Posts by aswath@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #APbpnQBvFiQjr5Uw8e by aswath@mastodon.social
2022-11-14T23:09:54Z
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@bortzmeyer A long time back the catch phrase was "Small is Beautiful" (advocated by Gandhi).If the servers exchange a "TL, DR", instead of the full post, will it be more efficient - storage & bandwidth? Content moderation is done by the observing person. This is what we did EnThinnai. But then use case was restricted to strong conn only. May not be suitable for Mastodon use case.
(DIR) Post #APnkw9DfYS17wzAxhg by aswath@mastodon.social
2022-11-20T17:08:43Z
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@admin I forgot the email id I used, but know my user id. Is there a way to reset the password? TIA
(DIR) Post #AQnuJrT27PSA9f5bZg by aswath@mastodon.social
2022-12-20T16:43:28Z
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@aswath@blob.cat Following you
(DIR) Post #AR2SOSsR5ZyBzYmET2 by aswath@mastodon.social
2022-12-27T17:16:16Z
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@clive When the ex-President throws away items, people complain. When good guys do the same, they only weep. It is an unfair world. 😃
(DIR) Post #AR7TMTTQyInVMvvDdI by aswath@mastodon.social
2022-12-30T03:21:24Z
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@stux Can you share the reason why instances store the full post from second parties, instead of storing the caption & metadata for all posts and let the local user pull the content directly from the other server? Won't this ease moderation load? What is the tradeoff?
(DIR) Post #AREdBFegMquOySBpsu by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-01-02T14:14:16Z
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@shaman There was a time in South India, restaurants will wrap take out food in banana leaves and then wrap that in a newspaper with a tie of jute thread. Of course in dining will be on a leaf as well. The used leaves will be consumed by cows which gave us milk & methane. But then it was then.
(DIR) Post #AREvdrnxv55cZoKIu8 by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-01-02T17:41:16Z
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@stux @medium How so? An acct? Medium articles are posted in Fediverse? Can authors get their timeline on Medium?
(DIR) Post #ARHaLLXBeBjviPgZjE by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-01-04T00:26:16Z
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@osi Great read. I would like to add some cautionary points, not to sow discord but to note where we should focus on next. Use of acct URI, esp not allowing actors to bring their own. Then there is whole thing under the umbrella, called Indieweb.
(DIR) Post #ARopFGjj0kfpbI2CCu by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-01-20T01:17:17Z
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@clive looks like it uses WebRTC
(DIR) Post #ASJRlE4F5niEbOwzxo by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-02-03T19:35:40Z
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@atomicpoet @ross @eff On the other hand my text alone posts on Mastodon doesn't show up in Pixelfed. Is it diff w PeerTube? May be.
(DIR) Post #ASL6XiZFBiS4QA5Z56 by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-02-04T15:03:48Z
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@tilvids @ross The irony is that it fails to note mismatch in the current implementations. I claim this is a direct result of the current arch. If your Mastodon post is plain text then your friend at Pixelfed will not see it. If your friend added a a book at Bookwyrm then you will not see at Mastodon. Is this level of Federation ok w you?
(DIR) Post #ASV78RKgAm1dGNNzCi by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-02-09T10:55:56Z
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@simon How many generations of infinite number of Markov chain generators (recursively) would it take to write a Shakespearean drama? I should ask ChatGPT!
(DIR) Post #ASWYK9P5Y8Gl3MDVTc by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-02-10T01:14:29Z
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@patrickmcurry @simon @kentbrew I would like to evaluate the feasibility of the following: Instead of my server fielding posts on my behalf & then serving me, why not it proxy (if), but the ext server serve the content directly to my browser. I think this embedding tech would help. Any thoughts?The benefit is my server does not have to store, monitor & the post is stored in only one place & under the control of the author.
(DIR) Post #ASWYyCRPfwU43bOvKK by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-02-10T03:42:15Z
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@simon @patrickmcurry @kentbrew Thanks. If single (or low) user instances dominate this may not be an issue? Also, I understand admins can clear cache at their choice and some RPi admins have indicated that they have set it for 24 hrs. They will effectively be equivalent to direct access, I would think. In any event if that is the design philosophy then that is what it is.
(DIR) Post #ASWgcFelq5mpIAh68m by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-02-10T05:08:09Z
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@simon @patrickmcurry @kentbrew You are a good candidate to ask the flip q. As a publisher with a sizable following, I would think your server will be hit harder if indiv access directly. I suspect that as pub, you would prefer the current scheme. How will you rate the trade-off?(Apologies if I doing the ping-pong a bit long. I am learning though. Thanks)
(DIR) Post #AShslzabtnPUfpbrgO by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-02-15T14:47:50Z
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@stux Since the user's server is the one constructing the timeline, we can not be so definite. So I think. True, it is not happening now. But who can say abt tomorrow. But the pt is, the user can migrate (wo loss of connectivity) to another instance if the algorithm is not acceptable.
(DIR) Post #ASjVssc6KB6qR4XfZA by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-02-16T09:39:08Z
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@simon It is the way they were trained? Not dissimilar to "A dog reflects the owner's disposition"?
(DIR) Post #ATNkJFXLZEGuy4RNFQ by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-03-07T19:04:44Z
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Your Mastodon profile allows to place upto four links and it will validate them for you. There is a tool available to see what issues might be preventing a link from being verified. https://mastodon-link-debugger.vercel.app/HT: @robpc cc @feditips
(DIR) Post #ATNkJHNqhVrYhC0oim by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-03-07T19:28:27Z
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@robpc From the pic you can see the different reasons a link may fail verification@feditips
(DIR) Post #ATvSbYZfEfMbXhmX0i by aswath@mastodon.social
2023-03-24T01:52:43Z
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@dave What would have happened if the class were discussing Hercules and Diomedes statue?