I came here because I noticed I wasn’t getting the posts from here on Mastodon anymore, since sometime a day ago (newest post in my Mastodon “Programming.dev” List says 1 day old). Sounds like the same issue, but thought I’d add this info as all the other comments are about not getting posts from other places here, but I’m not getting posts from here at Mastodon.

Yeah, I’ve already been putting SOLVED on questions when I’ve found a solution, as I saw some other sites doing that.

Yep, I’ve been actively promoting programming.dev any time the topic of StackOveflow has come up.

if you feel that it’s your personal mission to generate traffic for a particular channel on a lemmy instance

Oh! One last fact check on your false claims - I don’t even post on 1 instance! P.S. take note of the upvotes.

dead, as it was expected to be

Ah! Now I see why you’re attacking - trying to prove you were “right”. You weren’t, you were wrong.

if they filter out your personal

…it’ll still be 35 users/month, which is still not dead.

it’s your personal mission to generate traffic

I’m not generating the other 34 people who used it this month, which includes, as I mentioned before, someone who actually provided me with a solution to a problem I had. Welcome to why Communities are useful. Not sure what purpose you think they’re for?

It’s ok if you feel that it’s your personal mission

As opposed to your apparent personal mission of trying to declare groups dead which actually aren’t?

Bye now Mr. Gaslighter.

I’m sorry, you’re trying to blatantly lie with statistics.

No, you’re lying by using a different definition of “dead”. See screenshot I already posted. It comes from this very Community. It’s based on how many monthly users there are, not how many posts there are. BTW the number of users has gone up since you made your previous comment - the MAUI community now on 35 users a month (only 1 of them is me), which is well on the way to being classified as “moderate” rather than just “quiet”. Sorry to break it to you, but you’re still wrong. As I said, take your gaslighting elsewhere.

dead communities

None of the communities you have mentioned are dead. In fact according to the January stats, all the communities you mentioned have above average usage.

Noted that you ignored this comment of mine…

it’s been worthwhile

Take your gaslighting somewhere else…

Hi Maho! Good to see you here. I wasn’t sure if you had joined here or not.

I did not create this post

No, I did (see previous point I wasn’t sure if you were on here). :-) Although there is some overlap between here and Mastodon, there are some who are only getting their news here or there, so I made some posts here too. I made the actual original post in the Windows Development Community, and have had a few new subscribers as a result, so that’s good. :-)

I have been experimenting with ActivityPub for my site (https://maho.dev/2024/02/a-guide-to-implement-activitypub-in-a-static-site-or-any-website/)

You might like to make your own, separate post about that. I didn’t do one for it yet - needed to explore more what communities we have here that might suit it (e.g. I’m not sure if there’s a ActivityPub Community). I just knew it didn’t really fit into the Communities I was already subscribed to (though maybe this one?).

I decided to create this bot, to see if it would be something useful for the fediverse

That’s a big thumbs up from me :-)

The bot’s posts are

Yes, that was the point of my post - can now follow the blog directly.

Microsoft is not posting their content in a federated way

Well, they’re using Wordpress, and Maho has activated the Wordpress ActivityPub plug-in to enable following it. Currently to comment on them you need to login (I guess with MS account?), so yes, would need it to be on official MS involvement for that change to happen, rather than something Maho has done in his spare time, because that would need an organisational change.

Yeah, people were saying that when dotnet.social launched as well, despite that not being an official MS server either.

It’s not official but it is federated, demonstrably.

There’s only a bot sharing links. Federated would mean more than a bot, right?

When a new post is made in a Community here, the relevant Community bot sends out a link to the post (see screenshot of post the .NET Community bot sent out about this post) - is this Community federated? Same answer.

The source is Maho. He’s a Microsoft employee who has added ActivityPub (via the Wordpress plug-in) in his spare time. The 2nd person to follow it was also a Microsoft employee - @DevLeader@programming.dev - who I’m sure would be happy to clear up anything about it (I’m not sure if Maho himself is on here, but Nick is).

How to be inert.

Be alert - the world needs more lerts

Pays to know how to recover code from the reflog in these cases.

At first I read that as re-flog. Is that with a cat o’ nine tails? 😂

That’s really cool!

why do you think most business are already writing a separate Android app

I don’t think that. I know some businesses who are still writing separate apps, instead of switching to cross-platform. You’ll have to ask them why they’re doing that. It frustrates me no end when platform-specific bugs come up because they’re running different code on each platform, each written by different people.

the fact that people interact by touch rather than with a mouse and keyboard

…makes no difference at all. Whether a user has touched a button, clicked on it, or tabbed to it and pressed enter, the same Button.Clicked event gets triggered.

The original comment was

it will kill PWAs

like if Apple STOPS doing it then everyone else will stop doing it. Like when Apple stopped having 3.5mm jacks everyone else stopped having 3.5mm jacks. Oh wait…

As I said, they’re big spenders, not trend-setters.

It’s not at all like building a separate app. All the back-end code is identical - all you have to do is make the mobile version not take up as much screen-space, and that’s not much work. e.g. on desktop I use icon and text, but on mobile icon only.