 Low key most excited about Autospam/mod alerts going thru Push notifications instead of email notifications Will mean less clutter for my email inbox, while still being able to quickly handle mod reports Regardless, it’s pretty neat that admins can configure mod email alerts, and take action via the app, it’s made moderation more reactive and responsive as your alerted quickly, and can easily take action! Push notifications are coming along, we’re going with a similar approach as Mastodon meaning 3rd party apps that support Masto push notifications will work with @pixelfed I’m working on my own APNS/GCM gateway too, using async php so it will be easy to deploy, though only app devs need to run this. I will run a community gateway for the official apps, along with a separate one for my own instances Fortunately, @pixelfed has a majority of our expenses covered by donations (and grants, @NGIZero saved our project, forever grateful ❤️) As much as a boat load of money from VCs would be nice, we have sustainable growth and don't need to sacrifice our vision for funding I'm looking into IAP for the official apps to bring in more ethical funding I think that along with corporate sponsors will allow us to do more while staying true to our ideals For the amount of VC inquiries Pixelfed has received, I can't imagine how many offers Mastodon gets Big ups to the big G for not selling out It takes a lot of love and true dedication to be able to ignore such tempting offers, and really goes to show how dedicated he is to the fediverse, open social platforms and humanity!  @dansup the thing about those offers is they're often the end of the project and the founder rarely really comes out all that well. I mean, in the cases I can think of, most got a pretty good salary for a couple years, and then left as the company/project withers into irrelevance under new leadership brought in by the investors. No big exit happens in the vast majority of cases, even though that's always the bait they use to get you on board.
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 @dansup @pixelfed You are the boss, you make the decisions, and you live with the results - good or bad. As soon as you take money from someone, you now have a boss. I was too ornery to have a boss so this is the path I took in my programming career. A lot of work and learning many skills besides programming but a ton of fun and ultimately rewarding. Having seen lots of VC funded companies I know I chose a better path for me. You do great work - enjoy your path! Admin shadow filters will allow @pixelfed admins greater control over accounts It's not shadow banning, it's shadow filtering 💅 (I know this will be controversial, but girl we need more mod tools and ain't nothing stopping you from running your own server if you dont agree. Slay don't stay, u do u boo) @pixelfed P.S this is mostly meant for Autospam, and our upcoming Gate/Role features Admins need more options like these to make moderation easier, most users will never experience this as it’s meant as a last resort before banning/deleting accounts. Also, this will be logged, to allow admin/mods to discuss and handle accordingly It’s not my place to dictate your servers rules, my job is to build the tools to make user/admins lives easier ✨ See who viewed your Story Shipping tomorrow, Sept 12, to our Android and iOS apps! #Androidlust @dansup I personally feel that this particular feature of Instagram’s implementation of stories could have been left out, or be made an optional opt-in. I’d rather not have authors know my identity when reading their stuff, if I don’t explicitly choose to interact. I finished Stories for the Android @pixelfed app, it's ready to go for #androidlust tomorrow 🚀 YSK: Long pressing your own story will take you to the "Add Story" screen rather than loading your Story. On a side note, swiping left should close the Story, will add that tonight @dansup i never asked about but how are stories managed between servers? are them like sent over the activitypub protocol as well? Stories and Push Notifications are the last two remaining features to ship before we declare a feature freeze and prepare for the app store release! This is my first app submission, so I don't have a timeline in terms of an ETA, but we're getting pretty dang close 😁
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@dansup congrats on a milestone reached. Hopefully it sails through the process for you. I wanted to screen record Stories on Android, but the phone doesn't support that feature and only free sketchy apps exist, so I rigged up a mount and ended up making this https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/111044678886486915 It's not perfect, but that's what gives it character 😂 @dansup this is so based. Btw I’m pretty sure that phone supports screen recording through adb shell screenrecord https://adbshell.com/commands/adb-shell-screenrecord @dansup I think it might be a lineage rom feature but I've found the screen record quick tile to be super useful for reporting app bugs. It's nice having it as an OS feature. TIL about Nginx Unit, someone mentioned a 40% perf increase over fpm (I know it’s highly subjective) Will be taking a look after I do some good ole Sunday deck building 
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@dansup I went the other way, to a proper strongly typed language. Operator overloading, how I missed you. TS will never have that and I never benefited much from it anyway. But I'm not going back to regular JS either (except for some glue code here and there).  @dansup sorry for being rude but screw DHH with his deranged takes. man keeps living in times when he created rails and tries to force that on others if you don't like typescript, that's fine, I get it, don't use it in your apps if you don't want to. but what he did is totally remove any typings from the LIBRARY that others use, without any alternative the right way to do it is how @rich_harris did it at svelte where they now use JSDocs and publish declarations, which works great for everyone  @dansup I am so not surprised to see Taylor Ottwell siding with fucking DHH Wow, seeing a lot more Stories on pixelfed.social than usual! Time will tell if this feature sticks, more Story UX improvements are coming later this weekend And Push Notifications 🔔
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pixelfam, the iOS build has been shipped and approved by Apple The latest build allows you to add to your story using photos or videos from your camera roll, and improved story playback.
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@dansup Nice, congrats on the new features. 🥳 *beg-mode on* Please build with support for iOS 15 again, so people like me can test them too 🙃  |
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