Ah, so they are. The ones I’ve read have always been pretty prescriptive so I just assumed the c meant change.

Request for change, it’s more of open source/programming thing than this comm thing.

Lol, so the “just make good games” crowd need to use bigotry as crunch to salvage their games’ reputation.

I’m seeing Ghost as a Substack killer, as that is a toxic swamp we need sensible folk off. Nearly everyone who had a newsletter migrated there. Only one listened to their fans and backed straight out again.

I always thought a newsletter was just a specialised blog, but maybe that’s wrong. I heard about the Substack allowing Nazis on there, so understandable why people would want off.

They already know, it’s just fediverse developers are radically anit-VC so reject any offers out of principle.

Tumblr is now on ActivityPub

Is it? I know it’s been moved to Wordpress, but I haven’t heard about this.

Ghost can apparently be used to manage multiple blogs under different subdomains. Might be worth looking into when their ActivityPub supports goes out of early access.

ability to import a Bluesky profile to Mastodon or the *key forks

Building an ActivityPub application (APlication?) that uses AT protocol’s PDSs would be pretty interesting. Compatibility would be a nightmare, but I don’t see a reason you couldn’t have the sign up and data management work like it does on Bluesky (did:plc issues aside) and the server side/relay work with APub.

And you get the feeling this isn’t the solution he’d have wanted but it at least looks like some.kind of solution so he’s prepared to support it, albeit grudgingly.

It’s more like the idea of adversarial interoperability he’s talked about in the past, focusing on making the transition to a new platform easier by forcing compatibility between nominally incompatible platforms. The article does imply he thinks that Bluesky will enshittify, so our focus as activists of the good internet should be on tools to make the inevitable migration easier. I just don’t think “Free Our Feeds” is that.

This pull request should solve this (at least from the user perspective). Need to wait for the next 0.19 release or an admin can patch it in manually if they want.

Yeah, I do think Doctorow has missed the mark here. @tante put it better than I could:

It’s trying to raise money (at least 4 Mio and up to 30 Mio USD) for ATProto (the protocol at the core of Bluesky) so “the community” can standardize the thing and “build stuff”. Plus the project wants to run a second “Relay” (which is the chokepoint that centralizes Bluesky at the moment). Edit/Addition: The fact that just running another Relay leads to costs in the millions should make people wonder if this is the right approach for a better social media infrastructure that does not rely on big organizations.

Okay, but isn’t that what the Bluesky Public Benefit Corporation (the corporation that owns Bluesky and employs the people working on the ATproto protocol) wanted to enable/do? They already got millions in funding (some from sketchy Blockchain companies). Now some diffuse external entity collects more from random people, from “the community”. And not a bit but a lot more. What do the people donating money get for their investment? Stake in the Bluesky corporation? [Checks notes] Nope. Nothing.

The 9 custodians consist of a whole bunch of AI people, some Mozilla folks (same thing) and the director of the Social Web foundation. […]

It’s just presented in a weird way with a whole lot of “give us a lot of money and we’ll make amazing stuff happen” and in the end a bunch of AI grifters get some startups “that build upon AT proto” funded.

You couldn’t waterboard a confession out of me about getting surgery to improve my sexual performance and this guy goes straight to social media about it.

In the ActivityPub JSON for this post, there is no indication that this field contains MarkDown. If anything, it says the opposite, it says it contains HTML. It’s therefore not unreasonable for other platforms to render it as such.

Actually, the name property is explicitly plain text, it shouldn’t contain any type of markup, whether that be markdown or HTML.

/api/v3/user is for fetching info about any user, it requires either a person_id or username to be given as a URL param to work, e.g. https://feddit.uk/api/v3/user?person_id=28426 will get my profile. There currently isn’t a way to get just the person_view from the JWT, though API v4 will have an /account endpoint that you’ll be able to GET with the auth header. Most apps GET the /site endpoint and use my_user returned from that.

How bout you go back and let your friends know that if they’re in need of a good editor, try Vim ;)

If my friends wanted a good editor, then I wouldn’t recommend a Vimitor, I’d recommend ed, the standard text EDitor :p

If Vim is so good, then why can’t you browse Lemmy from it?

This meme was made by the Emacs gang.

[Lemmy has] no mechanism for a community owner to communicate a challenge to post to his community, so impossible to prevent spam.

Hey mods, you can do the funniest thing right now:

Isn’t Le Pen dead? Edit: Wrong Le Pen

One thing that would immediately kill the people smuggling industry is allowing people to claim asylum in Calias, but they’ll never do that.

Interior Minister Yvette Cooper

She’s home secretary, Britain doesn’t have an interior minister?

What about JSON-LD makes it so they have to include the “this is public” declaration in the to field instead of having an as:public property on the object? (I don’t know a whole lot about JSON-LD or RDF more broadly)

Etherium actually transitioned to proof-of-stake? Last I heard it was something they were planning to but it was being delayed for years. Good for them for actually doing it, I still don’t trust the technology and refuse to use anything that integrates it, but at least it’s not so actively destructive.

Mastodon doesn’t have Group support (fep-1b12), so when they reply to a post, they don’t send it to the community’s inbox (only to the inbox of the Person they’re replying to), thus breaking Lemmy’s model of federation.