Another personal milestone: I just added "enshitification" to my personal dictionary. No more red squiggles when I bitch about the Internet.
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Another personal milestone: I just added "enshitification" to my personal dictionary. No more red squiggles when I bitch about the Internet. -
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It’s weird that we’re exploring an amazing new technology, but because Twitter is so disrupted, there’s no single place to report your discoveries. A pretty big handicap.@davew - Here's good
Twitter only became popular because interesting people started posting interesting things there, and it was easy for news outlets to follow, right?
So I say: post your amazing new explorations here, and make the news outlets come here for their next scoops.
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I was having trouble with form field validation messages and most of the solutions out there include a whole lot of JavaScript, which wasn't my vibe@cypnk This looks fantastic. Well done!
I’m especially impressed by the lack of JS, because it seems like the only language everyone wants to use these days.
I’d like to see how well this fits into my existing form/widget library. Can I get back to you if I end up using it?
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Woweee. Why am I only finding out about this now?@dolanor Thank you! That means the world to me
I'm getting really close to launching the Bandcamp alternative on the domain planetary.fm -- it's all open source, so anyone could theoretically run their own instances as well.
Once you have time, let me know what kinds of projects you'd like to do. I'm very interested in helping other developers to learn this environment and build their own apps using it.
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Seriously pissed about this.@dolanor @bart Thanks for the mention, @dolanor
Yes, this would be a perfect fit for #Emissary. I just finished swapping out custom code for #FFmepg (to support the #BandCamp project) so media handling is kinda my thing, right now.
The most important issue is to get the "requirements" right. For example, how to describe the difference between DeviantArt and PixelFed? Emissary shines in bending to new workflows, and I'd love to talk more about making an app like this.
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Woweee. Why am I only finding out about this now?Woweee. Why am I only finding out about this now?
https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/emissary-social-web/
Thanks, WeDistribute, for a better write-up than I could have done. I can't wait to deliver more!
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Part of my frustration with #ActivityPub and one of the things I find baffling giving everything else in it: the lack of tools for backpressure.@jenniferplusplus @hrefna I love this thread and the fact that you’re all thinking about these things. Not to muddy the waters, but...
This sounds a bit like FEP-5624 in that the original poster may want to to choose which parts of a thread to sync with others.
I think the original poster could be considered the primary source of truth, which might also minimize the amount of “gossip protocol” required to sync this distributed db.
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Does anyone else agree?@madeindex Well, I only claim to be a UX designer in my posts.. my black turtleneck and infinity scarf still haven’t arrived from the online hemp shop, so it’s not official yet.
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Well written article with many good reasons to NOT fork Mastodon.@madeindex Yeah, in the follow up discussions about this article, I heard that a fork is being discussed (dunno by whom) for *political* reasons (don’t know more details on the politics)
I’d love to learn more about the specific politics that would make someone say that Mastodon wasn’t the right fit for them, but on the surface it seems like a bad move.
That effort would certainly be better spent on making Mastodon itself better, or helping out smaller projects instead.
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Does anyone else agree?@madeindex Absolutely. This should be standard/default behavior on every app.
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Is it possible to create audio recorder kind of web apps using #htmx ?@[email protected] @[email protected] Yes! There are several pieces. FFmpeg manipulations are in https://github.com/benpate/mediaserver
#FFmpeg is amazing but the API is very terse, so it takes a little getting used to. Media Server wraps this into a (slightly) nicer API, and manages cached file uploads, too.
The app I'm building is called #Emissary - https://github.com/EmissarySocial/emissary -- it uses #htmx and the media server above to manipulate images and audio files (video coming soon)
I'm happy to DM or chat more if I can help you out more
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Anyone building a federated Stack Overflow?Yes. Stack Overflow isn't magic. I think they succeeded because they focused heavily on SEO, which brought both ask-ers and answer-ers to the site.
Personally, the "accepted answer" is the killer feature. Dunno if NodeBB, Kbin, or others already support this.
There's potential in SO's gamification aspects, too. I'd love to let third-party sites to award badges or "endorsements" and display them on my profile page. This could work in all kinds of trust/credibility situations.
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Well written article with many good reasons to NOT fork Mastodon.I should really do more research before I say anything too definitive.
I guess I'm too much of an engineer to get why you'd need a whole new fork for political reasons.
Do you have a link to the new project, and their reasons for discussing a fork? If someone wants Mastodon + extras, I'm curious about what would keep them from just contributing back to the core.
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Anyone building a federated Stack Overflow?@utzer @dansup Yeah. We could always just build a new network with special features that would require an account on a Q&A -style server.
But an emerging feature of "fedi" is that you can take your identity everywhere. I'd really like to support this somehow, too.
Perhaps it just means using main Mastodon (or whatever) account as a "universal inbox" for notifications. But then we link you back to a site with SSO, so you can interact more richly there.
Dunno.. TBD.
I'll take any/all advice.
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Anyone building a federated Stack Overflow?@dansup Yes. After Bandcamp.
I had an online discussion about a Federated-Yelp that raised some interesting points that might apply to SO as well -- How do you “federate” the features that DON’T fit into the standard social media formulae? Things like “accepted answers” might only work on a centralized server.
Also, this might fall under the threaded discussion WG. I’d love to talk in more detail if you’re ever interested.
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Is it possible to create audio recorder kind of web apps using #htmx ?@jjude The specific features to record audio would certainly need to be a bunch of custom JS, not htmx. But all of the stuff around it that makes it a viable app? Yes. Htmx is fantastic for that.
The key is putting the right features in the right layer of the app. I just integrated FFmpeg into the back-end of an htmx-powered app, to transcode various kinds of audio on the fly. It works great. 10/10 would recommend.
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Well written article with many good reasons to NOT fork Mastodon.@maybeanerd Great point. And I have to say I’m not totally up to speed with the state of whatever Mastodon forks that are already out there.
I guess this is my question: if there are already thriving forks of Mastodon, what benefit would another one provide?
The most likely outcome I see is a bunch of time spent with little to show for it.
I’d rather see that energy go into improving the core of existing apps out there already (Mastodon or otherwise)
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Well written article with many good reasons to NOT fork Mastodon.Well written article with many good reasons to NOT fork Mastodon.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/forking-mastodon/
My favorite part was about a previously attempted fork called the Florence project. According to the article, they were apparently better at having meetings than producing actual code. I laughed. I cried. I relived so many years of software development trauma.