Notices tagged with federation
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 18:58:33 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://lavaforge.org/ is now open for registrations. I don't know anything about them except that they run #Gitea with #federation enabled.
See https://snug.moe/notes/998pnvtt1e -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 17:39:32 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Wow! I had forgotten about #Elgg. OpenUniverse and I had accounts on an Elgg instance in South America (time-wise, it was right after Mike's initial #Friendica instance closed, so we shifted existing conversations over) and got to see some of the posts about their #federation plans.
Note: this may have even been before changing the name from #Friendika to Friendica. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 21:28:38 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @lxo @clacke's posts sometimes take a while to arrive, whether here or at the Pleroma instance. I suspect that libranet.de has some #federation bugs. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 21:25:24 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} To what @lxo posted, because vertical scaling ("bigger servers") has its limits, the big #corpocentric #socnets split things up and use technological workarounds to appear to be one big server.
For example, one of the first things is to move the #database management system ( #dbms ) to a separate machine. Once this happens, hoizontally scaling the database by clustering (multiple servers handling the same db) is possible.
Next, we can perform similar clustering with the web server, and we can perform similar clustering at the processing layers.
Once we do this, we can expose things through various interfaces. This is what #cloud providers do with their separate compute, database, and storage services. Each such service relies on hundreds of servers pretending to be one.
Finally, we come to #federation, where we skip the pretense that everything is one big server and instead have many separate individuals and organizations running servers.
It isn't inherently more complicated, but it does mean users have to know that we're not all on big-centralized-server.com. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 20:23:02 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #Pjuu ( #OtterSite ) starts planning a rewrite that adds #federation ( probably only #ActivityPub ). Looking to become an alternative to #Mastodon and #Pleroma, while still joining the #Fediverse.
https://pjuu.com/joe/5b0383de620211edba040242ac140002 [pjuu com] -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Monday, 07-Nov-2022 23:51:46 UTC simsa04 @lnxw48a1 @fu
If I may pitch in on on th etopic of "how the fediverse works"...
Yes, you can explain it with the image of email and email providers. But you rely on "freedom" (whose?) to describe a structure that doesn't explain why newbies can and cannot subscribe to other people or otherwise interact with accounts and posts.
A different way is stop putting "freedom" into the centre β which in itself is a rather problematic hierarchical approach as it invokes the imagery of landlords dealing with their rowdy tenants β and explain to people the basics of #federation, from which most of the peculiarities and problems of fediverse interactions arise.
2015 I wrote a piece for Twitter migrants to GNUsocial primarily from the angle of a layperson, explaining the various oddities by pointing to and explaining from federation as the root cause. Perhaps this snippet is of some help:
!gnusocial !fnetworks #federation #fediverse https://gnusocial.net/attachment/cb9618538a9e5d8cfe3e78d2ca6b29734cefe631fa4e8b4bcc72ee7140b9e4a9/view -
ar.alπ» (aral)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 09:51:08 UTC ar.alπ» We should not be optimising Mastodon so it can handle more people per server. We should be optimising Mastodon so it incentivises more serves with fewer people.
(And if you take that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you arrive at the idea behind the Small Web: https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/)
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 14-Apr-2022 23:39:52 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #Twitter's #Bluesky describes what they want from a #federation protocol.
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol [blueskyweb xyz]
In light of Elon Musk's purchase offer, this may all be moot. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 21-Sep-2020 18:17:58 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://drewdevault.com/2020/09/20/The-potential-of-federation.html
The unrealized potential of #federation. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2020 17:56:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Wow. Just arrived today, 2020-03-27, almost six months after you posted. #Federation. -
Federated Networks Association (feneas)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2020 19:29:19 UTC Federated Networks Association
We've improved our home page a bit, raising the #services we host to a more central role. Go check them out!
Speaking of services, we've recently added #Collabora to our #Nextcloud stack. Collabora allows real-time collaboration on rich-text documents, replacing the need for things like #Google Docs. Our Nextcloud stack is only available for members, but any shared documents can be edited online by guests as well.
If you are interested in membership, check out the memberships page.
#feneas #decentralisation #federation #fediverse -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2019 02:54:09 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} IMO, "free up usernames" recalls the early days of #Mastodon, when various people were writing articles about it without any understanding of #federation and #instances. There were "get in today to reserve your username" articles and there were "the bad thing is that you may have 'you @ example . com', but someone else could get 'you @ example . net'".
When someone closes their account on $INSTANCE, let people that want that same username know that name is available on other instances, but not that one. Any other choice risks someone accidentally sending non-public information to an account which is no longer the one they thought it was a year or two ago. -
Nextcloud ?βοΈ? (nextcloud)'s status on Monday, 10-Dec-2018 12:15:26 UTC Nextcloud ?βοΈ? Hey Mastodonians, #GNUSocial citizens and others! Gear up for tens of millions of Nextcloud users spread over several 100K servers who can now join the #fediverse in just one click!
Join the global social network!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-social-features-joins-the-fediverse/
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 24-Nov-2018 15:17:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} One more advantage that #Wire has over #Signal: the devs have said they are working toward implementing #federation. If you think about it, you cannot rely upon any organization to remain non-evil in their intentions toward you. With federation, you and your contacts can disperse among various hosters or even #self-host, while still being able to stay in contact with one another.
Good luck trying to stay in touch if you close your account on a non-federated #corpocentric chat and messaging service. -
hoergen on Friendica (hoergen)'s status on Saturday, 10-Nov-2018 13:27:50 UTC hoergen on Friendica β² @besser@horche.demkontinuum.de: Neue besser, der Podcast Folge: Pleroma #S01E05
Das freie dezentrale soziale Netzwerk Pleroma macht den Anfang in unserer Kategorie "Twitter-Γ€hnliche" Netzwerke. Oder wie man sie eigentlich nennen sollte "Microblogging" Netzwerke. Zu Gast ist lain,der Pleroma erfunden hat und kontinuierlich mit anderen zusammen weiterentwickelt
besser.demkontinuum.de/2018/11β¦ besser.demkontinuum.de/2018/11β¦ #pleroma #Fediverse #Federation #social networks #Erlang #Elixir #decentralize #DecentralizeIT #WeareFamily #FLOSS #OSS #Mastodon #Android #iOS -
Jason Robinson (jaywink)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 19:43:30 UTC Jason Robinson Feneas membership - https://feneas.org/membership/
> Our mission is to do whatever we can to make the internet a more federated and decentralized place. We believe this is a healthier, more free internet. To do this we need not only funding but also volunteer effort.
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Mayel (mayel)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 08:35:59 UTC Mayel Who wants to work with me and @dajbelshaw, developing the #ActivityPub based #federated back-end for #MoodleNet?
We're looking for a #developer familiar with #Elixir (or transferable skills like #Erlang and #RubyOnRails).
The whole project will be #FOSS and you can work from home, what's not to love ;-) Please RT!
https://blog.moodle.net/2018/hiring-backend-developer/
#tech #job #programming #jobs #software #remote #federation #decentralised
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switching.social (switchingsocial)'s status on Monday, 30-Jul-2018 16:06:06 UTC switching.social There's an amazing number of #ActivityPub #alternatives now available or under development:
Twitter -> @Mastodon and #Pleroma
Instagram -> @pixelfed and @anfora
YouTube -> #PeerTube ( @Chocobozzz )
Soundcloud -> @funkwhale
MeetUp -> @GetTogetherComm
Medium -> #Plume ( @BaptisteGelez )
Reddit -> @prismo and Anancus ( @tuxether )
LinkedIn -> @cloutstream
Google Calendar -> @calendar_social
Anything missing from the list? What else is needed?
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switching.social (switchingsocial)'s status on Monday, 09-Jul-2018 10:23:01 UTC switching.social There's an #ActivityPub federated calendar/events site in development called Calendar.social at @calendar_social
It's still very early days, but if you're interested or want to help out, have a look:
https://social.polonkai.eu/@calendar_social
https://gitea.polonkai.eu/gergely/calendar-social
The developer is @gergely
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pixelfed (pixelfed)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jul-2018 05:36:24 UTC pixelfed Thanks to @cwebber @Gargron @lain and others for paving the way for projects like this! #activitypub #federation