Aw yiss! Progress on Akkoma/Bsky interop! And I’m hoping it’ll also fix pixelfed interop but who knows. I haven’t installed this patchset yet.

What Fedi needs in order to become easy, is an app that hooks into the browser and recognizes that a page is connected to ActivityPub so you can (optionally) interact with it from your own account via the app. Like what we had for RSS readers and rel alternate links back in the bronze age.

Because while true metal hearts know how to jump hoops like accepts headers JSON parsing blah blah blah pasting URLs into the search bar and so on, many people don’t even know what an URL is.

Yeah, yeah, this problem is exacerbated on Akkoma since it doesn’t support redirects (for arguably good reason) so it’s harder to interact with some sites like Peer Tube:

Not sure if an Akkoma MRF could help moderate posts bridged from Bluesky.

Two seconds of making an Emacs lisp thing. Three hours of reading Elixir docs and grepping Akkoma’s source code to make the Emacs lisp thing render properly in the atom feed.

Wishin’ and hopin’ Akkoma could get a li’l less Skinner-boxy with more fine-grained hiding of favs and boosts: