Hoot
Mastodon
Hoot | Mastodon | |
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10 | 1,226 | |
57 | 45,967 | |
- | 0.6% | |
0.0 | 10.0 | |
10 months ago | 4 days ago | |
Vue | Ruby | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Hoot
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Want to have a more minimal, ActivityPub enabled, decentralized link aggregator? Try out Lotide
Once upon a time, there was even a custom software frontend being developed for it called Hoot: https://github.com/ProjectHoot/Hoot
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Liberty Means Property Rights
Click here for more infomation about Project Hoot, or check out the FAQ, of find the project on Github.
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New alternatives to Facebook and Twitter?
Lemmy and Hoot.
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Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you? (2020)
Project Hoot: https://github.com/ProjectHoot/Hoot (?)
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Lemmy Release v0.12.0 🥳 . User and Community blocking, lean federation, and a whole lot more. Lemmy's a federated reddit alternative written in Rust.
/r/TheMotte was looking for a self-hosted Reddit alternative and Lemmy was in the cards, but it was decided against on the basis of the project's explicit ideological commitments. In the end they settled on Lotide + Hoot.
- Linux has a interested history. This is one of early emails from Linus that started Linux as a hobby project, now it's running on 95% of servers and phones.
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State of the Subreddit: Victims of Our Own Success
However, /r/GoldandBlack has been making their own plans - see here - and their approach, which I admit I'm kinda liking, is to start with a federated backbone (lotide, in their case) and build a new interface on top of it (which they're calling Hoot). This has the big advantage that a lot of communities could jump ship at once and form a sort of metacommunity, each running their own server but cross-accessible via federation, without any individual community being beholden to anyone else's rules.
- Coders: We would like more people to take a crack at the issues currently in place for Hoot (this subreddit's plan to replace Reddit). Once we get some of these taken care of, we can start moving a substantial amount of content OFF reddit and onto a platform WE control.
- Is this sub going the way of r/libertarian?
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What if /r/GoldAndBlack gets banned? THE SUBREDDITS PLAN.
RSS is a good idea, I'd suggest it as a feature request, https://github.com/ProjectHoot/Hoot/issues
Mastodon
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Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?
Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/)
Looks like what you describe, doesn't it?
> Social networking that's not for sale.
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Alt Text box can't fit one screenshot of text
Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268
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Open source at Fastly is getting opener
Through the Fast Forward program, we give free services and support to open source projects and the nonprofits that support them. We support many of the world’s top programming languages (like Python, Rust, Ruby, and the wonderful Scratch), foundational technologies (cURL, the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, OpenStreetMap), and projects that make the internet better and more fun for everyone (Inkscape, Mastodon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Terms of Service; Didn’t Read).
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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
Mastodon DMs have absolutely no privacy: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079
For a decentralized protocol doing things right is much more important than doing things fast, it is very difficult (and in a lot of cases impossible) to break backwards compatibility.
- External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by Email Change
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Ask HN: Best practice for posting links to large Mastodon threads?
Postmortem on what happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39305884
The v1 API of Mastodon limits the size of the tree that it will expand for users who are not logged into the server: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb . I am guessing that this or some similar limit applies to threads being returned to unauthenticated users of the web UI. It just arbitrarily stops expanding the replies at some point, including the main thread from the OP.
If a thread is truncated, users expect it to expand automatically and autoscroll when you hit the bottom. In my desktop browser, that does not occur, and there is no indication that there is more to see. This is the situation of the web interface as of Mastodon version 4.2.5.
The issue is very sensitive to observer conditions. If you are logged into the server, the behavior is different. If you use a Mastodon app instead of the web, the behavior might be different. As the tree expands, the cutoffs become different. If you look at the thread on a different Mastodon server, the tree is different because every server has its own view of the Fediverse.
HN needs a best practice for linking to Mastodon threads in a way that provides a consistent experience to HN readers. The average Mastodon server would be crushed by hundreds of HN readers grabbing the entirety of a huge thread all at once, so this might involve some thread-unroll-and-cache service. I tried https://mastoreader.io/ but it did not solve the problem.
Alternately, we push changes into the Mastodon web UI to warn users when they need to click to see more and assume that people will get used to the navigation.
Suggestions?
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CVE-2024-23832 Mastodon Vulnerability: Remote user impersonation and takeover
Fixed in Mastodon v4.2.5 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.5
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Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
>You can defeat the Affero clause by putting the software behind a proxy, for example
Could someone elaborate on this? This is NOT my understanding of the license, and it seems absurd considering e.g. Mastodon is AGPL but the standard install requires a reverse proxy[1]. If using a proxy defeats Affero, why would the Mastodon team do this? Are they stupid?
[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/dist/nginx.co...
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You Can't Follow Me
Mastodon is free and open-source. Go ahead and add the flag:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING....
- Change Referer value to something generic such as "urn:activitypub:Mastodon"
What are some alternatives?
lenny - ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) A more user-respectful fork of Lemmy. Created for https://derpy.email.
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
voat - The code that powers Voat
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
Rocket.Chat - The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
lotide - Mirror of https://git.sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
Lobsters - Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working