#introduction You might know me as @april but in reality this is my new account!
Pronouns it; fae
I'm involved in the Chaos Computer Club, holding talks, helping make events happen.
I am developing #Iceshrimp a *key derivative
Part of the Antifa, enjoyer of Freifunk
Package maintainer for NixOS #neuhier
i knew that it is possible to delete other *key users' replies to my posts by deleting my original post, but i haven't known that deleting an original post entails deletion of other *key users' quotes of the deleted post > this is so cool :abunhdhappy:
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.
Meanwhile me, also using #Hajkey#Iceshrimp, has #MFM animations turned off and @ada wrote me a bit of CSS to minimise it too cos I can't stand too much of it lol.
Suite à ma migration d’instance j’en profite pour reposter une #introduction :
Je m’appelle AntoineÐ, j’ai rejoint læ #fediverse le 3 avril 2017 et la découverte d’#ActivityPub a révolutionné ma conception des réseaux sociaux sur internet.
#Utilitariste#Sentientiste, je cherche donc autant que possible à minimiser les souffrances et maximiser le bonheur des individus capable de ressentir ces émotions.
Je suis donc au passage #AntiSpéciste et donc #Végane mais je ne me limite pas à ces luttes.
J’aime bien faire de la #Photo, je vais voir si le système de galerie de #Iceshrimp convient mieux a mon besoin que #Mastodon.
(je préfère tout avoir sur la même identité plutôt que de les poster sur PixelFed)
Et aujourd’hui ça fait exactement 7ans que je suis passé de l’azerty au #bépo 🎂
Feditext beta users, today's TestFlight build 69 includes various fixes and workarounds for Firefish and Hajkey.
we will be working with server devs to get some of those fixed on the server side (for Hajkey's case, in Iceshrimp), so that future clients won't have to special-case anything.
known not to work in this release:
Hajkey's suggested accounts to follow: displays an error message
intermittent foreign key constraint error when browsing Firefish or Hajkey timelines: you don't need to report this one, we're already investigating
Is there any way to have my instance fetch posts/notes after they've been sent? For example if I encounter a new person, I can't see any of their posts unless they're pinned. Or is that just a limitation of the fediverse, if your instance didn't see it when it happened, it doesn't exist? #help#sysadmin#instanceadmin#hajkey#iceshrimp
I gotta admit, Misskey is kinda fun and fresh compared to the Calckey stuff. I feel like #calckey / #firefish / #iceshrimp / whatever else forks all kinda went more for a focused, simple, English-language software while Misskey wanted to be different and have a little fun, not worrying about the people who say "THIS IS BLOATTTTT AAAAA"
Ultimately what I use depends on FEATURES. I don't care about fedidrama.
If Firefish develops features faster than Iceshrimp I'll switch.
If Iceshrimp develops features faster than Firefish I'll stay.
So FAR, I'm finding very hard to run my own dev version with Iceshrimp while with FF it's damn easy.
I might drop them both and use the one of my goddess since she's much better coder than I'll ever be, and she'll merge whatever's good from either anyway.
If the Iceshrimp devs had launched focused purely on what they bring to the table I'd not have had any issue with them whatsoever. More forks that feed into the whole are always welcome.
But this whole "we're the outfit that LISTENS to our users" is sticking in my craw a bit. It feels petty, vindictive and kinda arrogant for an outfit that has just started. Oh, and you're going to accept every user request you receive, are you? Of course you arent. No dev can or does. And it really is rude to suggest that the Firefish devs haven't listened to anything after the months of hard, hard work they've been visibly putting in to make things better or even just keep things running.
I mean, which of the following statements reads better:
A: We're not like Twitter. We're going to be better than them in terms of user safety.
B: We're focused on putting your safety at the forefront of everything we do.
It's B, of course. The tonally-neutral, non-accusative, wholly positive statement.
Also, if you don't want to be Firefish or associate with Firefish don't name yourselves using their naming convention? It's a bit like hating Twitter but calling yourself "Tooter". (I'm aware of Firefox/Iceweasel before anyone feels the need to educate) You're describing yourselves as a "Fork of Misskey" so why drop the *key convention? And which codebase did you actually fork off? If it was Misskey then that makes the name choice doubly confusing? As well as being weirdly close to what Firefish have done it's also really lacking originality. Firefish is too but this was your chance to be better than that and you blew it in favour of a cheap shot.
I saw the spat between the lead devs of both 'fish and 'shrimp prior to shrimp's launch and ignored it as yet more Dev Drama, but this very much feels like that bad feeling spilling over into Shrimp's work, an attitude that, in concert with other recent attacks on the 'Fish devs, is now leading some to recommend leaving Fish to go to Shrimp or repeat vindictive Shrimp statements in their own messaging. It's absurd how frikkin bitchy the Fediverse can be sometimes, and we still flatter ourselves that we're better than Centralised networks or the behaviour of their spiteful billionaire owners.
Iceshrimp's Project "Anti-goals":
No Flashy marketing
There is nothing wrong with having a professional approach to your work or using some of the tools of corporate environments, especially if you're keeping your hand in to ensure you can still be employed by those same outfits. The new name launch was an event that had Calckey users buzzing.> No Commercialization of any kind
There hasn't been any in Firefish. Look up the word?
These aren't things just plucked out of the ether; these are both specific criticisms of Firefish that have been aired by some, privately held by others, written as a project descriptor.
I'm aware the devs of my current home Instance have made the choice to disassociate from Firefish in favour of the Shrimp codebase, and I approve of their decision based as it is on the commitment to deliver more safety for their very marginalised community, though I do feel the loss of Firefish DNA-sharing is a real shame. However, I personally won't be recommending Iceshrimp to anyone until they can focus on not being passive-aggressive jerks about what/who they are very clearly and obviously reacting against. Projects that succeed stand on their own merits; shitting on an adversary to make yourself look better is the realm of Politicians and Corporate Bullying.
You can follow the #blahajzone and #Hajkey hashtags from your secondary accounts should performance further degrade here while @supakaity does the backend migrations etc
I'm also posting to these hashtags from my @jo#Iceshrimp account.
You can follow the #blahajzone and #Hajkey hashtags from your secondary accounts should performance further degrade here while @supakaity does the backend migrations etc
I'm posting to these hashtags from my @jo#Iceshrimp account.
You can follow the #blahajzone and #Hajkey hashtags from your secondary accounts should performance further degrade here while @supakaity does the backend migrations etc
I'm posting to these hashtags from my @jo#Iceshrimp account.