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Mastodon | Lemmy | |
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1,224 | 1,603 | |
45,874 | 12,774 | |
0.7% | 1.0% | |
10.0 | 9.8 | |
about 1 hour ago | 7 days ago | |
Ruby | Rust | |
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.
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...
Lemmy
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Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say
Lemmy is like Reddit and here because it has threaded comment discussions.
It's also federated, so you can pick a server you like and have discussions with users from various servers together.
Some Reddit apps switched to supporting Lemmy instead when they were kicked off the API.
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Decentralized Hacker News
Seems functionally similar to Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- Garbage ce Reddit - Plein de bugs. Pas convivial pour 5 cents.
- Recap, An-Cap and getting sick of reddit
- Join us over at Lemmy! It's FOSS, decentralized, and fairly solid!
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Nerdfighters Lemmy community?
There was some talk back in June of migrating or setting up a parallel community on Lemmy. Did anything ever come of that? If not, would anyone be interested in helping set one up?
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Show HN: Fediverser Portal. Bring your subreddits to Lemmy
Because they are all different deployments of Lemmy [0]?
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Solarpunk "pod / cell" system
Local servers (dietpi, Freedombox, YUNoHost or similar solutions) which can be used to host different solarpunk content and setup instances on the fediverse (like peertube, mastodon, Lemmy etc.)
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Show HN: AI News – Dedicated news site for AI developers
The entire page is based on Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/).
I disabled a ton of features and interface parts, as IMO the original lemmy interface is super noisy.
Runs on bare-metal with docker-compose. For the facelift, just good old CSS :)
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⟳ 4 apps added, 121 updated at f-droid.org
Jerboa for Lemmy (version 0.0.46): An app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative.
What are some alternatives?
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
kbin - A reddit-like content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse.
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
tildes - GitHub mirror of the Tildes source - official location is https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
Reddit-Enhancement-Suite - Reddit Enhancement Suite
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
PixelFed - Photo Sharing. For Everyone.
instances - Mastodon instances list