Have any small instance admins switched over to glitch-soc? Thoughts?
I want markdown support & I'm tired of waiting for vanilla mastodon to get it together
curious of your experiences 👀 
Do you toot in multiple languages?
You can set the language for your toot in its settings, usually next to the button for making posts private.
Please always set your posts to the correct language!
This helps us in several ways:
* Allows filtering for posts in languages we do not understand.
* Allows the use of automatic translation software.
* Helps screen reader software select the correct voice engines.
This:
»For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership.
A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations.«
#internet #web #fediverse joanwestenberg.com/the-fediver…
For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few m…Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
Would you help a poor single-user Friendica server admin out and boost this post?
Boosting will increase the number of servers my server federates with.
Thanks!
EDIT: that is probably not exactly how it works, but it kinda depends on which of the myriad of ActivityPub servers is seeing the boost, and I haven't checked all of them on how they decide what to pull in. For sure, having someone follow an account on the friendica server will have that friendica server push updates to the server of the follower, but other than that? Who knows :)
Thanks for the overwhelming amount of boosts anyway, and thanks to those following :)
Folks, when we are building spaces out here, please please please remember that people from marginalised communities who have built an income by participating in centralised social media, can't just drop everything there and start again. They will be extremely aware that every second they continue to use it, feeds the oligarch machine, but they need to feed, clothe, and house themselves. We do not all have the ability to just up and abandon established spaces.
These oligarch driven machines are extremely aware of this, and they make it difficult to leave on purpose.
Rather than saying DUMP THAT AND COME HERE OR YOU PERPETUATE FACISM, help create spaces for them that feel welcoming so they can grow new places here. This means making sure you don't fuck up early on and forget about people who aren't white nerdy blokes (I like white nerdy blokes too, but a lot of you need to pay attention!)
An example would be when Bluesky was still in invite mode, they failed BADLY to make sure racist usernames and the like could be deployed at sign up. You'd hope that disallowing slurs of ANY kind would be implemented from the get-go, but they weren't. When the Black trans community spoke up about it, it went ignored for too long, and all the while the platform contined to grow.
If you want people to come and participate in spaces where oligarchs don't reign, then make sure it's safe for everyone. There's no excuse for not doing this, you can't claim ignorance to this, and then ask people to abandon hard built spaces. You should know better.
Building new things means paying attention to things far outside our own experiences. If you don't know what to do, then hire someone who can educate you. Don't skimp on this, because it WILL bite you in the ass, as the saying goes. #decentralised #decentralized #fediverse #getfedihired
Edit:
One excellent example of feeding the machine but can't stop, is #substack. It's an Andreessen Horowitz product, and they're directly linked to funding those terrible fascists currently taking a wrecking ball to America. So many people on the left continue to use it, because they've built a platform there. I've had to check MYSELF recently because I loathe seeing it used, but it's not as easy as that unless you're wealthy and just writing for funsies.
OK, #Friendica potřebuje opravdu podstatně lepší moderaci .. těch 250 komentářů předchozího postu, kdy 150 je pouze trolling, vůbec nejde vyčistit a to ani když to udělám jako admin instance.
Takže moje instance teď plevelí #Fediverse všema možnýma nácíčkama a já nevim čim všim ještě zatímco já marně koukám na workera, kterej se s tim ještě ani nezačal pokoušet prát..... :/
An appreciation thread:
What are the #software tools you use daily (in your personal, not professional life) whose creators have an official presence on the #fediverse? I'll start:
#OS : #TuxedoOS by @tuxedocomputers
Email: @Tutanota
Instant Communications: @signalapp and @threemaapp
Notes: @notesnook
Browsers: @Vivaldi and @torproject
Password Manager: @keepassxc
VPN: @ivpn
Podcasts: @AntennaPod
Music Player: @videolan
Yes, I use all of these products DAILY, and I am grateful to their developers for making world-class products and teams for choosing to have an official presence here.
🚀 Zpravobot byl aktualizován! 🎉
Právě jsme aktualizovali instance Mastodonu Zpravobot na nejnovější verzi 4.3.4! 📢
🔗 zpravobot.news
#Mastodon #Zpravobot #Update #OpenSource #Fediverse
Zprávobot.news 📰🤖 je veřejně prospěšný 🖥️⌨️, který🪞oblíbené a většinově 🇨🇿🇸🇰 X/🐦 účty přinášející na 🐘 jinak chybějící 📰, ⚽️ 🏒🏎️, informace o 📱⌚️💻📡, 🎞️🎶🎭, a někdy i 🤣🤪.Mastodon hosted on zpravobot.news
A (hopefully good) comparison of decentralised video sharing platforms like @loops, @peertube and @owncast to centralised platforms like Youtube and Tiktok went online yesterday.
blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-rise-o…
#blog #fediverse #Loops #Peertube #Owncast #Youtube #Tiktok
Platforms like Loops and PeerTube offer new ways to share videos, in a world where the monopolies of YouTube and TikTok dominate video-sharing, while prioritizing user control, privacy, and federation.Phoenix Paulina Schmid
#MastoAdmin folks who weren't around the #Fediverse and #Mastodon back in 2018 may not know (or those who were, may have forgotten) how unpopular trending tags were when the project leader forced it despite extensive criticism about creating abuse vectors and clawing back promises of creating an algorithm-free network.
(1/7)
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
I think it would be cool to be able to see some of the most popular hashtags of the last 24 hours. It could fit nicely at the top of the "public" panel.GitHub
I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet…
Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.
House of Commons Petition to have the Government of Canada stop using X.
We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.
We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!
That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.
Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!
Fediverse Report – #104
Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some more news.
Mastodon has announced it is adding quote posts to the platform, a long-awaited feature. Mastodon got a grant by NLnet in 2024 to add quote posts, and they are now sharing an update on their work. Mastodon is adding a variety of features to quote posts, such as giving people the ability to opt out of being quote posted. They will publish the technical work to support quote posts as Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and Mastodon is currently in the process of writing these proposals. The organisation does not say when quote posts will be added, only noting that it ‘will still take more time to develop.’
For a long time, Mastodon had not implemented quote posts because CEO Eugen Rochko saw them as bad. His main concern is that quote posts lead to ‘dunking’ and toxic behaviour. Dunking refers to the behaviour where people use quote posts to ‘dunk’ on other people’s post, often with the intent that this mocking will lead to their followers to also mock and harass the original poster. Dunking was a visible part of Twitter’s culture, and in popular belief dunking and toxicity became linked together. Research showed a more complicated picture. Hilda Bastian analysed over 30 studies on quote tweeting, and concludes: “There’s conflicting evidence on whether QTs [quote Tweets] increase or decrease incivility, and whatever effect there is, it doesn’t seem to be major.“
In 2023 Mastodon changed their opinion, and first started saying that the organisation was open to implementing quote posts. Still, toxic behaviour via dunking continued to be a main concern. This is visible in the accompanying design research that Mastodon has done in their work on quote posts. Mastodon’s view seems to be that quote posts are toxic at it’s core, saying that “the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused.”
Mastodon takes a technical approach to dealing to the purported problem of toxicity of quote posts, and the blog posts lists three features to mitigate it: people can choose if their posts are able to be quoted, people get notified if they are quoted, and there will be the ability to withdraw your post from the quoted context. Bluesky also has these features for quote posts, and they’re generally received well. What I find missing here is a take by Mastodon on the effect of these features on Bluesky. Mastodon sees quote posts as being dangerous, and that is why they will implement some features to mitigate the risk. But do they think that quote posts are being used well on Bluesky? Is Bluesky’s behaviour and culture around quote posts something that Mastodon is striving towards? I’m not clear to me what Mastodon’s answer is here.
Mastodon’s design research also says that they will display quotes in a different way to ‘steer away from dunk culture”‘, a feature not mentioned in Mastodon’s announcement blog post. Mastodon is planning to display a quote post by first showing the quote, and showing the reply below it. This is similar to how Tumblr does quote posts. But it differs from how all other platforms that interoperate with Mastodon display quote posts: fediverse native platforms like Misskey, Akkoma and Streams, as well as connected networks like Bluesky and Threads, all display quote posts by showing the reply at the top, and the quoted post below.
Mastodon’s position is that quote posts are a risky feature invite misuse, and thus need a variety of safety features. But Mastodon is not an isolated platform, it is connected to various other platforms that all have their own ideas about quote posts. If displaying quote posts Tumblr-style (quote above, comment below) is preferred over displaying them Twitter-style (comment above, quote below), what is the expectation on how other platforms should interact with Mastodon quotes? Is Misskey expected to display Mastodon’s quote post differently? Meanwhile, Mastodon is planning to display quotes that originate from Misskey not in the way that Misskey does (Twitter-style), but in their own manner (Tumblr-style), saying that it has “very little impact on the semantics”.
I find these statements hard to square: on the one hand, Mastodon says it how quote posts are displayed has little impact on the semantics of a post, but at the same time it is assumed to have enough of an impact in that it can reduce “dunking culture”. But if the manner a quote post is displayed can impact people’s behaviour, it automatically follows that the manner a quote post is displayed impacts its semantics, as otherwise there would be no impact on people’s behaviour either. But if the semantics of a post are altered by using a different display method for quote posts, than it means that Mastodon is taking an active decision to alter the semantics of posts made on other networks like Misskey and Bluesky.
Mastodon’s choice to use a different way of displaying quote posts than the other platforms in their network opens up a new interesting avenue for federated diplomacy. We’ve seen both ways of displaying quote posts be successful, the way posts are quoted is a significant part of how conversations flow on Tumblr. But what is new here is Mastodon is part of a federated network, and that means that their decisions impact other players, and their decisions have impact on Mastodon as well. This interaction between different display types of quote posts is something we have not really seen before, leading to some interesting new types of negotiations: how Mastodon expect Misskey to display Mastodon quote posts on Misskey? How does Threads feel about having their quote posts being displayed differently on Mastodon? What is the expected behaviour of Bridgy Fed, the bridge that connects Bluesky with Mastodon? All those questions are still open, and I’m curious what the answer will turn out to be.
Tumblr is still planning to join the fediverse. I reported this recently, and now TechCrunch got a followup and a confirmation from Automattic, saying that ‘Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”’
The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has announced they are now a formal member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C tends to favour institutional membership, but the W3C Social Community Group that concerns itself with ActivityPub is open to everyone. The SWF is working on various improvements to ActivityPub, such as adding end-to-end encryption and supporting data portability.
Event Federation is a WordPress plugin that extends the ActivityPub support plugin for WordPress by adding support for WordPress events. The plugin is now officially released as a 1.0 version.
Hexbear is a controversial Lemmy server that let domain expire. The Hexbear domain is now for sale, and an avid bidding war has driven up the price for the domain to over 2300 dollar at time of writing.
ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension that adds federation support to software forges such as Forgejo. It has gotten a new NLnet grant, with the project now focusing on user research and documentation.
A few weeks ago, Fedidb removed fediverse platfrom GoToSocial from the database after refusing to honor robots.txt, and the GoToSocial developer spoofed data as retaliation. Fedidb developer Daniel Supernault later decided to properly add support for robots.txt, but stopped crawling for the entire fediverse in the meantime while it was implemented. Supernault now confirms that Fedidb honors robots.txt and has added GoToSocial back to the data set.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has set up their own Mastodon server for all community members, including students.
fediversereport.com/fediverse-…
Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPubSarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Our new NLnet grant is officially signed! We're starting work :) The main focus is:- Creating materials to support the Forgejo federation implementation
- Documentation for the specification
- Implementing the Vervis backed API in the Anvil frontend
Forgejo could enjoy more Go developers joining the federation team! It might be the best way to contribute to forge federation right now.
--Pere
@Peter Vágner @Dieguito 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 How conversations work is not unified all across the Fediverse. Even how connections work is not unified.
Mastodon has taken over the follower/followed principle from Twitter which is always illustrated with arrows with one point. A following B is illustrated with an arrow from A to B. A being followed by B is illustrated with an arrow from B to A. A and B following each other mutually is illustrated with one arrow from A to B and one arrow from B to A.
It appears to me that Friendica has adopted this to become more compatible with Mastodon. But its several descendants, created by Friendica's own creator, starting with Hubzilla, haven't.
Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte still have the bidirectional "connection" or "contact" as the default. It's illustrated with one arrow, but with one point on each end.
Also, all three understand a threaded conversation as an enclosed contruct entirely owned by the conversation starter. Everyone on these three who has the start post on their stream always actually has the whole thread on their stream.
In fact, all three have Conversation Containers implemented. This feature was originally created in the streams repository in 2022. Forte has had it from the get-go as it started out as a fork of (streams). It was eventually turned into FEP-171b and backported to Hubzilla last year.
All three make sure that everyone who has a post on their stream also always has all comments on that post, at least those that are made after they have received the post.
This works on two basic principles:
In a pure Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte system, your above example would look like this:
Much simpler than explaining everything with "following" and "being followed", isn't it?
Now, the conversation works like this.
The only mentioning that occurs here, if any, is User 4 mentioning User 3. This is not necessary for User 4's post to reach anyone. This is only necessary to make sure on Hubzilla (which doesn't have a tree view) that User 4 is replying to User 3's comment and not to User 2's post.
On Mastodon, for comparison, everything depends on who follows whom, who mentions whom and whose instance knows whose instance.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Conversations #FEP_171b #ConversationContainers
@matrix has gone from $0 to $561K in recurring revenue in just 2 years. But our expenses run $1.2M/yr.
We've burned through reserves and are at a crossroads.
It's the classic FOSS funding problem: use and adoption are at an all-time high, wealthy companies and countries use it, and secure decentralized comms have never been more important. And yet we can't pay our bills.
YOU have a role to play in shaping what comes next: matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossr…
#Matrix #FOSS #OpenSource #IndieWeb #Fediverse
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Adding meaningful alt-text is not only important for everyone using a screenreader and an essential #inclusion and #accessibility requirement. Alt-text is also searchable and used by filters. People who prefer to filter certain people and topics for mental health and other reasons can't filter memes or images without it. Please use alt-text and cw generously 🙏
Added bonus: with added alt-text you can find images in your own posts with "from:me" and people are more likely to boost your posts.
One significant way Mastodon and the Fediverse have transformed digital culture is through the use of alt text. When I look back at my older images online and in my blogs, I rarely included alt text - even though I actively work on accessibility. For some reason, I simply overlooked it.
Now, every time I post something online, I take a moment to write alt text. Mastodon has changed my mindset, and I believe its impact extends far beyond this. The Fediverse encourages a level of consideration for others that no other social networking platform has before.
#A11y #Accessibility #AltText #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialNetwork #SocialMedia
Hallo #fediverse #poweruser, @helpers
Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, im Fediverse mehrsprachig aufzutreten?
Kann man bei #zweisprachig-en Schreibern #Sprachen ausfiltern?
Das #Übersetzungstool der App ist nicht so gut.
Ich würde gerne mehr Leuten folgen, die Muttersprschenbeiträge, wenn ich sie nicht verstehe aber direkt ausblenden.
Ich weiss such, dass ich die Sprache des Posts markieren kann, aber wie ist das zu filtern?
Would you prefer that YOU ARE HIDDEN on the Fediverse?
That nobody (new) ever follows you?
That nobody (new) ever sees your posts?
I KNOW THIS QUESTION SEEMS WEIRD, BUT — THERE IS A SMALL GROUP THAT IS CURRENTLY ARGUING MOST PEOPLE ON THE FEDIVERSE WANT TO BE HIDDEN IN THIS WAY
They don't represent me. And I don't think they should (even implicitly) speak for me
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE HIDDEN LIKE THIS — PLEASE VOTE "NO"
Please boost for reach.
#Discoverable #Fediverse #Mastodon #NoIndex
mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm jesuiSatire .. ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ wrote:
Important detailfirstfor D* users:
The original post on friendica has already moved to v.0x so it's recommended to visite this link to have an idea if there have beenimportanteupdates, other wise your comments might become out of context or be way behind the time line.
What link mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm jesuiSatire .. ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ?
Look's that there was definitely missing some #mateina in your circuits.
Here is the link to watch the whole thing unraveling in real time and with all eventual text updates in posts and answers, dear #diasporians:
forum.friendi.ca/display/0ac89…
Actually such a link is federated thru out the activityPub federation but not present on D*, so friendicans could consider to add those originating links in a comment if that seems reasonable or important, probably something to have in mind depending on the content.
Right now the post is in v.02
Mayor changes:
* poll's aren't drown in pool's anymore
header wrote:
#activityPubescens
to appreciate the editing features #friendica brings to the table of this restaurant at the end of the #fediVerse, please visit the originating page of this post.
footer wrote:
If you you don't care about pool's just be brilliantly absent from the ballot box.
Ballot count since v.01 of this post:
Two hundred eighty seven friendicans abstained from the vote because they don't have a Badekapp for the pool option, no votes in favor of poll's and one vote against poll's by the user @Wilhelm.
// v.01Hi there,
for a while now I'm wondering about the ever lasting discussion and every once in a while upcoming request that friendica should have a pool option.To begin with I do consider that it is not only reasonable but even mandatory to have more than one profile in a decentralized system. There for, having besides a friendica account a mastodon account, sounds quite logical. So as mastodon does have pool's, such a general setup of profiles solves the main problem/issue/request.
Than there is the fact that friendica, by having like an dislike in posts and answers., basically a poll option does exist, it only has to be discovered and integrated to the cultural use of this platform.
So, by having two opposing choices like yes/no -> like/dislike we can do pools with three expressions:
- yes
- no
- yes+no
If a pool is designed and published immediately with answers for every alternative option/question we would have a pool feature by design if the pool is published in the right manner.
If you agree to this consideration, please vote "like"
If you don't agree please vote "dislike"
If you are not sure that you got the idea please select "like" and "dislike"
Attention #Fediverse!
The government of the state of Tamil Nadu in India is offering an enormous cash prize to anyone who can crack the code of an ancient script used in the Indus Valley civilization.
I'm just posting this because I figure if there's some big brain who can decipher the script, and that person needs money right now, there's a decent chance they are posting cat pictures on #Mastodon.
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…
The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to crack the codeEli Wizevich (Smithsonian Magazine)
Ready to move away from Big Tech?
There are options. Choosing those options will require you to learn something new, but that is a small cost to pay to get away from Big Tech, IMHO
Here are my suggestions. Feel free to add your own:
1. Browser : Vivaldi. That one is a given for me, obviously.
2. Mail client : Vivaldi. You may wonder why you need a mail client, but besides the technical benefits, it makes it a lot easier to move between mail services or even use more than one.
3. Mail service : Fastmail. They have been around for a long time.
4. Office software : Libre Office.
5. Video conference : Whereby.
6. Desktop OS : Linux.
7. Social : Mastodon and the Fediverse in general.
As said, I am eager to hear what you are using to help me move away from Big Tech as well. Always looking for new things to try.
#Mastodon #fediverse #Linux #Windows #BigTech #Politics #Technology #Computers
I dieci comandamenti di Friendica. Cosa fare con l’account che abbiamo aperto su Poliverso?
Ecco una sorta di decalogo su Friendica. Ci sono molti link che possono appesantire la lettura, ma speriamo che vi piaccia e soprattutto ci auguriamo che lo troviate utile!
informapirata.it/2025/02/02/i-…
#Fediverse #Fediverso #Friendica
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Ecco una sorta di decalogo su Friendica. Ci sono molti link che possono appesantire la lettura, ma speriamo che vi piaccia e soprattutto…informapirata
And it’s a wrap for my first (EPIC) day at #FOSDEM.
It’s hard to put into words how incredible - and energizing - it feels to be around the creators of the #ActivityPub protocol, founders of #Fediverse software, admins of popular instances and developers of tools I use every day.
I took the opportunity to thank them in person for their incredible work 😊
It’s also been amazing to finally meet IRL lots of cool people I had been corresponding with for months on the Fediverse.
The best day 💛
📣 Happy #GlobalSwitchDay to all the brave frontrunners out there!
For whom February 1st came a little too soon, don't worry! Just try again on March 1st and celebrate Zero Discrimination Day in the beautiful #fediverse. Alternatively, you can switch on April 1st, as only fools stay behind ;) or join your friends on May 1st and put your ideals to work.
Help spread the word.
#WhatsApp #Signal #Reddit #Lemmy #X #Mastodon #Instagram #Pixelfed #Facebook #friendica #Youtube #Peertube #Tiktok #loops
Crazy.
I never would have thought how important the #Fediverse would become as one of the last communication networks that are not controlled by governments, directly or indirectly
Especially in times like now when almost all other ones are kissing the ring
Billionaires who are in control of most of our daily communication should not be trusted, our most valued digital forms of connection should be in control of the people like you and me
Thank you for being part of this❤️
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