In the last few weeks, I have been trying to organise the #Mastodon development work, so our (very small!) resources are used efficiently. This led us to a tentative roadmap for Mastodon 4.3, with a (very optimistic) release date before Christmas.
We just merged a large change in Mastodon's UI, upgrading the icons from FontAwesome to Material Icons, and switching from loading them as a font to inline SVGs.
This is probably a large change for people maintaining alternative themes, please send your feedback if it makes things easier or harder for you! (cc @nileane / @rolle)
This only impacts the React-rendered part of the app for now. If someones want to work on switch the Rails views to use those new icons, please ping me☺️
This would allow to remove FontAwesome altogether, and load far less assets!
For this weekend's coding project, I built a tiny single-user Bluesky→ActivityPub one-way bridge I named “Pinhole”. If there's someone on Bluesky whose posts you want in your Mastodon feed, you can download and run it yourself: :fietkau_software: https://fietkau.software/pinhole
Caveats: 1. I intentionally built it anti-scalable: you can use it to follow one Bluesky account from one fedi account, and that's it. 2. You need experience with web servers.
Moin.
Bevor ich mich ggfs. unnötig aufrege - und ich bin sooo 🤏 kurz davor - eine Frage an [#mastoadmin und #mastodev: ]
Wie kommt es, dass mir ein "automatisierter" #Friendica-Account seine ungeboosteten Beiträge in die TL spülen kann, obwohl ich ihm ganz sicher nicht folge? 🧐
Ich frage für meine geistige Hygiene und es geht um "Epoch Times" 🤮 auf der Instanz "anonsys.net".
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any android devs here who know how i can reliably update a BindableViewHolder's views when
it's off-screen and therefore not a child of the recycler view
it's still bound to the same item and therefore won't rebind when scrolled back into view?
this appears to be the reason why the visibility toggle doesn't hide media when it's not on-screen (thereby corrupting the post state), and i don't know how to fix it :/
If we ignore the notion whether it should, what would make the Fediverse or Mastodon easier to approach for the majority of people? Getting rid of tech talk around the platform? Better, world class user interface? Somehow dismantling the whole domain and server structure? Just calling it Mastodon as one service instead of a Mastodon instance with domain, obfuscating it somehow? Just focusing on mastodon.social and ignore the rest? Acting as centralized service on the outside? Making it seamless via features and improvements? Is there any silver bullet?
I am not against the current state of things, on the contrary. Just curious and trying to think outside this box… of instances and other techy stuff. Could it even be easier to comprehend, or do we just have to continue educating people on the matter?
@KatM@rolle so we need @georgetakei do an audio clip explaining how a post ends up on another instance just like mail to another city while some animator/graphic designer @davidrevoy explains it as pictures.
Key punchline it's simple it's on the background and you don't have to care about it it just happens like email.
Ok, now @Gargron what would it take? I'm serious, not maybe that serious but something should be done.
I know I've heard of this #ActivityPub issue before - hashtags are sent in the tag collection but don't actually show up in the post itself. What's the fix for that?
Do you have to wrap the inline hashtags in a URL format of some kind before sending out the activity to other servers?
If you post directly to the Mastodon API it seems to manage this issue for you, I think.
#Mastodon 4.2 is rolling out across the social web! On our quest to make Mastodon more delightful and easy to use, we've overhauled search, sign-ups, cross-server interactions and a whole lot more:
@Mastodon#fulltextsearch i am a mastodon user who also happens to run a few websites. i have this feeling that searching being enabled in mastodon might be effectively creating a denial of service by hitting sites all at once. or something. i cant really explain! i am seeing hundreds of simultaneous hits to the exact same url on my site from mastodon instances all over. all seem to be at ~02:30 UTC. 🥴 wassup? help? is it just me -- which would be weird. #mastoadmin#mastodev