#social 2018-08-11
2018-08-11 UTC
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minty-hime hallo
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saranix greetings
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minty-hime is this the best place to talk about using the activitypub spec and tools related to it?
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saranix yes!
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minty-hime ah cool :o
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minty-hime if I want to make a project using it, is my best option to just implement it myself?
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saranix meaning, no library? It's up to you. I would say yes but some others would point out the more mature libs. It also depends on your language
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minty-hime well, I want to make an end product on top of the activitypub spec. kroeg is the only thing I found that looks like a fully implemented server. Theres activitypub libraries?
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minty-hime And really at this point I'm just conceptual and I'm usually up to learning new languages. Javascript is what I've been using lately.
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saranix cool. what's your product? There's a Go library I think and a python library by cwebber2 that is being revived by pantherse
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minty-hime tldr tumblr clone
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minty-hime just the blogging portion
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saranix neat. lol I thought maybe I knew what that one does until you said blogging portion
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minty-hime what'd you think tumblr does? its a microblogging platform, sorta.
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saranix err... I dunno I guess I always thought it was a bookmarking thing
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minty-hime ah, no. Its a blogging platform that has a lot of features for blogging other blogs while keeping a trail of who blogged who and what the original source is.
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saranix oh yeah it's probably really easy to lose track of "re-boosted" mastodons
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minty-hime also tumblr has a more long-form focus
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minty-hime sadly ads have been completely destroying it
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DigDug long term != ads
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minty-hime I said long form, not long term
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minty-hime as in the blog posts have the option to be lengthy and thought out with multiple images
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JasonRobinson[m] https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2018-08-10-call-for-participation/
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nightpool[m] edge caching is great
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nightpool[m] sure, during delivery
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nightpool[m] if I send a post to someone, they don't have to re-fetch it
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nightpool[m] but you didn't send the post to those mastodon instances
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nightpool[m] gargron did
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nightpool[m] They can't just take gargron's word for what you said, he could have written anything in there.
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nightpool[m] because boosts are a pretty small percent of normal traffic
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nightpool[m] and it adds a ton of latency to the system
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nightpool[m] if someone posts something on glitch.social, i generally see it on cybrespace within a second or less.
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nightpool[m] fat pings would make that into multiple seconds, for every post
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