Nostr notes by Emelia 👸🏻

I'm assuming you've an @context on that?

2024-09-10T10:51:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…nr9z
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I'm assuming you've an @context on that?

and also moderate and deal with all the stuff people will send to ...

2024-09-06T22:12:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…8kwc
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and also moderate and deal with all the stuff people will send to your inbox

Am wondering if it'd make sense to have a dedicated Reply ...

2024-09-06T13:32:26Z

Am wondering if it'd make sense to have a dedicated Reply activity, such that a reply becomes Reply(Note) instead of Create(Note)

Where the Reply activity has the target & is sent to that server only, before being forwarded?

Would this make the protocol clearer for implementers?

#activitypub #ActivityStreams2

we have that. This was added after when Jan did his app. ...

2024-09-05T14:35:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…yuqq
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we have that.

This was added after when Jan did his app.

then why offer products like Stripe Elements and Stripe Checkout? ...

2024-09-04T16:54:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…tn2d
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then why offer products like Stripe Elements and Stripe Checkout? https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout

I think this is something else going on here.

did you ever have any chargebacks? I'm curious what their ...

2024-09-04T16:37:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…4rlh
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did you ever have any chargebacks? I'm curious what their basis is for "risk” — they seem to want to push people to not use them directly but instead use the big platforms.. which is weird.

Here's a rough draft of how I think I report could look in ...

2024-09-03T21:59:35Z

Here's a rough draft of how I think I report could look in mastodon with the changes I'm working on relating to forwarding reports to other servers:

Here I've reported from my dev instance hachyderm.wtf, who replied to hachyderm.io, but I only chose to forward to hachyderm.wtf

This allows for the moderator on my dev instance to then decide to forward it to hachyderm.io (there'll be a separate screen for that)

Gives a bit more clarity as to where the report has gone.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/31706#issuecomment-2327497442

would be amazing to see Americans celebrate it on 1st May, but ...

2024-09-01T18:15:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…6ljj
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would be amazing to see Americans celebrate it on 1st May, but iirc you don't due to anti-labour movements being worried that'd give too much power to workers

oh, right. I misunderstood — does the built in scheduling of ...

2024-09-01T17:37:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…5p36
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oh, right. I misunderstood — does the built in scheduling of say Mastodon work? It just needs a frontend

buffer can work with fediverse instances which have the Mastodon ...

2024-09-01T17:28:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…nk93
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buffer can work with fediverse instances which have the Mastodon API?

Your issue isn't with Brazil, STF, or anything, it's with ...

2024-09-01T12:03:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…j68z
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Your issue isn't with Brazil, STF, or anything, it's with Musk throwing someone who agreed to work with him in good faith under the bus.

Musk knew refusing to comply would mean legal liability for that person, and chose not to comply.

If you are the Managing Director of Twitter GmbH (Germany), and ...

2024-09-01T12:00:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…7wl7
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If you are the Managing Director of Twitter GmbH (Germany), and your parent company Twitter, LLC, doesn't allow you to follow german laws, and fines are levied against Twitter GmbH and neither Twitter GmbH nor Twitter LLC can or will pay those fines, then yes, there can be action taken against the Managing Director.

That is, companies offer some liability protection in cases of bankruptcy and such, but not in refusal to follow the law.

hmm, I'm pretty sure there shouldn't be a backlog ...

2024-09-01T11:45:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…98ch
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hmm, I'm pretty sure there shouldn't be a backlog anymore.

There was a period where submissions weren't being kept on top of though.

for getting an instance listed there you need a few things, and ...

2024-09-01T11:35:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…qerv
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for getting an instance listed there you need a few things, and the process is described here:

https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

It may just be those Brazilian operated instances haven't chosen to submit themselves yet, or they don't yet meet the requirements (if so, is there something that the community can do to help them meet those requirements?)

offices and companies don't shut down over night, you do know ...

2024-08-31T15:38:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…wgdp
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offices and companies don't shut down over night, you do know that, right?

that is actually what is legally being signed up for when you are ...

2024-08-31T15:28:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…60lm
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that is actually what is legally being signed up for when you are the director of a branch of a multinational company

You're not just a mouth piece, you have a responsibility to ensure the company abides by local laws.

ah, not on mobile

2024-08-30T01:51:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…96v9
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ah, not on mobile

looks like Fedibird is currently violating the Mastodon license ...

2024-08-30T01:31:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…rulq
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looks like Fedibird is currently violating the Mastodon license terms since Mastodon is AGPLv3, so forks *must* release their source code.

Would of course require activitypub servers to be aware of these ...

2024-08-29T23:51:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…02nf
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Would of course require activitypub servers to be aware of these additional collections in order to handle delivery correctly, but this feels like something that should exist but doesn't in mainstream fedi software.

I think only Moved to @bonfire@bonfire.cafe (npub1lzd…urpr) implements this maybe?

Like why can't I create a family collection or a close ...

2024-08-29T23:49:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…kdty
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Like why can't I create a family collection or a close friends collection & share activities just with those actors through addressing?

I can also help remote servers by sending Add and Remove activities to indicate that I've updated those collections. (Maybe it'd be Accept(Add)? Or Undo(Accept(Add))? )

Something that should theoretically be possible is maintaining ...

2024-08-29T23:46:43Z

Something that should theoretically be possible is maintaining separate collections of actors to address content to, and software should be able to handle that.

e.g., followers is a collection intrinsically managed by the protocol: Accept(Follow) adds that actor to the collection for your followers. (All follows on the fediverse are really follow requests, no matter what)

hehe, I've had so many notifications I've lost track of ...

2024-08-26T20:43:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…3dzu
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hehe, I've had so many notifications I've lost track of who's boosted it 😅

this one: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/113028119413086965 ...

2024-08-26T20:31:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…8rt7
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this one: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/113028119413086965

It's really surprising how much it's doing the rounds.

Did, uh, did I get @npub1fqg…7yvt'd or something? I had no ...

2024-08-26T20:02:22Z

Did, uh, did I get Lisa Melton (npub1fqg…7yvt)'d or something?

I had no idea that post would go this viral.

A friend just gave me this wonderful analogy about elections: ...

2024-08-26T11:37:12Z

A friend just gave me this wonderful analogy about elections:

“Elections aren’t an uber taking you to exactly where you want to go, they’re a train carrying a mass of people to the station nearest your destination.

You have to board the train that’s going in the same direction you want to go, even if it doesn’t take you to the street, or even the town you’re wanting to reach.”

#uspol #politics

At the moment, it's the money from my supporters that's ...

2024-08-25T21:51:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…uams
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At the moment, it's the money from my supporters that's paying my bills most, since I'm not actively doing freelance work for IFTAS (the first half of this year I was designing & building IFTAS CCS with a team of people)

I'm also now at 75 merged pull requests to Mastodon since ...

2024-08-25T21:49:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…4cwc
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I'm also now at 75 merged pull requests to Mastodon since 2018, with 31 currently open (some of which are WIP)

I've also triaged all the issues mentioning "moderation” when they actually related to moderation.

So far this month, in total, I've done approximately 43 hours ...

2024-08-25T21:47:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…ql60
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So far this month, in total, I've done approximately 43 hours of work on Mastodon, 4.5 hours of work on standards or other community outreach.

I've also slowly been working away at the FIRES grant from NLNet, and I'm hoping to spend more time on that soon — I've just been prioritizing Mastodon changes in the hopes that they'll land in 4.3, even though work on Mastodon doesn't directly pay me and is only possible with your support.

What am I currently working on? For Mastodon: - Improved Report ...

2024-08-25T21:44:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…6ksa
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What am I currently working on?

For Mastodon:

- Improved Report Filters & Search (allowing you to find reports that are both outgoing and incoming)
- Redesigned Reports list to surface more information
- Instance Moderation Notes
- Other moderation fixes and small changes

I'm also working on a redesign of the Report details page, to try to improve the clarity of it.

Okay, so, remember how yesterday I said I had some news? My last ...

2024-08-25T21:40:09Z

Okay, so, remember how yesterday I said I had some news?

My last update with regards to funding was that I'm averaging €700 per month in support.

Thanks to all your kind posts, endorsements and boosts, that number has risen to €1050 / month in recurring support!!

I've also received several one-off donations for larger amounts, too.

This helps greatly towards making my work on the Fediverse sustainable.

Next target? €2000 / month

https://support.thisismissem.social

Really happy to see Mastodon 4.3 beta 1 finally being out, ...

2024-08-23T17:29:44Z

Really happy to see Mastodon 4.3 beta 1 finally being out, there's been SO much work that's gone into this release over the past 21 months since Mastodon 4.2 was released.

I've still several PRs that I'm hoping I'll be able to land for the final 4.3 release.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.0-beta.1

Mastodon Mods & Admins: would having markdown support in ...

2024-08-22T11:26:44Z

Mastodon Mods & Admins: would having markdown support in Moderator Notes on Reports, Accounts and Instances make sense?

If so, please give this issue a thumbs up: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/31544

#MastoMods #MastoAdmin

funny how a "Harris and Walz presidency" has now become a ...

2024-08-20T16:44:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…jxmd
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funny how a "Harris and Walz presidency" has now become a "risk" after they didn't get a conversation about positions within a Harris/Walz presidency.

i wanna see that new film!

2024-08-18T21:23:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…vr4l
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i wanna see that new film!

In other news, I'm currently looking for German and European ...

2024-08-18T19:53:34Z

In other news, I'm currently looking for German and European companies or organisations that might want to work with me, especially if the project is Fediverse related.

I'm currently going through a visa application, and we're struggling to prove why I should be based in Germany, because most of my work is foreign & theoretically able to be done anywhere.

So I'm looking for non-binding letters of intent from German & EU based companies.

Okay, so, there's like this Mastodon issue that I'd like ...

2024-08-18T02:12:14Z

Okay, so, there's like this Mastodon issue that I'd like to work on that's a huge precursor to potentially a lot of other things that could improve the fediverse.

However, in order to work on it, I'd need probably €10k+ in funding, because it's likely to take me at least a month and a half to complete, as it's quite complex.

How would you go about gaining that amount of funding?

I knew Vancouver housing was direr but.. $39.5k PER FUCKING ...

2024-08-17T02:46:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…uw0c
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I knew Vancouver housing was direr but.. $39.5k PER FUCKING MONTH?!? How? How is it legal to afford such? How is an apartment even worth that much?? What the hell would your monthly income need to be for that sort of rent???

I've been working on a few tools to improve the Moderation UI ...

2024-08-16T15:58:07Z

I've been working on a few tools to improve the Moderation UI in Mastodon:

- Allow searching for reports from a given instance/user: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/31449

- Attempting to address the information flow on Report Details page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/31444

For the second one, I'd really love to have a sit down with a UI/UX designer to see what we could do better in this page (there is a lot of data)

@npub1j4h…rnsr @npub1lu8…mnj4 hey, what's up with this on ...

2024-08-16T02:29:44Z

Medium (npub1j4h…rnsr) Tony Stubblebine (npub1lu8…mnj4) hey, what's up with this on the annual upgrade pricing?

You're advertising as $40/yr, but when I checkout it jumps to $50/yr?

80% of $60 is $48.. I'm not sure where the $40 comes from?

We've just built a system that can do this for a significant ...

2024-08-12T11:16:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…a6qv
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We've just built a system that can do this for a significant portion of the Fediverse.

We're now seeking requests for interest + additional funding to bring it to everyone who wants it.

(Also, yes, I can say "originally" there, because I'm ...

2024-08-10T12:52:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…f3ve
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(Also, yes, I can say "originally" there, because I'm the person who added the Notes feature to Reports and Accounts)

Note: there's also a separate idea to allow for doing a ...

2024-08-10T12:20:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…ant7
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Note: there's also a separate idea to allow for doing a "incident report" which I believe might fit some moderation team's workflows better than trying to do such a write up via report notes.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/31235#issuecomment-2261572315

We've not yet opened a separate issue for this idea yet though, but that comment from quintessence :blobfoxcofecute: (npub1wgj…t0gq) has some context.

So that leads me to wondering if we can do something better here? ...

2024-08-10T12:17:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…09df
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So that leads me to wondering if we can do something better here?

The GitHub issue or PR comments feed with PRs and other issues linked in is possibly a direction to go, I'm just not sure off top of head how to design/build it.

Engineer brain reaches for event sourcing, and having everything create a linked "report_event" rather than dealing with union queries.

Originally the idea with Report Notes and Account Notes was to ...

2024-08-10T12:13:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…waea
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Originally the idea with Report Notes and Account Notes was to share small snippets of information with a fellow moderator, but now there's a few ideas to expand them, e.g., allowing communication between two instances about a report, or allowing some sort of flow to request more information or communicate with reporter or reportee.

Context: we've semi-often requests in the Mastodon moderation ...

2024-08-10T12:10:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…l8c5
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Context: we've semi-often requests in the Mastodon moderation UI for showing things like account warnings and appeals in the chronological conversation that happens via Report Notes.

Originally we kept the audit log separate from the report notes, which were mostly intended for handing over information between on-call moderators, since the audit log was fairly unstructured & we didn't have a good way to render it that wasn't confusing.

If you had to develop a UI similar to the comments feed on the ...

2024-08-10T12:06:51Z

If you had to develop a UI similar to the comments feed on the main tab of a GitHub Pull Request, where you have comments interspersed with other events, how would you do it?

is this also affecting mstdn.party? We've been observing an ...

2024-08-09T10:39:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…eq8d
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is this also affecting mstdn.party? We've been observing an outage from them for about a week

Anyone know if DigitalOcean had an outage last night? Their ...

2024-08-08T05:49:17Z

Anyone know if DigitalOcean had an outage last night? Their status page doesn't seem to show historical information, only current status.

I did look into the viability of this, but ultimately decided ...

2024-08-07T10:38:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…srv7
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I did look into the viability of this, but ultimately decided against it due to addressing issues and lack of appropriate activity & object types — would've basically been inventing an entirely new vocabulary on top of AP.

yeah, a lot of folks do forget about the standards part, so ...

2024-07-31T15:19:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…3uvw
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yeah, a lot of folks do forget about the standards part, so whilst it might be “easy” to do locally, when you add in standards and federation it becomes significantly more work.

I'm sure there's things I've mentioned to the team ...

2024-07-31T10:24:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…8g6d
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I'm sure there's things I've mentioned to the team several times, and eventually find a way to get them greenlit, but the code review process is getting quicker now.

The other complication is federation & needing to do things in standardised ways, which means a lot of work advocating for things in SWICG and elsewhere, before we can address them in Mastodon.

(e.g., I've just coauthored an IETF Internet Draft to drastically improve OAuth for our use case)

as a volunteer contributor, I will say that landing changes & ...

2024-07-31T10:20:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…xhpy
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as a volunteer contributor, I will say that landing changes & adding features can take a lot of time, not always in just active work, so patience is a must. (e.g., it's not uncommon for me to be rebasing a 6 month old branch because it wasn't mergeable or reviewable at the time but now is)

The other side of that is funding, where you have to really work to bring in enough money to support yourself, no easy feat.