Notices tagged with fediverse
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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 05-Feb-2021 00:35:36 UTC ![Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]](https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/avatar/4152-48-20190707060419.png)
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
https://sporks.space/2021/02/02/mastodon-really-is-crumbling-and-it-will-only-get-worse/
What an awful perspective! If the #Fediverse is an unpleasant place, it is because there are unpleasant people (or ordinary people acting in unpleasant ways) in it.
I do agree that misusing the ‘title’ field as ‘content warning’ is insufficient. For one thing, even assuming the person captions the post appropriately, now your mind is already exposed to whatever bad content they’re posting. It would be _much_ better to teach people to hashtag all their posts appropriately, so that people who do not wish to see said content can filter it out and people who specifically want to see said content can subscribe to that tag. Mastodon got that part very wrong.
But the writer’s instance is sometimes part of the problem ... a source of instigation and harassment. Or more correctly, that instance has sometimes been those things. I’ve been fortunate not to see them in my timeline for over a year. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 29-Jan-2021 20:43:41 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@musicman My understanding is that some came to the #ActivityPub side of the #Fediverse, but most went to #Gab, #Minds, and similarly #corpocentric platforms. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 18:28:49 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
"The post"{https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@Elizafox/105562613778968936} seemed to be a lot of fear-mongering, even more than the article itself.
(1) #Twitter has millions of users. There is no #ActivityPub nor #OStatus implementation in which an instance hosted on a $5/mo #DigitalOcean / #Linode / #Vultr #VPS could handle the volume of a seamless connection with #Twitter. If they adopted AP OStatus, #Diaspora, or any other current open federation protocol, instances that didn't use firewall blocking would topple once the two userbases had sufficient interconnections (within a few hours or a few days after they started federating).
(2) Twitter's business model is to push ads disguised as tweets. If their users could escape those and still interact with all the same contacts, they would. I'm certain that Twitter's management know this. They also turn all links into tracking links, and sell access to media (images, video, audio) uploads of important news events to news organizations.
(3) Most Fediverse instances are financed out of the admin's pocket. Some have financial contributors, but nothing like Twitter's revenue. As the largest and best-financed instance, they would immediately have to start implementing modifications to make AP or other existing federation protocols useful to them, and those modifications would (as Mastodon's currently do) become unofficially mandatory in order to be compatible.
(4) This isn't the first time that Twitter has considered federation, though this may be the first time they openly discussed it. Back when Identica was still a happening place (during Twitter's fail-whale days), Twitter considered federating. They didn't do it then, and I honestly do not believe they will do it now.
(5) I'd say that Twitter's #BlueSky initiative is more meant to try to get bidirectional connections across #Facebook's moat and wall than it is to surround Twitter with a cloud of #Fediverse instances. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 11-Jan-2021 18:22:08 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@sullybiker You see, you're taking a longer term view. Most people I see posting online are only thinking "this will make it harder for people I don't like to post online or to organize their events", while I'm looking more at #$CORPORATIONS can coordinate their activities in opposition to a smaller entity like a #Fediverse site".
It's distressing, because people aren't seeing the precedents that they're allowing to be set.
I don't know anything at all about #Parler, except that it is supposed to be a site for right-wing folks. But what happens when the political climate changes and suddenly #MastoSoc is being kicked off of every possible service (along with the cloud of instances who hold their same views as mastodon.social and its userbase)? -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 02-Nov-2020 05:02:37 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
On this episode of the "TROM" podcast, @gargron (one of the Mastodon developers and founder / leader of the project), @heluecht (one of the #Friendica developers) and some others were guests, talking about the #Fediverse. https://www.tromsite.com/videos/#fvp_277,0s
Caution: this episode is over three hours long, so I have not listened (and will likely only listen to a fraction of it).
I wish @tio had also brought someone from #GNU_Social and someone from #Pleroma (and maybe @mike@loadaverage.org @mike@z.macgirvin.com to represent #Hubzilla and #Zap (and #Mistpark, #Redmatrix), and @dansup developer and project founder / leader of #PixelFed, and perhaps someone from #PeerTube, #Misskey, and so on). The other thing I wish had been done is to slice this far-too-long episode into four pieces, each an hour or less in length.
Sorry, Michael, I don't know whether you're officially the project leader, so I left that unsaid. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 29-Oct-2020 15:58:33 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
I forgot #Evan's birthday, 1968-10-14. Fifty-two this year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou
Started this whole #Fediverse thing. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 08:58:20 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
The first #Fediverse Enhancement Proposal ( #FEP ) https://nu.federati.net/url/276730 -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 18-Sep-2020 23:24:10 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
No, it is because there does not seem to be a lot of people from #FR in the #Fediverse, so you're different. But you're not an outsider, otherwise people would not have inquired about your well-being during your job search in the bigger towns. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 31-Aug-2020 02:08:08 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@clacke I have not seen any more posts by app developers, but I did see someone else claim this morning (US time) that nearly all known #Fediverse client apps are now threatened with expulsion from Google Play over the ability to access unacceptable "user generated content (UGC)".
Someone else implied that Google does not understand federated networks. And, as Google is a huge company, it is very likely that most of the company does not. But some portion of Google likely remembers exploring Diaspora in order to clone it (sans federation) as GPlus. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 27-Aug-2020 00:29:10 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
I really only know one person in #LA ... a former #Fediverse member (and #HPR contirbutor) who is a professor at one of the state universities.
Unfortunately, he’s really busy, and I don’t really have a channel to ask how things are going. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 16-Aug-2020 17:43:36 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Efforts to mount a rescue of #GSNO appear to have failed. If you’re a user of #gnusocial.no, you have about two weeks to grab your data and find a new #Fediverse home. You can see a list of some public !gnusocial instances at https://gnusocial.network/try/ -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Monday, 27-Jul-2020 04:51:27 UTC 
Tobias
♲ @Wenting@fosstodon.org: Hey guys, what's up
I am conducting an anonymous survey for my MSc dissertation on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. If you're interested, please click the link below. Your input would be much appreciated!
The link is:
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#fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #friendica #peertube
#alternative #socialhome
#pixelfed #nextcloud -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2020 18:43:40 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
An article I recently read talked about the copyright battles of the late 1990s as instructive to what #decentralized, #federated and #peer-to-peer networks will face if and when we become threatening to the big #corpocentric networks. I think it is something we need to think about.
Unfortunately, some parts of the #Fediverse (primarily, but not exclusively #Mastodon) have marketed themselves with promises of privacy, control, immunity from recourse, and personal security that none of these networks (nor the protocols they use) were ever designed to provide. The article looked at that as failure, instead of recognizing it for what it was: marketing & advertising puffery.
“It slices! It dices!” -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 05-Jun-2020 15:54:10 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
#Instance_Admin_Day? Sounds like some greeting card company just heard about the #Fediverse. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2020 01:41:39 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/8642 #Friendica Someone that is familiar with #Diaspora is writing a new socnet based on #ActivityPub, wishes to change other #Fediverse software to follow Diaspora's model (viewer's server hijacks hashtags so the #hashtag search points to the viewer's home server, not the original poster's home server). The model that has been followed by almost all federated socnets for over a decade is that hashtag search links are inserted by the poster's server and point back there.
IMO, a remote server changing the links is sketchy as heck*, but if they added local hashtag links in a separate area outside the post itself, that's acceptable. Or if they followed the #Pump.io idea of keeping hashtags completely separate from the basic server, then an external server (e.g. ragtag\.io) would be called to index and link the tag during the posting process, and searches would be performed based on results from the tag server.
Anyway, I can't be bothered logging into Github to comment, but maybe @heluecht and other Friendica devs will see this and take this into consideration.
* Remote servers editing the contents of one's posts is about as sketchy as it gets. There are rare occasions where that may be acceptable (i.e., to insert NSFW tags / image hiding on posts from instances where untagged NSFW content originates), but editing content to hijack hashtag search is about as questionable as one could get. -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Monday, 18-May-2020 06:56:15 UTC
Tobias
Happy Birthday dear Fediverse! Have a great party dear Fedizens :D ♲ @lightone@iliketoast.net:
Happy 12th Birthday, #Fediverse 🎉
It's great that you don't put all your eggs in one basket ;) Stay cool.
https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-12-years-in-2020
full-sized image https://gitlab.com/distributopia/sticker-bay/-/tree/master/promo-1
✔️ idea to not let this day pass unnoticed - by https://pleroma.libretux.com/u/@titi
#Fediverse12 #HappyFedi2U #art #eggs -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2020 18:27:19 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
"Chaturbate" -- That's probably exactly what it sounds like. I'm not even going to throw the name in search to learn more. See? The #Fediverse is educational. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2020 22:02:41 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Seems that both Lowes and Home Depot are hiring right now.
The jobs are part-time, but there are several young folks in the #Fediverse who could really use some work experience. (For one thing, once you’re paying your own way and a contributing member of our society, a lot of the political opinions you once held become invalidated.)
I’d consider it myself, but unless I’m completely replacing my current $EMPLOYER, I have to seek their permission before I accept any other job. (They call that an “ethics” rule, but it serves to make people more dependent on the agency and less able to make moral / ethical choices.) -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2020 18:50:53 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@saintfury That's a sad statement. I see lots of people pursuing their own "protect our community" strategies, and so far, I've never seen a one that will work in the current, heterogeneous Fediverse or any other existing network.
For example, Mastodon restricts its searches to a user's own posts. So people build their own search engines to make it possible to find people and topics.
Some software has broken posting scopes: pretending scope-limited posts are "direct messages" is probably the most dangerous decision made, and "followers only" is only slightly less dangerous. People exchange contact and financial information in posts with the equivalent of a "no trespassing" sign, but there's no fence of any kind.
Finally, the worst "community safety" feature is the propaganda that tells people the #Fediverse is a safe, non-public space without [undesired group]. It isn't and it never has been. Sure, one can set conventions of behavior within their particular subset of instances, but those conventions do not apply to those outside that subset. Frankly, we'd be safer if we assume that everything we post is public, and that features meant to create non-public subsets may not work as expected. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Mar-2020 18:45:46 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
https://nitter.net/BrentBeshore/status/1240030553023188992
Thread on #Twitter about the quarantine’s impact on !smallbiz (and therefore, on their owners, managers, employees, suppliers, customers). A lot of people in the #Fediverse don’t seem to understand that when the restaurants close, those employees, who already struggle to stay afloat, are left with nothing.
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