Rath VS Mastodon

Big fan of D3.js and now there is Observable Plot! I am building several data visualization software for exploratory data analysis:

RATH, auto exploratory data analysis: https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath

GraphicWalker, embeddable data exploration component: https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker

They are using vega-lite for now. But there is a limit of building more fancy and customized visualizations. It seems Plot has a more flexible layer based visualization system that can support larger design space.

Is Plot stable enough now to migrate from vega-lite based system to Plot based? Are there any large milestone or roadmap of Plot in future?

By gaining knowledge of the Business Intelligence once the information is captured from all areas in the business, you can set strategies and define what are the strengths and weaknesses of the business.

I am also working on an Awesome Open Source project named: RATH. Check it out on GitHub!

I'm considering https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath, which seems to be an OSS version of Tableau. Has anyone used it for this type of thing?

Ah, there’s a really nice profiler implemented in one of their other projects here (AGPLv3): https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath/tree/master/packages/rath-c...

There’s a lot of really nice features in this other tool, the author’s thought of everything: https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath

Don't forget to check out my GitHub project:https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath We are also having a website for RATH now!

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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.

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?

Fixed in Mastodon v4.2.5 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.5

>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...

Mastodon is free and open-source. Go ahead and add the flag:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING....

Didn't say anything about freedom of speech. And again: I'm not the one to talk to. I don't have any strong feelings on the topic, but if you do, you should take it somewhere that people who can do something about it will see.

I tried to find an existing discussion to help get you started, but couldn't. You can start one here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues

It's easy to sit here on Hacker News and say "they should just..."

Coming up with a standard for an international project will be a long, noisy discussion. You'll tread on internecine conflicts you had no idea about. Old wounds from past related discussions will come out. People will soapbox.

This is why I have no interest in discussing it. It probably won't go anywhere in a place where it actually could. It definitely won't here.

I've written down how I set up my Mastodon server here. This includes some topics that seem not well covered currently:

- use nginx reverse proxy with the official nginx.conf [1], but with some changes needed for compatibility with docker

- use rootless docker, for security, together with bind mounts, for maintainability

- use compose, with some modifications to the official docker-compose.yml [2] that make life easier and are compatible with the reverse proxy

[1]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/dist/nginx.co...

[2]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/docker-compos...