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Mastodon | libreddit | |
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1224 | 282 | |
45,705 | 4,983 | |
1.1% | 0.3% | |
10.0 | 5.2 | |
1 day ago | 24 days ago | |
Ruby | Rust | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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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 worldโs 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; Didnโt 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.
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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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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....
Thank you for your write-up, I ran into similar issues a couple of months back.
Another gripe with the technical implementation of mastodon is the CORS headers required to access the ActivityPub API [0].
Because of this issue, an activitypub-aware frontend for mastodon has to have its own mastodon server running, which adds a whole bunch of hurdles.
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Open Source alternatives to tools you Pay for
Mastodon - Open Source Alternative to Twitter
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Youtube ad block on pc (ublock origin)
If you're looking for YouTube alternatives, you might be interested in PeerTube. PeerTube is to YouTube what Mastodon is to Twitter. (Plus PeerTube and Mastodon use the same federation technology. You can follow PeerTube accounts from inside Mastodon and vice versa.)
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Recreating Mastodons Audio Player as a Web Component
The goal was also to have it look exactly like the audio-player that mastodon uses.
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MathJax โ Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers
Mathstodon ( https://mathstodon.xyz/about ) integrates this, forking/extending Mastodon to support inline LaTeX in Mastodon posts and equations, which get rendered by MathJax on the client side. I think that's neat.
- "This is important, since several math-based instances exist (such as https://mathstodon.xyz ,https://types.pl) and produce math-based posts. However, when these posts federate to other instances they cannot be rendered, since other instances do not have MathJAX installed. Thus, a more portable version based on open standards is necessary."
libreddit
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Teddit Is Shutting Down
This is a particular teddit instance shutting down, not teddit the software project.
Stuff is moving a lot currently and there is a bumpy road ahead, but there are several courses of action already being mapped out (scraping html, r-e the private gql api, a setting for operators to put some auth token, ..).
- Version 1.21 released
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Every Flashing Element on Your Site Alienates and Enrages Users
I still wonder if flashing elements and the constant nudging is worth it. I sometimes think I'm the only one but apparently there are about 15 % that are heavily annoyed by this. And those are users that you either lose completely or that block every unnecessary item on your website with ad blockers or reader mode.
I can't stand using Reddit on a mobile browser constantly asking if I want to install their app. Fortunately, there are alternative frontends such as Libreddit or teddit [2]. I hope they survive the API war.
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The future of troddit
There are also the libreddit and teddit projects that may manage to survive.
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Official Lemmy instance to migrate off reddit
At least for the moment, one can still read (not login) r/rust using libreddit at https://r.nf/r/rust. I don't know it that will be affected by the API changes.
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This is what shows if you try to access this sub in mobile web.
An other way, that also should work if old reddit is gone, is libreddit.
libreddit does use the official API so will be affected by the limits on 3rd party apps.
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On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest the killing of 3rd Party Apps! All FOSS apps are 3rd Party Apps. Will /r/linux join the strike?
Alternative web based front-ends for Reddit might get shut down or affected to, see Libreddit's github issue on Reddit's API changes. Really sucks
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Call for proposal submissions
But it might be easier to modify and test with a server / desktop app instead. I think https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit or https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit seem like decent clients to try. But maybe you know of something simpler?
What are some alternatives?
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Misskey - ๐ An interplanetary microblogging platform ๐
Lemmy - ๐ A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
Reddit-Enhancement-Suite - Reddit Enhancement Suite
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
teddit - alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy https://teddit.net
Shreddit - Remove your comment history on Reddit as deleting an account does not do so.
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
Removeddit - View deleted stuff from reddit
Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube