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Oliver Lowe

@ otl @hachyderm.io

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Rollerblading, programming, writing, documentaries, travel, motorbikes… That’s it!

Preferably email: o@olowe.co

  • Any android client that can do both Lemmy and Mastodon?

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  • Lots of things! I subscribe to blogs, Lemmy communities, Mastodon accounts, podcasts, YouTube channels, source code repositories (GitHub, Sourcehut, cgit…), Hacker News, subreddits. All in one ad-free, tracker-less, totally local, instantly searchable, open source application. Couldn’t have lived without it for the past 15 - 20 years!

    @fediverse @VintageGenious

  • Any android client that can do both Lemmy and Mastodon?

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  • @VintageGenious For sure you’re absolutely right to ask the question. I have the same question :)

    I guess I’m just venting. Popular Fediverse systems are implemented in a way that closely mimics exisiting CRUD social media like Twitter and Reddit. You upload a post, it’s stored in a database, and you’re done. Mastodon and Lemmy are the same, with the afterthought of sending ActivityPub messages to other systems.

    And we see the result: how federation works remains an obscurity.

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  • @rglullis RSS is so underrated I feel. Easy to understand, battle-tested, scales up easily, plethora of clients. Many uses of microblogging, especially in the “real world” use by places like governments, police departments, public transport services could be easily replaced by simple RSS/Atom feeds. Governments and TV stations don’t need to set up Mastodon instances since they never actually interact with people. It’s not “social” media to them; just another avenue of broadcast.

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  • @maegul @VintageGenious Agreed. But it's tricky. Few thoughts:

    1. ActivityPub itself is in a bit of a mess. Spec too large (spread out over many other specifications!), poor documentation, overly generic.

    2. Many devs just aren't that familiar with interoperability

    3. To encourage adoption, Mastodon and Lemmy cloned existing services and behaviour

    4. Those two fediverse systems added ActivityPub late in their development

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  • @VintageGenious Think about it this way: an email client can do both Gmail and Hotmail (and Fastmail etc.) because it’s all just email. The same goes for the Fediverse; it’s all just ActivityPub. For example this reply is from a Mastodon app :D

    I have personal frustrations about how popular servers like Mastodon and Lemmy hide ActivityPub. I feel progress is stifled. Enough that I wrote my own ActivityPub service (https://apubtest2.srcbeat.com/apas.html)

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  • Im counting the days for a Piefed app so i can switch over and be able to forget about ml drama and weirdness

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  • @threelonmusketeers @hendrik This is how many Fediverse microblogging systems currently work; they serve the Mastodon API for client to server (e.g. app to server) interactions. GoToSocial doesn't even provide any user interface; you use it from some app originally designed for Mastodon. Why? I think because Mastodon's HTTP API is simpler, better documented and well-tested compared to something like ActivityPub's Client-To-Server API.

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  • Im counting the days for a Piefed app so i can switch over and be able to forget about ml drama and weirdness

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  • @skullgiver Good Q. Some thoughts... a standard Python, Flask, PostgreSQL app can handle hundreds of requests per second on a single machine. Any bottlenecks - Lemmy or PieFed - would probably not be at the language yet. For example, Lemmy's poor performance when I looked ~1 year ago came from a bizarre disregard for things like relational DB query optimisation, HTTP caching, and how the stock frontend lemmy-ui fetched data. Yet Lemmy is written in Rust which is known for speed.

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  • Is there a Git repository activity aggregator, like GitHub's user activity but platform independent?

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  • @2xsaiko RSS/Atom feeds were developed for this use case. GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg (Forgejo), Sourcehut, even cgit and git's own gitweb serve feeds. For example here's my GitHub account: https://github.com/ollytom.atommy main OSS project: https://git.olowe.co/streaming/atom/

    Atom feeds are widely supported (it's how I found this post!) and there are many libraries/apps/plugins for aggregation. Robust old tech. And no need to limit feeds to Git activity if you don't want to :) Good luck!

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  • Im counting the days for a Piefed app so i can switch over and be able to forget about ml drama and weirdness

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  • @xnx PieFed won’t have an app any time soon due to the way it’s implemented. It’s still awesome without a native app because it’s fast and doesn’t really need direct access to hardware to do its thing.

    Tech detail: PieFed is a Python app using Flask and server-side rendered HTML templates. It is super fast as there’s no heavy Javascript framework being used. The maintainer has written about how PieFed is developed with poor internet connections in mind: https://piefed.social/post/6102

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  • For those who are job searching, how's the market been for you lately?

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  • @AFKBRBChocolate Interesting, thanks for the reply. I don't mean that trust is a bad thing. When I was younger I could never get my head around how decisions were made. It just never occurred to me that there could be other factors in how decisions were made - both at a personal and commercial level - other than finding the cheapest/best stuff.

  • For those who are job searching, how's the market been for you lately?

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  • @AFKBRBChocolate The way I think about it is the currency of business is trust, not aptitude.

  • Why is Lemmy, with a tiny fraction of Mastodon's MAU, more fun than Mastodon?

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  • @Jedi Agreed! Am I on Mastodon or Lemmy when I read and replied to this thread? Doesn’t matter :D

    @asklemmy

  • Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!

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  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Apas: ActivityPub via email

  • Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

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  • This is not about software licensing nor the spirit of FOSS.

    There's some inconsistent messaging that's genuinely confusing me. I've shared an anecdote below (from a time when I was developing open source software) in the interest of generating discussion to clear it up for me and perhaps others, too. I don't mean to imply I know what is happening right here.

    @pop @fediverse

  • House passes bill that could lead to a TikTok ban; fight shifts to the Senate

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  • Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

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  • Ha nice analogy. Might steal it if that's ok! :)

    Reminds me of a place I used to work at. Small place; 10 people. I started as a sysadmin but later started programming. They encouraged me; "yes we suck at this we need help!" so I kept going. But as the work became more involved and I needed a bit of co-operation from their side, it was torture. They didn't "suck" at it, they just didn't respect or bother themselves with that kind of work.

    @Ghostalmedia @fediverse

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  • Dev publishes unreadable website:

    "Some developers are bad at CSS and design/CSS (like me)"

    Implying some innate incapacity.Same dev:

    "Or these people could learn Rust and contribute to the existing project."https://lemmy.ml/comment/8855579

    Man I just don't get it. There's a kind of wilful ignorance here or something? It's jarring. All due respect for what's been made but this attitude... I'm not offended or have disdain, just dumbfounded at the messaging.

    @Ghostalmedia@fediverse

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  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Follow-up: OpenBSD routers on AliExpress mini PCs

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Another successful OpenBSD setup

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    End-to-End Arguments In System Design

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Why We Can't Have Nice Software

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Profile Guided optimisation with Go

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Accessing Mastodon and the fediverse via email:

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Mozilla.ai seems silent 9 months on. MemoryCache is a "Mozilla Innovation Project", which seems unrelated.

  • Motorcycles @lemmy.world
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    Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia