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I joined #mastodon last week, on a whim, with no idea what to expect

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  • juergen_hubert@mementomori.socialundefined

    I think I have identified a fairly significant flaw in how the #Fediverse currently operates.

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    juergen_hubert@mementomori.socialundefined
    I think I have identified a fairly significant flaw in how the #Fediverse currently operates. Hear me out.The Fediverse currently consists of all sorts of different systems - #Mastodon, #Friendica , #Pixelfed , #PeerTube, #BookWyrm , and so forth. And while they are all connected via the #ActivityPub protocol, they all have different functionalities and different ways of presenting themselves. Which is as it should be, because Diversity Is Our Strength(TM).However, it is here that the ActivityPub-based interactivity hits its limits - for usually, you can either experience the relevant system as it was intended, or you can interact with it, but not both - _unless_ you have an account on the same system (though not necessarily on the same instance).Let's say that you are a Mastodon user who looks at another person's BookWyrm page. You scroll through their books, posts, and comments. Then you see some comment you want to comment on yourself, but can you do so?Not directly. You need to figure out the URL of their comment, and then copy and paste that comment into the search bar of your Mastodon instance. Then it will show up in the same format as a Mastodon post, and you can interact with it - boost it, like it, comment on it.Sure, it works, but it's a whole lot of tedious effort.Or you can search for the user account in Mastodon and scroll through all their posts and comments as if they were a Mastodon user - and thus, you will miss out on all the unique user interface features of BookWyrm.So what is missing?Well, Mastodon already has an "Open original page" feature when looking at someone's post. What we need is an "Open original page AND AUTHENTICATE" feature. This way, the target instance (whatever software they are using) could acknowledge the viewer as an external user who could nevertheless fully interact with the local user interface, including the ability to boost, like, and make comments.This is something that should be theoretically possible to implement, right? #FediHelp
  • cryogenicnighthawk@4d2.socialundefined

    Found some #SelfHosting folks here to follow.

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    hikingdude@mastodon.socialundefined
    @CryogenicNighthawk@_elena definitely has a voice here if you didn't come across her profile
  • feditips@social.growyourown.servicesundefined

    Mastodon gGmbH has just issued a new blogpost:

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    feditips@social.growyourown.servicesundefined
    p.s. This seems like a good moment to thank @Gargron Obviously I disagreed with his recent stance on server onboarding, but that isn't an attack on his overall achievements.For me Eugen's best moment was in 2022 when he was asked to sell out by multiple VC companies but he said no:"Rochko told the Financial Times he had received offers from more than five US-based investors (which he turned down)"https://www.ft.com/content/de808736-2e05-4c3b-a53c-55b170ae9efdHe passed the test that others (including Bluesky) have failed.
  • julian@activitypub.spaceundefined

    Adding/removing "pinned statuses" to an actor

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    julian@activitypub.spaceundefined
    Mastodon has a concept called "pinned statuses", which is a special collection attached to a Person actor. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#featured It wasn't readily known how this collection is updated and federated (not without code achaeology), but claire@social.sitedethib.com recently shared some additional info :smiley: The actor itself will issue an Add activity targeting the collection with the status in object. This activity is sent to all followers of the actor. No activity is sent if the actor has no remote followers. A Remove is sent when a pinned post is unpinned. This is what the Add looks like: { "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Add", "actor": "https://example.org/users/testUser", "target": "https://example.org/users/testUser/collections/featured", "object": "https://example.org/users/testUser/statuses/115266412340579560" } The corresponding Remove is identical except for type, which is of course, Remove.