Despite the sadness of seeing them leave the platform I'm working on, I can't express how cool it is to be able to still follow people who moved to any other platform #Friendica is compatible with, including Mastodon, Diaspora, and more, all from my same account.
It's completely unheard of in most other social media context, and yet here it's completely seamless.
It's interesting sitting here on an old version of #Calckey seeing someone on #Mastodon server telling their fellow user that posting to unlisted will opt-out of #search when I can see Unlisted posts in my antennas quite easily though I believe this has been rightly rectified in the newest versions of [#Firefish / #Iceshrimp but need to confirm]. Being hidden from the Explore tab on Mastodon is not the same as being unsearchable across the fediverse. Frankly, there's little understanding even among admins across the #fediverse about what's a Mastodon / Mastodon API function that is federated to other Mastodon servers but doesn't translate well outside of Mastodon on other #ActivityPub connected platforms like #Misskey and it's forks, #Hubzilla and #Friendica, or rapidly growing platforms like #Lemmy and #Kbin. Kbin also scrapes posts from across the fediverse and puts them into its own magazines.
Unfortunately simple, up-to-date documentation doesn't really exist to explain the realities of federation vs what your admin said was the reality. AP was not built with privacy in mind, and 'security through obscurity' was mostly a Mastodon thing from when folks thought either the Mastoverse was almost the dark web, or the whole fediverse [which has never been the case], and Google et al weren't interested in scraping it.
Unfortunately we have a cadre of devs across all fedi platforms who'll give glowing lip-service to both the fedi and ActivityPub histories of being built by queer or other minority identities but still won't work on giving folks the granular #privacy and #safety controls that weren't included in those protocols, and whose feature roadmaps now just look like bird site 2.0 funded by the milquetoast liberals in political tech who provide their seed money.
Beyond Mastodon and GoToSocial, every other fediverse project treats posting to public as opting in to search and indexing. Indeed, this is pretty much how the ActivityPub protocol handles such too.
Frage | Friendica: Wie kann ich einen Verwalter für das Konto einstellen?
Ich habe zwei Accounts die miteinander verbunden sind. Jedoch kann ich bei keinen von beiden den jeweils anderen als Verwalter einstellen. Wie kann ich das ändern?
I am really baffled- suddenly my #Friendica site elsica.social site didn't show any contents anymore, just some menus, then I rebooted the server and now it says Internal Server Error. I am very close to give upon it, can't deal with erratic behavior for no reason... I don't even have a clue where to start looking for the problem, as there was no known trigger for this problem, whatsoever, probably some external event, I don't know... any hints appreciated. @helpers@admins
Aus Gründen habe ich gestern zum Testen einen Account bei #Friendica angelegt.
Auf den ersten Blick überraschte mich, dass es bei den Beiträgen kein Zeichenlimit gibt. Und die erst einmal erschlagende Vielfalt der Möglichkeiten.
Nach dem ersten Eindruck scheint mir, dass #Firefish am schönsten aussieht, Akkoma die übersichtlichste Lösung ist, Mastodon auf dem Desktop gruselig schlecht aussieht und im Vergleich zu allen anderen unnötigerweise (?) mit Einschränkungen versehen ist.
Ich werde jetzt ein paar Tage oder Wochen versuchen, mich in Friendica zurecht zu finden und dann entscheiden, was für mich am besten passt.
#Friendica is going to have a number of new posts in their groups(soon to be called called circles) In their June or September upgrade. I will be using the hell out of this!
I'm trying to do a bit of a social media detox (more just timeboxing my social media usage) but still want to post things. I therefore think I may add a "focus mode" to Relatica. My thought is that in focus mode is really about shutting out access to the timeline. So the only timeline you'll be able to see are your own posts. Notifications would be disable as with all other timelines. Creating posts will be fine. Browsing comments on your posts and commenting on comments would work too. Just a thought... #Relatica#friendica#fediverse
I’m still trying to get all my blogs to work with the fediverse. It’s very complicated if you have a multi site with sub folder installs for each site.
ich merke immer wieder dass mein #Mastodon Account auf #sueden.social mehr Beiträge anhand von #Hashtags findet, als mein #Friendica Account auf #anonsys.net.
Wenn ich auf Friendica den Beitrag von Mastodon dann manuell über die Suche aufrufe, dann wird er als Empfangen angezeigt.
Gibts hier irgendwelche Tricks? Wird wohl auch an der Größe der Instanz liegen.
Ich hatte mal testweise Mastodon Instanzen per RSS abonniert. Genauer Hashtags als #RSS. Das hat dann mehr Beiträge nach Friendica gespült. Irgendwann waren diese aber dann doppelt und dreifach, weshalb ich das Experiment wieder aufgegeben habe.
Mike Macgirvin, the long-time developer that brought us #Friendica, #Hubzilla, #Streams, and the #Zot protocol, is bringing his most powerful concept to the rest of the #Fediverse: Nomadic Identity.
It seems clear to me that the tech press, even those friendly to decentralization, are only interested in Threads, Bluesky, and whatever new idea some other VC fund or billionaire come up with. Mastodon and AP are mentioned in passing if at all. That's unfortunate. It's not just a chasing the money thing because it's the likes of people who have proven not to succumb to that, I'm not naming names. We on the D* and AP side of the fediverse, or social web as I have heard people call it recently, can still go about our business improving things incrementally and doing what we've always done. If another wave comes and we catch it fine. The tech press and pundits, even fediverse friendly ones, have sadly moved on. Ironically most of the articles I see on why they like Bluesky more than Mastodon, the rest of the fediverse doesn't get recognized at all ever and never has by these same people again except maybe in passing, are reasons why I haven't liked my Bluesky experience (which I've thankfully integrated into the Friendica part of the fediverse I reside in thanks to its bridge). But anyway...back to incremental improvement and growth and doing our own thing with the "normies" not considering us a valid option for the time being again. #rant#fediverse#bluesky#mastodon#friendica
@heluecht@helpers Leider kann ich die #Suchfunktion in #Friendica nicht wirklich nutzen. Wenn ich mehrere Begriffe eingebe und sie gfs mit einer #Suchtechnik verbinde, erhalte ich in den meisten Fällen den Hinweis, dass keine #Suchergebnisse gefunden wurden.
Mache ich da vielleicht etwas falsch oder ist die #Friendica-Suche anders programmiert als die allgemeine (Fediverse-)Suche?
If you haven't heard, sadly, #ChirpSocial, one of the popular #ActivityPub “groups” platform, is shutting down “probably” on February 29th.
In an email they sent to admins, the owner and developer can no longer support https://chirp.social financially as they failed to find a new job after they were laid off by #Google last year.
This reminds us the importance of having a built-in groups feature, and one where the groups feature actually federates.
Back in 2008, when the #Fediverse was born, we did have a built-in federated groups in #Laconica / #StatusNet (today known as #GNUsocial). We used bang (!) instead of at (@). A built-in groups feature is more stable as established instances can host them.
Today, we have #Friendica and #Hubzilla (as well as #Streams-based instances) to fill in that, as groups is a built-in feature in those software products. It's just a matter of finding an instance that's open to hosting groups for any topic for the ActivityPub protocol.
That said, any Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams-based instances you suggest for groups?
Yesterday in 2022 I moved over to this #friendica instance after my old instance of 4 years died. Yesterday the "On this day" option appeared in the 2022 archive page, and I was able to see everything I posted that day 2 years ago. I can also see it for last year as well. Not going to brag but I made that feature. It actually blows me away that I was able to do it with only a laymans understanding of coding.. So surreal. #fediverse
...with #Lemmy communities it works like this, that a post appears in the community if I tag the community account.
If this post arrives in the magazine, that would already be proof that it also works this way with kbin ;-)
Is there anything more to consider beyond that? Are there any special features?
How are "Title" and "Body" handled and displayed? @ernest
@OpenSource@selfhosted Is there a way to move all my data off Facebook and import it into my #friendica instance? That would include my posts, pictures, videos etc?
Hilfe | Friendica: Manchmal funktionieren die Erwähungen, manchmal nicht
Ich habe das Problem das beim Schreiben von Beiträgen die Erwähnungen manchmal funktionieren und manchmal nicht. Ich gebe z. B. @heidelber ein um die Gruppe @heidelberg@anonsys.net zu erwähnen. Manchmal bekomme ich dann das Auswahlfenster für die Erwähnung und manchmal auch nicht, kann die Erwähnungsfunktion also nicht nutzen und muss den Handle des Accounts vollständig eingeben. Das ist mir eben auch passiert als ich die Friendica Support Gruppe mit !helpers... erwähnen wollte.
Wo ist da das Problem? Habe ich evtl. etwas falsch eingestellt?
Dear #Friendica ,
When writing new posts like this one and also when writing comments aka replies, how do I auto complete user display names when mentioning them? Is it keyboard accessible.
Summing up tests "activating" and "deactivating" @[Mentioned people only] on #mastodon. Apparently there have been some changes.
(from v3 to v4?)
You can't add more people into already existing posts. They won't be able to display it nore get notifications.
(if that ever existed)
You can deactivate/delete mentions, the profile won't get notifications of updates but still can see or search those toots.
note:
still awaiting confirmation of behaviour on #friendica
I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only)
A while ago I posted a thread back on the...