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Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.

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  • omega@community.nodebb.orgO omega@community.nodebb.org

    eeeee In the context of this topic how many quantum instances might exist out in the fediverse?

    eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE This user is from outside of this forum
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    eeeee@community.nodebb.org
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    #43

    omega said in Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.:
    > eeeee In the context of this topic how many quantum instances might exist out in the fediverse?

    Two, they talk about up and down spin
    Analagous to up and down voting on Nodebb lol

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    • julian@community.nodebb.orgJ julian@community.nodebb.org

      I had the opportunity to work with the team at OpenBeta on the re-launching of their community forums. They're one of our earliest v4 testers, since they've agreed to have ActivityPub enabled!

      (Okay, more realistically I dragged them into it kicking and screaming, but they did provide the opportunity for the forum relaunch, so I'm taking the opportunities as they come!)

      During the prep, I discussed some of the well-trodden concept of the fediverse to my co-admin, Ben (bean@community.openbeta.io and also bean@uvix.cc)... stuff I'm sure you've come across:

      • Fragmented nature of conversations
      • The idea of an instance
      • Content discovery with respect to the follow-relationship model

      ... and wouldn't you know it, it's really hard to discuss these ideas, and Ben is actually fairly well-versed! He ran his own Iceshrimp instance, so all of this wasn't exactly new to him.

      Part of it was that I had been steeped in the ActivityPub dev scene for almost a year, so it's hard to step back and explain to mere mortals laymen non-developers what exactly all this ActivityPub nonsense is.

      All I know it gets me thinking that I need to work with andypiper@macaw.social on documentation!

      That new NodeBB instance, by the way, is https://community.openbeta.io 🙂

      eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE This user is from outside of this forum
      eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE This user is from outside of this forum
      eeeee@community.nodebb.org
      wrote on last edited by
      #44

      Incidentally omega, I direct messaged on you here a while ago, did you see it?
      It appears our federated convo working better than local one 🙂

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      • eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE eeeee@community.nodebb.org

        Incidentally omega, I direct messaged on you here a while ago, did you see it?
        It appears our federated convo working better than local one 🙂

        julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
        julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
        julian@community.nodebb.org
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        #45

        eeeee omega if you are attempting to communicate to a remote account (outside of this NodeBB instance), it must be done publicly. Non-public messages received by NodeBB are rejected because NodeBB does not support the concept of limited post visibility at this time.

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        • julian@community.nodebb.orgJ julian@community.nodebb.org

          I had the opportunity to work with the team at OpenBeta on the re-launching of their community forums. They're one of our earliest v4 testers, since they've agreed to have ActivityPub enabled!

          (Okay, more realistically I dragged them into it kicking and screaming, but they did provide the opportunity for the forum relaunch, so I'm taking the opportunities as they come!)

          During the prep, I discussed some of the well-trodden concept of the fediverse to my co-admin, Ben (bean@community.openbeta.io and also bean@uvix.cc)... stuff I'm sure you've come across:

          • Fragmented nature of conversations
          • The idea of an instance
          • Content discovery with respect to the follow-relationship model

          ... and wouldn't you know it, it's really hard to discuss these ideas, and Ben is actually fairly well-versed! He ran his own Iceshrimp instance, so all of this wasn't exactly new to him.

          Part of it was that I had been steeped in the ActivityPub dev scene for almost a year, so it's hard to step back and explain to mere mortals laymen non-developers what exactly all this ActivityPub nonsense is.

          All I know it gets me thinking that I need to work with andypiper@macaw.social on documentation!

          That new NodeBB instance, by the way, is https://community.openbeta.io 🙂

          eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE This user is from outside of this forum
          eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE This user is from outside of this forum
          eeeee@community.nodebb.org
          wrote on last edited by
          #46

          julian as I contributed to this thread also from my mastodon account, should that account (in principle) be getting notified of additional comments on here?
          Its currently not, which does negate the observation that data transfer would increase as more people join a topic. However the exponential propagation previously mentioned does not seem to be working - its only on nodebb that this thread is expanding now?

          Edit: ^might be a Mastondon issue, as the Discourse version is expanding. Its just my mastodon version that isnt.

          Edit2; Test to see if edits are updated yet

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          • eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE eeeee@community.nodebb.org

            julian as I contributed to this thread also from my mastodon account, should that account (in principle) be getting notified of additional comments on here?
            Its currently not, which does negate the observation that data transfer would increase as more people join a topic. However the exponential propagation previously mentioned does not seem to be working - its only on nodebb that this thread is expanding now?

            Edit: ^might be a Mastondon issue, as the Discourse version is expanding. Its just my mastodon version that isnt.

            Edit2; Test to see if edits are updated yet

            julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
            julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
            julian@community.nodebb.org
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            #47

            eeeee Mastodon doesn't notify you unless you are explicitly mentioned.

            In NodeBB when you reply, you subscribe to the topic (unless you opt out or "unwatch" it), but that doesn't happen in Mastodon.

            NodeBB could propagate additional replies to Mastodon and other softwares, it doesn't right now.

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            • julian@community.nodebb.orgJ julian@community.nodebb.org

              I had the opportunity to work with the team at OpenBeta on the re-launching of their community forums. They're one of our earliest v4 testers, since they've agreed to have ActivityPub enabled!

              (Okay, more realistically I dragged them into it kicking and screaming, but they did provide the opportunity for the forum relaunch, so I'm taking the opportunities as they come!)

              During the prep, I discussed some of the well-trodden concept of the fediverse to my co-admin, Ben (bean@community.openbeta.io and also bean@uvix.cc)... stuff I'm sure you've come across:

              • Fragmented nature of conversations
              • The idea of an instance
              • Content discovery with respect to the follow-relationship model

              ... and wouldn't you know it, it's really hard to discuss these ideas, and Ben is actually fairly well-versed! He ran his own Iceshrimp instance, so all of this wasn't exactly new to him.

              Part of it was that I had been steeped in the ActivityPub dev scene for almost a year, so it's hard to step back and explain to mere mortals laymen non-developers what exactly all this ActivityPub nonsense is.

              All I know it gets me thinking that I need to work with andypiper@macaw.social on documentation!

              That new NodeBB instance, by the way, is https://community.openbeta.io 🙂

              eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE This user is from outside of this forum
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              eeeee@community.nodebb.org
              wrote on last edited by
              #48

              Edits arent reflected still. In theory can AcitivtyPub repost an updated post easily, or does it have no ability to retract a post to resend a corrected one?

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              • eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE eeeee@community.nodebb.org

                Edits arent reflected still. In theory can AcitivtyPub repost an updated post easily, or does it have no ability to retract a post to resend a corrected one?

                julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
                julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
                julian@community.nodebb.org
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                #49

                NodeBB sends the update. Mastodon doesn't accept it for some reason, it's something I've yet to figure out.

                Does the update propagate to Discourse?

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                • julian@community.nodebb.orgJ julian@community.nodebb.org

                  I had the opportunity to work with the team at OpenBeta on the re-launching of their community forums. They're one of our earliest v4 testers, since they've agreed to have ActivityPub enabled!

                  (Okay, more realistically I dragged them into it kicking and screaming, but they did provide the opportunity for the forum relaunch, so I'm taking the opportunities as they come!)

                  During the prep, I discussed some of the well-trodden concept of the fediverse to my co-admin, Ben (bean@community.openbeta.io and also bean@uvix.cc)... stuff I'm sure you've come across:

                  • Fragmented nature of conversations
                  • The idea of an instance
                  • Content discovery with respect to the follow-relationship model

                  ... and wouldn't you know it, it's really hard to discuss these ideas, and Ben is actually fairly well-versed! He ran his own Iceshrimp instance, so all of this wasn't exactly new to him.

                  Part of it was that I had been steeped in the ActivityPub dev scene for almost a year, so it's hard to step back and explain to mere mortals laymen non-developers what exactly all this ActivityPub nonsense is.

                  All I know it gets me thinking that I need to work with andypiper@macaw.social on documentation!

                  That new NodeBB instance, by the way, is https://community.openbeta.io 🙂

                  eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE This user is from outside of this forum
                  eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE This user is from outside of this forum
                  eeeee@community.nodebb.org
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #50

                  Yes, the Discorse thread version doesnt accept edit updates either.
                  I think if the bar is set so that different nodebb sites can fully connect then thats enough, as nobody can control what 3rd parties do

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                  • julian@community.nodebb.orgJ julian@community.nodebb.org

                    I had the opportunity to work with the team at OpenBeta on the re-launching of their community forums. They're one of our earliest v4 testers, since they've agreed to have ActivityPub enabled!

                    (Okay, more realistically I dragged them into it kicking and screaming, but they did provide the opportunity for the forum relaunch, so I'm taking the opportunities as they come!)

                    During the prep, I discussed some of the well-trodden concept of the fediverse to my co-admin, Ben (bean@community.openbeta.io and also bean@uvix.cc)... stuff I'm sure you've come across:

                    • Fragmented nature of conversations
                    • The idea of an instance
                    • Content discovery with respect to the follow-relationship model

                    ... and wouldn't you know it, it's really hard to discuss these ideas, and Ben is actually fairly well-versed! He ran his own Iceshrimp instance, so all of this wasn't exactly new to him.

                    Part of it was that I had been steeped in the ActivityPub dev scene for almost a year, so it's hard to step back and explain to mere mortals laymen non-developers what exactly all this ActivityPub nonsense is.

                    All I know it gets me thinking that I need to work with andypiper@macaw.social on documentation!

                    That new NodeBB instance, by the way, is https://community.openbeta.io 🙂

                    eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE This user is from outside of this forum
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                    eeeee@community.nodebb.org
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                    #51

                    Test1, mentioning a user at a different nodebb server mrcs@isurg.org

                    Test2 MRCS@isurg.org

                    Edit: connecting between nodebb instances doesnt seem to be working, which is more concerning.
                    I tried it both ways, mentions from and to there

                    julian just to help me test, are usernames case sensitive? I have some capital letters in a username on another nobebb site, do I need to ensure they are in the correct case?

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                    • eeeee@community.nodebb.orgE eeeee@community.nodebb.org

                      Test1, mentioning a user at a different nodebb server mrcs@isurg.org

                      Test2 MRCS@isurg.org

                      Edit: connecting between nodebb instances doesnt seem to be working, which is more concerning.
                      I tried it both ways, mentions from and to there

                      julian just to help me test, are usernames case sensitive? I have some capital letters in a username on another nobebb site, do I need to ensure they are in the correct case?

                      julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
                      julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                      #52

                      eeeee user slugs are always lower case. mrcs@isurg.org didn't get the notification? That's odd.

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                      • omega@community.nodebb.orgO This user is from outside of this forum
                        omega@community.nodebb.orgO This user is from outside of this forum
                        omega@community.nodebb.org
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                        #53

                        Should we then not be using the term syndication / network-syndication, or is that already to attached to other existent WWW technologies?

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