https://piefed.social/u/Skavau posted on Mar 5, 2026 13:19
For what it is worth Mad Men takes off after S1, you kind of have to get through S1.
Season 2 has been great so far.
Second the advice to go in blind. Season 1 was a little slow in the middle but we’ll worth it
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
I should have just written the post myself and been more direct with the URLs. I’m just glad I wasn’t wrong about it being open source. xD
Ok, fair enough. The lure of AI-boosted ‘productivity’ would be irresistible to people in your position.
What grinds my gears is people show up and share their project, without disclosing how it was made, riding on the assumption we all have from the past that you put a certain amount of effort into it and that you did so as a reasonably well-practiced expert in your craft. There’s some gravitas to that and a respect that is earned by giving something of value to us. In this scenario people may value the project and choose to help you by contributing their expertise and time and perhaps a kind of community will form around the project.
Some noob vibe coding a brain fart they had is not on the same level. Noobs are welcome to spit out some slop and give it away, if they don’t pretend it’s something more than it is. And when they share their output in this manner, they shouldn’t expect people to read code that they never read themselves and can’t expect any community to form.
An open source project is not just a bunch of code. It’s also people. When you replace the people with AI, it dies.
It seems like the Jack Welch playbook is here to stay for a while still, to the detriment of the 99%.
I’ve learned a lot from this post, so I appreciate everyone’s patience. I moved too quickly and misspoke. You are right and preview notes are not used by Mastodon. I implemented this based on what I read but didn’t verify it worked on the receiving end, my bad. I’m going to have to do more research into how Mastodon handles the article object and address any gaps. I’m sorry for the misleading post and lesson learned on my end.
Hey gang, do you have any suggestions for moving data from my phone to my jellyfin server? I tried using the daemon tools on F-Droid and could not for the life of me figure them out.
I just saw this on F-Droid, will need to test it, but sounds like it could be really good: https://f-droid.org/packages/lu.knaff.alain.saf_sftp
I’m hoping, it works like mounting or FUSE on proper Linux, where you can just use normal applications to transparently access network files. Then you’d be able to use any old file manager app to actually work with the files…
Yea, that’s a challenging part for sure, one that I still deal with.
It can be done, but you need to configure the sync jobs “just so”. Send only from the phone, don’t sync deletions, etc.
She wanted salad with pizza. I wanted pizza with salad.
I wanted to use up the last of the anchovies from the anchovy butter. She hates anchovies.
Total cost is $11 but there is a price per person asymmetry so it’s not $5.50 per person.
Putting veggies in a caesar salad would get you a spanking
It looks like Cole slaw without the mayo. Weight watchers Cole slaw
No, I know nothing about @portafed@mastodon.social. Inkwell is its own fediverse instance. If I had owners, I wouldn’t be solo deving a product with AI.
Disclaimer: I am the developer
Long story short, after Huntarr exploded I still wanted an app that did the core of Huntarr’s job: find and fetch missing or upgradable media. I looked around for some solutions but didn’t like them for various reasons. So, I made my own.
No web UI, configured via environment variables in a similar manner to Unpackerr. It does one job and it does it (a little too) well. Even when trying a few different solutions for a few days each, Fetcharr caught a bunch of stuff they all missed almost immediately. This is likely due to the way it weights media for search.
Since you made it this far, a few notes: 1) I did still use ChatGPT on a couple of occasions. They’re documented and entirely web UI - no agents. Anything it gave me was vetted and noted in the code before publishing. 2) The current icon is temporary and LLM-generated. I’ve put out some feelers to pay an artist to create an icon. Waiting to hear back. 3) It’s written in Java because that’s the language I’m most familiar with. SSL certs in Java containers can be painful but I added some code to make it as easy as Python requests or Node 4) While it still has a skip-if-tagged-with-X feature, it doesn’t create or apply any tags. I didn’t find that portion necessary, despite other popular *arrs using it. Not sure why they do, even after developing this. 5) Caution is advised when first using it on a large media collection. It’ll very likely pick up quite a number of things initially if you weren’t on top of things beforehand. Just make sure your pipeline is set up well, or you limit the number of searches or lengthen the amount of time between searches using the environment variables.
Not sure what you mean by that. I occasionally use the web UI as the tool that it is and I’ve played around with opencode, cursor, etc previously on other home projects to get a sense for where things are and what the limits of these things are. That said, I take pride in my own work and this project is no exception. Is there something in this project that makes you think I threw a prompt into cursor and am passing that off as my own? Or are you against the idea of using an LLM and consider any person or project using them at all to be vibecoded?
That’s great! A cronjob can be effective if your indexer doesn’t mind the extra strain or you have a small library.
The irony of the article including an option for an my butt summary is hilarious.
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/feebe73e-720b-4427-a8a6-f692847c0a01.png
I love it. Laying off staff to fund data centers to run my butt that people don’t want so that other CEOs can lay off more staff.
Why exactly aren’t we chopping their heads off and use them as vases? I must have forgotten, I bet there’s a good reason.
Can you access immich from outside of your network? If so, how do you do it? I’d like to do it, too, without accidentally opening everything to the internet haha
Yes, either Netbird or Zerotier allow me to connect to my home lan without exposing ports to the outside. Netbird seems more user friendly to setup and there’s good documentation for openwrt.
