jonny

I need some #FediDev help:
So If we want to really kill birdsite, we need to do things that are impossible on corporate platforms

I have been working on one idea, #DIYAlgorithms, by adding an API endpoint to let masto lists be manually controlled lists of statuses (instead of lists of accounts), so an external algo can autopopulate them.

I have no idea what i'm doing tho, and we need to move quick before another centralized platform really takes off.

help plz?
https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/mastodon/tree/feature/postlists

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Dec 15, 2022 at 2:33amWeb
Show threadjonnyDec 15, 2022
excruciatingly slow going because i a) don't know ruby, b) don't know rails, and c) no developer docs for mastodon. So by the time I do it by myself then something like post.io or whatever else ppl are running to could already be up and at 'em. Yes it's a marathon and not a sprint but I would love to have something to show the many new fedis this is a place of evolution and all that too. :).
Show threadjonnyDec 15, 2022
Currently trying to figure out how statuses from other instances are represented in the database, because ideally the API endpoint would be able to just take a list of status IDs in a POST and then pull from existing stored representation of statuses instead of storing entirely separate representation of a post in each list. But stymied by rails whole ActiveRecord <-> database system and can't figure out how to actually *make tables* ugh.
Show threadjonnyDec 15, 2022
OK here is how snowflake IDs and IDs work, i had been wondering about that. So within a server the "ID" field should work without additional deduplication hopefully??? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/snowflake-ids-in-mastodon-and-unique-ids-in-the-fediverse-more-generally/
Snowflake IDs in Mastodon (and Unique IDs in the Fediverse more generally)

Computer Science has two canonical "hard problems": cache invalidation naming things off-by-one errors Let's talk about how we name unique items in Federated services - for example, posts on a social media service. If you have only one service, it's pretty easy. Every time a new entry is created in a database, give it a sequential number. This becomes a problem at scale. If you have millions of users on hundreds of different shards of a database, eventually you'll get a clash of IDs. To …

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Show threadjonnyDec 15, 2022
wow this is such a robust unique ID generator
Show threadscriptjunkieDec 15, 2022
@jonny I do have Ruby experience but sadly detest rails
Show threadjonnyDec 15, 2022
@sj I am learning them at the same time so am having a hard time telling where one ends and another begins lol 🙃
Show threadscriptjunkieDec 15, 2022
@jonny I think you need a migration usually and to update your schema https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3/migrations.html
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Show threadjonnyDec 15, 2022
@sj omg all the docs I found were like hand writing migrations and I was like there is no way I'll be able to do that. now to figure out how to actually store posts from an external instance because they seem to uh block the dev instance lol
Show threadscriptjunkieDec 15, 2022
@jonny maybe just start with some SQL queries and worry about integrating with the frontend later?
Show threadjonnyDec 15, 2022
@sj it seems to be like weirdly linked? at least frontend as in API, the actual React part that is the browser frontend actually looks like it will take no additional work (mostly why I wanted to patch onto lists instead of making a new thing). like the controller <-> model I think are related, but I can't figure out how to make the model actually make the relevant tables in the db ...
Show threadSvein-Kåre BjørnsenDec 15, 2022
@jonny @sj is there a special reason ruby is necessary for this?
Show threadjonnyJun 28, 2023
@danwchan with the atemporal bookmark boost lmao
Show threadAn AgoraDec 15, 2022
@jonny
https://anagora.org/DIYAlgorithms
https://anagora.org/FediDev
[[diyalgorithms]] at anagora.org

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Show threadJohn Spounias  Dec 15, 2022
@jonny I was/am working on something similar, https://github.com/d3cline/fossilize but there is a lot of resistance in the admin community of gate keepers to open it up to anything, stay in contact though. I am happy to help with projects like this.
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Show threadSimon BrookeDec 15, 2022

@jonny I've begun work on something similar: an ActivityPub server which will allow users to upload pure functions to algorithmically sort their own feed while not affecting anyone else's feed.

However, it's not going to be quick.

Show threadJess 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Dec 15, 2022
@jonny This is really cool looking. I'm not a rails expert, but I do a lot with GHA/AWS/CICD/etc and would love to give you a hand.