What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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I think I have identified a fairly significant flaw in how the currently operates. Hear me out.

The Fediverse currently consists of all sorts of different systems - , , , , , and so forth. And while they are all connected via the protocol, they all have different functionalities and different ways of presenting themselves. Which is as it should be, because Diversity Is Our Strength(TM).

However, it is here that the ActivityPub-based interactivity hits its limits - for usually, you can either experience the relevant system as it was intended, or you can interact with it, but not both - _unless_ you have an account on the same system (though not necessarily on the same instance).

Let's say that you are a Mastodon user who looks at another person's BookWyrm page. You scroll through their books, posts, and comments. Then you see some comment you want to comment on yourself, but can you do so?

Not directly. You need to figure out the URL of their comment, and then copy and paste that comment into the search bar of your Mastodon instance. Then it will show up in the same format as a Mastodon post, and you can interact with it - boost it, like it, comment on it.

Sure, it works, but it's a whole lot of tedious effort.

Or you can search for the user account in Mastodon and scroll through all their posts and comments as if they were a Mastodon user - and thus, you will miss out on all the unique user interface features of BookWyrm.

So what is missing?

Well, Mastodon already has an "Open original page" feature when looking at someone's post. What we need is an "Open original page AND AUTHENTICATE" feature. This way, the target instance (whatever software they are using) could acknowledge the viewer as an external user who could nevertheless fully interact with the local user interface, including the ability to boost, like, and make comments.

This is something that should be theoretically possible to implement, right?

A Mastodon menu that pops up when clicking on another user's post, showing the options:

"Expand this post
Open original page
Copy link to post"
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I think I have identified a fairly significant flaw in how the currently operates. Hear me out.

The Fediverse currently consists of all sorts of different systems - , , , , , and so forth. And while they are all connected via the protocol, they all have different functionalities and different ways of presenting themselves. Which is as it should be, because Diversity Is Our Strength(TM).

However, it is here that the ActivityPub-based interactivity hits its limits - for usually, you can either experience the relevant system as it was intended, or you can interact with it, but not both - _unless_ you have an account on the same system (though not necessarily on the same instance).

Let's say that you are a Mastodon user who looks at another person's BookWyrm page. You scroll through their books, posts, and comments. Then you see some comment you want to comment on yourself, but can you do so?

Not directly. You need to figure out the URL of their comment, and then copy and paste that comment into the search bar of your Mastodon instance. Then it will show up in the same format as a Mastodon post, and you can interact with it - boost it, like it, comment on it.

Sure, it works, but it's a whole lot of tedious effort.

Or you can search for the user account in Mastodon and scroll through all their posts and comments as if they were a Mastodon user - and thus, you will miss out on all the unique user interface features of BookWyrm.

So what is missing?

Well, Mastodon already has an "Open original page" feature when looking at someone's post. What we need is an "Open original page AND AUTHENTICATE" feature. This way, the target instance (whatever software they are using) could acknowledge the viewer as an external user who could nevertheless fully interact with the local user interface, including the ability to boost, like, and make comments.

This is something that should be theoretically possible to implement, right?

A Mastodon menu that pops up when clicking on another user's post, showing the options:

"Expand this post
Open original page
Copy link to post"
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I am quite sure that if you haven’t donated to @bonfire ‘s campaign yet it’s just because you did not know about it yet, so here is a link: indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonf 🙂

In case you are not convinced yet, here’s a slide for you about (and against!) 💩

In this moment, I think every project that fights enshittification should deserve attention and support. I myself contributed, and got me an awesome print (limited edition number 19, which as y’all know is binary for 🤟😜)

The bonfire team at SFSCon 2025, presenting a slide titled “Enshittification”. On the left hand side of the slide, a bulleted list with the following sentences: “feeds are manipulated, people are silenced, data is sold, ads are everywhere, platforms mutate or vanish overnight”. On the right hand side, a sh!t emoji
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11월말 외환보유액 4천307억달러, 18억달러↑…여섯달째 증가 | 연합뉴스 3년 3개월만에 최대…한은 "운용수익·금융기관 예수금 늘어" 한국 외환보유액, 10월 기준 세계 9위 규모

11월말 외환보유액 4천307억달러, 18억달러↑…여섯...

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I think I have identified a fairly significant flaw in how the currently operates. Hear me out.

The Fediverse currently consists of all sorts of different systems - , , , , , and so forth. And while they are all connected via the protocol, they all have different functionalities and different ways of presenting themselves. Which is as it should be, because Diversity Is Our Strength(TM).

However, it is here that the ActivityPub-based interactivity hits its limits - for usually, you can either experience the relevant system as it was intended, or you can interact with it, but not both - _unless_ you have an account on the same system (though not necessarily on the same instance).

Let's say that you are a Mastodon user who looks at another person's BookWyrm page. You scroll through their books, posts, and comments. Then you see some comment you want to comment on yourself, but can you do so?

Not directly. You need to figure out the URL of their comment, and then copy and paste that comment into the search bar of your Mastodon instance. Then it will show up in the same format as a Mastodon post, and you can interact with it - boost it, like it, comment on it.

Sure, it works, but it's a whole lot of tedious effort.

Or you can search for the user account in Mastodon and scroll through all their posts and comments as if they were a Mastodon user - and thus, you will miss out on all the unique user interface features of BookWyrm.

So what is missing?

Well, Mastodon already has an "Open original page" feature when looking at someone's post. What we need is an "Open original page AND AUTHENTICATE" feature. This way, the target instance (whatever software they are using) could acknowledge the viewer as an external user who could nevertheless fully interact with the local user interface, including the ability to boost, like, and make comments.

This is something that should be theoretically possible to implement, right?

A Mastodon menu that pops up when clicking on another user's post, showing the options:

"Expand this post
Open original page
Copy link to post"
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パイセンから「6年ものの朝鮮人参エキス」という韓国土産をもらって飲んだ
「寝る前に飲むとビンビンで眠れなくなるから気を付けろよ」と言われたから期待してしまうやん

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I am quite sure that if you haven’t donated to @bonfire ‘s campaign yet it’s just because you did not know about it yet, so here is a link: indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonf 🙂

In case you are not convinced yet, here’s a slide for you about (and against!) 💩

In this moment, I think every project that fights enshittification should deserve attention and support. I myself contributed, and got me an awesome print (limited edition number 19, which as y’all know is binary for 🤟😜)

The bonfire team at SFSCon 2025, presenting a slide titled “Enshittification”. On the left hand side of the slide, a bulleted list with the following sentences: “feeds are manipulated, people are silenced, data is sold, ads are everywhere, platforms mutate or vanish overnight”. On the right hand side, a sh!t emoji
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올해도 돌아온 자요양반의 유튜브 뮤직 Recap 생각지도 못한 곡이 재생 순위 1위군요.

최애 아티스트는 역시 DT. 올해는 특정 곡을 많이 들었다기보단 이것저것 잡다하게 많이 들었습니다. 재생 상위 리스트도 남겨봅니다.

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