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Including for me.programming.dev

Any interest in hosting q&a style programming communities?

@meta

See: https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/112416604462962336

I am noticing that some comments, which are coming from users on other verified (via /instances) federated instances, do not show up on a post. For example: https://programming.dev/post/13648105

Does not show this comment on it: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10803786

Any ideas why? I checked the modlog and the comment wasn't removed, and their post history to me does not look like someone that is likely to be banned from the instance, so I'm not sure what else it could be.

When I try to upload an image by copying the image and pasting it on the "URL" field, I get the following error:

Invalid status 502 Bad Gateway for Some("003/004/170/971/9e93b608-72cb-4486-9a47-4c8c8c41e998") - \r\n502 Bad Gateway\r\n\r\n502 Bad Gateway\r\nnginx\r\n\r\n\r\n

Recently, every time I click on a "Trending Communities" link there's an entirely empty community moderated by the @Vacant@programming.dev account.

What's going on?

What's the motivation?

Hello,

I’m trying to follow Lennard Poetting (@pid_eins@mastodon.social) from my programming.dev account without success.

On its user profile on mastodon.social, when I click on the “follow” button, then enter “programming.dev” (which is in the completion list) then “take me home”, I am redirected to https://programming.dev/authorize_interaction?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social%2Fusers%2Fpid_eins which is a 404 error.

I also tried to search for “@pid_eins@mastodon.social” directly from programming.dev, found it, but 0 toot, and no button to be able to follow it.

Am I doing something wrong? Is mastodon.social and programming.dev not federated?

Anyone else noticing all those broken icons/images on this instance?

e.g. https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/1e947440-0f0d-4768-ba4b-1480551e7cc9.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96 seems to result in something like "Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image/process.webp?src=1e947440-0f0d-4768-ba4b-1480551e7cc9.png&thumbnail=96): error trying to connect: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Name or service not known"

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/89462

Handling large bursts of POST requests to your ActivityPub inbox, using a buffer in Nginx

Fediverse traffic is pretty bursty and sometimes there will be a large backlog of Activities to send to your server, each of which involves a POST. This can hammer your instance and overwhelm the backend’s ability to keep up. Nginx provides a rate-limiting function which can accept POSTs at full speed and proxy them slowly through to your backend at whatever rate you specify.

Hey everyone! Recently there was a small issue with the backend (docker shenanigans) that brought the site down and then took a bit to fix

Things should be fixed for now and we will be looking more at it in the future to try to prevent the site from being taken down that way again

Downtime was around 30 minutes

The best place to reach us when theres an outage with the site and to receive updates of it is on the discord server or matrix space or on one of our microblog accounts

• Discord Server

• Matrix Space

• Main Microblog Account (hosted on the same infrastructure so if the entire server goes down the other account is used)

• Secondary Microblog Accout

Hey everyone! I wanted to do a post here talking about an event going on in the fediverse called Lemmyvision. This is a competition where various communities each choose a song and then those are voted on by users to rank which ones people enjoy the most.

Its being ran as a fun way to see various kinds of music from around the world, sharing more between our online communities across Lemmy, and as a way to songs from lesser known artists. We are participating with game soundtracks as an opportunity to showcase new advancements in the game development space, especially for indie games that might otherwise not get much exposure.

There was a national final to determine the song our instance would submit in the programming.dev event community. After voting the song Your Inception from the game Casette Beasts was chosen.

Submitted Songs and Voting

Ive compiled all of the songs into playlists on three different platforms for watching

• Youtube Link
• Spotify Link
• Invidious Link

Feel free to listen to them and vote using the voting link https://tally.so/r/nWNgKQ. When selecting what instance you are representing theres an option to select programming.dev for people voting from the instance.

Voting is done by ranking the songs from your favorite to your least favorite. Users from our instance can't rank the song we submitted to keep things fair.

If you want to chat with other people about the competition theres a community for it here

Future Events

This post will be going into the meta community for people who might not know the event community exists (and i'll likely be doing another post when the event Canvas is happening).

Any other future posts will be posted in the programming.dev event community. All major event posts will be made on our blog with the category set to the event name and the tag "Event".

Thank you to everyone that submitted a report about the toxic user on our instance

Transphobia is absurd, horrid, and isn't allowed on our instance

As my software dev program finishes next week I'll be able to provide a quicker response to reports!

Anyways
Thank you again to everyone making these reports🤗 and I highly encourage anyone else that spots anything sketchy to do the same as your reports helps us keep p.d a safe and cool community to share and discuss code related stuff🌻❤️

Hey everyone! Ive made a form that can be used to give feedback about the site including what you think its doing well and what you think needs improvement

Based on responses if something is highly requested we can prioritize improving/adding that first

Ill try to run these a couple times a year

Will be pinned for a day in the instance

https://www.threads.net/@potus

Hello P.D users.

I'm sure the recent news of lemmy.world's removal of piracy communities has not escaped the attention of many of you. For those who have not heard, here is their announcement on the matter.

Now, being as transparent as possible, this is not a subject that the admin team of P.D have discussed in great detail up until this point. We have yet to create an explicit rule stating that piracy related content is forbidden on this instance, and doing so is not something any of us wish to do.

With that being said, this topic requires more deliberation and consideration. There is more complexity to this issue than taking a stance for, against, or tolerant of piracy. There are legal considerations. And the truth is that we are not 100% sure on what the legal implications are for allowing piracy related content to exist on this instance, either directly on our communities or indirectly via federation.

One thing that must be considered when looking into the legalities is jurisdiction. I believe being part of a larger federation complicates this more than a centralised service, but P.D must at a minimum be considerate of the laws of the country its server(s) is hosted in, and the laws of the country the person responsible for the instance resides in.

For those who don't know, this instance is administrated by a reasonably large team of volunteers, but is hosted and ultimately provided by only one: snowe. There is no legal entity behind P.D other than his person, and this means that any ramifications of this subject ultimately fall on his shoulders.

After an initial discussion between us, it is clear that some professional legal advice is required. Snowe is intending to seek formal legal advice. Up until that point, we cannot say what the official P.D stance will be on this topic long term.

What I can say, is that nobody in this administrative team desires to impose any restrictions on users of this instance that overreach and limit discussion unnecessarily. So long as content here is not dangerous, hurtful or offensive, we have no wish to filter it out on an instance level. Communities can impose their own rules, for the most part.

You can expect a further update on this topic in the future, once we have a better understanding ourselves, and we will keep this topic as transparent as we possibly can. Until then, in relation to this matter, we do not currently intend to defederate from any instances or ban any communities that discuss piracy. Linking to websites that provide pirated content will also not be explicitly banned, but linking to or directly hosting pirated content on P.D is prohibited. Should any of these rules change, we will communicate it as quickly as possible and far ahead of any drastic action that would need to take place as a result.

I believe the majority of our users here will understand the pressure that any Lemmy instance faces by hosting content that can make them susceptible to legal action. To those of you who are understanding, we thank you for that, and are grateful for your patience with us while we get a better understanding ourselves.

Feel free to discuss this matter here.

Thanks,
The P.D. Admin Team.

Site link: https://bytes.programming.dev Blog post: https://stacks.programming.dev/posts/bytes/

Introducing the official release of Bytes, our programming microblog. This is being run for the most part in a similar way the main programming.dev instance is and anyone is free to join even if youre not a programmer (but be warned most topics will be about programming or similar aspects).

The software the site is using is called iceshrimp which is one of the misskey forks which has a better UI than mastodon and a lot of advanced features and customization

Microblogging

Microblogging is essentially making small posts of text or image to share things going on. This can include things like sharing things happening, progress on things youre working on, making polls for people to vote on, chatting with others, etc.

As opposed to programming.dev where things are sorted into communities, bytes works based off hashtags where you add tags to your post based on what categories it falls into.

Timelines

Theres 5 main timelines in the instance to browse (excluding custom ones).

• Home is the place to see posts from everyone you are following.
• Local shows posts from everyone in the instance.
• Social shows a combination of posts from home and local.
• Recommended show posts from instances that have been recommended by the admins (currently I have this set to mastodon.gamedev.place, peoplemaking.games, and gamemaking.social)
• All shows posts from all instances the server is currently pulling from.

Antennas

Antennas are a feature where you can set certain keywords to look out for and it will generate a feed of posts that have one or more of those keywords in them

This has further options such as making AND conditions, OR conditions, excluding posts with certain keywords, getting notifications, and changing the source of posts (to things such as posts made by certain people or on certain instances)

Reactions

As opposed to only having one thing to react to posts with (aka a like) you can react with any emoji you want on a post. We have added some custom emojis to start off with on the server but if you have ideas for more feel free to reach out.

Translation

If theres a post made in another language, you can select the translate option to translate the post into english to then be able to read!

Lists

Lists are a feature where you can set a bunch of people and it will make a feed with posts from those people.

Drive

The drive is a spot where you can upload photos for usage around the site or externally. All users have a limited amount of drive space but it should be high enough where you wont run into it unless youre uploading a lot of large files.

Chat

The site has a private message system thats a bit more advanced than the one on programming.dev. You can make group chats that contain multiple people.

Pages

You can create pages that contain text or images to link to or for other people to browse!

Channels

Channels are the equivalent of communities. You can make posts for certain topics in channels for that topic. This feature currently doesnt federate and is still a work in progress though.

Customization

The site features a very large amount of customization where you can customize the content of both of the sidebars to many different options, set a custom theme for yourself (with a built in theme editor), add plugins, mute specific instances, mute posts containing specific words, etc.

Hope you enjoy the new instance!

Its been a couple days which means I have the results of the threads federation poll we ran on the instance. The percentage difference between all of the options stayed relatively the same through the entire thing.

This was ran as ranked choice voting which means the least voted option gets eliminated every round and the votes for that option are distributed among the peoples second or third choices depending on if that was their first or second choice.

The total votes table shows the current votes for each option in each round. Differences shows the increase in votes the options gained from the last option being eliminated. Percentage shows the total % of votes the options have for each round.

Silenced was the first one to be eliminated with much less votes than everything else at 18 votes (aka 8.5%). Next up was limited being eliminated at 53 votes (25%). Out of the final two, blocked has the most amount of votes with around 55% of the vote total or 115 votes.

This means that threads will be fully defederated from on our instances. I will be running a poll again in around 6 months as a check in after threads has been federating for a bit to see if we want to change the decision or keep it.

• also note you will notice some numbers in the tables not being the same round from round, some people voted for the same option multiple times which means I couldnt give them a second or third choice since they only did 1 or 2

Introducing the programming.dev legal site! This is a place to easily see all of our legal documents instead of them being spread out in various locations.

You can find the site at https://legal.programming.dev

The documents are open to changes and are not final so if you have suggested changes and ways we can improve them feel free to reach out either by creating an issue on the legal site repository, by messaging me (Ategon) or by emailing info@programming.dev

Included Documents

• Privacy Policy - How we collect, protect, and use information provided to us
• Terms of Service - Terms that govern your access to and use of our services
• Automation Guidelines - Guidelines when using any form of automation on an account
• Code of Conduct - Expected conduct when interacting on our sites or on communities on our sites
• Contributor Guidelines - Guidelines for contributing to our projects
• Cookie Policy - How we use cookies
• Defederation Policy - How we defederate with other instances
• Donation Policy - How we handle and spend donations made towards us
• Moderator Guidelines - Expected conduct when moderating a community

You guys know that "remember me" checklist on every login page? Is it possible for us to use frontend that have that? Everytime my browser is starting up, the lemmy instances just forgets who I am and I must login again. This is not the observed behavior if I'm using Jerboa on my phone though.

In the past we said we were going to run a federation poll regarding Threads (activitypub compatible instance created by meta) and now that theyre ramping up federation and we have a new instance coming that would interact with that I decided its time to do so

This poll is only open to people who have an account on programming.dev as it only affects those users (other instances decide federation on their own).

This also only affects us pulling content from them. Them pulling content from us isnt stoppable on our side (and if it is they can still get it through things such as boosts from instances in the middle on the microblog side or by querying the api).

There will be mention of a link aggregator side and a microblog side. The link aggregator side is this site and the microblog side is a new instance being started up where I wanted to get this poll out before I release it publicly.

On the side of Threads they are making interacting using activitypub opt in so the amount of users there would not flood out everything else as people need to explicitly change in their settings that they want to interact with mastodon, etc.

Regardless of whats voted you shouldnt notice any changes on the link aggregator side similar to how mastodon users barely pop up now

This will be pinned in the instance for a couple days to ensure as many people as possible vote. Afterwards ill collect the results and make a post with them here (not pinned)

• Note accounts created after this poll was made cant vote to prevent vote manipulation

I tested by making a report on homeimprovement@lemmy.world. I can see it in my reports page on my lemmy.world account, but my programming.dev account reports page still doesn't show any reports.

We have a bunch more supporting sites for the instances that have been set up. All of these are contributor sites which means accounts on them are available to programming.dev contributors, and/or admins.

Vault

Vault is a password manager running vaultwarden. It will be used to pass along login details when setting up accounts for users on the various contributor sites since registration isnt opened. The link for it is https://vault.programming.dev.

Files

Files is a site for file hosting and url shortening for then linking in places such as programming.dev. As an example heres a markdown file I added in https://files.programming.dev/u/9jsOS3.md and heres a link that redirects to an image http://files.programming.dev/go/meme.

Files can be given compression, a time it expires in, a maximum amount of views, and a password if you want to limit who can access it. The software used is Zipline.

The site for files is at https://files.programming.dev

Schedule

Schedule is a meeting poll site to find out what time people want to meet. This will be primarily used and have a poll link posted when we are scheduling events. The software used is rallly.

The site is at https://schedule.programming.dev and ive got an example poll at https://schedule.programming.dev/invite/Zwr8x2wrQBGA.

Polls

Polls is a poll site for getting information. Will be used when we want to poll the community about something or do something like a year end survey on stats for people using different languages, etc. Software used is input.

We updated our hosting of the mlmym frontend at old.programming.dev to version 0.0.40 which fixes an issue where bots could abuse a redirect feature for SEO.

You can see the details of the issue here: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/issues/101

Introducing blocks.programming.dev! This is a site to add small code snippets you make for sharing easily in threads in programming.dev if you need to do something like put the same code in multiple spots.

The site is running using software called opengist and is essentially an equivalent to gists in github. Repo for it is here https://github.com/thomiceli/opengist.

Snippets are accessible both in the web interface and using git if you prefer adding in code from your text editor and then pushing it.

You can find the site here: https://blocks.programming.dev.

Introducing a new supporting site for the instance, git.programming.dev aka Forge! This is a spot where development on things relating to the instance will be taking place. This includes for each thing having source code, task boards, and issue trackers viewable.

This gives us a spot away from GitHub so we don't have to rely on them for hosting our code. In addition, Forgejo, the software used, is working on federation so eventually features could be implemented to do things such as interact with Forge directly from our instances.

Who is allowed to make an account?

Anyone is free to make an account on the site provided you have not broken our code of conduct and have gotten banned from one of the instances.

What is allowed to be hosted?

Any code that relates to things we do on the fediverse or outside the fediverse but relating to programming.dev is allowed to be hosted on Forge. This includes things such as bots made for lemmy/sublinks, alternate frontends, software we host, tools, etc.

As an example alternate frontends like photon, alexandrite, etc. are free to choose to be hosted on Forge. Software such as Sublinks, etc. can be hosted, and various misc bots and tools such as Fediseer, Automod, etc. can be hosted.

Anything hosted on forge must be able to support the programming.dev instance it is built around. This means that things like bots and alternate frontends for the programming.dev instance must be able to support sublinks.

How can I make an organization on Forge?

If you want an organization on Forge to group a collection of repos together feel free to reach out to one of the team leads or email info@programming.dev.

How can I contribute to a programming.dev repo?

If you want to contribute code feel free to fork the relevant repo and then make a pull request back to it with the changes. If you have an idea for something that can be added to a platform or a bug report open up an issue on the relevant repo in the Programming.Dev org.

If you're interested in contributing a large amount to the programming.dev repos feel free to reach out to me (Ategon) on discord or matrix or email info@programming.dev and I can add you to the development team.

Two of our programming.dev alternate frontends have been updated to their most recent versions.

Voyager (v.programming.dev)

Has been updated from version 1.37.4 -> 1.41.0

Main changes:

• You can long press on comments/posts to get the more actions sheet
• Gifs can be configured to autoplay always, never, or on wifi
• When tapping into a post the video continues to play seamlessly
• Videos in the feed have a mute icon you can toggle
• You can now hide self-post thumbnails in compact mode
• You can now set it so you always need to tap to reveal child comments
• Large post voting buttons can be hidden
• Community icons can be hidden
• Link creation now has a dialog for entering link info
• Subscript and superscript support for markdown
• You can now long press usernames to block

Mlmym (old.programming.dev)

Has been updated from version 0.0.36 -> 0.0.38

Main changes:

• Image uploads has been fixed