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I want to:

🚀 Launch a Mastodon instance for local people

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Don’t let #BigTech and #billionaires kill #LocalNews. Can you help us reach our target of 25 new lifetime members by mid-June?

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Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 9 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Robert Kingett! Robert is a writer of fiction and nonfiction as well as a technical writer and accessibility specialist. Robert has been helping with disability access improvements in the Fediverse. His biggest contributions have been to the open source and federated book review application Bookwyrm. Robert is blind and has a stutter. He has very deep thoughts on old people, taxes, and animals. And finds Santa Claus to be very rude that he never responds to children's letters. So Robert I'm not disabled and haven't really worked around anyone that's been disabled, so if you have any suggestions for me going forward, please do not hesitate to help me learn.

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Robert Kingett

2025-03-27 22:21:11

EarHockey Demo

A slightly older demo I did of Ear Hockey for Windows wherein I play one game on extreme mode, showing how both blind and sighted gamers can play without sighted people needing the same accessibility features I need to play the game.

Ear Hockey | Microsoft Garage

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I want to follow everything via ActivityPub/Fedi. For everything else, there's RSS.

#rss #thunderbird #fedi #fediverse #ActivityPub #bsky #BlueSky

I've been watching a bunch of #fedi rhetoric go back and forth and it's sort of amusing to see the ... duality of it.

"Everyone should switch to decentralized services so we're not dependent on big companies with big money" --> "Oh no, too many people, go to other instances or donate please!"
"Do keep in mind moderators are people too and often work for free, we don't have the resources of big tech"--> "HOW DARE MOD FROM INSTANCE X NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR SPAM COMING IN RAAAAAGE"
"We should switch to non-big-tech alternatives, everyone in the fediverse is great!" --> "Oh no except not this service, this service is run by a gaslighter who kicks puppies, don't use this one. But also it doesn't matter what instance you use, welcome in!"

💫💫💫
It's almost like we're dealing with humans on both sides of the fence 🤔

Takže přátelé a kamarádi - chtěl bych vám poděkovat za bleskovou víkendovou #kampaň na #crowdfunding @Programy do voleb - byla to hezká recese, která reálně pomohla a chtěl bych Vám - všem #fediverse a #mastodon instancím poděkovat, byli jste skvělí!

Co jsme se o víkendu naučili?
- #politika občany #fedi zajímá
- koho nezajímala, tak se aspoň dozvěděl, že @Programy do voleb tu jsou
- že jsou tu všichni za vodou a posílají větší příspěvky, než byl cíl
- #Plzeň má nejlevnější jízdenky :)

Chci poděkovat za pomoc a jsem rád, že jsme o sobě takhle dali vědět. Jste tu skvělá grupa, bez vás by to nešlo.

V neděli v 7 večer máme 29 lidi, co přispělo přes 2230 Kč!. Jako bonus 36 lidí přesdílelo tuhle výzvu. Děkuju

Až vám někdy někdo řekne, že to tady je mrtvý, tak tohle je důkaz, že to tak není.

Díky borci a borky, byla to super jízda a já se tu řenil celý dva dny, jak málo stačí k tomu, abyste ukázali, jak jste super.

Schmaker

2024-06-01 10:11:28

Dostal jsem krásně skvělej špatnej nápad na "virální" #kampaň tady na #Fediverse a chci vás požádat o pomoc.

Asi se shodneme na tom, že @Programy do voleb dělaj výbornou záslužnou práci a protože Fediverse a #Mastodon nemaj žádnou rozumnou metriku, jak měřit zájem, napadl mě takovej experiment :)

Za květen dostaly @Programy do voleb na příspěvkáh od dárců 770 Kč. Od všech dárců a zde přijde ta vtipná část - uděláme první českej #crowdfunding tady na #Fedi!

Jak postupovat?

Pošlete nějakou směšně postradatelnou částku programům do voleb - navrhuju něco jako cenu lístku v MHD nebo piva - to je nějakých dejme tomu 30 Kč. (Horní hranice samozřejmě není omezena)

Do komentáře napište Mastodon / Fediverse nebo jinej typ instance, na který běžíte.

Retootněte, sdílejte, pošlete screen chcete-li a užijte si první "virální" promokampaň tady na Fedi :)

Cíl?

Cílem je trumfnout výběr za květen jenom příspěvky z Fediverse. Dáme to, když 30 Kč pošle 26 lidí. Je tu 26 lidí, co má rádo programy do voleb? :)

Update: Protože jsou tady na Fedi všichni bohatý anebo maj drahý tramvajenky, částka se díky nim vybrala téměř hned. Tohle ale není o penězích - tohle je sčítání lidu! Měním tedy z boží a Janovo vůle cíl - chci vytlačit všechny ty normální lidi s jejich fejsbukama a twitterama někam tak deset stránek za nás, občany Fediverse. Každá stránka je deset lidí. Chci vás tam vidět všechny!

Sčítání Fedi začíná!

Věřim ve vás

GL+HF! :)

#politika

Dostal jsem krásně skvělej špatnej nápad na "virální" #kampaň tady na #Fediverse a chci vás požádat o pomoc.

Asi se shodneme na tom, že @Programy do voleb dělaj výbornou záslužnou práci a protože Fediverse a #Mastodon nemaj žádnou rozumnou metriku, jak měřit zájem, napadl mě takovej experiment :)

Za květen dostaly @Programy do voleb na příspěvkáh od dárců 770 Kč. Od všech dárců a zde přijde ta vtipná část - uděláme první českej #crowdfunding tady na #Fedi!

Jak postupovat?

Pošlete nějakou směšně postradatelnou částku programům do voleb - navrhuju něco jako cenu lístku v MHD nebo piva - to je nějakých dejme tomu 30 Kč. (Horní hranice samozřejmě není omezena)

Do komentáře napište Mastodon / Fediverse nebo jinej typ instance, na který běžíte.

Retootněte, sdílejte, pošlete screen chcete-li a užijte si první "virální" promokampaň tady na Fedi :)

Cíl?

Cílem je trumfnout výběr za květen jenom příspěvky z Fediverse. Dáme to, když 30 Kč pošle 26 lidí. Je tu 26 lidí, co má rádo programy do voleb? :)

Update: Protože jsou tady na Fedi všichni bohatý anebo maj drahý tramvajenky, částka se díky nim vybrala téměř hned. Tohle ale není o penězích - tohle je sčítání lidu! Měním tedy z boží a Janovo vůle cíl - chci vytlačit všechny ty normální lidi s jejich fejsbukama a twitterama někam tak deset stránek za nás, občany Fediverse. Každá stránka je deset lidí. Chci vás tam vidět všechny!

Sčítání Fedi začíná!

Věřim ve vás

GL+HF! :)

#politika

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Recent events have spurred some great discussion of fediverse safety and the ways that we can improve it. I'm thrilled to see the growing interest in this problem, but there's one specific angle that concerns me. Specifically, the push for allow-list federation.

First, some background information. Federation between instances is usually controlled by restricting which remote instances (identified by domain name) can send or receive messages from the local instance. In the majority of fedi servers, this is implemented with a "deny list" - a list of instance domains that should be blocked. When using a deny list, all unlisted domains can communicate by default.

This is in contrast with an "allow list", which specifies the domains that should not be blocked. When using an allow list, all unlisted domains are blocked and can not communicate. Deny-list federation is open except for specific routes, and allow-list federation is closed except for specific routes. There are other approaches, but these are by far the most common.

Now, moving on to my actual point. I've recently seen some discussion of using allow-list federation as means to improve user safety. This idea, while very well-intended, is unfortunately flawed and could easily cause more harm than it prevents.

This idea suggests that by limiting federation to known, approved domains, then it becomes easier to block sources of abuse, hate, and illegal content. This is actually quite effective, and some instances are already using allow lists to great effect. They experience minimal contact with dangerous instances, and those that slip through are easy to identify and block. It's a great strategy for specific communities. Unfortunately, however, this approach cannot scale.

Allow-list federation works well for a minority of instances, but only because the majority do not use it. This is due to the network effect. Just as a centralized social network can collapse if there are too few connections between users, a federated social network can collapse if there are too few connections between nodes (instances).

With open or deny-list federation, all nodes are connected to all others. This forms a very strong network - so strong that small and even single-user nodes are possible. The open federation ensures that there are always sufficient connections to keep the network useful.

The same is not true of allow-list federation. In this mode, the network nodes are only connected to a limited subset of others. As the percentage of allow-list nodes increases, the number of connections decreases exponentially. The resulting network is weak and unstable enough to collapse under pressure. A bigger problem, however, is not the network weakness but rather the loss of small instances.

In my experience, it's rare to see a federation allow-list with more than 1,000 entries. Fediverse index websites currently show around 25,000 active instances, which means that most allow-list instances are connected with only 4% of others. We can assume that the 4% is biased towards medium-to-large instances because of their increased visibility. After all, an instance cannot allow-list another node until they've encountered it through a mutual. Larger instances have more mutuals, and thus a greater chance to be discovered.

Over time, this creates an imbalance where larger instances benefit from a richer and broader network than smaller nodes, who have limited reach and reduced federation. Any new instance must somehow maintain a user base while faced with network isolation. This becomes a significant barrier to entry for the fediverse.
This barrier effect is bad enough, but there's another angle to consider. Fedi is large enough to have a constant churn of small instances starting up and shutting down. Currently, more instances are forming than closing, which leads to positive growth in the number of nodes - a good thing for network health. But if it was harder to start a new instance? That ratio would drop or even reverse, causing the network to shrink instead of grow. Reduced network size increases the network effect, which expands the inequality, which strengthens the barrier, which decreases the growth, which reduces the network size. A classic feedback loop.

This process would be devastating for fedi. The cycle would continue until there's no new instances at all, by which point we'd have lost the rich ecosystem of tiny communities that make fedi unique. Large instances can never provide a truly safe space, and often foster a community much like Twitter - problems included. The small, diverse instances are what make this network special. If we lose that, then we lose the fediverse.

I can't bear to see that happen.

#Fedi #FediVerse #FediMeta #Federation

Cascading collapse of online social networks - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Cascading collapse of online social networks

^Nature

nikto nikde, včera (ak to #fedi nezkomprimuje tak to má 200Mpx) #s23ultra #Hviezdko

edit: ah jeden tam je 😒

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!

As the fediverse grows it becomes more difficult for new #fedi projects to get the attention they deserve.

That's why we started fediverse.info and fedidb.org, as well as use our following to boost and bring attention to new projects (DM us).

We feel obligated to do this because we know how hard it is for new projects and established developer egos.

We're all in this together, let's support each other ❤️

fediverse.info

The bespoke fediverse guide

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One week ago I launched fediverse.info

Since then, 515 people registered and have been added to 1800+ topics!

Discovery is important, and while we strive to fill this void, our ultimate goal is to help standardize discovery across the fediverse.

Every #fedi project should have this directory! #activitypub #fediverse #fediverseInfo

fediverse.info

The bespoke fediverse guide

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