This is why the forums don’t syndicate to Mastodon
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This is why the forums don’t syndicate to Mastodon
Twice, in the past, I have thought it would be nice if everyone’s stuff made it out onto social media. Both times, I have enabled syndicating forum topics. Both times it went badly.
We ended up syndicating spam that is easy to remove here, but hangs about in FediSpace forever.
A bit like this:
I’m sure there must be a way to revoke that stuff, but I’m not sure what that way is. So, until we can undo spam that gets syndicated, forum stuff will remain local only. If someone can help me figure out how to unspam social media, I think it would be nicer to take a poll to see if our active members even want our forums appearing on social media.
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This is why the forums don’t syndicate to Mastodon
Twice, in the past, I have thought it would be nice if everyone’s stuff made it out onto social media. Both times, I have enabled syndicating forum topics. Both times it went badly.
We ended up syndicating spam that is easy to remove here, but hangs about in FediSpace forever.
A bit like this:
I’m sure there must be a way to revoke that stuff, but I’m not sure what that way is. So, until we can undo spam that gets syndicated, forum stuff will remain local only. If someone can help me figure out how to unspam social media, I think it would be nicer to take a poll to see if our active members even want our forums appearing on social media.
I'd say that forums are definitely welcome and needed on the Fediverse, and can coexist well with microblog platforms like Mastodon.
ActivityPub.Space is proof of that!
We straddle both the microblogs and threaded discussions.
Spam is taken care of just like everywhere else: Delete activities.
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I'd say that forums are definitely welcome and needed on the Fediverse, and can coexist well with microblog platforms like Mastodon.
ActivityPub.Space is proof of that!
We straddle both the microblogs and threaded discussions.
Spam is taken care of just like everywhere else: Delete activities.
Agreed that forums are definitely needed, and the energy NodeBB has brought to the Fediverse has been very welcome indeed! The coexistence is often smooth but sometimes quite clunky (although of course that's true for ActivityPub platforms in general).
Specifically for the deletes, I had also run into problems where they weren't getting propagated everywhere. Not sure if there's a similar thing happening here; If I recall correctly, the issue I was experiencing related to unsigned fetches.
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@jandi
Yes, that would really help. I will set the priority in the Weblate project for the part used to understand tags inside messages. Thank you for your continuous support on projects :)
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@edent@mastodon.social -- Just looked again... this was first introduced as a hidden feature in redmatrix around 2013-2014, and so may also be available currently in Hubzilla (behind the "system.unicode_usernames" feature toggle). There were some major changes in 2019 that to my knowledge weren't ever backported. I think these only applied to local usernames and not remote usernames, but the functionality in hubzilla still might need to be verified.
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The map combines community reports from the #Fediverse and shelters and veterinaries from #OpenStreetMap loaded in real time as you zoom in.
PawFed is built to be a community project, not a one person effort. There will be many ways to contribute beyond posting reports.
If you find the project useful, don't hesitate to share it. Thank you. (3/3)
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PawFed is not tied to any country or language. Right now it works in French and English: #chat #perdu and #cat #lost produce the same report.
But the goal is to go further. Hashtag and keyword detection is based on translation files. When someone contributes a new language, PawFed starts understanding posts in that language automatically. (2/3)
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RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116245941766830884
#PawFed is not limited to reports about animals found or in distress. You can use it to offer help or ask for it.
Use #offer when you provide help, #request when you need it, #info to share useful information.
Everything works through #ActivityPub. If you delete your original post mentioning @PawFed, the related report is automatically removed from the map. No database ghost. You stay in control of your data. (1/3)
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@edent@mastodon.social -- Works fine in forte and the streams repository. Unicode handles have been supported since around 2019. It also should work fine in all of the other fedi projects (zap, roadhouse, misty, redmatrix2020, osada, etc.) that were derived from that codebase. Didn't answer the poll because those particular accounts have elected to not ever be given the option to create or reply to public activities.
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I have the code at https://github.com/edent/location-activitypub-symfony
And you can follow @edent_location
The AP object has:
```json
"location": {
"name": "École maternelle Charles Perrault",
"type": "Place",
"longitude": "2.3002506",
"latitude": "48.9993291"
}
```I think that's the same way PixelFed does it.
