@coolboymew Interesting, what are the most important "outdated" things that need to be updated?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...
@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 :-)
@rmbl Sometimes I need the same, and I also feel that it is inconvenient to keep "unread" all notifications in order not to forget one of them. Recently I started implementation of Group/Lists support in #AndStatus. And I see that creation of some personal "ToDo" group and adding any note/ activity to that group could help in such cases. Unfortunately AFAIK only #ActivityPub supports such actions, meaning that such custom groups of notes could be automatically synced between User's devices or even shared... Moreover, each "Social network" in #AndStatus logically should have its own group... So it seems that I will start from some device-local groups (like tags...) that can be easily viewed... @fedilab
@moonman There are two dimentions in the support of different protocols of Social networks, which I'm facing during development : 1. Implementation of different API calls and parsing responses of every API of every supported protocol. I cope with this problem simply by implementing only some of available APIs (features)... 2. Trying to adapt internal data/actions model so that it could fit into conceptual differencies of different systems. This is a lot more time consuming and difficult to do right. In #AndStatus we started ten years ago with Twitter-like model. For the last two years I'm gradually converting it into #ActivityPub based model...
@andstatus Sadly it does not work, the limit still shows up as 500. I am on a Pleroma instance though, as I understand it exposes max post length with max_toot_chars property accessible from /api/v1/instance (which is what glitch-soc used.)
@roka As I remember, #AndStatus gets the limit from Mastodon's configuration... Please try to go to AndStatus Settings -> Accounts -> Manage Accounts -> Select your account and then Reverify credentials. Do you see updated toot length limit?
Open Source multiple accounts client for multiple Social networks, including GNU social, Mastodon, Twitter and Pump.io. AndStatus can combine your feeds from all networks into one Timeline, and it allows you to read and post even when you are offline. For Android v.7.0+ devices.