SkaveRat

fyi, you can link with a ! to instances, and they get automatically converted to local user instance links:

!whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

Abolutely necessarily.

it works like this:

• @privateuser@mastodon.example.com has a “followers only account”.
• @someuser@pixelfed.example.com is a friend of above account, requested access and was granted. This now causes mastodon.example.com to push all messages of @privateuser to pixelfed.example.com.
• @anotheruser@pixelfed.example.com requests access, but gets ignored. But the pixelfed instance marks the user as “follows @privateuser”
• In the interface of @someuser, the messages are shown as expected.
• In the interface of @anotheruser, they are also shown. Because PF basically does a database “select messages of users that the user follows”, without checking if the access was ever granted.

Important to note, that this would not happen, if the messages weren’t already pushed to the server due to the “allowed” user

ActivityPub is a half-assed unfinished mess.

tried working on my own service and figured this one out very fast.

It’s amazing that it works at all. 98% of the stuff is not documented at all. and the stuff that is, can hardly be called documentation.

that’s the problem. you can’t really, without opening the image.

But so far, it doesn’t really appear to be a problem

the problem with this potential issue (if it indeed is one) is, that you don’t need to reply. just opening the DM is enough

fwiw I got the exact image URL in a DM a couple minutes ago. so at least they are not mapping the uuid of the image to a DMd fedi user

no, it’s a decentralised service on the decentralized internet

Saving for later

While on the topic of masto poll games: we need more active participants over at Fedi Plays Pokemon:

https://tomkahe.com/@pokemon

Reddit still has them. And already rolled back edits where useful

Basically by being (often pretentious) assholes.

One of the relevant posts

But if you scroll his timeline a bit (it really isn’t that much), you can see similar discussions

yeah, it’s quite close

Not even Myspace AOL. This is chain mail material

it’s not (only) for the instance. This is for paying full time jobs to manage and develop the software

My instance seems to do that for me. Making this post look very confusing for a moment

intended target and possible target are different things.

The law, as it exists, targets any and all communities with “a significant number of United Kingdom users”. There is no minimum size requirement.

It might be possible that the law turns a blind eye on smaller communities. But it might not. They are in their right to go against a 20 user fediverse instance the same way as they are against facebook

that’s the thing. You don’t have to be a company or resident of the UK.

If you have a community (classic forum, lemmy, masto etc) that caters to a “significant part” to UK users, you are target of the act.

And depending on where you live, extraditions to the UK for criminal charges exist.

Will anyone bother doing that? We’ll see

Edit: In case people want to read the law themselves: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/4

“finally upgraded my steam deck to 1TB” plays Vampire Survivor

I’m mildly annoyed it’s not called Unspooled

I really enjoy Mastodon

I assume it’s a typo, but just in case: Mammoth stops. Mastodon isn’t going anywhere