Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (beehaw.org)
Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances
cliffwade, (edited )
kuketzblog, German Heute ist »Ask me a question!«. Stellt mir eure Frage aus dem Themenbereich IT-Sicherheit oder Datenschutz. Ich antworte mit Ja/Nein oder enthalte mich. Regeln:
- Jeder darf eine Frage stellen
- Die Frage muss aus dem Themenbereich IT-Sicherheit oder Datenschutz stammen
- Formuliert die Frage so, dass diese mit einem Ja/Nein beantwortet werden kann
- Nur am 01.10.2023
- Nur im #Fediverse
chbmeyer, German @kuketzblog
Offenbar ist die Verwendung von AppleID und iCloud mit schulischen 1:1 oder "shared iPads" auf dem Vormarsch.Stichwort: "Datenverarbeitung zu eigenen Zwecken" durch Apple.
Weil es sehr oft behauptet wird:
Sind die Telemetriedaten bei iPads und die Verwendung der iCloud tatsächlich weniger problematisch, als bei MS365?
thinkpad, German @kuketzblog @caregiverstudent
Daran anschließend, auch an die Bubble:gibt es zu #doctolib eine brauchbare Alternative, die den Ärzten vorgeschlagen werden könnte?
steve,
steve, 📢 Sign up for the Bean for #Lemmy beta here 👉
steve, I also setup a community on #Lemmy and will be posting regular updates about the app there. I'd appreciate some upvotes on my post too ❤️🥹
Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances
mariyadelano, (edited ) Alright. Gonna write a piece on the impact of #neurodivergent users on our culture in the #Fediverse
So let’s start with a poll. Boost please!
Are you neurodivergent?
(Self-diagnosis is valid, I know how freaking hard it can be to get the official one!)
@actuallyautistic #ADHD #AuDHD #Autism #ASD #neurodiversity
SECOND POLL WITH MORE TYPES OF NEURODIVERGENCE: https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano/110753113559931102
mariyadelano, I couldn’t add more options for other kinds of neurodiversity so please add yours in replies if I didn’t represent you!
I’d like to be able to represent you in the final piece, poll limitations aside.
mariyadelano, (edited ) Okay, secondary survey for people who are #neurodivergent but not ASD or ADHD:
What kind of #neurodiverse condition do you have?
PLEASE EXPLAIN IN REPLIES IF YOU SELECT ‘OTHER’. And please boost to expand reach 🙏
Iconfactory, Online media can be overwhelming. It's fragmented between countless services, websites, social networks, and apps.
You need an app that weaves together an overview of nearly everything that’s happening across all the different services you follow.
That’s our vision for Project Tapestry, the new Kickstarter we're launching today.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry
Iconfactory, Project Tapestry is a universal chronological timeline of your favorite social media services, blogs, RSS feeds & more. All updates in one place, in the order they’re posted with no algorithm deciding what you see or when you see it.
But we need your help! Check out our Kickstarter campaign to learn more about the project and the backer rewards we have planned, then make a pledge to help us turn Project Tapestry into a reality.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry
Iconfactory, It took just four amazing days for #ProjectTapestry to become 100% funded on Kickstarter! To say we're floored would be an understatement. We couldn't have done this without you and we wanted to give a sincere thank you to everyone.
We'll be posting more details about stretch goals and a video overview of the DIY API behind Tapestry in the days ahead but for now, a sincere thank you from all of us here at the factory. You are the BEST!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry
Edent, 🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”
I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/
⸻
#ActivityPub #fediverse #FOURSQUARE #geolocation #OpenStreetMap
Edent, I've built an ersatz FourSquare clone for the Fediverse!
For now it is single user instance (me) and runs on a simple server with no database - just a couple of PHP files.
It geolocates my phone's web browser, shows nearby Points of Interest using OpenStreetMap, lets me attach a short message & an image with alt text.
Then it posts it to its Fediverse followers. The post contains geotags which some ActivityPub clients can see.
Sample post:
https://location.edent.tel/posts/65b8f590-f308-d472-82c5-92a9f227c641.jsonFollow: @edent_location
Edent, Here's my blog post about building a personal #Fediverse server in #PHP.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/a-tiny-incomplete-single-user-write-only-activitypub-server-in-php/
It was surprisingly simple. You can publish #ActivityPub with very modest computing resources.
If you can see the geotags on @edent_location please send me a screenshot 🙂
cliffwade, (edited ) Were you an active user of Google+(Google Plus)?
Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse
Comment below with how you used it the most and if you miss it or not!
#Poll #Polls #POTD #Google #GooglePlus #SocialMedia #Tech #AllThingsTech
hybridhavoc, @cliffwade their Circles idea was pretty cool. Unfortunately the discourse never seemed to stray too far from talking about the platform itself, and then they soured a lot of people to it by attaching it to YouTube and other Google services.
denix, @xahteiwi @cliffwade same here - it was the best social network I've ever used, although I'm not at all "social".
I had all the right people in my circles on G+ and enjoyed discussing all the relevant topics with them.
FB-peeps always complained G+ was a "ghost-town", that's because it was very focused "no bullshit" and I preferred it that way. And because of that, I was willing to forgive Google all those little missteps, which were not critical.
steve, Pretty happy with the sign up process so far. I’m gonna tweak some animations (mainly on the server check) and I need to add some error handling but this is pretty much there 😁
steve, Communities screen with the ability to pin a community to the top, browse all communities, or view trending is done 😊
Onward to the Search screen!
steve, 📢 TestFlight invites sent to first small group of testers for this alpha!
If you didn't get one, I'll be sending more out tomorrow and this link will work for a little while:
thisismissem, (edited ) Okay, so, I've just done a review of the #moderation features in both #Lemmy and #kbin.
I've written up a fuller report on the IFTAS matrix, but the tl;dr is: if you care about user safety, do not deploy either of these.
They do not feature comprehensive or well built moderation tools, and you will not be able to effectively moderate instances running this software.
You are better off waiting to deploy these once they mature more.
Edit: removed user mentions to stop spamming them.
thisismissem, Like, if you're totally fine with not being able to effectively moderate a server you operate, then by all means, test out #kbin and #lemmy, but encouraging folks to use either en-mass as if they're anywhere near the calibre of Mastodon or Pixelfed* then you're in for a very very bad time.
Alpha software does need alpha users to test and provide feedback, but we should be VERY careful recommending alpha software to mainstream massive audiences as an alternative to $centralisedPlatform.
thisismissem, If you'd like to financially support my work on Fediverse software, then you can by donating directly to my Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/thisismissem
Given enough donations, maybe I can keep working on fediverse tech indefinitely!
Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.
spreadmastodon, 🔥 We are excited to let everyone know that our full website is now live!
We hope this will be an easy way for new users to get started with #Mastodon & join the wider #Fediverse & an organizing hub to build & spread a better, more open social web of ALL fediverse offerings.
With the #RedditMigration in full force & the likely #Barcelona launch bringing new attention to the Fediverse it is all the more urgent to help #TakeBackSocial
spreadmastodon, @spreadmastodon @fediversereport
Shortly we will be opening up all the code used in this website to a full Open Source license.
Not everything would apply, but we would hope this open source code could be used by anyone building out a similar onboarding portals for the Fedi.
For example: #Calkey, #Pixelfed, #Kbin or #Bookwyrm or
#Goldfish or other sites may find parts of the code here useful and not have to rebuild EVERYTHING from scratch.
mike, @spreadmastodon @spreadmastodon @fediversereport this is completely awesome and exactly the kind of thing the fediverse needs right now. Bravo!!!!
rolle, (edited ) Why do you like Mastodon (or any open source Fediverse app of your choosing) the most? (You can choose multiple choices)
Boosts appreciated for reach.
argv_minus_one, I don't think most people realize just how important that distinction is.
Open, non-product protocols are the whole entire reason why the Internet succeeded, and proprietary networking solutions like IPX/SPX and DECnet didn't.
It's also what brought us successful Internet applications like email, IRC, and the web, and it's the reason Gopher failed.
Now we just need to send commercial social media platforms like X and Discord to the dustbin of history where they belong.
suetanvil, The Fediverse is social media by the people, for the people, and of the people.
rysiek, Hug your #FediAdmin today.
There's a lot of shit flying in the #Fediverse lately and a lot of times perspective seems to get lost. Yes, there are things we need to talk about, and yes there are things we will not agree on. And that's okay.
But leave the pitchforks and torches out of this.
Fedi admins put in the hours and effort and emotion into making fedi happen. Sometimes they make decisions we might not agree with. We should criticize, but we should not pile-on.
rysiek, And to make this abundantly clear… regardless of how much you disagree with a person and how much you feel their decisions might be wrong:
👉 harassment is harassment, and is unacceptable
👉 calling for harm is calling for harm, and is unacceptable
👉 pile-ons are pile-ons, and are unacceptablePeople who engage in that sort of thing are like locusts. They join a community, destroy it, and move on.
If you care about fedi, push back against that, even if it targets someone you disagree with.
rysiek, Oh, and you know what the best way to defend from fedi admins "selling out" — which again, is not happening! — would be?
Supporting them financially (if you are in a position to do so).
If you are in fact in a position to do so, go to your instance's about page, and check if there is any way to chip in.
And either way, hug your fedi admin.
When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It's the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue...
I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message...
drahardja, I am once again encouraging #Fediverse #admins to add a clause to prohibit using their server’s data for machine training into their Terms of Use, because at some point in the near future there is likely going to be a lawsuit against some major company for scraping and exploiting users’ data, and we should make sure we have a legal leg to stand on.
Please ask your server’s admin to do this.
@seb please consider doing this. https://mastodon.world/@Chimaera/110652906429977656
DataDrivenMD, @drahardja @seb Meant to respond to your earlier post (a couple weeks ago IIRC) to strongly endorse this suggestion and to encourage developers, especially those of us who offer open APIs, to do the same. (We already have thanks to your suggestion)
neuralgraffiti, @drahardja @seb Hi Dave! This is something the admin team is already working on, along with some other policy updates.
I'll push this to the top of the queue.We have a lawyer on the team (that's me), so no need to collect money for the updates; I do SFBA work on a pro bono basis.
gbhnews, Friends, #fediverse - ians, lend me your ears 👂
I spoke to a very interesting group of people last week about the prospects for Public Social Media.
I feel I should write a brief essay as followup and I am staring forlornly at my text editor.
How shall I explain to people unfamiliar with the #fediverse why it represents a promising opportunity for their organizations?
mediopocillo, @gbhnews
(TL;DR, cut the unnecessary predatory parasitic middlemen.)This is the way to make the content you work so hard to produce directly available to the public in a familiar, easy to consume post/microblog format without the need for us to login through abusive external intermediaries that siphon and exploit users' personal information and don't even provide you any tangible benefit in return.
chris, @TCatInReality @Hey_Beth @gbhnews @Dragon i honestly think it is exactly like the 1990s with the birth of the web. Media just doesn't "get" the advantage of the open social web yet, they are still wrapped up in the previous paradigm. They will get there though.
pfefferle, what do we have to do to make the #ActivityPub plugin attractive to more #WordPress users? We are currently at 4000+ active users on WordPress.org + the WordPress.com users.
mastodonmigration, I think what Stefan may be talking about is a kind of directory that lists available fediverse wordpress blog accounts, perhaps along with the profile description and gives you the option to follow them.
Started something like that here https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/wordpress-blog-fediverse-accounts/ , but have not kept it up.
deadsuperhero, @pfefferle I would love to see ActivityPub get put into WordPress Core, and an interface developed capable of reading articles from other ActivityPub-enabled WordPress blogs.
One real headache we have right now with @wedistribute is that we want to output our articles as the
Article
type, but Mastodon doesn't support that. We can switch toNote
, but that's more of a social status thing, rather than something specifically intended for publishing platforms and readers.I think a picture of what this could ultimately might look like is:
- Make ActivityPub a standard thing in every blog that's easy to turn on.
- Add sections to the dashboard for user following and notifications of ActivityPub interactions.
- Turn the like, bookmark, and reply functions into ActivityPub actions.
- incorporate it in such a way that articles, likes, and responses can be seen within the WordPress dashboard.
- The dashboard also has a section for following feeds. Basically, the WordPress.com reader, but ActivityPub-powered, and a standard part of WordPress.
I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…
lauren, *** Mastodon and Kafka ***
So now I'm being told that a few people on a instance with 1000s of users who complain that you don't use CW or alt-text the way they want can result in your being blocked for the entire instance, even when you've never received any notification of this.
Sort of like how you'd get arrested in fascist countries and never told why. Kafka would recognize this for sure.
I would assert that this makes #Mastodon even more of a toy than I thought it was, and utterly unreliable for much beyond trading photos of kitties. Leela the Siamese Snowshoe approves of kitty photos of course, but beyond that anyone depending on #Mastodon might charitably be called "misguided" at best, if my understanding of the situation is correct.
And I feel that the public needs to understand that they're buying into this sort of nonsense if they're looking at #Mastodon as an alternative to Elon's #Twitter hellscape.
Now I'll probably get blocked for this post. -L
mattblaze, @lauren The culture here is weird and unpredictable in ways I still can't wrap my head around. I was reported, and blocked from a mid-sized instance, for being a "white supremacist" because I posted a thread about ways the DM mechanism here is broken and has non-intuitive semantics, and then reported (but not instance blocked, apparently) because I refused to edit my year-old blog post on Faraday cages to suit a stranger's preferences.
The Karens sometimes have a lot of power here.
mattblaze, @steely_glint I'm frankly done with self-appointed morality police trying to guilt me into becoming a bland, insubstantial version of myself, especially when they do so by exaggerating the (legitimate) need to protect others from real harm.
Don't like politics? Fine. Don't follow people who post about it. But if some political discussion gets through, you'll probably survive.
freemo, So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.
It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.
One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!
#Hugo #StaticSite #ActivityPub #Fediverse #mastoadmin
QT: https://fedipage.com/news/fedipage-v1-0-1-released/
ephemeromorph, @freemo What?! Holy crap! 💜
freemo, @testing Not a bug.. i changed some things about how the site renders its pages so it broke old boosts knowingly.. but it continues to work properly.. thats just a "ghost"
Having spent a lot of time on Mastodon... There are tons of people there talking about federated and self-hosted services, software freedom, censorship, encryption, tech regulation... A very narrow range of topics directly surrounding the fediverse get a lot of attention....
janboehm, German Wenn ich wissen möchte, was im #Fediverse (und nicht nur auf meiner Instanz) zu einem bestimmten Thema geschrieben wird (z.B. dem Fortgang der Rettungsarbeiten am vor Ameland havarierten Schiff #FremantleHighway) – WIE GEHT DAS?? Wieso kann ich nicht suchen? Warum finde ich nix unter dem Hashtag? 😩😩
Sorella554, German
stefan, German