Mastodon
PowerDeleteSuite
Mastodon | PowerDeleteSuite | |
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1,226 | 411 | |
45,967 | 1,514 | |
0.5% | - | |
10.0 | 5.4 | |
about 14 hours ago | about 2 months ago | |
Ruby | JavaScript | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | - |
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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"
PowerDeleteSuite
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The Reddits
You can incrementally delete your posts and interactions while backing them up. Once done, you can request your user data to verify that deletion has taken place, and then cancel the account.
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite , this and other tools make it easy to manage.
Reddit has hamfistedly broken whatever value it once had as a platform for long form discussion, with the interesting and valuable fringe, hobbyist, and obscure niche forums having been banned or moderated into inane milquetoast. Now, its value seems primarily as a customer support resource for companies outside the US, or as a platform for attracting clicks on other platforms.
Reddit's going the way of MySpace. Unless you like burning money, this IPO is one to skip. All the things that made Reddit great, once, are gone now. There are no compelling reasons to use it; it's slow, intrusive, disrespectful to user privacy, performatively moralizing and preachy, caters to the worst sort of moderation and curation power dynamics, and serves no relevant purpose in the ecosystem of the modern internet. The best and only value of Reddit comes from older archives of scraped content now used as training data for AI.
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It's past time to delete your Reddit account
I would suggest not just deleting your account. Doing so leaves all your contributed content, it just changes your name to [deleted].
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
This will allow you to remove your contributions, and delete your account.
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Reddit reportedly signed a content licensing deal with an AI company
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite works very well indeed.
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How to delete old posts?
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite did the job if you have similar problem try this.
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How do delete older posts?
Have you tried PowerDeleteSuite yet?
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Are there any new ways to shred Reddit comments and posts, ever since Reddit shut down the API?
This should work https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
- Nachbar bedroht mich, wie stehen meine Chancen ?
- Mein gottgleicher Führer /u/spez hat mir großmütiger Weise gestattet folgendes mit dem gemeinen Volk zu teilen...
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UPDATE: /r/PICS is being forced to break the site-wide rules.
There is Power Delete Suite which can do both bulk editing and deleting.
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Musk's destruction of twitter is messing with Google's algorithm, the rate limit is probably reducing traffic and de-prioritizing twitter.
Been seeing Power Delete Suite being used a lot lately.
What are some alternatives?
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Shreddit - Remove your comment history on Reddit as deleting an account does not do so.
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
undiscord - Undiscord - Delete all messages in a Discord server / channel or DM (Easy and fast) Bulk delete
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
easylists-for-pihole - Easylists for your Pi-Hole
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
promnesia - Another piece of your extended mind
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
HPI - Human Programming Interface 🧑👽🤖
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
reddit-user-to-sqlite - Pull Reddit user data into a SQLite database