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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:ohayougozaimasu:​トドン​:sticker_dancingelephant:
今日は冷えるねぇ​:blobcat_freeze:

もくもくもくようび~

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( •ω• )
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(・_・)スッ

なにがもくもくもくようびだ
僕たちの未来はもくもくとした霧に覆われ、数分先のことすら見通せないじゃないか
全てを諦め、未来を捨てなければ、心にかかった霧は永劫に晴れないんだ


shindanmaker.com/815590

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지금 작가님이 푸신 tmi... 릭과 예현이 기수가 같았다면 제법 친해졌을거라는 말 때문에, 그럼 릭이 예현을 어려워하는 까닭이 뭘까(깊.생.) 랑 더불어서, 아 근데 예최능폼폼즈 같기수면 진짜 좀 더 우당탕탕 재밌긴하겟닼ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ팝콘각ㅋㅋㅋㅋ(주로 힐데의 비명이 6배가 됨)<-이 혼재된 상태가 되어부렷엌ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...

Crucial is shutting down — bec...

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Misskeyの場合、リアクションを押すとパーティクルエフェクトが出たりすることで「操作を行った」ことが分かるようになっています​:nullcatchan_goodnight:

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個人的には自分のした操作が受け付けられたかどうかの反応がまず欲しい。操作に続く処理の結果がどうかはその後の別の話という感覚ですね。

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You might think it's not a priority with all the doom happening around.

But the erosion of privacy rights is directly linked to the erosion of human rights, and the loss of democracy.

Privacy makes it safe for you to discuss, to organize, to resist, and to be your true self. This is exactly why fascists and authoritarians are attacking it.

If we lose privacy, we lose everything else. We have to defend it with all we've got.

Privacy rights are a priority.

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today's Urbit newsletter starts with an apologia about how they suck and everything they claim about their stack is a lie and it all runs in C on Linux

but they have a PATH to not sucking oh yes they do they'll show you ALL

not included: how they plagiarised Nix but not the bits that fucking work

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Amazon might not notice that you stopped shopping with them* but if you take that same modest bit of disposable income and spend it on art bought directly from artists, the small electronics projects of your friends, helping people in dire financial situations and the the local theater all of those people WILL notice. It will have a massive impact.

*But, also Amazon does notice. Especially as more and more people do this.

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