lime!

“web3” and “ai” on the front page.

blockchains have some use cases. “web3” is not it.

yeah personally i’m fine with chronological feeds and wouldn’t want an algorithm.

so fun fact, that’s already how lemmy works. communities are not a thing in ap, so you can technically post to whatever community you want, existing or not. the lemmy software then limits users from posting to nonexistent communities. and ap already has the notion of posts having parents, so threading is also built in.

if you want posts to spontaneously coalesce with some kind of shared Metadata, you want the ML content analysis information of the post to go out before the actual post is published

i don’t understand this assertion at all. the post is the post. surely we want to classify the post based on the content of the post? tags are contained in posts. your client can just add the relevant info before sending it. figure out potential categories locally, query the server for which of them are popular, and either pick one or have the user select one.

the formatting is up to the client that displays the content, interestingly enough. AP just has a “message type” fields and different clients care about different types.

i’m not really sure what that gossip method achieves. surely if it’s just post metadata we’re talking a hundred bytes at most. running it separate from the main feed seems like it would just bork every single AP client that tries to use content published by this hypothetical one.

hm, i think there’s some confusion regarding AP here. there’s no “deciding where things should go”; every frontend can “see” every type of post, even if the format is off. what you’re describing by is essentially how it already works, no multiple accounts needed. the frontend just needs to decide how to handle it. for lemmy-to-masto the handling is pretty basic, you can see it by going to a mastodon server and searching for your lemmy account (formatted as @yourname@yoursite.blah).

for the “gossip” thing, every server already publishes every new thing. it’s up to other servers to decide how to handle it.

regarding the automated tagging system, i actually had a similar idea recently. i think a big flaw with lemmy/mbin/piefed is the keeping of communities from reddit; if the already extant tags were used instead, the cross-posting problem would go away completely since comments would be attached to posts rather than communities.

anyway: it would not be difficult to just use words in a post to assign it tags, but i question the usefulness of doing that. some sort of analysis would help, as you say, but then we’re introducing nondeterministic behaviour. there is definitely a discoverability problem on fedi, and something like this could definitely help with some polish.

Why don’t the highest use rate clients for Fediverse services look like standard browsers?

they don’t? i feel like they pretty much do, considering they’re all web pages.

do you have a central log of notifications you can access via your desktop?

every desktop environment i’ve used in the past 10 years has this, it’s basically been the default from windows 8 forward. GNOME puts them front and center in a dropdown in the middle, windows and deepin has a sidebar, KDE pops out a whole window for them.

basically the crux of it is what you want to do with your notifications. for me, a notification is an indicator that someone wants something, so the action it should perform is bring me to whoever it is. if that’s all you need, then you’re already there because every client i’ve used already has notification settings that allow you to filter stuff.

the reason i’m asking questions is that you’re all over the stack here. you’re talking about a user chrome, then you’re talking about consolidating messages, then about notification filters. i think it can all coalesce into something if you start from the capabilities of activitypub itself. it’s basically a messaging system at its core, with clients all deciding how to handle the contents of each message. i’ve long thought that neither twitterlikes or redditlikes actually play to the strength of the protocol, and that activitypub needs some sort of killer app to really shine. if you think you have something, you should let it form into a coherent idea and present it.

so a set of pwas with a tabbed ui on top. right. i think my sticking point is, what is the “tailored ui” that fediverse services require? if we’re already using the web interfaces of the services themselves, what is left? notification handling? because personally i don’t want notifications to be locked in an app, my desktop handles my notification feed. i used to have those notification counters on my tabs, using a little js snippet that rendered a number on the favicon. but then i realised that i was just reinventing a thing that was already handled at another level.

no it doesn’t. most clients open third-party links in the actual browser. interstellar has a setting for that.

i’m saying that the functionality you’re describing is already perfectly encapsulated by a normal browser, and what you want is that, but limited to a handful of sites.

so… a web browser that stops you from going to every site.

tl;dr: it uses stripe

did we not tell you that this is exactly what would happen?

any plans to appease the cohost crowd and allow css in posts?

maybe it’s because i grew up with vhs first but dvd always felt like a lot of hassle compared to just “put it in and watch”

oh absolutely, it’s fascinating to hear a perspective i didn’t know existed.

i ripped all my dvds specifically to get rid of the menus because they were slow, hard to use, and full of frustrating animations. they usually just felt like an afterthought.

i’ve never been one to be swayed by extras, it usually just feels akin to jingling keys to get me to buy shit. maybe i’m weird.

i’ve never heard of anyone that keeps dvd menus around. like, i get it for archival purposes but i would never want to actually navigate a menu when i want to watch something. in my mind it’s like sitting through the commercials on a rented vhs. i would probably store a converted copy as well, in a format that would let me specify from the application what track and subtitle i want so i can set a default.

oh this was a while ago, i currently don’t have a homelab. i gave up waiting for mods to update and then it slipped my mind.

do you use a premade compose file or did you write your own? i started out my own but it quickly got very complicated…

so he got an account on pawb?