• Stefan Bohacek@stefanbohacek.onlineOP
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    4 months ago

    Huge thanks to everyone who helped me test the signature verification, you’re all awesome!

    Please note that this feature is very much work in progress. I might spend a bit more time polishing it and hopefully be able to share it with others to add to their own website or a blog.

  • lambaliciousEnglish
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    4 months ago

    There’s a huge popup on this page that says adblock not detected and that I should install one to be safe.

    Which is ironic because I’m obviously running Firefox with uBO, and they probably blocked your attempt at detect an adblocker. But if what you want to do is detect that the user is not running an adblocker, you should be testing for the positive, not the negative: your popup should only load if the code was able to do the most obnoxious, advertising-like tasks without obstruction.

    • Stefan Bohacek@stefanbohacek.onlineOP
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      4 months ago

      @lambalicious Right, yes, that is how, in part, this works. If you look at the source code, the “ad” uses a bunch of classes that a typical ad-blocker would pick up on.

      Also, the “popup” shouldn’t take up much of the screen, just a bit of the space at the bottom. I will have to look into all this, thank you for reporting the issues!

  • Elena Rossini ⁂@mastodon.social
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    4 months ago

    @stefan@stefanbohacek.online Stefan! I LOOOOVE your “fediverse invitation for artists” – I tried to add my signature but ran into a problem (error message / not supported) so feel free to manually add my name to it.

    THANK YOU for all the fantastic work you’re doing ✨

    • Stefan Bohacek@stefanbohacek.onlineOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      @_elena@mastodon.social My pleasure!

      And sorry about the issue you’re running into. I presume you’re using your mastodon.social account? (I know you have a few, so just making sure.)

      I was able to log in with my m.s account and it worked, so this is a bit tricky to debug, but let me poke around a bit and follow up.

      Thank you so much for trying this out!

      • Elena Rossini ⁂@mastodon.social
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        4 months ago

        @stefan@stefanbohacek.online Thanks Stefan! I tried multiple times with my Mastodon and Sharkey account (calckey.world) – they both produced the error message.

        Let me try with Pixelfed now… and if that fails, Friendica 😅

        • Stefan Bohacek@stefanbohacek.onlineOP
          1·
          4 months ago

          @_elena@mastodon.social Ah, Pixelfed is not yet supported, so you will definitely get this error.

          Let me make a small update to make sure Sharkey is recognized, it should work otherwise.

          • Elena Rossini ⁂@mastodon.social
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            4 months ago

            @stefan@stefanbohacek.online I just tried again with Mastodon, Sharkey, Pixelfed and Friendica (in that order) and I still got the same error message 😭

            • Stefan Bohacek@stefanbohacek.onlineOP
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              4 months ago

              @_elena@mastodon.social Sorry, the Sharkey update just went live now, if you care to try again.

              And just to rule this out, are you putting in just the domain name, eg. mastodon.social, without http or your username?

              • Elena Rossini ⁂@mastodon.social
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                4 months ago

                @stefan@stefanbohacek.online ok so I’m beet red and hiding my face in shame… I was putting on my FULL url instead of just the server name. Thanks for the heads-up, Stefan. I just added my Mastodon signature 🙈

                • Stefan Bohacek@stefanbohacek.onlineOP
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                  4 months ago

                  @_elena@mastodon.social Ah, no worries, you’re not the only person running into this, so that tells me I needed to do a better job explaining how to use the site. I updated the instructions, hopefully this clarifies things better.

                  Thank you so much for giving this a try, and your patience!

      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Don’t solve a problem you think artists have. Solve one they do. Tell them about discoverability or outreach features, community-building tools, active-contest feeds, etc.

        Lots of Fedi projects fail because their number #1 goal is to sell their own ideology, rather than providing a useful tool for a community.

        If you want people to value your ideas. You have to give them value, not ideas.

        Edit: Just thought of a real life example: My uncle is annolder gentleman tech literate enough to use social networks without much issue. How would the Fediverse be a better choice FOR HIM than an Instagram profile? (Let’s assume he can easily just learn to use any other platform, which isn’t the case for all people)

  • Stefan Bohacek@stefanbohacek.onlineOP
    1·
    4 months ago

    I do want to say that I don’t think we necessarily have to make the fediverse “grow bigger”, but I do want to see it become more diverse, and welcoming.

    • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@social.tchncs.de
      1·
      4 months ago

      @stefan@stefanbohacek.online I see far more diverse art on here compared to any other social network I have ever used (which tend to use the algorithms to pigeonhole you into what they think your tastes are and how they relate to whatever categories advertisers want)

      • Stefan Bohacek@stefanbohacek.onlineOP
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        4 months ago

        @nick I don’t think I have the authority to speak on that, sorry.

        It seems to me that folks who rely on them do so for their safety. I think that’s a great thing about the fediverse, that we can all tailor our experience.

        And if some people want to block off portions of the network to feel safe, there’s no real harm, there’s still plenty of people to interact with.

        Unless there’s something that that I’m missing?

        • Nick@the-nutrivore.social
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          4 months ago

          @stefan@stefanbohacek.online Unless you’re self-hosting, your admin might end up nuking portions of the network you’re following. Which sucks for you and other users. I honestly don’t see Fediblock as anything other than a detriment to the network, except for cases where entire servers are genuinely malicious, like spambot farms or illegal stuff. Blocking entire instances over mundane differences of opinion between a few users seems counterproductive to me.