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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Apple's implementation of other PWA standards requires an app to be opened from the home screen. A user can't access features of the app if they can't add it to the homescreen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

nodebb and discourse are working on activitypub support. See https://crag.social/@devnull/111732273308478221

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I use TiddlyWiki via TiddlyPWA. It's an offline-capable PWA with builtin sync and encryption. It doesn't have folders but it does have nestable tags. I don't think it supports markdown out of the box, but I'm positive you can find a plugin to use markdown. Plugins are crazy easy to install in TiddlyWiki; you just drag and drop the plugin into your wiki window and confirm the installation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

TiddlyWiki via TiddlyPWA is what I use. I don't know if it supports the S Pen and the notes are all saved in a single HTML file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

but it’s the one many first-time Fediverse users coming across from Twitter end up on.

That's because it's the only one ppl will mention as an alternative. Stop telling ppl to try mastodon, tell them to try firefish or akkoma.

Also, the jump effect is way overstated. Some users do end up moving to other software, but many more just leave because they don't like mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Entirely unmoderated tags are not an option for lemmy as the moderation workload would be too much. Additionally users being able to type out tags themselves introduces splintering in the tag contents due to typos. A better solution is a curated list of tags users can attach to their posts

I vehemently disagree with the main idea behind this RFC. Just let users put arbitrary tags on their posts and other users can search for whatever tags they want. The rest of the fediverse has unmoderated hashtags and it works fine. I don't see a good reason hashtags should require moderation. And typos can be corrected by editing the post.

Adding those restrictions just makes this feature more complex than it needs to be and reduces compatibility with the fediverse. Users of any fediverse software can create a post in a lemmy community and those posts may have arbitrary tags. Why should lemmy users have less capability on lemmy than external users?

Finally, hashtags could be a useful way to filter posts within a community if these restrictions are dropped. I posted this in the github thread, but imagine a general programming community. Posts could be tagged with a language, paradigm (OOP, functional, etc), or whatever else to allow users to browse subtopics within a community. Having to request moderators add a tag is an unnecessary extra step.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's not OP's fault, but voting is how we're supposed to curate content. This post doesn't have a title or description so it's a bad post on lemmy and I think downvoting it is acceptable. Don't consider votes a reflection of a user's value or standing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Agreed. This is a lemmy bug. The OP is on mastodon (where video previews are fetched and displayed) and has no control over how its rendered over here. It'd be nice if lemmy fetched the title and description

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

This is exciting. I think code forges are one of the biggest opportunities for ActivityPub to really go mainstream and change the internet. Not only because it'll make working with open source way easier since you can work with any compatible forge, but developers will be more exposed to ActivityPub just by working with the software and so more likely to participate in AP dev. It will be interesting to see what effect this has on the fediverse. There's been a lot of talk from various organizations/companies but this will be the first large project adopting AP. I'm interested to see how development goes for them and for other fediverse projects.

I wonder what changes it will force on Mastodon. Masto won't be the biggest project anymore and won't be able to throw its weight around as much. Just like the recent influx of users forced the implementation of full text search and has reenergized conversations about quote posts, I think federated gitlab would force masto to rethink some things.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't see it withering away anytime soon. My entire career has been enterprise web development (which is why I roll my eyes at all the web dev rants). Every company I've worked at has used Java on the backend and some JS framework for the frontend. Java has only been improving in that time and getting much easier to write. I don't see companies taking an (in their view) unnecessary risk that makes it harder for them to hire and lose efficiency, at least in the short to medium term.

I think the only way that changes is if developers are interested enough to try Rust, or any other language, in their free time. If they like it enough, they'll suggest it at work. If enough developers are doing that, it'll slowly shift the local scene.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

my original point was that the main idea of the article down plays the accessibility gains of the modern web. Your reading was that the author meant a different definition of accessibility and not A11y, which would mean the author didn't just down play it, they completely ignored it. The author is complaining that the modern web is awful, while ignoring the huge gains for people who need these accessibility features and how awful web 1.0 was for them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you asking for every article ever to have a section discussing accessibility?

No. I'm asking that when they complain about how the modern web is "fucked" and web 1.0 was better, they don't try to act like that is an absolute, since that's an opinion that is not widely applicable.

No, thats just the angle that the article wanted to take. Just because it ignores an aspect of something doesn’t mean that its position is moot.

Ignoring part of a topic makes your argument weaker.

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honk 1.0 (flak.tedunangst.com)
 

I filed an issue on the lemmy and kbin issue trackers to address duplicate communities. If you have an #ActivityPub development experience/knowledge, please take a look and offer feedback. If not, please offer any feedback here.

 

There is no way for an instance like lemmy.ml to know about all lemmy servers, because there’s no central server keeping track.

-- https://lemmy.ml/comment/447791

I was reading the above comment and it made me think about the relays and how they could help lemmy/kbin/other Group software. Relays were a solution the microblogging sector of the fediverse used to jumpstart instances, which would have an empty federated feed making it difficult for local users to find new users to follow.

The way I envision it working would be a community relay would be an AP server with a Service or Application type Actor. This actor could receive a copy of a community's Create message and could then Announce that community to its followers. Lemmy/kbin instances could follow relays to be alerted of new remote communities and notify the relay about their own new communities.

In this way, users/instances could learn about new communities across the fediverse in a participatory way without relying on a central authority.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I mentioned this here but I am very disappointed in the removal of a web UI for a #fediverse project. I don't use Takahe myself, but this will make those users harder to engage with. If I only use a browser for my fediverse activity, I won't be able to see any of those users without following.

EDIT: Everything I said above and in the linked post is probably wrong so ignore it. Thanks to @[email protected] for pointing that out to me. https://lemmy.ml/comment/423338

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