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@julian @liaizon @cogdog I can't remember if Mastodon supports multi-typed actors. [Group, Service] would be reasonable!

@julian @liaizon @cogdog ok, I opened a ticket for this.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38494

Friends, if you haven't already, it would be a big favour to me if you could enable tags.pub to boost your public tagged posts.

Just follow @_followback . It will follow you back, and when you make a post with a hashtag in it, the server will boost your post from the appropriate hashtag.

If you're interested in any topics, like @nokings , follow that account to get posts with that hashtag from across the Fediverse.

Let me know how it works for you!

#tagspub #hashtags #activitypub

@tchambers @joe great idea!

I think it's a really interesting question of how much of the Fediverse needs to be providing data to tags.pub.

I think this might be an interesting network science problem. I'll do some math and let you know!

@evan I read years ago that multi-word tags should be done in CamelCase, for the benefit of screenreaders. So when I take my posts, I'm careful to do so. It appears however that tags.pub lowercases all my tags.

I understand that it shouldn't create separate accounts for tags that vary only by capitalisation, but when creating a new account, why not preserve the capitalisation of the original tag?

@julian @liaizon Oh, actually, that's a much better fix than just hiding from a particular domain.

@julian @liaizon Julian, would that work for NodeBB too? I know I get notifications when activitypub.space shares my toots.

@julian @liaizon I'm pretty sure channel.org has service actors, and it does automated boosts.

@silverpill @liaizon Which, fine, all resources from other places need to be restricted to prevent DoS attacks anyway.

@rick have you started to figure out how to get quote posts working?

@liaizon @rick Probably very unlikely as long as the vocabulary isn't in Fedify: https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/452 But now that the interaction policy vocab is in, it might not take too much longer.

@julian @rick oh yay I forgot that was the next step in fedify we were waiting for

New post: Can we have a more “social” media?

https://profpatsch.de/essays/a-more-social-media

On advertising, the Fediverse, and what a more human social web could look like.

Special mentions: @smallcircles, @phnt, @happy-programming

#fediverse #activitypub #socialmedia

@Profpatsch You need to create a new signature because the request target is changing. It is a part of a signature base, so the initial signature becomes invalid when the client follows a redirect.

@liaizon

@Profpatsch @liaizon The guide recommends limiting the response size, to prevent DoS.

I also found this in your SECURITY.md:

https://codeberg.org/Profpatsch/Profpatsch/src/commit/249aa389a2023814b328af8fc795750fd28d995d/users/Profpatsch/activitypub-go/security.md#response-body-size-limits

@north @liaizon @Edent Check https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7564

@Profpatsch @Edent I see this is now merged, has it now been tested against how these new unicode actors will federate across to mastodon and other platforms that don't allow unicode usernames? cc @north

@liaizon @Edent @north It completely fails with mastodon unfortunately, we hope we can create some pressure for then to implement sane internationalization of usernames :)

@liaizon @Edent @north But yeah, it’s exceptionally silly to be a project with an aspiration for international communities, and then not allow people to sign up in their native e.g. Amharic or Han scripts

@liaizon @julian I'm not trying to hide that Claude Code is major player here. I'm fast prototyping

@liaizon isn't the rest (single identity, single data store) precisely what @_elena was referring to as profiling (ie the dangerous part)