infinite love ⴳ

i have approximate knowledge of many things. perpetual student. (nb/ace/they)

xmpp/email: a@trwnh.com
https://trwnh.com
help me live:
- https://donate.stripe.com/14kg1Og6J4jvfbW145
- https://liberapay.com/trwnh

notes:
- my triggers are moths and glitter
- i have all notifs except mentions turned off, so please interact if you wanna be friends! i literally will not notice otherwise
- dm me if i did something wrong, so i can improve
- purest person on fedi, do not lewd in my presence

Website: https://trwnh.com
Portfolio: https://abdullahtarawneh.com
Fan of:: Punk-rock and post-hardcore (Circa Survive, letlive., La Dispute, THE FEVER 333)Manga (Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Death Note, Shaman King)Platformers and RPGs (Banjo-Kazooie, Boktai, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles)
What to expect:: talking about various things i find interesting, and otherwise being a genuine and decent wholesome poster. i'm just here to hang out and talk to cool people! and to spill my thoughts.

Public Key

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NIP-05 Address

trwnh_at_mastodon.social@momostr.pink

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relay.snort.social

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2026-05-10 11:08:15 UTC

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"the public collectively decides" is the part i'm questioning. who is "the public"? how do they decide "collectively"? what is the scope/audience of that decision? these kinds of processes need bounding boxes of some sort.

2026-05-10 09:43:43 UTC

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which is to say: the best way to better society isn't about reach (although that certainly warps the information landscape). the way to better society is to give people the ability to organize and the ability to set their own rules. conflict is forced when disagreeing parties are forced to interact; eventually, someone's "will" gets imposed on the "other". the pressure to conform to some norm is one of the worst things about society.

2026-05-10 09:36:33 UTC

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i'm making an argument from human psychology, because negative emotions are stronger and more likely to incite a reaction than positive emotions. we don't have perfectly spherical humans in frictionless environments. an argument toward popularity assumes that popular = good. it isn't. some of the best stuff is niche and even unpopular. you'd get a cultural "tyranny of the majority"-esque situation. i certainly hope i'm not judged by how many followers i accrue or how many boosts i get

2026-05-10 03:02:29 UTC

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everyone decides for themselves. but people aren't perfect judges. even personally i can say i pay attention to things i should rightfully ignore.

2026-05-10 02:46:39 UTC

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i'm skeptical that maximum attention is a measure for value. even if all humans could discover and evaluate universal information in negligible time, you'd still see the wrong things getting attention. it's not purely a distribution problem, and it's not simply perverse incentives, either -- well-meaning people allocate their attention incorrectly all the time.

2026-04-13 10:38:18 UTC

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- atproto requires a DNS name (and the TXT record points to a DID which points to a PDS)
- activitypub requires a URI (which in most cases you just HTTP GET directly, optionally following HTTP redirects)
- you could satisfy both by assigning subdomains or letting users bring their own domain
so alice.social.example and https://alice.social.example could be used ~equivalently, but https:// social.example/alice wouldn't work as an atproto identity.

2026-03-23 01:18:57 UTC

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"working to ensure legal compliance" is the problem though. no one should be complying at all.

2025-10-18 06:26:40 UTC

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"microblogging" is more about informality and semi-ephemerality, which comes from self-imposed length and formatting limits. the "boost" isn't unique to microblogging, and you don't need activitypub for that either. people share things all the time without activitypub. you could share *anything* with a link if only your software would let you. i could "boost" anything on the web but mastodon won't understand it except for an incredibly tiny subset of the web.

2025-09-27 20:19:13 UTC

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the web can provide access control too! the real "social web" is less about attention to me and more about letting people participate across websites. in that regard, a standard for identity is the most important missing piece. (consider hypothetically, we could expand on WWW-Authenticate and Authorization headers to negotiate identity for an individual HTTP request.)

2025-09-27 19:52:55 UTC

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> what's special about social media is the boost. virality. not community
this is a pretty good summary of why i hate that social media is the dominant paradigm. i'm not here for "content", i'm here for "people"

2025-06-25 06:15:01 UTC

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"at all"? we fetch them using HTTP GET, we communicate using HTTP POST... what makes you so strongly object to classifying them as HTTP resources?

2025-06-25 05:11:27 UTC

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i'm starting to get a little incredulous at the sheer number of times people suggest new protocol schemes and handlers for what is still fundamentally an HTTP resource
if we switched to serving web+activity: or fedi: or whatever, that'd be a horrific regression in UX because clicking/copying links would *break* for most people
the problem is most "fedi" apps are building a web browser inside a web browser. that's the fundamental ux sin. all else stems from that.

2025-03-18 22:39:40 UTC

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rather unfortunate that AP didn't leave any protocol signaling mechanisms for itself, so "upgrading" to a different/future version of AP is kinda fraught, since there is no concept or awareness of multiple protocols potentially using the same vocabulary

2025-03-18 22:38:56 UTC

activitypub should have defined a `Reply` activity and the `replies` collection should have contained these activities

2025-02-08 09:03:33 UTC

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i think it's possible or even really the meta-default to have them be kept and given a cover -- the expiration is built on top of that. there's definitely room to tweak the design of the feature as well, so it's not like they have to end up exactly like instagram or snapchat.
as far as importing existing ones from instagram, that depends on whether instagram includes them in exported archives, and whether they're in a format that's easily convertible. so maybe not?

2025-01-30 14:40:47 UTC

I must not consume brainrot. Brainrot is the mind-killer. Brainrot is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the brainrot. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the brainrot has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

2025-01-28 01:27:22 UTC

linkedin moment
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/903/375/790/534/647/original/3688a88890963261.jpeg

2025-01-09 21:52:57 UTC

i'm so sick to my stomach, i found out that someone is scraping / indexing posts from across fedi. i do not consent to this. can we get this shut down somehow???? https://mastodon.social/public

2024-11-23 08:01:50 UTC

federation is just one way to achieve some form of decentralization... but only on one axis. the axis of "service provider choice". what is needed alongside this is a great "unbundling" of services.
in the usa, if you want to sign up for just internet, companies often (more often in the past) force you to bundle in phone and tv service as well. we can think of one of fedi's current problems as the bundling of several services into a single provider -- identity, data, communication.

2024-11-22 02:29:20 UTC

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i think that probably the single biggest barrier to mastodev is that everything is bottlenecked by needing approval from like, what, 2.5 people? there's a severe lack of community and a similarly severe lack of delegation. this is to say that the primary challenge mastodon faces is not technical, but rather it is an organizational challenge.

2024-11-22 02:24:24 UTC

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there was a time in like 2018 where it felt like notable changes actually were getting merged at a steady pace but after like 2019 it slowed down a lot. i think maybe because the early contributors burned out. probably also a sense of protocol stagnation due to the lack of w3c socialcg action until like 2023. probably also a worldview that the software was "good enough" and that all that was left was to slowly improve it. a confluence of factors really. but the end result is what we have now.

2024-11-22 02:15:04 UTC

trying to get changes adopted by mastodon at a software or protocol level reminds me of the general frustrations of electoral politics. it's only slightly less ineffectual

2024-11-21 14:42:59 UTC

question mainly to proponents of quote posts, but anyone can respond:
what would you say is the semantic relationship between a “quote post” and “the post being quoted”?
Are there any semantics at all, or is it a generic link/reference? What’s the difference between a “quote” and a “link preview”?
By semantic, I mean “meaning”. What does it mean to “quote” something?
If “quote posts” never existed, how would you design an equivalent?
boosts welcome, i’m trying to get a wide range of answers

2024-11-04 16:03:20 UTC

the web was not made to be federated imo because the web is not a messaging platform, it's a publishing platform. in messaging, you federate between systems; in publishing, you *syndicate* to other sites. there is a difference, and the difference matters.

2024-09-24 16:02:35 UTC

i want to Kill
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/193/366/905/059/093/original/b87a751c1eb248bd.png

2024-09-24 12:06:46 UTC

idk where to really put this (might turn into a blog post later or something). it's what you might call a "hot take", certainly a heterodox one to some parts of the broader #fediverse community. this is in response to recent discussion on "what do you want to see from AP/AS2 specs" (in context of wg rechartering) mostly devolving into people complaining about JSON-LD and extensibility, some even about namespacing in general (there was a suggestion to use UUID vocab terms. i'm not joking)
1/?

2024-09-21 23:16:45 UTC

welcome to the fediverse! it's easy to get started, just pick one of these 30,000 nation-states you want to swear absolute allegiance and fealty to. you WILL be judged for this decision later. good luck!

2024-09-07 09:08:22 UTC

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also https://w3id.org/fep/7458 covers usage of the replies collection, with similar logic

2024-08-12 09:06:06 UTC

O_o
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/948/248/461/920/266/original/ff2bd359ed7315a4.png

2024-05-27 21:16:56 UTC

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i don't think this entirely makes sense because the rules for parsing microsyntax are so highly variable and application-specific. so text/plain is the best you're going to get for this.

2024-05-14 17:39:32 UTC

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no, “streams” carry no additional semantic meaning. it’s just a grab-bag of collections related to the actor, for example, say i categorized my posts into “tech”, “personal”, etc etc, i could link each collection from the streams property.

2024-05-14 16:56:00 UTC

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not sure what the "streams" property has to do with this, it seems completely unrelated. but i have thought before that Group is not very useful as an actual group of people because there's no good way to figure out membership.
one way to address this would be to dual-type [Group, Collection]
another way would be to use vcard:hasMember
a third way would be to define an extension property/collection indicating "members" that you can Join/Leave or be Add/Remove to by mods.

2024-05-11 03:45:18 UTC

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i can see this being an issue particularly for mastodon participants who have to deal with 500-character limits :x
you might want to maybe consider a heuristic that allows or merges in self-replies within a certain time window into a single post? idk, just a thought

2023-12-10 18:02:40 UTC

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the follow up
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/557/428/028/746/017/original/3d1b9fa9dcf2edf1.png

2020-02-21 21:33:35 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/025/453/480/original/928a8e0bd7de171c.png

2019-08-19 01:04:04 UTC

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i'd be willing to take a stab at it, having just cleaned up a lot of docs for pixelfed. it's still incomplete but it's much less messy than it used to be. i would need to sit down and try to map it out with you first, though.

2019-08-12 04:46:30 UTC

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y'all really liked that one huh

2019-08-12 00:57:08 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/580/151/original/fdc3b9d58b848672.jpg

2019-08-12 00:15:31 UTC

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wait no i can't scroll past this and not upload it
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/579/190/original/4dcd6ab5e2f69a57.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/579/200/original/15076ff11c99c6d3.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/579/208/original/2505ac17f935a3ad.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/579/321/original/b5d82a4ef1029ebd.jpg

2019-08-12 00:02:44 UTC

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in related news this marks the end of this thread

2019-08-11 23:59:10 UTC

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i mean ok i'm jokingly mad about this but looking through my google photo library from 2017 is genuinely infuriating. there are a *lot* of screenshots of twitter and twitter-related nonsense in that time period and, ugh, people suck.

2019-08-11 23:24:07 UTC

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i'm still mad about this
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/578/088/original/b3a046250510ce40.png

2019-08-11 23:10:06 UTC

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(cw sexual reference, food) i may have posted this one before
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/577/726/original/385e698be7a51e0b.jpeg

2019-08-11 23:00:27 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/577/426/original/ac8c4e7aaeb82670.jpeg

2019-08-11 22:44:37 UTC

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i can't remember posting these e=mc² dog socks either
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/577/171/original/d6e3625efde89f8c.jpeg

2019-08-11 22:41:06 UTC

did i ever post this horribly off-center yet still somehow officially licensed mario cap
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/017/577/092/original/307cffe20be5a472.jpeg