dfyx

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 points 1 week ago

It's "all" in the sense that it's everything the instance knows about, in contrast to "this server" which is only content from users that are registered on this specific instance. Same concept as the "all" and "local" feeds on lemmy. I agree that a better name might reduce the confusion but I can't think of a good one.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Servers not having the same content in their "all" feeds is not a bug, it's by design. The design philosophy for Mastodon (and I'd say the fediverse as a whole) is to let the users curate their own feeds instead of showing them everything or algorithmically guessing what they might be interested in. Servers will only receive posts from accounts that at least one of this server's accounts is subscribed to. Having every post federate to every server even if nobody there is interested in those posts would be a waste of resources.

Yes, that makes discovery of new content significantly harder but that's the tradeoff for being able to host your own small instance without the need for a super powerful server. I can run my instance that serves just a couple of users on a 10-year-old server that runs a dozen other things at the same time. We see the stuff we're interested in and don't have to spend disk space, processing power and network bandwidth on content none of us will ever read and neither do we have to spend those resources on sending our posts to other instances where nobody will read them.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

タイッツー is definitely taittsuu. Twitter doesn't seem to use a katakana spelling. Your proposal of "tsuittaa" would be ツイッター. Same katakana but different order. There would be no reason to read Japanese from right to left. Might be an intentional pun though.

Edit: it's https://taittsuu.com

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly, this whole thing is a mess... first a countdown, then a website with basically no information and that's only the start.

More than 24 hours after signing up, I finally got an email with just about zero information:

Hi @dfyx,

We're thrilled to welcome you to Loops.video!

We're in the process of onboarding all our new users, and we can't wait for you to experience the magic of short looping video.

Keep an eye out for another email from us later tonight or tomorrow (depending on when you signed up). It will have all the details you need to get started, including how to create your first Loop.

Welcome to the Loops community!

Regards, The Loops Team

And from some random comment that dansup made on pixelfed I found out that this beta is only for Android. Apparently, iOS will come later and there is no info on a browser-based version. That info should have been on the website. Also, what about selfhosting? This is the fediverse after all...

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 10 points 1 month ago

Kind of. All it shows for me is a registration form. When I submit it, they promise me to send an email with further instructions. So far, I didn't get anything. Honestly, they wouldn't have needed a countdown for that.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Seems to be a framework to build your own custom fediverse stuff.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The sensor that recognizes if the laptop is closed sits on the left, next to the audio jack. If you get a magnet within 2-3 cm of it, it triggers and the screen turns off. Seems like the magnet in the lid of the other laptop is just close enough.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 3 points 3 months ago

As far as I know, ActivityPub only applies to server to server communication. Still, many applications that implement ActivityPub (for example Mastodon) do use push notifications for their clients.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

One more difference is that RSS is polling based, meaning that subscribers have to actively ask every hour or so if thre is new content.

On the other hand, ActivityPub knows who is subscribed and can actively distribute new content to other servers who can in turn send push messages to their users, letting you know about new content within seconds.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 7 points 4 months ago

Can confirm that it doesn't load on iOS but loads fine on desktop.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 12 points 5 months ago

I just made it 62.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 1 points 8 months ago

I think you misunderstood my point. That’s on me though, I could have phrased it better. Props to @Zak@lemmy.world, their comment did a better job at explaining what I meant.

 

The fediverse is discussing if we should defederate from Meta's new Threads app. Here's why I probably won't (for now).

(Federation between plume and my lemmy instance doesn't work correctly at the moment, otherwise I would have made this a proper crosspost)

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