mastodon's creative extensions to oauth are gonna make me cry...

Ktistec is going to require that clients support PKCE

both 1000xRESIST and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are listed a "playable" on the Steam Deck but not "verified". it sounds like some of the problem might be frame rate. i'm unsure whether or not to take the risk. sadly neither run on a mac.

ugh, i just spent an unfortunate amount of time obsessing about focal points...

There are two big features in release v3.1.3 of Ktistec: auto-approve followers and a new image viewer.

Auto-approve followers is conceptually simple ("the server automatically sends an Accept activity when it receives a Follow activity") but it required extensive changes to some of the oldest code in the codebase: the inboxes and outboxes controllers. I refactored inbox and outbox side-effect processing into independent services, which made it possible to support side-effects like auto-approve follow (and also auto-follow back), without having to go through the controllers.

A more significant change for me personally was replacing the lightGallery image gallery (an external dependency) with my own implementation. It's not as slick, and not as full of features—I wrote it in two days—but it is fully free software, and that's important to me.

Added

• Add admin page for managing OAuth access tokens.
• Add support for auto-approve followers. (fixes #26)
• Add support for auto-follow back.

Fixed

• Prevent triggering actor refresh when user is anonymous.

Changed

• Replace "lightgallery" dependency with custom image viewer.
• Set OAuth access token expiry to 30 days (previously expired after 24 hours).
• Refactor inbox and outbox processing into dedicated processor services.

The OAuth changes set the groundwork for better support of the Mastodon API and the Fediverse clients that depend on it. Stay tuned!

#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang

I really don't like iOS 26. It's not so much the liquid glass look—I've disabled most of the effects. It's that almost everything else I use seems to take an additional step. For example, to get rid of a tab in Safari, I now have to 1) tap the little dots (⋯), 2) tap item "All Tabs", 3) dismiss the tab.

#ios26

terrorform: episode of Red Dwarf or open-source infrastructure as code tool?

I’m exploring features for navigating and reading large threads. A “large thread” is a thread with more than 250 replies. I personally can’t easily consume all of that, and quite a number of replies are uninformative in any case (they are simple statements of agreement or dismissal).

Some things I’m trying:

• Highlighting replies by the original poster—the assumption is that, if I'm interested in the thread, I'm interested in what the original poster had to add.
• Highlighting replies with a larger than average number of replies, in turn—the assumption being, they must have added something meaningful to the thread.
• Maybe longer replies are more interesting? Highlight them?

By way of replies to this post, I am definitely interested in others' thoughts on good heuristics.

#ktistec

I'm working on federation issues.

👻 Release v3.1.2 of Ktistec improves support for Lemmy and community servers like it that distribute content by wrapping it in Announce activities (FEP-1b12: Group federation support). Ktistec also supports the audience property, although support for that was removed from Lemmy earlier this year.

🎃 This release also adds support for delivering to shared inboxes, which are widely supported by other ActivityPub servers. Despite being federated, the Fediverse is not highly distributed, and this optimization can reduce outbound delivery traffic by 10-20x.

Added

• Support for the Dislike activity.
• Support for the audience property on activities and objects.
• Support for delivery to shared inboxes.
• Support for full-width hash signs in hashtags (e.g. ＃日本語) commonly used in Japanese and other Asian languages.

Fixed

• Strip HTML from object summaries rather than escaping it.
• Properly unwrap Lemmy-style Announce activities.

Changed

• Destroy discarded drafts instead of deleting them.

Enjoy!

#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang