roko

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12.12.2024 18:03:06

do we want to forget?

On some musical forum I got invitation into small social network called izzzzi.net. It's very minimalistic site with functionality best described by its welcome post:

every morning, just about the time light reaches lascaux, posts from the previous day are collected into something like a newspaper assembled by friends.
posts only remain one day. every day is a new day.
tomorrow's post can be edited throughout the day. you can change your mind.
you will only see posts by people you've added who have added you in return. your posts can be seen only by people who you've added and have added you in return. nothing here is public. just small gifts shared between friends.

This got me thinking about creating something similar for Kyselo. Do we want to forget? Is there something you would put on Izzzzi or Instagram stories but not on Kyselo?

Anyway there is already some new feature being developed (and not yet deployed) so this is question for later. But I am already interested on your takes about ephemerality and permanence of social media.

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16.7.2023 14:36:28

find your memes more easily

I implemented gallery view for your Kyselo blogs to be able to find memes more easily. It works in same way as on your phone - you have grid of small preview of each image you posted sorted by months.
You have to enable it in settings of your blog/group, but it works on all blogs/groups if you can figure out address.

There are some issues with webp and animated images and generating of thumbnails sometimes takes time, but it's cached once thumbnail is generated.
More features coming soon.

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10.7.2023 22:52:40

webp is supported now

Kyselo now supports uploading of webp images (like this one).

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severak

10.7.2023 22:56:36
@juozaspo webp is now supported

raumfahrtagentur

12.7.2023 22:59:05
\o/

sofia

27.6.2023 13:25:51 reposted from

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from https://winstonred.loforo.com/w4p32

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18.1.2023 14:20:37

we have a backup plan now!

as you may know - it's better to backup unless you want to loose whole year of user data.

I already tried to implement some backup scheme for Kyselo but it failed. Now I have better solution - ZIP archive with all the stuff you posted in this format:

folder pub with all the images you posted
yourname.jsonl with machine-readable data
index.html and pageXXXX.html files as static HTML archive

You don't need some fancy software to browse your archive - just unzip it to any webserver and it will look like this. For example archive please download dogs-example.zip (60MB).

Archive generation is semi-manual process for now. You need to ask me for it and I will SSH into server, run some scripts and send you link to generated archive.

Running backup server is not free. It costs me 500 CZK a month. I am using this machine for other purposes too, but any donation is welcome.

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looque

19.1.2023 16:50:19
I don't know if you need to hear this but you're way cooler than Elon

sofia

25.11.2022 11:15:14 reposted from

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from https://i.imgur.com/i7VC64D.jpeg

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24.11.2022 22:09:13

small comments improvements

I added two small improvements to the comments:

if you comment on your own post you don't get notification now
there is new reply button which will mention author of previous comment

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23.11.2022 21:57:34

fediverse news and speed of timelines

I keep exploring Fediverse and related software projects. While I want Kyselo to be interoperable I discovered that this is impossible without big refactoring of our database followed by data migration to new scheme. I don't want to do this.
So I decided that Kyselo will not federate in it's current form. However I am still interested in Fediverse and I want to create Kyselo-like Mastodon client. But this is question for the future me.
For now I added small experimental feature - I am measuring of how fast our timelines are. Unit of this measurement is number of posts per hour, day or month (whatever makes sense). So please keep those in healthy ranges.

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21.11.2022 01:18:47

hide yourself from robots

I have noticed that there was no robots.txt file on Kyselo. So I added one.
While I was doing it I added possibility to hide your profile from web scraping robots (and activated this for my cat). It can be enabled on your blog settings (new checkbox exclude from search engines).
Note that posts are still public and robots can index whatever is reposted. Also everyone page is not yet hidden from robots (this may change in the future).
While I was doing it I added filtering by post types to the your /yourblog/tags page.
I also added export for twtxt - it's now automatically enabled for anyone at /yourblogblog/twtxt page. It exports only text posts.

As I want to migrate from bitbucket, I updated our github source code mirror.
More features coming soon.

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we are alive for 861 days (2 years 4 months)
we have 151 users
and 49 groups
most active user is @gpkvt with 3185 posts
most active group is @memes with 444 posts
there are about 33 post per day
of these 16 are originals (no reposts)

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11.11.2022 22:23:32

hear the less talkative

There is a one thing for which algorithmic timeline is superior to chronologic one - it cal let you hear the less talkative. Chronological timeline - on the other hand - strongly favours those who talk more.

I added new mode of everyone page which shows last posts by each user. I also added the possibility to sort users by last activity and number of posts. There is also new unfiltered view which shows all posts which get posted on kyselo including reposts.

Last new thing is cron job sending you once a week e-mail when you got unread new message or more than five notifications.

More new features coming soon™.

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and now stats:

we are alive for 851 days (2 years 3 months)
we have 151 users and 48 groups
most active user is @gpkvt with 3183 posts
most active group is @memes with 438 posts
there are about 34 post per day of these 16 are originals (no reposts)

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8.11.2022 12:18:29

Should we join the Fediverse?

As Elon Musk bought Twitter there is a sudden surge of interest in Fediverse (or Mastodon). My plan always have been to have some interoperability between Kyselo and Fediverse. While I cannot currently federate fully with Fediverse it seems that there is easy to use RSS-to-ActivityPub proxy and we already have RSS feeds since day one.

This means that it would be possible to follow Kyselo accounts from Fediverse. This would be opt-in - if you don't want to be followed from Fediverse you don't need to.

Downside is that I am not yet able to do it other way around - you will not be able to follow users from Fediverse and you will not get notification when your post is reposted by Fediverse users.

Please let me know if this is interesting for you or if you are using Fediverse at all in the comments of this post.

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riserise

8.11.2022 15:59:19
I'm indifferent. Nothing wrong with some good meme bots though. Source: I'm already on fedi I just come here to yoink the occasional meme or two.