Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.

Here? Blocking just means you don’t see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, “karma” isn’t a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.

I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.

“Criticize”? How dare you! 😂 It was only intended as light ribbing as far as I’m concerned, I fully acknowledge the “foolish” part.

It looks like it’s a Webfinger implementation to parse the ActivityPub user URI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750312

The @user@instance.tld format has become a convention across most if not all ActivityPub platforms. In the end the software will look up https://instance.tld/user anyway.

Meta will want to normalize these

Of course they will; it worked so well with Google Glass.

Right, it was the filesharing part (like at a W/LAN party) that I wanted to recommend pirate box for, so I overlooked the other functions 🙂

Either way, bookmarked your GH repo for future reference, excellent project!

Oh hey, this is just what I was looking for recently! I wanted to recommend PirateBox to another thread on here, but realised it was eol’ed six years back. This is pretty much similar usage, right?

Your statistical uniqueness will be added to our empirical material

The survey is anonymous

I dunno, maybe they thought that cut both ways? 🤷

Even simpler, I love it! 👍

Simplest possible solution, Occam’s Inventory 😄

I use markdown extensively, but I’m honestly not fond of its tables function (which I assume you use for this purpose?). It works, but it’s a bit static in my experience. Do you run up against the same, or is it actually an advantage in your use case?

Agreed, Nextcloud has gone from a lean little personal cloud to a hulking enterprise hub.

If you’re after something that’ll just sync your files between devices, try Syncthing. If you need files available online, maybe something like filestash or, like somebody else suggested, SFTPgo.

There are also tiny, lean calendar and contact server apps out there if you decide you need those. After self hosting NC for years I’m really happy spreading out the tasks over dedicated services rather than having all my eggs in one basket.

I’d add “report” to that advice. If somebody is outright being jerks, that is probably against your instance’s rules — and if it isn’t, there are plenty others to choose from.

Blocking helps you, but reporting people (or instances) that are just here to troll will help others.

Well, you can use/link a mastodon account if you already have one.

Yeah, that’s what I did. I meant the feature set gave me more possibilities than I could handle 😄

According to their documentation:

login with other Fediverse identity and import social graph

• supported servers: Mastodon/Pleroma/Firefish/GoToSocial/Pixelfed/friendica/Takahē

It’s pretty cool in that it allows cataloguing more media types than just books, so that’s a leg up over Bookwyrm. IIRC it also pulls item information from relevant (open API) databases, so you get the synopsis etc filled in?

For me starting a new account that also made it kind of overwhelming. I’ve never catalogued my books anywhere, so the possibility of doing that, and input watched film, TV shows, etc — suddenly my media habits turned into a bit of a chore 🙂

Oh, never actually tried Bookwyrm, but I’d expected it would have a social aspect as well? That seems like a lost opportunity.

[Edited to add:] Have you had a look at NeoDb? Also a tracker, but apparently with more social aspects —

users can share their collections, publish microblogs, and engage with others in the Fediverse

I only had superficial experience with NeoDb, so can’t say with certainty if a Lemmy community and threads for individual books may be better for you.

Yeah, I don’t know anything about the state of open Reddit endpoints. Seems they’re intent on closing down non-Google/Gemini access to some of them? 🤷

But if the /.rss “hack” helps setting up a Lemmy bot or at least track the communities with a feed reader, that’s a small victory I guess?

You’d probably have to jump through several hoops to make that happen. Libreddit doesn’t offer any ActivityPub API to follow directly, or even RSS feeds that might be used by a bot to post updates to Lemmy.

This sounds like a “fight fire with dumpster fire” sort of solution. Please don’t.

Scratching my head over this as well. Yes, it might diminish casual discovery uptake that the app isn’t in the Play Store, but for this target group I think most users would be comfortable downloading the app from Fdroid.

The larger issue with closing down the entire project including notification servers(!?) is probably a tell that there have been other factors weighing on the developer?

Either way, if the source code is openly available maybe others will pick up development in a way that isn’t as vulnerable to corporate policy changes.

Wtf, how have I not heard that writefreely hasn’t federated since Xmas?