Geronimo Wenja

If there are bugs that pop up that need solving, I’d be happy to contribute. Feel free to DM me with anything specific, the main Devs definitely have a few big things on their plate.

For the moment I’m planning to start getting familiar with the codebase.

OK, I’ve just realised something new - images pulled from websites as thumbnails are uploaded to the server and appear to be basically full sized, i.e.:

https://agora.nop.chat/pictrs/image/59cfdd9c-2f69-4e8d-8afc-6fbc0c1cca87.jpeg

This image is on my server, but it’s just pulled from the website as a thumbnail. This doesn’t seem to be super consistent in how it’s handled - I’m continuing to look at what’s causing it and why it doesn’t seem to happen all the time.

EDIT: Seems like there’s more on there than I expected. Gonna continue digging.

Are they thumbnails? If not, perhaps this is configurable… I’ll check out my own images folder and see if it’s pulling them in, but it definitely shows the remote url for images when I’m viewing them on my instance.

As far as I can see, images aren’t federated, only a link to the image.

My understanding is that images don’t federate by default and you’ll load the image from whichever server it was uploaded to initially. Uploading an image here in the comment certainly does that:

This post that shows in my instance loads it’s image from feddit.uk, even when it shows on my own instance rather than on this URL:

https://feddit.uk/post/5813

Looking at the federation docs, I’m pretty confident that a link to the image is the only thing going through. If someone uploads that on the server directly, that’ll be a link to that server, but it may be a link to Imgur or something too.

Thanks for the link, looks like they had the same idea.

I need to do some experiments to find out what happens if a bot is tagged in a community they’re not subbed to. It may be that this is exactly what I can do - it’d be a request by a user, then the mod can ban it if they want. I don’t know whether I can do something where only a mod can invite, I’ll have to see if there’s anything that might help there

Personally, I’ve been thinking about bots, but I plan to run them on my own instance or their own dedicated instance. That way, they don’t add any load at all with their interactions, and only their comments are synced to other instances. That also makes it easy for whole instances or communities to kick them if they don’t want them there.

Luckily, there’s a checkbox in the profile that can be enabled to mark an account as a bot

I was thinking of running an instance which houses just bots. In theory, that’d make it easy to have an easy to remember URL and usernames, like !bgg@bot.pls or something. If I can get a URL that makes sense I might consider something like this. It’d keep it small enough to call, and make sure they’re always 100% intentional.

This is mainly because I don’t want to be a source of annoyance for anyone, and I’ve seen too many people annoyed at the “natural response” bots that pop in all the time on reddit.

If they’re on their own instance, a whole instance can block that instance if they don’t want bots, or block specific bots if they prefer.

Yeah, there’s an interesting flavour to it hey. One thing I’ve noticed is that I haven’t paid any attention to votes on comments since I joined. It’s refreshing to not have the top comment be a meme or joke about a typo. I’m commenting, too, which I very rarely did on Reddit. Perhaps it’s less threatening at this stage, while it’s new for people, and they’re optimistic about it?

Electronics. I’m a programmer by profession, but more and more I want to better understand the lowest level parts of things. Ben Eaters’ videos have been a huge source on better understanding, but I’m desperately novice with it.

They’re just called communities. You can create them if you run your own, of if an instance has its rules set for anyone to be able to create.

I suspect most of them sit on lemmygrad. This is the beauty of instances and federation - nuance! Some users might be assholes on some instance communities, but if they’re not maintained in a way people are happy with, they can splinter off and make a better place. For instance, Beehaw can maintain a gaming community which is set up to be safe and avoid bullshit gamergate stuff, and they can call it “Gaming” because it’s not the only instance that can host one of those.

The issue with default subs and subs with obvious names on Reddit is that they build a certain personality and approach, foster certain views or don’t moderate well, and then new people come in and amplify that because that’s how they’ve seen the interaction working before. In that case, the best you can do is make a secondary one that has more strict rules - /r/truegaming, /r/games etc etc - which are difficult to grow because they’re unlinked. Being on beehaw means it’s part of the beehaw umbrella, so has to abide by the rules of the instance. Kind of a neat system.

I started wearing a pair of croc literides. I cannot explain how universally comfortable and useful they are.

They’re great in the summer because they’re aerated through, they’re great in the winter because they’re waterproof and can be hosed down and dry in no time.

They’re like walking on clouds, and I don’t think I’m ever going to go back to regular shoes for day-to-day use.

Even better if they can make dinosaur noises when you press a button

Yeah, this is expected behaviour. The feed that grabs the last 20 posts doesn’t include comments, so you’ll only get comments from that moment on.

If you’re a single user or a small group, a small home server works perfectly well. The requirements are pretty low.

Nah, if you’re using your instance as an essentially private one, you’re not about to be blocked. If you’re running communities on it that run counter to the basic ideals of other communities, you’ll probably find yourself losing some federation however.

I run my own, and I’m not blocking anything yet because, honestly, I just won’t be vising ones I’m not interested in. I’ll probably block a few if I see things coming out of them that I really don’t want to see, but at this point it doesn’t affect anyone else.

https://mander.xyz/c/mycology

mander.xyz is an instance with a bunch of science based communities, and they have a mycology one.