David Sterry @weex@c4.social

Hello World?!

Hello World is common pattern with any technology ~ A short program that gets the environment setup to enable some trivial interaction. It's a nice, small foundation on which to freestyle and dream.

So... where does a new dev on the scene get started?

If you know of a good "Hello World" for ActivityPub or other fediverse protocol, please reply with a link and have a great day or evening!

FFLOSS = Federated Free/Libre Open Source Software

What do you think? Worth the price of astonishment?

Problem: Maximum post length can't be edited from the web interface.

Coming after max_toot_length was merged, I want to ask you who are in the fedi dev community. Is this an accurate and valuable problem to solve?

On the accuracy side, perhaps every configurable parameter of a Masto instance should be editable via web interface. From a value perspective, how often might post length or any config-file param need to be changed?

https://github.com/c4social/mastodon/issues/122

It's a great feeling to be able to solve problems with the software that I'm using, even if what I do is minimal, it's a thing I can point to that brightens the experience.

For example, every time I use a #HashTag with unique capitalization and Mastodon doesn't correct it, I'm using code I added. It also reminds me that capitalization is used by screen readers to decide how to pronounce it. So when it's merged upstream or if people are using this fork, then it's helping people and that feels good.

Free software is important not because it's free as in beer, and not necessarily because you can change the code, but because you can use the code after you changed it, and feel increased agency over the world in which you live.

Imagine getting favorite-spammed while you're reading about next-level moderation tech.

Linked two repos to work on web of trust for #fediverse moderation.

Please share any repos/resources you think would be helpful.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/scalable-moderation-using-a-web-of-trust-model/2005

Good morning. Now installing mercurial to try and run ArneBab's web of trust code.

When you're overclocking software dev some bits might get flipped, but it's worth the frames.

Our C4 Fork of Mastodon now has configurable toot length. Set MAX_TOOT_CHARS to your length of choice in `.env.production` and restart.

Wouldn't it be grand to check all the boxes at https://fediverse.town/t/what-features-should-a-community-driven-mastodon-fork-have/60?

Anyone who understands #fediverse network propagation want to help spitball Web of Trust resource requirements? Also inside a link to a pretty epic WoT discussion in old #Mastodon issues. https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/scalable-moderation-using-a-web-of-trust-model/2005/2

Help build scalable moderation for #Mastodon

The idea is to follow in #Freenet's footsteps using a web-of-trust. First step: Understand how it was done and create issues for problems to solve along the way.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/scalable-moderation-using-a-web-of-trust-model/2005

Here's a podcast about it https://youtu.be/Z1KwkpTUbkg

A while back Freenet figured out moderation via web of trust and I want this in Mastodon. Anyone want to help build it?
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/federated-moderation-towards-delegated-moderation/1580/3