Gonna? My fellow user of Linux, it’s already happening.

I didn’t explain what I meant very well. To scrape a website you don’t need to understand robots.txt, implementing robots.txt is something you do to be a good netizen. But to get like info from Lemmy, implementing ActivityPub is a requirement.

Now I’ll admit, it’s not a great system and I do wish we had something better, but I also don’t think “this isn’t a good way to communicate preferences” is a good reason to ignore them.

The comparison doesn’t work because both Lemmy and Mbin are implementing the same standard, while robots.txt is mostly an honour system.

You should assume voter data is fully public and fully open. It otherwise is in the federated ecosystem.

Information not being private isn’t the same thing as information being public.

Lemmy likes aren’t meant to be public, this is just other software failing to respect the privacy Lemmy indicates.

Damn, so this is how I find out we’re least trustworthy part of the commonwealth.

Dead World Reclamation - Embrace The Hive (2021)

They already know, it’s just fediverse developers are radically anit-VC so reject any offers out of principle.

I’m sorry, but I fail to see the relevance of this not-for-profit vs for-profit diatribe. If you mean that things like culture and structures matter more than the a project’s legal status, then I agree, but unless you’re going to point to particular issues you have with Mastodon’s then, again, I fail to see the relevance. The things Mastodon (the company) is seeking to improve are highly technical and specialised, where people working on them need good cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience, and understandably demand a high wage.

Surprised to see you of all people question why a project needs money to pay for things.

What for?

They said what for in the previous section, improving Mastodon’s “usability, discoverability, and trust & safety”. They tried to fundraise for a head of trust and safety last month, but failed. My impression is this is them trying to raise general donations to the project to pay for things like this, instead of individual campaigns for individual things.

Is the infrastructure being provided by the companies counted as part of this budget?

I thinks so, given the previous paragraph links to their sponsor page and says as such.

They do, at least, acknowledge this:

We recognise that this Annual Report for 2023 is arriving later than we had intended. Going forward, we plan to release our Annual Report for 2024 in Q1 of 2025, where we will establish clear and ambitious goals for 2025 and beyond. This adjusted timeline allows us to provide more timely insights and better align our reporting with our ongoing growth and development.

They don’t strip out the markdown on the bluesky side, so posts are just full of junk. Weird choice given the focus on ‘seamless’ integrated between the two.

You can, it’s just that individual accounts need to opt into the bridge.

You can go to the trouble to learn Rust, and then fight with them to get your modifications accepted or…

Can you actually point to any instances of the devs dragging their feet on accepting changes or is this just conjecture? I’ve contributed to Lemmy, and plan to do so in future, and my experience is that they’re fairly accepting of changes.

We could do what I think you’ve done, and regex the details of the attachment into ! [] ()

To be clear, this pull request doesn’t use regex, it’s just JSON deserialisation and string interpolation.

I’ve never actually seen a Mastodon user try to add an image to something that ended up as a Lemmy comment, tbh, so it’s not something I’ve thought too much about.

The pull request actually includes one, the main KDE account tags [email protected] and includes pictures in their threads regularly. It’s just hard to tell from our side as you can’t see what’s missing.

This is Mastodon’s HTML sanitiser, you can see they stipe out <img> tags.

How does Piefed handle image attachments, btw?

This is straight up misinformation, Dorsey was on the Bluesky’s board, but left in May. As far as I’m aware, he’s never even invested in the company (but he has given money to the nostr devs).

You can write backbends in Typescript, It’s what the *keys use.

As someone who spends more money than I should on music from Bandcamp, I’m interested to see if they ever get payments working. I remember people talking about a federated BC alternative, where the 10% platform fee goes to the instance you’re on, when they got bought by that music licensing company.

Also, first paragraph under “Integrating with the Fediverse”, you put Bandcamp when I think you meant Bandwagon.

Yeah, I’m not going to defend Mastodon’s frankly bizarre Like system. It’s not even a privacy thing as favourites are fully public.

It simply can’t really happen due to the technical way Mastodon and Lemmy function. I’m not sure if there is a way to address this on either side (or if the developers would be willing to do so even if there was).

Mastodon needs to implement group support, you can follow the issue here (don’t get your hopes up though).