Pretty weird to do this out of the blue. Feels like she’s trying to frontfoot something big that’s about to come out.

Lol

Would you agree that a post written by a LLM is “low effort”?

Hosting a fediverse instance is at the higher end of the scale when it comes to hosting. There tend to be a lot of moving parts as it’s complex software.

Host a static site first, just a bunch of plain HTML files.

Then host a Wordpress site.

Then host a fediverse thing.

My partner has been looking for a job for a year.

Two weeks ago she supplied her passport to the main job seeking website in our country, which gave her profile a blue “verified” tick. Since then she’s had 4 job interviews, more than she’s had in the last 6 months.

Recruiters are being flooded with low quality applications, many of them AI-generated bullshit, many of them from overseas. Proving you are who you say you are and that you are in the right country seems to be necessary, now.

!general@activitypub.space, that one. Yep.

There is a convention of putting a FEDERATION.md file in the root of your project (there is a FEP about it but I can’t remember what it is, heh) which lists the FEPs your project implements.

e.g. https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/FEDERATION.md

There is no standardised API endpoint for discovering this info so basically you just need to lurk in all the dev spaces you can and watch what they’re talking about, stalk each other’s codeberg/github issue queues and PRs and just cope with the jank.

Yes theoretically you could have any type in there but votes are the biggest inefficiency in the system so I’ve only implemented it for them.

There are some nodebb forums that federate with us, which are intended for AP dev discussions - !technical-discussion@activitypub.space for example. Not very active. Also some Matrix channels, again not exactly humming. Everyone is pretty focused on their own projects, really.

There is a discussion but it’s an email chain between myself, Lemmy, Mbin, NodeBB so not really out in the open.

I’m thinking of using the normal OrderedCollection structure that AP has - https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-orderedcollection. An object of type ‘OrderedCollection’ with an array of ‘items’.

You’re right, to be more similar to the ActivityPub style of doing things the object should be a “type” of “Collection”, not just suddenly be an array instead of an object. I will migrate PieFed over to that instead.

That sounds pretty fun, I like your extremist take on things.

If you want to federate votes in an efficient way, consider doing them in batches, like this - https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/fep-4248.md. Sending batches means building up a queue, etc which is a pain in the ass so you might want to just receive batches and send individually.

You can do nested comments more efficiently by doing a single query for all the comments on a post and then constructing the comment tree in Go, rather than using multiple SQL queries. It’s a bit tricky to code but you can copy PieFed’s code - https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/68d6799be5c321f9abf84d136cafef6de6e3aafb/app/post/util.py#L141

I recommend you set the Content-Security-Policy http header so that inline javascript (commonly used for XSS attacks) cannot be executed.

https://web.dev/articles/strict-csp

CSP being off is not exactly a security hole but it makes security holes much more likely. By using a strict CSP configuration you close off the possibility of a whole class of holes.

Also think about setting the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header and enable CORS on your REST endpoints.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Origin

Again, kind of a pain in the ass but gets rid of a bunch of potential problems before they start.

F-Droid has Drip, Bluemoon and Periodical.

Yeah there are other signs too. Look at those commit messages, all vague, all perfectly capitalized. All with a nice long description with bullet points.

No one does that in a project they’re building for themselves.

I was going to recommend this to someone I know but when I realised your readme.md is entirely AI-generated, I guess the whole project is probably vibe-coded. I can’t in good conscience recommend someone trust their health data to a vide-coded app because they tend to have security problems.

Also all ai-generated code is public domain so your AGPL license is kinda empty. Might as well use MIT.

PieFed is fairly straightforward if you already know sysadmin basics or have Yunohost. - https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/INSTALL-docker.md

But for blogging only, you’ll find Ghost or Wordpress with the ActivityPub plugin federate with Mastodon better, which is a bigger audience.

No, it’s legit. Elena has been tooting and peertubing about the fedi and her self hosting journey for over a year.

Not required in New Zealand.

Is there any way to know this is legit?

OpenWRT is basically Linux for routers and can be installed on a variety of devices - https://openwrt.org/

There is also https://www.gargoyle-router.com/