洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Contrary to seemingly popular belief, FediMod FIRES and the protocol I created for it is so much more than just "blocklist synchronisation"

It's designed to give moderation teams choice in what they pull from providers and how that's applied to their server. It's designed to give finer-grained moderation control than "silence or suspend" across a wide array of entities.

Thinking of FediMod FIRES as just a blocklist synchronisation tool is like thinking of a computer as a just a modern typewriter. Sure you can just do what that original thing did, but it's capable of so much more.

For example, it's possible to share moderation data on individual bad actors and also on email domains (currently not in the shipped version but pretty straightforward to add). In the future it'll also support more entity types like Hashtags, Links, and possibly image hashes.

Domain blocks are just the tip of the iceberg of what FediMod FIRES can do.

#Optique 1.0.0을 릴리스했습니다.

Haskell의 optparse-applicative 스타일의 #TypeScript #CLI 파서가 필요해서 만들었습니다. 작은 타입 파서들을 조합하면 TypeScript가 결과 타입을 자동으로 추론합니다. 서브커맨드, 옵션 간 의존성, 셸 완성, 맨(man) 페이지 생성 등을 지원하고, #Deno, #Node.js, #Bun 등에서 동작합니다.

이번 버전에서는 @optique/env (환경 변수 폴백) 패키지와 @optique/inquirer (Inquirer.js 프롬프트 폴백) 패키지를 추가했습니다. API의 어색한 부분들도 많이 정리하고, 다섯 가지 셸의 완성 스크립트 버그도 한꺼번에 잡았습니다.

JSR과 npm에서 설치하실 수 있습니다.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/discussions/796

#Optique 1.0.0 is out! If you build #CLI tools with #TypeScript, it might be worth a look.

I started it because I wanted a TypeScript CLI parser that felt more like optparse-applicative than the usual builder-style APIs. You build up small typed parsers, compose them, and TypeScript infers the result. It handles subcommands, option dependencies, shell completion, and man pages, and it runs on #Deno, #Node.js, and #Bun.

For 1.0 I added @optique/env, so env vars can fill in missing flags, and @optique/inquirer, so missing values can fall back to Inquirer.js prompts. I also cleaned up a lot of awkward API edges and fixed a long backlog of completion bugs across five shells.

Packages are on JSR and npm.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/discussions/796

Nearly 10,000 organizations, institutions, companies, and other official groups with a fediverse presence recorded on Wikidata!

https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse-accounts

#fediverse #wikidata

We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉

This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

I think I'm pretty near a beta release for Gitte (a GNOME Git GUI). While I have plans for the future, I think the basics are covered (besides pull - I want to have that for the first release). What do you people think?

https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gui #gnome #linux

The #CFP for the Fediverse & Social Web track at COSCUP 2026 (Taipei, Aug 8–9) is now open! If you're working on #ActivityPub, the #fediverse, or anything in the open social web space, we'd love to hear from you. The deadline is May 9. #COSCUP is free to attend.

👉 https://hackers.pub/@fedidevkr/2026/fediverse-social-web-track-at-coscup-2026-cfp

(Boosts appreciated!)

#SocialWeb #fedidev

GIMP 창시자들이 CockroachDB 메인테이너라는 사실을 믿지 못하는 펀

Hey. Nations are made up. Citizenship is made up. Naturalization is made up. We have these things because this is the social contract we grew over hundreds of years.

The idea of an immigrant becoming a citizen is no less legitimate than the idea of someone being born a citizen. They are both and equally legal constructs that exist because things were worse without them.

If an immigrant can be denaturalized, then anyone the government wants to be rid of can be denaturalized.

@jnkrtech On CJK hashtags from scratch, I honestly don't know. My suspicion is that hashtags may be the wrong unit in the first place. Some kind of topic grouping might fit better. But once you go there, you're getting uncomfortably close to a recommender, and that's exactly the sort of thing a lot of people came here to get away from.

The ML idea is interesting, but I think it would be a very hard sell even if it were strictly opt-in. On the fediverse, once you put “ML” on the label, half the objections start writing themselves.

I think the bigger issue is that hashtags are partly compensating for weak search. And weak search is not just a bug. In some corners it is very much the point. A lot of fediverse people want discovery to stay limited because it keeps spaces smaller and less searchable by strangers. So this stops being just a technical proposal pretty quickly. It turns into an argument about what the fediverse is for.

btw, many western linguistic features were still introduced into Chinese starting in the 1800s due to the influence of western colonizers:

• Writing direction: horizontal, left-to-right, rather than vertical, right-to-left

• Punctuation: The adoption of standardized punctuation mark

• She/Her pronouns.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nicemicro/116397437022885270

textbook example of western-centric arrogance of western cis white dudes, Number #232123

Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀
This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version
https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/

@nicemicro Fair point on the particles. I was too narrow there.

On spaces, Chinese and Japanese did not end up without them out of stubbornness. They developed ways of reading that do not depend on spaces the way Latin-script languages often do. Most of the research people cite on spacing and reading speed comes from alphabetic languages, so it does not automatically apply to CJK. Treating that as “stubbornness” just assumes Latin-script conventions are the norm.

The hashtag friction is real regardless.

@mariusor I'm thinking about how to have users input them! Yeah, rendering them is relatively straightforward.

@bootlegrydia That sounds a good idea! I definitely will implement that syntax in the platforms I'm building!

@hongminhee weibo solved this issue by adding a hash at the end of the tag, ie. #话题# instead of #话题

however western platforms definitely won't do this

@HaTetsu @hongminhee It also looks bad when the message itself is sometimes ridden with hashtags.

@hongminhee It's really a problem in any language with word inflection… And even when writing in English, I think more people on the Fediverse have been switching to mostly putting hastags at the end in order to not break the flow of posts so much (screen readers have been used as an argument for that, too, not without reason)

The hashtag problem in CJK languages

I keep thinking about how fediverse hashtag advice assumes English.

In English, you can drop #coffee into a sentence and it still reads fine. The spacing already does most of the work.

In Korean, Japanese, or Chinese, that feels much less natural. Chinese and Japanese have no spaces between words. Korean does, but particles and endings stick to the word, so putting a hashtag mid-sentence often just looks awkward or breaks the flow.

So people tend to dump hashtags at the end, or skip them.

That changes the usual “follow hashtags to find your community” advice. If people tag less, there's just less there to find. And the fediverse's discovery is already shaky enough without that.

Not sure whether it's a UI problem or just hashtags fitting space-delimited languages better. But it seems like one of those small frictions that makes the fediverse harder to get into for CJK users.

@lutindiscret That's a good point, and honestly something I hadn't thought of!

Though hashtags seem to be used much less in the Korean fediverse. Part of it might be linguistic: Korean word boundaries don't align neatly with spaces the way they do in English, so weaving hashtags into running text feels awkward. They tend to get appended at the end, if used at all, which probably means fewer people are tagging in the first place.

@raika_amaris Thank you! From what I know, she's into amusing anecdotes, socio-political discourse, animal content, and crafts; the last one especially, since it's her profession. I'll pass along your recommendations.

Though I suspect part of the problem is that the Korean fediverse is just so small. Even if she finds great accounts to follow in English, she'd still be navigating a space that doesn't quite feel like hers.

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피드백은 타래로 부탁드립니다. 기여해주신 dalinaum님 감사합니다.

@ayo Yeah, that's a great idea!

@hongminhee #GetYourPartnerToTheFediverse could be a campaign 😅

My spouse still uses X heavily. They don't like Elon Musk either, but they check in on the fediverse occasionally and always come back saying the same thing: it feels like a space only for software engineers.

They're right, and I don't have a good answer for it.

You can say it's network effects, and that's part of it. But that still doesn't explain why the place feels closed off even when people do try it. X has an algorithm that surfaces content from people you don't follow, so even if you open it at random, there's always some shared background chatter: memes, game reactions, celebrity nonsense, whatever people are mad about that day. The fediverse has none of that. You see what the people you've deliberately followed have posted. So when non-technical people do show up, they often land in silence. And a lot of what they do see is fediverse talk, Linux talk, ActivityPub talk. Which is fine for me—I spend most of my waking hours thinking about ActivityPub—but I can see why it would feel alienating to someone who just wants to talk about films or cooking or K-dramas.

Then I look at Japan and think maybe this isn't impossible after all. Misskey and its forks developed a culture that pulled in illustrators, anime fans, people who had no interest in self-hosting or federation protocols. The reactions help. Some instances feel playful instead of dutiful. That seems to matter. I'm not sure exactly what made that work, or whether anyone could build that on purpose.

This feels especially hard in Korean. The pool is smaller, and communities like K-pop fandoms or webtoon readers have so much gravity on X that there's no obvious reason for them to leave. And even if some of them did, discovery is broken enough that they might not find each other in time—enough people that the place stops feeling empty.

When my spouse says the fediverse feels like it's for software engineers, I mostly just sit there, because I don't know how to tell them they're wrong.