Adnan @Decad3nce@qoto.org
Software Engineer by trade. Tinkerer by necessity.
PNW. UNL. Staff Eng - Android @ Google.
Former alien as documented by the government.
Worked on #CyanogenMod as an embedded hacker (now #LineageOS).
Views are my own. Interested in #Android, #Flutter, #NLP, #Accessibility and anything I can take a soldering iron to.
Joined Nov 2022
Anyone aware of any data consistency literature for #mastodon. I'm curious to see if a lot of the issues I've seen with other apps is because of poor client caching strategies or it's something more of a headache.
@Decad3nce The other concern I have is how instance feature advertisement is completely ad hoc. The way instances advertise custom features is by stuffing fields into the Instance objects.
@Decad3nce If the scale of conversation really takes off, this will be one of the biggest bottlenecks to ensuring discourse continues.
Without it fixed, the threads can take a long time to load and users would have a disincentive to participate in an attempt to avoid latency.
One of the most glaring concerns with the #Mastodon API I can see right away is that the context API isn't paginated. It's very interesting to see how different clients fall over when a thread has numerous descendants.
The bug has been open on it for a while. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11029
I'm working around it by doing some crafty graph transversal on batched context requests.
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It's great when people who are sick test for #SARSCoV2. But when they tell you not to worry because they tested negative: I don't want that other virus either!!! If you are sick with a respiratory illness: Stay at home & get some rest (for you and for others)
Tomorrow I'll knock out alerts and notifications, after all that really remains is settings and per instance customizations.
Added support for status posting and reply mechanisms to this new Mastodon client.
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23,634 accounts
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+4,786 in the last week
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We don’t deserve her. #technology #tech #twitter #twittermigration #TwitterMigrate #elon
Knocked out follow actions and verbose profile details. As well as follower/following lists.
Still need to implement the per server emoji representations.
Might also do a first pass at post compositions.
It's the weekend and back to hacking on this new mastodon client while I'm still hacking up a lung.
Any favorite features people like from various other clients?
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Saw this yesterday on Birdsite and thought it summed up how Great Thunberg gets treated by the billionaire press cartel
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@thor Yeah one of the problems with Twitter (and can be a problem here as well) is the constant platforming of only large accounts at the expense of everyone else's voice. It's not a public square so much as like watching establishment news or something. I'm far more interested in following smaller accounts and giving them a voice so we get new perspectives.
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Just a reminder to folks that are here from bird site, please include your mastodon handles in your profile over at twitter so folks who follow you can migrate here.
Fedifinder here doesn't just help you track your followers over to here, it'll also tell you if it can find your account in your own profile to help *your* followers too https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
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Twitter suspension of parody accounts is a problem because Twitter is becoming a parody of itself.
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One thing you notice quickly after spending any time on Masto is that everyone on Twitter—especially high-follower accounts—writes their posts to be QTed. It’s not only the ubiquitous asides and defensiveness; it’s the topics that people choose and the content that they highlight. Tweets are written to anchor broader arguments and battles in a way that Masto posts are not.
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How many times can one person fail to learn `shutdown -h` does not print “help”.
Software Engineer by trade. Tinkerer by necessity.
PNW. UNL. Staff Eng - Android @ Google.
Former alien as documented by the government.
Worked on #CyanogenMod as an embedded hacker (now #LineageOS).
Views are my own. Interested in #Android, #Flutter, #NLP, #Accessibility and anything I can take a soldering iron to.
Joined Nov 2022
