panos

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[–] panos@catodon.rocks 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I hope that, whatever project you get involved in next, makes you feel good - that's the only way any of this makes sense. Thank you for your work in this community!

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 14 points 2 days ago

Yes! Also the December release of Catodon will support both Bookwyrm and NeoDB reviews. I know that people are looking for a suggestion for now, but we need a month (although it will come sooner in develop, in November).

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 2 points 3 days ago

@artyom@piefed.social yes, I had talked to Rimu (who's really cool) when I was making the implementation, to make sure we do the same. I'm just saying, if you see two reactions where there should be one, let me know so I can look at it. In general, if you see anything that looks like a bug, send me a dm or mention me (or find me on our matrix room or file an issue on our repo!) so that I can see it and fix it :psi_hearts:

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@artyom@piefed.social @Lojcs@piefed.social that's probably because piefed doesn't support custom emoji (or at least custom emoji that are compatible with misskey and akkoma, like we do).

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

@artyom@piefed.social the first thing that came to my mind for the inconsistency is that other platforms give an upvote automatically to new topics, from the author, but in catodon we don't do that, each topic starts with no score and self upvotes are not allowed.

But if piefed genuinely shows the same reaction from you twice, it might be worth looking into. If you provide more info I can take a look, thanks!

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 5 points 5 days ago

In many ways - several features are gone, several have been added. Some of the main ones, I guess, are federated forums (compatible with Lemmy/Piefed), federated blogs, an RSS feed, following hashtags, and customizable timelines. We're also trying to make it easier for new users, with familiar terminology etc.

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 4 points 5 days ago

Thank you! :psi_hearts:

 

Cross-posted from !catodon-talks@catodon.rocks

A new website for Catodon, and more updates #catodon

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 2 points 2 weeks ago

huh, I didn't realize it had a paywall because Brave shows it just fine here...

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 1 points 2 weeks ago

yeah, you're not wrong...

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I found it funny that the page says "Give us your email to read the full story"

[–] panos@catodon.rocks 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But what happens when a link target changes? For example, I've seen news articles change as the author gets new information. Might be an edge case, but a solution like this would always show the preview at the time of the initial post.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by panos@catodon.rocks to c/fediverse@piefed.social
 

I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse it's not that easy.

So I looked at what indexes there are, and most were focused in Lemmy - lemmyverse.net has added MBin and PieFed explorers, but I was looking for something that covers more platforms, and is a unified directory, rather than per-platform only. Maybe there is something that I missed, but I didn't find what I was looking for: a directory for the threadiverse. So I decided to build it.

The Threadiverse Catalog lists forums/communities from Catodon, Discourse, Friendica, Lemmy, Mbin, Mobilizon, NodeBB and PieFed. It hasn't been online for many days, so it hasn't indexed everything, but we already list over 20.000 forums/communities. If there are any bugs or other issues, please let me know.

We built this primarily for Catodon, and on our latest release (26.10.0 "Bongo Cat") users have access to its results through the in-app Search and Explore features, but it's open for everyone to use. It's open source and written in Go. Other projects are also welcome to use it.

Cheers =)

#threadiverse #fediverse #catodon #discourse #friendica #lemmy #mbin #mobilizon #nodebb #piefed

 

Cross-posted from !fediverse@piefed.social

I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse it's not that easy.

So I looked at what indexes there are, and most were focused in Lemmy - lemmyverse.net has added MBin and PieFed explorers, but I was looking for something that covers more platforms, and is a unified directory, rather than per-platform only. Maybe there is something that I missed, but I didn't find what I was looking for: a directory for the threadiverse. So I decided to build it.

The Threadiverse Catalog lists forums/communities from Catodon, Discourse, Friendica, Lemmy, Mbin, Mobilizon, NodeBB and PieFed. It hasn't been online for many days, so it hasn't indexed everything, but we already list over 20.000 forums/communities. If there are any bugs or other issues, please let me know.

We built this primarily for Catodon, and on our latest release (26.10.0 "Bongo Cat") users have access to its results through the in-app Search and Explore features, but it's open for everyone to use. It's open source and written in Go. Other projects are also welcome to use it.

Cheers =)

#threadiverse #fediverse #catodon #discourse #friendica #lemmy #mbin #mobilizon #nodebb #piefed

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