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Hello: I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not. But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the store. I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of servers can also be used. I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it. This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace human conversations: https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.htmlCheers.
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As far as I know, Mastodon does not as easily allow people to set up their own notifications on updates from
one account or find notifications that happened before they start looking. My personal solution is to post my
announcements of project updates to a Telegram channel, set up a discussion group in Telegram that is linked
to that channel, then have the channel announcements automatically post to Twitter for people to find if they
don't use Telegram.
For a group of people who specifically want to follow notifications, Mastodon probably works well enough. I
confess I have never used that platform though. For Twitter, perhaps surprisingly, both Tweesecake and TWBlue
still work as of this writing, according to what I was told as recently as yesterday.
Finally, a bit more detail on my first claim about Mastodon: I understand that Mastodon consists of users and
nodes, and each user may have an account on any node or nodes. I imagine most users just prefer to have one
account on one node. But then, if you post your announcements on your node and I am on a different one, what I
can see of your announcements is up to the owners of both nodes. On Twitter, you post and I choose whether to
see the posts, and there is no one in the middle making choices for me.
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Noelia Ruiz wrote: Hello: I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not. But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the store. I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of servers can also be used. I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it. This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace human conversations: https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.htmlCheers. -- Doug Lee dgl@... http://www.dlee.org"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find the way." - Abraham Lincoln
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Hey Doug,
I guess I could say it's the best of both worlds, with Mastodon not being controlled by a big corporation and thousands of instances scattered throughout the net. In order to follow a topic or person, it's either hashtags or exact username matches based on what node they're on. For instance, for those who want to follow me, it would be @ChrisDuffley@.... You can of course search for it that way, or directly on your own instance, by doing instance_url/@username@domain and you can see what was cached on that node there. But yes, the second point about controlling who can be there is also true, as that can be restricted. Most of the time, though, it's not, but domains can either be silenced (versions earlier than 4.1)/limited (version 4.1 and later) or suspended, which means no interaction between the node and that domain can occur. Silenced/limited means that nothing will be cached publicly on that domain (meaning other users won't see their stuff publicly except if the user follows the limited person).
I hope this helps some - you can always email us off-list or communicate however else if you need things clarified.
Christopher Duffley
LINKS TO SUBSCRIBE:
LIKE/FOLLOW Me:
On Mar 16, 2023, at 17:46, Doug Lee <nvda@...> wrote: As far as I know, Mastodon does not as easily allow people to set up their own notifications on updates fromone account or find notifications that happened before they start looking. My personal solution is to post myannouncements of project updates to a Telegram channel, set up a discussion group in Telegram that is linkedto that channel, then have the channel announcements automatically post to Twitter for people to find if theydon't use Telegram.For a group of people who specifically want to follow notifications, Mastodon probably works well enough. Iconfess I have never used that platform though. For Twitter, perhaps surprisingly, both Tweesecake and TWBluestill work as of this writing, according to what I was told as recently as yesterday.Finally, a bit more detail on my first claim about Mastodon: I understand that Mastodon consists of users andnodes, and each user may have an account on any node or nodes. I imagine most users just prefer to have oneaccount on one node. But then, if you post your announcements on your node and I am on a different one, what Ican see of your announcements is up to the owners of both nodes. On Twitter, you post and I choose whether tosee the posts, and there is no one in the middle making choices for me.On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Noelia Ruiz wrote:Hello:I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be areality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not.But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the store.I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is reallycomfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage ofservers can also be used.I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, ormaybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it.This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replacehuman conversations:https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.htmlCheers.-- Doug Lee dgl@... http://www.dlee.org"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...findthe way." - Abraham Lincoln
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I prefer Mastodon since there I don't receive advertisements selected
by algorythms, and it's possible to choose different instances if I
have a problem in the server where my account is registered.
My experience is good, and a couple of times I reported issues and get
a reply in the next hours.
I've seen that some instances lock other server due to rules, for
example hate speech.
I can make a test trying to create a bot and then see what happens. If
I do it, I'll inform here.
Cheers
2023-03-17 1:43 GMT+01:00, Christopher Duffley <christophernduffley@...>:
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Hey Doug,
I guess I could say it's the best of both worlds, with Mastodon not being
controlled by a big corporation and thousands of instances scattered
throughout the net. In order to follow a topic or person, it's either
hashtags or exact username matches based on what node they're on. For
instance, for those who want to follow me, it would be
@ChrisDuffley@...
<https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com/@ChrisDuffley>. You can of course search
for it that way, or directly on your own instance, by doing
instance_url/@username@domain and you can see what was cached on that node
there. But yes, the second point about controlling who can be there is also
true, as that can be restricted. Most of the time, though, it's not, but
domains can either be silenced (versions earlier than 4.1)/limited (version
4.1 and later) or suspended, which means no interaction between the node and
that domain can occur. Silenced/limited means that nothing will be cached
publicly on that domain (meaning other users won't see their stuff publicly
except if the user follows the limited person).
I hope this helps some - you can always email us off-list or communicate
however else if you need things clarified.
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast
<https://christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast>
LINKS TO SUBSCRIBE:
iTunes
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-possible-christopher/id1103092109?mt=2>
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| Follow Podcast On TuneIn And Listen To Latest Episode
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<http://youtube.com/christopherduffley> | Instagram
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On Mar 16, 2023, at 17:46, Doug Lee <nvda@...> wrote:
As far as I know, Mastodon does not as easily allow people to set up their
own notifications on updates from
one account or find notifications that happened before they start looking.
My personal solution is to post my
announcements of project updates to a Telegram channel, set up a discussion
group in Telegram that is linked
to that channel, then have the channel announcements automatically post to
Twitter for people to find if they
don't use Telegram.
For a group of people who specifically want to follow notifications,
Mastodon probably works well enough. I
confess I have never used that platform though. For Twitter, perhaps
surprisingly, both Tweesecake and TWBlue
still work as of this writing, according to what I was told as recently as
yesterday.
Finally, a bit more detail on my first claim about Mastodon: I understand
that Mastodon consists of users and
nodes, and each user may have an account on any node or nodes. I imagine
most users just prefer to have one
account on one node. But then, if you post your announcements on your node
and I am on a different one, what I
can see of your announcements is up to the owners of both nodes. On Twitter,
you post and I choose whether to
see the posts, and there is no one in the middle making choices for me.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Noelia Ruiz wrote:
Hello:
I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a
reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not.
But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the store.
I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really
comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of
servers can also be used.
I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or
maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it.
This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace
human conversations:
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.html
Cheers.
--
Doug Lee dgl@... <mailto:dgl@...>
http://www.dlee.org <http://www.dlee.org/>
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find
the way." - Abraham Lincoln
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I've not tried this platform yet. I do tend to find that social media in general is a huge waste of time. Sadly with twitter losing a lot of the hard gained accessibility due to a certain tycoons opinionated policies, , I only use it when I need to contact some company by means other than non answered emails. If bots are possible on Mastodon, are we not going to see a lot of rubbish on there as well. I've never tried setting up an account, so don't know if anyone important is on it.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Noelia Ruiz" <nrm1977@...> To: <nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2023 9:12 PM Subject: [nvda-addons] Idea: Mastodon bot for the store? Hello:
I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a
reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not.
But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the store.
I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really
comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of
servers can also be used.
I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or
maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it.
This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace
human conversations:
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.html
Cheers.
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Hi Noelia,
You may register a bot here on mine if you feel where you are won't allow it. If anyone wants to make their own account they can do that also. Your username will become username @chrisduffley.com. https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com
Cheers,
Christopher DuffleyHost of Mission Possible Podcast: https://www.christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast Cell: +1 (603) 851-6971
14 Pro Max
On Mar 17, 2023, at 02:45, Noelia Ruiz <nrm1977@...> wrote: I prefer Mastodon since there I don't receive advertisements selectedby algorythms, and it's possible to choose different instances if Ihave a problem in the server where my account is registered.My experience is good, and a couple of times I reported issues and geta reply in the next hours.I've seen that some instances lock other server due to rules, forexample hate speech.I can make a test trying to create a bot and then see what happens. IfI do it, I'll inform here.Cheers2023-03-17 1:43 GMT+01:00, Christopher Duffley <christophernduffley@...>:Hey Doug,
I guess I could say it's the best of both worlds, with Mastodon not being
controlled by a big corporation and thousands of instances scattered
throughout the net. In order to follow a topic or person, it's either
hashtags or exact username matches based on what node they're on. For
instance, for those who want to follow me, it would be
@ChrisDuffley@...
<https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com/@ChrisDuffley>. You can of course search
for it that way, or directly on your own instance, by doing
instance_url/@username@domain and you can see what was cached on that node
there. But yes, the second point about controlling who can be there is also
true, as that can be restricted. Most of the time, though, it's not, but
domains can either be silenced (versions earlier than 4.1)/limited (version
4.1 and later) or suspended, which means no interaction between the node and
that domain can occur. Silenced/limited means that nothing will be cached
publicly on that domain (meaning other users won't see their stuff publicly
except if the user follows the limited person).
I hope this helps some - you can always email us off-list or communicate
however else if you need things clarified.
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast
<https://christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast>
LINKS TO SUBSCRIBE:
iTunes
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-possible-christopher/id1103092109?mt=2>
| Stitcher <http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=88094&refid=stpr> | Google Play
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| Follow Podcast On TuneIn And Listen To Latest Episode
<http://tunein.com/radio/Mission-Possible-With-Christopher-Duffley-p892505/>
LIKE/FOLLOW Me:
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<http://twitter.com/chrisduffley> | YouTube
<http://youtube.com/christopherduffley> | Instagram
<http://instagram.com/christopherduffley>
On Mar 16, 2023, at 17:46, Doug Lee <nvda@...> wrote:
As far as I know, Mastodon does not as easily allow people to set up their
own notifications on updates from
one account or find notifications that happened before they start looking.
My personal solution is to post my
announcements of project updates to a Telegram channel, set up a discussion
group in Telegram that is linked
to that channel, then have the channel announcements automatically post to
Twitter for people to find if they
don't use Telegram.
For a group of people who specifically want to follow notifications,
Mastodon probably works well enough. I
confess I have never used that platform though. For Twitter, perhaps
surprisingly, both Tweesecake and TWBlue
still work as of this writing, according to what I was told as recently as
yesterday.
Finally, a bit more detail on my first claim about Mastodon: I understand
that Mastodon consists of users and
nodes, and each user may have an account on any node or nodes. I imagine
most users just prefer to have one
account on one node. But then, if you post your announcements on your node
and I am on a different one, what I
can see of your announcements is up to the owners of both nodes. On Twitter,
you post and I choose whether to
see the posts, and there is no one in the middle making choices for me.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Noelia Ruiz wrote:
Hello:
I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a
reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not.
But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the store.
I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really
comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of
servers can also be used.
I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or
maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it.
This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace
human conversations:
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.html
Cheers.
--
Doug Lee dgl@... <mailto:dgl@...>
http://www.dlee.org <http://www.dlee.org/>
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find
the way." - Abraham Lincoln
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Ah, great! I"ll register a bot there, thinking how to display the json data. Also, I may reply if someone asks for human help. I may try to do it this weekend. Thanks. Enviado desde mi iPhone
El 17 mar 2023, a las 15:51, Christopher Duffley <christophernduffley@...> escribió:
Hi Noelia,
You may register a bot here on mine if you feel where you are won't allow it. If anyone wants to make their own account they can do that also. Your username will become username @chrisduffley.com. https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com
Cheers,
Christopher DuffleyHost of Mission Possible Podcast: https://www.christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast Cell: +1 (603) 851-6971
14 Pro Max
On Mar 17, 2023, at 02:45, Noelia Ruiz <nrm1977@...> wrote:
I prefer Mastodon since there I don't receive advertisements selectedby algorythms, and it's possible to choose different instances if Ihave a problem in the server where my account is registered.My experience is good, and a couple of times I reported issues and geta reply in the next hours.I've seen that some instances lock other server due to rules, forexample hate speech.I can make a test trying to create a bot and then see what happens. IfI do it, I'll inform here.Cheers2023-03-17 1:43 GMT+01:00, Christopher Duffley <christophernduffley@...>:Hey Doug,
I guess I could say it's the best of both worlds, with Mastodon not being
controlled by a big corporation and thousands of instances scattered
throughout the net. In order to follow a topic or person, it's either
hashtags or exact username matches based on what node they're on. For
instance, for those who want to follow me, it would be
@ChrisDuffley@...
<https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com/@ChrisDuffley>. You can of course search
for it that way, or directly on your own instance, by doing
instance_url/@username@domain and you can see what was cached on that node
there. But yes, the second point about controlling who can be there is also
true, as that can be restricted. Most of the time, though, it's not, but
domains can either be silenced (versions earlier than 4.1)/limited (version
4.1 and later) or suspended, which means no interaction between the node and
that domain can occur. Silenced/limited means that nothing will be cached
publicly on that domain (meaning other users won't see their stuff publicly
except if the user follows the limited person).
I hope this helps some - you can always email us off-list or communicate
however else if you need things clarified.
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast
<https://christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast>
LINKS TO SUBSCRIBE:
iTunes
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-possible-christopher/id1103092109?mt=2>
| Stitcher <http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=88094&refid=stpr> | Google Play
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| Follow Podcast On TuneIn And Listen To Latest Episode
<http://tunein.com/radio/Mission-Possible-With-Christopher-Duffley-p892505/>
LIKE/FOLLOW Me:
Facebook <http://facebook.com/christopherduffley> | Twitter
<http://twitter.com/chrisduffley> | YouTube
<http://youtube.com/christopherduffley> | Instagram
<http://instagram.com/christopherduffley>
On Mar 16, 2023, at 17:46, Doug Lee <nvda@...> wrote:
As far as I know, Mastodon does not as easily allow people to set up their
own notifications on updates from
one account or find notifications that happened before they start looking.
My personal solution is to post my
announcements of project updates to a Telegram channel, set up a discussion
group in Telegram that is linked
to that channel, then have the channel announcements automatically post to
Twitter for people to find if they
don't use Telegram.
For a group of people who specifically want to follow notifications,
Mastodon probably works well enough. I
confess I have never used that platform though. For Twitter, perhaps
surprisingly, both Tweesecake and TWBlue
still work as of this writing, according to what I was told as recently as
yesterday.
Finally, a bit more detail on my first claim about Mastodon: I understand
that Mastodon consists of users and
nodes, and each user may have an account on any node or nodes. I imagine
most users just prefer to have one
account on one node. But then, if you post your announcements on your node
and I am on a different one, what I
can see of your announcements is up to the owners of both nodes. On Twitter,
you post and I choose whether to
see the posts, and there is no one in the middle making choices for me.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Noelia Ruiz wrote:
Hello:
I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a
reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not.
But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the store.
I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really
comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of
servers can also be used.
I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or
maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it.
This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace
human conversations:
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.html
Cheers.
--
Doug Lee dgl@... <mailto:dgl@...>
http://www.dlee.org <http://www.dlee.org/>
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find
the way." - Abraham Lincoln
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Hello, I've registered my new account in your server. I haven't seen
an option to indicate that it's a bot, and for now it will be just for
testing, so I may send useless things or messages without sense.
Hope they aren't automatically reported as spam. For any other
questions, I'll contact you privately.
Thanks for offering your server!
2023-03-17 16:47 GMT+01:00, Noelia Ruiz via groups.io
<nrm1977@...>:
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Ah, great! I"ll register a bot there, thinking how to display the json data.
Also, I may reply if someone asks for human help. I may try to do it this
weekend. Thanks.
Enviado desde mi iPhone
El 17 mar 2023, a las 15:51, Christopher Duffley
<christophernduffley@...> escribió:
Hi Noelia,
You may register a bot here on mine if you feel where you are won't allow
it. If anyone wants to make their own account they can do that also. Your
username will become username @chrisduffley.com.
https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com
Cheers,
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast:
https://www.christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast
Cell: +1 (603) 851-6971
14 Pro Max
On Mar 17, 2023, at 02:45, Noelia Ruiz <nrm1977@...> wrote:
I prefer Mastodon since there I don't receive advertisements selected
by algorythms, and it's possible to choose different instances if I
have a problem in the server where my account is registered.
My experience is good, and a couple of times I reported issues and get
a reply in the next hours.
I've seen that some instances lock other server due to rules, for
example hate speech.
I can make a test trying to create a bot and then see what happens. If
I do it, I'll inform here.
Cheers
2023-03-17 1:43 GMT+01:00, Christopher Duffley
<christophernduffley@...>:
Hey Doug,
I guess I could say it's the best of both worlds, with Mastodon not being
controlled by a big corporation and thousands of instances scattered
throughout the net. In order to follow a topic or person, it's either
hashtags or exact username matches based on what node they're on. For
instance, for those who want to follow me, it would be
@ChrisDuffley@...
<https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com/@ChrisDuffley>. You can of course
search
for it that way, or directly on your own instance, by doing
instance_url/@username@domain and you can see what was cached on that
node
there. But yes, the second point about controlling who can be there is
also
true, as that can be restricted. Most of the time, though, it's not, but
domains can either be silenced (versions earlier than 4.1)/limited
(version
4.1 and later) or suspended, which means no interaction between the node
and
that domain can occur. Silenced/limited means that nothing will be cached
publicly on that domain (meaning other users won't see their stuff
publicly
except if the user follows the limited person).
I hope this helps some - you can always email us off-list or communicate
however else if you need things clarified.
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast
<https://christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast>
LINKS TO SUBSCRIBE:
iTunes
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-possible-christopher/id1103092109?mt=2>
| Stitcher <http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=88094&refid=stpr> | Google Play
<https://goo.gl/app/playmusic?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ik76dexklcprwnpuxbdr2s6bm3y?t=Mission_Possible_with_Christopher_Duffley>
| Follow Podcast On TuneIn And Listen To Latest Episode
<http://tunein.com/radio/Mission-Possible-With-Christopher-Duffley-p892505/>
LIKE/FOLLOW Me:
Facebook <http://facebook.com/christopherduffley> | Twitter
<http://twitter.com/chrisduffley> | YouTube
<http://youtube.com/christopherduffley> | Instagram
<http://instagram.com/christopherduffley>
On Mar 16, 2023, at 17:46, Doug Lee <nvda@...> wrote:
As far as I know, Mastodon does not as easily allow people to set up
their
own notifications on updates from
one account or find notifications that happened before they start
looking.
My personal solution is to post my
announcements of project updates to a Telegram channel, set up a
discussion
group in Telegram that is linked
to that channel, then have the channel announcements automatically post
to
Twitter for people to find if they
don't use Telegram.
For a group of people who specifically want to follow notifications,
Mastodon probably works well enough. I
confess I have never used that platform though. For Twitter, perhaps
surprisingly, both Tweesecake and TWBlue
still work as of this writing, according to what I was told as recently
as
yesterday.
Finally, a bit more detail on my first claim about Mastodon: I understand
that Mastodon consists of users and
nodes, and each user may have an account on any node or nodes. I imagine
most users just prefer to have one
account on one node. But then, if you post your announcements on your
node
and I am on a different one, what I
can see of your announcements is up to the owners of both nodes. On
Twitter,
you post and I choose whether to
see the posts, and there is no one in the middle making choices for me.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Noelia Ruiz wrote:
Hello:
I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a
reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not.
But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the store.
I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really
comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of
servers can also be used.
I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or
maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it.
This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace
human conversations:
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.html
Cheers.
--
Doug Lee dgl@... <mailto:dgl@...>
http://www.dlee.org <http://www.dlee.org/>
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find
the way." - Abraham Lincoln
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|
|
Hey there!
Not a problem!
I think it's under Account or something. I haven't looked there in a while. No worries.
I do know that Mastodon has an API for sending data, but not sure about parcing data, plus, and I'll emphasize, I know only super basic Python at the moment and can't do much with it. Though I could see it possible to do via a small app that could run by looking up and pulling the new data, and then only sending it if modifications were made.
Thanks. Christopher DuffleyHost of Mission Possible Podcast: https://www.christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast Cell: +1 (603) 851-6971
14 Pro Max
On Mar 17, 2023, at 15:56, Noelia Ruiz <nrm1977@...> wrote: Hello, I've registered my new account in your server. I haven't seenan option to indicate that it's a bot, and for now it will be just fortesting, so I may send useless things or messages without sense.Hope they aren't automatically reported as spam. For any otherquestions, I'll contact you privately.Thanks for offering your server!2023-03-17 16:47 GMT+01:00, Noelia Ruiz via groups.io<nrm1977@...>:Ah, great! I"ll register a bot there, thinking how to display the json data.
Also, I may reply if someone asks for human help. I may try to do it this
weekend. Thanks.
Enviado desde mi iPhone
El 17 mar 2023, a las 15:51, Christopher Duffley
<christophernduffley@...> escribió:
Hi Noelia,
You may register a bot here on mine if you feel where you are won't allow
it. If anyone wants to make their own account they can do that also. Your
username will become username @chrisduffley.com.
https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com
Cheers,
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast:
https://www.christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast
Cell: +1 (603) 851-6971
14 Pro Max
On Mar 17, 2023, at 02:45, Noelia Ruiz <nrm1977@...> wrote:
I prefer Mastodon since there I don't receive advertisements selected
by algorythms, and it's possible to choose different instances if I
have a problem in the server where my account is registered.
My experience is good, and a couple of times I reported issues and get
a reply in the next hours.
I've seen that some instances lock other server due to rules, for
example hate speech.
I can make a test trying to create a bot and then see what happens. If
I do it, I'll inform here.
Cheers
2023-03-17 1:43 GMT+01:00, Christopher Duffley
<christophernduffley@...>:
Hey Doug,
I guess I could say it's the best of both worlds, with Mastodon not being
controlled by a big corporation and thousands of instances scattered
throughout the net. In order to follow a topic or person, it's either
hashtags or exact username matches based on what node they're on. For
instance, for those who want to follow me, it would be
@ChrisDuffley@...
<https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com/@ChrisDuffley>. You can of course
search
for it that way, or directly on your own instance, by doing
instance_url/@username@domain and you can see what was cached on that
node
there. But yes, the second point about controlling who can be there is
also
true, as that can be restricted. Most of the time, though, it's not, but
domains can either be silenced (versions earlier than 4.1)/limited
(version
4.1 and later) or suspended, which means no interaction between the node
and
that domain can occur. Silenced/limited means that nothing will be cached
publicly on that domain (meaning other users won't see their stuff
publicly
except if the user follows the limited person).
I hope this helps some - you can always email us off-list or communicate
however else if you need things clarified.
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast
<https://christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast>
LINKS TO SUBSCRIBE:
iTunes
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-possible-christopher/id1103092109?mt=2>
| Stitcher <http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=88094&refid=stpr> | Google Play
<https://goo.gl/app/playmusic?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ik76dexklcprwnpuxbdr2s6bm3y?t=Mission_Possible_with_Christopher_Duffley>
| Follow Podcast On TuneIn And Listen To Latest Episode
<http://tunein.com/radio/Mission-Possible-With-Christopher-Duffley-p892505/>
LIKE/FOLLOW Me:
Facebook <http://facebook.com/christopherduffley> | Twitter
<http://twitter.com/chrisduffley> | YouTube
<http://youtube.com/christopherduffley> | Instagram
<http://instagram.com/christopherduffley>
On Mar 16, 2023, at 17:46, Doug Lee <nvda@...> wrote:
As far as I know, Mastodon does not as easily allow people to set up
their
own notifications on updates from
one account or find notifications that happened before they start
looking.
My personal solution is to post my
announcements of project updates to a Telegram channel, set up a
discussion
group in Telegram that is linked
to that channel, then have the channel announcements automatically post
to
Twitter for people to find if they
don't use Telegram.
For a group of people who specifically want to follow notifications,
Mastodon probably works well enough. I
confess I have never used that platform though. For Twitter, perhaps
surprisingly, both Tweesecake and TWBlue
still work as of this writing, according to what I was told as recently
as
yesterday.
Finally, a bit more detail on my first claim about Mastodon: I understand
that Mastodon consists of users and
nodes, and each user may have an account on any node or nodes. I imagine
most users just prefer to have one
account on one node. But then, if you post your announcements on your
node
and I am on a different one, what I
can see of your announcements is up to the owners of both nodes. On
Twitter,
you post and I choose whether to
see the posts, and there is no one in the middle making choices for me.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Noelia Ruiz wrote:
Hello:
I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a
reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not.
But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the store.
I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really
comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of
servers can also be used.
I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or
maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it.
This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace
human conversations:
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.html
Cheers.
--
Doug Lee dgl@... <mailto:dgl@...>
http://www.dlee.org <http://www.dlee.org/>
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find
the way." - Abraham Lincoln
|
|
|
Thanks. For now I have a repo with GitHub Actions that looks for modifications. My idea is that, if more than an add-on is modified, we just inform about this fact without processing the metadata. If just an add-on is updated, we can process properties to provide the homepage and download URL. Here's the repo, with lots of dirty commits for testing online with GitHub Actions: https://github.com/nvdaes/nvdaStoreMastodonBotI have found an action to send toots in Mastodon, so I'll need to configure the account and starting making tests with a fake store. If this idea is not appropriate for any reason let me know or feel free to provide feedback to improve. 2023-03-18 5:11 GMT+01:00, Christopher Duffley <christophernduffley@...>:
Hey there!
Not a problem!
I think it's under Account or something. I haven't looked there in a while.
No worries.
I do know that Mastodon has an API for sending data, but not sure about
parcing data, plus, and I'll emphasize, I know only super basic Python at
the moment and can't do much with it. Though I could see it possible to do
via a small app that could run by looking up and pulling the new data, and
then only sending it if modifications were made.
Thanks.
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast:
https://www.christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast
Cell: +1 (603) 851-6971
Sent from my iPhone 14 Pro Max
On Mar 17, 2023, at 15:56, Noelia Ruiz <nrm1977@...> wrote:
Hello, I've registered my new account in your server. I haven't seen
an option to indicate that it's a bot, and for now it will be just for
testing, so I may send useless things or messages without sense.
Hope they aren't automatically reported as spam. For any other
questions, I'll contact you privately.
Thanks for offering your server!
2023-03-17 16:47 GMT+01:00, Noelia Ruiz via groups.io
<nrm1977@...>:
Ah, great! I"ll register a bot there, thinking how to display the json
data.
Also, I may reply if someone asks for human help. I may try to do it this
weekend. Thanks.
Enviado desde mi iPhone
El 17 mar 2023, a las 15:51, Christopher Duffley
<christophernduffley@...> escribió:
Hi Noelia,
You may register a bot here on mine if you feel where you are won't
allow
it. If anyone wants to make their own account they can do that also.
Your
username will become username @chrisduffley.com.
https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com
Cheers,
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast:
https://www.christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast
Cell: +1 (603) 851-6971
14 Pro Max
On Mar 17, 2023, at 02:45, Noelia Ruiz <nrm1977@...> wrote:
I prefer Mastodon since there I don't receive advertisements selected
by algorythms, and it's possible to choose different instances if I
have a problem in the server where my account is registered.
My experience is good, and a couple of times I reported issues and get
a reply in the next hours.
I've seen that some instances lock other server due to rules, for
example hate speech.
I can make a test trying to create a bot and then see what happens. If
I do it, I'll inform here.
Cheers
2023-03-17 1:43 GMT+01:00, Christopher Duffley
<christophernduffley@...>:
Hey Doug,
I guess I could say it's the best of both worlds, with Mastodon not
being
controlled by a big corporation and thousands of instances scattered
throughout the net. In order to follow a topic or person, it's either
hashtags or exact username matches based on what node they're on. For
instance, for those who want to follow me, it would be
@ChrisDuffley@...
<https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com/@ChrisDuffley>. You can of course
search
for it that way, or directly on your own instance, by doing
instance_url/@username@domain and you can see what was cached on that
node
there. But yes, the second point about controlling who can be there is
also
true, as that can be restricted. Most of the time, though, it's not,
but
domains can either be silenced (versions earlier than 4.1)/limited
(version
4.1 and later) or suspended, which means no interaction between the
node
and
that domain can occur. Silenced/limited means that nothing will be
cached
publicly on that domain (meaning other users won't see their stuff
publicly
except if the user follows the limited person).
I hope this helps some - you can always email us off-list or
communicate
however else if you need things clarified.
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast
<https://christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast>
LINKS TO SUBSCRIBE:
iTunes
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-possible-christopher/id1103092109?mt=2>
| Stitcher <http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=88094&refid=stpr> | Google
Play
<https://goo.gl/app/playmusic?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ik76dexklcprwnpuxbdr2s6bm3y?t=Mission_Possible_with_Christopher_Duffley>
| Follow Podcast On TuneIn And Listen To Latest Episode
<http://tunein.com/radio/Mission-Possible-With-Christopher-Duffley-p892505/>
LIKE/FOLLOW Me:
Facebook <http://facebook.com/christopherduffley> | Twitter
<http://twitter.com/chrisduffley> | YouTube
<http://youtube.com/christopherduffley> | Instagram
<http://instagram.com/christopherduffley>
On Mar 16, 2023, at 17:46, Doug Lee <nvda@...> wrote:
As far as I know, Mastodon does not as easily allow people to set up
their
own notifications on updates from
one account or find notifications that happened before they start
looking.
My personal solution is to post my
announcements of project updates to a Telegram channel, set up a
discussion
group in Telegram that is linked
to that channel, then have the channel announcements automatically post
to
Twitter for people to find if they
don't use Telegram.
For a group of people who specifically want to follow notifications,
Mastodon probably works well enough. I
confess I have never used that platform though. For Twitter, perhaps
surprisingly, both Tweesecake and TWBlue
still work as of this writing, according to what I was told as recently
as
yesterday.
Finally, a bit more detail on my first claim about Mastodon: I
understand
that Mastodon consists of users and
nodes, and each user may have an account on any node or nodes. I
imagine
most users just prefer to have one
account on one node. But then, if you post your announcements on your
node
and I am on a different one, what I
can see of your announcements is up to the owners of both nodes. On
Twitter,
you post and I choose whether to
see the posts, and there is no one in the middle making choices for me.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Noelia Ruiz wrote:
Hello:
I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a
reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not.
But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the
store.
I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really
comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of
servers can also be used.
I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or
maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it.
This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace
human conversations:
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.html
Cheers.
--
Doug Lee dgl@... <mailto:dgl@...>
http://www.dlee.org <http://www.dlee.org/>
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find
the way." - Abraham Lincoln
|
|
|
Hello: I sent just a few publications from the real store. Now the bot is configured to check for updates every 5 minutes. Here's the announcement sent to Mastodon, mentioning NV Access and Chris Duffley. As commented, this should be considered alpha quality: https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com/@nvdastore/110060154521997445Cheers. 2023-03-19 11:30 GMT+01:00, Noelia Ruiz via groups.io <nrm1977@...>:
Thanks.
For now I have a repo with GitHub Actions that looks for
modifications. My idea is that, if more than an add-on is modified, we
just inform about this fact without processing the metadata. If just
an add-on is updated, we can process properties to provide the
homepage and download URL. Here's the repo, with lots of dirty commits
for testing online with GitHub Actions:
https://github.com/nvdaes/nvdaStoreMastodonBot
I have found an action to send toots in Mastodon, so I'll need to
configure the account and starting making tests with a fake store.
If this idea is not appropriate for any reason let me know or feel
free to provide feedback to improve.
2023-03-18 5:11 GMT+01:00, Christopher Duffley
<christophernduffley@...>:
Hey there!
Not a problem!
I think it's under Account or something. I haven't looked there in a
while.
No worries.
I do know that Mastodon has an API for sending data, but not sure about
parcing data, plus, and I'll emphasize, I know only super basic Python at
the moment and can't do much with it. Though I could see it possible to
do
via a small app that could run by looking up and pulling the new data,
and
then only sending it if modifications were made.
Thanks.
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast:
https://www.christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast
Cell: +1 (603) 851-6971
Sent from my iPhone 14 Pro Max
On Mar 17, 2023, at 15:56, Noelia Ruiz <nrm1977@...> wrote:
Hello, I've registered my new account in your server. I haven't seen
an option to indicate that it's a bot, and for now it will be just for
testing, so I may send useless things or messages without sense.
Hope they aren't automatically reported as spam. For any other
questions, I'll contact you privately.
Thanks for offering your server!
2023-03-17 16:47 GMT+01:00, Noelia Ruiz via groups.io
<nrm1977@...>:
Ah, great! I"ll register a bot there, thinking how to display the json
data.
Also, I may reply if someone asks for human help. I may try to do it
this
weekend. Thanks.
Enviado desde mi iPhone
El 17 mar 2023, a las 15:51, Christopher Duffley
<christophernduffley@...> escribió:
Hi Noelia,
You may register a bot here on mine if you feel where you are won't
allow
it. If anyone wants to make their own account they can do that also.
Your
username will become username @chrisduffley.com.
https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com
Cheers,
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast:
https://www.christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast
Cell: +1 (603) 851-6971
14 Pro Max
On Mar 17, 2023, at 02:45, Noelia Ruiz <nrm1977@...> wrote:
I prefer Mastodon since there I don't receive advertisements selected
by algorythms, and it's possible to choose different instances if I
have a problem in the server where my account is registered.
My experience is good, and a couple of times I reported issues and get
a reply in the next hours.
I've seen that some instances lock other server due to rules, for
example hate speech.
I can make a test trying to create a bot and then see what happens. If
I do it, I'll inform here.
Cheers
2023-03-17 1:43 GMT+01:00, Christopher Duffley
<christophernduffley@...>:
Hey Doug,
I guess I could say it's the best of both worlds, with Mastodon not
being
controlled by a big corporation and thousands of instances scattered
throughout the net. In order to follow a topic or person, it's either
hashtags or exact username matches based on what node they're on. For
instance, for those who want to follow me, it would be
@ChrisDuffley@...
<https://mastodon.chrisduffley.com/@ChrisDuffley>. You can of course
search
for it that way, or directly on your own instance, by doing
instance_url/@username@domain and you can see what was cached on that
node
there. But yes, the second point about controlling who can be there is
also
true, as that can be restricted. Most of the time, though, it's not,
but
domains can either be silenced (versions earlier than 4.1)/limited
(version
4.1 and later) or suspended, which means no interaction between the
node
and
that domain can occur. Silenced/limited means that nothing will be
cached
publicly on that domain (meaning other users won't see their stuff
publicly
except if the user follows the limited person).
I hope this helps some - you can always email us off-list or
communicate
however else if you need things clarified.
Christopher Duffley
Host of Mission Possible Podcast
<https://christopherduffley.com/category/mission-possible-podcast>
LINKS TO SUBSCRIBE:
iTunes
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-possible-christopher/id1103092109?mt=2>
| Stitcher <http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=88094&refid=stpr> | Google
Play
<https://goo.gl/app/playmusic?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ik76dexklcprwnpuxbdr2s6bm3y?t=Mission_Possible_with_Christopher_Duffley>
| Follow Podcast On TuneIn And Listen To Latest Episode
<http://tunein.com/radio/Mission-Possible-With-Christopher-Duffley-p892505/>
LIKE/FOLLOW Me:
Facebook <http://facebook.com/christopherduffley> | Twitter
<http://twitter.com/chrisduffley> | YouTube
<http://youtube.com/christopherduffley> | Instagram
<http://instagram.com/christopherduffley>
On Mar 16, 2023, at 17:46, Doug Lee <nvda@...> wrote:
As far as I know, Mastodon does not as easily allow people to set up
their
own notifications on updates from
one account or find notifications that happened before they start
looking.
My personal solution is to post my
announcements of project updates to a Telegram channel, set up a
discussion
group in Telegram that is linked
to that channel, then have the channel announcements automatically
post
to
Twitter for people to find if they
don't use Telegram.
For a group of people who specifically want to follow notifications,
Mastodon probably works well enough. I
confess I have never used that platform though. For Twitter, perhaps
surprisingly, both Tweesecake and TWBlue
still work as of this writing, according to what I was told as
recently
as
yesterday.
Finally, a bit more detail on my first claim about Mastodon: I
understand
that Mastodon consists of users and
nodes, and each user may have an account on any node or nodes. I
imagine
most users just prefer to have one
account on one node. But then, if you post your announcements on your
node
and I am on a different one, what I
can see of your announcements is up to the owners of both nodes. On
Twitter,
you post and I choose whether to
see the posts, and there is no one in the middle making choices for
me.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Noelia Ruiz wrote:
Hello:
I'm thinking about an idea, though I don't know if it will be a
reality ornot. I'll think if this maybe useful or not.
But we may create a bot to send notifications about updates in the
store.
I like Mastodon much more than Twitter, and Pinafore is really
comfortable to use Mastodon with NVDA, though the Official webpage of
servers can also be used.
I bring up this here in case someone wants to provide feedback, or
maybe that a bot already exists and I don't know about it.
This info maybe useful to create a bot, though this doesn't replace
human conversations:
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/writing-a-simple-mastodon-bot-to-submit-rss-items.html
Cheers.
--
Doug Lee dgl@... <mailto:dgl@...>
http://www.dlee.org <http://www.dlee.org/>
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find
the way." - Abraham Lincoln
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