Malayan Railways (#KTMB) is providing additional #trains in conjunction with 2023 State Elections (#PRN) and School Holidays.
Two additional Electric Train Service (#ETS) are provided from 11 August to 13 August for the #StateElections (which will take place on 12 August in the states of Selangor, Kelantan, Terengganu, Negeri Sembilan, Kedah and Penang) and from 25 August to 3 September for #SchoolHolidays.
The addition of the trains are due to the expected significant increase in the volume of people who will use it to return to #hometown to vote for their #states, particularly those from #Kedah and #Penang.
This is because a lot of people from those states living in Klang Valley are unable to change their #voting#address, because the place they're living at is not a #permanent place, while voting address in Malaysia must always match permanent address as written on #identification card.
Hometown: A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types.
Mmmh... si on m'avait posé la question, là, comme ça, j'aurais répondu que oui, bien sûr, Mastodon permettait de poster avec une visibilité locale.
Mais en fait non. Il faut un fork pour ça. 😕
Bon admettons. Mais le pire c'est que la page GitHub de Hometown explique que cette modification n'est pas désirée par le projet Mastodon, d'où la nécessité de créer Hometown.
Mais enfin Eugen qu'est-ce tu fous ?! On te livre une fonctionnalité supplémentaire sur un plateau et t'en veux pas ? En quoi pouvoir poster en local ça va venir casser ton paradigme ?
I'll have a backport for people running the older Hometown version 1.0.8+3.5.5 later today when I'm not stuck on my phone at an airport. Thank you @jasmin and @misty for your help!!
Hello again #hometown admins -- there was a bug in Mastodon's security patch that caused issues in the admin panel when viewing remote accounts. They released a fix about 15 minutes ago and I am working to get a Hometown release with that fix very soon.
I used a plugin on my #peertube server to do the same thing, so I can log on there with my #Hometown credentials. Perhaps it is finally time to spin up a pixelfed with a similar setup :blobthinkingcool:
I hope this sort of thing (eventually supporting any #OAuth IDp) becomes a standard feature of all fediverse apps...it would be fantastic for onboarding!
I joined Mastodon in February because of Musk threatening to block third party twitter apps, and I didn't want to just disappear, as tempting as that is sometimes. But on the whole I've ended up liking it here, and even more so since I moved to an instance with a decent moderation team.
I need exclusive lists in #Mastodon so that I can follow all these excellent news sites but put them in a list and not have them show up in my home feed. If #Hometown can do it then so can Mastodon!
is it possible to migrate a #mastodon#hometown server from domain.tld to social.domain.tld while retaining the existing user database and handles? i know about the #web_domain property but don't know if changing it in this way would break things. the server is managed via @support
i regret not setting it up on a subdomain to start off with, out of a combo of hubris and just really wanting our handles to be short and sexy lookin'
Hmmm, non-federating ActivityPub servers might actually be a good alternative to sth like Discord for (semi-)closed communities. Better in some ways even since people get to pick how to access it, via web interface or an app of their choice. And a follow-model maybe scales better for larger groups than everyone speaking over each other in channels.
Probably needs local-only posts though (which is still not integrated into mainline Mastodon, grumble, grumble)
:Blobhaj_Thinking:
Edit: of course it would work without local-only posts, because it's not federating. Should have been obvious … 🤦♀️
There's been plenty of buzz lately surrounding #Meta connecting to the #Fediverse through #ActivityPub. As a #FOSS project that hasn't yet shipped software that federates, we don't have too much to say yet. However, it's worth saying a few things about how #Pinetta will federate, in general.
Briefly, Pinetta is a creative tool with social characteristics. Server admins will be able to operate in both "allow mode" and "deny mode"; they can choose to federate with everyone, a select few, or even no one. This means, for example, that you'll be able to use Pinetta as a fully functional Fediverse server open to large communities, or as a private server—for instance, in the context of a school where students might produce and share work with only the school's community of learners, staff, and selected guests. Even if you choose to federate with other servers, users will have fine-grained control over the reach and visibility of their posts, similar to the way #Hometown and #Calckey users do. Essentially, we're aiming to make community safety as configurable as possible to meet the widest possible set of needs—including those of the most vulnerable people and communities.
As a project, we don't plan on hosting a central instance for very large numbers of users to use; for the time being, our goal is to gradually refine the software to allow it to respond to the needs of communities, and to foster the development of united, diverse and healthy communities based on respect and trust. Our aspiration is to serve humanity, whether it's by making a nice app or by creating human connections that allow good people to do good things together. We will amplify the voices of those who share these values and aspirations, and will work actively with collaborators everywhere to prevent harm.
I did it! I'm finally leaving mastodon.social for a Mastodon+Hometown instance of my own creation! You can now find my new account @kostyn !!!!
Thanks very much to @mart0 for your incredible step-by-step guide to hosting Mastodon for a begininer like me, and of course, to @darius for their incredible writings and work on Hometown.
P.S. don't fall for Facebook's ("Meta's") bullshit.
Doing a little victory dance because today #Hometown's "exclusive lists" feature was merged into Mastodon. Which means once it is part of a release, that is one less thing for me to maintain. Everything is going according to plan :AngelDevil:
How ya gonna expect most blind people to jump over to a different platform (with the exception to a #HomeTown instance), if all the work is being specifically put into Mastodon?
Mastodon monoculture problem (rys.io)