I’ve seen two or three in !selfhosted@lemmy.world in the last week. Really concerning.

@julian@activitypub.space > This morning I saw another product show up that was my butt generated

When you come across these, please ping me, and I’ll add them to the watchlist for this on the fediverse.party wiki.

Thanks, Evan! I honestly didn’t take it personally and there were some learning I needed that will just help me be a better fediverse community member. And thanks for the kind words and feedback! That’s mostly why I’m reaching out. The AP integration seems to be working okay, but I’m sure there are gaps I’m missing from a lack of knowledge.

what if you’re wrong?

He admitted to using my butt to write the original post, for some of his comments and for his code. Did you not read the whole thread?

Me: > what if you’re wrong?

@rimu@piefed.social > He admitted to using my butt to write the original post, for some of his comments and for his code.

In context, I was asking what if you’re wrong about there not being a human being behind this Trained MOLE, reading all these disproportionately negatie negative replies.

Did you not read the whole thread?

I certainly did, why did you think I got so incensed about it? But as I just said to you from my Mastodon account;

My apologies again for unloading on you with both barrels last night. I stand by my objection to the way Stanton was being dogpiled, but in hindsight I was just as merciless to you as I saw people being to him. Which was not only hypocritical, but not good de-escalation on my part, quite the opposite.

I’ve got some intense stuff going on of late, and struggling with sleep dep. But that’s my problem and my responsibility, not yours, or anyone else’s. I hope you can accept my apology.

In future I plan to restrict my online posting activities to mornings and afternoons, along with my caffeine intake, and improve my sleep hygiene. Working from my bed must stop.

I’m hoping that this will help me keep a cooler head, and avoid a repeat of this nasty posting behaviour on my part. If there’s anything else I can do to repair our relationship as fellow green-left activist and fediverse devs, please do let me know : )

Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.

This is awesome. I hope more innovations in this direction follow.

I’m building a new activitypub/threadiverse software focused on the needs of self hosters who want a single user instance.

I’ve been posting with it semi-regularly for the last month, and I think it’s ready for an open demo.

One of my objectives is to have the lightest resource usage for memory and CPU constrained hardware, as well as the fastest loading web interface for older phones and limited data plans. I ran out of data on my phone last week and having a 41kb front page came in very handy.

You can try the web UI at https://scrapetacular.ydns.eu/latest You can also POST AS A GUEST TO THE FEDIVERSE without signing up. I’m not sure you can do this anywhere else, I’m manually approving posts on the backend because .. well you know. If it asks for a user and pass, use guest and guest, your post will appear with a username like guest4269. Ideally, open this post and reply to it.

My other plan for mobile is to target the Sync for Lemmy app, as it’s dead, meaning it’s no longer a moving target.

I’ve made a few technical choices aimed at keeping things fast

These include:

No ORMs - They are convenient but make performance tuning difficult when things get complex as you don’t write the queries directly No Javascript - I may have to go back on this if I keep the guest posting function, it might need a captcha or anubis. No nested comments in the web UI - Nested comments are super slow, you are essentially querying the database for the OP, then querying for the N immediate children, then doing N queries for all of their children, then keep going recursively until you reach your depth limit, or all comments are found, you then need to render this structure with html/css No front page images - This is more of a personal preference that happened to make things load faster, the front page displays the text of the OP and last few comments IN FULL, giving a good preview of the conversation, and allocating more space to people who write rather than post memes. Inline images in posts are also replaced with links. No upvotes/downvotes - DID YOU KNOW that most threadiverse traffic is upvotes, downvotes adn emojis? You get an instant speedup by simply not processing them. Also, since this is a single user instance, all my comments are by definition awesome

ROADMAP

• Massive refactor
• Make the project public
• unit tests (this is basically my only requirement for v1)
• sync for lemmy API
• admin UI
• “AI” to “My Butt” wordfilter (mandatory)
• default subscription to /c/fuck_AI
• Solve channel discoverablity once and for all
• SUPERBLOCK (i.e. block everyone who liked this comment)
• dockerfile? I don’t use docker tbh
• Read Mastodon posts? Do they even have good content?

Tech Stack

• Go
• SQLite

I’m using the pure Go sqlite library, Bluemonday for html sanitisation, Blackfriday for Markdown and Migrate for auto db migrations.

Thanks to Snoopy and the Cool Froges at jlai.lu for allowing me to test on their channel.

Is this project of interest to you? Have I missed anything obvious? Is there anything else you would like to know?

Bwoah very interesting thanks for sharing the details

I doubt that a lot of people will see it, and there’s very few nerds in there that will be interested in self hosting. But I really like the idea, it’s unhinged in the best possible way !

My goal is to average 1 post and 7 comments a week. I started late, and not there yet, but hope to get there within the next month. Do you have any goals or plans on building the Fediverse?

I heard there was a plan to do a monthly Piefed “hackathon” to improve Piefed, but I think that was mostly for translation. Is there any update on that or any other interesting plans out there to improve any part of the Fediverse?

My goal is to abolish all Linux and star trek talk, I plan to have this be a desolate ghost town by mid 2027

NOTHING will ever convince me to base my career-viability on wordpress, which is PHP based.

https://whydoesitsuck.com/why-does-php-suck/ ( notice that TRUE == TRUE == FALSE in PHP, which I consider intolerable, in critical-infrastructure )

Sorry.

PieFed’s Python based ( I wish it had been Julia-based: both less-ugly AND higher-performance, by engineering-of-the-language-to-the-CPU-architectures ),

& doing it in a good high-level language means that dev-effort can go into getting the architecture right, instead of slogging-through the low-level details, which Rust-based platforms force.

Until the architecture’s sorted, I think that Haskell would probably be the ultimate domain-cracking/prototyping language for developing such a platform.

Wordpress, though? Zed Shaw ended up HATING it, & I tend to agree with people who value effectiveness in infrastructure, as he does.

It solved the problem of getting everybody dependent on it, but it didn’t solve either the security problems, or the correct-code problem, or the properly enabling-people-who-want-structured-publishing-with-discussion-and-karma-systems-and-federation-and-different-kinds-of-communities problem.

Same as Microslop’s beloved no-keyboard-warrior/ALL mouse-based paradigm: helped some, & hobbled others.

Each paradigm whether platform or language helps some, & hobbles others.

Wordpress needs to be obsoleted from our world, yesterday, forever, in my view.

So does PHP.

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From ‘his’ github profile pic:

image:https://media.piefed.social/posts/QG/Np/QGNp9FolQcJt8v9.png

@rimu@piefed.social > From ‘his’ github profile pic

Do you know how zerogpt.com detects a Trained #MOLE? By using a Trained MOLE!

we employ a comprehensive deep learning methodology, trained on extensive text collections from the internet, educational datasets, and our proprietary synthetic my butt datasets produced using various language models

Which means that like all the output a Trained MOLE vomits up, there’s absolutely no way to know how accurate this is (whatever the truth of whether there’s a human behind these texts of not). Maybe this is a real photo of Stanton. Maybe it’s been heavily altered by automated filters in GIMP. Maybe it’s been auto-generated, because like many of us, Stanton likes his privacy and doesn’t want to doxx himself (a privilege reversed for middle class people in the middle of the social diversity bell curve). The Trained MOLE you just weaponized against him doesn’t know, and neither do you.

You know who now deserves exactly the same dogpile from you that Stanton got for using a Trained MOLE to prove a concept? I’ll give you 3 guesses ; )

@rimu@piefed.social At least the Inkwell software consistently fulfills the promises its interface makes. I’ve tried to edit both my posts in this topic with PieFed, this one to clarify that I meant; detects a Trained MOLE *output. The interface reloaded with a slightly different version of the OP and the comment I was replying to, no sign of the comment that I wanted to edit nor an edit box.

Can I respectfully suggest you redirect the time and energy you’re putting into dogpiling other AP implementors into fixing some bugs, and testing your interface in non-Chromium-based browsers on non-grApple OS (I’m using LibreWolf)?

• Piefed chat
  
• Fediverse wiki
  
• Guide and tutorial
  

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca • !newcommunities@lemmy.world • !fedigrow@lemmy.zip • !newcomers@piefed.zip

Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let’s share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :
- A new peertube channel
- An interesting mastodon account to follow
- Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
- An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
- A playlist from funkwhale
- A text that moved you

Let’s dig together ! 😁

I’m not really sure how to access Peertube, Mastodon (…) content from my standard FV-browsing experience

As your instance is piefed.social:

Mastodon

if you add tags to a post it should be seen on Mastodon too. No way to directly follow Mastodon tags or users AFAIK yet

Peertube

finding stuff your instance already knows about

1. go to search (the magnifying glass at the top of web UI)
2. choose “Communities” button
3. type in the peertube instance you are interested in
   https://piefed.social/communities?search=makertube&language_id=0

subscribing to new stuff

1. go to channel page https://makertube.net/c/ctrlaltrees/videos (I know this one is already federated, just as example)
2. click the small copy button next to @handle or copy the URL
3. go to search -> “add remote community” at the bottom https://piefed.social/community/add_remote
4. paste in the box, click search, it should appear below in a few seconds

I’ve just found this https://solarsystem.video/home

Wanted to share something with this community and see if it’s useful to anyone. Inkwell (inkwell.social) is an open source, multi-tenant social journaling platform built on ActivityPub. The goal is to fill the long-form writing gap in the fediverse in a way that’s accessible to non-technical users, not just developers who can spin up their own instance of WriteFreely or Ghost.

What it does: users sign up, write journal entries or articles, and those posts federate as Article objects per FEP-b2b8 with preview Notes so they render cleanly in Mastodon and other microblogging clients. You get a title, excerpt, and link rather than a decontextualized URL. Follows, boosts, and likes all work bidirectionally with Mastodon.

It’s ad-free, algorithm-free, and the code is open source on GitHub (github.com/stantondev/inkwell). The hosted instance is at inkwell.social if you want to try it, or you can self-host your own.

Some things that might interest this community: ActivityPub federation with HTTP signature verification, Stamps (emotional reactions) instead of generic likes, a tipping system called Postage for supporting writers, newsletter delivery, custom profile themes, and data import from other platforms. Currently working on improving comment edit propagation and post scope handling for better fediverse compatibility based on community feedback.

Would love to hear thoughts, especially from anyone who’s been looking for a long-form option in the fediverse or anyone interested in running their own instance. What’s working, what’s missing, what would make this more useful to the ecosystem?

#fediverse #activitypub #longform #writing #opensource

respect that approach. transparency plus actually maintaining what you ship matters way more than the tool you use. three weeks solo with ai assistance is legit different than someone slapping together garbage and bouncing. the github openness seals it for me. good luck with it

Appreciate that! I realized I had an outdated readme and needed to add the sourcing directly from the Inkwell site. My biggest concern is gaps that my butt won’t catch, but luckily I’ve had early adopters getting on, requesting feature upgrades and reporting bugs. There is no way it would be where it is at if I didn’t get lucky with some early users and feedback.

Great…How can we install it on non-EU regions? I know someone that might be interested on iOS.

https://altstore.io/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44134619