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Mastodon
Apache Answer | Mastodon | |
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29 | 1,226 | |
11,479 | 45,967 | |
1.9% | 0.6% | |
9.4 | 10.0 | |
1 day ago | 6 days ago | |
Go | Ruby | |
Apache License 2.0 | 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.
Apache Answer
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What’s New in Apache Answer 1.3.0?
In Answer 1.3.0, we’re moving forward to make review and navigation better for you. Here are the features, new improves, and gratitude to all the contributors. Upgrade now and enjoy the reading today.
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Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
Slightly offtopic. If anyone is looking for self-hosted alternative to SO then answer [0] is a great choice. I just brought up an instance at [1] if you want to know how it looks like.
[0]: https://github.com/answerdev/answer
[1]: https://selfhosting.quest [IPv6 only]
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Moderation strike: Stack Overflow cannot ignore, mistreat, malign volunteers
https://github.com/answerdev/answer#readme is Apache 2 licensed, the sibling comment pointed out that the existing S.O. data is open licensed, but your premise has the same problem every "I'm going to take my ball and go play in the other yard" does: the network effect is very, very real
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How do you guys document all the technical stuff of your selfhosted servers?
I keep my notes on https://answer.dev/ self hosted
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A slef hosted knowledgebase which looks a lot like StackOverflow
This is pretty interesting, I didn't know this (answer.dev) was available. I think for my own usage I might get frustrated with having to write the question and answer separately. But a cool thing to add to the list to check out some time, thanks!
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Best app to collect customers questions, feedback and requests?
Something like: https://github.com/answerdev/answer
- Would like to create documentation for my server - What are the best tools ?
- Build a Q&A Community with Answer
- Build a Q&A community with Answer
- Answer - The Self Hosted Q&A Community Portal - Review
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?
carefree-creator - AI magics meet Infinite draw board.
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
sismo-badges - Contracts of the Sismo Badge Minting Protocol
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
pokemon-cards-css - A collection of advanced CSS styles to create realistic-looking effects for the faces of Pokemon cards.
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
stable-diffusion-webui - Stable Diffusion web UI
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
Mattermost - Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
website - [mirror] Home of the go.dev and golang.org websites
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working