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  • That looks really interesting! Congrats on shipping. I’m glad to see more people implementing “headless” AP servers.

    The one piece of feedback I have: your outbox seems to have no pagination and it’s only showing updates for your actor profile. So there is no way for someone to use browse through your posts or use the outbox as a “RSS feed” of sorts. It’s also embedding the whole object, all the time. If you are just serving static files (which are easy to cache), perhaps it would be better to just provide a stable URL for the objects, and then just return the document id in the “object” field?










  • Unless you are adding hundreds of pictures to immich every day and you are planning on using their machine learning stuff a lot, I’d say you don’t need any new hardware. The services you want should run easily even on machines with 4GB of RAM. If I were you, I’d just get one 2TB hard disk, put it in an external case and connect to the laptop via USB and keep this setup until this bubble pops.



  • In the most practical cases, yes. But in theory, there is nothing about the protocol that says that message addressing implies message visibility, or even access control.

    Also, be careful of taking your assumptions and treating them as universal truths. One day somebody could build an IRC-like system on ActivityPub and decides to treat a “ChatMessage” object as public objects which may or may not be addressed at a single participant. There would be no “bug” if the server picks up the object, relays to others, or even indexes it and makes it searchable.








  • “it works when everyone behaves well” is not the same as being protected.

    It doesn’t even take a malicious actor: I am working on a local-first browser extension that is very aggressive about caching content in the database. There is no “please delete this data” for an extension. You of all people should not be making claims about privacy that you know you can not guarantee.




  • Raphael@communick.newstoFediverse@lemmy.worldConverser.eu is being flooded
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    9 days ago

    they seem to want this service to stay free and open

    TANSTAAFL.

    The admin might think they are being this generosity is good for the users, but at the end of the day all it just gets them burned out and gives people who signed up the impression that all matrix servers are slow. Meanwhile, acess to my matrix server is not free, ($29/year, less than $2.50/month) but by charning just a little bit I can make sure that it grows at a rate that I can manage and doesn’t make my infrastructure implode.