocabulary.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/

But because Mastodon only supports 8 of them (with only 2 of them being supported properly), there is "pressure" on other Fediverse software to restrict themselves to these 8.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#payloads

Because they want to be compatible with Mastodon.

reiver , to Discord
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Maybe just a bug, but —

had the microphone on my laptop turned on even though I wasn't in a chat.

(When I reloaded the tab that Discord was in, that alert went away.)

reiver , to Random stuff
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The ActivityPub Client-Server API

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#client-to-server-interactions

reiver , to Random stuff
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There is a fork of Mastodon that has a bunch of features I know many people wish Mastodon had:

Ecko
https://joinecko.com/

• longer posts,
• more poll choices,
• favicon update from web console,
• markdown support,

...

I wonder if it is a soft-fork or a hard-fork. I.e., are they still pulling in all the latest Mastodon code.

reiver , to Random stuff
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From a document written by someone trying to understand the Fediverse 🙂

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I think they meant "Firefish" rather than "FireTuna" 🙂

reiver , to Random stuff
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@IrkedAngua @atomicpoet

Regarding:

"Firstly I would recommend you have transcripts available for the Hearing Impaired."

Our plan is indeed to have text transcripts.

We haven't tested out our system for it yet. But plan to later this week.

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reiver , to Random stuff
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Be the content you want to see on the Fediverse.

reiver , to Random stuff
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What topics about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech are you most curious about?

What questions about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech do you hav?

(The Fediverse includes all the Fediverse software.)

Reply with your topics and questions.

reiver , to Random stuff
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There is a type of person who is attracted to the gemini-protocol and gemtext because they wanted a Web that was based on Markdown instead of HTML.

And the gemini-protocol + gemtext seemed close to that.

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Not everyone who is attracted to gemini-protocol or gemtext is this type of person.

But I've talked to enough of these types of people that I know they are definitely out there.

reiver , to Random stuff
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I think it would be better if there was a way to boost an entire thread, rather than boosting the individual posts in a thread.

That would mean that the thread needs to be a type of object (within ActivityPub, or some other protocol).

And additional posts to a thread need to be seen as an update or some other event (to the thread).

reiver , to Programming
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I started working with SQLite recently —

(SQLite is one of the databases that PostFreely supports. This support was inherited from WF)

So far I like SQLite

There is no database-server. And the database seems to just be a single file

(Might make for easy backups)

There is even a command-line tool, that lets you inspect and work with a SQLite data file

I am assuming that SQLite has a much lower "footprint" than MySQL, Postgres, and others

reiver , to Random stuff
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By default Kbin doesn't turn on captchas for new user account registrations.

Kbin and Lemmy servers have had problems with bots creating accounts.

Having captchas off by default seems risky to me. And a potential headache for a new Kbin sysop who is still getting familiar with Kbin.

To create a better experience for Kbin sysops, is going to turn on captchas by default for Kbin servers.

(You can turn it off if you really don't want it.)

bengo , to Random stuff
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In a few weeks @w3c social web community group meeting may receive a proposal to explore chartering new social web working group that would only be open to people who work at W3C member companies. (The CG is open to all). Today there was an in person discussion at TPAC, the yearly W3C-wide f2f. It was a day-of addition to the agenda. Now is a good time to join the CG, subscribe to mailing list, and start participating in the discussions. https://www.w3.org/community/SocialCG/

reiver ,
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@bengo @w3c @evan

Right now, the most popular Fediverse software is —

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With these up-and-coming:

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Are the teams from all these Fediverse software involved with this new W3C social web community group?

reiver , to Random stuff
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From a discussion about WriteFreely —

It mentions one of the reasons people who create content — whether that content be articles, videos, posts, or whatever — join big social-media platforms.

The answer — to reach and grow an audience.

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I discovered this, too, when I was researching why people used YouTube & other social-media. Although with YouTube there were some additional reasons, too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27800248

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27801437

The problem with personal sites is that they're hard to discover. Case in point: there are a lot of personal sites out there right now (and many more which existed but are now offline), that only a few people even know exist. We have platforms which make it easy to set up self-posted blogs, we just need a way to make them more discoverable. Which is what Twitter, Reddit, and especially Medium (which I imagine WriteFreely was inspired by) had in mind. This is something I said before: the reason existing platforms dominate the market is because they have the most users. Most people create blogs or any other kind of content because they want to be heard.
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    • reiver , to Non Political Twitter
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    "Twitter and Reddit may have only lost a few million users to Mastodon and Lemmy so far, but these are nation-sized numbers, comparable to what Scandinavia is to the United States of America. The incumbents have allowed the fediverse to reach critical mass. It's only gonna get bigger"

    ⸺ Erlend Sogge Heggen ( @erlend )

    https://blog.erlend.sh/transitioning-r-rust-to-the-threadiverse

    reiver , to Random stuff
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    There is a discussion going on on Lemmy about what people think the future of Lemmy (and the Threadiverse part of the Fediverse) will be.

    Some of the comments are interesting.

    https://lemmy.world/post/4349778

    reiver , to Random stuff
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    1/

    Following someone on the Fediverse is broken — the user-experience (UX) is not good.

    Especially if the person you want to follow is on a server different from yours.

    Sure it technically works, BUT in practice it is broken —

    I have done user testing with people who have used other social-media, but who have never used the Fediverse

    Virtually all of them fail at following someone on a remote server

    THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO COLLECTIVELY FIX.

    I'll explain —

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    reiver , to Random stuff
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    If you are writing software —

    Please expose the administration of a server instance through an API.

    It makes things easier for sysops & sysadmins.

    By enabling them to automate things.

    reiver , to Random stuff
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    An AMA (ask-me-anything) with the creators of is happening right now —

    https://lemmy.ml/post/2920188

    reiver , to Firefox
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    From @mattparlmer@twitter.com : "Using Firefox like I'm a deadender holdout on a remote Pacific island still lurking in the jungle fighting a war that ended a half decade ago" "Half the internet breaking on my default desktop browser is a feature not a bug, I'm reminded every day of the perils of monocrop software ecosystems and it keeps me blackpilled enough on man's interaction with technology to set realistic expectations" "Ngl I deeply resent both Google and Mozilla for pushing me back towards Chrome" "We need to toss the browser and start over"
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