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julian

@ julian @activitypub.space

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Co-Founder (NodeBB) | Husband 🤷‍♂️ and Dad 🙉 to three | Rock Climber 🧗‍♂️ | Foodie 🥙 | Conductor 🎵 | Saxophonist 🎷

✅ Small teams craft better code.🇨🇦 Made in Canada🗨️ Federating NodeBB with funding from NLNet ♥️🇪🇺

  • (Serious) networking with other academics appears difficult

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  • I think there's definitely an underserved space for academics on the fediverse.

    Feed-based mechanics are not good for archival or slower (read: not always online) readers, so NodeBB actually works really well to collect that stuff and present it in less of a firehose-y format.

    For example, here's a NodeBB forum that follows the #medicine tag: https://postcall.pub/

    Here on ActivityPub.Space the discussion is all ActivityPub focused and it is really really good at keeping up to date with the latest topics.

    I'd be happy to work with you to start a general science (or more topic-focused) board if you're interested...

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  • The PixelFed kickstarter was actual money delivered to a bank account. I don't know how much more incentive one needs.

    I will try hard not to speak ill of a fellow Canuck however.

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  • Good on you Rimu. If NodeBB implements Activity Intents it'll be because of you.

  • Fedecan (lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) will be moving away from Cloudflare

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  • @shadow@lemmy.ca very cool, and nice recommendation with deflect...

    The pricing concerns me (especially since we using Cloudflare is a $0 cost)... At $10/5000 unique users, what if I get hit by a DDoS and my costs balloon?

    Anyway I suppose that's a question for them, not you 😁

  • PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more

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  • PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more

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  • Testing custom emoji :face_with_rolling_eyes: :sweat_smile:

    Cool news about private communities! I'd love to unlock inter-compatibility between instances so that can finally be federated... lots to do in between then and now.

    Hopefully we can work together on that soon?

  • [Euractiv] If you're tired of Truth Social, try Mastodating

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  • Help! A mastodater is tooting my horn and I don't like it =(

  • Ah yes, negative downvotes

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  • @ptz@dubvee.org another idea, use client side js to randomly select 5-10 p or span elements and inject a single RTL Override character in the text.

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de fwiw NodeBB ended up being such a joy to author things in that we switched away from WordPress to NodeBB as our blog. We just blog on our forum.

    Now, conflicts of interest are important... I wrote NodeBB, so I am obviously pretty biased :laughing: !

  • We are proposing a defederation from lemmy.org until they update their instance settings to reduce spam signups

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  • The unfortunate thing is that this has a negative effect on the Lemmy brand, even if not affiliated.

    This gets into copyright enforcement territory, though, which I don't know if Lemmy is interested in doing.

  • Sometimes the absence of an algorithm still delivers...

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  • Most likely that was NodeBB chopping off the end of the tag because we have length limits on tags heh

  • Ideas for a better Lemmy experience

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  • I'll give some insight from NodeBB.

    Adding in delays (x days until first post, y hours until upvote, etc.) do nothing to curb spam.

    If your spam is manual, they will discover the waiting period, update their rulebook, and go to town when the waiting period is over.

    If the spam is automated, it will work until the spammer admin discovers the waiting period, updates the script, and has the bots resume going to town when the waiting period is over.

    At the same time it severly hampers usability at its most crucial (the first post).

    The only thing that works to curb spam is a post queue with manual review... or locking the ability to post links behind reputation.

  • I love KDE, but sometimes, just sometimes... I question my decisions

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  • Web apps: modal opening on top of another modal

    KDE: "Hold my beer"

  • Would an ActivityPub enabled fediverse alternative of Discord be possible?

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  • Except it's completely gated behind Discord corporate servers, unsearchable outside of Discord, and all ownership lies with... you guessed it, Discord.

    But oooh aah Nitro....

  • [Help Design Lemmy] How to describe Lemmy in a single Sentence?

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  • Drop the "Fediverse" verbiage, or even "federated".

    You may be speaking to potential instance admins but only those familiar with AP know what federation means. Otherwise it's a term with no meaning.

    Ironically, even "Lemmyverse" means more than "Fediverse", so "linked together through the Lemmyverse" actually works better.

  • Would an ActivityPub enabled fediverse alternative of Discord be possible?

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  • Discord has both private and public channels. I won't bother considering their threaded discussion offerings, because they're absolutely horrendous.

    ActivityPub is primarily public. You have scoped visibility that enables things like private messaging, but there is no implementation that allows for federated private group discussions.

    There are proposals and a few implementations, but they all rely on everybody else to implement the same proposal, otherwise messages leak out, and that defeats the entire assumption of the private group.

    It's not an unsolvable problem, merely one that hasn't been successfully solved yet.

    As for whether AP is a good fit... It'll work. At the end of the day you're exchanging messages. Whether they're long form or chat messages makes little difference.

  • New Social Web Working Group at W3C

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  • Oh I see. Yes, AP first apps would be great, but getting older apps connected via AP is important too.

    NodeBB predates ActivityPub (or came around the same time), and so we added it recently. It works quite well with our existing code. Not much of a compatibility layer.

  • New Social Web Working Group at W3C

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  • What is this proprietary layer you speak of?

  • New Social Web Working Group at W3C

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  • This is something I believe the ActivityPub API can tackle...

  • New Social Web Working Group at W3C

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  • To my knowledge, one must be an "invited expert" in order to join these discussions.

    However, the working group is only one aspect. The community group has been in existence for a number of years. I am part of that group (although I admit I don't go to as many meetings as I ought to), and try to represent the threadiverse as best as I can.