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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: Meta talkWhy so much concern about if #Fedi is successful? I don't think #sucesful is a thing if you aren't trying to sell goods or services, and under that, I hope its never successful. #Fediverse #meta #mastodon #GnuSocial #Friendica #Kbin
fu's status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 22:19:41 EDT
Meta talk Why so much concern about if #Fedi is successful? I don't think #sucesful is a thing if you aren't trying to sell goods or services, and under that, I hope its never successful. #Fediverse #meta #mastodon #GnuSocial #Friendica #Kbin
lnxw48a1: Actually, I think the two #bots were around for part of #GNUsocial after the #bifurcation split the network into #OStatus (mostly GS) and #Pump.io
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 04:22:56 EDT
Actually, I think the two #bots were around for part of #GNUsocial after the #bifurcation split the network into #OStatus (mostly GS) and #Pump.io
lnxw48a1: @simsa04 I do not know of any such service for #GNUsocial. There are a few very old web-based quick installers from the #StatusNet days, but even then they weren't much better than getting a VPS and installing by hand, because as soon as you wanted to change something, you needed to use ssh, the command line, and edit config files. If you still have contact with Lohan G, the artist from Sri Lanka, he hosted an instance somewhere, maybe he has ideas and warnings that would help. Last I knew, @lohang .
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 14:50:07 EDT
@simsa04 I do not know of any such service for #GNUsocial. There are a few very old web-based quick installers from the #StatusNet days, but even then they weren't much better than getting a VPS and installing by hand, because as soon as you wanted to change something, you needed to use ssh, the command line, and edit config files. If you still have contact with Lohan G, the artist from Sri Lanka, he hosted an instance somewhere, maybe he has ideas and warnings that would help. Last I knew, @lohang .
lnxw48a1: @bobjonkman @bobjonkman One positive is that some #Twitter clients are now advertising #Mastodon clients. I wish they'd also look at making clients for #GNUsocial, #Misskey, #PixelFed and so on, as not everyone supports the Mastodon API.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 15:19:28 EST
@bobjonkman @bobjonkman One positive is that some #Twitter clients are now advertising #Mastodon clients. I wish they'd also look at making clients for #GNUsocial, #Misskey, #PixelFed and so on, as not everyone supports the Mastodon API.
fu: I'm uncertain. @GNU Too indicated she can follow #friendica #forums as #GNUsocial groups. I was informed by a dev after learning gnu social fixed that, I should submit an issue to request that friendica add full support for gnu social groups, (as you can see Its shaking at best now) but I haven't got around to it, so who knows if it will ever actually happen. !gnusocial@gnusocial.club gnusocial.club/notice/2083456
fu's status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 13:20:17 EST
I'm uncertain. @GNU Too indicated she can follow #friendica #forums as #GNUsocial groups. I was informed by a dev after learning gnu social fixed that, I should submit an issue to request that friendica add full support for gnu social groups, (as you can see Its shaking at best now) but I haven't got around to it, so who knows if it will ever actually happen. !gnusocial@gnusocial.club gnusocial.club/notice/2083456
fu: @Alexandre Oliva @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} RSS Support was the first reason I started using #Friendica more than #GNUsocial (before the GNU Social instance I was on closed). Even more surprising #Friendica was the first #RSS reader I actually used consistently gnusocial.club/notice/2083887
fu's status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 13:13:58 EST
@Alexandre Oliva @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} RSS Support was the first reason I started using #Friendica more than #GNUsocial (before the GNU Social instance I was on closed). Even more surprising #Friendica was the first #RSS reader I actually used consistently gnusocial.club/notice/2083887
lnxw48a1: https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda > We made GNU social which had its part in starting the Fediverse! GNU social was a spin-off from GNU FM, which was the software we made to run Libre.fm -- Libre.fm has been federated for a very, very long time. I’m not sure when FooCorp’s GS project started, but the ##Fediverse predates the merger of #StatusNet, #FreeSocial, and #GNUsocial into the modern GS project. Y’all have some historical accomplishments already, so there’s no need to overinflate your role.
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 12:50:52 EST
https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda > We made GNU social which had its part in starting the Fediverse! GNU social was a spin-off from GNU FM, which was the software we made to run Libre.fm -- Libre.fm has been federated for a very, very long time. I’m not sure when FooCorp’s GS project started, but the ##Fediverse predates the merger of #StatusNet, #FreeSocial, and #GNUsocial into the modern GS project. Y’all have some historical accomplishments already, so there’s no need to overinflate your role.
GitHub - foocorp/hacienda: The Hacienda must be built
fu: I'm guessing not as there hasn't been any active development since 2017, but there seems to be a renewed interest translated.turbopages.org/prox… ♲ @Fu@hostux.social: Is it possible to configure #mastodon to use the #qvitter front end, or does that only work with #GNUsocial
fu's status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 10:03:45 EST
I'm guessing not as there hasn't been any active development since 2017, but there seems to be a renewed interest translated.turbopages.org/prox… ♲ @Fu@hostux.social: Is it possible to configure #mastodon to use the #qvitter front end, or does that only work with #GNUsocial
fu: test of quote share to see if notification occurs to OP ♲ @fuat2mb@theres.life: i highly recommend checking out a few other services on the #fediverse to see if there is anything you like better, including #Friendica, #plemora, #soapbox, #GNUsocial etc. #mastadon is only part of the 'verse, and all of the above can still interact with your friends on Mastodon
fu's status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 08:42:38 EST
test of quote share to see if notification occurs to OP ♲ @fuat2mb@theres.life: i highly recommend checking out a few other services on the #fediverse to see if there is anything you like better, including #Friendica, #plemora, #soapbox, #GNUsocial etc. #mastadon is only part of the 'verse, and all of the above can still interact with your friends on Mastodon
lnxw48a1: @lxo Yes, I think that's always been a feature of #Friendica. !GNUsocial allows following PuSH/websub enabled RSS & Atom feeds ... and there's an old add-on that also supports RSScloud enabled feeds.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 15:37:44 EST
@lxo Yes, I think that's always been a feature of #Friendica. !GNUsocial allows following PuSH/websub enabled RSS & Atom feeds ... and there's an old add-on that also supports RSScloud enabled feeds.
lnxw48a1: https://prodromou.pub/@evan/109498060348615260 @evan@prodromou.pub @evan@identi.ca ( and formerly @evan@e14n.com ) has said this a few times, but here it is again. "Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers. You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave. You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you. You know you're going to be ashamed of it later. Just stop posting. Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there. Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet. Stop feeding your life into the machine." This was true before Elon #Musk bought #Twitter, but I guess it wasn't as important before. I don't fully agree, simply because there may be some advantages to many people who continue to use Twitter instead of moving to the #Fediverse (e.g., #GNU_Social, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey, #PixelFed, #Lenny / #Lemmy, etc) or they would have moved over already. Also, because unless one self-hosts one's own presence, an angry instance admin is all it takes to lose all posts and connections and have to start over. Or, if one has contacts on a different instance, then irate instance admins participating in #blockwars (including #fediblock) can separate the person from some portion of their contacts. So remember, everything that Twitter is or can do to you, your Fediverse instance can also do. Most instances will never do most of those things, but pretending that one is safe here could result in disappointment in the future.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 20:58:05 EST
https://prodromou.pub/@evan/109498060348615260 @evan@prodromou.pub @evan@identi.ca ( and formerly @evan@e14n.com ) has said this a few times, but here it is again. "Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers. You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave. You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you. You know you're going to be ashamed of it later. Just stop posting. Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there. Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet. Stop feeding your life into the machine." This was true before Elon #Musk bought #Twitter, but I guess it wasn't as important before. I don't fully agree, simply because there may be some advantages to many people who continue to use Twitter instead of moving to the #Fediverse (e.g., #GNU_Social, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey, #PixelFed, #Lenny / #Lemmy, etc) or they would have moved over already. Also, because unless one self-hosts one's own presence, an angry instance admin is all it takes to lose all posts and connections and have to start over. Or, if one has contacts on a different instance, then irate instance admins participating in #blockwars (including #fediblock) can separate the person from some portion of their contacts. So remember, everything that Twitter is or can do to you, your Fediverse instance can also do. Most instances will never do most of those things, but pretending that one is safe here could result in disappointment in the future.
lnxw48a1: @fu Are you sure !gnusocial@gnusocial.net can sub to #Friendica forums? I haven't tried in many years, but it wasn't so originally.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 22:33:26 EST
@fu Are you sure !gnusocial@gnusocial.net can sub to #Friendica forums? I haven't tried in many years, but it wasn't so originally.
lnxw48a1: Tagging this thread with #Fediverse #Security ... whomever made the script obviously read some protocol docs and some source code. With just a little #JavaScript, they were able to knock some #Misskey and #Mastodon instances to their knees. This isn't the first, and it won't be the last. Remember when someone posted a humongous image and locked up any #GNUSocial instance that tried to download the image? Remember when someone's instance was replaced by some sort of cryptocurrency site and PuSH es from your site to theirs would crash your site because of their site's response? (I'll bet I still have that domain blocked at the firewall.) We have to stop being naive about the intentions of those in the current migration. The overwhelming majority will have benign, if not good, intentions. But a select few will have bad intentions. Among those intentions is to colonize the Fediverse with #Twitter's culture, to come here and impose that culture of anger and disrespect upon the inhabitants here ... which already happened once with the first wave of people joining #Mastodon instance, except it was Twitter and #Tumblr at that time.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 04-Dec-2022 11:22:39 EST
Tagging this thread with #Fediverse #Security ... whomever made the script obviously read some protocol docs and some source code. With just a little #JavaScript, they were able to knock some #Misskey and #Mastodon instances to their knees. This isn't the first, and it won't be the last. Remember when someone posted a humongous image and locked up any #GNUSocial instance that tried to download the image? Remember when someone's instance was replaced by some sort of cryptocurrency site and PuSH es from your site to theirs would crash your site because of their site's response? (I'll bet I still have that domain blocked at the firewall.) We have to stop being naive about the intentions of those in the current migration. The overwhelming majority will have benign, if not good, intentions. But a select few will have bad intentions. Among those intentions is to colonize the Fediverse with #Twitter's culture, to come here and impose that culture of anger and disrespect upon the inhabitants here ... which already happened once with the first wave of people joining #Mastodon instance, except it was Twitter and #Tumblr at that time.
lnxw48a1: https://k.lapy.link/notes/98bji8qbby #Misskey security update. Someone created "instances" which trigger a denial of service in Misskey and possibly #Mastodon. From what I hear, #Pleroma is not vulnerable. #GNUsocial is likely also vulnerable. We can expect a lot more of these kind of things now that the #Fediverse is getting attention.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 17:25:49 EST
https://k.lapy.link/notes/98bji8qbby #Misskey security update. Someone created "instances" which trigger a denial of service in Misskey and possibly #Mastodon. From what I hear, #Pleroma is not vulnerable. #GNUsocial is likely also vulnerable. We can expect a lot more of these kind of things now that the #Fediverse is getting attention.
UPDATE TO 12.119.*2* / lapy. 🥝:verified_neko: (@lapy)
lnxw48a1: I'm thinking that I'll find a couple of online #PHP / #MySQL / #LAMP courses. I have some ideas for a #Fediverse server and I'd like to try them out. Depending on my skills, available time, and whether the projects' CoCs are acceptable, I would also like to contribute to both #GNU_Social and #Friendica. I know both projects can use a little additional momentum.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 19:40:55 EST
I'm thinking that I'll find a couple of online #PHP / #MySQL / #LAMP courses. I have some ideas for a #Fediverse server and I'd like to try them out. Depending on my skills, available time, and whether the projects' CoCs are acceptable, I would also like to contribute to both #GNU_Social and #Friendica. I know both projects can use a little additional momentum.
lnxw48a1: @fu RE: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1663-6973-340a-b77656826834 I'm not sure whether the #Soapbox front-end can be used with #GNU_Social. #Pleroma started out as a front-end for #GS, as #Qvitter started falling behind. So even though #PleromaFE currently doesn't support GS, it may be possible to go back to when support was removed and re-add it.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 07-Nov-2022 19:48:57 EST
@fu RE: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1663-6973-340a-b77656826834 I'm not sure whether the #Soapbox front-end can be used with #GNU_Social. #Pleroma started out as a front-end for #GS, as #Qvitter started falling behind. So even though #PleromaFE currently doesn't support GS, it may be possible to go back to when support was removed and re-add it.
lnxw48a1: I actually think that the overwhelming majority of blocking should be done by individuals curating their own timelines. I am sensitive to the effect on the Fediverse as a whole, especially as we've already been through this. Even the original #bifurcation (when the largest instance at the time, Identica, severed communication with #StatusNet / #GNUsocial & #OStatus and switched to the #Pump.io protocol and software) and the subsequent #ActivityPub - #OStatus split have caused untold breakage. I've seen AP-side devs, admins, users patting themselves on the back while commiserating about brokenness that is built into the protocol itself or at least its common implementations. I have also seen people telling other people to create "alts" on various instances, so that their posts can reach all of their intended contacts. Not for resilience against instance shutdowns or separating by posts and recipients by topics and interests (which is what groups and Diaspora style Aspects / GPlus style Circles are for), but because #blockwars prevents posts and members from one instance to be seen on certain others. For the record, I think that instance governance is something that Mastodon should include in its instances.social instance-picker, along with instances' topical foci. People should have a way to see what they're agreeing to (and what the alternatives are) before the sign up. In other words, it isn't my way or the highway so much as it is making it possible to know what one is getting into. I am certain that there are (or were) instances with democratically chosen rules. I also believe that we're not doing the people who use an instance any favor by not making it possible for them to contribute to the financing and administration of the instance. If you're paying all the costs and doing all the work to maintain and moderate the instance, it is difficult to let an election institute a policy that you disagree with. (I've started to really disagree with the idea of individuals hosting public instances wholly out of their own financial and time resources. Besides the "truck factor", it is much easier to keep an instance going if everything was already handled by a team and at least partly member supported.) On the other hand, if the instance encourages those in its membership who can do so to participate in keeping it going, then it is perfectly reasonable to expect the admin team to carry out the decisions voted by the membership. I do realize that not everyone can contribute funds, nor can everyone do the technical labor ... but as @simsa04 will remember, things like writing documentation, contributing in discussions about improving the software, designing and implementing themes, and even marketing-type tasks such as creating a logo and a favicon or promoting the instance to people outside the #Fediverse are beneficial.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 30-Oct-2022 00:26:23 EDT
I actually think that the overwhelming majority of blocking should be done by individuals curating their own timelines. I am sensitive to the effect on the Fediverse as a whole, especially as we've already been through this. Even the original #bifurcation (when the largest instance at the time, Identica, severed communication with #StatusNet / #GNUsocial & #OStatus and switched to the #Pump.io protocol and software) and the subsequent #ActivityPub - #OStatus split have caused untold breakage. I've seen AP-side devs, admins, users patting themselves on the back while commiserating about brokenness that is built into the protocol itself or at least its common implementations. I have also seen people telling other people to create "alts" on various instances, so that their posts can reach all of their intended contacts. Not for resilience against instance shutdowns or separating by posts and recipients by topics and interests (which is what groups and Diaspora style Aspects / GPlus style Circles are for), but because #blockwars prevents posts and members from one instance to be seen on certain others. For the record, I think that instance governance is something that Mastodon should include in its instances.social instance-picker, along with instances' topical foci. People should have a way to see what they're agreeing to (and what the alternatives are) before the sign up. In other words, it isn't my way or the highway so much as it is making it possible to know what one is getting into. I am certain that there are (or were) instances with democratically chosen rules. I also believe that we're not doing the people who use an instance any favor by not making it possible for them to contribute to the financing and administration of the instance. If you're paying all the costs and doing all the work to maintain and moderate the instance, it is difficult to let an election institute a policy that you disagree with. (I've started to really disagree with the idea of individuals hosting public instances wholly out of their own financial and time resources. Besides the "truck factor", it is much easier to keep an instance going if everything was already handled by a team and at least partly member supported.) On the other hand, if the instance encourages those in its membership who can do so to participate in keeping it going, then it is perfectly reasonable to expect the admin team to carry out the decisions voted by the membership. I do realize that not everyone can contribute funds, nor can everyone do the technical labor ... but as @simsa04 will remember, things like writing documentation, contributing in discussions about improving the software, designing and implementing themes, and even marketing-type tasks such as creating a logo and a favicon or promoting the instance to people outside the #Fediverse are beneficial.
lnxw48a1: I am not planning to launch the first open registration public instance until every !fnetworks #GNU_Social instance is running version 2.0+, so #Federati Networks may miss this next wave of #Twitter refugees. The chaotic situation at home has meant that I’ve delayed the planned upgrades again.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 04-Oct-2022 20:23:51 EDT
I am not planning to launch the first open registration public instance until every !fnetworks #GNU_Social instance is running version 2.0+, so #Federati Networks may miss this next wave of #Twitter refugees. The chaotic situation at home has meant that I’ve delayed the planned upgrades again.
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.
lnxw48a1: I'd really like to know why this happens. Compare https://nu.federati.net/conversation/2542204 with https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1862-1e33-6103-c8b914644921 #Friendica #GNUsocial
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 20:00:57 EST
I'd really like to know why this happens. Compare https://nu.federati.net/conversation/2542204 with https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1862-1e33-6103-c8b914644921 #Friendica #GNUsocial
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.
ziggys: la anual, práctica e indiscutible señal que #gnusocial sigue viva en #bobinas #p4g
ziggys's status on Friday, 24-Dec-2021 17:07:36 EST
la anual, práctica e indiscutible señal que #gnusocial sigue viva en #bobinas #p4g
bobjonkman: Some days I'm glad my instance of #GNUsocial doesn't support #ActivityPub and isolates me from the idiocy on Mastodon of which I already get plenty from #Birdsite.
bobjonkman's status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 23:59:13 EST
Some days I'm glad my instance of #GNUsocial doesn't support #ActivityPub and isolates me from the idiocy on Mastodon of which I already get plenty from #Birdsite.
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/283133 [www bleepingcomputer com] We should probably keep an eye on dormant accounts on !gnusocial and #Friendica also.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 08-Oct-2021 10:49:32 EDT
https://nu.federati.net/url/283133 [www bleepingcomputer com] We should probably keep an eye on dormant accounts on !gnusocial and #Friendica also.
Vidar stealer abuses Mastodon to silently get C2 configuration
lnxw48a1: The #Freenode takeover happened. https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461 The time may come for !gnusocial, #Friendica, #Mastodon, and other Fediverse software to move their #IRC channels to a different network. Hopefully, we can discuss and co-ordinate that move.
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 19-May-2021 12:32:40 EDT
The #Freenode takeover happened. https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461 The time may come for !gnusocial, #Friendica, #Mastodon, and other Fediverse software to move their #IRC channels to a different network. Hopefully, we can discuss and co-ordinate that move.
lnxw48a1: I see an update for #AndStatus. Yuri, have you been keeping track of the changes in #GNUsocial ? Are you ready to support the new API (and updated #OAuth) on upgraded instances?
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 04-May-2021 21:59:15 EDT
I see an update for #AndStatus. Yuri, have you been keeping track of the changes in #GNUsocial ? Are you ready to support the new API (and updated #OAuth) on upgraded instances?
lnxw48a1: Q: What do I need to learn in order to contribute to !gnusocial ? A: https://www.diogo.site/projects/GNU-social/study_resources.html
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 02-Apr-2021 22:35:47 EDT
Q: What do I need to learn in order to contribute to !gnusocial ? A: https://www.diogo.site/projects/GNU-social/study_resources.html
thndrbvr: !gs I'm really digging Choqok v1.7 under KDE Plasma & lxqt. It's got enough features and I'm learning more every time I use it.
thndrbvr's status on Friday, 22-Jan-2021 08:00:16 EST
!gs I'm really digging Choqok v1.7 under KDE Plasma & lxqt. It's got enough features and I'm learning more every time I use it.
stigatle: Compiled #yaics with latest QT, I able to use it against the https://gnusocial.no server now. I have a couple of things I need to fix. But it works :) https://gitlab.com/stigatle/yaics #gnusocial #gnu
stigatle's status on Saturday, 19-Dec-2020 09:24:27 EST
Compiled #yaics with latest QT, I able to use it against the https://gnusocial.no server now. I have a couple of things I need to fix. But it works :) https://gitlab.com/stigatle/yaics #gnusocial #gnu
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.
lnxw48a1: History of #Laconica, #StatusNet, #GnuSocial ... and the beginning of #PostActiv https://social.umeahackerspace.se/conversation/455000
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 22:53:16 EST
History of #Laconica, #StatusNet, #GnuSocial ... and the beginning of #PostActiv https://social.umeahackerspace.se/conversation/455000
lnxw48a1: On this episode of the "TROM" podcast, @gargron (one of the Mastodon developers and founder / leader of the project), @heluecht (one of the #Friendica developers) and some others were guests, talking about the #Fediverse. https://www.tromsite.com/videos/#fvp_277,0s Caution: this episode is over three hours long, so I have not listened (and will likely only listen to a fraction of it). I wish @tio had also brought someone from #GNU_Social and someone from #Pleroma (and maybe @mike@loadaverage.org @mike@z.macgirvin.com to represent #Hubzilla and #Zap (and #Mistpark, #Redmatrix), and @dansup developer and project founder / leader of #PixelFed, and perhaps someone from #PeerTube, #Misskey, and so on). The other thing I wish had been done is to slice this far-too-long episode into four pieces, each an hour or less in length. Sorry, Michael, I don't know whether you're officially the project leader, so I left that unsaid.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 02-Nov-2020 00:02:37 EST
On this episode of the "TROM" podcast, @gargron (one of the Mastodon developers and founder / leader of the project), @heluecht (one of the #Friendica developers) and some others were guests, talking about the #Fediverse. https://www.tromsite.com/videos/#fvp_277,0s Caution: this episode is over three hours long, so I have not listened (and will likely only listen to a fraction of it). I wish @tio had also brought someone from #GNU_Social and someone from #Pleroma (and maybe @mike@loadaverage.org @mike@z.macgirvin.com to represent #Hubzilla and #Zap (and #Mistpark, #Redmatrix), and @dansup developer and project founder / leader of #PixelFed, and perhaps someone from #PeerTube, #Misskey, and so on). The other thing I wish had been done is to slice this far-too-long episode into four pieces, each an hour or less in length. Sorry, Michael, I don't know whether you're officially the project leader, so I left that unsaid.
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: Efforts to mount a rescue of #GSNO appear to have failed. If you’re a user of #gnusocial.no, you have about two weeks to grab your data and find a new #Fediverse home. You can see a list of some public !gnusocial instances at https://gnusocial.network/try/
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 16-Aug-2020 13:43:36 EDT
Efforts to mount a rescue of #GSNO appear to have failed. If you’re a user of #gnusocial.no, you have about two weeks to grab your data and find a new #Fediverse home. You can see a list of some public !gnusocial instances at https://gnusocial.network/try/
xrevan86: @sl @samir https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/issues/160#issuecomment-19742 Well, there's this answer. There are !gnusocial instances out there that have ActivityPub enabled, !loadaverage isn't one of them yet. When confidence in the implementation not making a mess in the database is high enough, you'll know :-).
xrevan86's status on Friday, 31-Jul-2020 21:20:15 EDT
@sl @samir https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/issues/160#issuecomment-19742 Well, there's this answer. There are !gnusocial instances out there that have ActivityPub enabled, !loadaverage isn't one of them yet. When confidence in the implementation not making a mess in the database is high enough, you'll know :-).
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
lnxw48a1: Hearing some really good plans for #GNUsocial #groups in version 3.x.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 17-Jul-2020 17:56:52 EDT
Hearing some really good plans for #GNUsocial #groups in version 3.x.
lnxw48a1: By the way, @tobias, I think your #Textile plugin for #StatusNet was the basis for @chimo's #Markdown plugin for #GNUsocial.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2020 12:04:03 EDT
By the way, @tobias, I think your #Textile plugin for #StatusNet was the basis for @chimo's #Markdown plugin for #GNUsocial.
hypolite: ♲ @lioh@mastodon.social: During that time I have met a lot of nice new people, also in real life. Some of them are still here, some are gone or I don't find them anymore after so many instance breakdowns, especially in the #gnusocial world. Luckily the #Fediverse is still growing and new ppl arrive while others leave again. I am glad to be a part of this network. #Mastodon #Fediverse12 #HappyFedi2U If you are interested in #FreeSoftware #GNULinux feel free to follow. I usually follow back.
hypolite's status on Monday, 18-May-2020 09:11:35 EDT
♲ @lioh@mastodon.social: During that time I have met a lot of nice new people, also in real life. Some of them are still here, some are gone or I don't find them anymore after so many instance breakdowns, especially in the #gnusocial world. Luckily the #Fediverse is still growing and new ppl arrive while others leave again. I am glad to be a part of this network. #Mastodon #Fediverse12 #HappyFedi2U If you are interested in #FreeSoftware #GNULinux feel free to follow. I usually follow back.
strypey: Just tried out the AndStatus app on Android. I successfully added accounts for pump.io and Titter, but adding this Mastodon account failed. I tried adding a Friendica account as a GNU social account, since it supports OStatus and I can't see any other way to do it, but that failed. I don't think I have a GNU social account since the Quitter. sites went down, but I'll have to check and maybe set up a new one for testing purposes. #AndStatus #Android #pumpIO #GNUsocial #Friendica #OStatus
strypey's status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2020 05:27:56 EDT
Just tried out the AndStatus app on Android. I successfully added accounts for pump.io and Titter, but adding this Mastodon account failed. I tried adding a Friendica account as a GNU social account, since it supports OStatus and I can't see any other way to do it, but that failed. I don't think I have a GNU social account since the Quitter. sites went down, but I'll have to check and maybe set up a new one for testing purposes. #AndStatus #Android #pumpIO #GNUsocial #Friendica #OStatus
lnxw48a1: @licho !gnusocial Does GSNO use the "Store Remote Media" plugin? Some instances do not use it because of disk capacity or legal fears.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 18-Apr-2020 10:47:51 EDT
@licho !gnusocial Does GSNO use the "Store Remote Media" plugin? Some instances do not use it because of disk capacity or legal fears.
lnxw37a1: @sl #Mastodon version 3.x and later (and #Pleroma version 2.x and later) does not use #OStatus as a federation protocol, so they broke federation with #GNUSocial. There's a little more work to do before the release of GS v.2.0, which adds #ActivityPub support.
lnxw37a1's status on Monday, 13-Apr-2020 13:49:33 EDT
@sl #Mastodon version 3.x and later (and #Pleroma version 2.x and later) does not use #OStatus as a federation protocol, so they broke federation with #GNUSocial. There's a little more work to do before the release of GS v.2.0, which adds #ActivityPub support.
lnxw48a1: @licho #Mastodon 3.x and #Pleroma 2x no longer speak the #OStatus federation protocol. !GNUsocial 2.0 will add the #ActivityPub federation protocol, so ask your admin to be ready to upgrade soon.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 10-Apr-2020 12:17:51 EDT
@licho #Mastodon 3.x and #Pleroma 2x no longer speak the #OStatus federation protocol. !GNUsocial 2.0 will add the #ActivityPub federation protocol, so ask your admin to be ready to upgrade soon.
bthall: Huzzah! This will be my GNU Social account, which I will use to follow @lnxw48a1 and explore this side of the #Fediverse (since #Pleroma and #Mastodon are weirdly disconnected from #GNUSocial). I've been at @bthall@bikeshed.party (#Pleroma) for a while, but I look forward to using this account, too.
bthall's status on Friday, 10-Apr-2020 10:36:15 EDT
Huzzah! This will be my GNU Social account, which I will use to follow @lnxw48a1 and explore this side of the #Fediverse (since #Pleroma and #Mastodon are weirdly disconnected from #GNUSocial). I've been at @bthall@bikeshed.party (#Pleroma) for a while, but I look forward to using this account, too.
lnxw48a1: @sean #GNU_Social has a small, but active team working on it. #MediaGoblin has recently restarted work.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2020 05:25:53 EST
@sean #GNU_Social has a small, but active team working on it. #MediaGoblin has recently restarted work.
colegota: Este va a ser el año de !gnusocial en el escritorio. #TiempoAlTiempo XD
colegota's status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2020 06:26:21 EST
Este va a ser el año de !gnusocial en el escritorio. #TiempoAlTiempo XD