freamon

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[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 3 points 8 months ago

Lemmy doesn't seem to get much recognition in the wider Fediverse - it tends to get bundled as part of 'other apps'. Mastodon is much bigger, so better integration with Lemmy probably gets deprioritised below their own issues and feature requests (e.g. I was reading today that Markdown support is often requested, but the base version still doesn't have it)

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I don't think it's technically impossible - all the information that another site needs to properly interpret some activity is in the JSON that's sent. I get the sense that it might be unrealistic to expect Mastodon to make the necessary changes though. It seems more of a political issue than a technical one.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 40 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It's partly an issue of keys. Every fediverse actor has a private key and a public key. When my instance sends this to fediverse@lemmy.world, it's signed by my private key, and lemmy.world uses my public key to verify it. When fediverse@lemmy.world sends this comment out, it uses it's own private key to sign it. It can't just re-transmit my comment, because it doesn't have my private key. All it can do is Announce that I've made the comment (and sign the Announce).

Mastodon treats Announces as Boosts, so every post/comment is interpreted as a thing that fediverse@lemmy.world has boosted, so you get all these un-connected posts appearing. I think it's mostly up to Mastodon to remedy.

It works better if a Mastodon actor posts into a Lemmy community, then you get the mix like you imagine. e.g.: https://mastodon.world/@Flash/112095241193510662 (this particular post was crowbarred into Lemmy via !tails@lemmon.website, but it would be the same if the author had done it.)

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 6 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Wait, what? A user posts a thing to a server, and that thing isn't then duplicated to 50 other servers ... yeah, I don't see how that can work.

(I'm just kidding - your site looks neat.)

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it was pretty nifty in lots of ways. Loads of emulators, of course, and doing stuff like compiling apps directly on the device itself was neat.

Frustrating in lots of other ways too, though. I don't think the Pyra ever really got off the ground, unfortunately.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 48 points 8 months ago (6 children)

This was always an impressive emulator - it was originally made for the Open Pandora (an ARM-based mini-computer not much bigger than a DS). It's always been free for that - it's just, you know, you'd have to own an Open Pandora (I do!)

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 5 points 8 months ago

Not quite, no. I know what it isn't at least.

I'll keep going - I'm sure the article's author is someone who genuinely uploaded some confidential info and then became really involved with privacy/GDPR etc, and not someone who was always been really involved with privacy/GDPR issues and now has a story to fit.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm gonna find this guy's image ...

https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.jpeg ... nope
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001.jpeg ... nope
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002.jpeg ... nope
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000003.jpeg ... nope

Mmm, I'm sure it won't take long. Just have to remember to do it all again for .jpg, .webp, and .png.

Anyway, I'll let you know when I get it.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 12 points 8 months ago

Informing a human that their work has already been done for them by a bot is oddly appropriate for this post.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 17 points 9 months ago

Not that I'm aware of, just communities that seem like they might fit, but don't quite:

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca
!communityspotlight@lemmy.world
!newcommunities@lemmy.world
!newcommunities@discuss.online

I'm sure you could make a more meta-type post in one of these though.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 4 points 9 months ago

A quick Google suggests you're correct - big sites have implemented their own versions, but it looks like everyone has spent the last decade arguing with other about a CommonMark standard.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I think it's because spoiler tags in lemmy have been custom-made for some reason, whereas all the other stuff is standard markdown. Voyager is a web app, so it can maybe only render whatever the engine it relies on can render.

Edit: Turns out I'm 2 for 2 on making incorrect statements in this comment.

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