I create Fediverse software that empowers people online.
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Last Notes npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Wrote a script to migrate ActivityPub follows to Nostr. Now just needs a web UI. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I'm not seeing any payment deduct either npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason YouTube suspended my account. Here's what the email says: npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason YouTube suspended my account. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Sexy Minion costume npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://media.gleasonator.com/21f82cc7e59926f2a498ecdea6a4d937226f63a4ff0bfb75c7241048213c62c0.gif npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Dragon Quest Movie 11/10 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason WTF https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/10/trumps-truth-social-tipped-fbi-to-man-killed-during-arrest-attempt-for-biden-threats.html npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Serious answer is yeah probably, because I would forget about the weird bug thing. But if someone reminded me of the weird bug thing in the moment, I would probably pass. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Oh god!! I'm melting!!! npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason That's not interesting. Being vegan is interesting. I'm vegan. Unlike every other man. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://media.gleasonator.com/8a567c52bced0186eb41def03326982601f005c1d445b3b3c6a1bbcb9d3f7221.gif npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I'm vegan btw. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason True DBZ fans are vegan. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Why is there a "to" field? npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://media.gleasonator.com/2d9c24964d85bbde7fbedb625f3665b8a858c69b94d7f2fb6a40d22fca925380.png npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Sure, here's based.mp4 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Thank you npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason 1. So people don't make the rookie mistake of killing their server by running out of disk space. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason The message itself does not contain the IP address. When you connect to a relay they have your IP, just like connecting to a Fediverse server. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason The bridge doesn't support DMs. Also, read my bio. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason In Ditto it works exactly like Pleroma except users can log into any instance with their same credentials. You're still the admin, you can still moderate content. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason ??? npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason What is your question even about? ActivityPub? Nostr? npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Sounds accurate. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I see the problems with the graph, but it's limited by what mermaid can do. Feel free to play with it: npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Yes and yes. The first part is optional - it's up to the client. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason From the AP server's perspective, my graph is correct. You're philosophizing too much, write some code. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Here's the graph you wanted, which I didn't post because it looks like incomprehensible chaos. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Same problem on ActivityPub, especially with all the server-level blocking that goes on. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason How ActivityPub works, and how Nostr works. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason THERE IS A HOUSE IN NEW ORLEANS npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason To hate something is to love it with disappointment. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Remote posts older than 7 days will be deleted. S3 will be required for media uploads. It should scale okay, but it will matter a lot less when users can seamlessly move between servers. Aiming for small to medium sized. Should be able to accommodate Poast. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Agreed. And Ditto is designed to be a self-hosted community, so it would replace existing Mastodon servers. I'm really looking forward to building that part, but all this groundwork needs to be laid first. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Here, this is how Ditto works npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Here's what I've been working on the past couple days: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto/-/merge_requests/5 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Nostr fixes this. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I would kiss you goodnight. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Oh I have thoughts on it npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I acknowledge it. To the numerous people who boosted my post from 4 weeks ago. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason The most important philosophy lesson of all time. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Exactly npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I've been trying to figure out whether they're communists or monarchists. Anyway, their system seems to be working pretty well for them, since they have the genes to do it. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Ants are so cute when they're not bothering me. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Chrysanthemum flowers evolved to produce a neurotoxin against insects as a means of self-defense, and then humans extracted it from the flowers to use as insecticide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum#Insecticidal_uses npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Whoops npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason You thought Truth Social federates? Of course not npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason God I love ChadGPT https://chat.openai.com/share/0548eb72-28d0-46dc-88d8-97fded816026 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Map of fiber optic internet cables in the Earth's oceans. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Mastadon destroys lives. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason LGBT: Lieutenant, General, Bicentennial, Trooper npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason hi handsome npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason This is pretty mind-blowing. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason WHAT?! Deno can be a device on chrome://inspect npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason According to ChatGPT, the best database for Nostr is Elasticsearch. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://media.gleasonator.com/d837ff5056be82d351aa33774cdacea19e722fcba3c2d80b8b8c3647a3956d23.png npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Shedinja is awesome because it only has 1 HP but is invulnerable to everything except super effective attacks. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Wonder_Guard_(Ability) npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason NIP-52 calendar events has been merged. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/52.md npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Wait, what? npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens died today. RIP. Let's pour one out for our boy. 🍺 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://media.gleasonator.com/9c11ed4edd06321ca6058755ea8bc7cb92205b5fe63f5b5865ed068910cfa1a8.png npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason What's up Cicadabros, I'm delivering you some fresh content straight out of my backyard. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Relays on Nostr are opt-in, making the whole premise even dumber. If you don't like it, don't add the relay. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Soy vegano npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason 😎 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason This is entirely the fault of the IWF and Microsoft, who create "exclusive" proprietary CSAM prevention software and then only license big tech companies to use it. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason ChatGPT read NIP-01 and wrote a working Nostr relay, first try. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Threads + Nostr interop npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Soapbox has been awarded a grant by OpenSats! I've stepped down as Head of Engineering at Truth Social to pursue this mission full time. https://soapbox.pub/blog/soapbox-awarded-grant/ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Looks cool: https://chakra-ui.com/ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Unpopular opinion, but I have very little sympathy for artists being replaced by AI. If you're already a starving artist, you lost nothing, and you only gained opportunities. If you're such a great and creative artist, then come up with the best prompts and do 10x more! This sounds like whiny people who don't want to put in effort to learn a new technology. The world is changing around us all the time. Adapt! npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Reddit is as unhinged as Elon rn https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/14ytp7s/reworking_awarding_changes_to_awards_coins_and/ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason What's the real answer then? npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Realizing I don't know how computers work. "Source port" is a concept dreamed up by the utterly deranged. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I will never use Postgres again. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Sometimes I ask ChatGPT a question and it tells me it's not possible, so I tell it that it is and it agrees with me. Very validating experience. https://chat.openai.com/share/0a4507a4-9ea3-47a4-ab50-f2359f7b1baf npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Database is fucked npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason A Mastodon server called "Vegan Unity" joined the Fediverse and then immediately blocked me. 🤣 I'm vegan btw. #vegan 🍆 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Why are exactly 0 journos talking about Threads ActivityPub federation? They don't know what to make of it? It's huge. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://media.gleasonator.com/7900be4b541fb75078998441837bcc5bb4d35a8369104738ec21889ca854f88e.png npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Trying to make sense of this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-9928-3cp5-93fm npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Elon Musk is retarded. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Well, Threads is going to push me to improve Soapbox. We can't let them have improvements over us on anything. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Mark Zuckeberg is an antisocial psychopath who wants nothing less than world domination. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason They finally invited me bros... #Finance npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason The bridge works both ways. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Maybe, but they could have postponed the launch. By launching without ActivityPub support, they showed us it's not really a priority. This whole project was never even about decentralization. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Exactly! I thought they were trying to compete with Mastodon. But apparently they're just trying to compete with Twitter. How is that viable? I can't believe it's actually somewhat viable. 🐑 🐑 🐑 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason So, a week ago Meta was contacting Mastodon admins to give them a "heads up" they were going to launch soon, and that it could impact the Fediverse. Then this morning before launch, they announced they were in fact not launching with ActivityPub federation. I bet it took extra effort to disable support for it. They did a bait-and-switch; a slap in the face. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Download my proprietary app bro, to use my centralized network bro, developed and run by the exact corporation you're trying to get away form. wtf npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Premise: "Your account identity is a private key." npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason 🤔 https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/adam-mosseri-says-metas-threads-app-wont-have-activitypub-support-at-launch/ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Some person created an account here, got upset at the posts he saw, reported them, and then deleted his own account. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Some pics from my birthday party. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason >9000 Mastodon servers npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason oh my goddd 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason "T extends never" npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Treehopper, cicada's weird cousin.
