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pepper0

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Interested in #haskell #dependent_type #dependent_types #idris #idris2 #distributed #p2p #ocaml .
Exploring fediverse.

I came here cuz I didn't like how algorythms of mainstream media worked.
I do ̶b̶e̶l̶i̶e̶ know that better tech does help people & society.
Mostly wanting to post about tech. But other occasional things may occur due hitposting condition.

Interesting posts (for you to read)
https://aus.social/@pepper0/115810275707333950
https://aus.social/@pepper0/115691719151924256

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@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to random

Decentralized Dominance: The Unbribed Power of Webmentions

I've been a vocal advocate for Webmentions for a while - and I'm here to tell you that this game-changing technology is not just a nicety, but a necessity.

The fundamentals are crystal clear: take control of your online presence, ditch the middlemen, and shatter the shackles of Big Tech's stranglehold. It's time to rewrite the rules and reclaim your digital sovereignty.

Let's cut to the chase with an example that'll leave you breathless: imagine Asuka stumbling upon a scorching article on Shinji's site at https://Shinji.com/article. She fires off a comment that'd make a thousand lesser bloggers green with envy - but instead of relying on some soulless commenting system, she takes it to the next level by sending a Webmention directly to Shinji's site.

The implications are staggering: when both parties support Webmentions, they're essentially saying, "You can have my comment, right now." The source URL (https://Asuka.com/comment) and target URL (https://Shinji.com/article) are etched in stone - no more third-party intermediaries, no more social media login hoops to jump through. Just the raw power of the Web.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "But isn't this just a fancy alternative to ActivityPub?" Ah, friend, you'd be wrong. Dead wrong. is a Byzantine nightmare that'll leave your head spinning with concepts like actors, relays, followers, and more. Webmentions, on the other hand, are a elegant, peer-to-peer solution that doesn't require any of that mumbo-jumbo.

And let's not forget the sheer flexibility of Microformats - you can use Webmentions to share anything from likes to RSVPs, media, locations, and even events. The possibilities are endless.

Don't be held hostage by the status quo. Join the Indieweb and take control of your online destiny once and for all.

pepper0 OP ,
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on other side of the Moon, Microformats does look like cargo-cult of Web2.0, echo chamber esolang elitist group which output long wiki specs, 30-40 new semantic tags and classes that should have been in your HTML since yesterday, burden on downstream implementations.

how are webmentions protected from massive spam vector?

pepper0 OP ,
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@khleedril
but what if person receives hundreds of webmentions\comments ? it will be impossible for a single person to review each one, on a separate website, in a reasonable amount of time.

pepper0 OP ,
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@khleedril
It be a simple click to see the mention and a click to accept/reject, via standalone indieweb client app (written in a safe language like haskell, idris or rust), that pulls (hundreds) comments in a Microformat from (dozen) urls. WIthout the need to browse manually.
But it that so, now? I have seen Indeweb "browser\publishing" apps, but haven't seen screenshots of them doing exactly THIS/that.

pepper0 OP ,
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another question is if Webmention's WebAPI allows at least 10kb of POST (so far unspecified amount?), it could fit 2000 unicode characters (or 10000 ASCII) message itself, without requiring the message to be published on 3rd server.
playing alternative of relay. Or Nostr relays one day start working with webmentions.
meanwhile nostr relays been moving towards self publishing of web pages via decentralized hosting nostr protocol NIP.

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to random

ᚲᚨᛚᛗ ᛃᛟᛚ & kołędy Velevitki

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@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to Fediverse

I wish I had ( ) , I mean like -fe . That would allow me to sort my subscription feed & browse sorted feed, to see ONLY relevant posts (on topic updates follow-up's?).
Well, the mastodon feature of "LISTS" tries something similiar by allowing to make a sorted list of people\subscription, sorted by your custom category/topic. But it doesn't include . Each must be browsed separately, individually, manually, and there is no feature of list of tags in mastodon.
Lemmy, mbin, kbin, piefed and other like implementations allow you to have topics-threads, but each thread does not replicate very well across multiple servers/instances. Can't be easely crossposted ( by pinging multiple category-bots). And doesn't replicate & easily-searchable as classic mastodon .

Other things I don't like:

  • twitter like reposts. they make you feel you subscribed not to the original "reposter" friend, but to "reposted content" that you never subscribed for. the p2p architecture of () kinda eliminates that, they don't have nor show reposts. you see there only original posts, original content, of friends you follow. Kinda helps to slow down the mind from informational overflow. You can opt out to see posts of friend's friends, if you want more. Tags are also supported there.
  • threads consist only of information aggretator url sharing in reddit like clones. Without having OP OC like in bbs|AgoraRoad , they just silo you to clickbait to other web sites.

fediverse@piefed.social icon Fediverse fediverse@piefed.social icon Fediverse

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to random

my home server https://aus.social has been inaccessible and returned 502 error for whole evening \ many hours.
I have not seen any 24h upfront notifications about scheduled maintenance. I have not seen a "server on maintenance" page. This left me wonder.
No one advertised here an "X/twitter or other status/downtime/uptime page of a server" .
There is no https://status.aus.social or aus.social/status
Whole situation has been made weirder by https://isup.me which checks for downtime, and "thinks" 502 is normal return code page, marks site as working fine.
So, what exactly happened & what was that maintenance, in technical details?
Is aus.social hosted on single server hardware/vps, because if there was a second server for load balancing - there probably wouldn't be such issue.
Should we expect this situation to repeat?
What is recomended official status page\downtime checker? (that is not hosted on this server and will be accessible in case of downtime)
There is no known contact form with Admin, like IRC\XMPP, outside of Fediverse.
Is server maintained by single person or team or public organisation ?
Also, if it's single person, WHO IS exactly the Admin ?
because this server is advertised and suggested as trusted and reliable on joinmastodon.org , that supposed to communicate to users upfront on any issues.
Also, if you are not on aus.social, but anywhere on fediverse, this is example of how this is still centralized around single points of failures like DNS, central servers. So my few suggestions to you as user (outside of this issue): Bring your own Server. . You can selfhost static pages for free with & activitypub support. Add keyoxide keybase.io PGP GPG blockchains etherium OrbitDB tox bitmessage jami briar Namecoin http://pubky.tech http://keychat.io to your stack.

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to IndieWeb

Who on self-host static website with , with 3rd party webhook endpoint gateway, and use desktop client\script to send json REST POST replies in to remote INBOX ?

I would like to see & hear details, examples about such setups.

crosspost from: https://aus.social/@pepper0/115227498301997558
crosspost to: indieweb@programming.dev icon IndieWeb

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , (edited ) to Fediverse

@fediverse Who on self-host static website with , with 3rd party webhook endpoint gateway,and use desktop client\script to send json REST POST replies in to remote INBOX ?I would like to see & hear details, examples about such setups.crosspostlemmy.ml/post/36347248aus.social/@pepper0/1152274983piefed.social/post/1286977

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to IndieWeb
pepper0 OP ,
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IndieWeb @pepper0
that's my poor attempt at crossposting
https://selfhosted.forum/post/7788

@Mastodon@mastodon.social avatar Mastodon , to random

We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/service-offerings-from-mastodon/

pepper0 ,
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@Mastodon
I've been looking & waiting for that.
Since you provide best FLOSS implementation of Fediverse and you are non-profit, to be sustainable and keep it going it's okay to have income streams via SaaS, support.
I've been also looking towards commercial clients, apps.

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , (edited ) to IndieWeb

Who on self-host static website with , with 3rd party webhook endpoint gateway,
and use desktop client\script to send json REST POST replies in to remote INBOX ?

I would like to see & hear details, examples about such setups.

https://aus.social/@pepper0/115227498301997558
https://lemmy.ml/post/36347248

CC:
indieweb@programming.dev icon IndieWeb IndieWeb internetisbeautiful@piefed.social icon Internet is Beautiful fediverse@piefed.social icon Fediverse
@thisweekinIndieweb
Crawling the IndieWeb

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to random

is trying to be , but I'm not a Twitter person, and need better options to digest/navigate my incoming Feed.
So I'm thinking about some decent based alternatives.
how Mitra social compares vs (streams) ? (summoning @silverpill & avatar astral projection guy, I forgot his name)
Or what should I know about , before investing in them ?

guy looking back at another person meme
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@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to random
pepper0 OP ,
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@74
mastodon2lemmy posting works fine via ActivityPub & vice versa. Welltested. Can post threads & comments.

requires explicit @ to board bot & recipient.

example
https://lemmy.ml/post/33253124/20337035
(you can try to leave reply to my comment there; should be sent as "reply" from your instance, with calling board name @)

if it won't work, there might be no proper or miscofigured comminication between your & their instance.

could replace to some extent.

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , to random

The situation happened because all groups were on one server, so when that server went down all the groups did too.

FediGroups is a good immediate solution for getting groups up and running again, but it's also a single server so it's vulnerable.

As a long term solution we need to have groups hosted on many different servers. If one server goes down, groups on other servers could carry on.

Techy people might be interested in hosting/forking Guppe from source at https://github.com/immers-space/guppe

pepper0 ,
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@FediTips

The situation with wouldn't happen if it was really decentralized aka fault tolerant tech. Like , .ens IPNS , or

@dandylover1
ipns://seedit.eth plebbit.com hashchan.org are interesting.

Meanwhile
& have some groups too.

also shout out to @newsmast , they host few communities, check them out.

I've tried fedigroups.social & it's hard to use, unintutive & obscure. I see just a mastodon server there. It is not clear & obvsious from main home page how to list groups, posts inside groups, group members.

With such trend no wonder why people look back to . However I think is more usable (it does have groups and proto social network inside too)

{re-toot & boost my post if you find it helpful}

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to Lemmy.ca Support / Questions

How I am supposed to re-toot (boost) previous post from another instance of fediverse, when my home instance of fediverse not showing those posts ?



@aussocialadmin
@admin
Lemmy.ca Support / Questions

a screenshot of a web page showing NO POSTS. when post are actually there, but not repicated/synced to instance.
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pepper0 OP ,
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@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to Selfhosted

why & other instances won't provide to use across web and to be able to login in to multiple web apps (including but not limited to fediverse)

@Fediverse
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Lemmy Support
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pepper0 OP ,
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@slazer2au
>Because it requires trust of other instances admins.
nah, I don't think so, it should work like email OR ActivityPub concept. no explicit pre whitelisting required.

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to Asklemmy

Is inconvinient substitude for unmoderated channel ?
I think it might be

asklemmy@lemmy.world icon Ask Lemmy
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pepper0 OP ,
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>They are posting from Mastodon, and seen to be asking if a specific hashtag is a bad substitute for some other tags.
context is : I ask NOT if one hashtag is poor susbtitute for another.

I ask people & community opinion, whether {browsing, using, following, posting} on fediverse is a peculiar and obsure substitute for a chatroom.

That's a question about PROs & CONs comparing hashtags to chat channels.

asklemmy@lemmy.world icon Ask Lemmy
@meekah
@Kolanaki

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@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

You will sure be shocked to discover that I have some things to say about AI-powered "smart" glasses that give no indication that they are recording your every word.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/harvard-dropouts-to-launch-always-on-ai-smart-glasses-that-listen-and-record-every-conversation/

pepper0 ,
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@evacide

next article you'll see they receive gazillion funding from guess who

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , to random

You can now set your quote posting privacy preferences on Mastodon. You can allow anyone / just your followers / nobody to quote you:

  1. Log into your server's website
  2. Click ⚙️ Preferences (if you're on a phone it's ☰ in bottom right and ⚙️ Preferences)
  3. Click "Other" (if you're on a phone it's ☰ in top right and "Other")
  4. On "Who Can Quote" menu select option you want
  5. Click "Save Changes" button

The actual ability to quote post will be in the next Mastodon update.

pepper0 ,
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@FediTips

thanks for work on

but this particular moment doesn't seem well thought.
people can screenshot post and quote it anyway.
Meanwhile I see others quoting, while I can't.
Where is Followers only privacy option for re-tooting ?

@pepper0@aus.social avatar pepper0 , to Lemmy Support

Having questions.

I follow @gonzalo
&
Lemmy Support

but I don't see their posts on my UI instance. Why & how to fix, debug?

how can I publish a new lemmy thread from my mastodon, should I tag
Lemmy Support or
Lemmy Support
[email protected]
@LemmyDev
will this trigger automatic re-toot from https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support bot account ?

When you follow 100 accounts & 100 tags, how do you filter meaningful incoming posts in feed ? is there query language to prioritize, or some alternative mastodon client that does that.

How does lemmy reputation point distributed across multiple instances, eliminating sybil, fake news , etc ?

pepper0 OP ,
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Lemmy Support
@pepper0

okay, nice,
seems like my first lemmy thread has been successfully posted, began & opened
https://lemmy.ml/post/34267118

other questions remain

@rek2@hispagatos.space avatar rek2 , to Cyberpunk Red

as you may know I am using less and less and more and more and for my daily activities, so I created also the lemmy group here https://lemmy.ml/c/Cyberpunk_Red you can post from any fediverse place as Cyberpunk_Red@lemmy.ml icon Cyberpunk Red there is also the "matrix space" chat rooms for the community here: https://matrix.to/#/#cyberpunk-red:matrix.org and soon we will have a newsgroup !!! and we will work on a gateway bot from lemmy 2 usenet

pepper0 ,
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@rek2 Cyberpunk_Red@lemmy.ml icon Cyberpunk Red

does usenet gateway bridge bot work now?

pepper0 ,
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@Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world avatar Justathroughdaway

requirement to prove that you are not a robot

pepper0 ,
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daniskarma
just use magnet:// links, and optionally ZeroNet if you really require html site.

Gnutella2, e2dk:// had network wide plain text search function.

mnemonicmonkeys
unfortunately WebTorrent is not feasible due inability of web browsers to participate in current DHT network.

Find freedom by abandoning https web. In real p2p there is no distinction between fronend or backend, all peer equal.

games@lemmy.world icon Games

pepper0 ,
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holy shrimp

is that one made with Flash?

pepper0 ,
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@Auster@thebrainbin.org avatar Auster
I do recommend checking out hashtag, it seems very active!

@74@101010.pl avatar 74 , to random Polish

Protokół ActivityPub nie gwarantuje kontroli nad wpisami po ich wysłaniu, a próby zagwarantowania tego przy obecnej budowie sieci nie skalują się.
Twoje wpisy (nawet w wersjach sprzed edycji! nawet usunięte!) mogą krążyć po różnych serwerach, a nawet być przeszukiwalne!

Dyskusja na ten temat: https://101010.pl/@[email protected]/110798183671009188

pepper0 ,
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@74
zgoda, oij weyj nie gwaratuje, škada :blob_cat_ohnoes:
a šo rabic'