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  • A more private way to distribute votes

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  • @bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de I think with public groups this is less of a concern. They're public after all, votes included

    In NodeBB votes (of the up variety) are de facto public, only downvotes are hidden.

  • A more private way to distribute votes

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  • > @bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de said in A more private way to distribute votes: > > So my proposal would be: votes are only sent to the author of a post. The author then sends an Update activity to their followers and the magazine the post belongs to.

    My concern is that this goes against the implicit assumption that the group actor (the community/magazine/category) is the source of truth.

    The group actor is the clearinghouse of data in 1b12 style federation, and it would be a departure to change votes to only be sent to the target.

    Fwiw when someone upvotes on NodeBB, it gets blasted everywhere too!

    I would recommend that votes continue to be sent to group actors, who then decide whether to announce it (old behaviour) or keep quiet and wait for the update before announcing (new behaviour).

    It would mean vote synchronization would be less reliable however.

    Also this goes directly against @rimu@piefed.social's vote batching proposal.

  • Catodon joining the Threadiverse

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  • Catodon joining the Threadiverse

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  • @panos@community.nodebb.org Was not able to resolve the post, but I don't think it's your fault, lemmy.world turned on CF bot protection and it's blocking me :(

  • Anyone with experience using anubis on their lemmy server, have a good config?

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  • Sure. I have found that the default botPolicy works fine for blocking the AI bots, but blocks federation.

    At the reverse proxy level:

     
        
if ($request_method = POST) {
    proxy_pass http://nodebb/; 
}

    Because Anubis can't filter by HTTP method, unless I am mistaken. This just broadly allows all incoming activities. If you want to get specific, limit it to your shared inbox or individual user inboxes via regular expression or something. I didn't find that it was necessary.

    As for botPolicies.yaml

     
        
  # Allow /inbox
  - name: allow-ap-headers
    headers_regex:
      Accept: application/ld\+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"
      Accept: application/activity\+json
    action: ALLOW

  - name: allow-assets
    path_regex: /assets
    action: ALLOW

    The former allows those specific AP headers (it is naive, some AP impls. send slight variations of those two headers.

    The latter allows our uploads.

  • New Forum Community.

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  • @rabiezaater@piefed.social not all instances enable them. I think Piefed can restrict them in some manners (local users only, or something), and in NodeBB you can disable them completely.

    It's not an all-or-nothing proposition, if you think downvotes are not good, run a software (or join an instance) that doesn't have them enabled.

  • Catodon joining the Threadiverse

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  • To my knowledge, Catodon was started by @panos@catodon.rocks, who for the longest time was a Firefish advocate, but was disappointed by the bait and switch pulled by those devs.

    With the advent of AI, Panos is taking it upon himself to fork Firefish and build the social media experience he wanted all long.

    Can't really argue with that :smile:

  • IEEE talking about fediverse

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  • I disagree. I think that you can have both.

    I think big tech has proven that it cannot be trusted. Their priorities are simply not in alignment with our own. Legislation seems to be the only lever that can hope to rein them in (market forces are no longer strong enough).

    At the same time, smaller networks do not have the resources to comply with government regulations to a T, and so they should be given a longer leash. Governments also do not have the resources to chase down every Tom, Dick, and Harry running a Lemmy server (well, they do, but they shouldn't.)

    Whether reality will play out this way is uncertain.

  • Pluralistic: The online community trilemma

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  • Isn't that basically a Piefed topic?

  • better Mastodon feeds

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  • I'm talking to you from it right now 🤨

  • better Mastodon feeds

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  • better Mastodon feeds

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  • Different software can do this in a less privacy invasive way.

    NodeBB has "popular" filters that show you what is generating discussion (per day, week, month, etc.)

  • Pluralistic: The online community trilemma

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  • The potential for abuse or culture clash comes when these disparate (yet related) communities are combined.

    From a user perspective it may make sense to expose "related discussions" that you can browse to. Keeping the discussions separate yet linked could be a workable compromise.

  • Pluralistic: The online community trilemma

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  • Mastodon not federating to Lemmy?

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  • About batched votes? Yeah I did, just haven't responded yet 👍

  • Mastodon not federating to Lemmy?

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  • > @a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca said in Mastodon not federating to Lemmy?: > > So my question is, does anyone know what caused this and if so how I can fix it?

    Mastodon doesn't know to send replies to the community for distribution to the rest of the threadiverse.

    Long story short if you're not on the same instance as the community, Mastodon replies to you won't make it to the rest of the threadiverse.

    I experimented with a hack to see if I could fix this. NodeBB works around this by including a hidden mention to the community that Mastodon will then pre-fill in the text box, and then the reply will make it in successfully. If you have a Mastodon account try to reply to this comment, the community will be pre-filled as a mention.

    Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin will need to do this.

    Does it work? Yes

    Are we supposed do it? Technically no, it's easier to blame Mastodon for not doing it right.

    Should we do it? Probably, yes.

    @rimu@piefed.social @nutomic@lemmy.ml @bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de @melroy@mastodon.melroy.org I tested this. It works perfectly fine. We can implement this today and remove it when Mastodon supports threadiverse conversations better (I'll try to make that happen.)

  • Mastodon not federating to Lemmy?

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  • Theoretically yes.

    Practically, only sometimes. Mastodon doesn't know to send the reply to the community (or even just a user from that community), so when replies are made that don't include the community, then they don't get make it through to the threadiverse.

    Mastodon users (if they're following the community) will get everything, but the UI for reading threadiverse content is abysmal 😝

  • PeerTube v8.1 is out!

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  • Curious... Can you share more details about what they changed that fixes federation with Lemmy?

    Maybe it'll help Piefed and NodeBB too!

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    julian @activitypub.space

    Community mention spam from Microblogs

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    julian @activitypub.space

    Threadiverse... on ATProto?!