@keithzg Yeah, I hear that a lot, actually. Honestly, I don't know that I want to maintain an instance, yet this is one of the key things that brought me to #Mastodon, controlling my own data. I'll probably go through mastohost anyway, but I hear some people absolutely love the additional tweaks of pleroma.
I know it's a touchy subject, but where is the #Mastodon vs. #Pleroma write up or video? Inquiring minds wanting to host their own might like something like that.
dear #anonradio#DJs who play #electronica, #triphop and house music, at least four #SDF#Mastodon regular users love Amon Tobin. Please consider spreading that aural splendor to others in upcoming programs. Thank you from an enthusiastic and frequent Anonradio listener.
I guess folks should find other #Mastodon users that sign up at the same time so you can experience the emotional roller coaster together.
Otherwise you might be elated by how it feel like "old Twitter" while your friends realize "humans suck everywhere". And you definitely want to relapse together!
Remember, fair or ill, we're in this together, you beautiful, sucky humans!
I should probably explain that hashtag, #foak. Back in the Usenet days (I know, I’m old), we used “FOAK” in subject lines to designate a fact-based question we were looking for an answer to. The idea was that Usenet contained so many knowledgeable people that we were collectively the Font Of All Knowledge.
I’d love it if that caught on as a hashtag here; I’d really enjoy following the tag and seeing if I could answer any of the questions.
This tool lets you message each of your followers so you can tell them you moved elsewhere. Or whatever else you'd want to personally send to every one of your followers.
While we zero in on 300 followers on Mastodon :mastodon:, we want to thank all of you for the friendly and open Mastodon community. We had productive discussions and talked about very interesting InfoSec topics.
Hello dear #Fediverse, I'm calling for your help in the development of another implementation of #ActivityPub to federate with everyone. There is a nice place #Juick.com which started more than 10 years ago as a microblogging service via Jabber/XMPP. Over the years the support of posting/commenting via Telegram and by email were added. And now it's time to move further - implement ActivityPub and federate!
Current developer @vt@juick.com has already done great job in learning specs and implementing the protocol. But he is facing some issues which he can't solve himself.
This is a post (in Russian) about where he is stuck: https://juick.com/vt/2919780 And there is my translation below. Please, contact him if you beleive you can help. Thanks a lot!
-- So I completely understood specs, implemented those in Juick and can consult others. 8) It's just not federating with other existing instances:
1) #Mastodon - public servers show profiles from Juick, number of followers and number of messages. But they don't show messages themselves. It's not clear how to diagnose. They don't reply to my bug reports ( https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/8625 ). I also can't run it locally: out of 1Gb of ruby-scripts 500Mb of ruby-scripts with native extentions don't compile successfully on a Mac (how did they manage to use such extentions which are not working on a favourite OS of Ruby developers?). On Linux it also fails most likely due to lack of 1Gb RAM in the virtual machine.
2) #Pleroma - starts perfectly but it shows only avatars from Juick, the rest - not. And it constantly floods logs with database constraint errors (after searching a user it records this in its db, and then second search doesn't work as it assumes the user already exists!)
3) #Misskey - that either Japanese or Chinese product, looks weird itself... and I couldn't find user search there.
What else can I do? I'm ready to drop this and just leave email for users... :)
@martl83 Hmm, also da müsstest du einmal Jemanden fragen, der #Mastodon verwendet. Bei mir ist wiederum #GNU-social im Einsatz. Ich habe also nur eine Sichtbarkeit: Öffentlich. :) Holen wir dazu den @frank hinzu.
@martl83 Die öffentliche Zeitleiste ist soweit ich weiß für quasi alle teilenden Instanzen sichtbar. Du hast aber weitere Eingrenzungsmöglichkeiten bis hin zu spezifisch auf einzelne Teilnehmer herunter gebrochene Benachrichtigungen. Aber hierbei gilt zu beachten: Letzteres ist eine rein für die Instanzen basierend auf #Mastodon zugängliche Möglichkeit. Andere Applikationen können derlei nicht, haben dafür wiederum andere Fähigkeiten.
@frank @martl83 Kurz hinzugefügt: Die Daten werden natürlich auch mit anderen Instanzen geteilt und dort ebenso gespeichert. Aber es ist insofern deine ureigene Entscheidung was du teilen möchtest und was eben nicht. Wie bereits zuvor betont: Es ist bunt hier und du kannst dir bei Bedarf dann auch irgendwann selbst dein eigenes digitales "Heim" in den dezentralen Netzwerken erstellen - die dafür genutzte Software suchst du dir natürlich auch ebenso selbst aus. Ob nun #Mastodon oder #Pleroma, #GNU-social oder noch ganz Andere? Alles basiert auf deiner eigenen Entscheidung, ebenso wie du das gesamte #Fediverse erkunden möchtest. ;-)
@dschinjilla @martl83 So lang sind meine Texte auch nun wieder nicht. ;-) Aber ich schreibe gerne und diskutiere auch gerne darüber. Leider aber sieht man seitens #Mastodon genau nur eine vorgegebene Anzahl von 500 Zeichen als absolutes Maximum einer Nachricht. Das ist buntes Treiben hier bestehend aus vielen Applikationen und das ist auch gut so. Vielleicht möchtest du dann entsprechend eine etwas kleinere Instanz auswählen? Würde den dezentralen Netzwerken wirklich gut tun. Wie wäre es denn mit toot.koeln vom @frank als Administrator betreut.
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