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Fixed yr map #WSocial 🦣 :mastodon: 👍 ❤️ 😁 #SocialMedia #Tech #Fediverse https://wsocial.eu

@evan@cosocial.ca @ivan@bonfire.cafe @smallcircles@social.coop @liaizon@social.wake.st @mayel@bonfire.cafe

Can I just say, while we're all talking about a bug, and nothing is perfect, THIS is why I LOVE open source. 😊 Everyone collaborating, folks in each of their expert fields lending their experience. Love it. 😊

Thank you ALL for working through this. <3

@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social Not spoiling the mood at all. I have a LOT of complicated feelings about it as well. But at this point, I HAVE to focus on the positive. We can't let perfect get in the way of good. THIS is a step. Is it the step we'd maybe want? NOPE. But it's a STEP and I will ABSOLUTELY take it. He converts dozens more, they convert dozens more. ONE DROP AT A TIME.

Umm... holy shit? PewDiePie made an AI? IDK how real or true it is, someone give me your thoughts, BUT the fact he's talking about open source, the fact he's pushing for self hosting. Like... this is HUGE imo. Even showing he can try is incredible. He's influencing a generation. And while I never watched PewDiePie, I might just start.

piefed.social/post/2105937

@TCMuffin@toot.wales Honestly the feeling can't be described can it? You get to experience a first through their eyes. First to say a word, first to learn to read. I don't remember that feeling, but I get to feel it through my children. And it's just warmth in your heart. When you really stop and pay attention to them and really feel what they're feeling. It's fucking magical man.

@JenJen@mastodon.art holy shit you look so good in that! LOVE it!

@dandelionutilitarian@mastodon.social that is fucking adorable and I hate you for your artistic skill. 😜

@liaizon@social.wake.st @ivan@bonfire.cafe @mayel@bonfire.cafe what version are you on? Can we see a picture?

I'm on the latest-beta and I don't see any warnings.

I will state that the message I replied to was from Julian's NodeBB instance. So it's translating from threadiverse to Bonfire, so probably some incompatability there.

@TCMuffin@toot.wales Thank you so much! My father is taking my family to Disney World. So it's going to be NUTS. And I'm going to hate the crowds, hate the travel, hate the wait times.

But I will NEVER forget watching my children have so many first experiences. I would never go there for myself. But I'm SO fucking excited to watch my children. 😊

Monk class illustration for @ffunion.bsky.social new book That was a lot of fun!
Kickstarter for the book : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/finalfantasyunion/the-defenders-of-the-crystal-an-encyclopedia-of-jobs

This is incredible @benpate@mastodon.social and @julian@community.nodebb.org . I'm absolutely blown away by the work you folks are doing. This isn't JUST for Emissary. This isn't JUST for NodeBB. This isn't JUST for Mastodon. THIS is for EVERYONE. And y'all are fantastic. When I see this kind of work, I honestly get emotional, because THIS is what changes the game. Thank you both and everyone, for all of your hard work. I know folks don't see it the way I do, but THIS is a step. Maybe the rigth direction, maybe 5 years down the line we say it wasn't, but it's a STEP that pushes EVERYONE forward.

Thank you so so so so so much for spending your time and energy here.

A new feature silently dropped in v4.12.0. NodeBB now supports Activity Intents!

Huh? What's an Activity Intent?

It is a proposal by @benpate@mastodon.social that aims to "extend the capabilities of an ActivityPub server beyond a user's outbox, and enable direct interactions with content on the wider social web."

In other words, it allows you to more seamlessly use your fediverse account on other sites without having to register a new account just to contribute.

In even simpler words, it means you can go to other forums and interact with content without needing to register a new account.

It directly tackles one of the fediverse "hard problems" I talked about last year — account fragmentation. You won't need additional accounts just to use other sites, your identity stays whole

Let's learn more about how that works![...]

Account Fragmentation in a Nutshell

Right now, when you browse to a different site, you usually have to create a new account to interact with it. For example, if you check out someone's Pixelfed profile, you're not able to comment or like their pictures without an account there. This has always been how the internet worked, and before the advent of single sign-on, which lets you log in with a different account (but still creates a new account on that site), that was just how it was.

Essentially, there was no way to interact with content using your main identity. The workarounds were numerous... copying URLs, searching for the account on your instance, etc. All of which were fairly friction-heavy, so the next best thing was just to create a local account and fragment your identity.

Activity Intents intends (ha!) to address this by allowing servers to advertise support for different types of social actions.

How It Works

1. You browse to another site and want to carry out an action, such as liking the post, or writing a reply.
2. That site asks you to enter an Open Social Web handle (or log in, if you have a local account), and you enter it.
3. It then queries your server to see what Intents it supports (e.g. "Like", "Create")
4. If there's a match, it sends you back to your server, where you can complete the action.

That's about it! There are additional details about designing the actual flow, and how to "remember" each visitor's social web handle, but the basics are as listed above.

What it looks like in NodeBB

We've integrated support for four intents:

1. Like/Dislike → These map to upvote and downvote respectively
2. Create → These would be topic creations and replies
3. Follow → self-explanatory
4. Object → Load an ActivityPub resource in NodeBB

We integrated two-way support which means that if you land on a NodeBB and your fediverse account supports Activity Intents, then you can simply hit like, reply, or follow from NodeBB, and be sent back to your home server, all without the hassle of copying and pasting links into a search bar.

Integrating Activity Intents was a high-impact way to tackle the problem of account fragmentation. Users of NodeBB (whose forums have updated to v4.12.0) should not have to feel pressure to create local accounts elsewhere if the site they end up on supports Activity Intents as well.

@Cheeseness@mastodon.social I was going to install it again and I thought I had it somewhere, but I don't see it in my Itch library. Do you remember how you gave it to me?

@Cheeseness@mastodon.social DUDE! This has changed A LOT since I last played it. 😊 Looks good sir!

Time for another Fossil Sweeper progress update post! (nearly published the May post in May this time \o/ )

During the period covered, I continued to work on globe asset production workflows, and I tested an alternate presentation for some Dig sites.

https://cheeseness.itch.io/fossil-sweeper/devlog/1540841/may-2026-progress

@repeatro@mastodon.social All games are just clones of World of Warcraft, so it must be that. 😜

I have ZERO clue btw. 😁

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

About to go on vacation and I updated our refurb Microsoft Surface with the latest Debian 13. WOW does this thing work well for a low powered device. Debian 12 seemed to have a lot of little issues with the Surface, such as not actually powering down properly, but Debian 13 seems to be functioning incredibly with the surface build.

So thank you to ANYONE that helped work on this #Debian build for the #Surface . It's so good and my kids are hopefully going to keep busy while we're traveling.

@JenJen@mastodon.art @welshpixie@mastodon.art absolutely gorgeous.