You’re welcome! 😊

IDK if they’re “Fediverse specific”, but I love SSTF’s (@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world) art.

[…] Solarpunk’s Pleasant Politics comm has an automod that bans and unbans based on recent karma ratios. […]

Do they have any documentation for that behavior? If so, could you link it?

Karma does not persist […]

I’m not sure what you mean; if I look at your account, for example, I can see all of your past vote scores ^[1].

I wonder if he’ll make a video (if he hasn’t already) on why he chose to switch to Linux; I’m quite interested to hear what made him decide to switch, and I’m also very interested to hear what issues, if any, he encountered along the way.

I think you can be an outsider to a particular system, and still be able to provide valuable information about it. […]

I completely agree! It is also illogical to argue otherwise ­— sort of an appeal to authority, imo.

[…] I wasn’t reacting to being questioned, though, I was reacting to being singled-out for being questioned. You marked this as “Solved” based - also - on a test from you, and an answer from TootSweet, but it didn’t look like to me that you ever questioned whether those answers deserved a follow-up. Neither of those, in my opinion, are really good enough, but I’ll say why in the answers to your individual comments about them.

This isn’t to discredit how you have internalized the exchange, so I apologize if I made you feel this way, but I want to assure you that it wasn’t my intent to single you out. I was simply looking for clarification because I felt that I might’ve found a potential ambiguity that I personally wasn’t sure of.

[…] To my mind, though, what I said wasn’t a claim. A claim would be if I’d said “lemmy.world is 26, sh.itjustworks is 50” with no further info. Instead, I gave command-line instructions for you to run yourself, so you could get the answers for those instances (and any other instances) from Lemmy’s backend itself. […]

Eh, this is becoming rather pedantic, imo. I’m not sure what point you are trying to make.

I saw your edit, yeah. […]

Then what is it about me using your comment as a source makes you think that I viewed your response as “not good enough”?

[…] It’s these fields that are relevant to Lemmy’s API, not the terminology that ActivityPub uses. […]

Fair point! I was incorrectly assuming that Lemmy’s terminology directly matched that of ActivityPub.

[…] Lemmy distinguishes between ‘name’ for username, and ‘display_name’ for the display name. A better link for this is arguably https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/db_schema/src/schema.rs#L735 but whatever. It’s these fields that are relevant to Lemmy’s API, not the terminology that ActivityPub uses. A client might reasonably want to know the limit for a username (as provided in the Site response), because it’s this that’s used for Signup and Login. Display name is set elsewhere, once that’s done, so it doesn’t make sense for actor_name_max_length to refer to this.

Within ActivityPub, the distinction between username and display name is ‘preferredUsername’ and ‘name’, but AP also uses ‘name’ for a bunch of other things (including but not limited to what becomes a post title, a choice in a poll, or the alt-text for an image). There’s some overlap with how Lemmy’s API refers to stuff (e.g. a post title is a post name), but it not a 1:1 match. […]

Thank you for providing this information.

[…] You shouldn’t have to be relying on guesswork by amateurs, irrespective of how many ‘references’ they can quote.

I think you are misunderstanding how I am using references. They are only being used to point to the origin of a bit of knowledge. Their existence does not guarantee any level of accuracy.

[…] What you should be asking, is - “How come when I post a question to Lemmy’s support community, on the instance owned by Lemmy devs, it looks like they just ignore it?”. […]

I have no reason to expect any obligatory answer from anybody. IMO, it would be very entitled of me, or anyone else, to expect otherwise.

[…] I don’t even use Lemmy, so - in my opinion - you’re asking the wrong question to the wrong person. […]

I don’t know you, so how would I know what your level of expertise is regarding Lemmy? You are the one that commented on my post…

[…] I give you reproducible command-line instructions, which match up with your own findings, and it’s apparently not good enough. […]

Did you perhaps not see that I cited your comment’s findings as a source for the solution…? Or is it that you can’t believe that I would dare to exhibit any amount of skepticism of your claim?

You’ve accepted […] one link to a years-old migration as [an] answer,

[…] as that migration shows […]

I’m not sure what you are referring by “migration”. Could you clarify?

[…] You’ve accepted your own unscientific prodding of one particular instance as an answer […]

What exactly do you think is unscientific about it?

I’m not used to this level of rigour to be honest. […]

In my opinion, one should always be open to scrutiny of their claims. One should strive to be precise in their communication — ie one should seek to rectify any uncertainties, ambiguities etc.

Is it known for sure that name is the username? Could it be the display name? In the ActivityPub spec, I found this ^[1]:

name

The preferred “nickname” or “display name” of the actor.

Is there any official documentation for that? Lemmy’s API docs ^[1] seem rather sparse on the subject.

UPDATE (2025-02-02T23:23Z): I found this ^[2] and this ^[3], but unfortunately it doesn’t contain much information.