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.\" Copyright (c) 2019 Ted Unangst
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.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
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.Dd $Mdocdate$
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.Dt HONK 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm honk
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.Nd federated status conveyance
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility processes federated status updates and other microblog activities.
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This is the user manual.
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For administration, see
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.Xr honk 8 .
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For other documentation, refer to the
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.Xr intro 1 .
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.Pp
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This manual is still incomplete.
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It'll get there eventually.
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.Ss Honkers
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Initially, there won't be much to see after logging in.
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In order to receive regular updates from other users, they must first
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be added to one's honker collection.
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Begin at the
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.Pa honkers
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tab.
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The
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.Ar url
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field is required.
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Either of two forms are accepted, the user's handle (or webfinger) or their
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ActivityPub actor URL.
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.Pp
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.Dl @user@example.social
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.Dl https://example.social/users/user
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.Pp
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The
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.Ar name
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field is optional and will be automatically inferred.
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The
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.Ar notes
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field is reserved for user remarks.
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Fellow honkers may be added to one or more
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.Ar combos
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to suit one's organizational preferences.
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These are accessed via the
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.Pa combos
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tab and allow easy access to particular groupings.
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The special combo name of one hyphen
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.Sq -
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will exclude a honker's posts from the primary feed.
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.Pp
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It is also possible to skip subscribing.
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In this case, regular posts are not received, but replies and posts fetched
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via other means will appear in the relevant combos.
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.Pp
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In addition to honkers, it is possible to subscribe to a hashtag collection.
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(Where supported.)
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Enter the collection URL for
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.Ar url .
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.Pp
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Separately, hashtags may be added to a combo by creating a honker with a
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.Ar url
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of the desired hashtag (including #).
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Several hashtags may thus be collected in a single combo.
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.Ss Viewing
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The primary feed is accessed via the
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.Pa home
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tab.
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It will contain posts from all honkers except those specifically excluded.
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Posts mentioning the user, both followed and not, are collected under the
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.Pa @me
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tab.
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Other feeds include
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.Pa first
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which excludes replies, the user defined options under the
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.Pa combos
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subheading, and the
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.Pa events
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page which lists only events.
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.Pp
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Individual honks contain a visual representation of the honker's ID,
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their name, the activity (with a link back to origin), a link to the
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parent post if applicable, and the convoy (thread) identifier.
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A red border indicates the honk is not public.
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Screenshot below.
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.Pp
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.Lk screenshot-honk.png screenshot of one honk
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.Pp
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Available actions are:
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.Bl -tag -width tenletters
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.It Ic bonk
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Share with followers.
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Not available for nonpublic honks.
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.It Ic honk back
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Reply.
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.It Ic mute
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Mute this entire thread.
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Existing posts are hidden, and future posts will not appear in any feed.
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.It Ic zonk
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Delete this post.
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When deleting one's own post, other servers will be requested to remove it,
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but this is unreliable.
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.It Ic ack
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Acknowledge reading this post.
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Typically if it's a reply to one's own post.
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.It Ic save
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Save this honk to the
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.Pa saved
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tab to find later.
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.It Ic untag me
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Sometimes a thread goes on entirely too long.
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Untag will hide further replies to the selected post, but without muting the
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entire thread.
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Replies higher in the tree are still received.
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.It Ic badonk
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Please no.
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.It Ic edit
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Change it up.
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Alas, Update activities do not federate reliably.
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.Ss Refresh
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Clicking the refresh button will load new honks, if any.
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New honks will be subtly highlighted.
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.El
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.Ss Honking
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Refer to the
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.Xr honk 5
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section of the manual for details of honk composition.
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.Ss Search
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Find old honks.
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It's basic substring match with a few extensions.
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The following keywords are supported:
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.Bl -tag -width honker
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.It site
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Substring match on the post domain name.
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.It honker
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Exact match, either AP actor or honker nickname.
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.It -
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Negate term.
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.El
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.Pp
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Example:
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.Dl honker:goose big moose -footloose
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This query will find honks by the goose about the big moose, but excluding
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those about footloose.
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.Ss Filtering
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Sometimes other users of the federation can get unruly.
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The honk filtering and censorship system,
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.Xr hfcs 1 ,
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can be of great use to restore order to one's timeline.
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Accessed via the
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.Pa filters
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menu item.
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.Ss Xzone
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The
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.Pa xzone
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page lists recently seen honkers that are not otherwise tracked.
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It also allows the import of external objects via URL, either individual
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posts or actor URLs, in which case their recent outbox is imported.
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.Ss Account
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It's all about you.
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An avatar may be selected from the
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.Pa funzone
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meme collection by adding
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.Dq avatar: filename.png
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to one's profile info.
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If truly necessary.
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A banner may be set by specifying
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.Dq banner: image.jpg .
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See
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.Xr honk 8
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for more about the funzone.
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.Pp
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Some options to customize the site appearance:
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.Bl -tag -width skinny
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.It skinny
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Use a narrower column for the main display.
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.It omit images
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Omit img tags, to lighten page loads on slow connections.
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.It apple
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Prefer Apple links for maps.
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The default is OpenStreetMap.
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.It reaction
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Pick an emoji for reacting to posts.
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.El
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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.Nm
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is designed to work with most browsers, but for optimal results it is
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recommended to use a
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2015 or later Thinkpad X1 Carbon with 2560x1440 screen running
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.Ox
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and chromium at 150% scaling with the dwm window manager.
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This will enable the main menu to line up just right.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr intro 1 ,
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.Xr honk 8
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.Sh STANDARDS
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.Pp
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.Lk https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ "ActivityPub"
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.Pp
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.Lk https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/ "Activity Vocabulary"
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.Sh HISTORY
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Started March 2019.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Ted Unangst Lk https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu @tedu@honk.tedunangst.com
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.Sh CAVEATS
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Completing some operations, such as subscribing to new honkers, requires an
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aptitude for clipboard use and tab switching along with a steady hand.
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For the most part, these are infrequent operations, but they are also the
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first operations new users encounter.
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This is not ideal.
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.Pp
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The ActivityPub standard is subject to interpretation, and not all
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implementations are as enlightened as
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.Nm .
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.Sh BUGS
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It's a feature.
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