The worst thing about centralized social media is that the company not only gets to keep your data hostage, but also to control every aspect of its presentation.

#Smithereen update.
- User list in the admin panel.
- UI to change the access levels for users.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

Look, they've fixed the typography on this screen this time!

#LaunchAmerica

#Smithereen update. Admin panel now has its first tab, and you can now set the name, description, and contact email for your instance.

#activitypub #mastodev

If this whole quarantine thing has taught me anything, it's the fact that internet isn't a substitute to real life. It doesn't come even close. Yes, it's a revolutionary invention. Yes, it literally changed my life, and multiple times at that. But I'm growing increasingly tired of everything being online and generally in the spirit of "like the real thing except you stay at home". NO. I've had enough. I want my real life back. I hated staying at home and working remotely even before the virus.

https://wincent.com/blog/grieving-for-apple

Small #Smithereen update. I'm now rid of one more annoyance: direct links to comments now redirect to the top-level post page where the linked comment is highlighted. Comments still open on separate pages with JS disabled to make it possible to reply to them, but now there's a link to navigate to the top-level post, too.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

#Smithereen update: improved profile pictures.
- You can now select a square region while uploading one.
- Regardless of that, your profile will still show the full, non-square version, VK-style.
- You can now delete your profile picture.

TODO: figure out how to expose these in #ActivityPub objects.

Мяу?

#cat #cats #catsofmastodon

I miss having a life.

#Smithereen update. One less frustrating thing for actual serious usage: any URLs and domains in the post text are now parsed into links. Let's hope I won't need to edit this regular expression ever again.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

Unrelated to ActivityPub: Daniel Jackson is so damn hot.

Of all browsers, only Safari on Mac doesn't support <input type="date">. This makes me sad, and it feels like the new IE — Safari is also the only reason why I have to keep jpeg images around.

The best way to see the sites, my ass.

The joys of using your own #ActivityPub server.

Weirdest thing on Mastodon so far: more often than not memes come with complete textual descriptions.

#Smithereen update: a usable image uploader, at last. This thing now works as you would expect any post form to work.
- You can click and select files manually
- You can drag & drop files onto the form
- You can paste files into the text box

And best of all, it doesn't lose your post text in the process!

#activitypub #mastodev

TIL that you can add an auto-increment column in MySQL to an existing table, and it will give sequential ids to all existing rows.

#Smithereen #activitypub #mastodev

Small #Smithereen notifications update.
- Notifications now have icons, like they do on any decent social media website.
- New notification types: someone followed you, someone accepted your friend request, someone signed up by your invitation.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

#Smithereen update. Notifications are ready. The unread counter in the menu updates (with each page reload), pagination works, and post deletion removes any notifications related to that post.

#activitypub #mastodev