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#ProjectToot: I've finally completed an initial version of dlayer, my graph query library; it's kind of like GraphQL, but without the Facebook, without the weird DSL, and without the weird monolithic "design your whole API at once" design.

Instead, it's an extensible, modular design; an API is composed at runtime of one or more modules, which may or may not be aware of each other's existence, and extend each other's types with extra attributes as well!

This makes it much more useful for collaborative projects where different people might design different extensions for a (semi-)standardized API structure, as well as organic development, rather than GraphQL's assumption that you have one "team" that "designs the API" - which I'm sure works great in a startup, but *sucks* for community projects.

It shares the same useful property as GraphQL does, however; it lets you very easily assemble a coherent API out of many different, inconsistent data sources, regardless of whether any HTTP is involved. (There's currently not even any HTTP anything!)

The current implementation is in JS, but the design (and extensibility method) are simple enough that I see no reason it couldn't be ported to other languages!

Here's a rough example of how it works, with some dummy "modules" and data: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/a01a59485cd399324e37e3c6f00ebf78?ts=4

I need to sleep now, but I'll post a link to the code and some initial documentation tomorrow, probably. Let me know if you're interested in testing this out though :)

All the "why we shouldn't federate with Facebook" articles are like, deep analysis of historical behaviour track record, potential consequences for the community, group dynamics, etc.

And then there's the pro-Facebook articles and they're all just "but the growth! won't you think of the growth!"

I'm just going to leave this here...
"[when] technologies, in their development and design, leave out some subjects and communities for optimum usage, this leaves open the possibility of reproducing existing inequalities."
Simone Browne, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015).

Weinig gangbare uitdrukkingen doen m'n bloed zo koken als wanneer mensen de term "afspraken" gebruiken voor eenzijdig opgelegde regels.

In ben niet tegen regels, en ik snap ook dat de regels zouden kunnen zijn opgesteld door mensen waar ik zelf op heb gestemd. Maar echte afspraken (dus waar partijen met expliciete instemming iets afspreken) wegen sociaal gezien veel zwaarder, en regels bestempelen als "afspraken" voelt daardoor als heiligschennis.

I see the admin of Universeodon is once again showing why his instance deserves a block.

I think for pride month nile red should make estradiol

Well, my flag was a hit at the Trans March today. (Photo from https://bsky.app/profile/trans.bsky.social/post/3jyuthnenrl2w)

"i miss when computers weren't useful because they could do useless things really quickly"

this is a questionnare for mods and admins that use and are familiar with authorized fetch

its not a quiz, its not mandatory to participate in, and if you dont know what authorized fetch is, that's cool, too

if you dont know what it is, please feel free to not fill the form out instead of leaving a reply that doesn't help.

I am writing some research on safety tools and history in the fediverse. I have asked my mutuals and friends about authorized fetch, but am curious about what other #mods or #admins think about authorized fetch

I created a short questionnaire if you could be so kind as to share and answer!

https://forms.gle/fFs2rELm8UdZG2ZS8