@vortex_egg Also, I think I'm conflating several things together that might not need conflating (i.e. static blogs + activitypub, quote-tooting, and link previews)
And yeah, I also vaguely seem to remember someone did something interesting with static blog + activitypub + comments
Another rabbit hole just irised open beneath me as I realized I could probably just sync the posts folder of my blog's github repo with a folder in Obsidian and post to my blog that way (with a tiny bit of extra glue)
Spoiler alert: I will implement this, I will blog about implementing it, then I will not blog again for a year.
@maya I had my tiddlywiki CMS game going for awhile at notes.lmorchard.com. But then, Obsidian woo'd me with what I found was a more pleasant editing experience on my phone, at least for personal notes
@adeese Heh, I thoroughly sympathize with this. In fact, here's me having blogged about having written my own blog software 😅
@mavica_again I think this is only natural
@maya Your mileage may vary but also you have my condolences!
Anchovy update: she’s still isolated in a bedroom, but she’s adjusted just fine to being in the house so far. She obviously knows what indoor living is about, and has been enjoying a furnace vent. She also fell asleep nose first in a snack.
News from the vet is a hyperthyroid condition explains her weight loss. Treatable with meds, on which she started this morning. Between that and an anti-nausea pill, we aim to turn her into a small football
@bitbear Oh, huh, I need to read up more on JSON-LD! Could be neat to embed in a script tag as per the spec. Though, for a static page, a link to a separate resource maintained by a service could be a more convenient integration point
Going through my inbox this morning, I see a subject line that reads "Penis built to outwork the cold"
And I'm like, huh, what'll they think of next?
A second reading reveals that the word is "Pants". The word is pants. I think I need to get a new prescription in contact lenses
@pixelpaperyarn moi aussi
Good piece from @timbray on indexing the fediverse and Mastodon for search and the resistance rising to that indexing.
It's interesting to consider the notion of "Well, if the API allows it, then it's fine & good to do it. And if you don't think so, you're naive and bad faith actors will do it anyway"
IMO, I think this notion is, itself, naive and smacks of ye olde dot-com era ethos that got us into a lot of messes. Move fast, break things, ask forgiveness later after the VC funding hits the bank account.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/30/Mastodon-Privacy-and-Search
Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should. And just because it's being done, doesn't mean you should do it too.
A bad actor will act badly. That doesn't mean you're a good actor because you exclaim what you think are good intentions.
Some exploitable opportunities and resources exist due to a combination of generosity and as-yet-unexplored outcomes. That doesn't make any particular tech puzzle solution necessarily virtuous, like you've somehow found the perfect Magic: the Gathering card combo and no one should be allowed to object.
Like, I think of a conference at a convention center. Not entirely public, not entirely private. The hallway track often consists of gaggles of folks talking.
The laws of physics don't explicitly forbid you sidling up to every such gaggle with a professional camera crew. If you did that, you might find yourself encountering resistance - even if you do declare you're only intending to document & celebrate the conference.
I think we need to find a public / private spectrum of more granular permissions & licenses. And maybe some of that can't be technologically enforced in some cryptologically-sound zero-trust framework.
But, declining to honor encoded intent would seem like a pretty good indicator of bad actors to resist and block.
And, like, atop all of this: Do you, budding tech pioneer daydreaming of building the Fediverse Google, really want to do it in spite of the vocal wishes of folks producing the stuff you're indexing?
Do you really want to push that rock up that hill while other folks roll other rocks down the slope at you throughout the entire course of the endeavor?
I know it's hard work to find a solution actually acceptable to all or most involved. But that's got to be easier in the long run, unless you're Uber and get fuck-you money from VCs to "disrupt" the taxi industry.
If you're not Uber, then maybe you'll have a better time and get called nicer names if you don't treat it all as an API mashup puzzle strategy game
(hmm, maybe this should have all been a blog post. maybe it will turn into one)
@husbandpanda I don't think there's an absolute executable technical solution. But, there are attributes we could attach to posts - specific licenses, do-not-quote, do-not-boost, do-not-index, limit to friends-of-friends, omit from federated timeline, omit from home.
Rather gentle requests across federation, but also some of them are testable and could highlight bad actors who ignore them as candidates for defederation & IP blocking.
A thing I think is unique in the fediverse is that many small instances with sysops personally closer to the folks using the instance means there are more opportunities to assert preferences and induce drag that makes it a less-than-profitable effort to get the wishes out of the genie
There's an interesting scene in the first of Orson Scott Card's Homecoming books. I read it long before I came to the opinion that the dude's real gross. I still think about the scene, though now I wonder where he got the idea.
The scene's set on this world that's had people on it for millions of years. It's all heavily built up, though stalled at a pre-industrial level because of an orbiting mind-control computer.
Anyway, on this world, sometimes folks try to build in the middle of busy streets. When that happens, the folks in the streets sabotage the buildings under construction and carry away bricks & stones. The authorities don't stop this.
Thus, builders either have to hire big guards to force the issue or they have to get clever and work with folks' preferences. Sometimes, doing either ends up not worth the trouble, so the building doesn't happen.
I think a lot about that, even if the author dude is gross and the story is a bit creepy overall.
My recollection has filtered the scene, of course. But, the main thing I come back to is thinking about systems where people could just carry off the bricks if they don't like how it's being built
