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by mal-2 9mo ago
This is what doesn't get discussed enough around htmx, in my opinion. So much of the difficult steps are left for the templating system, and template systems aren't great in general. You need to track a lot of identifiers for htmx
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by mal-2 2y ago
I like a lot of things about Elixir but I struggled with what felt like clumsy IDE capabilities. Stuff like 'go to definition' that I use all the time in other languages didn't work right. Lack of strong types makes autocompl
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by mal-2 3y ago
Has this changed recently? When I was on Twitter a few years ago I often missed posts from my friends because the algorithm didn't show them to me. Same when I posted, often my friends didn't see it.
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by mal-2 3y ago
So tired of this take. There are so many frontends, besides just the built-in interfaces for Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma there's also web-based frontends like Elk and Enafore, and tons of different native apps on mobile.
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by mal-2 3y ago
It's fairly easy, it could be better but it's like three steps. Switching away from any other social media in comparison is monumental.
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by mal-2 3y ago
> I don't really think until today I had anyone say to me, "Look, don't worry too much about which server you choose to start out with -- just pick one, because it's super-easy to switch later if you want to try a dif
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by mal-2 3y ago
I'm having trouble following, because the biggest instance would be the 'One Obvious Choice', but that choice seems lame to you? What could federated services do that would make the obvious choice not feel lame? The decision
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by mal-2 3y ago
Partially true, but vanilla Mastodon does hardcode it at 500. Some forks make it configurable (I believe glitch-soc does), and some admins have edited the hardcoded value manually.
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by mal-2 3y ago
Bluesky has a 300 character limit, Mastodon has 500, non-Mastodon ActivityPub servers have a configurable limit. Mastodon can render markdown, has subject lines which are commonly used as content warning tags, can translate posts. It suppor
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by mal-2 3y ago
I think fediverse offers a decent compromise here which is that people can self-host an instance for other people to use. Some of the longest running instances have a few hundred users or maybe a thousand. So if one in 300 people is interes
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by mal-2 3y ago
This point is confusing to me because there are so many clients available. Not only in different projects (Misskey/Firefish/Sharkey, Akkoma/Pleroma, glitch-soc), but also from the various compatible clients in the web and mob
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by mal-2 3y ago
We can tell an argument is rational when it upholds existing power structures and diminishes people who are already marginalized. They're probably just complaining because being marginalized upsets their emotions.
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by mal-2 3y ago
Sabine seems to believe any intellectual darkweb-esque argument she hears as long as it makes her feel heterodox. Her coverage of autism, transgender issues and capitalism were embarrassing.
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by mal-2 3y ago
This is well-established in peer reviewed research, it's not just something I read.
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by mal-2 3y ago
I had always heard that part of the problem with tobacco smoke is that it's radioactive. Whereas marijuana smoke isn't. So it's still smoke but not nearly as carcinogenic?
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by mal-2 3y ago
That doesn't match the way people use the term though. Pleroma and Akkoma implement the Mastodon API but wouldn't be called Mastodon instances since they aren't running Mastodon.
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by mal-2 3y ago
I'm not buying it. - Allows hate speech to hide in plain sight. - Allows plausible deniability that you aren't the nazi bar. - May allow moderation labeling to be used as a form of harassment, by intentionally using labels inaccur
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by mal-2 3y ago
So far that's been the case, but the spectacular failure of Twitter as a centralized service has definitely taught some people a lesson. It remains to be seen if wariness of centralization will be a major factor for people in the futur
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by mal-2 3y ago
I'm no expert, but piecing together what I've read, content moderation will not really be a thing. Instead there will be content labeling services which can be provided by third parties. You would subscribe to a labeling feed then
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by mal-2 3y ago
Calckey is working on account migration and backup that does transfer posts to the new server.
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by mal-2 3y ago
I like some concepts from HTMX but I don't understand how it tracks the relationship between these addresses and the identifiers in the markup. It seems to be just that the identifier strings match - the markup identifies the targets&#
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by mal-2 3y ago
That's fair, I've heard complaints that mastodon's moderation tools also leave something to be desired but it might still be the best. I haven't been an admin so I can't comment firsthand.
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by mal-2 3y ago
Where is the canonical location to access an email, or read an XMPP message? It's not just that it 'might show up' in my timeline, seeing it on my home server is where I want it to be - that's where I can take actions on
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by mal-2 3y ago
This works from a Calckey instance, just confirmed. https://calckey.social/notes/9ebxxsy83i
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by mal-2 3y ago
ugh I wish I had tried to generate these through a non-mastodon instance, could have saved a lot of confusion. It works fine through Calckey: https://calckey.social/notes/9ebxxsy83i
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by mal-2 3y ago
My read is it's mostly social, there's a lot of people accustomed to Mastodon and not much interest in exploring other options. There are implementations in Elixir (Pleroma, Akkoma) and work being done in Rust (Calckey, currently
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by mal-2 3y ago
The fediverse has a problem with discovery, I agree on that piece. Coming from outside the network and trying to access a particular post or user profile is not smooth, mostly because it takes you to the wrong server (I don't use chaos
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by mal-2 3y ago
I produced those links by finding the post on each server so I was also surprised that they redirect when accessed directly. I mean it showed me the post without being logged in, and then I copied what was in the URL bar. Given how much bro
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by mal-2 3y ago
Try making a link to your email address without knowing which email provider your audience is using and you'll understand the utility.
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by mal-2 3y ago
I understand. In my view it will be important to have a fediverse URL protocol so that these links are not aimed at the original domain, and instead open at your home server, or in a mobile app connected to the home server.

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