forem
Mastodon
forem | Mastodon | |
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198 | 1,226 | |
21,585 | 45,967 | |
0.3% | 0.6% | |
9.8 | 10.0 | |
about 12 hours ago | 1 day ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
forem
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Deploying Forem on Render.com PromptZone.com
The journey of deploying an open-source software platform like forem can be complex and daunting, but with the right tools and services, it can also be remarkably rewarding. This article details my experience deploying Forem, the software behind the Dev.to, on Render.com, deploying Promptzone.com.
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Lesser Known Features of DEV β Embeds!
In the future, I think we will probs make this uniform with the others. I've logged this request here on GitHub... hmmm, maybe I should embed it here instead. π
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I fixed the "Save draft" Button on dev.to - No Accidental Publishing Anymore π
I even opened a discussion, which got no responses so far (which I think existed somewhere else or I am the only one with this issue...).
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What are you learning about this weekend? π§
Whether you're sharpening your JS skills, making PRs to your OSS repo of choice π, sprucing up your portfolio, or writing a new post here on DEV, we'd like to hear about it.
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Tackling Clickbait on DEV: Strategy and Technical Approach
Add articles clickbait_score as factor in final feed ordering #20493
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Crushing it: My New Year's Resolutions for 2024
Do more documentation-related and code contributions to Forem's repository
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πΊπΌ My life update and the Open Source #DEVImpact2023
This year again, I contributed to DEV with multiples ways, I've contributed very little to the repository, moderated the bad posts quite a bit, and welcomed newcomers to the platform. I feel that a place like this should always be so welcoming to users, so why shouldn't I?
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π #DEVImpact2023: A Year of Challenges, Triumphs, and The Future
docs: making updates to Editor Guide #20258
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Open Source alternatives to tools you Pay for
Forem - Open Source Alternative to Circle
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What you learning about this weekend? π§
Whether you're sharpening your JS skills, making PRs to your OSS repo of choice π, sprucing up your portfolio, or writing a new post here on DEV, we'd like to hear about it.
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 worldβs 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; Didnβt 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?
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
ComfyJS - Comfiest Twitch Chat Library for JavaScript | NodeJS + Browser Support
Misskey - π An interplanetary microblogging platform π
klipse - Klipse is a JavaScript plugin for embedding interactive code snippets in tech blogs.
Lemmy - π A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
reactor - Phoenix LiveView but for Django
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
ghost-on-heroku - One-button Heroku deploy for the Ghost 3.2.0 blogging platform.
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working