Since reposts/boosts are now stored as actual posts, albeit with a bunch of special-case handling in many places, they now appear in profiles too.
Smithereen's native type of repost will be the "quote-post", the one that creates its own separate comment thread. All this is specifically for compatibility with the rest of the fediverse predominantly using the Announce activity for reposting.
#Smithereen 0.7 is out, finally making it practical to run a server with open signups.
This release brings too many changes to list here, both internal and external. - All-new moderation tools: role-based permissions, revamped reports, new ways of limiting user accounts, and so much more! - All-new media storage: Smithereen now keeps track of references to files, simplifying the code, and adds support for S3 object storage. - Tens of minor bug fixes and UX improvements.
#Smithereen 0.7 is out, finally making it practical to run a server with open signups.
This release brings too many changes to list here, both internal and external. - All-new moderation tools: role-based permissions, revamped reports, new ways of limiting user accounts, and so much more! - All-new media storage: Smithereen now keeps track of references to files, simplifying the code, and adds support for S3 object storage. - Tens of minor bug fixes and UX improvements.
And for those who don't know what it is, Smithereen is a "Federated, ActivityPub-compatible social network server with friends, walls, and groups."
It looks like groups are implemented similar to platforms like friendica where there's a "user" that people post at that will then distribute the posts they're sent to any followers.
I want an opinion. If you have a rule to not allow signups with some email domain, would you expect it to also apply to signup requests, when your server is in manual-approval mode?
Not "expect" directly.. Ideally I would want to have a) clear knowledge of the behavior, b) be able to inform myself about its effect (e.g. see log or alerts), and c) change a setting that allows me to override the rule in manual-approval mode.
Question is what should be default behavior. Say I launch a server exclusively for journalists, set a rule to block yahoo.com ('not trusted') and no manual approval. The time I find a 100 blocked journalists, is when I already lost them.
Mark that domain as suspicious so I take more time with this signup request.
And a third option: make signups open, except for the domain.
The second and third option require different UI and are technically specialized lists for different purposes than simple blocking. So I would answer with the first option.
Is there an #ActivityPub server where I need to parse HTML for <link type="application/activity+json" href="..."/> to get to the JSON representation of an object? I want to add support for this in #Smithereen but I need something to test against.
Can anyone recommend a free, preferably open-source, stock-looking launcher for Android that has usable pages on *both* sides of the main page? Like it used to be before Google Now was introduced (which was wonderful until someone totally ruined it with news to get promoted).
What's the thing lately with this insistence on writing proper names starting with a lowercase letter? As someone for whom English is a foreign language, I sometimes struggle to discern whether a word is a word or a name. Capitalization helps with this quite a lot. (Though in this particular case, they at least say it should be in italic, although there are many places that don't support/allow text formatting)
Making your beta-quality software available to the open internet has one good thing about it: someone, at some point, will abuse it so much, that all resource leaks you have will be exposed and will cause trouble.
It turns out I was leaking database connections while getting post likes. I don't know what it was, probably a crawler of some sort, but I had everything break with "too many connections" from MySQL every hour or two, which forced me to investigate this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
UX tip of the day: people typically don't open your app simply because they are bored. They open it with a concrete goal in mind, and you're getting in the way with your cutesy "what's new" and "rate us" and "please update" and other similar forcibly-context-switching crap.
Brought to you by me running an instance of IDEA with default settings to debug my plugin, but mobile apps do this way more often and way more obnoxiously.
Gregory's Server
Since reposts/boosts are now stored as actual posts, albeit with a bunch of special-case handling in many places, they now appear in profiles too.
Smithereen's native type of repost will be the "quote-post", the one that creates its own separate comment thread. All this is specifically for compatibility with the rest of the fediverse predominantly using the Announce activity for reposting.