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I'm a Prof of Operational Research at UCL & member of Independent SAGE.
As such, I've been tweeting about Covid for 2.5 yrs now so expect more of that here!
Plus occasional forays into politics, women in science, general science & stuff about London.
Hope I get the hang of it soon!
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hello prof pagel, you are very 💖💖💖welcome here. Hope you find lots of people here.
Hey folks please follow ^^
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You don't need to delete your Twitter account to have a fediverse account. You can use both.
For healthy Twitter usage I'd suggest putting people you want to keep seeing in a list, and look at that list instead of the main timeline. Chronological, no ads, no promoted tweets.
#TheAcolyte #DafneKeen
sudo apt install kubuntu-full or sudo apt install ubuntu-studio-installer, or at least something like that.
kubuntu-desktop and ubuntustudio-installer respectively. Just giving my laptop something to do in my, not its, lunch break.
"You'll still get the same amount of ads, they will just not be personalised."
Right, no. You'll hardly get any ads and mostly just blank spaces where the ads would go. Really people, just click these reject-all, object-all buttons and enjoy the quiet.
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Not sure how to explain this - because Google sort of made the "RSS reader" dissappear a few years ago, so this may not make sense...
BUT:
if anyone outside who does NOT have an account on the fediverse wants to see what you post - they can see it in _ANY_ rss reader by going here:
mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg.rss
This MAY be useful to you or others who want to listen to what you have to say, but don't know exactly what the heck this fediverse thing is.
(It may not because "what the heck is an rss feed? How is that less confusing than this fedimastowhatzit?" - and, well... )
But: anyone who knows what the heck one is: they may be happy to get this information.
Hoping this is useful to SOMEONE.
Welcome to the party. :)
Please take this traditional fediverse housewarming gift of one pineapple emojo: 🍍
I BELIEVE!
I remember when I was on facebook (am no more) certain people hassle me for sharing quotes from Greta and agreeing with her. The slandered her, they made up stories about her, anything to try to discredit her. One of those people turned out to be in the employ of the oil companies, a social media disinformation specialist...
The engineering and human challenges really get me excited!
Post stuff on mastodon and put the link on Twitter. Will make people who want to read your views get familiar with the Mastodon interface and see how easy it is. They might even see some other toots.
Even if you want to reply or retweet something, do it on mastodon and put a link of the toot in your tweet.
After years of having to follow some robot copying your tweets to Mastodon...
great to see you here. I do hope you encounter fewer troubled disaffected oldies taking their anger out on you for their own lack of achievements.
Me, I didn't achieve much either but I'm not about to anonymously attack people for that. Keep up the good work, some day they'll listen.
❤️ a very warm #welcome! #newhere #ClimateActivist to defeat #ClimateCrisis
Great to see you here @gretathunberg
Here's a widely ignored environmental topic you should consider championing that will only get worse...
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This is great news from #Google and #TheWhiteHouse There is an #IoT elephant in the room however. Security risk and environmental harm from internet connected devices devices is fuelled by outdated views of #intellectualproperty Devices need #open…Fosstodon
While Australia burned, Google took fossil fuel money to spread misinformation about climate change
Centre for Countering Digital Hate found Google showed ads saying global warming's impact is overhyped on searches for bushfire informationCam Wilson (Crikey)
Before taking 🚀 to conquer planet Mars
Welcome!
Do you plan to provide tutorial videos for the crafting of frog hats?🐸
Welcome!
I just saw an interview of you with Russell Howard where you had an immense fit of the giggles. I found myself laugh…and laughing some more just watching.
Loved it!
In my everyday job, I search for #Earth analogs. So far, I can fully confirm that we found #NoPlanetB. #Earth twin probably do not exist in the #solar vicinity.
Keep on the good work, you are great 👍
lol, so true.
One thing the takeover of twitter has shown us is how dreadful a Musk Mars would be.
@Iva
I always do what Greta suggests, so here I am.
Thank you many times over Greta!
Boycotts.
Is Time still on our side? - Sandy Gottstein - Medium
Granted, in normal times, there might have been more of a contest. In normal times, Jennifer Rubin, with whom I generally agree, and who argues for Nancy Pelosi, the Hong Kong protesters, and The…Sandy Gottstein (Medium)
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Thousands Have Joined Mastodon Since Twitter Changed Hands. Its Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media
Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Mastodon's founder Eugen Rochko says it's been a vindicationBilly Perrigo (Time)
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I fixed the audio issues I was having with my Chromecast (Google TV) by connecting it directly to the surround receiver. I really thought I tried that before, but looking up information of this problem made me think it should be the solution so I tried again and now it worked.
Weirdly I didn't get surround sound with Netflix or Amazon Prime, but I did with HBO Max with the same cables and devices. When running the Netflix or Amazon Prime apps on my oldish (~2016) tv, they did give surround sound. Nothing I changed in settings fixed this.
Turns out that Netflix etc provide Dolby Digital Plus signals instead of the normal Dolby Digital. The Chromecast is able to pass through either, but only if the tv can. The tv can only pass through Dolby Digital over its Audio Return Channel to the surround receiver. It tells as much to the chromecast, which tells the apps that only Dolby Digital, not Dolby Digital Plus, nor Atmos is supported. So far so good. It goes wrong when the Netflix and Amazon apps are like Dolby Digital Plus or bust and they fall back straight to stereo only. The HBO Max app correctly falls back to Dolby Digital. Somehow this only happens when Netflix / Amazon Prime run on hardware that theoretically could support DD+, because on the old tv they only try Dolby Digital and don't even think about trying DD+.
Anyway, great that it works now. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max and Disney+ are all in DD+. Leaves just SkyShowtime which has just two audio streams: one that's stereo and one that's 'completely freeze up the app'.
How to Find Your Twitter Friends on Mastodon
If you're pondering a move to the decentralized social network, here's how to find the people you know and want to talk to.Justin Pot (WIRED)
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Starting to watch Adult Material with Hayley Squires. The tv series, not... She's a really good actress who isn't that known yet, but she leads this series. I've seen her before in impressive supporting roles in Collateral and The Miniaturist.
Me after seeing her in The Miniaturist and being very impressed with what she brings extra to the scenes though she only played a small role of the servant: let's look her up in imdb, maybe there's something else I can see her in. Hey, she was also in Collateral. I remember there was also someone in there who really made a role extra strong despite having not much lines, I think it was a manager of a pizza place. But what role did Hayley play there? Imdb: manager of pizza place.
#HayleySquires #AdultMaterial
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Hayley Squires - IMDb
Hayley Squires, Actress: I, Daniel Blake. Hayley Squires is an actress and playwright. She trained at Rose Bruford College and graduated in 2010. Known for Call The Midwife (2012), Southcliffe (2013), Complicit (2013), Blood Cells (2014).Hayley Squires (IMDb)
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#AdultMaterial
#TheSandman #HouseOfTheDragon
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#FediTip for those used to mainstream sites and are now trying open source platforms (social, blogging, etc): if you upload photos from your phone, you're used to the site compressing it and stripping the metadata out of it so you don't end up exposing your location etc. Not all open source platforms do that or not by default. A lot do, but keep in mind that taking a photo at home and uploading it may expose your home address. Or taking a screenshot of a site exposes the url with potentially account information in it.
I believe Mastodon is safe in this regard, or at least mastodon.social is. Wordpress is not. Others depend on the admin.
There's an Android app on f-droid called #ImagePipe that can strip metadata from photos before sharing.
#ThePeripheral #AmazonPrime
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"No, $software is fine, users just need to learn how to use it"
"That's a stupid feature, nobody should ever need that"
If you've spent any amount of time in FOSS circles, you've probably seen sentiments like that all over the place. Unfortunately, they're a big part of why dubious corporations (eg. Microsoft, Google, etc.) have been able to co-opt the FOSS community.
Why? Because regardless of what you, as a technical FOSS person, believe is "necessary"... users are not going to care about that. They have certain expectations from their software in terms of feature set and ease-of-use.
Either you meet those expectations, or users go elsewhere.
Now, "it's FOSS, it gives you freedom" can sway that decision *somewhat*, but it only gets you so far. Most people care more about getting their stuff done, than they care about (to them) abstract ideals of "freedom".
And because of that, you're setting yourself up to be vulnerable to corporate capture - because corporations can superficially *claim* to do FOSS, but provide an actually accessible user experience, and suddenly everybody flocks to the corporate thing.
And sure, corporate FOSS has real problems compared to community-run FOSS. But understanding that requires a degree of nuance that most people won't see, and that you frankly cannot expect from people for whom FOSS isn't their whole existence. It's specialized knowledge.
Which boils down to a very simple reality: either *you* provide the UX that users want, or a corporation will do it for you, and with none of the community governance and long-term sustainability. Those are the options.
A great example of this is systemd; yes, it has plenty of problems. But because of the widespread insistence in FOSS circles that "nobody needs more than SysVinit", everybody flocked to an actually usable alternative the moment it appeared, monolithic design and corporate governance be damned.
Don't be that person. Listen to users about their needs. Take complaints about UX and accessibility seriously. If you don't, then you're not helping FOSS; you're harming it.
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When Andrew Lee bought (kinda?) Freenode and blew it up last year, I was surprised by how quickly one rich dude could tank a long-standing social network with an established community, and baffled why someone would spend so much money just to burn something down.
That was cute.
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#ChloëGraceMoretz #ThePeripheral
The good thing about the fediverse is that you don't have to agree with the rules set by your moderators, you can move to a server that you do agree with. Or even run your own.
The good thing about being on your own server is that there's no big influx of users backing up queues making everything slow 
Excuses voor het slavernijverleden is een ongelooflijk belangrijke stap. Hier wordt door heel veel mensen al heel lang voor gestreden.
rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/artikel/53…
Historische stap: kabinet gaat excuses maken voor slavernijverleden
Het kabinet zal excuses maken voor de rol van Nederland bij de slavernij. Ook zal het kabinet 200 miljoen euro uittrekken voor een bewustwordingsfonds over het Nederlandse slavernijverleden.RTL Nieuws
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Beter laat dan nooit, zullen maar zeggen.
Mijn opa was landarbeider in Groningen en leefde in grote armoede en werd uitgebuit door de boer. Voor de boer had hij geen enkele waarde. Voor hem een ander. Een slaaf had hoe triest en onmenselijk ook wel enige waarde voor de eigenaar.
Eis ik excuus van de kleinkinderen van de boer?
Natuurlijk niet.
#ParamountPlus
I wrote a nano tool that tries to extract the #Fediverse accounts of your #Twitter followings: fedifinder.glitch.me/
It searches for the patterns @user@host.tld, user@host.tld and host.tld/@user in the screen name, description, location and URL field. It displays them to you in the correct format for easy copying as well as a CSV download that can be imported to #Mastodon.
New version: fedifinder-backup.glitch.me/
Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followings
Extract the fediverse handles and urls of your Twitter followings.fedifinder.glitch.me
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Thanks for the feedback.
#fedifinder is now looking for URLs that contain "/profile/" as well. Your account gets already detected.
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You can now check if the handles in your own Twitter profile are found. They are not added to the export. If there are issues with your profile, let me know.
Thanks for the idea @nelson. #twittermigration #neuhier #nieuwhier
- Accounts are now sorted by fediverse instance
- Strings that look like mail addresses are included again eg. name@domain.tld
- domains are checked for /.well-known/host-meta (if it exists, the domain is more likely to be part of the fediverse; someday I may look at the content as well; currently just HEAD requests) Thanks @yetzt for the idea.
- domain checks are cached to make them faster and don't put unnecessary load on servers
- offline domains excluded
I was able to reduce the wait time by around 40% by moving the domain checks to after the page got rendered. I fear some rate limiting issues came from people reloading before receiving a response.
False positives are kept in the visible list, but striked through. They are still removed from the exported CSV to reduce server load on imports.
Next up: Lists. They are the most requested feature. #fedifinder
Support for lists arrived in #fedifinder.
It shows you your own lists as well as the lists you are subscribed to. You can scan each of them and the found handles are added to the visible list as well as the download. (False positives of the previous scan are removed from the visible list with each additional scan.)
I made the scan of the followings optional in #fedifinder to improve speed, reduce the amount of rate limiting errors (eg. users reloading the page) and make it easier for people who only want to scan lists or maybe something else that gets added in the future.
Rate limiting errors aren't displayed as json anymore, but tell you how to fix them (wait, wait and wait).
More improvements for #fedfinder.
The results now display basic stats for each instance and if the registration is open. Thanks for the hint @pfefferle.
Better check if something is part of the #fediverse.
Data handling is still a mess, but less messy now, which results in fewer requests to the server and less jumping text.
Tiny changes on the frontend, massive ones in the backend. #fedifinder
- Option to scan the profiles of your followers
- Twiter handle where the fediverse account was found
- Handles of failed servers can be displayed
- Switched to API v2
- Pinned Tweets are included
- You can now scan up to 15k followings and 15k followers
- Better handling of rate limits
- Caching of reason of unreachability of servers (and limited amount of retries for servers that timed out)
- better regex
I am currently looking through the #fediverse software options to find more URL patterns of profiles. Here is what I have at the moment. Most of them are easy to detect. But for pleroma I saw some servers with and some without the @ in the username. Makes it harder.
domain.tld/@name
mastodon, misskey, pleroma, funkwhale
domain.tld/profile/name
friendica, hubzilla
domain.tld/u/name
diaspora
domain.tld/c/name/videos
peertube
domain.tld/name
pleroma, gnusocial
Today wasn't fun. While I was outside, I got many messages that #FediFinder didn't work. I checked it and saw that it was overloaded and crashed every few minutes. I then tried to fix it from my mobile, but with each line of code it seemed like I added multiple new bugs. Not good. So I added a message that its broken and to check back later.
I spent the whole afternoon and evening trying to fix the mistakes of past me and clean up the code to make it at least slightly easier in the future.
The important thing: #FediFinder is back!
While fedifinder.glitch.me seems to work fine again, I added two backups that you can use as well:
fedifinder-backup.glitch.me and fedifinder-backup2.glitch.me
New feature: You can now click on the usernames for the fediverse (may not always work because of different formats of software) and Twitter.
Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followings
Extract the fediverse handles and urls of your Twitter followings.fedifinder.glitch.me
Instead of building a better export, I made the sessions persistent, so that not everyone re-logins when I change something and the server restarts.
You can now watch as #FediFinder checks the domains. And even retry if it gets stuck (should add a 10 second timeout there as well).
And I added links to the backup servers and info about donations to the homepage.
I added an API (kinda) to #FediFinder. The only endpoint is /api/known_instances.json. It returns all instances it knows at the moment.
Currently, It is used to share data with @debirdify.
I don't know if it will stay public/available and/or if the structure will change in the future.
#FediFinder Day 9(?). I moved the handle identification from the backend to the frontend to improve performance. The server is only responsible for getting the data from Twitter and checking domains. No changes for the users.
With the functions, I moved some tests to the frontend. Only visible on the staging server or the code.
If handles are detected on the user profile, I show links to their import. Thanks @nart for the idea.
JSON export (including accounts without handles).
Fixed bugs.
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{
"name": "● TDP – Transformationen des Populären",
"username": "sfb1472",
"handles": [],
"location": "Siegen, Deutschland",
"description": "DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 1472 \"Transformationen des Populären\".\nhttps://t.co/0asW3x868K \nhttps://t.co/5MnGjYLnuU",
"urls": [
"http://sfb1472.uni-siegen.de",
"http://pop-zeitschrift.de"
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{
\"name\": \"● TDP – Transformationen des Populären\",
\"username\": \"sfb1472\",
\"handles\": [],
\"location\": \"Siegen, Deutschland\",
\"description\": \"DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 1472 \\"Transformationen des Populären\\".\nhttps://t.co/0asW3x868K \nhttps://t.co/5MnGjYLnuU\",
\"urls\": [
\"http://sfb1472.uni-siegen.de\",
\"http://pop-zeitschrift.de\"
]
},")
There are people who had problems using #fedifinder. Not everyone knows what a CSV is or where to find the import. But I have a solution: Follow buttons!
If one or more #fediverse handles are identified on the profile of the person using fedifinder, they can now toggle on follow buttons to get directly to the follow request on their own instances. This should make it much easier.
(At the moment they only work for mastodon instances. I am open to pull requests for other software.)
But Luca, not everyone is in the fediverse. The export is useless for the other accounts. And in my Twitter archive are only the IDs of the people I followed. Not their names or websites. What about them?
If you scroll to the bottom of #Fedifinder, you can now view a table of the accounts that you have scanned. Even if they have no handle in their profile. Or one that wasn't correctly detected.
I updated the ReadMe to help people run their own #Fedifinder (no coding skills needed) and how to contribute.
github.com/lucahammer/fedifind…
And fedifinder got a new API endpoint. api/check. You can use it with a domain and/or handle as query parameters and get back the cached information fedifinder has for that: fedifinder.glitch.me/api/check…
GitHub - lucahammer/fedifinder: Find fediverse addresses in the profiles of your Twitter followings
Find fediverse addresses in the profiles of your Twitter followings - GitHub - lucahammer/fedifinder: Find fediverse addresses in the profiles of your Twitter followingsGitHub
Full speed! Thanks to the latest update, #Fedifinder scans my 2k followings within 10 seconds. From login to exported file.
The solution to a slow databases wasn't a fast database, but no database at all. Finally, I can tell you to share fedifinder with all of your contacts without fearing that the
service will go down because of it.
Go and find your people! fedifinder.glitch.me/
Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followings
Extract the fediverse handles and urls of your Twitter followings.fedifinder.glitch.me
Only a small update for #FediFinder today: Splitting up functionality to multiple servers.
The main server is only responsible for getting data from Twitter from now on. A second server does the handle and domain lookups. Because the lookups locked the server up from time to time, this should make the service more stable and faster. If no lookup server is added to the .env, fedifinder is fully functional as a single server.
The sleepless #fediFinder update.
Authorize your Mastodon account to see which Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followings, you already follow.
Because the feature isn't finished yet and still confusing (you have to authorize, then click hide followings, then scan followings; no export yet) it's currently only available on the backup server: fedifinder-backup.glitch.me/
I am looking forward to your feedback (cc @illionas @ColinSch @botolo86) And to my bed. Good night.
Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followings
Extract the fediverse handles and urls of your Twitter followings.fedifinder-backup.glitch.me
First version of the new #Fedifinder. I redesigned the frontend to make it easier to use for people who are joining the #fediverse.
You can try it here: fedifinder-backup2.glitch.me/
Let me know, what you think.
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100% - the web interface URL is in no way guaranteed to match the instance address. You need to check it.
Unfortunately Mastodon provides no API info for this, but once discovered you can cache it for each domain quite a while. It's unlikely to change often.
if you find one, @Tusky could use a heads-up too.
github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issu…
Wrong name displayed when WEB_DOMAIN != LOCAL_DOMAIN · Issue #688 · tuskyapp/Tusky
I have set up my instance in a way that WEB_DOMAIN=mastodon.dentrassi.de and LOCAL_DOMAIN=dentrassi.de. The redirect and federation seem to work. However Tusky created my new user as @ctron@mastodo...GitHub
The elves gathered eagerly around the flat, rectangular plaque. Many held a bowl of grapes, as one fiddled, with fading confidence, a tv remote.
"We'll miss the Barbarian Wrestlers!""
"Isn't one a necromancer?"
"I think he's just there to remove the defeated fighters."
"We'll never find out if the magic-wand doesn't work soon!"
The elf wielding the tv remote gave it a few desperate taps, whooping as the screen finally came to life.
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So, I'm linked. Didn't find new people, but it may be useful for people who follow me on Twitter. That's hardly anybody, but if my brother joins the fediverse he can find me...
#twitodon
Part of the Twitter exodus? This tool is a bit clumsy but one way to cross-search for people you follow on Twitter who are also on here: twitodon.com
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Chloë Grace Moretz interviewed by Wired based on autocomplete searches. Does she sing, play cello, speak foreign languages? Did Martin Scorsese think she's British? Short version in the quote-shared tweet, longer on YouTube.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #Wired #AutoCompleteInterview
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Chloë Grace Moretz Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED
Chloë Grace Moretz takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the internet's most searched questions about herself. What languages does Chloë speak? ...YouTube
Muay Thai, first-person shooter games, and vacation hotel room tattoos - @ChloeGMoretz is the kind of person we want to hang out with!
What I do think are the main good things about the #fediverse and #Activitypub (and I don't think the often-cited lack of algorithms and no-data-harvesting are the key things):
- ability to choose your host and its set of rules (different things are important to different people; you can select a server that matches your values. It isn't about more or less moderation, it's also different kinds of moderation)
- ability to self-host (e.g. if you want to post a lot, maybe a lot of videos, you may find it problematic if someone else bears the burden of the storage costs. With self-hosting you can do what you want without guilt) (it was recently pointed out that organisations can host on their own domain, providing an alternative to a blue tick verified account system)
- mix of different types of platforms (you can follow and reply to videos on a YouTube-like service, or photos on an Instagram-like service, with your Twitter-like account)
Why is better privacy and no algorithms, and no ads, not the main advantage of the fediverse? Because that's just the current culture. There's nothing technically stopping someone from having ads on a server, or introducing algorithms for top-posts, or collect usage data. We just collectively don't like people who do that, so no one is likely to do this anytime soon.
Things I think don't work well or at all in #Activitypub (the protocol behind the #fediverse), due to limits of the protocol or the used vocabulary:
- Being able to control replies (who can reply, which replies are visible; some platforms suggest control of who can reply but you can't really prevent people from replying on other platforms)
- Controlling who can see your posts (you think you control this, but you don't; once the post is on another server, they could theoretically show it to anybody) (similar to how on Twitter when you block someone, they can just log out and see your posts)
- Hashtags (they don't work like you think, are used to, or how they should work)
- tumblr-style reblogs (something between a reply and a reshare ('Announce'), sharing a whole thread on your feed while adding to it at the bottom, and increasing the 'notes' count on the original post)
- Twitter-style quote-tweets (there's no verb in the vocabulary to notify the origin server about the post being linked, so a quote-share isn't quite the same)
- View counts (#PeerTube shows how often a video is viewed, but this is for viewing inside PeerTube only; many more views may be via other means)
- Having images in posts (of course there are images in posts, but they are not really 'in' the posts, they are retrieved separately, but this is a bit of a nitpicking distinction only interesting for server load vs privacy)
Weirdly, a common problem in fediverse platforms is that user profiles from other servers aren't complete (not showing all posts), but that would totally be possible in Activitypub by using the outbox collection. Not sure about replies under remote posts though, they often are incomplete as well but I don't know whether there's a 'replies' collection.
Other things that currently are problematic but have nothing to do with limits of the Activitypub protocol (but some with the choice of using webfinger for account names) and are likely solvable:
- finding users (only local users, and locally known users, are easily found with a search)
- finding topics (idem, a topic could be very popular on other servers but if nobody on your server was ever @-mentioned you'd never know it)
- share identity between platforms, or not have the domain name in your handle (or actually changing your handle at all is currently not possible)
- search within your server for posts based on text (#Mastodon limits search deliberately, other platforms don't)
- not having your server crash when someone with more than a few followers reshares your post (currently all receiving servers go and request the post's contents and we all forget to cache this stuff)
- not having a small website crash if it's linked in a post (currently all servers individually contact the website to construct the preview card; there's no central preview card cache, nor is the preview card generated on the sender side as it should)
The often mentioned related issue of having your accounts on multiple servers of the same platform is solved, however. On e.g. Osada you can having a nomadic identity and switch between hosts without losing posts. Most platforms don't implement this, though.
Example of the unexpected limitations of Activitypub: let's say next year some conference about some topic X is held and they ask everybody to use the hashtag #XConf2023. They see only a few, or no, posts. What happened? Because Activitypub only includes hashtags in posts that got delivered for some other reason, as long as no local user was @-mentioned, the posts do not get delivered to the server they were listening on. Activitypub lacks the ability to address (or subscribe to) hashtags.
To solve many of these problems, we'd need several types of directories, relays or caches and more adoption of the ones that already exist. Also the work towards #ocap (object capabilities) is useful to put the poster back into control of their post.
Am I missing the mark? Missing something else?
Was wondering, with everybody and everything saying that it is illegal to play music outside a domestic setting and that it is highly illegal to run e.g. an online music radio station without a license, how much would such a license cost? Since that is never added, they just say don't do it, we'll get you.
Turns out it's twice €312 per year. Once for paying the performers, once for paying the writers. And you somehow have to tell the electrons to stop in their cables once they reach the border.
(Dutch prices for small noncommercial radio; for worldwide you have to pay similar prices in every single country in the world after somehow finding the local organisation for that)
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