For anyone who doesn't know, @Framasoft support and fund a whole wide range of decentralized, #FOSS, #privacy respecting tools such as #Peertube ( @peertube ), #Mobilizon (think Facebook Groups for the #Fediverse, @mobilizon ) and more!
They do it all on super low funding, so go throw a few or your local currency at them to help grow the #fedi!
BundesMessenger is a modified version of Element which we’re working with BWI to develop and maintain.Steve Loynes (Element Blog)
Twitter is now blocking links to pixelfed!
"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win"
@Friendica Support @Friendica Developers
Let me start with a concrete, question: Are there any efforts / plans to support the upload of videos?
And now, since I might have your attention, allow me to broaden the question to:
What is your opinion regarding "what #Friendica is / should be"?
My view / vision is heading slightly in the direction that nowadays image and video content is quite central in social networks and thus a #Fediverse application like friendica should support the multimedia aspect a bit more, if it wants to be attractive for the broad public in terms of being an alternative to commercial social networks.
Most of you might tell: "Yeah, if one prefers media centric Fediverse, then check out #pixelfed ". But I think, pixelfed is yet too much of an Instagram clone, only providing the image / video focus (which bothered me at Instagram from the very beginning not being able to have good commenting / discussion options there).
In my view, Friendica has great potential becoming a great "one fits all" application for the majority of people who like social media and the concept of the Fediverse. It has way more cool functions than #mastodon / pixelfed (which are in my opinion too close copies of Instagram and Twitter, respectively) but much simpler and convenient than Hubzilla (which I think is really great, for a computer science person, but not for the broad non-technical focussed public)
Wrapping it up: I would love to see a Friendica development towards an easier multimedia support. What are your thoughts?
Cheers
Marek
Time for a recurring self-promotion (sorry): I run an invite-only community #PeerTube instance over at spectra.video
It's still a fledgling community, but it's geared towards creators who want to share their stuff with the wider #fediverse. We connect to a lot of great instances, have pretty strong community guidelines, and do our best to counter spam and harassment.
Creators are allotted an unlimited amount of upload space for videos!
If you're looking to join PeerTube and put your stuff out there, please DM me!
Spectra is a special new PeerTube instance dedicated to supporting original content creators, and building the video community within the fediverse!spectra.video
Use Mastodon 🐘 on desktop? I made a Chrome extension to make following people, favoriting, bookmarking & boosting toots on remote instances easy as your home instance! (1-click)!
🙌 Appreciate the boosts! 🙌
🌐 Install Graze For Mastodon — chrome.google.com/webstore/det…
🗨️ Suggestions or issues — graze.canny.io/
❓ FAQ — faqabout.me/iam/graze
(Supports Chromium, Edge, Brave. Safari & Firefox coming soon!)
#Mastodon #GrazeForMastodon #fediverse #programming #MastodonTips
Graze is 1-click follow, favorite, boost, and bookmark for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home.chrome.google.com
There's a new groups system for the Fediverse called chirp.social. More info at:
➡️ chirp.social
You can join a group by following the group account. You can post to the group by @-ing the group account, which then reposts that to all its other followers
It is similar to the existing a.gup.pe system, but chirp.social allows a group manager to delete posts and ban people from the group.
It works on all Fediverse platforms including Mastodon.
Create groups for Mastodon and other ActivityPub-enabled apps.chirp.social
Why #Mastodon and the #Fediverse are so important:
“Relying on market-based means of communication made it inevitable that sooner or later, the ruling class would get to determine who can speak and how.”
crimethinc.com/2022/12/09/cana…
#TwitterMigration #FederatedSocialMedia
Is there life after social media? Will reactionary billionaires determine all we can imagine and do, or will we establish other forms of connection?CrimethInc.
Folks, I want to boost your lovely posts, I really do but I won’t if you don’t write image descriptions (alt text) so people who use screen readers can also experience them.
It doesn’t take long to write one.
And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.
Even Linux has apps that do this (like Frog: tenderowl.com/work/frog/)
#accessibility #a11y #fediverse #altText #images #screenReader #mastodon
Apologies to people waiting for me to get to their submission. I have an amazing backlog to get through 😅
You might also want to submit your account to:
➡️ communitywiki.org/trunk - The original Fediverse directory
➡️ fediverse.info/explore/people - A cleverly designed hashtag-based directory
Both of these directories welcome general personal accounts.
Whether you are disabled or not, accessibility is really useful for everyone. Accessibility makes social media easier to use and lets your posts reach a wider audience.
You can find out how to make your posts more accessible at:
➡️ fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediver…
Special shout out to @norrumar who has just created a Spanish language article about Mastodon for users of the free open source NVDA screen reader:
➡️ nvdaes.github.io/mastodon (in Spanish)
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Accessibility #Disability
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
4 years using and championing the #fediverse full time and I've never written a #introductions toot. Well, or I have and can't find it.
I'm a #blind guy from 🇬🇧 with a passion for #technology and #programming, particularly #lowLevel #systemsProgramming in #C, #C++, #Rust, etc.
I've been a huge #freeSoftware / #openSource advocate for the majority of my life. I run #Linux and I love open, #decentralised technologies like #ActivityPub, #Matrix, #bitTorrent etc.
In my view, technology is built to make our lives easier, and in many ways, it isn't these days. It is truly my opinion that the only way #tech can be sustainable is if it's built using #FOSS, and does not give ultimate control to any 1 entity, individual or corporate. If technology is to help the people, it must be built *for* the people.
Currently working on odilia.app, various projects with the rest of the Lower Elements gang at lowerelements.club, and a Computing Science BSC at the #University of #stirling
Welcome to Odilia! Odilia is a new screen reader for the Linux desktop. It’s written in Rust, for maximum performance and stability.odilia.app
#Writers of the #Fediverse! Looking for a writing exercise/writing prompt? Join the #ALT4you and #ALT4me mutual aid effort to provide #ALT descriptive text to images in the #fediverse
ALT descriptive text is used by blind and visually impaired people to understand and process photos and images that they otherwise cannot see. So please add ALT to any images you Toot.
Putting an image into words can be a very creative exercise that forces you to look at images more deeply and then convey their content and meaning in words.
Also follow the #ALT4me hashtag. It's used by blind and visually impaired tooters (is that even a word?) to request mutual aid when they encounter an image that does not have ALT.
Respond to #ALT4me by replying with the ALT text.
Here's a great example of #ALT4me in action:
universeodon.com/@groo79/10945…
The first toot is a request for ALT and the comments provide them.
Read more about it here: fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediver…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
The United Federation of Instances project already has close to 40 overall contibutors, 13 Merge Requests, 16 topics being disussed, and closed to 50 overall comments on topics.... The #UFoI is really taking off!
Hey @yatil - I came across your #accessibility in the #fediverse post: yatil.net/blog/accessibility-i…
I'm currently working on a #chess game that can be played over Mastodon, and I'm keen for it to be as good an experience as it can be for everyone. I've done some research, have a prototype, and now I feel like I can start talking to users...
Would you be willing to offer your thoughts, and could you recommend a few people I could email or chat to?
Many people think about moving or at least establishing a presence in the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is (and this is probably a very shortened and incorrect) a collection of distributed web applications that can talk to each other.Eric Eggert
You can find answers to your questions about Mastodon and the Fediverse straight away at:
➡️ fedi.tips
If you can't find the answers you need on the site, ask me and I will reply.
(By the way, my replies aren't publicly-visible because most people don't need to see them.)
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
@rich
(Starting new thread)
Check out
fediverse.party/en/miscellaneo…
Which seems to be the best directory of #fediverse style software I've seen
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.fediverse.party
Hey friends! ottawa.place is now open for signups 🎉🇨🇦❤️
@andrew and I built it as a hosted-in-Canada, capital-region-focused (but open to all Canadians) instance.
Please boost so folks can find us! 👀
#fediverse #twittermigration #canada #ontario #ottawa #canpoli
Mastodon instance for residents of Ottawa, Gatineau, and surrounding regions. Instance de Mastodon pour les résidents d'Ottawa, de Gatineau et des régions avoisinantes.Hometown hosted on ottawa.place
OK, so this is interesting. Some major organizations have now set up their own Mastodon instances:
European Union: EU Voice >>> social.network.europa.eu/explo…
German gov: Explore social.bund.de >>> social.bund.de/explore
Internet Archive: Explore Internet Archive >>> mastodon.archive.org/explore
#twittermigration #mastodon #fediverse #governmentInstance
@mastodonmigration
Discover users based on their interestsMastodon hosted on mastodon.archive.org
Do you want to publish long form texts on the Fediverse?
You might want to try @writefreely, a writing platform which focuses entirely on the text and has a minimalist interface to reduce distractions. More info at:
...and servers to join at:
Because it's part of the Fediverse, you can follow Write Freely accounts from Mastodon.
You can also set up your own server to create your own blogging community.
Towards End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages in the #Fediverse
soatok.blog/2022/11/22/towards…
GitHub proposal here:
github.com/soatok/mastodon-e2e…
#mastodon #crypto #cryptography
Soatok's Proposal for End-to-End Encryption in Mastodon - GitHub - soatok/mastodon-e2ee-specification: Soatok's Proposal for End-to-End Encryption in MastodonGitHub
If your instance is blocking an instance with folks you'd like to still read, you can add any Mastodon account to your feed reader (I like NetNewsWire myself) by using the following formula:
#feditips #rss #mastodontips #feeds #fediverse #twittermigration #migration
Are those of you here in the #Fediverse aware of the amazing resource that is mynoise.net?
No?
Let me introduce you.
It has a medieval village #background #noise environment with toggles you can use to increase or decrease the blacksmith shop and market and horse clops (among many others).
Oh, you want a coffee shop? Sure thing.
Rain? Thunderstorm? Gotcha.
Generic white noise?
RPG thrills? Of course.
Tame that #tinnitus? Yes!
Check it out!
Background Noises • Ambient Sounds • Interactive Soundscapes • Relaxing Music • Online & Freemynoise.net
Have you met Guppe Groups
a.gup.pe/
Groups are different from #hashtags in an important way: you will only see posts with hashtags your instance knows about — it's essentially a search feature. With groups it's different: if a remote account from the other side of the #fediverse posts to a group you follow, you will get it!
Anyone can create a group just by following it.
#DigitalInnovation #MastodonTips
Yesterday I deleted whole #FediSearch index and started crawling the #fediverse from scratch.
So many new accounts should be discovereable now.
Vielfältig und gemeinschaftsbasiert - so ist das #Fediverse.
Entdecke die Möglichkeiten...
Grafik erstellt von Per @axbom
(Updated Version: 17.01.2023)
axbom.com/fediverse/
As more and more people are asking me about Mastodon I felt a need for a picture to point at, showcasing how the software known as Mastodon fits into the much larger concept of the Fediverse.Per Axbom (Axbom • Digital Compassion)
NPR's "On The Media" has a segment this morning on #Mastodon which is a pretty good introduction to the #fediverse.
They talk specifically about designed non-virality on M*; and the absence of quote-tweets, how this hurts #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon.
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…
What happens when you slow down socializing?WNYC Studios
Mastodon is a "federated" social network that works like Twitter. It puts the control of data into the user's hands, not in a single corporation.Mastodon use...YouTube
Highly recommend all #DisabledSocial and new Mastodon users read the following tips on how to stay safe in the #Fediverse
fedi.tips/staying-safe-on-mast…
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