Mostly just used for moderation.
Main account is https://piefed.social/u/andrew_s

  • 21 Posts
  • 43 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 24th, 2023

help-circle
  • Okay. Well, if it’s fixed, that’s all that matters, I guess. I don’t understand this desire to downgrade other people’s answers into speculation, but it’s not like this is the first time it’s happened.

    Language selection with Lemmy is pretty unintuitive, so others may be interested to know that OP is technically incorrect here. Despite what the UI says, it’s actually impossible to deselect ‘undetermined’. Whatever frontend you’re using might let you, but the backend will just ignore it. I don’t use this account much, but I used it here to make a very deliberate decision to send my earlier response using ‘undetermined’ as the language, so that OP would definitely see it, and the fact that they clearly did demonstrates for itself that what they’re suggesting is nonsense.


  • Using a web browser, go to your account settings. In ‘languages’ ensure that ‘English’ is selected. The posts will then be visible to you when you are logged in.

    You’ve made this post in the ‘afaraf’ language, so you may as well deselect that while you’re there if you don’t understand it. This of course means that most people here won’t see this post, ironically enough.

    Also, if folks could stop parroting out the same bullshit ‘federation delays’ answer to every question, that’d be great. It’s not that. It’s actually very rarely that (even if you were the very first person to discover that community, which you weren’t, it’d only take a refresh to resolve it).





  • Hmmm. Speaking of Fediverse interoperability, platforms other than yours (Pandacap) typically arrange things so that https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/ was the domain, and something like https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/users/lizard-socks was the user, but Pandacap wants to use https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/ for both. Combined with the fact that it doesn’t seem to support /.well-known/nodeinfo means that no other platform knows what software it’s running.

    When your actor sends something out, it uses the id https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/, but when something tries to look that up, it returns a “Person” with a subtly different id of https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/ (no trailing slash). So there’s the potential to create the following:

    1. https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/ sends something out.
    2. Instance hasn’t heard of that, so looks it up, and creates a new user in its database, with the returned ID (https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/)
    3. https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/ sends else something out. Instance looks in it’s DB, finds nothing, so looks it up and tries to create it again. The best case is that it meets a DB uniqueness constraint, because the ID it gets back from that lookup does actually exist (so it can use that, but it was a long way around to find it). The worst case - when there’s no DB uniqueness constraint -is that a ‘new’ user is created every time.
    4. Repeat step 3 for every new thing you send.

    If every new platform treats the Fediverse as a wheel that needs to be re-invented, then the whole project is doomed.























  • I know what you mean about trailers - I always avoid them for films because of how much they give away. The Ahsoka one isn’t too bad, and it’s useful as something to refer to as what should be considered a base level of knowledge about a show. Otherwise we end up in the crazy situation of saying that Ahsoka appearing in the new Ahsoka show is a spoiler.

    For things that are unarguably spoilers though, the post suggests waiting ‘a couple of weeks’. A meme I posted was reported, even though I’d followed the ‘usual guidelines’ of waiting a week.

    We’re reluctant to curb people’s creativity though, and obviously the thing that’s just happened is going to drive much of the original content we especially appreciate. So hopefully, if people follow the suggestion about how best to prevent anyone accidentally seeing something too soon, we can reach some sort of compromise.