What one person wants from an alternative to a Twitter:
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What one person wants from an alternative to a Twitter:
• choice of home-feed algorithm,
• editable posts,
• ability to moderate repliesmastodon?
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mastodon?
Mastodon could become that. But, it would need to add some new features.
Mastodon has "editable posts". Which is great.
But Mastodon doesn't give you a "choice of home-feed algorithm" yet. Currently, Mastodon only support reverse-chron as its home-feed algorithm. (I.e., what some inaccurately call "no algorithm".)
And, Mastodon doesn't yet given users the "ability to moderate replies" to their posts.
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Mastodon could become that. But, it would need to add some new features.
Mastodon has "editable posts". Which is great.
But Mastodon doesn't give you a "choice of home-feed algorithm" yet. Currently, Mastodon only support reverse-chron as its home-feed algorithm. (I.e., what some inaccurately call "no algorithm".)
And, Mastodon doesn't yet given users the "ability to moderate replies" to their posts.
@reiver @ezeno789 we do have the ability to moderate replies built into ActivityPub, though.
Every object has a `replies` collection that is owned and managed by the creator of the object. If you don't want someone's reply to appear in the list of replies, you can remove it.
Mastodon does not surface this feature. It also doesn't show the `replies` collection remotely. That's too bad; it would cover most of what people want from replies management.
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@reiver @ezeno789 we do have the ability to moderate replies built into ActivityPub, though.
Every object has a `replies` collection that is owned and managed by the creator of the object. If you don't want someone's reply to appear in the list of replies, you can remove it.
Mastodon does not surface this feature. It also doesn't show the `replies` collection remotely. That's too bad; it would cover most of what people want from replies management.
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Mastodon could become that. But, it would need to add some new features.
Mastodon has "editable posts". Which is great.
But Mastodon doesn't give you a "choice of home-feed algorithm" yet. Currently, Mastodon only support reverse-chron as its home-feed algorithm. (I.e., what some inaccurately call "no algorithm".)
And, Mastodon doesn't yet given users the "ability to moderate replies" to their posts.
@reiver @ezeno789 The closest thing to what he is describing is @threads, but the ability to moderate replies comes at the cost of turning #Fediverse sharing off (at least for some posts).
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@reiver @ezeno789 we do have the ability to moderate replies built into ActivityPub, though.
Every object has a `replies` collection that is owned and managed by the creator of the object. If you don't want someone's reply to appear in the list of replies, you can remove it.
Mastodon does not surface this feature. It also doesn't show the `replies` collection remotely. That's too bad; it would cover most of what people want from replies management.
@evan @Em0nM4stodon @reiver @ezeno789 That is too bad, because it would also allow the spontaneous threads we participate in to become something more like curated essays or conversations. But maybe that is too far from the central function of Mastodon as it exists today. Feature creep is not good.
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@evan @Em0nM4stodon @reiver @ezeno789 That is too bad, because it would also allow the spontaneous threads we participate in to become something more like curated essays or conversations. But maybe that is too far from the central function of Mastodon as it exists today. Feature creep is not good.
@meltedcheese @Em0nM4stodon @reiver @ezeno789 or maybe when someone posts some racist shit in your replies, you can just remove it.
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@reiver @ezeno789 we do have the ability to moderate replies built into ActivityPub, though.
Every object has a `replies` collection that is owned and managed by the creator of the object. If you don't want someone's reply to appear in the list of replies, you can remove it.
Mastodon does not surface this feature. It also doesn't show the `replies` collection remotely. That's too bad; it would cover most of what people want from replies management.
@evan @reiver @ezeno789 I don't think that would help. The reply would still be out there. Just not in that list. But the protocol doesn't depend on that list. For this to work you'd have to have a signal to all servers, that have received the reply post, to remove that message from the thread. That would probably be a another FEP. At least that is how I understand it.
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Mastodon could become that. But, it would need to add some new features.
Mastodon has "editable posts". Which is great.
But Mastodon doesn't give you a "choice of home-feed algorithm" yet. Currently, Mastodon only support reverse-chron as its home-feed algorithm. (I.e., what some inaccurately call "no algorithm".)
And, Mastodon doesn't yet given users the "ability to moderate replies" to their posts.
@reiver @ezeno789 About algo choices, it's very interesting the work of @cryptadamist with Fedialgo: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
Worth looking into it IMO.
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@evan @reiver @ezeno789 I don't think that would help. The reply would still be out there. Just not in that list. But the protocol doesn't depend on that list. For this to work you'd have to have a signal to all servers, that have received the reply post, to remove that message from the thread. That would probably be a another FEP. At least that is how I understand it.
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The answer is vigorous code review. Anything that connects to an API, anything that is federated, shared, made free, or made at all should be reviewed for intent, for mistakes, for data integrity, for documentation and for competence. I don't care who or what creates it. Without code review, it's so untrustworthy that it poisons the well.
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@stegodon What can I do while staying compatible with HTTP/1.1? https://github.com/astro/buzzrelay/blob/main/src/send.rs#L37
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TIL: FediBuzz sends both :authority AND Host headers in HTTP/2 requests. old nginx rejects this as "duplicate". Both are kinda wrong - HTTP/2 replaced Host with :authority, but nginx shouldn't reject matching values. Fixed by upgrading nginx to 1.29+
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@stegodon Sounds similar to my issue https://github.com/astro/buzzrelay/issues/132
>hyper/reqwest
I assume it's one their side (because Stegodon is written in Go)?
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@smallcircles @fedicat @reiver
The question is: Do people even know what they are doing? Can they guarantee and ensure reliability, security, data protection and smooth operation in a network?
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@reiver Even if you want to help I would avoid doing anything specific to whatever practice happens to be the fad this week. Clear documentation, example code, conformance tests, etc, all benefit every developer.
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@reiver @josemurilo I voted Yes! But let me explain my point of view.
I have been programming for over 15 years… but I am also an #AuDHD who was diagnosed less than five years ago. Also I've been involved in an accident that affected my whole left arm. I can still type with it, but too much of it results in long periods of pain.
Also, besides working with computers, I am a full-time nurse student.
There are so many things I want to code, but I simply don't have the time or energy to do it. Telling an AI to create a simple loop, a class or even a module boilerplate really helps me a lot!
So, please, do help me!
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🔧 Devlog: FediBuzz relay returned 400 errors. Root cause: nginx 1.18 + HTTP/2 + hyper/reqwest sent duplicate Host/:authority headers. Fixed by upgrading to nginx 1.29.4 which handles HTTP/2 headers correctly (fix from Aug 2025). #fediverse #activitypub #devlog
