Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 01:29:57 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Yet another test, let's hope this one can be boosted.

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Sun, 10 Sep 2023 02:20:05 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Mike Macgirvin Thanks, good to know I was thinking in the right direction.

If I filter on group "Default", in which al my contacts are, I would expect a stream showing the latest posts of all my contacts, ordered by whatever. But the most recent post I see then, is 14 hours old.

My installation runs on a busy machine, that has run out of memory and disk space a few times. Maybe things broke. My database is huge, containing stuff that I think should have been purged years ago. At some point it turned out LDAP authentication had stopped working. I haven't found out why yet, I see no errors.

The next two weeks I want to do a fresh install on a fresh machine, or a Docker container. See if I can get LDAP to work again and then migrate most of my current installation.

I wanted to give Streams a shot, but then this week I realized it doesn't support Diaspora* and I have too many nice contacts there to drop that.

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 02:37:51 +0200

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

We had a choice of supporting ActivityPub or Diaspora. I chose ActivityPub because it has support in the standards committees.

The problem with supporting two additional protocols, is that anybody using either one will only see you talking to yourself in conversations since they can't see who you're conversing with - unless they both federate with each other.

That represents a serious usability issue as well as a perception of Hubzilla being broken -- and I've been trying to get rid of usability issues and perceptions of being broken in Streams. So yeah, if you want Diaspora connections, use Hubzilla. And the rest of the fediverse will see you talking to yourself and wonder why Hubzilla is so hopelessly broken.

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:10:44 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Mike Macgirvin Hehehe, I'm fully aware of that, people on Mastodon are missing the feed from Diaspora and vice versa. That's ok, Hubzilla isn't broken (in that regard), it's just their software that doesn't see the other side.

I mention that sometimes in threads if there are people on different protocols participating, so they know there's really someone else talking, and that the Fediverse is bigger than just Mastodon. That's why I keep tagging your name, so people can see who I'm talking to, even though they may not see your posts.

I understand that you picked ActivityPub, it's what the vast majority uses. And standardization is a thing. Apparently D* has its own set of challenges too.