wisper
Mastodon
wisper | Mastodon | |
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6 | 1,226 | |
3,233 | 46,020 | |
- | 0.7% | |
1.5 | 10.0 | |
2 months ago | 3 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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wisper
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Publish/Subscribe with Sidekiq
Wisper: A Ruby gem providing a decoupled communication layer between different parts of an application -> I personally dislike wisper. I used it in the past and dislike the way of defining subscribers in a global way. I wanted topics to be arbitrary and each class to define what to subscribe for itself.
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OOP vs. services for organizing business logic: is there a third way?
Wisper – the Publish-Subscribe design pattern
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Event Store with Rails
I haven't used it, but we're also considering it in our app for quite some time. Our main issue is mostly that our codebase is super coupled, especially some older code, and using events as a means of communication between different modules of the app can be nice way of decoupling things. I think this is the most common usecase, and for this you don't necessarily even need to persist the events, and also something like wisper might be useful https://github.com/krisleech/wisper.
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Rails Google Cloud PubSub options
Whisper (not updated since 2020)
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How to avoid if/else with different ramifications
I would use events. Every services broadcast its results and everything that needs to listen for them. It also great to decouple dependencies between services. I like the Wisper gem : https://github.com/krisleech/wisper
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"I'm the CTO of a Growing Rails Startup" Ask Me Anything
We follow the interactor pattern to store our business logic. So we mainly have skinny controllers, skinny models and then interactors. We also don't use ActiveRecord callbacks very much, we primarily use Wisper to broadcast events and then various domains can subscribe to the events they care about and respond accordingly.
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"
What are some alternatives?
Rails Event Store - A Ruby implementation of an Event Store based on Active Record
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Interactor - Interactor provides a common interface for performing complex user interactions.
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
Rocketman - 🚀 Rocketman help build event-based/pub-sub code in Ruby
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
Cells - View components for Ruby and Rails.
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
Light Service - Series of Actions with an emphasis on simplicity.
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
Waterfall - A slice of functional programming to chain ruby services and blocks, thus providing a new approach to flow control. Make them flow!
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working