@[email protected] gotta defend the bowl
tom
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Not sure what happened with these 2 #cats but it looks cool
@[email protected] I was just thinking about how awful my network setup is because my basic router doesn't have loopback. So I access my mastodon server through a vpn, which means the only place in the world where that iframe doesn't work is if you're connected to my home wifi
@[email protected] Also I've mentioned it before. But assuming news orgs do end up creating their own instances, it'd be cool to get a 'boosted' notification when your post is quoted in an article
@[email protected] Oh cool! that's awesome
I haven't seen any impact whatsoever, but I imagine if it was a more high profile article it might generate more traffic if I understand how embeds work? My server already has to handle traffic to a number of servers anyway whenever a post is published in probably faster succession than people opening up that article.
Tangentially related, I think the verge has been planning to integrate more deeply with the fediverse based on posts I've seen from them- and I think long term it'd be better if they just had their own AP server that they grabbed embeds from rather than individual servers? For traffic reasons, and for the fact that I think I have a lot of control over what those embeds look like. Also, my server's probably a lot less reliable than any larger platform so theoretically that embed could just stop working
@[email protected] @[email protected] Yes this is possible and I think it's been discussed as a solution. The concern, last time I was reading about it, is that malevolent servers could poison a link preview and send fake images along with the url (the argument against this is you're already 'trusting' the server if you're federating with them, so that trust should extend to link previews)
Another proposed solution was just having servers wait a random amount of time before fetching the link preview so not every server is requesting the preview at the same time
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I'm not sure how easy it is to tell if a post requires you to be logged in if you're already logged into bluesky
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1267 this was proposed the other day though which would help
@[email protected] which is absolutely a fair complaint! Like I said I don't like the current popular suggestion. But that's why it's the opportunity for people (who are significantly better at design than me) to debate the logo because I also don't like meta's version for the exact same reason and that's gonna be the one we end up with 5 years from now.
Hell, I'm sure there's a way to take the current fedi logo and modify it slightly so it does work in flipboard's (or tumblr or Ghost or whoever else joins in the near future) design language and I feel like it's an important discussion to have now before everyone just ends up with Meta's boring version.
@[email protected] I get that and I also don't particularly like ⁂ as the option. But the idea that we can't find some more useful logo because it'll confuse people when most people are unaware of the Fediverse's current branding seems off. If there's any time to debate the logo it'd be now before all these massive companies with hundreds of millions of users settle on a logo w/o the input of the open-source side of the fediverse.
I doubt Threads will ever move on from their version, but Flipboard has signaled they're willing to change out the logo they're using
@[email protected] I dunno, personally I don't like the current fediverse logo. Tried to make it look good on a site a couple months ago and gave up and just put the mastodon logo in there instead, which probably isn't great for a network defined by many different servers.
Threads introduced their own fediverse logo probably for the same reason Flipboard adopted Threads' version- that it's pretty difficult to make it look good in different scenarios- which means assuming we stick with :fediverse: the default for everyone else will probably end up being Meta's version
It's pretty funny as a progression of photos