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Yeah agreed. In particular I really like that feditest exists even if I haven’t done anything to check it out / learn about it for myself yet.

Akkoma and Pleroma are two popular “Mastodon style” Fediverse apps, I think born out of exactly this type of complaint about Mastodon, which you could get involved with if you wanted to be involved with better software without it being a one-man show.

I think it’s made needlessly difficult by how sloppy a protocol ActivityPub is, such that different Fediverse apps can’t really interoperate with each other except at a pretty rudimentary level, so you kind of have to pick one of the leading ones and imitate it, in order to be a citizen in its community and not have to build your own little community from scratch. But that’s a problem without a real easy solution, I think.

You need to be logged in – for me it shows all the posts / comments that I’ve liked. See the fix that the other person posted though; the comment link should be https://lemm.ee/api/v3/comment/list?liked_only=true

Oh, true dat - yeah that is much more convenient.

API docs are at https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_post-list - I haven’t tested this, but to me it looks like you can get raw results for what you’ve liked by doing this (for $server set to whatever server address):

1. Open web developer tools and go to the “Network” tab
2. Load a page of Lemmy while logged in
3. Right-click on one of the network requests, select Copy Value -> Copy as curl
4. Paste the resulting value to command line in a place that has curl; that’ll give you a request that has the right auth tokens and etc
5. Backspace over the actual URL so you can replace it with the API calls you need
6. Use --request GET --url "https://$server/api/v3/post/list?liked_only=true" --header 'accept: application/json' to get liked posts as JSON
7. Use --request GET --url "https://$server/api/v3/comment/list?liked_only=true" --header 'accept: application/json' to get liked comments as JSON

Edit: Fixed comment link

You can make a protocol that allows for not-yet-defined behavior, or has parts that are prescribed to work in a certain way if you’re choosing to implement some certain behavior although you’re not required to. The 7-layer OSI model and SMTP-email headers are two good examples. Even grafting encrypted or multimedia email on top worked, more or less, reasonably well and was still interoperable for the most part. They could have used that type of thing as a starting point, instead of doing the equivalent of “well we don’t want to constrain what types of networking applications you might want to implement, so we’re just gonna specify the from and to addresses. You do your checksumming and MTU management the way YOUR application wants to do it.”

I mean I’m not gonna sit too much in judgement of someone who created something which is working and producing good things but it’s hard not to be wistful about how much better it could be if the spec was specific enough that the different apps could substantively talk to one another.

Friends don’t let friends use vague protocols

ActivityPub is popular because it solves a vital problem, which is fine. But the protocol itself as a protocol, in my unfair opinion, is way too loose and basically results in little single-app fiefdoms that communicate outside their borders poorly if at all. I don’t know what the solution is, but it definitely is a problem that didn’t need to exist in its current severe form.

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Biden: Tell me again what a femcel is

Staff: Please just let’s go back to Tiktok

Biden: What’s a fursona

Let me know when you get your piracy instance set up, and where it is and whether I can go there and do whatever I want on it

You were supposed to bring balance to the Fediverse, not destroy it

Do you have a source that is a little more reliable?

They are not the same thing. Facebook is bad too (and actually, a platform-neutral legal restriction based on behavior would be better), but TikTok is absolutely unique in the type of threat it poses:

1. The Chinese government treats communication networks as their personal hoovering-attachment for any data they might want. Companies are required by law to operate as an arm of Chinese intelligence, both in terms of giving information and in terms of manipulating what information people on their network are allowed to see. The FBI and NSA definitely spy on Americans too to some extent, but it’s simply not in the same league or with the same type of goals.
2. It’s not just your TikTok data. It’s photos and files on your phone, your contacts, your messages, basically anything that the app with its too-permissive permissions can get its hands on, can potentially go up to Chinese intelligence.
3. TikTok is not structured like any other app. It has features like custom-downloading and running arbitrary binaries from its central server that honestly don’t even make much sense except as spying apparatus (consistent with #1).
4. What China might do with this unprecedented level of access to everyone’s phones is malevolent in a different way than, say, Facebook’s access to everyone’s data. Like Facebook they have the ability to e.g. influence an election, but they also have the ability to try to blackmail an individual to compromise them, or do for-real torture in the real world (say by tracking down a dissident via TikTok spying and then having one of their little Chinese-police-in-America units grab them).

Citations:

1. https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/532583-for-chinese-firms-theft-of-your-data-is-now-a-legal-requirement/
2. https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-protection/understanding-information-tiktok-gathers-and-stores
3. https://www.currentware.com/blog/block-tiktok/
4. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-hong-kong-spy-agency-official-presence-national-security-laws-report-2020-6 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1170571626/fbi-arrests-2-on-charges-tied-to-chinese-outpost-in-new-york-city