SkaveRat

They wanted people switching over from big name software to feel right at home

I had issues in like… 2010 or so. But not for about a decade

more dev than sysop, but: bitwarden

Abolutely necessarily.

it works like this:

• @privateuser@mastodon.example.com has a “followers only account”.
• @someuser@pixelfed.example.com is a friend of above account, requested access and was granted. This now causes mastodon.example.com to push all messages of @privateuser to pixelfed.example.com.
• @anotheruser@pixelfed.example.com requests access, but gets ignored. But the pixelfed instance marks the user as “follows @privateuser”
• In the interface of @someuser, the messages are shown as expected.
• In the interface of @anotheruser, they are also shown. Because PF basically does a database “select messages of users that the user follows”, without checking if the access was ever granted.

Important to note, that this would not happen, if the messages weren’t already pushed to the server due to the “allowed” user

ActivityPub is a half-assed unfinished mess.

tried working on my own service and figured this one out very fast.

It’s amazing that it works at all. 98% of the stuff is not documented at all. and the stuff that is, can hardly be called documentation.

that’s the problem. you can’t really, without opening the image.

But so far, it doesn’t really appear to be a problem

the problem with this potential issue (if it indeed is one) is, that you don’t need to reply. just opening the DM is enough

fwiw I got the exact image URL in a DM a couple minutes ago. so at least they are not mapping the uuid of the image to a DMd fedi user

no, it’s a decentralised service on the decentralized internet

Saving for later

While on the topic of masto poll games: we need more active participants over at Fedi Plays Pokemon:

https://tomkahe.com/@pokemon

Tuxedo is a bit hit or miss. Used one for 2 years and wasn’t happy with the case quality. The plastic basically broke at some edges and screw holes

The hardware also wasn’t as Linux compatible as they claim. 5Ghz wifi just didn’t work reliably. With their support page saying the fix is to disable 5Ghz

I host several masto instances

Not sure which is more painful

Reddit still has them. And already rolled back edits where useful

Basically by being (often pretentious) assholes.

One of the relevant posts

But if you scroll his timeline a bit (it really isn’t that much), you can see similar discussions

yeah, it’s quite close

Not even Myspace AOL. This is chain mail material

On pure mathematical basis, I can see it, yes

But given the fact that birth rates are not evenly distributed across the year, it’s probably not the case in reality

Their TOS seem to state otherwise, if the screenshot in Louis’ video is to be believed. Looks like they are keeping themselves an option