Are there any #ActivityPub or #MastoDev people around here who can explain/point to a source in something approximating plain language how the Mastodon remote follow functionality works? The Ruby code is a like trying to read hieroglyphs for me.

Context: I'm interested in whether something similar can be implemented for @bookwyrm, preferably in a software-neutral way (i.e. remote follow from Misskey or Pleroma or Mastodon etc)

Boosts welcome.

@JennyFluff Yay for unboom!

@scanlime If Octodon is being a bad instance, there are some people who should be informed about that...

@FiXato
Yes. Where do I sign up. (Rails hates me.)

@dredmorbius

@eff How do I report an inaccurate listing? This is listed as Durham NC, but should be Durham NH (clearly a slip of the finger during data-entry): https://atlasofsurveillance.org/es/a/aos6662-university-of-new-hampshire-police-department-body-worn-cameras

#129: Tortoise
acrylic pouring on a small 24x30cm canvas

for an even bigger picture, go to the gallery site and click on the picture: https://kittenme.ws/art/gallery/129

Want to get the original art? I offer this on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1113645384/tortoise-129-24x30cm-acrylic-pour-on

@JennyFluff This is clearly the original piece that Jupiter is based on. [nods authoritatively]

@dredmorbius
to paraphrase another Doc:
Where we're going, we don't need... rails.

@FiXato

Added it here: https://htyp.org/Mastodon/admin#administering

@dredmorbius @galaxis

@FiXato That might take the Lhotse face off the learning-curve.

Now, if I can just find a place to stash that link where I'll remember to look when I'm ready to use it...

@dredmorbius @galaxis

@dredmorbius ...or maybe a better way to put it would be "the amount of time likely to be involved puts this task below other projects I'm currently trying to get onto a usable plateau-space, though it will eventually emerge into the light of day".

@galaxis

@dredmorbius Agreed. Unfortunately I don't have the resources necessary right now to figure out how to go about doing this.

@galaxis

Alright, so while I am waiting for some finish to dry on my drip box - this is my next art:

#126: "Rift", acrylic pour on 40x30cm canvas

You can acquire the original canvas on etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1111511322/rift-126-30x30cm-acrylic-pour-on-canvas?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1

my gallery: https://kittenme.ws/art/gallery

#art #kittenmews

This is great! 🤣​

Not on #SocialMedia ?

@sydneyfalk It's totals all the way down.

@dredmorbius @galaxis We've done it before, but I don't know if this was a problem.

It's plausibly a design issue with ActivityPub or Mastodon, and that kind of sucks :-/

(The right way to do it would be for all image URLs to go to an instance-controlled server which could then do a temporary HTTP-redirect to wherever their images actually are hosted, or else fetch images in the background and serve them directly.)

RT @RabbitEveryHour@twitter.com https://twitter.com/RabbitEveryHour/status/1462573188743901185

politically-themed #songParody:
https://woozalia.com/mw/Lied_to_by_the_Right
(just the lyrics for now)

@LottieVixen You're not the only one. I've looked them both up repeatedly, and all I can remember is that bikeshedding is something like getting distracted from the main problem by the details of a small part of it.

...and I might have that wrong (though Wiktionary seems to agree).

I did a quick search on yak-shaving, and the first result claims it's kind of equivalent to going down a task rabbit-hole, though I don't remember what the connection is.

Wiktionary, however, says it's more like where you have to do something apparently irrelevant in order to actually accomplish your goal. The name apparently derives from a Ren and Stimpy episode, so I wouldn't expect it to make sense outside of that context.