Notices tagged with fediverse, page 3
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 12-Mar-2021 05:50:51 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
He's "a huge social blockchain enthusiast", so I guess all that should be expected. https://www.publish0x.com/at-scottcbusiness ... including dissing #Fediverse platforms (Mastodon, GNUsocial, Friendica, Hubzilla, PeerTube) and Diaspora for "having no users" and being small communities, like islands, but then gushing over no-name blockchain-based and token-issuing socnets whose userbases are probably multiple orders of magnitude smaller. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2021 19:33:32 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@storm I'm not even sure this will be bad for Twitter. One of their primary issues is that their size and centralized nature pushes them toward any possible revenue source. If pay to view tweets becomes a thing, some users may leave, but a few will pay.
That could benefit both the #Fediverse and Twitter. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 05-Feb-2021 00:35:36 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 29-Jan-2021 20:43:41 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@musicman My understanding is that some came to the #ActivityPub side of the #Fediverse, but most went to #Gab, #Minds, and similarly #corpocentric platforms. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 18:28:49 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
"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. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 11-Jan-2021 18:22:08 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@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)? -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 02-Nov-2020 05:02:37 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 29-Oct-2020 15:58:33 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 08:58:20 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
The first #Fediverse Enhancement Proposal ( #FEP ) https://nu.federati.net/url/276730 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Sep-2020 05:30:44 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
He's talking about things that decentralized networks (and the people and software projects involved in them) can do to be better (more attractive to users) than #corpocentric networks. Naturally, he's focused on the #ActivityPub subset of the #Fediverse, but some of this applies to other decentralized networks as well. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 18-Sep-2020 23:24:10 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 31-Aug-2020 02:08:08 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@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. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 27-Aug-2020 00:29:10 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 16-Aug-2020 17:43:36 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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:
standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe…
#fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #friendica #peertube
#alternative #socialhome
#pixelfed #nextcloud -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2020 18:43:40 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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!” -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 05-Jun-2020 15:54:10 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#Instance_Admin_Day? Sounds like some greeting card company just heard about the #Fediverse. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2020 01:41:39 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2020 18:27:19 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
"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.
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