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woot, my emoji rendering system seems to be working okay! loaded it onto my dev server and thankfully i follow a lot of trans people who love lots of emoji in their profiles 😆

cannot WAIT to get to the picker tho. hiding custom emoji groups is what i dream of 🤩

One annoying thing about the search function on Mastodon is it's occasional nature.
Currently I once again can't find stuff from:me or in:library more recent than last year. This is an issue that's popped up before.
"just go on github and create an issue"? No thanks. I don't like jumping through unnecessary and unaccessible* hoops. So this is grumbling into the void.

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* I wrote what I wrote and you understand what it means.

After implementing partial support for Mastodon's FEP-044f quote post authorization in #Smithereen, I realized that this flow with sending a "*Request" activity and receiving a corresponding Accept{*Request} is nothing but an RPC mechanism.

So now Smithereen also uses TopicCreationRequest and TopicRenameRequest for discussion boards in groups, which are almost finished, btw.

pan.rent has been down for the last ~36 hours. Probably, this happened because of an error during an upgrade to Mastodon Glitch 4.4.0. We are back now, running version 4.5.0-alpha (👀).

Thanks to @victorvandort for dealing with this.

Even though Pan is a tiny volunteer-run instance, so many hours of downtime should never be happening. We are discussing about how to avoid such long outages in the future.

Mastodon hosted on pan.rentPanA tiny, tight, warm, improbable community of curious dreamers.

In #Mastodon 4.4 they've added the horrible popup window from #Bluesky when you try to click on a #hashtag.

If I wanted to do something weird with the hashtag, I'd right click it. Now I need to make an extra click every single time I just want to view the posts. It's one of the worst features of Bluesky, and they've added it into Mastodon.

It doesn't even do anything useful like tell you if you're following the hashtag.

Every time they update the Mastodon UI they make it worse.

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@nyquildotorg #Mastodon and #ActivityPub needs a mechanism where domain names can be recycled. The fact that WordPress alone has no mechanism to allow a domain to exit the fediverse is reason enough. Sometimes servers get bricked and there is no way to go back and self-destruct.

Domains could be validated with a text record in the DNS by the owner of the domain name. If text record ActivityPubKill is true, then it should be trusted as so and defederated.

I'm not sure how this could be done, I don't know the ins and out. Maybe software packages could poll the DNS of failing federated servers and look for a universal or software specific kill tag or a file could be placed somewhere on a server that it looks for when a server fails, esp after 7 days.

Either way, a dns entry or a file on a physical server can be a trusted source as it takes elevated permission by someone in charge of a domain to usually do such a thing. #MastoDev #MastoAdmin

🛡️ CharmGuard Update 🍵💻
Tea sipped. Rust compiled. Distractions blocked.

🚨 New Features Just Landed:
✔️ Active session API
✔️ Rasa-powered NLP assistant in the works
✔️ ML-ready session logging
✔️ Soon: Chat your way to productivity

This isn’t just an app. It’s a judgmental productivity firewall with opinions on your focus habits.

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