Gregory's Server
 I tried AVIF in Smithereen once. It took actual time to save each image. Like, hundreds of milliseconds. Decided to stay on webp for now.  Working on a #fediverse growth bot, using data from @FediDB with more accurate data and graphs  I find it ironic that all those people who'd make jokes about Mastodon, and how heavy it is compared to fedi alternatives, would go on to use one of them, only to run into performance issues when they reached a certain scale. Yeah Mastodon uses a lot more ram than pleroma, but that's because of redis. Mastodon never stored raw AP objects, and never subjected admins to hours long migrations due to bad schema planning. I'd like to see another project scale like Mastodon or Pixelfed does 😉   @dansup there's different vectors in performance. Mastodon performs well for large (and huge) communities. But it performs terrible for single person setups. E.g. #gotosocial is the reverse. It performs very well for a tiny community, but far worse for a (ten) thousand user instance. I'm still convinced the fediverse should push for many small instances. The @mastodonusercount bot reports inaccurate counts btw It counts instances (and users) that have been shutdown for years, and does not properly handle spam or fake instance stat counts I should make a more accurate bot using https://fedidb.org data (which removes instances + counts which have been down for longer than 2 weeks)   @dansup @mastodonusercount looking at the user numbers (and particularly active users) on fedidb.org it definitely paints a different picture  @dansup @mastodonusercount maybe this is why big tech has an eye on the Fediverse - it's hard to get accurate numbers and they can embellish numbers to their advantage haha It's been 3 years since I came out, and I still get asked "are you sure your gay" I get asked this almost every day, and from the same person My partner, I'm sorry I never watched every season of drag race, or know all the real housewives before I came out He's taught me a lot haha, it be your own people sometimes 😂 😅 p.s - Jimbo better win, and we stan Teresa Guidice in this house *flips table*  @dansup This just made me love pixelfed 10,000x more, representivity matters y’all @dansup next you’re going to say “Who’s Kylie Minogue?” (Also such a cute story 🥰🎉🏳️🌈)
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 @dansup my headcannon it’s that they are just jealous: if they can’t have it, like petty children, no one can I don't have many followers compared to some more established fediverse developers, but I will use my following to spread awareness of less known fediverse projects and initiatives when I can. If you have a legit fediverse related project or initiative you'd like me to boost, don't hesitate to DM me! We're all in this together, and fuck follower counts, we're all equals ❤️ @dansup This is the first time that I have not really cared so much about follower counts. Follower counts seem to be immaterial and don't matter in the #fediverse Kbam for Kbin is coming along! I suggest you follow @hariette and her app #artemis for now She is building an amazing Kbin app inspired by Apollo which is iconic, my app Kbam will be a bit different as I don't want to duplicate her efforts Fediverse app developers like her are often underappreciated, please let her know how much you appreciate the efforts of a Kbin app ❤️
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@dansup I think she may have been private temporarily but not anymore Looking forward to what you’ll come up with. I love Apollo but I have 3 lemmy apps that all look like Apollo…. I think people are trying too hard to be an Apollo replacement when really they should try to be more original. I do need a kbin app though  @dansup @aakselrod @hariette Are the c2s APIs so different that one has to create apps dedicated to either #kbin or #Lemmy? It's such a pleasure to work on fediverse projects like @pixelfed, https://fedidb.org, https://fediverse.info and kbam! Really appreciate all the support, but don't worry about me 😎 I'm a burnout but I'm not finna burnout, being able to build projects like these is a dream and y'all keep me energized 🚀
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@dansup  Tbh, the whole twitter rate limit thing is interesting from a privacy standpoint. Pixelfed has limited apis for anon users and required login for certain actions, and now I’m kind of conflicted. The point of this was not to create a walled garden, but rather to deter mass crawling, this is why we also return empty outbox and follower/following activitypub collections. Maybe a privacy friendly default with the option to make your public data more accessible via api is a better solution, wdyt?
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 @dansup I would just question whether that's a feasible goal to achieve. Not sure how well it works with Pixelfed currently, but making content publicly available to anyone who wants to view it (even through other federated servers) may just be fundamentally incompatible with any reliable way to prevent scraping. And promising privacy features that are impossible to actually uphold may be counter-productive. (For instance, how Snapchat's ephemerality has always been possible to circumvent.)  @dansup Mastodon has an opt-in for search engine indexing. That seems reasonable to me. Nope, still getting errors, ffs. The error seems to be a "missing contract", so likely will require Apple to rectify this on their side, cursory googles show that others have had to reach out as well, so unfortunately, we have to wait 😔 Well it appears I have to contact Apple support in order to fix the TestFlight situation. My apologies to our iOS users 😒  Welp, accidentally just expired all my #pixelfedApp builds. Don't worry if you already joined, I just have to publish a new build and you'll get a notification. Just need to finish the comment UI refactor 😅 Love using ChatGPT when I'm stuck on challenging things, like regexes in React Native, I didn't know positive lookbehinds were not supported! I've used it quite a bit lately, it helped write a few https://pixelfed.blog posts too 😉 Back to #pixelfedApp development! Will be jumping back to kbam and the new fediverse.info microsite in the next day or two! New https://fediverse.info microsite rolling out soon, powered by https://fedidb.org data ✨ #fediverse #onboarding
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@dansup I would rather have file size limit that resolution limits. Also I would love it if PixelFed relied on JPEG-XL as primary storage option, although I understand that this would be problematic given the limited support for the format —some way to transcode to a supported format on the fly would be necessary.