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Mastodon | aether | |
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1,224 | 171 | |
45,874 | 1,207 | |
0.7% | 0.1% | |
10.0 | 0.0 | |
about 17 hours ago | 8 months ago | |
Ruby | JavaScript | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Mastodon
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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"
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Welcome to the public domain, Steamboat Willie
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.
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Mastodon with Docker rootless, compose, and Nginx reverse proxy
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...
aether
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Bluesky starts letting users pick their own moderation filters
Is this compatible with aether? What are the differences?
- Can We Get More Decentralised Than the Fediverse?
- Aether - a P2P alternative to Reddit or Lemmy
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Test 5
Aether
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Reddit alternatives
Aether: getaether.net A decentralized, open-source platform for community discussions with strong privacy features.
- レディット型SNS「Aether」で試験運用中 - アプリ強要が現実となったときのために
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Reddit CEO says the mods leading a punishing blackout are too powerful and he will change the site's rules to weaken them
Sorry, but you don't need to code. You can install the software from any web hosting C-Panels. Or use a company that doesn't treat you this way. There are other alternatives as well, including some that are decentralized. Nothing Reddit does is unique, or hard to find in any of their competitors. For instance: https://getaether.net/ I highly doubt they are not getting paid.
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Are there any projects out there that are fully federated? Each community being a separate instance?
Aether sounds like what you want though. It's a reddit-style app that is in the pure decentralization model.
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Known alternatives to linux_gaming on reddit
there's a sub on Aether called LinuxGaming as well
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Out of the currently existing alternatives, which is the most "Reddit-like"?
Aether App https://getaether.net/ And the moderation model is super based.
What are some alternatives?
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
reveddit - Review removed content on reddit. Uses the Pushshift API, built on code from removeddit.
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
freenet-core - Declare your digital independence
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
nimforum - Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.