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Lainblog
Personal blog · blog.soykaf.comprogrammingweb
Lainblog is a personal blog at blog.soykaf.com about programming and web. Since 2018, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “What Is Pleroma? (distributed social network in Elixir)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as background on Pleroma, the federated social server, and ActivityPub, covering hosting costs, the Elixir codebase, and the software's history and features.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What Is Pleroma? (distributed social network in Elixir)4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-03-13
- Prepared statements and their surprising performance implications3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-02-19
- End-to-End Encryption and the Fediverse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-19
- Privacy and tracking on the Fediverse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-25
- Pleroma 1.0, a Mastodon compatible fediverse server in Elixir2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-28
What Hacker News says?
The owner of each instance pays the costs for hosting a given instance. So, basically, domain + hosting. Note that these costs can be really low; Pleroma[0] can be run on a Raspberry Pi 3 or a $2.50 Vultr instance[1] [0] https://pleroma.social/ [1] https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/
Comment linking /post/what-is-pleroma/
on “Ending our Medium integration”Submitted Prepared statements and their surprising performance implications as a story · 138 points
HN discussionSome background information on ActivityPub in Pleroma: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/activity-pub-in-pleroma/ https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/
Comment linking /post/what-is-pleroma/
on “Why ActivityPub is the future”Submitted What Is Pleroma? (distributed social network in Elixir) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionYour point a) is moot, this is not what this is about. When writing manual SQL nothing stops you from doing `SELECT * FROM persons WHERE age > 'eighteen'` (the `age` field is a number, obviously). Coming from Django I was often bitten by `Person.objects.filter(age__gt=trashhold) # boom!` (note the misspelled variable "threshold") or, if you prefer manual writin SQL: `Person.objects.raw("SELECT * FROM persons WHERE a…
Comment linking /post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/
on “Show HN: IHP, a batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix”Submitted Gopher Support in Pleroma as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPleroma is written in Elixir https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/#less-moving-pa...
Comment linking /post/what-is-pleroma/
on “From GNU social to Mastodon”Submitted Pleroma 1.0, a Mastodon compatible fediverse server in Elixir as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAn older post might help you: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/ Admittedly, this is dated, but is still valid, and should help you get a basic understanding of what pleroma is - including a few screenshots. I hope that helps!
Comment linking /post/what-is-pleroma/
on “Pleroma 2.0: a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols”Submitted PostgreSQL Search: From the Trenches as a story · 4 points
HN discussionRight, benefits include performance gains. From HN: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/ In addition to security.
Comment linking /post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/
on “Finding an authorization bypass on my own website”Submitted End-to-End Encryption and the Fediverse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prepared statements and their surprising performance implications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pleroma 1.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stable release of Pleroma, ActivityPub compatible microblogging server software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing ActivityPub in an Elixir Twitter Clone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Pleroma? (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy and tracking on the Fediverse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy and Tracking on the Fediverse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted End-to-End Encryption with AP Characteristics for a New Era as a story · 1 points
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