#smithereen — Public Fediverse posts

#smithereen is on hacker news and could use some momentum from the #fediverse to get to the front page if you have an account over there
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229518

Wanted to check out #Smithereen? Well, now you can! I've just set up a demo server that lets you sign up for a temporary account to play around:

https://try.smithereen.software

#activitypub #mastodev

#Smithereen now reloads outdated actor objects when fetching reply threads, so these kinds of situations should become a thing of the past

#Smithereen has a proper website now: https://smithereen.software

That feeling when you want to block hf.space on your server but you realize that the way domain blocks are implemented in Smithereen, you can only block a server that has known actors, not an entire domain with all its subdomains... Time for new #Smithereen features I guess.

#mastodev #activitypub

I need opinions on #Smithereen API.

For notifications, which format would you prefer more, this https://smithereen.software/docs/api/methods/notifications.get/ or something even more deduplicated with `wall_posts`, `comments`, `photos`, and `board_topics` as separate arrays? Or maybe something else?

#activityPub #mastodev

So I made a list of remaining API methods that I need to implement. Probably an incomplete one. It turns out there are 105 of them. One hundred and five 🫠

#Smithereen

With classes like ScriptValueGsonTypeAdapterFactory, it feels like I'm finally writing "proper" Java

#Smithereen

I added support for displaying blurhashes as image placeholders in #Smithereen on the web. In what is probably the most cursed way possible. It turns out every browser supports the BMP file format, which is just a simple header followed by the raw pixel data. So, here's what I did:

I would also be in favor of Fediblock for instances where this behavior is rampant.

I would also be in favor of Fediblock for instances where this behavior is rampant.

I would also be in favor of Fediblock for instances where this behavior is rampant.

I would also be in favor of Fediblock for instances where this behavior is rampant.

On a fediverse server with a versioned client API, what would you expect to happen if an API call is made with a version number higher than what the server supports? Should it return an error? Should it take it to mean its highest supported version? Something else?

The API isn't RESTful, the version number is global for all methods (endpoints) and has the format "major.minor".

#Smithereen #ActivityPub #mastodev

And as a quick follow-up to that, #Smithereen 0.11.1:
- Added support for requesting quote post authentication according to FEP-044f so reposts are displayed on servers running Mastodon 4.5.0 or newer. Note: Smithereen still allows you to repost anything, the authentication is only there to satisfy servers that require it
- Exported user data archives did not include direct messages, now they do

#Smithereen 0.11 is out!

This one mostly focuses on groups and moderation. Groups now have discussion boards, admins can specify server rules (with translations!), moderators have more and better tools at their disposal, and users can now pin posts and export their data.

Detailed changelog here: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen/releases/tag/0.11

Now comes the part where I build the client API I promised everyone for so long. And the website.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

#Smithereen now supports pinned posts.

#activitypub #mastodev

Почему-то мне раньше эта мысль в голову не приходила, но можно же при переводе Mastodon на русский язык для "референсов" использовать интерфейс #Smithereen.

Осталось понять, как это можно удобно сделать. Наверное, скрипт написать, чтобы он сопоставлял близкие строки.

Some recent #Smithereen updates:
- Finished discussion boards in groups
- Server rules (with translations)
- New reporting flow, almost like Mastodon's
- Moderators can now exclude content from reports
- ...as well as add extra content via the new "content" tab in user moderation UI
- Admins can now specify custom CSS for their server
- Admins can create announcements that display under the main menu for all users

#activitypub

After implementing partial support for Mastodon's FEP-044f quote post authorization in #Smithereen, I realized that this flow with sending a "*Request" activity and receiving a corresponding Accept{*Request} is nothing but an RPC mechanism.

So now Smithereen also uses TopicCreationRequest and TopicRenameRequest for discussion boards in groups, which are almost finished, btw.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

Whenever I search for mentions of #Smithereen, there always are three types of posts:
- Something being blown "to smithereens"
- Something about the music band The Smithereens
- Someone actually talking about my project

#Smithereen quote reposts (the only type of repost Smithereen allows making) now show up in Mastodon 4.4. Only if the author of the quote post and the author of the post being quoted are on the same server, for now.

#Smithereen 0.10 is out!

This release adds instant notifications, online statuses, friend lists, email notifications, account migration, and more. It's also the first version of Smithereen that isn't frustrating to install.

Full release notes here: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen/releases/tag/0.10

#ActivityPub

Some #Smithereen updates:
- Friend lists: you can now assign lists to your friends. These are useful not only for remembering where you know someone from, but also for privacy settings.
- Email notifications: self-explanatory. You only start receiving them if you haven't visited for at least a day, as determined by the online status.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

#Smithereen now stores the followers/following/friends counts separately from actual lists, and so can now do this Mastodon-like thing.

#activitypub #mastodev

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#Smithereen #activitypub

Pixelfed: arrivano i "gruppi" e saranno compatibili con Lemmy (chissà se lo saranno anche con Friendica)

@fediverso

I gruppi non sono una novità per Pixelfed, abbiamo il supporto webUI ma la funzionalità non era abbastanza perfezionata per l'uso, fino ad ora✨

:pixelfed:I gruppi saranno compatibili con #Lemmy, #Mbin, #Smithereen e altri progetti e assomiglieranno ai gruppi di Facebook nella nostra app ufficiale!

Restate sintonizzati, invieremo il supporto aggiornato per i gruppi nell'app e nell'interfaccia utente Web questo fine settimana🚀

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#Smithereen now allows you to transfer your followers between servers.

#activitypub

Added a footer, a language switcher and a privacy policy (adapted from Mastodon's). Was going to do this in 0.10 anyway but Threads blocked me for not having a privacy policy so I jumped ahead on my todo list.

#Smithereen #activitypub

And another #Smithereen update while I'm at it: your friends and groups are now sorted by how much you interact with them.

#Smithereen updates:
- New notifications UI with grouping, your comment replies, and the ability to reply from there
- A setting for whether to count likes and reposts towards unread notifications (off by default)
- User presence statuses (without federation, for now — no idea how to federate that) and a new "online friends" block in profiles

#activitypub

@fellmoon check out #Smithereen by @grishka, it is the furthest along in offering a real replacement for people used to Facebook thats a lot more polished then Friendica in many ways. In terms of event posting I would say @gancio is the furthest along in terms of actual usage. A lot of instances up like @shows and @Agenda that are super active

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@fraying

Hi Derek!

And greetings from the remote mountain regions of #Humboldt where we export the genetics for those 🌺 flowers 🤘💀🤘

Anyway...

I'm trying to your post in which you both misconstrued and misinformed the reader with alarmist, and generally misunderstood narrative.

Specifically, and respectfully:

>***"I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US. Section 230 protects what we do here every day. Politicians threatening 230 are threatening free speech on the internet."***

Although we'll go over both sentences, the part that I really take exception to is the first one:

- "I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US."

I quoted you twice for emphasis, because what you said is simply NOT TRUE, at all Derek, but who would want to run a single user mastodon server instance anyway?

Okay a select few, but it's not economical to do so - here's why:

It's such #bloatware and a #resource_hog compared to other, more capable and featureful #Fediverse servers, like #Pleroma, #Takahē, #Epicyon, #Akkoma, #Calckey, #Soapbox, #Friendica, #Socialhome, #MicroblogPub, #Misskey, #Smithereen, and the list goes on and on for a while; a veritable laundry list of platforms endowed with more feature rich, more resource and energy conserving footprints.

You could call mastodon the white elephant in the room when it comes to kruft, waste of energy and resources, or lack of the most desired features by it's traditional userbase (although people are nowadays migrating their accounts to these other Fediverse platforms in ever increasing numbers).

Like you, I'm also a staunch proponent of Section 230, as it was originally intended and written - to protect publishers, NOT editors. But most of the conservative agendas to which you refer only seek to remove protections for sites that cross that line between that of #publisher to that of #editor anyway - so as long as you don't interfere with a user's #speech those deprecated silos would have nothing to worry about.

It's the Marxist/Leftist agendas in Congress that you need to worry about - they're proposing complete evisceration of section 230 - and yes, that would jeopardize, probably even put those monolithic deprecated silos out of business for good.

- I see very little that is bad about killing a rabid animal... Or a fox in the henhouse.

But... riddle me this Batman:

What would be so bad about that? It would destroy the surveillance plutocracy and data farming of individuals and their identities by those socalled, "Big-Tech" subjugation engines like #Faceplant, #InstaSPAM, #Reddit, #Twitter, and to a large degree, #Google too... (It won't do anything to stop the likes of Amazon or Apple though wrt their surveillance programs).

All if that, while at the same time encourage the migration of people to a fully decentralized and safer social media network where there are either no platforms (only censor proof protocols), as in #nostr; or #federated #SmallWeb and single user #ActivityPub platform instances; or those #Fediverse platforms that vow not to #molest_users who #publish on those platforms by imposing draconian #editorializing (censorship) upon their users.

Either way you can certainly look at this as a win-win situation for the #individual in #social_media networking. The question really is therefore, "How badly do you wish to punish the privacy disrespecting subjugation farms that comprise that deprecated, monolithic silo space?"

I hope that helps, Enjoy!

#tallship

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@gordoooo_z @PhenomX6 @futurebird @ink8 Whatever Eugen decides at this point it’s irrelevant. He’s pretty much lost his grip over holding the Fediverse brand as secondary to the notion of a fantasy “mastodon network” when he gave that Time Magazine interview two months ago in which the word “Fediverse” appeared not one single time - that caused enormous, untold damages including confusion that remains in the news media and disenfranchisement of large swaths of developers and users alike on not just other platforms, but mastodon instances themselves.

There’s really no such thing as toots anymore, Eugen himself refers to “Posts” and “Quote Posts”, and the submit button in mastodon now says “publish”. The reason #Misskey calls them “notes” is because that’s what they are actually called in #ActivityPub - there are also other types, that other platforms use as well, including “article”, although, instances like #qoto have set the character count for notes at 65535 🙂

It’s been covered in this thread already that Quote Posts are simply beyond the control of mastodon devs, Eugen’s edicts, or local mastodon users or admins, because most other platforms support it and there isn’t anything #mastopub can do about it. In Misskey, users can disallow it, but that only affects other local users, so it’s s moot point (except for silo instances).

There are very few Fediverse platforms that aren’t taking advantage of most things that are possible, for example, #Soapbox now has federated events, and introduced custom emoji reactions like Misskey has, and live chat - Misskey’s traditionally led the way with these federating features with #Calckey going even further.

Some platforms however, intentionally incorporate a leaner set of features; #Smithereen is one example, it doesn’t even sccomodate boosts, which harkens back to #Myspace, #VKontakte (aka, “VK” - not sure I spelled that right), and very early #Faceplant days. #Epicyon has anti-silo capabilities baked in.

#Mitra has #Substack style subscriptions at it’s core. Anyone can subscribe remotely from any Fediverse server instance where the user can receive DMs - and in congruence with privacy concerns that are typically expected for Fediverse implementations, it’s based on #Monero (XMR).

Most platforms also support #Markdown, with Cakckey being perhaps supporting the greatest superset IIRC, including #LaTEX, and #Friendica, being much older than msstodon, has continued to evolve over the past decade and still has support for #BBCode too, and direct links for uploading images for those who prefer to.

I didn’t see any mention of Markdown support when I bothered to look at the mastopub roadmap, yet even on that platform, Quote Posts are all throughout the stream and people boost and reply to them as the time - and, as mentioned earlier, anyone can create a post, simply pasting the link from someone else’s post, and then boost that… Voila! Local #Quote_Post.

mastodon was successful in its arrogance of leveraging some pretty graphics and welcoming verbiage into a brand that Eugen weaponized against virtually all other Fediverse platforms, and now, with all of the fine forks like #Hometown and several newcomers, we’ll soon be seeing hardforking as a result of that hostility.

But not just forks, funding and ambitious development as evidenced by existing and emerging platforms like #Cloudflare’s #Wildebeest, Tumbler, and the very unique, #Django based Takahē Fediverse server that I wrote about here:

https://tallship.writeas.com/takahe-a-new-fediverse-paradigm

Average people are already migrating in larger numbers everyday away from the archaic mastodonian resource hog to other, more capable and promising (and friendlier) platforms elsewhere in the Fediverse that have integrated and fully support #masto_migration, and even ones that don’t (yet) haver that feature.

Unlike other dinosaurs and the eponymous mammal for which Eugen chose the namesake of his #TootSuite product, we shouldn’t expect extinction for his platform, but the apathy and indifference levels are rising, as is the enmity in many sectors of the community for what others perceive as a betrayal (or sellout), and that kind of self-inflicted damage is often difficult to mitigate, with waves of disenchantment reverberating get into the future… Just look at what happened to #SourceForge - it still technically exists, but never recovered after the community betrayal it committed years ago.

And finally, there’s a irony so obvious that’s it’s not even plausible to deny… Eugen subverted the very rudimentary principal that the Fediverse network is ideologically predicated upon - #DeSoc… There’s no question that his goals shifted to that if building a silo for himself, at least to some great degree. Very sad.

An interesting thing about condescending others, you find yourself alone and isolated in an otherwise vibrant, busy world.

#tallship #Takahe #ActivityPub #privacy #community_values #FOSS

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