"Beispiellos" gewachsen: Facebook sperrt Links zu Instagram-Alternative Pixelfed

Seit Metas Ankündigung, Inhalte auf den eigenen Portalen anders zu moderieren, wächst Pixelfed stark. Nun ist aufgefallen, dass Facebook Links dorthin sperrt.

heise.de/news/Beispiellos-gewa…

#Facebook #Instagram #MetaPlatforms #SocialMedia #news #Pixelfed #Fediverse

"Beispiellos" gewachsen: Facebook sperrt Links zu Instagram-Alternative Pixelfed

^{Martin Holland (heise online)}

Let's try it again: This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more. That's #Sharkey, #Pixefeld (hence the pic), #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma... How far can it go?

Please share it, wherever you see it! #SocialMedia

@fediverse

TIL that on #Meta platforms now one can write terrible, offensive slurs against LGBTQIA+ folks and immigrants… with zero repercussions. But the second one mentions a #Fediverse project like #Pixelfed, the post is automatically removed.

Meta “moderation” policies in 2025: racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia and sexism are allowed; mention of competition is strictly forbidden.

Source: mastodon.social/@dansup/113813…

#BigTech #dystopia #QuitMeta

dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Stay classy Meta. #MetaBlockingPixelfed

^Mastodon

Friendica Installation

Ich versuche gerade die #Fediverse Anwendung #Friendica auf meinem #Raspberry Pi 5 in einem #Podman #Container zu installieren. Aber bei der Datenbank ist Schluss. da bleibt es hängen. Weiß jemand Rat? @Friendica Support zum Beispiel?

version: "3.7"

services:

  mariadb:
    image: docker.io/library/mariadb:latest
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - mydb:/var/lib/mysql
    ports:
      - "6033:3306"
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: *****
      MYSQL_DATABASE: friendica
      MYSQL_USER: friendica
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: *****

  phpmyadmin:
    container_name: phpmyadmin_9092
    image: docker.io/library/phpmyadmin:latest
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "9092:80"
    environment:
      - PMA_ARBITRARY=1
      - PMA_HOST=mariadb
    depends_on:
      - mariadb

  app:
    image: docker.io/library/friendica
    container_name: friendica_9093
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - friendica:/var/www/html    
    ports:
      - "9093:80"
    environment:
      - MYSQL_HOST=mydb
      - MYSQL_USER=friendica
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=*****
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=friendica
      - FRIENDICA_ADMIN_MAIL=*****
    depends_on:
      - mariadb

volumes:
  mydb:
  friendica:

networks:
  proxy-tier:

This is NOT Meta's Facebook/Instagram/Threads.

This is MUCH better ✨

Take the time to familiarize yourself with this new way of life.

Interact with others genuinely,
let go of the numbers.

Discover new features,
let go of the old ways.

Read about the culture here.
Listen, learn, and make it your Home 💚

infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon…
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Threads

Was ist denn aktuell die go-to #Fediverse-Software für Facebook-Flüchtige, die mit dem Mastodon Interface nicht warmwerden? Firefish wurde iirc eingestellt. Was gibt's da noch? Wieder Misskey? (Frage für ein paar liebe Autoren-Kolleg:innen, die mit Mastodon nicht gut klarkommen.)

Gerne RT.

(Nicht völlig unrelated zu literatur.social/@viennawriter… )

Klaudia (aka jinxx) (@viennawriter@literatur.social)

Angehängt: 1 Bild Man muss keine Bestseller-Autorin sein oder super bekannter Influencer. Es gibt Menschen, denen gefallen unsere #Bücher, völlig egal, ob uns 50, 500, 5.000, 50.000 oder noch mehr Menschen folgen.

^{literatur.social}

Thx for your link and efforts @Seirdy !

All this said, being part of a decentralized web, as pointed out in this toot, our publicly visible interaction lands on other instances and servers of the #fediVerse and can be scrapped there. I wonder if this situation actually might lead, or should lead, to a federation of servers that share the same robots.txt "ideals".

As @Matthias pointed out in his short investigation of the AI matter, this has (in my eyes) already unimagined levels of criminal and without any doubt unethical behavior, not to mention the range of options rouge actors have at hand.

It's evident why for example the elongated immediately closed down access to X's public tweets and I guess other companies did the same for the same reasons. Obviously the very first reason was to protect their advantage about the hoarded data sets to train their AI in the first place. Yet, considering the latest behavior of the new owner of #twitter, nothing less than at least the creation of #AI driven lists of "political" enemies, and not only from all the collected data on his platform, is to be expected. A international political nightmare of epical proportions. Enough material for dystopian books and articles for people like @Cory Doctorow, @Mike Masnick ✅, @Eva Wolfangel, @Taylor Lorenz, @Jeff Jarvis, @Elena Matera, @Gustavo Antúnez 🇺🇾🇦🇷, to mention a few of the #journalim community, more than one #podcast episode by @Tim Pritlove and @linuzifer, or some lifetime legal cases for @Max Schrems are at hand.

What we are facing now is the fact that we need to protect our and our users data and privacy because of the advanced capabilities of #LLM. We basically are forced to consider to change to private/restricted posts and close down our servers as not only the legal jurisdictions are way to scattered over the different countries and ICANN details, but legislation and comprehension by the legislators is simply none existent, as @Anke Domscheit-Berg could probably agree to.

Like to say, it looks like we need to go dark, a fact that will drive us even more into disappearing as people will have less chance to see what we are all about, advancing further the advantages off the already established players in the social web space.
Just like Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse stated in his take about on YT The network is challenging us min 2:42 more than 14 years ago:
"With semantic understanding we'll have the real big brother. Someone is getting the best out of it and the rest will suffer."

@Friendica Support
#fediAdmin #fediVerse #AI #KI

Text for robots.txt to disallow access for known AI crawlers:

User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
User-Agent: Claude-Web
User-Agent: CCBot
User-Agent: Applebot-Extended
User-Agent: Facebookbot
User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-Agent: diffbot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Omgili
User-Agent: Omgilibot
User-Agent: ImagesiftBot
User-Agent: Bytespider
User-Agent: Amazonbot
User-Agent: Youbot
Disallow: /

robotstxt.com/ai

#OrganicReachRate auf #Mastodon / #FediVerse?

Dass #Follower zahlen von Accounts auf kommerziellen, sog. #SocialMedia Plattformen keine Messgröße mehr für den #Erfolg/ #Reichweite sind, veranlasst Marketing-Agenturen seit Jahren die sog. Organic Reach Rate (#ORR) zu ermitteln. Also die Zahl der Accounts, in deren Timeline Posts ohne Bezahlung tatsächlich angezeigt werden, z.B.
socialstatus.io/insights/socia…
Was meint Ihr?
Auf Mastodon müsste die doch 100% sein?

Wäre das nicht ein Punkt, an dem man die theoretische Reichweite z.B. mit #Facebook und #Instagram vergleichen könnte?

Ja, ja, ich weiß, #Statistik ist im FediVerse nicht soo populär. Aber für Institutionen und Organisationen ist es schon wichtig, ob es vergleichbare Kriterien gibt, z.B. für @OeRR_bewegen@chaos.social oder #HochschulenInsFediVerse und vielleicht
hat @mho@social.heise.de als Experte für SoMe-Referer auf Webartikel dazu einen Gedanken?

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,

As 2024 comes to an end, it’s time to reflect on what we’ve built together during the first full year of life for BSD Cafe. Launched on 20 July 2023, this project has grown far beyond what I could have imagined. While I haven’t tracked full uptime data, I can confidently say that the downtime was less than 30 minutes overall - even though the main VM hosting our services moved multiple times (including a switch from a Proxmox hypervisor to bhyve on FreeBSD, for the sake of alignment with our mission). In a world filled with over-engineered HA systems, we’ve outperformed many “big-name” cloud providers. Not bad for a community project, right?

For me, this has been an incredible journey. The users here are not just participants - they’re collaborators, and their positivity has been inspiring. The content shared and created at BSD Cafe has been valuable not only to the BSD community but beyond. What truly sets BSD Cafe apart is the openness for dialogue and exchange. Whether it’s social media posts, Matrix discussions, repositories in our brew, or RSS feeds, people seem to genuinely appreciate what we create and the conversations we foster.

BSD Cafe is a journey - one that grows, evolves, and continues. Our goal isn’t endless growth (we’re a community, not a business) but rather to maintain a welcoming, inclusive space where everyone feels a sense of positivity and belonging. For me, opening any service with “bsd.cafe” in the domain brings joy and pride. That’s the spirit I’ve tried to convey, and I hope it resonates with all of you, whether you’re active BSD Cafe users or friends of the community.

Promoting self-hosting and #OwnYourData has, as a side effect, inspired some users to “go solo” with their own setups. But even then, they remain part of BSD Cafe - in spirit, in purpose, and in connection.

Here’s a look at what we’ve achieved together this year:

- mastodon.bsd.cafe: 370 total users
Active in the past month: 207
Active in the past six months: 286
- snac.bsd.cafe: 14 total users
Active in the past month: 7
- blendit.bsd.cafe: 61 registered users
- matrix.bsd.cafe: 23 users
- brew.bsd.cafe: 29 users - 80 repositories
- freshrss.bsd.cafe: 25 users
- miniflux.bsd.cafe: 11 users
- press.bsd.cafe: 9 users
- myip.bsd.cafe: Constantly used by various users
- wiki.bsd.cafe: Could use a bit more love and content, but it fulfills its role as a functional homepage.
- tube.bsd.cafe: Still in testing - Peertube 7.0 update is on the way.

For detailed stats from our reverse proxy and general router (excluding media services, which generate most traffic but are handled via caching reverse proxies), you can check here - updated hourly: netstats.bsd.cafe

The journey of BSD Cafe continues, and I look forward to seeing where 2025 will take us. Together, we’ve built something special - something driven by passion, shared purpose, and a little bit of the BSD magic that makes all of this possible.

Here’s to a new year full of joy, serenity, and connection. Thank you for being part of this adventure.

Wishing you all a fantastic 2025 - and THANK YOU!
Stefano

#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeUpdates #Fediverse #HappyNewYear #Mastodon #Snac #snac2 #lemmy #matrix #dokuwiki #forgejo #freshrss #miniflux #wallabag #peertube #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD #BSD

Still undecided about #PeerTube. I'd really like to use it as a creator, but apparently non of the interesting Instances allow for account registration directly.

Then there's some for artistic content that downscale all videos to 720p. I mean, WTF, it's almost 2025 and this is a sure way to scare off people doing serious video work. Even my old camera from 2018 that bought used for 260€ records 4k.

We talk a lot about how the #Fediverse is a good place and not suffering #enshittification like #YouTube, but after approx. 3hrs of looking at user uploads as well as terms and conditions of server instances, I'm at the Houston point:

We have a problem.

Milí přátelé #fediverse a našich projektů,

Víme, že jsou Vánoce 🎄, čas radosti a pohody, ale možná by někdo z vás chtěl podpořit dobrou věc. ☺️

Pokud si ceníte naší práce a chcete nám pomoci s provozem našich služeb, zvažte, prosím, finanční příspěvek. Díky vaší laskavosti můžeme pokrýt měsíční náklady na infrastrukturu a pokračovat v budování naší komunity i v novém roce. 🙌

Podpořit nás můžete těmito způsoby:
👉 Transparentní účet: 264043266/0600
👉 CZ účet: 263559105/0600
👉 Commerzbank DE: IBAN DE07 7734 0076 0131 2966 00, BIC COBADEFFXXX
👉 Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/archlinuxcz
👉 Revolut: @archos
👉 BTC: bc1qacfnj8gauujaulu36elmr2av5dw9527xg24w

🎅✨ Díky vaší podpoře můžeme dělat, co nás baví, a posouvat naši komunitu dál. Děkujeme vám a přejeme krásné svátky!
#oscloud #pixelfed #vhsky

Vhsky.cz: česká alternativa k YouTube postavená na PeerTube

O rozjezdu Vhsky.cz, svobodné alternativě k YouTube bez reklam a sledování, která je postavená na PeerTube. Včetně prvních zkušeností z provozu.

#fediverse #OpenAlt #PeerTube #video #YouTube

blog.eischmann.cz/2024/12/20/v…
(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)

Loops + NLnet

We are thrilled to announce that @nlnet and @loops have signed a MoU for a grant funded through the NGI0 Core Fund!

nlnet.nl/project/Loops/

#loops #NLnet #activityPub #fediverse

How long have you been using computers for?

I remember back when I was a little kid my first actual experience on a computer was on the janky XP machine I still own.

I’d play flash games and all before getting my own laptop running Windows 7 that had to get reset constantly because I don’t think anyone in my family know how to use an antivirus…

#Mastodon #Fediverse

• 5 years (0%, 1 vote)
• 10 years (1%, 3 votes)
• 15 years (2%, 6 votes)
• 20 years (5%, 12 votes)
• 25 years (15%, 36 votes)
• 30 years (16%, 40 votes)
• Even longer (59%, 142 votes)

Reminder that "sometime not long after December 15th", the botsin.space server, a home to many of your favorite creative bots, will be entering a read-only mode, before its planned shutdown.

(The server will run until at least March 2025.)

botwiki.org/blog/botsin-space-…

Hope most of you bot admins managed to migrate by now!

#BotsInSpace #fediverse #CreativeBots #bots

BotsIn.Space server closing down | Botwiki

The iconic fediverse server for botmakers is shutting down after seven years.

^botwiki.org

#Starterpacks
Generell finde ich die Idee gut.

Allerdings denke ich, sollte man niemanden auf eine solche thematische Liste ohne vorherige #Einwilligung nehmen (können).

Es wird bereits vom #Missbrauch solcher im blauen Pseudohimmel berichtet.

Das können wir im #FediVerse bestimmt besser.

#RespektDerDigitalenPrivatsphäre

"I paid the sextortion ransom and all I got was this stupid t-shirt"

#unix_surrealism #bluesky #bsky #comic #fediart #mastoart #foss #fediverse

Wenn #FediVerse Apps und #Mastodon bei der Vervollständigung/ Vorschlag von #Hashtags #CamelCase und #UpperCamelCase respektieren würden, wär' das gut in Sachen #Accessibility.

#digitaleTeilhabe #ScreenReader #leichterErfassbarAuchFürSehende #FediHelp

🚀 Novinka od týmu OSCloud! 🌟

S radostí vám představujeme naši vlastní PeerTube instanci: VHSky.cz! 🎥✨

📽️ VHSky.cz je komunitní platforma pro sdílení videí. Bez reklam, bez sledování, jen čistá radost z tvorby a sdílení. 🐾

Hostujte svá videa.
Objevujte originální obsah.
Připojte se k nám a buďte součástí komunity! 🌍

🛡️ Co je PeerTube?

PeerTube je open-source platforma pro sdílení videí, která nabízí decentralizovaný přístup k hostování.

Žádné reklamy, žádné sledování.
Umožňuje propojení s dalšími instancemi díky síti federace.

🔒 Bezpečnost a soukromí

Vaše soukromí je naší prioritou. Na VHSky.cz:

Neshromažďujeme zbytečná data.
Data jsou chráněna a bezpečně ukládána.

💡 Proč to děláme?

Chceme vytvořit prostor, kde mohou tvůrci a diváci sdílet a objevovat videa bez vlivu korporací. Naším cílem je podporovat svobodu projevu, komunitní spolupráci a bezpečnost na internetu.
📝 Registrace

Registrace na VHSky.cz jsou aktuálně schvalovány moderátory, aby byla zajištěna kvalita obsahu a bezpečné prostředí.
Máte zájem? Kontaktujte mě, nebo @cynik_obecny přímo tady, nebo navštivte vhsky.cz.
#opensource #peertube #fediverse #Video #activitypub

I like the #FediVerse #App @aria_app@misskey.io

And the quick responses, when I've a question about it.

#OpenSource #FOSS #Sharkey #Misskey

I’m doing a training next month on decentralized social media, #fediverse, etc. for a group that isn’t entirely tech-focused. Some tech, some creative, some finance, etc.

What are the best #Mastodon and #ActivityPub explainers or resources you’ve seen on the web?

If you could hand someone a single resource to explain the idea of federation to someone who is not technical and has no prior knowledge, what would it be?

Good morning #fediverse !

I'm feeling #KISS today...

« Keep
IT
Simple
Stupid »

(Amazing, how many things you can do with just simple,

#html
+
#css
+
#javascript

cc @cferdinandi ... who amongst others, inspired me , thX

Is there reliable search across #fediverse? I don’t mean built-in search on #mastodon, but a separate project, a true search engine, which crawls accounts and instances to map the whole thing and provide relevant search results to queries.

Something where I could search for non-automated Czech accounts with at least four recent posts, or just anything else I come up with, like accounts about Formula 1 or whatever.

I’m really struggling with discovery on this social network.

Protože se u @Randahl Fink začaly objevovat rusácký trollí účty, shrňme si postup, jak to funguje na #Fediverse s řešením takových lidí/botů:
1. Díky funkční moderaci je poznáte podle toho, že mají pouze pár dní starý účet a minimum sledujících, kteří jsou obvykle také součástí trollí farmy (boostují se navzájem)
2. Nahlašujte! Ten vykřičník je záměrně, protože bez toho to nefunguje.
3. Moderátor instance obvykle po čase (den dva) zareaguje

Nevěříte? Věřte! :)

Jen věřím tomu, že pro moderátory to musí bejt hrozná otrava, protože vždycky někde vylezou...

Mně známé již zablokované účty:
mas.to/@williamq
ieji.de/@olaf
troet.cafe/@jazzlin

Support Saturday ✨

A new trend where we share links to people or projects that need funding.

Use the hashtag #supportSaturday in your post!

Let me go first:

- @hongminhee - Fedify + Hollo - github.com/sponsors/dahlia

- @peertube - PeerTube Funding - soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

#supportSaturday #fediverse #supportPeople #supportProjects

Sponsor @dahlia on GitHub Sponsors

I usually write open source software libraries and small CLI programs, which means their consumers are mostly software engineers. My interests are: fediverse & CJK languages.

^GitHub