@coolboymew I heard recently that #AndStatus doesn't work properly with Pleroma as with "Mastodon type" social network. Didn't investigate this... But since last year #Pleroma is adding #ActivityPub #C2S (Client to Server) interface, and AndStatus has basic support for this type, checked and tested with Pleroma team! See https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/499 @dielan @thefaico@quitter.se
@coolboymew Thank you for the feedback. As I see you mentions not "outdated things" but features/settings that didn't meet your expectations or were unusual for you :-) Most of what you mentioned can be configured in #AndStatus settings. Including a list of timelines to be shown, whether or not request all notes/tweets or recent only... Notifications were improved a year or two ago and now you can see "Unread notifications" timeline (yes, another timeline :-) ) and explicitly mark all notifications as read.
@coolboymew Interesting, what are the most important "outdated" things that need to be updated? In your opinion. @dielan@shitposter.club @kro@loadaverage.org
@xrevan86 I suspect that non-local groups aren't shown via API simply because you cannot do anything with via API with non-local groups: join, leave, list members... In a case of GNU Social seeing local groups only is mostly useless: main power comes with using the same group across different instances. E.g. naturally I would like to join !gnusocial But as I cannot even find this group via API from loadaverage.org, it looks like implementation of "list local groups" won't worth its efforts :-(
@xrevan86 As I see you are an active #GnuSocial developer now :-), congratulations! Could you help to boost Group support in client apps?
I see that web site has the global Group Directory https://loadaverage.org/groups but API, as I see, shows local groups only. Could you extend API to list All accessible groups?!
Moreover, looking into the source code I found the first-hand info about the system's API . And although the code, related to Groups support, didn't change for the last six years :-) https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/src/nightly/actions/apitimelinegroup.php , it works and I could actually retrieve the group's timeline at loadaverage.org
The unusual "!groupname" syntax to address a group is not a big problem...
@rozzin After today's thinking about our discussion and re-reading of the thread, I seem like understand, what needs to be done, see updated comment: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/248#issuecomment-219826572 And what's interesting: GNU Social's groups look like the first to be worth implementing. Simply because they work and at least somebody is using them, I hope.
Or it is too late to implement something for #GNUSocial ?! I mean, too few people use it..?!
@kim fedilab a mí me ha dado problemas con gnusocial, sobre todo que no me notificaba nada. Uso AndStatus desde hace mucho, y sin problemas con pump.io, gnusocial, ni con friendica, solo algunos puntuales con la subida de imágenes.
@roka In the time of gigabytes given for free limiting a post even to 5000 characters looks unexplainable :-) I think that moving from 140 characters to kilobytes of text may show the we are starting to use fediverse to discuss complex subjects, which don't fit in a paragraph...
XXX posts can live with 500 characters evidently, using all that space for their hashtags :-)
@roka Looks like some deeper hardcoded limit in #AndStatus. Than you for reporting - will fix this also. However I cannot test this 65535 characters anywhere: tried and failed to register at your instance...
@rmbl Oh, I see that I was confused a bit about terminology. The "Group" notion in #ActivityPub is about a group of Actors (people etc.), but we are talking here about a named "Collection" of notes/activities. But actually GNU Social calls such collections "Groups" :-) I'm creating descriptions and comparisons of Groups/Lists notions in different types of social networks, supported by #AndStatus, here: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/248#issuecomment-219826572
No, I don't use IRC. That way of communication is in another Universe for me :-)