my_millennium, to running German
@my_millennium@nrw.social avatar

Done✅️Personal best time 1:36:17

For today this was my absolute limit.I lost some secs right after the start cause I qeued at the very back of my starter box since I wasnt sure if I would do my pace right from the beginning. So I had some traffic 2 overtake til I could ramp up the pace.But I do not care.I am proud.I broke my 22yo personal best time.

my_millennium, to running German
@my_millennium@nrw.social avatar

training 3/4 of week 9/16 of .Motivation is at -2 on a scale from 0 to 10. 3rd training in pouring rain, crescendo run (I hate these😁), 2nd training with headwind & due to the conditions I ran into a really big pile of horse shit with both feet.At the moment I have 2 run the most boring track I can imagine.1st half through concrete jungle, 2nd half along rail tracks & abandoned houses...In the dark. I am stuck on my fitness level. no progress although I work hard.

my_millenium, to running German

2023 was a good year of for me, since I ran more kilometers than the year before.
But I still ran less kilometers than e.g. 2020 and 2021 (>1,400km).

For 2024 I expect to be back in the range of >1,400km since my ongoing requires a high amount of fitness.

nautilathedrowned2, to TalkingAngela
@nautilathedrowned2@mastodon.xyz avatar
nautilathedrowned2, to TalkingTomandFriends
@nautilathedrowned2@mastodon.xyz avatar

Regarding the topic between and :

Right now Threads is testing federation for selected few accounts, and (at) Gagron (at) mastodon.social is even being poisoned at it

If I can access (at) on threads.net and NOT on mastodon.social (RN meaning it doesn't exist yet), then it will be "GAME OVER" for the fans seeking privace and in whole.

PLEASE. Tell your instance owners to immediately.

@TalkingTomAndFriends @ttafcommunity

pylapp, to FediPact French
@pylapp@framapiaf.org avatar

Avec le j’espère que le en sortira grandi.
Chaque instance est libre de faire ce qu’elle veut.
Mais bloquer les instances du est une chose saine.
Ouvrir la porte à ces datavöres du toxique c’est entretenir des risques sur la .
L’Histoire a déjà montré la capacité d’entreprises à appliquer le 3E : « Embrace, extend, and extinguish », comme Google avec XMPP.
Dégageons Facebook. Et Microsoft. Et Amazon, Xiaomi, Tencent… :anar: :framasoft:

utopify_org, to legal
@utopify_org@veganism.social avatar

Because of the recent events on I've created a page to get some support to fix what will happen on August 8th.

My plan is to create an advanced chat for the uotpify.org community (~5,000 people) and to keep providing high quality challenges on Habitica. More information on the Liberapay page: https://liberapay.com/utopify.org

This will be a lot of work and I hope for some

I provide challenges for about 6 years on Habitica for free, but it took a lot of time to write programs automating a lot of work (anti-cheat), scanning the chat for challenge participants, processing challenge data and creating high score lists, announcing new challenges, winners of challenges, etc. Now, that chats and guilds will be removed on Habitica, there will be even more work and the motivation is not really high, if a company destroys it within a week what you built up over several years.

Liberapay was the only solution I found, which is and fits the values for what utopify stands for. If you know others/better, please name them.

I appreciate every Cent and thank you for your support 🙏

My problem with money donations are always, that not trustworthy companies have to be used. Currently I use , but is supported by Liberapay, too.

Is it necessary to have a Stripe account or is PayPal enough? Because reading the privacy policy of them makes me a little bit dizzy and if it can be avoided, I really want to avoid it. But if people will say, they want to donate, but only with Stripe, I would create a Stripe account.

utopify_org,
@utopify_org@veganism.social avatar

After more than 2 weeks of work, the official instance of utopify.org is online: https://lemmy.utopify.org/

It took way to much time, but I wanted to be sure it is the right thing and that everything works even better than before in the old utopify.org guild chat on And after a lots of struggles, it looks like it is usable, now.

The new lemmy instance covers topics like and and everything what is connected to it. I will create a lot of communities the next weeks and almost every I provided on Habitica will be accessible publicly there, too. (And I will announce them on Mastodon).

It should be a safe space to focus on important topics and define fulfilling goals, create a habit to work on them and to reach them in an efficient way, even if the "All Feed" is activated, which can be distracting very fast, because it shows federated posts. I recommend to stay in the "Local Feed".

I've put so much energy, time and money in a self-hosted Lemmy instance, because what happened on Habitica was the last time that a company will be able to destroy the utopify community.

We had a healthy routine to set goals, have a sustainable mindset, motivate and inspire others and all was gone within a short time. This time the plan is, that it will stay for much much longer and that all experience will be saved and can be shared by everyone :)

The Lemmy instance is free of GAFAM spyware (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) or any trackers/ads and it runs on a private server and WE DON'T FEDERATE WITH (, , )

If you want to support utopify.org, you can do this over liberapay: https://liberapay.com/utopify.org

Every cent is appreciated and helps to keep everything running :)

ricmac, to threads
@ricmac@mastodon.social avatar

In this post I explain why chose as its open standard to support (instead of, say, Bluesky's protocol or Tim Berners-Lee's Solid). Also I look at some of the challenges Meta will face as it tries to join the fediverse. https://thenewstack.io/threads-adopting-activitypub-makes-sense-but-wont-be-easy/

FinchHaven,
@FinchHaven@hachyderm.io avatar

@ricmac

I did read the entire article

As with most of these, there are one or two salient points that show the overall pattern

Which is, PR and Marketing

Win the News Cycle

At this point, where has not received a glowing write-up on the techy influencer circuit?

reiver, to threads
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

I started muting every brand and influencer has put in my home-feed (that I am not following).

It somewhat improved the home-feed.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/110679397647494679

marcelias, to random
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  • FinchHaven,
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    @marcelias

    No

    Thread starts here:

    https://hachyderm.io/@raccoon@mastodon.world/110595244587539113

    Key point at 10/10:

    ""The P92 ( ) app will be carefully crafted as a one way bridge that is permeable for content in direction of Meta, but not so much for P92 users in direction of the Fediverse."

    ""a one-way bridge that is permeable" in one direction only"

    Not to mention the well-supported fact that If one deletes one's Threads account, the matching Instagram account is deleted also

    reiver, to threads
    @reiver@mastodon.social avatar

    One thing that I think did well is that — they were able to bring over large chunks of communities over from to Threads.

    (They did it by pulling in users from Instagram to Threads https://mastodon.social/@reiver/110665875303226142 )

    I think that this is one challenges the Fediverse has had, that affects retention.

    One of the draws of a social-media network is the individuals and the communities that are there.

    reiver,
    @reiver@mastodon.social avatar

    Another thing that I think did well is that — they let you follow people BEFORE they (also) joined Threads.

    They did it by identifying these people by their ID.

    But you could imagine this working with other IDs, too.

    FinchHaven, to threads
    @FinchHaven@hachyderm.io avatar

    mhmm...

    Here's how the pros do it:

    A scheduled for 9:00 PM

    This was maybe down three screens into the

    And the Replies continued for more screens-full below this

    mhmm...

    FinchHaven,
    @FinchHaven@hachyderm.io avatar
    reiver, to threads
    @reiver@mastodon.social avatar
    J12t, (edited ) to threads
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    reiver,
    @reiver@mastodon.social avatar
    freiheit, to Facebook German
    @freiheit@digitalcourage.social avatar

    Viele machen sich Sorgen wegen des angekündigten Einstiegs des -Konzerns ins Fediverse. Es geht um die App . Was wir darüber wissen, steht hier: https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2023/fediverse-teilen-und-herrschen

    Bei @digitalcourage haben wir noch nicht entschieden, ob wir Metas Fediverse-Instanz(en) aus unseren Instanzen aussperren werden. Noch funktioniert bei threads.net das Föderieren nicht. Das kann sich aber jederzeit ändern.

    Wer vorbeugend ausschließen will, dass die eigenen Tröts zu Meta/Threads gelangen, kann sich mit folgender Anleitung abschotten:

    1. Die CSV-Datei von https://gitlab.digitalcourage.de/fediverse/lists/-/raw/main/blocked_domains.csv herunterladen.

    2. In den persönlichen Mastodon-Einstellungen auf „Importieren und Exportieren“ gehen, dann auf „Importieren“, also hierhin: https://digitalcourage.social/settings/import

    3. In der Auswahlbox „Domain-Sperrliste“ auswählen

    4. Die zuvor heruntergeladene CSV-Datei dort hochladen

    5. Wenn das geklappt hat, müssten Einträge mit „threads“ auf https://digitalcourage.social/domain_blocks zu sehen sein

    Vielen Dank an @ordnung für die Vorlage!

    downey, to threads
    @downey@floss.social avatar
    iamkale, (edited ) to threads

    Threads silently launched. What a slick UI for something built on top of ActivityPub! Also I forgot I had an Instagram account, thanks for reminding me Threads 😂

    Onboarding was painless too - sign into Instagram, that's it, no thinking about which of the thousands of instances to sign up for. gg Mastodon, this is going to eat your lunch (at least for normies.)

    I know federation isn't a part of initial launch. It'll be interesting to see how Meta rolls that out when they get confident enough to try and participate in the larger fediverse.

    Now cue the fediverse drama - I'm here for it all 🤤

    (BTW I'm https://www.threads.net/@iamkale_ig if you want to friend me)

    paul, to random
    @paul@tapbots.social avatar

    You have 15 minutes before the fediverse explodes (or nothing happens)!

    Episode 19 GIF by The Simpsons

    FinchHaven,
    @FinchHaven@hachyderm.io avatar

    @paul

    At the rate it's counting down right now, I'd say I've got time to make dinner and eat

    tux, to Futurology German

    Sagt mal, wenn dieses wegen der (vorerst) nicht nach Europa kommt, dann ist dies doch Jacke wie Hose, oder?
    Angenommen ich föderiere mit z.B. mastodon.social, die wiederum mit Meta föderiert, dann ist dies doch egal, da Meta die ganzen Daten ja über mastodon.social bekommt.
    Oder habe ich da einen Denkfehler?

    dannotdaniel, to Futurology
    @dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud avatar

    WooHoo! 🎉

    🚫NOW BLOCKING🚫
    ALL facebook / threads / insta domains from my teeny instance now - THANK YOU
    @MOULE 🤩

    🐘

    👉 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lipuAfIC9Q22VClDbTgI_7KZ_aajVZDm/view

    ps. iptables rules reset on reboot so make sure to run these at startup (!)

    spinning MASTODON challenge coin featuring a large tusked elephant with the word MASTODON and 2023 on one side, and a glowy eyed version on the back with and my @ made in Blender3D

    FediPact, to FediPact

    REMINDER:

    meta's project92/barcelona/threads MAY be launching in two days

    but that doesn't mean it will federate right away

    instead, they plan to add activitypub integration after a handful of months

    there's time

    source: https://beach.city/@vantablack/110600205246828744

    surabax, to Barcelona
    beforewisdom, to Futurology
    @beforewisdom@veganism.social avatar

    A short, well written article describing how Open Source has been victorious over corporate "Embrace Extend Extinguish" in the past and how ActivityPub/Mastodon can be victorious aginst Meta/Facebook/Threads.

    https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html

    FinchHaven, to Instagram
    @FinchHaven@hachyderm.io avatar

    And...

    [drumroll]

    Looks like the new ", an " is up on the App Store

    Check out the Privacy notifications

    All adjustable, I'm sure

    Release date: Jul 6 2023

    h/t @MattD

    Threads, an Instagram app at the Apple App Store Jul 3, 2023 screen two - Privacy

    FinchHaven,
    @FinchHaven@hachyderm.io avatar

    @AAKL

    I'm not going to use this app, I can assure you

    As to your question "why does it need all this data" -- that's exactly what the app is for

    That's its sole purpose: data collection

    All the convos and threads are just eye-candy

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