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To add to all great comments here I have one that I’ve used for ages and not seen mentioned here: lftp
It supports many protocols for ftp like over ssh and allows for shaky connections with resume and back in the days when this was more common I used to just run it in the background to download huge files that took days to download and it would gracefully just reconnect/resume/retry until done.
As ActivityPub is just an underlying protocol, the question is similar to asking something like “Is it possible to make an Internet app for everything?”.
There will be new ways to use the #fediverse in the future and new applications will be developed and adopted and it makes little sense in trying to provide every possible way to view the fediverse in an ever playing catch-up implementation of a view into it.
Try to look at it as the Internet itself.
It’s an attempt at providing a finite and limited answer to an open ended question. Doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Mostly using CLI but occasionally I use https://www.sourcetreeapp.com for graphical branching and stuff.
Yes, yes, and someone else’s problem will be your problem after the job hop! :)
My guess is that this actually regarded as a feature in the wider #fediverse. At least in the Mastodon community it is. Toots not being searchable/indexed and you discover topics and people to follow by looking for hashtags and organically setup and control your own home feed. This, leading to much frustration for many who’ve moved over from Twitter.
Reasons being that it should not be easy for big tech (and others) to just slurp up and make peoples data open publicly for a wider audience through public search engines. A level of privacy and owning ones own data has been a priority over the inconvenience of not being as discoverable.
Of course the same thinking does not apply or map equally well to the #threadiverse as it does to Mastodon. I’m sure there are workarounds and a way to make this more seamless for users, but this is just getting started. It was never an issue when everything was on a small number of instances which everyone knew about.
OMG! Some great quotes in there: “The real decease is VIM” and “I spend more time customising my computer than actual using it” and of course “I treat my whole life as a text buffer”!
As a single developer taking on a passion project you go with what you know.
Also it must have been near impossible to have foreseen the insane explosion of popularity that has happened here the last few days.
Even then if you build something for passion you choose something that make you happy to use, however esoteric or impractical that may be to others, or how it would be perceived. Most probably it was never thought to be exposed in such a massive way, and certainly not as soon after the project was started (we’re talking month(s) here).
Anyhow, for this project from the looks of it it is working fantastic.
Personally I’ve not used PHP for years but now I’m actually intrigued to take a new look at it.
I’ve been thinking a bit about this lately since the Reddit migration started. I believe it could be solved at the client level at least. Unifying magazines over instances and behind the scenes pull in and follows twin magazines at other instances and presents them in a single abstract magazine.
There are probably reasons why you at the server level or user level want the low level community access and behavior we have today but judging of all comments and how we typically behave as humans I would say that is rather the unusual case not the mainstream.
Such users could easily then opt in at the instance level and everyone else looking for a more “centralized” experience can still have that through the client app.
No doubt it would take some work but I believe it is very doable given my understanding of the Activity Pub protocol and how it works today.
I think it was about 1995. I was going to the university and was looking for something Unix compatible I could use at my home computer to perform assignments instead of needing to go into school computer lab. Remote work basically. Think I was using LessTif instead of Motif for some coding task.
Ahh. Those were the days. Used modem to connect to school and connect remotely to the network using Linux. :)