A Triply Glowing Night Sky over Iceland
Credit & Copyright: Wioleta Gorecka; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego)
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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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I don't think this was posted here already, but this instance has been up and running for a bit. Apologies if this isn't the best place for it, feel free to remove if need be! The instance has been running for a few weeks now and has a few users already, but if there's people invested in that specific niche interest that wants to spread the load across instances it exists. It has some extra lemmy front end UIs available, and I am building up the local communities as I have time to.
Although I am currently the "only admin" I do have a "break glass" admin account and will be giving it to a trusted point person just in case (life happens sometimes...) as well as scaling up the team as need be.
If the instance ever has to go down, at the very least a 30 day notice will be given in advance as well as an outlined explanation as to why and a good faith effort will be made to keep it up as well.
The de-federation policy might be slightly controversial, and I completely understand. It is currently temporarily defederated from lemmys pornographic instances, mainly because of just how much it spams c/all. I will refederate in time when there more granular federation options, but I just can't reasonably moderate that right now. I also do defederate from the "worst of the worst" fediverse instances (ie, known CP hosts, far right, nazis, etc) as a precaution despite how janky cross federation is for lemmy right now, hence why the instance blocklist is long.
The instance currently uses object storage, and I post monthly financial statements as to what the cost of the resources for it are.
I also use a community seeder bot that runs every 12 hours to diversify content in all. The local communities focus are mainly book related, but it federates with most other instances.
I also am currently taking manual secure database backups at least weekly and storing them remotely, but I will be automating that process as soon as I can. I value security greatly.
The link is literature.cafe
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I took a quick peak and I created an account too.
I don't see too many communities for individual series, except for Harry Potter. I can think of a few that I know I'd like:
Lord of the Rings
Wheele of Time
GameofThrones
The storm light archive
Mistborn
Cosmere
Cremposting - this is a shit posting sub of the above three
TheExpanse
Yeah, I'm pretty basic.
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Filtered word: nsfw
Disclaimer: fairly uninformed opinion. I don't know the inner workings of lemmy nor am I a legal expert.
Re: NSFW defederation. I remember reading somewhere around here about an instance that defederates from nsfw instances because of concerns over illegal content. That feels plausible, and being unintentionally in the middle of it feels risky. Something to consider.
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You aren’t hosting any of the images from federated instances
Images sometimes cache and create a copy locally. Sometimes they don't. I don't actually know when or under what conditions they cache.
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The extent of my moderation experience has been a few old phpbb forums and a few admittedly large Facebook groups. Let me think it over and I’ll get back to you shortly.
I also wonder if it might benefit from ebooks being separate because authors could post updates about them as theoretically as well as it’d be easier to manage spam.
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Moon Meets Jupiter
Credit & Copyright: Jordi L. Coy
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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Hu! Funny thing!
Those Jupiter moons are all named after locations of The Expanse!
[Image description: the 1955 Huffy Radiobike, a red coaster-style bike with cream and chrome accents. A radio with a speaker and volume and tuner dials is incorporated into the curvy frame, below the top tube. There is a battery pack on the rear rack.] #Alt4You
More information and pictures: onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1955…
Light Pollution from Skyglow Changes Bird Behavior
Animals evolved for millions of years to live under naturally dark skies. But in the last few decades, humanity has directed more and more lighting into the sky, creating light pollution that has been proven to confuse many animal species. A new study looked at the behavior of birds that feed at dawn and dusk and the impact of light pollution on their behavior. The researchers found that the effect is complicated, with skyglow creating brighter conditions under overcast skies compared to regions without light pollution, and changed the birds' choices for when to fly.
sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
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Are you one of the 100,000? 🙋
@NASAArset provides trainings in multiple languages to help people around the world learn to use Earth observations! #OpenScience
[Video embedded in original tweet]
#NASAEarth
I may have found an alternative solution to my blog's commenting system! 😺
The synchronization of comments from my Mastodon account. It's something I tried and abandoned, but I'm giving it another try after reading your comments. Well, I explain more on the blog and also share the source code:
Blog post, source code, and demo:
→ davidrevoy.com/article981/i-ma…
Bonus: Because I'm happy, here's a happy Mastodon mascot as a postman that I painted this morning.
#blog #selfhosting #php
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I feel like Lemmy or Kbin would make more sense for this but I guess ActivityPub makes it irrelevant since they can interact anyway
Excellent idea!
@jherazob I tried to answer from my Lemmy account (a bit abandoned), and I can't. But it's quite possible that I'm not going about it the right way.
Cool that you managed to get this to work!
I think the authentication token is also necessary for mastodon instances that have authorized fetch enabled, because the point of that is to ensure randos don't just get to have info without the server being sure said rando isn't trying to block evade or whatever, but not 100% sure.
It's nice to see another implementation of blog comments using the Mastodon "context" API. 😀 I use it for fietkau.blog in a similar way. I additionally filter the replies by visibility and only show the ones set to "public".
If you'd like to read more about how to render custom emoji and other details, I recommend @cassidy's blog post about his implementation: cassidyjames.com/blog/fedivers…
This is my place for long-form writing on technology, academia, games, and whatever else I may be thinking about.Julian Fietkau
*me searching for the xss in your code* 
but it looks fine so far. 
@yoyunix Thanks. To be fair, I doubt it will last long. Accidents of instance can happen, losing all comments, or the service might also go sunset and be replaced by a new tech more lightweight in the future. Maybe the API will change too with the new versions, up to a point it's too hard to follow for my low skill.
Right now my system on the blog has a cache of 1h for the post of the week, 4h for the post of the month, and 12h after that. Let see in 5 years if If Mastodon IDs are stable 😉
Merci pour vos oeuvres et vos contributions à l'Open source.
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Great. I was gonna suggest that adding activitypub replies to the post was best till you said you'd already tried it.
Glad you've found a way that works.
@utopify_org Hey, Good question. I thought a lot about this. It's because of five good reasons:
1. Bandwidth (with many visitors, hot-linking them to all instance all the time is pretty heavy)
2. Privacy. Hotlinking them would give also log to instance owners of who connect to my website.
3. Loading speed: waiting for all servers to get pictures.
4. Copyright, and/or trolling possibly with p0rn or gore.
5. Aesthetic: I love the cat avatars peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2… 🙂
wow, okay, a lot of stuff I wouldn't even thought of until I would run into it.
Thanks for the explanation.
This is awesome! 👏🤓
Given you said spam was a problem with the previous commenting system, does this mean you consider Mastodon to be reasonably free from spam?
I sort of live in fear that Mastodon might suffer an influx of bots. Especially given it's decentralised, so presumably any instance could contribute unless your instance admin defederates from them.
@raghukamath Hey, yes. The listing on the blog is just a copy of the Mastodon API, so every edit or removal should be reflected on the blog as soon as the blog updates.
The only thing to keep is a cache of maximum 24h so it is always removing or applying the edit into the due 24h legal date.
I'm planning to add soon an 'emergency refresh' button (just an action that force a cache update for the current article. It might be convenient in case of a very nasty comment. 😺
Carl's post inspired me too 😉
Well done 👍
aren't the old comments re-federated? There might be a chance you can still get them back. Except those made by people in the instance that had the problem, I would guess the others should federate again.
Or maybe there is an issue with that as the initial post you made is lost? (So all comments along with it have no real reference).
A Php script that fetch and displays the comments received from the Fediverse. It requires a Mastodon account and posting on it to get the post ID.GitLab
Four brave explorers, the Captain, the Brain, the Scout, and the Friend, find themselves flung onto different exoplanets. Separated by space, the Exoplaneteers search for signs of life, or friends, while facing the dangers of these strange worlds.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
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British startup Puslar Fusion is developing a fusion rocket it says will travel 500,000 mph, expanding our reach throughout the solar system.Kristin Houser (Freethink Media)
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The aurora is on the left.
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in reply to (moving) APOD • • •The Northern Lights shining in the night sky, and the colours reflected in the red-burning sky and lake, This is the beauty of Iceland🤩
I was awestruck by the wonders of nature
夜空に輝くオーロラ、そして赤々と燃える空と湖面に映る色彩、これぞ美しきアイスランドですね🤩
わたしは自然の驚異に見惚れました
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The Northern Lights shining in the night sky, and the colours reflected in the red-burning sky and lake, This is the beauty of Iceland🤩
I was awestruck by the wonders of nature
夜空に輝くオーロラ、そして赤々と燃える空と湖面に映る色彩、これぞ美しきアイスランドですね🤩
わたしは自然の驚異に見惚れました
写真の共有に感謝します🙏