Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca), page 3
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 15:54:03 EDT 
Bob Jonkman
There's a natural spring just a short distance from here. Sometime about 30 years ago some kind of piping was added to it, so now the water comes out of a pipe a distance above the ground. People would fill their water cooler bottles there. About 10 years ago a sign was put up "This is not potable water". Now there are fewer people filling bottles, but it hasn't stopped everyone. I often bike past it, but I've never filled my biking water bottle. Like LinuxWalt, I don't trust mysterious water, even it does come out of a pipe. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 15:32:22 EDT 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Behind this laundromat there is a pipe that continuaously spews water. People drive up and fill bottles, then leave.
Trusting. I naturally assume that there is some contaminant and I therefore avoid drinking water from mystery pipes. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 00:07:07 EDT
Bob Jonkman
Why we need elastomeric clothing. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 00:06:22 EDT
Bob Jonkman
The only reason I have a Github account is to provide bug reports and feature requests to projects I want to support.
I don't code much, but anything I want to be publicly available is on my own website. Although not in a code repository, which is probably a good idea. -
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 07:55:21 EDT 
Stephen Sekula
From https://t.co/Ljk2FwSC2I on Mastodon: In the spirit of deepening the open federated social web, this blog is now powered by ActivityPub, the open federated social standard. This is thanks to the WordPress plugin “activitypub”. You c... https://mastodon.cooleysekula.net/users/steve/statuses/110044125471741899/activity -
clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 03-Mar-2023 05:02:35 EST 
clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
Re: nu.federati.net/notice/3422215
@LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} A lot of people move to Fedi from Twitter, in Fedi numbers.
Not a lot of people move to Fedi from Twitter in Twitter numbers. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 03-Mar-2023 00:40:46 EST
Bob Jonkman
The other difference between moving from the US to Canada and moving from Twitter to the Fediverse is that you don't have to leave Twitter to move to the Fediverse... -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 16:08:16 EST
Bob Jonkman
I seem to recall there's a standard API that should be common to all the #StatusNet derivitave servers. I'm pretty sure that in its infancy Mastodon conformed to that API. But Mastodon's API expanded beyond that, and I suspect some of the common API was removed, probably around the time #OStatus was dropped from Mastodon too.
But that's sheer speculation on my part.
Time to upgrade my server, so I can upgrade PHP, so I can upgrade this GNUsocial instance... -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 12:54:09 EST
Bob Jonkman
Twidere has stopped working for Twitter accounts. My Mastodon account still works nicely. I thought maybe the Twidere API keys for the developer had been revoked, or that something had gone wrong with my phone (It's a vanilla Samsung with Android 12, but I've refused to install any of the Samsung or Google apps). I tried to re-authenticate my Twitter account with "Basic" (userID and PW; other options are OAuth, OAuth2, XAuth), but even "Basic" didn't work.
My Slim Social for Twitter app continues to work, tho. But Slim Social doesn't seem like it's an app, but just a browser that only goes to twitter.com.
I think this may be the event that makes me abandon Twitter altogether. I had reduced my Twitter activity since the Musk takeover, but hadn't entirely given up on it. Fortunately, I don't have any investment in anything I've posted there. I've always put #ImportantStuff on my blog or other self-hosted services. -
Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 16:30:55 EST 
Michael Vogel
!Friendica Admins As you might have heard, there are issues with the Twitter API. Several favourite clients stopped working, while others (still) do. By now there hadn't been any word if there is some massive Problem or if this was some deliberate action.
Whatever is causing these issues, at least my connection still works. How about yours? Is the Twitter connector on your systems still running? -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:20:57 EST
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://500ish.com/mastodon-brought-a-protocol-to-a-product-fight-ba9fda767c6a
#Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article.
"Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight"
> Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand alongside Twitter, as a massively scaled social network? I call bullshit. While it’s impressive that millions of users have apparently given Mastodon a try, the product is far too slapdash and clunky to keep folks engaged. A lump of coal.
No, it isn't meant to be a #Twitter replacement. Keep your Twitter account until you no longer want it--or the company closes and the site shuts down--you can use Mastodon alongside Twitter.
And the #Fediverse networks are much more than just #Mastodon. Don't think you have experienced the network and all it has to offer if all you've done is briefly tried to use Mastodon, because you haven't experienced it.
> I’ve somehow avoided signing up for the service up until now. Largely because signing up was and is so comically obtuse — pick your server everyone, hope you choose wisely!
Have you not used e-mail? It works the same way. You pick a server, such as Gmail or Outlook dot com, and sign up. Please tell me you realize that the people you communicate with are not all on the same e-mail service that you use.
> But, but, it’s not a product, it’s a protocol. Yeah, that’s a nice thing to say. And to believe in. But I truly believe the ship has sadly sailed for such idealism in this space. Jack Dorsey can talk about how this should have been what Twitter was from the get go until he’s bluesky in the face. It’s just not going to happen. And he’s more to blame for that than most everyone else. As is he for the Elon element of this current equation. But that’s a different story.
Okay, so how about this story: Twitter has only been profitable two or three years of its entire history. Since it started, it has existed by burning through investors' funds. Eventually, with or without Elon Musk's ownership, that runs out. Without such funding, their corporate-centralized ( #corpocentric ) model cannot exist very long. And same for their centralized competitors, such as Post.news, Gab, Parler, and so on. What is left is either #federated or #peer-to-peer approaches, where no single entity is responsible for funding and managing the entire network. So whether it is the #Fediverse ( with #ActivityPub and #OStatus and their successors ) & the Federation ( with #Diaspora ) or #Bluesky, or #Twister, or #NOSTR, the eventual future of #socnets is #decentralized, if not entirely peer-to-peer unless a national government takes over Facebook and Twitter in order to provide effectively unlimited resources. It is the protocol that makes it possible for thousands or millions of instances to displace and replace one big centralized instance.
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