On my blog: Mastodon’s API (The Pitfalls) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/29/mastodon-api.html #mastodon #programming #techtips
**Now that @JoeSondow’s bot games like @EmojiSnakeGame are no longer going be free to play, I can only hope he will soon have mastodon versions of it running, and I will no longer have a reason to open twitter’s app often.
And no, paying for a verified account is not on the table.**
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On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/20 to 03/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/13 to 03/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/17/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/06 to 03/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/10/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
Find me on Mastodon https://social.gr0k.net/@gr0k
R to @mind_booster: And now, if you want to follow my twtxt’s on your fediverse/mastodon account, you can do so by following @marado@marado .
And now, if you want to follow my twtxt’s on your fediverse/mastodon account, you can do so by following @marado@marado . ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 02/27 to 03/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/03/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
📣 Update on Activity Pub: Just a quick update on the Yarn.social <-> Activity Pub (aka Mastodon and others):
- Can follow other Activity Pub actors ✅
- Can be followed by other Activity Pub actors ✅
- Your posts can be seen by Activity Pub actors ✅
- You can see posts from Activity Pub actors ✅
What does not yet work:
- Translating replies (aka threading) ❌
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 02/20 to 02/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
So. this post should show up on mastodon! :)
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@bender@twtxt.net can you give me your @user for your mastodon? I can then follow you there and see if that part works. I picked some random ones from fosstodon to follow, it said it followed successfully at least.
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 02/13 to 02/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/17/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 02/06 to 02/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/10/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
It’s Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They’ve Been Fooled mastodon.cloud
I did the best I could with the motivation I had. mastodon.cloud
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 01/30 to 02/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/03/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
So, according to the latest @HackerRadioShow, several house appliances’ manufacturers (of dishwashers and things like that) are puzzled, wondering why don’t the owners of such appliances allow their devices to connect to the home’s wifi. ½
So, according to the latest @HackerRadioShow, several house appliances’ manufacturers (of dishwashers and things like that) are puzzled, wondering why don’t the owners of such applia … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 01/23 to 01/27 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/27/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 01/16 to 01/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/20/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
I posted about GoToSocial, but another Mastodon-alternative and Fediverse software, Takahē, seems to make fast progress and has some unique features like support for multiple domains or multiple identities per user. I haven’t tried running it yet, but it looks promising! ⌘ Read more
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@xuu@txt.sour.is that doesn’t seem to fit the spirit of the spec, at least by my read (I could be wrong obv). The example on Wikipedia’s webfinger page,
{
"subject": "acct:bob@example.com",
"aliases": [
"https://www.example.com/~bob/"
],
"properties": {
"http://example.com/ns/role": "employee"
},
"links": [{
"rel": "http://webfinger.example/rel/profile-page",
"href": "https://www.example.com/~bob/"
},
{
"rel": "http://webfinger.example/rel/businesscard",
"href": "https://www.example.com/~bob/bob.vcf"
}
]
}
and then the comparison with how mastodon uses webfinger,
{
"subject": "acct:Mastodon@mastodon.social",
"aliases": [
"https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon",
"https://mastodon.social/users/Mastodon"
],
"links": [
{
"rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
"type": "text/html",
"href": "https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon"
},
{
"rel": "self",
"type": "application/activity+json",
"href": "https://mastodon.social/users/Mastodon"
},
{
"rel": "http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe",
"template": "https://mastodon.social/authorize_interaction?uri={uri}"
}
]
}
suggests to me you want to leave the subject/acct bit as is (don’t add prefixes) and put extra information you care to include in the links section, where you’re free to define the rel URIs however you see fit. The notion here is that webfinger is offering a mapping from an account name to additional information about that account, so if anything you’d use a "subject": "acct:SALTY ACCOUNT_REPRESENTATION" line in the JSON to achieve what you’re saying if you don’t want to do that via links.
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@prologic@twtxt.net That was exactly my thought at first too. but what do we put as the rel for salty account? since it is decentralized we dont have a set URL for machines to key off. so for example take the standard response from okta:
# http GET https://example.okta.com/.well-known/webfinger resource==acct:bob
{
"links": [
{
"href": "https://example.okta.com/sso/idps/OKTA?login_hint=bob#",
"properties": {
"okta:idp:type": "OKTA"
},
"rel": "http://openid.net/specs/connect/1.0/issuer",
"titles": {
"und": "example"
}
}
],
"subject": "acct:bob"
}
It gives one link that follows the OpenID login. So the details are specific to the subject acct:bob.
Mastodons response:
{
"subject": "acct:xuu@chaos.social",
"aliases": [
"https://chaos.social/@xuu",
"https://chaos.social/users/xuu"
],
"links": [
{
"rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
"type": "text/html",
"href": "https://chaos.social/@xuu"
},
{
"rel": "self",
"type": "application/activity+json",
"href": "https://chaos.social/users/xuu"
},
{
"rel": "http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe"
}
]
}
it supplies a profile page and a self which are both specific to that account.
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@prologic@twtxt.net That was exactly my thought at first too. but what do we put as the rel for salty account? since it is decentralized we dont have a set URL for machines to key off. so for example take the standard response from okta:
# http GET https://example.okta.com/.well-known/webfinger resource==acct:bob
{
"links": [
{
"href": "https://example.okta.com/sso/idps/OKTA?login_hint=bob#",
"properties": {
"okta:idp:type": "OKTA"
},
"rel": "http://openid.net/specs/connect/1.0/issuer",
"titles": {
"und": "example"
}
}
],
"subject": "acct:bob"
}
It gives one link that follows the OpenID login. So the details are specific to the subject acct:bob.
Mastodons response:
{
"subject": "acct:xuu@chaos.social",
"aliases": [
"https://chaos.social/@xuu",
"https://chaos.social/users/xuu"
],
"links": [
{
"rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
"type": "text/html",
"href": "https://chaos.social/@xuu"
},
{
"rel": "self",
"type": "application/activity+json",
"href": "https://chaos.social/users/xuu"
},
{
"rel": "http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe"
}
]
}
it supplies a profile page and a self which are both specific to that account.
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 01/09 to 01/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/13/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
Trying to wrap my head around webfinger..
my first thoughts about it were that a subject of acct:me@sour.is would have a listing of rel’s for the different accounts that are related to me (ie. yarn, salty, twitter, mastodon, etc…)
but maybe my thinking is at the wrong level.. that each of those accounts would be on a subject level and the rels are describing different aspects of that account. so i would have salty:acct:xuu@sour.is, twitter:acct:xuu, mastodon:acct:xuu@chaos.social, yarn:acct:xuu@ev.sour.is and then i could have a main acct:me@sour.is that links them together as aliases.
I found okta will do something similar with its accounts to show as okta:acct:user@domain so maybe I am on to something?
Trying to wrap my head around webfinger..
my first thoughts about it were that a subject of acct:me@sour.is would have a listing of rel’s for the different accounts that are related to me (ie. yarn, salty, twitter, mastodon, etc…)
but maybe my thinking is at the wrong level.. that each of those accounts would be on a subject level and the rels are describing different aspects of that account. so i would have salty:acct:xuu@sour.is, twitter:acct:xuu, mastodon:acct:xuu@chaos.social, yarn:acct:xuu@ev.sour.is and then i could have a main acct:me@sour.is that links them together as aliases.
I found okta will do something similar with its accounts to show as okta:acct:user@domain so maybe I am on to something?
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 01/02 to 01/06 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/06/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
Achievement for today: I can finally correctly reply to Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub posts. 🥳 ⌘ Read more
Achievement for today: I can finally correctly reply to Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub posts. 🥳 ⌘ Read more
Just setting up a quick Mastodon instance to test some compatibility is a pain. Using test accounts on public instances is also unreliable, because many instances are already overloaded and I don’t want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit… ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: New Mastodon service for the Ignite Realtime community!
Some of you might already have followed along with the discussion on this in the open_chat chatroom, but: the Ignite Realtime community now has its own Mastodon service at toot.igniterealtime.org! This service is graciously sponsored by Free Solutions Sàrl - a big thank you to Claude and his team!
 | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 3, 2022 ⌘ Read more
Oh wow! 😳 Looks like Mastodon are planning to add support for Twtxt in Add support for Twtxt protocol 😅
**So many different “clever” and “funny” takes around here lately, comparing “Twitter vs. Mastodon” with “Windows vs. Linux”, making fun of ‘the year of Linux in the desktop’…
…an I still wonder why would anyone freely and willingly choose to use Windows over GNU/Linux. 🤷♂️**
So many different “clever” and “funny” takes around here lately, comparing “Twitter vs. Mastodon” with “Windows vs. Linux”, making fun of ‘the year of Linux in the desktop’…
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**I’m not sure I’m too interested into participating in twitter’s exodus by getting a mastodon account - instead, I’ve decided that this is the right moment to stop procrastinating and finally do something about my twtxt presence.
If you are a twtxt user…
https://twtxt.net/conv/e2ddupa**
I’m not sure I’m too interested into participating in twitter’s exodus by getting a mastodon account - instead, I’ve decided that this is the right moment to stop procrastinating and finally do something about my twtxt prese … ⌘ Read more
Some IndieWeb protocols are complicated and there are sometimes no programming libraries to simplify the use of them, but ActivityPub is another beast. Although the standard is documented, the way the specific implementations (Mastodon etc.) work often isn’t and it’s hard to debug. So huge respect for the big rework. 👍 ⌘ Read more
GoToSocial seems like a promising alternative to Mastodon. It’s written in Go (👍 in my opinion), lightweight and pretty good documented so far. It’s still “alpha software” but seems to make great progress. In the past, I self hosted a microblog.pub instance and then after some time without any Fediverse profile other than my blog, which has ActivityPub support as well, signed up at Fosstodon to be able to reply to blog comments from the Fediverse. I already set up an instace of GTS, but will probably wait to use it … ⌘ Read more
@jason@jasonsanta.xyz / @movq@www.uninformativ.de Help me debug something I just observed here… @jason@jasonsanta.xyz posted a Twt (https://twtxt.net/twt/4cgtisa) with raw line of (from his feed):
2022-09-03T03:40:19Z (#ohihfkq) @<maya https://maya.land/assets/twtxt.txt> you got starlink?
Basically replying to “something” that hashed to #ohihfkq
However #ohihfkq appears nowhere that I can find. I know this can sometimes happen due to edits, or deletes, so just curious to see what happened here. Also @jason@jasonsanta.xyz, @maya@maya.land as far as many of us that have been using Twtxt/Yarn over the years have come to understand that she is basically a 1-way poster, posts to Mastodon and mirrors her posts to a Twtxt feed, but never responds to anyone or anything 😅 Just FYI 🤗
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@prologic I do think the post about how to setup jenny + mutt over on the uninformativ.de blog is still a great post. I used that post to see the steps to set it up and it works fine. Though I can write some blog post with some more documentation for things like auto publishing. The big issue with plain twtxt is that I would have not seen your post unless I looked on twtxt.net when I was looking at yarn a little bit more. Twtxt does overcome the issue by introducing the registry but I can't figure out any way to use them for Jenny and almost no one uses them in the first place. So I can't see anyones replies or mentions unless I am following them. Yarn does overcome the issue by friends of friends as you would know as the creator of yarn.
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@prologic@twtxt.net That is why yarn is better then something like activity pub. Everything over on activity pub tries to work with Mastodon not because its better but because its the most popular. Twtxt clients on the other hand tries to work with the yarn additions because most of the additions improve things even for twtxt users.
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@prologic@twtxt.net I never tried out any of the other clients except jenny with mutt. The best thing about yarn vs something like Mastodon is that its more promoted of the specification of twtxt files instead of server part. Twtxt can be hosted on some free static site host or some git server even so its really low resouces. Just a basic text file. As far as I know yarn is mostly just a web ui around twtxt and an extnetion to the specification to add some more usability and modern things. Anyone can join decentrilized network by having a twtxt file somewhere. If you want to support the specification of twtxt then that is really something most projects don’t do and they promote the server software mostly.
JMP: Togethr: Soprani.ca Social
Last week we launched a sister product from the same team that brings you JMP: Togethr. Why are we launching a second product? Why now? What does this have to do with the mission of JMP in particular, or the Sopranica project in general?
Togethr is a managed hosting platform for small Fediverse instances. It is powered by the ActivityPub protocol that powers Mastodon, PeerTube, and so many others. While there are sev … ⌘ Read more
Mastodon 3.5 finally supports the Update ActivityPub activity. GoBlog supports sending updates for quite a while already, but only Pleroma showed the updated posts and not Mastodon. That would have been useful recently, when I posted “Spaces!” but wanted to post “Tabs!” and updated my post. 😅 ⌘ Read more
I’d like to see more attention put into carving out a subset of Mastodon’s functionality that would allow you to host your fediverse node on a static site, à la blog feeds powered by RSS/Atom. Mastodon 3.5 | Hacker News
Vegan, Arch-using, Steam Deck owner who programs in Rust banned from the Internet
“Usually we just sedate them, ship them to Canada, and give them a Reddit or Mastodon account” - Google CEO ⌘ Read more
Finally I have implemented a kind of trash in GoBlog. When I delete a post, it is first marked as deleted and can be restored within 7 days. Unfortunately the integration with ActivityPub is not that easy. ActivityPub allows to Undo a Delete activity, but Mastodon doesn’t support that, just like Mastodon doesn’t support Updates. 🙄 ⌘ Read more
Someone in #twtxt on libera.chat asked a question and pinged everyone, and then left. The question was “is twtxt compatible with mastodon?” The answer is no. It isn’t.
I now have a mastodon account: tilde.zone/@
Fediverse : Trump’s “new” social media platform “suspected” as disguised fork of href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23Mastodon”>#Mastodon** ⌘ Read more
I’m back on twitter, kind of. I’m only using it to mirror posts from my mastodon account: [[https://twitter.com/yesthiswaspaul]].
Oooooh idea! I should use this for microblogging! Far superior to Twitter or Mastodon! ;P
Monal IM: Monal is on Mastodon ⌘ Read more…
@vain@www.uninformativ.de the truth is, i never “got” or liked twitter. i think it’s way too noisy and a terrible way to have a conversation, what with the character limit and all. and then mastodon came along and i thought it would be different, but then it became too twitter-like. i get what you mean about twtxt and discoverability, that is one of its drawbacks.
@vain@www.uninformativ.de i don’t think mastodon is a good idea but then again i never really understood the twitter format and its appeal, so there’s that.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yep! installed it yesterday. I like the simplicity of twt. I am quite happy with how little memory the pod seems to use. Mastodon and the “lightweight” Pleroma don’t work well in small VMs.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yep! installed it yesterday. I like the simplicity of twt. I am quite happy with how little memory the pod seems to use. Mastodon and the “lightweight” Pleroma don’t work well in small VMs.
A live-updating postfix shell for the Mu computer: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105108305362341204
interesting challenged to remaining decentralized: Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/files/Mastodon.pdf
Defining functions in my live-updating structured editor for postfix: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105071402581806586
detective story of the day: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104975077519600207
Visualizing postfix functions with named arguments: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104935713813872559
We still need to unlock the web by @benwerd@benwerd ⌘ https://werd.io/2020/we-still-need-to-unlock-the-web
New demo, a structured editor for postfix arithmetic: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104896128141863951
Growing a test-driven text-mode Markdown browser all the way up from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104845344081779025
Feed Converter ⌘ https://rss.to.mastodon.linux.pizza/
A tutorial on Mu the language: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/104385065026974197
Mu now type-checking all function calls: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104366226332745069
A calculator app in Mu: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104352495147108886
A very-high-level language feature in Mu, in spite of bootstrapping from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104305128661766343
A test app in Mu, and an experience report: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104250249472942612
Mu language almost done: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103809142727508327. Now to make it safe.
past: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103635361482232697; future: https://lobste.rs/s/2qzmtr/#c_itzqwm
Learning the complexity of compilers rather than pretending they’re easy: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103581348949359372
Working: factorial function. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103571329543801973
Working: local variables. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103554841927344456
Update on my safe syntax for machine code: functions can now return results. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103395953154615316
First function body translated. Still no variable declarations, though. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103229216904239835
Another week, another instruction compiling, more refinements of the code-generator: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103157776545612964
Mu’s translator is growing complex. Lots of book-keeping for entering/exiting scopes: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103053133325948545
An ergonomic syntax for machine code: numbers, metadata, strings, tests, blocks. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/102825992961303855
I’m using mastodon again…. => https://bsd.network/@sh
Looks like these liberapay guys are not really open to criticism about their usage of third parties: https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/102234891507030801
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Wow, that’s a pretty nice way to see it :) Also mine being Mastodon, that can explains a bit
People on twitter weirdly assume that I write all the links I share. Folks on mastodon basically don’t. I don’t know why.
josef: “biggest problem with computers is they’re still d…” - Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@jk/593197
Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕: “TIL: You can run a crude-and-simple Internet Arc…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/101391501109425841
Mastodon Instance Inauguration | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/merveilles
twtxt seems neat.. who needs twitter or mastodon anymore! :D
twtxt seems neat.. who needs twitter or mastodon anymore! :D
♥️ danhon ♥️: “Jurassic Park Common User Interface 1.1b24 https:…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@Danhon/100618546995610700
Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system | Read the Tea Leaves https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/
Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕: “Agency, its lack, or what is often a sense of fal…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/100629636975889255
When a social structure is flat (like twitter) all friction is between people & there’s no ‘natural’ adjuticator except a powerful & unaccoutable adjutication class. When it has cliques (like mastodon) it can be broken down & adjuticators are limited in power.
@pete@petedeas.co.uk I’ve played with Mastodon but I really never got into it.
Is there a mastodon/scuttlebutt bridge?