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This does not sound sustainable at all.

I’m confident his announcement to “leave social media” was an April Fools’ joke.

I know what you mean, but I think private chat and public posting are quite distinct. They’d destroy a lot more trust if they sell private messages compared to what they did with Tumblr. Especially if they continue to push local bridges, where they won’t be able to read any message (you still have to trust them obviously).

Well that’s some news. If they’re good news we will see. I’m a Beeper user but never heard of Texts (stupid name) before, which seem to share the same misson as Beeper. Texts was purchased by Automattic last year (according to the Beeper blog).

What does that mean? Automattic punches with some weight in the chat space now. In general I don’t like it if big companies buy small products. However Automattic still seems to bet on the Fediverse, so maybe if the teams from Beeper and Texts can work together on a Matrix-based, open source chat application, we could get something really good.

I’ve mixed feelings about this whole thing, some shy optimizm, some less shy pessimism.

Well, time will tell.

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Hey, how’s it going? Are you still working on it?

Sorry for this huge delay, sometimes RL takes over… I don’t know how relevant it still is. I’ll try anyway.

but if there is some way for people, posts, communities, servers, to opt out then ok.

I think this could pose an issue. Many people in the Fediverse are very sensitive about informed consent — which cannot be satisfied by any opt-out mechanism. This is an issue for every bridge/search service, because with opt-in you will have way less users. I strongly recommend to go for opt-in however, you will be starkly criticized otherwise.

I’m wanting to do this open source, which means anybody can take it, remove the check and scan everything. What are your thoughts about that?

Yes, anybody could do that, or build something from scratch, but will meet strong opposition in the Fediserve, as we’ve seen more than once.

If you know how to query servers, communities, posts or comments on that topic I’m all ears, I’m only doing 50% of that today BTW.

Can’t help here, sorry.

On a side note, where is your 0xCAFE come from? Is it like the stack overflow/ memory error checks like 0xDEAD(or 0xDEADBEEF) and so?

Nope, just a nerd who likes computery stuff like hex numbers and, obviously, coffee. No technical magic number I know of (maybe there still is…?).

This looks pretty cool!

oh that’s really cool!

Suuuuper late answer, sorry. It is working perfectly for me (FF 122), I’m using Firefox exclusivery. It can be slow sometimes though and take several (tens of) seconds for the web application to load.

For browsing on the desktop, I strongly recommend https://phtn.app!

oh, Good luck with that. Make sure however to respect the users privacy and indexing preferences. People in the Fediverse are very privacy consious and not everyone likes their post scraped and indexed.

I’d start with the Mastodon docs, it’s a solid resource to get started.

While this chart certainly shows how dominant mastodon.social in the Fediverse is, I like this chart. It also shows how diverse the Fediverse is. For any other social network this graph would be a simple circle. For the Fediverse it shows 38 different servers, and apart from mastodon.social, the distribution seems quite fair.

Very good!

Biggest follower count.

I can’t speak for the BOOX Tab Ultra C directly, but I’m interested in opinions on it, because I’m thinking about buying one as well.

I have the BOOX Note Air though. Overall, I really like it. I use it to read books and learning material, do math exercises and occasionally to draw. I love that it’s smart (full Android, download any app) and dumb (slow, grayscale, don’t get distracted easily) at the same time.

Technically you can use it for browsing the web, however I wouldn’t recommend it. It’ too slow if you want to hop between different sites. It’s only comfortable if you access a specific site to read on for a while. I hope the BOOX Tab Ultra C is faster (I mean it should), but if the web is one of your main use cases, I’d rather go for a proper tablet. Even if the ePaper screen is relatively fast, it’s still too slow to be fun. Since you’re already experienced using ePaper screen, I’m confident you can judge that for yourself though.

My motivation to get an upgrade is mainly the Note Air quickly slows down when drawing anything semi-complex or above. I can recommend it for reading, taking notes and (limited) drawing. For anything else, I recommend a tablet instead.

Slick! My feedback:

• Consider respecting the user agents color scheme preference (I like to have light mode on day and dark mode on night — don’t overwrite that without my permission if you already have both themes).
• Contrast is too low in the dark theme and way too low (basicly unusable) in the light theme.
• Consider increasing font size, esp. for code blocks
• For me it’s wierd that posts are kinda centered but not really. Since most (not all) languages are left to right, I’m used to start looking on the left side, not the right. Consider centering the post properly.
• Consider making the hover animations faster.
• In dark mode, the icon button hover text is black on dark gray and therefore basicly unreadable.

What is this dot between the three-dot menu button and the time stamp?

Personally, I don’t really like that the post is displayed transparently over the post list. This makes it a lot harder for me to focus on the content. Maybe I’m not the target group for a design like this.

And for 80$/month you can get 25Gbps!

social.digitalcourage.de and mastodon.green both are Mastodon server with a (paid) membership model.

You can go to settings > customize and turn off pull to refresh if you want.