purple-facebook
Mastodon
purple-facebook | Mastodon | |
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14 | 1,226 | |
954 | 45,967 | |
- | 0.5% | |
0.0 | 10.0 | |
about 1 year ago | about 11 hours ago | |
C | Ruby | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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purple-facebook
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How can I forward Facebook messenger messages to email?
I can't think of any way.
There is a Facebook plugin for Pidgin, and you can get at your chats that way with a more versatile cross-platform messenger, if you are more normally on other chat services.
https://pidgin.im/
https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki
If you want web-based clients, try a multi-app client such as Ferdium, RamBox or Station.
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How to use messenger without Facebook?
You can still use the official clients. Also, there are third party clients for Messenger. I've used https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook with Pidgin.
- Keep getting disconnected Facebook-Pidgin
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"<none>:1: Parse error: unexpected identifier `taNewMessage', expected value"
This is a common issue in the facebook plugin. See https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/514 for more information.
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Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
I went to try the Pidgin Facebook plugin, and I couldn't login. There's no more app passwords as the plugin suggests, if you try to login without the 2 factor Facebook sends "Is This You?" notifications every time, but doesn't let you login if you say yes.
There's github issue[1] for it and no resolution, except a weird python script hack to do 2 factor which may or may not be reliable.
1. https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/526
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Login issues with Facebook at MFA
Yeah... There's a bunch of talk at https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/526 and https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/445.
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Random Disconnects?
Looks like it _might_ be fixed? https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/514
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Purple-facebook
You are using https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/archive/refs/tags/v0.9.6.tar.gz as the distfile. This source code archive is automatically generated by github and the developers say that it shouldn't be used.
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Unfollow Everything developer banned for life from Facebook services for creating plug-in to clean up news feed
I use Pidgin on desktop and found a custom plugin that re-allows you to connect to Facebook's messaging service. I'm basically invisible and when someone sends me a message, it shows up in Pidgin but doesn't send a read receipt or let others know I'm typing back (even though I can see when they're typing).
- Elder redditors, at the dawn of the internet what was popular digital slang and what did it mean?
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"
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