 Was hoping to ship the new #pixelfedApp builds tonight but was sidetracked with the database maintenance and other things. I’ve run into a few issues after upgrading react-navigation that need fixing before it’s ready, will need another day or two. On the plus side, it’s much more responsive and faster with native navigation animations! Along with Hermes, the new arch, and refactored pure components, the new builds will vastly improve UX! What a perfect time to build and ship the app 😎 I had to resize the database server disk on pixelfed.social, I thought it would take 1 minute per GB but it was faster. We were at 80% disk capacity and I didn't want to run out so I figured this is a good quiet time to do it and it was! I will be setting up a read replica to help deal with load in advance of the mobile app release, I'm very lucky to have focused on scalability and perf so early on as it makes it easy to sustain growth 💪
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@dansup hey dude, that might probably off topic, but turns out that your post is longer then 500 characters - question: how did you did it? Thankfully @pixelfed supports custom 503 page title and body (with HTML) so I can add the following .env variables to pixelfed.social to keep users in the loop! PAGE_503_HEADER="Service Unavailable" @dansup @pixelfed please don't repeat this mistake, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25939 Edit: And we're back! It didn't take as long as expected! https://pixelfed.social will be performing a database upgrade in 25 minutes, it's expected to last for up to 80 minutes. Updates will be posted here https://status.pixelfed.social/maintenance/234192 
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  @dansup to save you some time when writing the porn detection, Fred Colon, of Ankh Morpork City Watch fame, has you covered* with the classification rules. "Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,” said Fred Colon. This sounded a bit weak even to him, so he added: “Or a plinth. Both is best, o’course. It’s a secret sign, see, that they put in to say that it’s Art and okay to look at." -Thud, Terry Pratchett's #Discworld *no pun etc...
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@dansup Is there a way to change my username or free it up so that I can use “login with mastodon”? When I try and use that option, it tells me my username is taken (by me on my pixelfed.social account) & prompts me to choose another. @dansup oh, I thought this was for browsing with Mastodon in a different UI. One Pixelfed account is enough for me haha  @dansup Pixelfed will soon be shipping with a default blocklist that is enabled by default, admins can customize it as they please. Glad to finally ship #SignInWithMastodon It was only 12 days ago that I first announced this! I didn't think it would take long but it's quite complex. Frontend: 1.5K LoC Next up: New mobile app build with Stories, Boosts/Following Hashtags in feeds and more, in a few days 😅    Sign-in with Mastodon for @pixelfed is now available, here are a few screenshots! Oblig blog post about it: https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/introducing-sign-in-with-mastodon-streamlining-sign-up-and-login-on-pixelfed
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@dansup@mastodon.social @pixelfed@mastodon.social Worked perfectly for me! Thanks for shipping this 🎉
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One of my @NGIZero milestones for @pixelfed is resilient media storage and processing If your S3 provider goes down, it will switch to a backup provider seamlessly and sync data once primary is back online Transcoding media on remote servers will also be possible, and you'll be able to define parameters like mime type - allowing you to have a separate video transcoding server
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@dansup Hey, what’s the story with video from iPhones? 🤔 I’ve seen stuff online about modifying the .env file to enable it and it works, so why not enable it by default?  @dansup hello, There is an increasing number of microservices that power various parts of the @pixelfed ecosystem, and it's pretty neat. Our mobile app reaches out to a microservice api to get a list of pixelfed instances that are open and meet reqs, it's basically just a cached response of another microservice running on fedidb. Another example is https://beagle.pixelfed.net, our new discovery and auth service, will be sharing more in a future blog post ✨ One of the main reasons it took longer than expected to ship #signInWithMastodon is due to the max limit setting. By default, a masto user will only be able to sign-in to 3 different Pixelfed instances. This works by a centralized api that I run, to enforce the max limits across instances with ease. Admins will be able to set their own max limit and opt-out of it entirely, choice is good 😉
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Btw, the oauth scope we use for this is only "read", we cannot post on your behalf or other things, and the source will prove the limited data we use from your Mastodon account (bio, username, avatar, following) pixelfed.social's statuses table is 30G I really need to ship a command to purge remote posts older than X without any interactions (they can be re-fetched via search) I'm going to drop the `entities` column since we don't use it and it takes up a lot of space Also considering dropping the `rendered` column, storing two copies of the same post caption (one with html markup) isn't efficient, we can autolink on demand. 😅 Regarding the `entities`, we transform posts based on a defined schema, then cache it (and remove/add attributes depending on if client is mastodon compatible) and finally hydrate state (liked,bookmarked,shared). By moving the autolinking (converting plain text to html with hashtag/mention links) to the cache step we can eliminate storing it in the database, and also better handle autolink changes (mentioned user deletes account) Sign-in with Mastodon will be quite configurable! One challenge is to prevent abuse like a single Mastodon account using this on dozens or hundreds of Pixelfed instances. I got that handled though, using a centralized list of masto webfingers that are incremented upon sign-in, we can enforce a max limit of uses! Let me know your thoughts, boosts appreciated 😁 #pixelfed #signInWithMastodon Pixelfed ships with a list of blocked email providers, mostly consisting of anonymous providers. This works pretty good, though I need to update the list and allow admins to define their own, as well as disable it altogether. Pixelfed does things a bit different, pushing boundaries and setting trends when it comes to dealing with spam, it feels pretty cool 😎 https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/dev/app/Services/EmailService.php#L20 I have ADHD and have a tendency to start new things (features, refactors, new projects) when I haven’t finished others I’ve been trying to work on this and focus on shipping instead of working on the exciting new thing As a result, many of my new endeavours that I’ve been working on (some for 2 years now) are reaching maturity and will finally be released soon (Groups, Stories, Push Notifications, Mobile app in app stores) What an exciting era for @pixelfed 🚀 |
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