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I hope you have a wonderful vacation ❤️❤️❤️
@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. 😊
Feature Highlight for v4.12.0 — Activity Intents
A new feature silently dropped in v4.12.0. NodeBB now supports Activity Intents!
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![...]
A new feature silently dropped in v4.12.0. NodeBB now supports Activity Intents!
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![...]
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.
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.
We've integrated support for four intents:
Like/Dislike → These map to upvote and downvote respectivelyCreate → These would be topic creations and repliesFollow → self-explanatoryObject → Load an ActivityPub resource in NodeBBWe 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.
A new feature silently dropped in v4.12.0. NodeBB now supports Activity Intents!
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![...]
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.
@Cheeseness@mastodon.social DUDE! This has changed A LOT since I last played it. 😊 Looks good sir!
@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?
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
@Cheeseness@mastodon.social DUDE! This has changed A LOT since I last played it. 😊 Looks good sir!
#RetroGuessr No. 142
🔍️️ What game's cover is this❓️️
If you can name the game shown in the picture, post it in the comments. 🤔
#retrogaming #gaming #quiz #videogames #videogaming #videogame #game #games #riddle
@repeatro@mastodon.social All games are just clones of World of Warcraft, so it must be that. 😜
I have ZERO clue btw. 😁
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.
I made this to scan and sell prints but the darker colours are not scanning well *at all* so I'll have to do another one.
Meanwhile, the original of this is for sale :D
A5 size on white cardstock.
£30 GBP, postage is £2 UK, £4 Eu and £5 elsewhere. Message me to buy!
#calligraphy #Illumination #MastoArt #spicy #OriginalArt #ArtForSale #FediGiftShop
@JenJen@mastodon.art @welshpixie@mastodon.art absolutely gorgeous.
@aaribaud rsi
Cant type sorry 😂
@JenJen@mastodon.art @aaribaud@mastodon.art RSI - really sexy images.
@logan
Did your CI get stuck in a loop? 😄
@badnetmask@hachyderm.io @logan@social.logal.dev I hear there are pills for that.
Husbeard gonna drop me off in town to meet @feff
we both cant use our dominant hands
I had to button his shirt one handed
He had to put the seatbelt on me in the uber
We are so fucked up 😂
@JenJen@mastodon.art @feff@comicscamp.club that is NOT Husbeard. Why are you lieing Jen? Husbeard is a set of floating hands and in rare cases a luchador mask.
Just picked up Raccoin. I just love that game. Easily replayable, lots of fun sounds, flashy coins, creating different builds per run. Such a cute & fun game I just want to keep coming back to play. Because I had Balatro I think it was only like $10 and I've already spent a few hours in the demo and another few hours playing tonight.
I'm not at all into coin pusher games IRL, but this just hits the fun spot. HIGHLY recommend if you like trying to make crazy builds and want replayabilit in a game, but simple to learn mechanics. #game #gaming #coinPusher #steam #rogueLike
Trying to play Stone Shard and I have to remind myself, it's a Roguelike game. I'm going to die. Last run, I died, because I went in water and ran out of stamina and drowned. I was so pissed. Uninstalled. Went to the Steam page and was reminded ... ROGUELIKE. Ok. So I learned. That's the point. Learn and move on to the next one.
Unclear 😅. The reality is that I'm a better visual storyteller than a graphic designer.
The original logo was already *so good* and I just wanted something simple to collectively represent fedi-originated/adjacent streaming/broadcast.
It didn't occur to me until @ozoned mentioned it, but it doesn't even strictly need to convey a video-type broadcast. RSS loosely fits the same design language and has similar relationships with Fedi.
@ety@hive.institute @synduckate@lgbtqia.space love to see something like that overtake standard RSS. Click it and get RSS or Fedi. 😁
@ozoned dunno if it’s bad form but I didn’t want to spam an unrelated thread.
One thing you said inspired me to ask any software you use daily you think “it would be great if this was FOSS”?
@cleanduck@mastodon.social I've been a FOSS, now FFOSS, advocate for about 20 years. So I attempt to do everything with FOSS already. Really the only thing I use that isn't foss, is probably Steam. I honestly think it'd be possible to make a game store where you can hook in ActivityPub, kind of like AltStore is doing for mobile app stores. But I know that's a MASSIVE undertaking and a LOT smarter people than me have failed at an online store. 😁
But Emissary could make it possible. As I said there's bandwagon.fm which allows musicians to create their own stores for their music.
@cleanduck@mastodon.social @TheLegendOfThrill@mastodon.online
Thank you. 😊 I'm assuming you've seen my other show, Fireside Fedi? If not, there are TONS of folks I've spoken to, including THE @Mrfunkedude@beige.party . Funk might be the most important person I've spoken to. But there are others, like Evan Prodromou, Cory Doctorow, a weather entity, etc. 😁
@ozoned @TheLegendOfThrill @Mrfunkedude works on my machine live is a pretty brilliant idea btw great name too!
@cleanduck@mastodon.social @TheLegendOfThrill@mastodon.online @Mrfunkedude@beige.party
Sorry to spam everyone. I always forget.
If you want to follow WOMML you can just follow @ozoned@worksonmymachine.live to know when it goes live. It also shows a calendar (when I have something scheduled) that you can follow @when@freestreamers.btfree.org .
Or check out the VODs at @ozoned@tubefree.org .
Tube Free is my Peertube platform I started through my Public Charity @btfree@btfree.org to help find anyway I can to help promote the Fediverse and FFOSS ( federated free and open source )
@cleanduck@mastodon.social @Mrfunkedude@beige.party @TheLegendOfThrill@mastodon.online my recommendation, find a project you enjoy. Find where they congregate. Learn the project. Be vocal in helping. Profit. I'm not a developer. But I've been working with the Bonfire group, just running it, asking questions, giving recommendations, reporting bugs. There are TONS of Fedi projects on Matrix.
I'd honestly LOVE to see people starting to play with and test drive Fedify, Emissary and Bonfire. Because those 3 are attempting to be a solid base that allows folks to build on top of it. They worry about the Fediverse part and you build whatever you want.
Fedify is a low level library essentially that Ghost is using to enable ActivityPub.
Emissary ( emissary.dev ) is trying to allow folks to build HTML and CSS on top of it. If you look at bandwagon.fm that's built on Emissary.
Bonfire is a more out of the box solution, but is highly extensible.
Again though, just running it, giving feedback seems to have been invaluable to those developers. I haven't run Fedify, but I have run Emissary and Bonfire, and Manyfold, and I just gave feedback and the devs seemed to REALLY appreciate it.
Hell I even started "Works On My Machine Live" where I install from the docs with the dev and folks seemed to learn a LOT from that. I only have a few episodes, hoping to do more in the future.
@cleanduck@mastodon.social @TheLegendOfThrill@mastodon.online @Mrfunkedude@beige.party
If folks would like links to anything as well, let me know. My primary goal isn't to have all the answers. it's to help folks find communities that fit them. 😊
No one can do everything. Together, we can do anything.
@Mrfunkedude @TheLegendOfThrill any tips on getting involved? I’m new to this, but the idea appeals to me. I’m willing to volunteer developer time, but in my mind p2p has always been riddled with problems. I want to get stuck in using this app more and understanding the potential, and you seem like that one guy I should listen to 😅
@cleanduck@mastodon.social @Mrfunkedude@beige.party @TheLegendOfThrill@mastodon.online my recommendation, find a project you enjoy. Find where they congregate. Learn the project. Be vocal in helping. Profit. I'm not a developer. But I've been working with the Bonfire group, just running it, asking questions, giving recommendations, reporting bugs. There are TONS of Fedi projects on Matrix.
I'd honestly LOVE to see people starting to play with and test drive Fedify, Emissary and Bonfire. Because those 3 are attempting to be a solid base that allows folks to build on top of it. They worry about the Fediverse part and you build whatever you want.
Fedify is a low level library essentially that Ghost is using to enable ActivityPub.
Emissary ( emissary.dev ) is trying to allow folks to build HTML and CSS on top of it. If you look at bandwagon.fm that's built on Emissary.
Bonfire is a more out of the box solution, but is highly extensible.
Again though, just running it, giving feedback seems to have been invaluable to those developers. I haven't run Fedify, but I have run Emissary and Bonfire, and Manyfold, and I just gave feedback and the devs seemed to REALLY appreciate it.
Hell I even started "Works On My Machine Live" where I install from the docs with the dev and folks seemed to learn a LOT from that. I only have a few episodes, hoping to do more in the future.
I also apologize to @zzepposs@chaos.social for missing their incredible donation as well during the livestream the other day! We're still working on alerts for donations, so I totally missed it.
Thnak you SO much for supporting me, @BTFree and Fireside Fedi.
And to @evan@cosocial.ca , folks LOVED the mustache. So another vote for that. 😊
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