@rolle Their other repositories also stopped being updated in 2019, so it might be that author moved away from GitHub. Latest repository of that user account is in 2022, but I think they just stopped having time to do open source software. https://github.com/ciolt?tab=repositories
@rolle@raikas That's scrolling timelines. I think you were looking for mentions of Mastodon specifically?
I would do something like that only I'd use the hashtag API call instead of timeline. Think I'd also use the &local=true switch so the post content wouldn't be from all over the place.
@rolle I think this shows a big difference in the cultural expectations in Fedi vs. ATProto that would be a problem here - on Bluesky this is a normal tool (though probably a lot of new people don't realize it works this way), on Fedi you'd be burned at the stake if you tried to build something like that 😬
@rolle@alcea Instead of polling each server public feed the best way probably would be to use a very federated instance's (mastodon.social or mementomori.social) "all" live feed 🤷. That requires the user to login with OAuth and implementing the streaming API.
That design is also doable, but it just pings the servers a lot and could be bandwidth heavy for users with slower internet.
I feel this describes a bad amount of people using Mastodon. Like, is it an age thing, or a culture thing? Mastodon is fun but I feel like people on the platform have a weird expectation for Mastodon to be a lifestyle or something more than literally just a website.
Misskey's size, development history, and decentralization are all comparable to Mastodon, and it seems like people there are a million times happier on average.
@rolle The same can be said when you follow the #Bluesky hashtag on Mastodon. Twitter/Bluesky users being defamed as "junkies" who need their "dopamine fix" by being "slaves to the algorithm", allegedly being disappointed by the lack of Mastodon's algorithm apparently makes them capitalist attention-seeking whores, or they're just simply fascists supporting a fascist platform (that's Bluesky, because of Jack Dorsey).
Mastodon is not one tiny bit better when it comes to self-righteousness.
@werdersee@rolle Which is all the funnier given that Jack Dorsey is so uninvolved in the Bluesky development that he deleted his account there recently…
@73ms Yeah, he is on the board, but as far as I know he isn't really involved, the team has free rein, and he has 1/3 of the vote so he'd be overruled if they disagree (which has already happened before, from what I hear).
@73ms The funding model is… vague. They have a lot of runway from the initial funding, and they got some new VC funding round lately, but they don't really know the target business model yet. They want to find some non-enshittifying ways like some extra paid services.
Their plan/stated goal (officially) is that by the time this could become a problem, everything will be so decentralized and out of their hands that they will not be able to enshittify it even if they wanted.
@mackuba yes, that is my point. VC funding means everything is great until the squeeze starts. Twitter had a hard enough time finding ways to make money and I am skeptical about avoiding enshittification. They have already said they will not be “dogmatic” when it comes to ads for example and good intentions now in no way guarantees them in the future.
As for the decentralization... I have my doubts about that working out and they have already ensured that their own instance will stay huge.
@73ms Yeah, so the whole plan is to actively build the whole thing with that problem in mind, so that they can't take it all back if they turn evil at some point. It's not fully there yet, but moving steadily in that direction:
@troed@rolle they've been testing federation since the summer with third party devs in a sandbox network, but it's not live yet - it should be finished early next year
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