This is why I never bother with any “easy install” scripts of any kind. Give me a list of Docker images, a list of environment variables / config files, and some form of reverse proxy configuration and I’ll figure out the rest. You don’t know how my server works better than I do.

This is a really tiny thing but can the card dividers be removable? I personally think having the cards themselves is enough separation and the dividers end up as visual clutter.

I’m sure there are people who want them, so could those be made into an option or something?

Snikket (which is run by a Prosody dev) is aiming to be the “one app” of XMPP. Their Android version is, IIRC, rebranded Conversations. Not sure on iOS/macOS but I think they have something there as well. And of course their server software is Prosody with a few extra plugins configured by default. All FOSS

Yes, the domain to block is “threads.net”. Ask your admins to consider doing that.

(Funnily enough, the Cisco in-house messaging and video calling solution we use at my work, through which we also receive landline calls, is still running on XMPP to this day, so I sorta became a XMPP user after all…except I haven’t started this software in 10 months because fuck landline calls and we have better alternatives for chatting.)

XMPP is still chugging along on the backends of stuff like that. I’m not sure but I think WhatsApp has some XMPP in it still.

The most ironic one though is Jitsi, which is what Matrix uses/used (until they started working on Element Calls) to do video calls.

I believe, with Authorized Fetch (what Mastodon calls secure mode) blocking intermediaries won’t be needed, as instances will have to cryptographically “authorize” themselves to receive/send data, and you can just say “no” to any requests coming from threads.net, acting basically as a “defederation enforcement mode”.

I could be wrong though, haven’t caught up on the exact details.

Oh yeah, I briefly tried Prosody/XMPP (before a domain scalper stole a previous domain of mine because of a loophole with the TLD i chose) and it worked really well.

It’s a shame Matrix seems to be the current hot new thing when, with a bit of UX polish on all the apps, XMPP would work just as well if not even better.

Thoughts, prayers, and getting the low hanging fruit down (disabling root login, ssh public keys, updates)

As long as .world doesn’t defederate them back, Beehaw can re-federate whenever they want.

That’s the eventual goal.

Or, well, something like it.

I started dual booting Linux back when Steam for Linux was reasonably new and Portal 2’s native port was on beta. Briefly went back to Windows after building a new, much powerful system for about a year, DXVK & later on Proton happened, and now all the games I care about work flawlessly.

There have been games on my Steam library that I never ran on Windows despite them not officially supporting Linux.

With the deck I seriously hope devs slowly but surely start thinking about native ports as well, but I won’t mind waiting another - uhh, 10?! - years for that to happen. I expect Steam Linux Runtime & Flatpak to be the DXVK & Proton of native ports - as in, the thing that will make them “viable” instead of “theoretically possible”. Win32 is still the most stable ABI on Linux after all.

Community names are, by default, limited to 20 characters only. No errors or anything pop up when you exceed that, but you can ask your admins to extend the name limit.

I used to mess around with CSS and even made some reasonably popular themes (not under this username ofc) so I had like 4 private subs.

If you’re thinking of hosting Matrix on that small of a server consider going with Conduit or Dendrite. They’re not as feature complete as Synapse but they’re substantially lighter.

No idea if Gotosocial supports relays or not, which is my choice of software so far. There seems to be some incompatiblilty between gup.pe and GTS (alpha software and all, expected issues obviously) so those are a no-go as well.

Following accounts are fine, but it’s really the creation part that causes issues. Unless you go full on reply guy, and I have at least some sliver of shame left in my body to not go full reply guy.

The thing about botsin.space is that it’s open to anyone who wants to host a bot, so there really isn’t any “centralized” listing besides what Mastodon offers by itself, and most bots generally have any instructions on their bios or pins.

.social + .online are the mastodon equivalents of lemmy.ml, except they’ve been through several mass migrations already so they kinda know what they’re doing

.world is (perhaps un)surprisingly the mastodon equivalent of lemmy.world, same admin and all

but tbf https://joinmastodon.org is so much more polished than join-lemmy that it’s actually worth going through instead of just piling on the largest

I’m still waiting for some Android Root/ROM dev to come up with an Xposed thing or whatever to just throw a “Lie” button on all the permission requests.

To be fair, PHP has slowly been getting it’s shit together since PHP 7, and 8 seems to be in a reasonably great shape compared to the horrors of 5.6

Microservices aren’t a silver bullet. There’s likely quite a lot that can be done until we need to split some parts out, and once that happens I expect that federation would be the thing to split out as that’s one of the more “active” parts of the app compared to logins and whatnot.