@Gargron

This is really disappointing, Eugen.

Meta's track record on human rights is so terrible, Amnesty International issued a report about their involvement in genocide:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA16/5933/2022/en/

This is the kind of company you're excited about working with?

There is zero chance Meta is genuinely interested in interoperability, they just want to take over control of whatever community the Fediverse has built up. As Meta's CEO said, people who trust him are "stupid f**ks".

Because the Fediverse uses chronological timelines, and because it has a worldwide audience, it is totally fine to boost your own post later so it can reach people in different time zones.

There's no algorithm deciding what people see in their main Fediverse timeline, so they just see whatever happens to be there when they are online.

#FediTips #Fediverse

@patterfloof

One of Diaspora's original developers sadly took his own life in 2011 just when the platform was really taking off. This was a huge blow, and (as far as I can tell) the project never really recovered from the tragedy. The other original developers eventually moved onto other projects, and handed Diaspora over to the community.

Diaspora's current development team doesn't want to use the ActivityPub standard, which almost all other Fediverse users are on. This means there is no way for Diaspora users to talk to Fedi users on Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube etc etc etc.

Diaspora's development seems to have almost dried up, and the number of active users on the Diaspora network today is only a few thousand.

It's a very sad situation 😟 and it's a major loss for the wider Fediverse.

Little headsup, Mastodon developers seem to be testing a language selector in the posting interface (see attached image).

The idea is you set the language you're posting in which will make it easier for other people to filter your post out if they don't speak it.

You can already set your default language in the Preferences/Settings section, but the idea of this new feature is to let you optionally change the setting for each particular message. This is handy if you toot in several languages.

I have no idea if/when this will be rolled out, the developers' instances often get test features like this.

#Mastodon

@letiuchiha

You can toot whatever you want in any langauges, this is just an option for helping the language filter work better.

If you use different languges in different toots, this feature is perfect because you can change the posting language for each toot.

If you use different languages within the SAME toot, that would cause problems for any language filter. You can't half filter toots, they are either visible or not..

@letiuchiha

I'm sorry, maybe I misunderstood.

What would you like the filter to do?

The discussion thread on the Mastodon github had the developers exploring options like allowing different language versions of the same toot, so that it can reach people with different filter settings.

I don't know if that's happening or not, but is this what you want to happen?

@Nemo

Diaspora isn't compatible with most Fediverse platforms, because it doesn't use ActivityPub.

For this and other reasons, I wouldn't advise using Diaspora.

A better option is Friendica, which is compatible with both ActivityPub and Diaspora.

@SapphireDrew @matrix

XMPP is another alternative, but it's more messenger-like and less slack-like.

I prefer XMPP, but I don't want slack type features.

XMPP is also on here at @xmpp and at https://xmpp.org

@SapphireDrew

Matrix might suit your needs, it's very popular on here. It's decentralised, free open source software.

You can follow them on here at @matrix and there's more info at https://matrix.org

@geotechland @Tutanota @protonmail

It's definitely great that we aren't being run by corporations. But single instance communities can still be at risk of selling out to corporations.

For example, the Internet Movie Database was originally a community project, but it got bought out by Amazon within just a few years because it got popular 😔

As long as the Fediverse stays decentralised though, there's much less risk of this happening.

@hackbyte

No no, no one is defederating!

Federation isn't affected, you can still follow people on other servers and their posts will show up on your timeline. That is all totally fine on all apps, including the official one.

The only issue I'm raising is that the official app doesn't show the "Local" timeline where you see posts from everyone on your server including people you don't follow.

CORRECTION:

@mobilizon is an alternative to Facebook Events, not Facebook Groups

@clacke

WordPress hosting is so common that you could pick indie hosters at random and they would probably offer WordPress.

This list of green hosting companies could be a good starting point, for example?

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/directory/

@lydiaconwell @bob

Little update, the hashtag case fix is there but it hasn't been rolled out to release version yet, so it's currently only being used on mastodon.social and mastodon.online.

I've asked when they expect it to be in the release version.

@bob

@lydiaconwell, if you read the original post right to the end you will see this hashtag bug was dealt with already.

If the bug is still there, please let me know, and I will re-open the issue.

@lydiaconwell @bob

Thanks for letting me know, I'll add this to the issue on Mastodon's github and hopefully it will get sorted.

There is something very odd going on as when I try to type #HashTag on mastodon.online it gives me #häshtäg (with the umlauts!) as the top suggestion.

@icedquinn @float13

Good point, maybe it was originally?

But Twitter is no longer SMS based so forcing people to use their shortener shouldn't be necessary any more. Twitter nowadays say t.co is still compulsory and they use t.co to "measure information"...

@lightweight

If you're having problems with the plugin, maybe the developer @pfefferle might be able to help?

p.s. You can also find more BookWyrm instances listed at https://fedidb.org/software/bookwyrm

p.s. You can see interesting videos from PeerTube recommended on my other account at @FediVideos