freamon

Beautifully restored.

Have been rewriting the bot lately. Latest results using new version:

Subscriber Growth

[email protected], Helldivers 2, 4 => 37, 17 posts (15 this week)
[email protected], The Leaky Cauldron, 20 => 72, 22 posts (14 this week)
[email protected], InsanePeopleFacebook, 1271 => 1420, 117 posts (23 this week)
[email protected], Shrinkflation, 88 => 117, 9 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], DebunkThis, 903 => 988, 12 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Anime, 791 => 865, 550 posts (54 this week)
[email protected], pathfinder, 44 => 62, 7 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Forgotten Weapons, 1179 => 1265, 423 posts (16 this week)
[email protected], DiWHY, 1108 => 1185, 25 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Light Novels, 28 => 41, 12 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], AntiTrumpAlliance, 205 => 234, 148 posts (15 this week)
[email protected], Cool Guides, 2711 => 2813, 204 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], HistoryPorn, 3230 => 3331, 521 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Right to Repair, 805 => 851, 33 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Technology, 51228 => 51591, 7434 posts (207 this week)
[email protected], Proton, 3660 => 3754, 167 posts (8 this week)
[email protected], Microblog Memes, 3524 => 3614, 474 posts (23 this week)
[email protected], unix_surrealism, 596 => 631, 212 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Aneurysm Posting, 958 => 1001, 102 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], Gaming, 1835 => 1895, 194 posts (11 this week)
[email protected], Lemmy Be Wholesome, 4621 => 4715, 199 posts (8 this week)
[email protected], science, 12199 => 12348, 682 posts (25 this week)
[email protected], Imaginary Dragons, 175 => 193, 47 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Conflit Israelo-Palestinien, 8 => 12, 77 posts (34 this week)
[email protected], Buttcoin, 113 => 127, 36 posts (6 this week)

Active User Growth

[email protected], TwoXChromosomes, 83 => 1157, 79 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Pictures, 6 => 169, 69 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Antiwork, 109 => 379, 31 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], palestine news and politics, 133 => 449, 173 posts (76 this week)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', 634 => 1213, 64 posts (19 this week)
[email protected], Python, 306 => 634, 336 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Everyday Carry. What essentials do you carry on a daily basis?, 103 => 292, 160 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Warframe, 26 => 117, 436 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Facepalm, 107 => 242, 31 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], MICROCONTROLLERS, 351 => 536, 395 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Television, 64 => 139, 198 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Künstliche Intelligenz, 15 => 60, 56 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], NZ Politics, 135 => 264, 143 posts (15 this week)
[email protected], Reddit, 315 => 452, 527 posts (20 this week)
[email protected], me_irl, 615 => 836, 205 posts (20 this week)
[email protected], (safe) Unsecure security, 54 => 128, 153 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], Ask Lemmy, 4314 => 4869, 2326 posts (62 this week)
[email protected], Notícias, 162 => 279, 649 posts (28 this week)
[email protected], Cybersecurity, 27 => 69, 202 posts (16 this week)
[email protected], Japanese Language, 119 => 204, 79 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Nostalgia, 1817 => 2146, 72 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], movies, 747 => 956, 97 posts (20 this week)
[email protected], pissposting, 26 => 59, 220 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], Cannabis, 153 => 231, 58 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], Gauchiasses, 369 => 460, 464 posts (45 this week)

When creating a post, you'll want to fill in the URL field, or the Image field, but not both - 1 post can't link to 2 things.

I'm assuming you did this, because this post only links to an image.

The video is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5-R9qR8ubg

"It really shouldn't do that" was Microsoft's slogan for awhile, I think.

'Posts' does just show the amount of posts in a community. It was something people wanted to give an indication of whether the community was worth visiting. It's not related to the % growth.

Since yesterday.

Dunno, I'm not subscribed either. Can't imagine it's anything good though (if it is, I'll delete my post and phone Disney to apologise).

Change to the link format from now on, to also support mbin and other fediverse apps that may come along.

I didn't do it like this before, because earlier versions of Jerboa didn't understand this link type, and I don't like that it repeats information - the name and the description are often the same, but not always, and the name can be hard to read, so the description needs to be there, but it's often redundant. I can't combine the description and link like [Hello Internet](!hellointernet@@feddit.uk) because lemmy will interpret that as link to a post for some reason.

I tested in the front-ends and mobile apps I have available, and they all work.

I've been resistant to changing it to this, and when mobile app users have said that they're app didn't support '/c/' links, I've been "well, fix your app then", but it turns out that all you have to do is say the magic words 'Fediverse Interoperability!' to me and you can win the argument.

I suspect that ActivityPub is too broad and too permissive for that. For every post on lemmy, it already sends out two different activities - one for lemmy, one intended for mastodon. On lemmy, a new post is a 'Page', on mastodon it's a 'Note', on PeerTube it's a 'Video'. Lemmy understands all 3 (more or less), but my feeling is that if Fediverse apps are inter-acting well together, it's largely because someone hacked it.

The thing the Fediverse most reminds me of is DLNA (aka uPnP Video) - it's supposed to be universal, but if you ever saw the config for a DLNA server, you'd see it had to do different things for every different brand of client.

Fediverse communities don't really exist - lemmy has communities, and other apps have things that are similar in some ways but not in others (e.g. mastodon groups, peertube channels, and mbin magazines). There's lots of little differences that limit full interoperability, meaning that lemmy doesn't have as much connection with the wider Fediverse as perhaps it should. This is more a subject best addressed by app developers than me. I can't solve problems like that with a list of links.

In other areas, I've done what I can - I made a virtual lemmy community that natively features posts from mastodon accounts that haven't even heard of lemmy. Pretty cool, I thought, but no-one gives a fuck. So I resent the idea that lemmy being closed-off in any way is something I'm indifferent to.

I just clicked the 'search' link I just made from lemmy.world, btw. The link to the actual community is 4th from the top, buried between cross-posts and mentions. Moreover, the likelihood that 'search' post work on every lemmy app is pretty low. Right now, these list work on any of the multitude of front-ends or mobile apps you can get for lemmy, which is a minor triumph in and of itself. Changing them to work for mbin would just break something else. Even if it didn't, they'd work on lemmy and mbin, and then they'd be some new app (who haven't hard-coded search in the same place) that they wouldn't work for, and we'd be back at square one.

Oh, well, I don't know when lemmy changed then (and presumably diverged from mbin) - this community's been running and using the same link format for about 7 months.

For lemmy, the links are already crafted the 'right way'. It's what I was testing for when I made the video I linked to (the instance I was on was brand new, so it had never heard of the community link I clicked on, but it still worked).

I don't think crafting all links to point to a search endpoint is the correct solution. It'll do what's required for mbin, but I suspect the vast majority of users are on lemmy. For them, it's an extra step to get where they want, from a page that's either filled with extraneous info (every time TIL has been mentioned for your link) or will say 'no results' until the backend has completed its tasks.