#social 2018-08-22

2018-08-22 UTC
ryan_ford, fr33domlover3, fr33domlover4, fr33domlover, fr33domlover1, ben_thatmustbeme, ben_thatmust, xmpp-social, KevinMarks, timbl, vasilakisfil, dfgxfdgsdhdfgh and up201705417 joined the channel
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aaronpk is there a way to mark an account as deleted so that it gets dropped from the search results on mastodon servers?
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nightpool[m] aaronpk: if you send them a Delete { Account } it will delete the account
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aaronpk send who?
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nightpool[m] mmm. whoever you want to know about the deletion i would assume 😅
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aaronpk there are no followers on these accounts since i never got them working enough to get followers
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aaronpk can i deliver to the sharedinbox of the server?
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nightpool[m] yes
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aaronpk next question is i guess that means i have to set up enough on them to have webfinger discovery and http signatures working
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nightpool[m] i mean
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aaronpk which is annoying because the whole reason i want these deleted is because i never got enough working to be able to send posts from them
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nightpool[m] if they didn't have webfinger working in the first place how would they show up in the search box?
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aaronpk they have enough of webfinger working that they show up in search, but the profile info is broken and they aren't working enough to be able to deliver posts
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aaronpk can i just return 410 Gone to the webfinger request or something?
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nightpool[m] that will remove it from instances that regularly run `purge_removed_accounts` but that's a pretty expensive task
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nightpool[m] i don't know how many people do run it
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aaronpk hm this is gonna be a lot of wor
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aaronpk k
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aaronpk it occurs to me that i should have used a fake name while testing this stuff because now there are 3 incorrect results when you search for "@aaronpk" on mastodon.social
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nightpool[m] lol
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nightpool[m] I mean, I'm not here to tell you how to write code. but the fact that you have accounts in your database in a partially broken state seems worse then whatever consequences it may have for remote users
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aaronpk lol "accounts in my database"
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aaronpk these are mostly static files on disk on two different test domains
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nightpool[m] ah
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nightpool[m] can't you just deploy your current software to those domains?
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aaronpk if i had written it in a responsible way yes maybe haha
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aaronpk it's a bit hacked together right now unfortunately
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aaronpk sweet sending this worked https://aaronpk.com/toots/delete.json
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aaronpk wait no it didn't
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aaronpk i can't find anything about the "Account" object
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nightpool[m] what do you mean?
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aaronpk i can't find a reference to an "Account" object in activitypub, activitystreams core or activitystreams vocab
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nightpool[m] there is none
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nightpool[m] it's a Person or a Service
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aaronpk oh i thought you meant that there was an Account object in that "Delete { Account }"
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nightpool[m] oh did I say that
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nightpool[m] I'm sorry we call them accounts in the mastodon codebase internally so sometimes I forget to sub in Actor
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aaronpk i wonder what other servers know about these accounts haha
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aaronpk i managed to get 2 of them off mastodon.social tho!
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aaronpk hey nice improvement to the error messages
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aaronpk "Public key not found for key"
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aaronpk and gone
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aaronpk what does the "account migration" feature do? I thought I saw a bunch of people complaining about how there is no way to migrate to a new instance
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fiatjaf where should I start if I'm to write a thing using activitypub?
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fiatjaf something like castling.club
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nightpool[m] https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/ is a good starting guide
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fiatjaf thanks
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fiatjaf :)
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