mastodon.world is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Generic Mastodon server for anyone to use.

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@Eli Wallach's favorite Bass Important: Don't use alt-text to write around your character limit!

That's because not everyone can access alt-text. And those who can't can never read the extra stuff you've put into your alt-text. It's lost to them.

If you need more than 500 characters, you should instead
  • move to a Mastodon server with a higher character limit
  • move to Misskey
    3,000 characters (hard-coded)
    fully federated with Mastodon
  • move to a Misskey fork like Sharkey
    thousands of characters (configurable by admin without hacking into the source code)
    fully federated with Mastodon
  • move to Pleroma or Akkoma
    5,000 characters (configurable by admin without hacking into the source code)
    fully federated with Mastodon
  • move to Friendica
    16,777,215 characters (database field size)
    fully federated with Mastodon
  • move to Hubzilla
    16,777,215 characters (database field size)
    optionally fully federated with Mastodon
  • move to (streams) or Forte
    > 24,000,000 characters (database field size)
    fully federated with Mastodon

CC: @Jayne

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@logan @matrix @owncast Logal and Owncast making a difference!

If anyone has interest in #following #owncast #streams the bot has been a great help.

As a LOT of #fediverse natively supports #rss as well you can set up a #rssBot to monitor the unofficial Owncast as well for when someone, usually me, posts that an #owncaster is #live https://lemmy.world/c/owncast

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@silverpill Who are the longformers anyway?

They're those who either are commercial or looking for professional/commercial users or both. Flipboard. Automattic (WordPress). Ghost. These kinds.

They know themselves. They know each other. And they know Mastodon. And that's it.

None of them has ever heard of Pleroma or Akkoma.

None of them has ever heard of Misskey or the Forkeys.

None of them has ever heard of Mitra.

None of them has ever heard of GoToSocial.

None of them has ever heard of Hollo.

None of them has ever heard of Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) or Forte, even though Friendica and Hubzilla are both older than Mastodon. And apparently, neither has @Helge. But then again, Friendica and its nomadic, security-enhanced descendants are being overlooked by almost everyone. That's why there's always on-going work for features to be "introduced to the Fediverse" which Friendica has had for a decade and a half.

Granted, the HTML support on Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte can be summarised with "yes". But elaborate tables that show what either of them supports how would be very useful.

Also, granted, everything I've mentioned above (normally) uses something else than HTML for formatting in the frontend. For example, Misskey and all Forkeys use MFM ("Misskey-Flavoured Markdown"). Friendica uses extended BBcode with the option to use Markdown instead. Hubzilla uses even more extended BBcode. (streams) and Forte can use the same even more extended BBcode and Markdown and HTML at the same time within the same post, although not all markup languages support all features.

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@silverpill
The dataset doesn't include some other popular platforms like Friendica, but I am sure they also display long form content just fine.

Friendica and its descendants from the same creator, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, can produce long-form content just fine. With just about all bells and whistles from a title plus six levels of headlines to an unlimited number of images embedded within the text.

So yes, they can display it as well. However, outside of their own communities, hardly anyone knows what they're capable of. Thus, Fediverse developers often try to solve problems that aren't even really there because they were solved before they became problems.

Mastodon's lack of support for articles, linking to the originals instead, is not really a lack. It's a deliberate design decision from around 2017 or so.

See, the first ActivityPub implementation was on Hubzilla. That was in July, 2017. And Hubzilla implemented ActivityPub by the book.

Mastodon followed two months later. But Mastodon has always had its own "interpretation" of ActivityPub that was limited by Mastodon's own intentional design limitations in order to remain Twitter-like, purist, minimalist, old-school, original-gangsta microblogging with as few features that Twitter didn't have as possible.

This is also why Mastodon has a HTML "sanitiser" built in. Up until the release of Mastodon 4.0 in October, 2022, that "sanitiser" reduced any and all incoming HTML to plain text. And it did so for all object types, including the Article-type objects which Hubzilla sent. After all, Hubzilla can act as a fully-fledged long-form blogging platform.

However, the ActivityPub spec defines Article-type objects as formatted long-form content. Still, Mastodon defaced Hubzilla's Article-type objects by reducing them to plain text.

So Mike Macgirvin got into contact with Eugen Rochko and told him to adhere to the spec and deactivate Mastodon's "sanitiser" and make it support full HTML rendering for Article-type objects.

And Eugen Rochko said that bold type and italics and bullet-point lists and images in the middle of the content have nothing to do with old-school microblogging, so they have no place on Mastodon, so he won't implement them.

This head-butting went back and forth. Eventually, Eugen presented a "solution". And that was not to render Article-type objects at all anymore. Instead, Mastodon links to them and adds their title above if they have one.

This was only done to shut Mike up so he'd stop complaining about Mastodon defacing Hubzilla posts and breaking the spec by doing so. From Mike's perspective, however, what Eugen did was flip Hubzilla the bird by completely refusing to show actual Hubzilla content and practically lock out a competitor.

Mike's reaction was to break the spec himself and switch Hubzilla from sending Article-type objects to sending Note-type objects, regardless of Mastodon still defacing them.

With the exception of a very short period after the release of Hubzilla 9.0 when Mario Vavti and Harald Eilertsend learned the hard way that Mastodon still links to Article-type objects, Hubzilla has only sent its posts as Note-type objects ever since.

Mike's other creations have different ways of handling object types.

Friendica, by default, sends posts with titles as Article-type objects and posts without titles as well as comments as Note-type objects. This can be deactivated so that Friendica only sends Note-type objects.

CC: @Laurens Hof

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🌖 2025 年現代 Node.js 模式
➤ 擁抱標準、簡化依賴:您的 Node.js 開發邁向 2025
kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/
本文深入探討了 Node.js 自早期以來的演變,從依賴 CommonJS 的回呼函數到如今擁抱 ES Modules (ESM) 和內建 Web API 的現代化開發方式。文章重點介紹了 ESM 的優勢、頂級 await 如何簡化初始化、Fetch API 和 AbortController 如何減少外部依賴並實現優雅的取消操作,以及內建測試工具如何省去第三方框架。透過具體的程式碼範例,文章展示瞭如何利用這些現代化模式來提升開發效率、程式碼的可讀性及環境的一致性。
+ 真是太好了!我一直覺得 CommonJS 有點落伍,ESM 纔是未來的趨勢。看到 Node.js 終於將 Fetch API 和測試工具內建,真是太令人興奮了。
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The rivers and streams in Canada are equally important. How many of them are protected? Anybody know?

Local politicians have recognised the right of a famous chalk stream, the Test in Hampshire, to flow freely and unpolluted.

Councillors on Test Valley borough council voted unanimously to acknowledge “the intrinsic rights” of the rivers within its boundaries, including the Test, which is renowned for its trout and fly fishing.

It means councillors and officials will have to keep the Test front and centre when making decisions on planning, land use, water management and biodiversity.

#rivers #streams #ecology #RightsofRivers #ecosystems #rivertest

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Council recognises right of River Test to flow unimpeded and unpollutedBy Steven Morris
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