Notices by Zack (zack@toot.cafe)

Has anyone heard anything about #deno? It seems like a nice alternative to #node, but it's still prerelease and I don't know the status/health of the project.

Hey #Ruby devs, if you're looking to help out the #fediverse, check out #prismo! It's a link sharing platform, similar to https://lobste.rs or hacker news, that federates over #ActivityPub.

The lead (and only) dev has to back off development for a while, but it would be great to spin up a team that could pick up the slack and keep the project moving.

You can find the repo here:
https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo

and the matrix room here:
https://matrix.to/#/!IadFDmzRTSlgzQTZHj:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=swedneck.xyz&via=feneas.org

From @HenrikJoreteg

"Chrome on iOS is such a pain. A surprising number of people seem to use it and no one realizes it's not actually Chrome but just a crippled webkit webview missing major features:

1. No Service Worker
2. Can't print or save as PDF
3. No support for GetUserMedia

Why is this OK?!"

It's not. It's Apple blatantly crippling competitors to cement their hold on the platform and prevent any alternative. But everybody always gives Apple an pass.

I'm really excited about Mozilla's focus on developer tools in #Firefox. My coworkers laughed when they found out I was using Firefox, because in their mind it's behind the times. Chrome is the only modern browser to them. New tools that make development easier makes it easier to show them why Firefox, and a diverse browser ecosystem in general, is important to support.

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/02/21/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-53/#developer-tools

@sivy It's not that every service has to support every Activity/Object, but they should degrade gracefully and shouldn't mangle the content they do support. Plume's articles aren't displayed correctly because of how mastodon interprets summary, pleroma's formatted posts are stripped of formatting so they can be extremely hard to read. Mastodon doesn't have to support creating that kind of content, but it shouldn't wreck it either.

I would love to see Hubzilla get the boom in development that Mastodon got. I think it only has three active developers and they can't keep up with all the requests. It already has the basic features, it just needs some polishing.

Are there any #mastoadmins that are interested in running their own hub? Or maybe some mastonauts could run a hub for their families. I've been thinking about running a private family hub for family photos/messages and using it as a slow intro to the fediverse.

@djsundog @mastodon 👍 It worked for facebook.

https://masto.host could also be a big part of any outreach there. Imagine different clubs at a school starting up their own instances for club members. The more small, niche communities we have, the better the fediverse is.