One thing I’m trying to keep an eye on is sup. Not much information at all besides a snippet of 1 to 1 encrypted messaging for activitypub, but the tidbit of working with any fediverse account is interesting. Potentially that could help deal with the different fediverse implementations of messaging. Of course, like I said, this is just me making up assumptions, it could not work the way I envision it at all. The creator just posted something 5d ago about it with “soon” though, so I’m hoping to read more about it
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The short answer is no but the longer answer for what happens in each situation was detailed here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1051
lemmy -> kbin = pretends to send but doesn’t
Appreciate the level-headed reply in this thread. There’s a lot of fingerpointing and hostility going on and I’d appreciate it if people would make less assumptions / jumps to attack people. I’m not sure if you or anyone else can confirm, but I agree with ernest that federation of mod actions was working once before. Without knowing exactly why it stopped, it’s hard to say what is going on.
For instance, I just coordinated with the admins of startrek.website as their latest maintenance started blocking user agents with
curlin it, which is what kbin sends, meaning all kbin instances stopped being able to get images from their instance. It seems like this is true for multiple other lemmy instances. I didn’t follow up with any other admins at the moment, but I think from that, and the fact that back when I originally signed up people would constantly complain kbin federation was broken when it was lemmy.ml that was blocking kbin, it’s not a good idea to jump to assumptions on why something isn’t working.
Not just on the roadmap, already in :) (fingers crossed no bugs, no promises ><) example
In the last week a bunch of the API PRs have been merged into the mainline branch. There’s still a few to go (and I imagine a lot of testing / refactoring after), but at least seems promising that the work is still in progress
1·1 year agoJust to follow up on this, contributors to kbin investigated and found that startrek.website appears to block user agents that contain “curl” in it now.
Example:
curl -v --user-agent "curl" https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3ff1b940-75da-4e6b-8948-834ebd4b454c.jpegtimes out while:
curl -v --user-agent "anything-else" https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3ff1b940-75da-4e6b-8948-834ebd4b454c.jpegworks. kbin apparently sends
User-Agent: Symfony HttpClient (Curl)in its requests for images, which is different than how it handles other fetch requests. they’ve made a PR to change kbin to send the user agent it uses elsewhere in those image requests https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/1098 once that is approved / merged they should start working again as instances update. It’d be nice if, assuming this is all accurate, the block on curl could be removed so people don’t have to wait for the PR / instances to update but I understand if that is difficult
This isn’t really a me thing, this is kbin servers themselves. They all fetch the image from the posts and cache it to make thumbnails on their server which they host themselves. Ever since maintenance, the kbin instances appear to have trouble fetching the images to cache them. I’ll try to gather more data from instance admins, perhaps something changed with the request/response headers or something else that is causing them to get blocked.
It looks like ever since this maintenance, no kbin instances can get images from startrek.website:
https://kbin.run/d/startrek.website
https://kbin.social/d/startrek.website?p=3
https://kbin.cafe/d/startrek.website?p=3
https://fedia.io/d/startrek.website/newest?p=4(the links atm go to ~3 days ago when maintenance happened but ofc will start to drift as more posts are made)
You can see the thumbnails disappear exactly at the mark of the maintenance and ever since then they’re gone. If you see thumbnails after that, they’re usually wrong ones that are being loaded from different posts (there’s a separate issue in for that now). I was wondering if you were aware of any issues or changes that happened because of this maintenance that would prevent kbin instances from fetching thumbnails? I’ve raised this in the kbin matrix chat as well
2·1 year agoI remember seeing a similar post recently and it didn’t seem like there was the ability to restrict posting in a magazine to the creator/mods at the moment: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/272000/Magazine-only-I-can-post-to
It’s possible another fediverse tool would match more what you are aiming for, kbin might not be too far off but it and lemmy definitely seem more about focusing on communities / discussions than people. Definitely check out mastodon / firefish / akkoma
Edit: I do want to say I think kbin could be good for that in the future; RheingoldRiver and others have put in a bunch of good issues about improving how microblogs are displayed / discovered, but I find it still a bit rough to notice microblog posters at the moment
/sub/microblogshows you unsubscribed magazines? I don’t experience that, so just want to make sure. It’s kind of difficult to get to, I realize now, as if you click on microblog and then click on the “subscribed” menu item it actually takes you back to threads (/sub) instead. The only way I’ve found to get to the page (besides via url) is first go to subscribed threads and then click microblog in the header.
21·1 year agoThis question has plagued my mind for decades, because the main character of the tv show Eureka, Jack Carter, always answered his radio/phone with this. And to this day I have no idea what words he was saying or why he always said it. I had started to think he was saying “gofer” which is
An employee who runs errands in addition to performing regular duties.
But that seemed a bit weird for the sheriff to say
They did reply in this thread, though to another commenter so maybe the notification might not have gone to you, not sure how they work for threads you post.
But so you don’t have to go search for it, they said:
Agree and I will work on it (I’m the mod btw)
7.0 teaser trailers (may want to avoid if not caught up with msq)
us: https://youtu.be/onGE1-I2T6Y
jp: https://youtu.be/aE7nUBRj9iA
uk: https://youtu.be/SdtXxyqlF9E
de: https://youtu.be/L_LfDWM5AQk
fr: https://youtu.be/AqDudYPkKBg
Domain blocking isn’t quite the same as instance blocking. It generally works for text posts or image posts from that instance’s users, but things like image posts may not be on the
feddit.dedomain. For instance, when I block that domain, I see the latest thread inm/ich_iel@feddit.deis actually from the domaindiscuss.tcncs.de(as shown in()next to the title). This is because the domain of an image post is where the image is hosted, as users posting images upload it to their own instance, not the instance the magazine is on. Ernest last said instance blocking should be coming in the future
Just to add another concrete example, I saw a toot recently that
.afmay be risky, as some countries are beginning to implement embargoes; the person who had a domain there may be losing it soon
1·1 year agoHe did say it would be “federated this week” but in the next comment in that issue he made he said that changed “but it turns out it’s not easy, and I wouldn’t want to make such a big change hastily”. I don’t think anything has happened since. I definitely almost never see any reduces over here on a different kbin, so I think it’s still the same. There is still some discussion in that issue, someone just posted they have a PoC of doing it in a fork for instance.
There’s some relevant discussion here and in the thread linked by ernest in that post here. I don’t want to give any wrong information, but I don’t think activitypub has a spec for downvotes/reduces/dislikes, just likes and shares (boosting). So on mastodon dislikes definitely aren’t federated. I believe for lemmy, they federate between lemmy instances that have them enabled, but for kbin they are local to your instance.
6·1 year agoI’m curious what panel resonates with people the most, if you had to live in one (left to right, top to bottom)
As an update, this should be fixed now https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/81 and looks to have been rolled out to this instance. The issue can still happen on user covers and magazine inline icons, which I hope to have a PR for soon™. realized it happens basically anywhere images with alt text appear so going to take more time auditing everything