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blacksam: As a follow on to my last post, I've decided to shut down the pod next weekend. Thanks for all the fish. #diaspora #podmin #gibberfish #404
blacksam's status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 13:15:53 EST
As a follow on to my last post, I've decided to shut down the pod next weekend. Thanks for all the fish. #diaspora #podmin #gibberfish #404
blacksam: I don't really know who else uses this pod anymore as registrations have been closed for a long time and the built-in user pruning feature deleted the podmin account (!) a long time ago -- but I'm winding down my use of social media and I haven't really checked in here in weeks. I think when this domain is up for renewal at the end of January I'm going to let it lapse (i.e. the pod will cease to exist). Sorry if that inconveniences anyone. This is your notice to find a new pod. #diaspora #podmin #gibberfish
blacksam's status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 14:11:57 EST
I don't really know who else uses this pod anymore as registrations have been closed for a long time and the built-in user pruning feature deleted the podmin account (!) a long time ago -- but I'm winding down my use of social media and I haven't really checked in here in weeks. I think when this domain is up for renewal at the end of January I'm going to let it lapse (i.e. the pod will cease to exist). Sorry if that inconveniences anyone. This is your notice to find a new pod. #diaspora #podmin #gibberfish
blacksam: Just an FYI for people who use pod-feeder-v2, I've just pushed a new release that updates some package dependencies and overall now requires python 3.9+ No actual features or fixes in this one, so it's fine not to update if you're stuck on an older python version. #pod_feeder #pod_feeder_v2 #rss #atom #syndication #feeds #diaspora
blacksam's status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 20:44:57 EST
Just an FYI for people who use pod-feeder-v2, I've just pushed a new release that updates some package dependencies and overall now requires python 3.9+ No actual features or fixes in this one, so it's fine not to update if you're stuck on an older python version. #pod_feeder #pod_feeder_v2 #rss #atom #syndication #feeds #diaspora
blacksam: If you're reading this, please comment to let me know if you can see the image or not. #diaspora #image #bug?
blacksam's status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 18:24:39 EDT
If you're reading this, please comment to let me know if you can see the image or not. #diaspora #image #bug?
blacksam: Upgrade to #diaspora #0900 seems to have worked!
blacksam's status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 10:45:02 EDT
Upgrade to #diaspora #0900 seems to have worked!
blacksam: Due to a recent password misadventure I briefly switched pods and noticed that a lot of user's profile pics (specifically) are different from the other pod's view. In some cases users who appear to have no profile pic set on my original pod do have one visible elsewhere. This leads me to believe that there's some kind of issue on my end. Is there a cache I can purge or something like that to have profile pics re-imported from their originating pods? #diaspora #dev #question
blacksam's status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 09:48:50 EST
Due to a recent password misadventure I briefly switched pods and noticed that a lot of user's profile pics (specifically) are different from the other pod's view. In some cases users who appear to have no profile pic set on my original pod do have one visible elsewhere. This leads me to believe that there's some kind of issue on my end. Is there a cache I can purge or something like that to have profile pics re-imported from their originating pods? #diaspora #dev #question
lnxw48a1: https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub [www theverge com] The Verge article extolling the #Fediverse. I personally think the writer has the wrong point. #Facebook isn't good. Its attraction is "everybody I know is on Facebook" and not any of its half-baked features. Therefore, multiprotocol / multi-network federated social is important to dethroning #corpocentric #socnets like XTwitter ( #x.com / #twitter ) and Meta's Facebook & #Instagram. We need bridges to connect #Nostr, the #OStatus and #ActivityPub fediverses, #Diaspora, #Farcaster, #Bluesky's #ATProto, etc. Or we need instances that speak all of the above protocols / languages. I feel this writer's exuberence will turn out to be fantasy, mostly because of misunderstanding what keeps people in the walled gardens and what it will take to free them.
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 22:09:16 EST
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub [www theverge com] The Verge article extolling the #Fediverse. I personally think the writer has the wrong point. #Facebook isn't good. Its attraction is "everybody I know is on Facebook" and not any of its half-baked features. Therefore, multiprotocol / multi-network federated social is important to dethroning #corpocentric #socnets like XTwitter ( #x.com / #twitter ) and Meta's Facebook & #Instagram. We need bridges to connect #Nostr, the #OStatus and #ActivityPub fediverses, #Diaspora, #Farcaster, #Bluesky's #ATProto, etc. Or we need instances that speak all of the above protocols / languages. I feel this writer's exuberence will turn out to be fantasy, mostly because of misunderstanding what keeps people in the walled gardens and what it will take to free them.
2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse
fu: This is what I think of every time @baptist_joshua_on_youtube mentions that #Diaspora is his #ministry i.devol.it/watch?v=RQ7zd-SMcrE
fu's status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 03:47:49 EST
This is what I think of every time @baptist_joshua_on_youtube mentions that #Diaspora is his #ministry i.devol.it/watch?v=RQ7zd-SMcrE
fu: Looks like @Robbie is #newHere give them a follow particularly as I believe his #Diaspora* Pod is smaller they'll need more federation to see what we offer here on the #Fediverse ♲ @robbie@diaspora.ragesoss.com: Kids Are Getting a Bad Reputation and it's Not Justified I'm still #newhere because I wanted a place to make a #blog that doesn't make me make an account, pay for it, or have ads to pay for it. So here's my first blog entry.All you see on TV #news or on the internet about #kids is about how stupid kids are, how confused about everything from #science, especially #biology, to #history and human interaction. Maybe in big cities where #education is all corrupted by politics that might be true. But I don't think you can write off a whole generation because kids in the news don't know which bathroom to use and can't tell you anything about the history of their own country and culture. We're not all like that! In fact I think the majority of kids, the ones you never hear about, aren't so ignorant and confused as people think.I wonder if that is true about a lot of things. Watching the news it all looks bad! But people find ways to make life work and get through life without all that drama and without wars and protests and things that just make noise and hide the real truth behind one crisis after another.#Adults reading this should know that probably most kids aren't all mixed up about their identity or their gender. The only thing really in doubt is our future, because the world we are about to inherit is a big battleground where the powerful compete for more power and who use confusion and mayhem to accomplish it.
fu's status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 10:45:37 EST
Looks like @Robbie is #newHere give them a follow particularly as I believe his #Diaspora* Pod is smaller they'll need more federation to see what we offer here on the #Fediverse ♲ @robbie@diaspora.ragesoss.com: Kids Are Getting a Bad Reputation and it's Not Justified I'm still #newhere because I wanted a place to make a #blog that doesn't make me make an account, pay for it, or have ads to pay for it. So here's my first blog entry. All you see on TV #news or on the internet about #kids is about how stupid kids are, how confused about everything from #science, especially #biology, to #history and human interaction. Maybe in big cities where #education is all corrupted by politics that might be true. But I don't think you can write off a whole generation because kids in the news don't know which bathroom to use and can't tell you anything about the history of their own country and culture. We're not all like that! In fact I think the majority of kids, the ones you never hear about, aren't so ignorant and confused as people think. I wonder if that is true about a lot of things. Watching the news it all looks bad! But people find ways to make life work and get through life without all that drama and without wars and protests and things that just make noise and hide the real truth behind one crisis after another. #Adults reading this should know that probably most kids aren't all mixed up about their identity or their gender. The only thing really in doubt is our future, because the world we are about to inherit is a big battleground where the powerful compete for more power and who use confusion and mayhem to accomplish it.
fu: Is anyone else having Friendica/Lemmy federation issues?!Fediverse !Fediverse (JP) I am subscribed to many #lemmy communities from Friendica. I really love how it works, showing up as Friendica #Forums and basically just being exactly what I want (and one of the reasons why having your #friendica account enabled 👍 & 👎 is important for the upvote/downvote #features). It is WAY better than trying to follow such communities from #mastodon and I personally like the convince of one account and the UI better than Lemmy's native. It feels like it used to work seamlessly, however over the last few months something doesn't seem to work as well. I don't see nearly as many posts in my Network feed anymore, not all of my posts ever seem to actually be shown on the community page I put new posts to when I go there after being surprised, I haven't had any reactions/comments after a time, and a whole lot of comments and reactions to stuff I have posted successfully never show on my side when they do. I'm not sure if it's a recent change to #Friendica or #lemmy that has affected it, or perhaps if it's related to the #RedditMigration and the sheer number of additional users/connections/traffic the various Lemmy instances have than they did a few months ago. I haven't filed an issue because I am not sure where to even start. It could even by my attempts to always cross post, by putting various tags for @ and ! in posts like this, which iirc used to work just fine too, but even I only post to one I'm still seeing extreme delays, and/or lack of federation at all. also, frequently DELTE & RE-DRAFT rather than EDIT, particularly due to having friends on #Diaspora* and #GNUsocial that don't support EDIT, and somehow, I feel like that might have an impact too? #DazedAndConfused #andStatus @AndStatus project @redditmigratoin@kbin.social @Friendica Support
fu's status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 14:19:38 EDT
Is anyone else having Friendica/Lemmy federation issues? !Fediverse !Fediverse (JP) I am subscribed to many #lemmy communities from Friendica. I really love how it works, showing up as Friendica #Forums and basically just being exactly what I want (and one of the reasons why having your #friendica account enabled 👍 & 👎 is important for the upvote/downvote #features). It is WAY better than trying to follow such communities from #mastodon and I personally like the convince of one account and the UI better than Lemmy's native. It feels like it used to work seamlessly, however over the last few months something doesn't seem to work as well. I don't see nearly as many posts in my Network feed anymore, not all of my posts ever seem to actually be shown on the community page I put new posts to when I go there after being surprised, I haven't had any reactions/comments after a time, and a whole lot of comments and reactions to stuff I have posted successfully never show on my side when they do. I'm not sure if it's a recent change to #Friendica or #lemmy that has affected it, or perhaps if it's related to the #RedditMigration and the sheer number of additional users/connections/traffic the various Lemmy instances have than they did a few months ago. I haven't filed an issue because I am not sure where to even start. It could even by my attempts to always cross post, by putting various tags for @ and ! in posts like this, which iirc used to work just fine too, but even I only post to one I'm still seeing extreme delays, and/or lack of federation at all. also, frequently DELTE & RE-DRAFT rather than EDIT, particularly due to having friends on #Diaspora* and #GNUsocial that don't support EDIT, and somehow, I feel like that might have an impact too? #DazedAndConfused #andStatus @AndStatus project @redditmigratoin@kbin.social @Friendica Support
lnxw48a1: @fu From #GNU_social, I only see a few of your posts in the thread. As you may know, #Diaspora's protocol is different from #OStatus, so the D* posts do not cross over. But there's more going on. Years ago, when I hosted a #Friendica instance, posts from ~F to OStatus appeared natively. Now they don't. For example, almost never will a mention or reply from ~F to GS appear in the recipient's replies stream. This doesn't only happen on GS, though. On Pleroma instances, ~F posts (at least from #libranet.de) appear with delays of 2-12 hours or more, sometimes out of context, usually out of order. They also sometimes change the scope when they reply to a scope limited post. I have a ~Friendica account on libranet.de, but I barely ever use it because _everything_ seems to be broken and it frustrates me every time I try to use it. I should probably close it and check to see whether the issues are local to libranet.de or something common to all Friendica instances.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 02:42:55 EDT
@fu From #GNU_social, I only see a few of your posts in the thread. As you may know, #Diaspora's protocol is different from #OStatus, so the D* posts do not cross over. But there's more going on. Years ago, when I hosted a #Friendica instance, posts from ~F to OStatus appeared natively. Now they don't. For example, almost never will a mention or reply from ~F to GS appear in the recipient's replies stream. This doesn't only happen on GS, though. On Pleroma instances, ~F posts (at least from #libranet.de) appear with delays of 2-12 hours or more, sometimes out of context, usually out of order. They also sometimes change the scope when they reply to a scope limited post. I have a ~Friendica account on libranet.de, but I barely ever use it because _everything_ seems to be broken and it frustrates me every time I try to use it. I should probably close it and check to see whether the issues are local to libranet.de or something common to all Friendica instances.
fu: A while back one of my #friends indicated their #diaspora instance supported access via #Tor with a .onion address. I checked out their #onion site at the time but i didn't have the cash they wanted to sign up at the time, and now I can't find it
fu's status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 17:56:10 EDT
A while back one of my #friends indicated their #diaspora instance supported access via #Tor with a .onion address. I checked out their #onion site at the time but i didn't have the cash they wanted to sign up at the time, and now I can't find it
lnxw48a1: 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. 1/2
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:20:57 EST
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. 1/2
Mastodon Brought a Protocol to a Product Fight
lnxw48a1: @simsa04 It's good to see that #Loomio is still around. #Diaspora used to use Loomio many years ago. (They also used either #GetSatisfaction or #UserVoice ... which are more like user-to-user support communities, and I think they used #Convore until it closed also.) I wish I'd had the time and focus to document everything I've seen in the #federated #socnet space. I could probably write a book by now.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 22:05:34 EST
@simsa04 It's good to see that #Loomio is still around. #Diaspora used to use Loomio many years ago. (They also used either #GetSatisfaction or #UserVoice ... which are more like user-to-user support communities, and I think they used #Convore until it closed also.) I wish I'd had the time and focus to document everything I've seen in the #federated #socnet space. I could probably write a book by now.
hypolite: Because I could I keep thinking about a couple #Twitter threads criticizing #Mastodon (the #Fediverse, really) for being inherently different than closed commercial platforms using far-fetched hypotheticals and extraordinary occurrences; while I do not want to make a useless point-by-point response, instead I'll tell you what I like about federated social media and #Friendica in particular. After #Facebook froze my account for using a pseudonym (a spottily enforced rule), I started hosting my own #Diaspora pod because I could. I didn't know anyone so I initially made contacts with other podmins and progressively extended my circle through shared posts. This is how I learned about #Friendica, a platform that was compatible with both #Diaspora and #OStatus (#GNUSocial, #StatusNet ) because it could. Written in #PHP, liked both the multi-protocol approach and that I could contribute code to it. So I started hosting my #Friendica node and I kept following the same Diaspora accounts, because I could. When #Mastodon was first released based on OStatus, I started following several accounts on there because I could. When #ActivityPub was released and supported by Mastodon, we followed suite a few months later, because we could. With popularity came the right-wing trolls and free speech extremists who organized their own federated instances, but they never bothered me much as I blocked their entire instance domains because I could. None of these are currently possible with commercial platforms. Not all people will end up hosting their own node and it's fine, but the breadth of possibility is what makes federated social network attractive.
hypolite's status on Wednesday, 27-Apr-2022 18:01:20 EDT
Because I could I keep thinking about a couple #Twitter threads criticizing #Mastodon (the #Fediverse, really) for being inherently different than closed commercial platforms using far-fetched hypotheticals and extraordinary occurrences; while I do not want to make a useless point-by-point response, instead I'll tell you what I like about federated social media and #Friendica in particular. After #Facebook froze my account for using a pseudonym (a spottily enforced rule), I started hosting my own #Diaspora pod because I could. I didn't know anyone so I initially made contacts with other podmins and progressively extended my circle through shared posts. This is how I learned about #Friendica, a platform that was compatible with both #Diaspora and #OStatus (#GNUSocial, #StatusNet ) because it could. Written in #PHP, liked both the multi-protocol approach and that I could contribute code to it. So I started hosting my #Friendica node and I kept following the same Diaspora accounts, because I could. When #Mastodon was first released based on OStatus, I started following several accounts on there because I could. When #ActivityPub was released and supported by Mastodon, we followed suite a few months later, because we could. With popularity came the right-wing trolls and free speech extremists who organized their own federated instances, but they never bothered me much as I blocked their entire instance domains because I could. None of these are currently possible with commercial platforms. Not all people will end up hosting their own node and it's fine, but the breadth of possibility is what makes federated social network attractive.
blacksam: Increasingly, reading through my D* stream has become un-witting doomscrolling. More and more people whose content I used uo enjoy have become relentless, high-volume, single-issue link/tweet spammers. I find myself forced to block them to keep them from dominating my feed with their pet issues. Is it just me? #diaspora #doom
blacksam's status on Friday, 22-Apr-2022 03:44:46 EDT
Increasingly, reading through my D* stream has become un-witting doomscrolling. More and more people whose content I used uo enjoy have become relentless, high-volume, single-issue link/tweet spammers. I find myself forced to block them to keep them from dominating my feed with their pet issues. Is it just me? #diaspora #doom
lnxw48a1: The original #Diaspora pod, #JoinDiaspora, will shut down 2022-03-01. Takeover efforts are being attempted. However, if they fail, the largest and oldest pod will close down. https://joindiaspora.com/posts/22282896
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 23:22:47 EST
The original #Diaspora pod, #JoinDiaspora, will shut down 2022-03-01. Takeover efforts are being attempted. However, if they fail, the largest and oldest pod will close down. https://joindiaspora.com/posts/22282896
lnxw48a1: https://mastodon.technology/@happybeing/107542694505497296 [mastodon technology] What do you hope for from your favorite decentralized network in 2022? He asks in the context of #safenetwork (the product that #maidsafe has been working on for years), but it is a good question to ask about #GNUsocial, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Friendica, #Hubzilla, #Zap, #Diaspora, #Matrix, #XMPP, and more.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 12:31:38 EST
https://mastodon.technology/@happybeing/107542694505497296 [mastodon technology] What do you hope for from your favorite decentralized network in 2022? He asks in the context of #safenetwork (the product that #maidsafe has been working on for years), but it is a good question to ask about #GNUsocial, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Friendica, #Hubzilla, #Zap, #Diaspora, #Matrix, #XMPP, and more.
lnxw48a1: A #VPN provider that I used shut down without much notice (in fact, the only way I found out was that I visited their site months later, trying to figure out why I hadn't been able to connect). The #hotel I was using had a local provider that blocked #Fediverse instances (including Mastodon.Social), #Diaspora, #XMPP, #IRC, and a certain mail provider that I still use. They did not block: #Facebook, #Twitter, #GMail, or Outlook / #Hotmail Because I couldn't connect to the VPN, I discovered how many perfectly normal sites were blocked because they weren't on the top 100 list. I went downstairs and informed the front desk that I would be leaving their establishment because of their blocking. I received a phone call from their networking vendor, who logged into their router and proxy and turned off filtering on a list of about 25 sites they'd blocked. But the point is, the hotel and its provider cannot be trusted not to fsck with your data. Always use a VPN.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 20-Dec-2021 13:31:32 EST
A #VPN provider that I used shut down without much notice (in fact, the only way I found out was that I visited their site months later, trying to figure out why I hadn't been able to connect). The #hotel I was using had a local provider that blocked #Fediverse instances (including Mastodon.Social), #Diaspora, #XMPP, #IRC, and a certain mail provider that I still use. They did not block: #Facebook, #Twitter, #GMail, or Outlook / #Hotmail Because I couldn't connect to the VPN, I discovered how many perfectly normal sites were blocked because they weren't on the top 100 list. I went downstairs and informed the front desk that I would be leaving their establishment because of their blocking. I received a phone call from their networking vendor, who logged into their router and proxy and turned off filtering on a list of about 25 sites they'd blocked. But the point is, the hotel and its provider cannot be trusted not to fsck with your data. Always use a VPN.
hypolite: Does anyone know who should I reach out to about a technical #Federation issue with the #Diaspora pod diasp.org ?
hypolite's status on Wednesday, 01-Dec-2021 21:46:55 EST
Does anyone know who should I reach out to about a technical #Federation issue with the #Diaspora pod diasp.org ?
lnxw48a1: Logged into my JD account. Roy Schestowitz / Techrights / Tuxmachines still monopolize the hashtag Linux and crowd out any other posts. Whenever I decide to go back and visit #Diaspora again, I must re-unsubscribe from that hashtag. I never should have re-subscribed.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 09-Oct-2021 20:57:29 EDT
Logged into my JD account. Roy Schestowitz / Techrights / Tuxmachines still monopolize the hashtag Linux and crowd out any other posts. Whenever I decide to go back and visit #Diaspora again, I must re-unsubscribe from that hashtag. I never should have re-subscribed.
lnxw48a1: #Pleroma (and I assume #Mastodon) have ‘relays’ built in, where an instance can join other instances’ relays, so that their outgoing traffic is shared with all the other instances that are members of that relay. The advantage of a relay is that all of an instance’s public posts are automatically shared with other participating instances, where a followbot follows each user individually. (Another thing that #Diaspora did a long time ago to improve federation.) Hat Thieves (formerly at hatthiev.es/ but that appears to be gone now) was a group from Spain that was exploring independent and federated services. They operated GS, Mastodon, and Pleroma instances, plus lots of other FOSS but not federated things. Whenever they opened a new federated instance, they’d immediately start following a bunch of people, to get posts into their network feed. The Masto and Pleroma instances would get angry and mass-block the instance.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 22:13:01 EDT
#Pleroma (and I assume #Mastodon) have ‘relays’ built in, where an instance can join other instances’ relays, so that their outgoing traffic is shared with all the other instances that are members of that relay. The advantage of a relay is that all of an instance’s public posts are automatically shared with other participating instances, where a followbot follows each user individually. (Another thing that #Diaspora did a long time ago to improve federation.) Hat Thieves (formerly at hatthiev.es/ but that appears to be gone now) was a group from Spain that was exploring independent and federated services. They operated GS, Mastodon, and Pleroma instances, plus lots of other FOSS but not federated things. Whenever they opened a new federated instance, they’d immediately start following a bunch of people, to get posts into their network feed. The Masto and Pleroma instances would get angry and mass-block the instance.
lnxw48a1: Looked at the #Linux tag on #Diaspora again. @linux has posted 13 posts in about 2.5 hours (12 article links + a daily round-up link). Of course you know it is Tuxmachines, part of Roy's kingdom of article factories. This is why I rarely ever log in there anymore. Very few actual people, zillions of linkbots churning out article links in popular hashtags. (There was one guy that had at least three linkbots that each posted the same links within minutes of each other. I guess he could have done manual copy-pasting, but that would be boring, repetitive, and error-prone. I finally blocked him. I guess I need to do the same for Tuxmachines and similar linkbots.)
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 20-Aug-2021 23:31:33 EDT
Looked at the #Linux tag on #Diaspora again. @linux has posted 13 posts in about 2.5 hours (12 article links + a daily round-up link). Of course you know it is Tuxmachines, part of Roy's kingdom of article factories. This is why I rarely ever log in there anymore. Very few actual people, zillions of linkbots churning out article links in popular hashtags. (There was one guy that had at least three linkbots that each posted the same links within minutes of each other. I guess he could have done manual copy-pasting, but that would be boring, repetitive, and error-prone. I finally blocked him. I guess I need to do the same for Tuxmachines and similar linkbots.)
lnxw48a1: @moon@shitposter.club Is releasing a series of "Masters of the Fediverse" #NFTs and the first one will be @schestowitz ... which is why I asked if he was even still here. His volume of posts on #Diaspora was so high that I finally had to unsubscribe from the #Linux hashtag. If I recall correctly, he posts a link, then one of his sites posts the link, then another site posts the link ... all camped out on the Linux hashtag.
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 18-Aug-2021 19:35:18 EDT
@moon@shitposter.club Is releasing a series of "Masters of the Fediverse" #NFTs and the first one will be @schestowitz ... which is why I asked if he was even still here. His volume of posts on #Diaspora was so high that I finally had to unsubscribe from the #Linux hashtag. If I recall correctly, he posts a link, then one of his sites posts the link, then another site posts the link ... all camped out on the Linux hashtag.
lnxw48a1: I haven't logged onto #Diaspora in a while. Most of my contacts don't post anymore and the tags I follow are full of obnoxious botposters. Although I'm thinking of spinning up an experimental (e.g., non-backed up and likely temporary) D* instance for us. Can you describe what you experienced? Could it have been related to the recent series of updates (kernel, systemd, glibc, etc) that have required reboots every 2-3 days for the last couple of weeks? So far, each time, everything seems to have come back okay, except that I'm still starting the #queuedaemons manually when they really should be automated.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 05-Jul-2021 18:41:09 EDT
I haven't logged onto #Diaspora in a while. Most of my contacts don't post anymore and the tags I follow are full of obnoxious botposters. Although I'm thinking of spinning up an experimental (e.g., non-backed up and likely temporary) D* instance for us. Can you describe what you experienced? Could it have been related to the recent series of updates (kernel, systemd, glibc, etc) that have required reboots every 2-3 days for the last couple of weeks? So far, each time, everything seems to have come back okay, except that I'm still starting the #queuedaemons manually when they really should be automated.
blacksam: I just released v1.0.8 of pod-feeder-v2, which will continue processing queued feed items if it encounters an error posting to Diaspora instead of dying. #pod_feeder #pod_feeder_v2 #rss #atom #syndication #feeds #diaspora
blacksam's status on Wednesday, 31-Mar-2021 12:57:32 EDT
I just released v1.0.8 of pod-feeder-v2, which will continue processing queued feed items if it encounters an error posting to Diaspora instead of dying. #pod_feeder #pod_feeder_v2 #rss #atom #syndication #feeds #diaspora
hypolite: #introductions Better late than never, I'm Hypolite Petovan, this isn't my official name but it is my real name for all intents and purposes. I joined the #Fediverse on #Diaspora then #Friendica late 2016 after #Facebook froze my account for using this pseudonym for 10 years straight. My social media policy is to read absolutely everything my follows post. As a result, I heavily curate my follow list that will never grow bigger than what it is now mainly for time constraints. Additionally, I don't automatically follow back and unfollowing isn't personal, your content just doesn't fit with my social media usage, no hard feelings. I like liberally to signify I read, enjoyed or sympathize with a post without having anything meaningful to contribute further. I also block liberally, users and whole instances alike, the world is too big and my time is too limited to give a second chance to bigots, racists, misogynists and transphobes (including TERFs). I host my own single-user node which makes any moderation decision easy. My own editorial line is mainly about good-natured humor and social justice. Tone-wise, I do not mind aggressiveness but I do mind who it is targeted at. I do not tolerate edgy shitpost, and neither bad faith nor logical fallacies no matter how soft-spoken they are. My personal interests revolve around #programming (mainly #PHP for #Friendica ), #videogames and recently #LEGO, but I'm curious about everything and have trouble specializing in anything and don't follow the latest news for any specific topic. Hi! 👋
hypolite's status on Friday, 19-Mar-2021 12:52:23 EDT
#introductions Better late than never, I'm Hypolite Petovan, this isn't my official name but it is my real name for all intents and purposes. I joined the #Fediverse on #Diaspora then #Friendica late 2016 after #Facebook froze my account for using this pseudonym for 10 years straight. My social media policy is to read absolutely everything my follows post. As a result, I heavily curate my follow list that will never grow bigger than what it is now mainly for time constraints. Additionally, I don't automatically follow back and unfollowing isn't personal, your content just doesn't fit with my social media usage, no hard feelings. I like liberally to signify I read, enjoyed or sympathize with a post without having anything meaningful to contribute further. I also block liberally, users and whole instances alike, the world is too big and my time is too limited to give a second chance to bigots, racists, misogynists and transphobes (including TERFs). I host my own single-user node which makes any moderation decision easy. My own editorial line is mainly about good-natured humor and social justice. Tone-wise, I do not mind aggressiveness but I do mind who it is targeted at. I do not tolerate edgy shitpost, and neither bad faith nor logical fallacies no matter how soft-spoken they are. My personal interests revolve around #programming (mainly #PHP for #Friendica ), #videogames and recently #LEGO, but I'm curious about everything and have trouble specializing in anything and don't follow the latest news for any specific topic. Hi! 👋
hypolite: Final people total: 25. Final account total: 29. Networks represented: #Friendica, #Diaspora, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Mistpark, #Misskey
hypolite's status on Saturday, 06-Mar-2021 20:48:32 EST
Final people total: 25. Final account total: 29. Networks represented: #Friendica, #Diaspora, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Mistpark, #Misskey
blacksam: After some prompting (and much patience) from @[Daniel Doubet](/people/8abcb6301e240135df28080027f73148), pod-feeder-v2 now attempts to scrape images from <media:thumbnail /> URLs, and also supports TIF and WEBP image extensions. You can find these new features in v1.0.7 #pod_feeder #pod_feeder_v2 #rss #atom #syndication #feeds #diaspora
blacksam's status on Monday, 22-Feb-2021 17:16:57 EST
After some prompting (and much patience) from @[Daniel Doubet](/people/8abcb6301e240135df28080027f73148), pod-feeder-v2 now attempts to scrape images from <media:thumbnail /> URLs, and also supports TIF and WEBP image extensions. You can find these new features in v1.0.7 #pod_feeder #pod_feeder_v2 #rss #atom #syndication #feeds #diaspora
lnxw48a1: @geniusmusing Yeah. :-( I think the #blockwars folks may have indirectly caused this. There are people who file complaints against client apps that don’t build in blocklists against specific servers whose moderation policies they dislike. I think that #Matrix / #Element competes with one or more Google-owned chat-type services. Since they gatekeep the overwhelming majority of Android users’ software installation, a good antitrust lawyer would be helpful. I’ll bet that faxing a bunch of documents to #USDOJ and various states would suddenly cause Google to decide that Element doesn’t violate their policies anyway. (Someone said it was “Boomers at Google that don’t understand federation”, but first of all, I’m certain that most GOOG employees are far younger than you and I, and secondly, I’m sure someone at Google understands federation, though they obviously dislike not being in control. Google Talk was federated with #XMPP, while Google Plus was basically #Diaspora with federation stripped out.)
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 30-Jan-2021 16:34:32 EST
@geniusmusing Yeah. :-( I think the #blockwars folks may have indirectly caused this. There are people who file complaints against client apps that don’t build in blocklists against specific servers whose moderation policies they dislike. I think that #Matrix / #Element competes with one or more Google-owned chat-type services. Since they gatekeep the overwhelming majority of Android users’ software installation, a good antitrust lawyer would be helpful. I’ll bet that faxing a bunch of documents to #USDOJ and various states would suddenly cause Google to decide that Element doesn’t violate their policies anyway. (Someone said it was “Boomers at Google that don’t understand federation”, but first of all, I’m certain that most GOOG employees are far younger than you and I, and secondly, I’m sure someone at Google understands federation, though they obviously dislike not being in control. Google Talk was federated with #XMPP, while Google Plus was basically #Diaspora with federation stripped out.)
blacksam: One great feature Diaspora could have is to "turn off comments" for certain users' posts in your stream. There are a few I don't mind following, but I could do without all the crazy mouth-breathers "derp derp derp"-ing on every post. #diaspora #featurerequest
blacksam's status on Thursday, 21-Jan-2021 07:28:59 EST
One great feature Diaspora could have is to "turn off comments" for certain users' posts in your stream. There are a few I don't mind following, but I could do without all the crazy mouth-breathers "derp derp derp"-ing on every post. #diaspora #featurerequest
lnxw48a1: "The post"{https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@Elizafox/105562613778968936} seemed to be a lot of fear-mongering, even more than the article itself. (1) #Twitter has millions of users. There is no #ActivityPub nor #OStatus implementation in which an instance hosted on a $5/mo #DigitalOcean / #Linode / #Vultr #VPS could handle the volume of a seamless connection with #Twitter. If they adopted AP OStatus, #Diaspora, or any other current open federation protocol, instances that didn't use firewall blocking would topple once the two userbases had sufficient interconnections (within a few hours or a few days after they started federating). (2) Twitter's business model is to push ads disguised as tweets. If their users could escape those and still interact with all the same contacts, they would. I'm certain that Twitter's management know this. They also turn all links into tracking links, and sell access to media (images, video, audio) uploads of important news events to news organizations. (3) Most Fediverse instances are financed out of the admin's pocket. Some have financial contributors, but nothing like Twitter's revenue. As the largest and best-financed instance, they would immediately have to start implementing modifications to make AP or other existing federation protocols useful to them, and those modifications would (as Mastodon's currently do) become unofficially mandatory in order to be compatible. (4) This isn't the first time that Twitter has considered federation, though this may be the first time they openly discussed it. Back when Identica was still a happening place (during Twitter's fail-whale days), Twitter considered federating. They didn't do it then, and I honestly do not believe they will do it now. (5) I'd say that Twitter's #BlueSky initiative is more meant to try to get bidirectional connections across #Facebook's moat and wall than it is to surround Twitter with a cloud of #Fediverse instances.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 13:28:49 EST
"The post"{https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@Elizafox/105562613778968936} seemed to be a lot of fear-mongering, even more than the article itself. (1) #Twitter has millions of users. There is no #ActivityPub nor #OStatus implementation in which an instance hosted on a $5/mo #DigitalOcean / #Linode / #Vultr #VPS could handle the volume of a seamless connection with #Twitter. If they adopted AP OStatus, #Diaspora, or any other current open federation protocol, instances that didn't use firewall blocking would topple once the two userbases had sufficient interconnections (within a few hours or a few days after they started federating). (2) Twitter's business model is to push ads disguised as tweets. If their users could escape those and still interact with all the same contacts, they would. I'm certain that Twitter's management know this. They also turn all links into tracking links, and sell access to media (images, video, audio) uploads of important news events to news organizations. (3) Most Fediverse instances are financed out of the admin's pocket. Some have financial contributors, but nothing like Twitter's revenue. As the largest and best-financed instance, they would immediately have to start implementing modifications to make AP or other existing federation protocols useful to them, and those modifications would (as Mastodon's currently do) become unofficially mandatory in order to be compatible. (4) This isn't the first time that Twitter has considered federation, though this may be the first time they openly discussed it. Back when Identica was still a happening place (during Twitter's fail-whale days), Twitter considered federating. They didn't do it then, and I honestly do not believe they will do it now. (5) I'd say that Twitter's #BlueSky initiative is more meant to try to get bidirectional connections across #Facebook's moat and wall than it is to surround Twitter with a cloud of #Fediverse instances.
lnxw48a1: It is 2021 in UTC! I know this because JoinDiaspora sent me a bunch of notification e-mails about people’s birthdays. (I think it just assigned YYYY-JAN-01 for anyone that didn’t fill out a birthday; as far as I remember, giving that information wasn’t even an option when I joined #Diaspora. I truly think it is betraying the “we’re privacy focused” approach they promised all those years ago. #JD, this should be something that accounts opt into.)
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 31-Dec-2020 19:04:46 EST
It is 2021 in UTC! I know this because JoinDiaspora sent me a bunch of notification e-mails about people’s birthdays. (I think it just assigned YYYY-JAN-01 for anyone that didn’t fill out a birthday; as far as I remember, giving that information wasn’t even an option when I joined #Diaspora. I truly think it is betraying the “we’re privacy focused” approach they promised all those years ago. #JD, this should be something that accounts opt into.)
blacksam: Migrating from postgresql 11 to 13 seems to have significantly improved the stream loading times on this pod. 👍 #diaspora #postgresql
blacksam's status on Tuesday, 15-Dec-2020 14:51:43 EST
Migrating from postgresql 11 to 13 seems to have significantly improved the stream loading times on this pod. 👍 #diaspora #postgresql
lnxw48a1: @vegos I agree. To most organizations, their primary concern is reach. So they congregate on big #corpocentric #socnets, even when the central corporation running things is actively hostile to their point of view. Then they're butthurt when their accounts are shadowbanned. Years ago, I tried to persuade some local Black churches and ethic-focused organizations to join !GNUsocial and #Diaspora, but was unsuccessful. I think they all joined #Facebook, where their posts are hidden by the algorithms.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 24-Nov-2020 10:48:57 EST
@vegos I agree. To most organizations, their primary concern is reach. So they congregate on big #corpocentric #socnets, even when the central corporation running things is actively hostile to their point of view. Then they're butthurt when their accounts are shadowbanned. Years ago, I tried to persuade some local Black churches and ethic-focused organizations to join !GNUsocial and #Diaspora, but was unsuccessful. I think they all joined #Facebook, where their posts are hidden by the algorithms.
stigatle: Just joined #diaspora, #newhere, with lots to learn and pick up from the community. #nature, #photography are just some of my interest areas. First post and first picture - a #yoga #cat I met 5 years ago.
stigatle's status on Sunday, 11-Oct-2020 21:50:32 EDT
Just joined #diaspora, #newhere, with lots to learn and pick up from the community. #nature, #photography are just some of my interest areas. First post and first picture - a #yoga #cat I met 5 years ago.
tobias: ♲ @AlexVoss@fosstodon.org: Student of mine is conducting a survey on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. Your input would be much appreciated. Please boost. standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe… #fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #mastodon #activitypub #ostatus #pubsub #xmpp #mstdn #indieweb #friendica #peertube #hubzilla #socialhome #pixelfed #fedilab #nextcloud
tobias's status on Tuesday, 15-Sep-2020 09:31:03 EDT
♲ @AlexVoss@fosstodon.org: Student of mine is conducting a survey on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. Your input would be much appreciated. Please boost. standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe… #fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #mastodon #activitypub #ostatus #pubsub #xmpp #mstdn #indieweb #friendica #peertube #hubzilla #socialhome #pixelfed #fedilab #nextcloud
lnxw48a1: I got lots of birthday notices in my inbox from JD. I consider it an example of "All information that you collect, you will eventually store. All information that you store will eventually be misused." Why? At the time I and most of my contacts joined, #Diaspora was _the privacy-centric network_. Birthdays were not going to be used to trigger alerts and e-mails to tell everyone about them. But here we are.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 04-Aug-2020 22:13:07 EDT
I got lots of birthday notices in my inbox from JD. I consider it an example of "All information that you collect, you will eventually store. All information that you store will eventually be misused." Why? At the time I and most of my contacts joined, #Diaspora was _the privacy-centric network_. Birthdays were not going to be used to trigger alerts and e-mails to tell everyone about them. But here we are.
tobias: ♲ @Wenting@fosstodon.org: Hey guys, what's up I am conducting an anonymous survey for my MSc dissertation on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. If you're interested, please click the link below. Your input would be much appreciated! The link is: standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe… #fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #friendica #peertube #alternative #socialhome #pixelfed #nextcloud
tobias's status on Monday, 27-Jul-2020 00:51:27 EDT
♲ @Wenting@fosstodon.org: Hey guys, what's up I am conducting an anonymous survey for my MSc dissertation on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. If you're interested, please click the link below. Your input would be much appreciated! The link is: standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe… #fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #friendica #peertube #alternative #socialhome #pixelfed #nextcloud
jaywink: As communicated a few months ago I'll be shutting down the following #services: relay.iliketoast.net which is the default relay for the #Diaspora server software. This will happen at the end of July or soon after that time. iliketoast.net Diaspora pod. This will happen at the end of August, or soon after that time. Please export your data.
jaywink's status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 18:00:57 EDT
As communicated a few months ago I'll be shutting down the following #services: relay.iliketoast.net which is the default relay for the #Diaspora server software. This will happen at the end of July or soon after that time. iliketoast.net Diaspora pod. This will happen at the end of August, or soon after that time. Please export your data.
blacksam: Hey #diaspora #devs -- what does this error mean? Failed discovery for user@example.com: ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Guid has already been taken Thanks
blacksam's status on Saturday, 13-Jun-2020 18:13:04 EDT
Hey #diaspora #devs -- what does this error mean? Failed discovery for user@example.com: ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Guid has already been taken Thanks
schestowitz: I've just realised #phoronix is also on #diaspora How long has that gone on for? Sweet. It's on #fediverse too, but I prefer RSS for everything.
schestowitz's status on Thursday, 28-May-2020 04:18:02 EDT
I've just realised #phoronix is also on #diaspora How long has that gone on for? Sweet. It's on #fediverse too, but I prefer RSS for everything.
lnxw48a1: https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/21/coronavirus-hijacks-cells-in-unique-ways/ [www statnews com] The #SARS-CoV-2 virus, the #coronavirus that causes #COVID-19, blocks one arm of the body's anti-virus defenses, while stimulating the other. This unique behavior allows unhindered replication while causing inflamation. #2019-nCoV Seen via @tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com's #Diaspora feed.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 23-May-2020 14:10:43 EDT
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/21/coronavirus-hijacks-cells-in-unique-ways/ [www statnews com] The #SARS-CoV-2 virus, the #coronavirus that causes #COVID-19, blocks one arm of the body's anti-virus defenses, while stimulating the other. This unique behavior allows unhindered replication while causing inflamation. #2019-nCoV Seen via @tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com's #Diaspora feed.
‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells
lnxw48a1: @gargron wants to replace the current scope limited #Mastodon fake direct messages with real DMs, E2E encrypted using OLM (an implementation of Signal’s encryption). Good. People have sent personally identifying information and financial data across fake DMs, not aware that others could accidentally see the contents. Bad: Scope limited posts are going away entirely. SLPs / SLMs are useful. They are just regular messages, but sent only to the @mentioned users. That could be the foundation for something like #Diaspora’s Aspects. If there’s no pretense that they are private, and they are treated and displayed like other posts, they are good. The issue has always been the name. Pretending SLMs are DMs means people send each other private information. I don’t believe any instance admins would intentionally read them or misuse information in such posts, but having that information in your database could be bad news when “John Q Cracker” breaks into the server. @trnwh@mastodon.social
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 23-May-2020 13:16:36 EDT
@gargron wants to replace the current scope limited #Mastodon fake direct messages with real DMs, E2E encrypted using OLM (an implementation of Signal’s encryption). Good. People have sent personally identifying information and financial data across fake DMs, not aware that others could accidentally see the contents. Bad: Scope limited posts are going away entirely. SLPs / SLMs are useful. They are just regular messages, but sent only to the @mentioned users. That could be the foundation for something like #Diaspora’s Aspects. If there’s no pretense that they are private, and they are treated and displayed like other posts, they are good. The issue has always been the name. Pretending SLMs are DMs means people send each other private information. I don’t believe any instance admins would intentionally read them or misuse information in such posts, but having that information in your database could be bad news when “John Q Cracker” breaks into the server. @trnwh@mastodon.social
lnxw48a1: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/8642 #Friendica Someone that is familiar with #Diaspora is writing a new socnet based on #ActivityPub, wishes to change other #Fediverse software to follow Diaspora's model (viewer's server hijacks hashtags so the #hashtag search points to the viewer's home server, not the original poster's home server). The model that has been followed by almost all federated socnets for over a decade is that hashtag search links are inserted by the poster's server and point back there. IMO, a remote server changing the links is sketchy as heck*, but if they added local hashtag links in a separate area outside the post itself, that's acceptable. Or if they followed the #Pump.io idea of keeping hashtags completely separate from the basic server, then an external server (e.g. ragtag\.io) would be called to index and link the tag during the posting process, and searches would be performed based on results from the tag server. Anyway, I can't be bothered logging into Github to comment, but maybe @heluecht and other Friendica devs will see this and take this into consideration. * Remote servers editing the contents of one's posts is about as sketchy as it gets. There are rare occasions where that may be acceptable (i.e., to insert NSFW tags / image hiding on posts from instances where untagged NSFW content originates), but editing content to hijack hashtag search is about as questionable as one could get.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 18-May-2020 21:41:39 EDT
https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/8642 #Friendica Someone that is familiar with #Diaspora is writing a new socnet based on #ActivityPub, wishes to change other #Fediverse software to follow Diaspora's model (viewer's server hijacks hashtags so the #hashtag search points to the viewer's home server, not the original poster's home server). The model that has been followed by almost all federated socnets for over a decade is that hashtag search links are inserted by the poster's server and point back there. IMO, a remote server changing the links is sketchy as heck*, but if they added local hashtag links in a separate area outside the post itself, that's acceptable. Or if they followed the #Pump.io idea of keeping hashtags completely separate from the basic server, then an external server (e.g. ragtag\.io) would be called to index and link the tag during the posting process, and searches would be performed based on results from the tag server. Anyway, I can't be bothered logging into Github to comment, but maybe @heluecht and other Friendica devs will see this and take this into consideration. * Remote servers editing the contents of one's posts is about as sketchy as it gets. There are rare occasions where that may be acceptable (i.e., to insert NSFW tags / image hiding on posts from instances where untagged NSFW content originates), but editing content to hijack hashtag search is about as questionable as one could get.
ActivityPub objects contain links to Friendica for hashtags and mentions · Issue #8642 · friendica/friendica
lnxw48a1: @simsa03 That's for my account on the #Diaspora network, where most of my real contacts have left years ago, leaving dozens of spammy newsbots squatting on my subscribed hashtags and flooding out real people.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 16-May-2020 00:06:28 EDT
@simsa03 That's for my account on the #Diaspora network, where most of my real contacts have left years ago, leaving dozens of spammy newsbots squatting on my subscribed hashtags and flooding out real people.
lnxw48a1: I've been 'ignoring' newsbots (and one person that often posts the identical thing from 3-4 different accounts) that pollute the #Linux hashtag on #Diaspora. That's cleaned up my timeline quite a bit, but it will probably be stagnant now.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 15-May-2020 23:25:28 EDT
I've been 'ignoring' newsbots (and one person that often posts the identical thing from 3-4 different accounts) that pollute the #Linux hashtag on #Diaspora. That's cleaned up my timeline quite a bit, but it will probably be stagnant now.
strypey: @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo 1) This doesn't answer the question, which is how to use a free code front-end to read content others have put in the FB silo.2) It really isn't. All #Diaspora can do is public and private posts, and photo uploads. #Friendica, #Hubzilla, or #Zap would be better recommendations for replacing the features people use FB for. They have events calendars and groups, and all federate over #ActivityPub, which Diaspora devs are still refusing to even consider. @paulakreuzer
strypey's status on Monday, 06-Apr-2020 23:32:47 EDT
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo 1) This doesn't answer the question, which is how to use a free code front-end to read content others have put in the FB silo. 2) It really isn't. All #Diaspora can do is public and private posts, and photo uploads. #Friendica, #Hubzilla, or #Zap would be better recommendations for replacing the features people use FB for. They have events calendars and groups, and all federate over #ActivityPub, which Diaspora devs are still refusing to even consider. @paulakreuzer