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https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/fediverse-feeds/
Currently covers *deep breath* #Mastodon, #Bookwyrm, #Funkwhale, #GoToSocial, #Lemmy, #Misskey & forks, #Pleroma & forks #PeerTube, #Pixelfed, #Plume, #Snac2, #Takahe, and #WriteFreely
*whew*
Feel free to let me know what I should add to the list (or any corrections I need to make) in a reply to this post!
Finding Fediverse Feeds
How to find the RSS/Atom feeds for Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Misskey, and other Fediverse platforms.Kelson Vibber (Hyperborea Tech Tips)
Common Mastodon practice vs my Hubzilla channel (actually SFW)
The core of my problem is that I'm not even on Mastodon. You can see my posts as toots, but they don't come from Mastodon. I'm on #Hubzilla (#^https://hubzilla.org/) which is an entirely separate project from Mastodon and actually several years older than Mastodon. It's still a part of the #Fediverse, otherwise you Mastodon users out there wouldn't be able to read this.
Since these are two projects with two different backgrounds, and since Hubzilla, being older than Mastodon, wasn't developed around maximum possible Mastodon compatibility, there are issues with said compatibility.
I'm not even talking about Mastodon rejecting text formatting such as bold type, italics or underline, thereby also destroying quotes. (Does it at least accept [url=] tags?)
I'm not even talking about the effort I have to take to add alt-texts to pictures. Mastodon has a nifty point-and-click interface for that. Hubzilla requires me to edit a long string of BBcode. It's a wonder nonetheless that this works on Mastodon as well. It can get tedious, also because Hubzilla allows me to put a theoretically unlimited number of pictures into one post and not just one or three, but it's doable.
I'm not even talking about Mastodon always slapping pictures behind the end of a toot, even if you carefully put them in-between text blocks in places such as #Friendica, Hubzilla, #Zap or #Streams-based instances. (By the way: Hubzilla puts pictures ahead of the text when it displays Mastodon toots.)
But the latter brings another problem with itself: #CWs (content warnings) become largely useless on Mastodon for everything that isn't a genuine Mastodon #toot, at least if they are to hide the picture(s). Which is the case far more than often.
See, if you put a #CW on a original Mastodon toot, it hides everything, the picture included.
On Hubzilla, "CW" is called "summary", but it should do the same. In theory.
Now, if you put a summary on your Hubzilla post, Mastodon only hides the text. Not the picture. The picture will immediately show up in plain sight for everyone, right below the CW. You don't even get to choose not to scroll down to the picture because the CW eliminates the possibility to scroll, because it compresses any text into one line.
I'm not convinced that that's a bug on Hubzilla's side because Hubzilla has no influence at all upon where Mastodon puts pictures in a toot. It's more like Mastodon expecting everyone to do it its way. If Mastodon halfway re-writes any and all posts coming in from outside as it pleases, Hubzilla can't do anything about that.
At the end of the day, all I could use summaries (again, = CWs) for is just that. Summaries to hide huge walls of text. As in tl;dr. But I can't use them to hide pictures from sensitive people.
Hubzilla and Mastodon also use different ways of handling NSFW content which are incompatible. Hubzilla parses both NSFW and #NSFW and then hides the entire post, pictures and hashtags and all, behind a yellow button. If I add a summary, you have to click twice to see the post.
Mastodon puts pictures from outside Mastodon into plain sight, unblurred, regardless of any NSFW marks, and, again, only hides the text behind a CW if there is one.
So if you ask users on Friendica, Hubzilla, Zap, (streams) etc. to never post pictures that could possibly offend or trigger someone in plain sight, that's like asking them to never post pictures at all anymore.
And if you ask them to come to Mastodon instead so that their posts stay compatible with 99% of all Fediverse users, that's like demanding the shutdown of everything that isn't Mastodon. Also, we've got our reasons to use something that isn't Mastodon. And they go way beyond having more than 500 characters per post.
Hubzilla | Hubzilla - hubzilla@hubzilla.org
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.hubzilla.org
Thanks for all you do, makes the #mastodon experience so much more intuitive & engaging.
However, there is a workaround which *does* let you add or edit alt texts right now:
1. Click edit on the post
2. Delete the attached file
3. Attach the same file again
4. Add/edit the description
5. Publish the edited post
#Mastodon
https://joelchrono12.xyz/blog/testing-new-mastodon-clients/
#Misskey #Android
Testing new Mastodon clients
There have been a ton of new clients for Mastodon popping up left and right. But I may have found my new client of choicejoelchrono12.xyz
Frage | Was tun wenn Kommentare bei Beitragsdiskussion zu eigenen Beiträgen werden?
Mir ist schon öfters aufgefallen Das einzelne Kommentare die Teil einer Beitragsdiskussion sind auf einmal als eigene Beiträge daher kommen, immer im Zusammenhang mit Mastodon. Das sieht dann so aus. Hier erst mal der Beitrag und die dazugehörige Beitragsdiskussion:
Und hier nun der einzelne Kommentar der definitiv dazu gehört, aber als eigener Beitrag daher kommt:
Wie gesagt ist mir das schon öfters mal aufgefallen und es kann bei Beitragsdiskussionen äußerst nervig sein, wen einzelne Antworten nicht in der Diskussion landen, sondern zu eigenen Beiträgen werden. Denn das zerreißt dann ganz leicht die Diskussion.
#Frage #Friendica #Mastodon #Beiträge #Beitragsdiskussion #Kommentare #Raven #2023-01-23 !Friendica Support
Frage | Was tun wenn Kommentare bei Beitragsdiskussion zu eigenen Beiträgen werden?
Mir ist schon öfters aufgefallen Das einzelne Kommentare die Teil einer Beitragsdiskussion sind auf einmal als eigene Beiträge daher kommen, immer im Zusammenhang mit Mastodon. Das sieht dann so aus. Hier erst mal der Beitrag und die dazugehörige Beitragsdiskussion:
Und hier nun der einzelne Kommentar der definitiv dazu gehört, aber als eigener Beitrag daher kommt:
Wie gesagt ist mir das schon öfters mal aufgefallen und es kann bei Beitragsdiskussionen äußerst nervig sein, wen einzelne Antworten nicht in der Diskussion landen, sondern zu eigenen Beiträgen werden. Denn das zerreißt dann ganz leicht die Diskussion.
#Frage #Friendica #Mastodon #Beiträge #Beitragsdiskussion #Kommentare #Raven #2023-01-23 !Friendica Support
Very cool! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pockettoots/
PocketToots – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download PocketToots for Firefox. Saves your Mastodon bookmarks to Pocket and adds a link back to the Mastodon post in Pocket.addons.mozilla.org
My 9 year old and her friends at #school decided to raise #money for their #art #teacher and would like to sell their #drawings! So, I'm selling them on my site!
All proceeds go to their art dept.
https://patrickstewart.net/online-store
They are excited because they #LOVE their teacher and really want her to succeed
If we run out of art I've set up a #donation link!
https://buymeacoffee.com/emsisdart
New art is added each week!
Online store :: Patrick Benjamin Stewart
Saginaw Elementary School Art Department FundraiserPatrick Benjamin Stewart
For more information, check: https://fosstodon.org/@semaphore/109732196442356646
#Accessibility #A11y #Semaphore
Introducing Semaphore an accessible, simple and fast web client for Mastodon.
Semaphore continues the work of @nolan 's @pinafore, and will prioritise accessibility, continuing Pinafore's track record of integrating improvements from disabled contributors.
Follow this account if you'd like to keep up-to-date with releases and news.
#mastodon #accessible #a11y #client #app #web #semaphore #pinafore
I can turn off the reblogs to just hear the voices of my tooters. I can turn on some rebloggers on topics I am into. I can follow or unfollow people as my interests and focus change. I can sit on a hashtag to find more peeps on a topic my feed is sparse on.
I love being able to control my own experience on here, depending on my priorities.
When I started blogging years ago, I realized that I have an internal vocabulary that others do not share. Concepts are built from other concepts in modular ways. So as I came across ideas in the middle of a writing that I wanted to build on, I would pause and write an essay on that instead, so that I could more concisely build layered points. People who followed my writing back then hopefully came to understand the personal vocabulary of my world view.
Speaking in hypertext, I call it. References to concepts you can peel back into if you don't get the thing I'm trying to say today. My writing is intended to cross-reference itself, getting a set of inter-related concepts out in a way that someone could navigate.
It's also a kind Insurance against death, since anything not said before you die might as well not have ever been thought. And yet if you make thoughts sufficiently hard to find or follow, they also might as well not be said. Better organization is needed, and titles are time-tested ways to do that.
It's VERY hard to do on Mastodon. I'm not encouraged to think of anything I write as anything but ephemera, rants in the wind, quickly lost or buried. Bookmarking without any hierarchy or folders makes it impossible for even me as author to keep track of it, much less someone who isn't committed to reading every last consequently-repetitive word I write.
It's a more serious weakness than I see acknowledged. There is much good writing here, lost to poor bookkeeping. Hypertext aspires to better.
#Mastodon #UX #Search #Naming #Headlines #Blogging #Reuse #Writing #Hypertext #Bookkeeping #Dictionary #Philosophy
› Remote-only
› Full-time
Looking for:
› DevOps Engineer
› Product Designer
› Software Engineer 🆕
It could be you! Apply now:
https://joinmastodon.org/careers
There've been quite a few #fedisearch issues recently, but the common thread is that there's usually a gap in reporting - they're often live for weeks before people are made aware.
It's not just people's pet projects either, there are other #scrapers active, quietly consuming posts
So, I built a bot to detect and out them so that fedi admins can block as necessary
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/security/autodetecting-and-outing-mastodon-scrapers-with-scrapersnitchbot.html
#infosec #security
Creating A Log-Analysis System To Autodetect and Announce Mastodon Scr
I decided to build a scraper bot detection system to run against my mastodon instance, it uses behavioural scoring to fimd scrapers and then toots details to help other instance admins protect their uwww.bentasker.co.uk
Users and users
Why is that?
!Friendica Support
!Libranet Support
If you don't know, but are also interested in the answer, please boost this one for me.
If you want to have a look or find out more, the official Elk website is at:
➡️ https://elk.zone
You can follow them for news about the project at:
➡️ @elk
It's free and open source, the source code is at https://github.com/elk-zone/elk
🔗 https://santetoctoc.medica.im
Once that's available, while I'm still in transition from Twitter to Mastodon, I'm hoping to use Buffer to cross-post some of the links I share. (both on Twitter & Mastodon)
#edutooter #TwitterMigration
› Remote-only
› Full-time
Looking for:
› DevOps Engineer
› Product Designer
It could be you! Apply now:
https://joinmastodon.org/careers
Mastohost is where sauropods.win is hosted, and I can recommend them. Support is top-notch, and it's all been smooth sailing.
https://masto.host/
#hosting #mastodon #fediverse
Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting
Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.Masto.host
This poll follows news that #Medium has started its own instance.
We could make exceptions for news orgs, or maybe force them to use non profit instances.
- Block (25%, 70 votes)
- Don't block (69%, 194 votes)
- I commented (5%, 15 votes)
if all goes right this link i am posting will take you to my new audio server ..
iv set it to 320kps mp3 but some of the test content is at lower bitrates
if you could boost this i would be grateful as i want to put some load on this server
test content is happy chilled music with some live Glastonbury festival bootyleggos ;)
http://carol.epichosts.co.uk:8450/live.mp3
#audio
#raspberrypi
#80s
#linux
#joinin
#music
#80s
#solarpowerdfun
#fediverse
#Mastodon #MastoRadio