Renaud Chaput / is on Nostr

Co-Founder & CTO Notos (npub1ypf…53gr)
Full Stack Architect, from datacenter to frontend.

Mastodon core team member & CTO #mastodev

Technical administrator for mastodon.social & mastodon.online (and oisaur.com :oisaur:) #mastoadmin

Also #lego, #boardgames and #woodworking

Blog: https://renchap.com
Github: https://github.com/renchap
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2024-07-31 17:07:02

Question for #ActivityPub implementors: has there been any research on how to best handle deletions (accounts and/or posts)?
At the moment, the best (and only?) way to know that an account deletion has been federated everywhere is to notify any known inbox / instance, for every account deletion.
This is very wasteful and not efficient, are there any alternatives? Has anyone worked on this?

2024-07-31 06:06:50

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This is not formalised right now, and there is no documented process for this (yet), mostly because we want to first see if this is viable (and that it will probably overwhelm the current team tbh), but for example @npub1ecs…u4wq is doing it, and she has been able to do significant improvements to some parts of the code and those have been merged.
On the other side, others reached out, then disappeared after realising the real amount of work needed for what they wanted to do
@npub12wr…azeq

2024-07-31 06:04:21

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Opening PRs for large features without discussing with the core team beforehand will often result in the PR not being reviewed / accepted, as it will not implement things in a way that are okay for the core team, not be aligned with design, not take into account some other planned work and so on. But if someone wants to work on a specific feature, they can reach out and I will do my best to see if there is a way for them to work on it in a manner that it will get merged
@npub12wr…azeq

2024-07-31 05:54:57

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We will not hire a "safety developer" or similar role (unless we get *much* bigger probably), and do not have a feature-by-feature budget. But we have a (fluid) roadmap, which includes safety features, and are working to grow the team so we have developer time to advance on the roadmap. This also includes having the time to think about such features, as they often are not as easy to implement that it can seem.
@npub12wr…azeq

2024-04-19 20:51:18

Nobody seems to have noticed it apart of [@thisismissem](https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem), but the Mastodon project have been granted funding by [@NGIZero](https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero) in the Entrust fund.
This is amazing, but the best part is that this funding is targeted at implementing… Quote Posts 🎉
This effort started several months ago and we already did some preliminary work, but this will be a big feature for our next 4.4 version. This funding will cover the ActivityPub work, as well as backend, web frontend and official mobile app implementation.