Apparently, Tumblr's CEO stepped on his crank and outed himself as a TERF. We does not abide the TERF. No we doesn't.
If you're fleeing #Tumblr and checking out the #fediverse, welcome! I hope you find a home here. You have quite a few options with #Mastodon, #Miskey, #Firefish#Sharkey (I'm posting this from sharkey.world), and the practically thousands of instances within those. Each have their own flavor and features, so don't feel you have to settle on one off the bat. It's not unusual to see new users sign up on one instance, then eventually move to another, then another before they find the community that fits them best.
Looking for something more "bloggy"? Bear Blog and Pika are two services offering simple blogging tools with an emphasis on "small blogging". They are unassociated with the major blogging platforms and offer a fresh alternative to them.
The flagship instance of Fire Fish is now OFFLINE.
The significance of this event is many of the Fire Fish Developers have previously come forward claiming the lead developer vanished. Unfortunately, the lead developer treated their project as a centralized project, meaning that they were the sole person making decisions, giving no access to accounts or code changes or even donations, despite having a team behind them.
Es kommt leider wohl genauso, wie ich es befürchtet habe. Die Firefish Basteltruppe scheint mit ihren eigenen Modifikationen und Entwicklungen überfordert zu sein.
Deren eigener #Entwicklungsserver ist seit rund zwei Wochen offline, und Firefish-Social, nun ja, wer dort ein Konto hat, kann sicherlich näheres berichten.
Seit über drei Monaten erscheint kein neuer #Release und der zuletzt veröffentlichte Release-Kandidat scheint mir auch nur eine umbenannte #Entwicklerversion zu sein. Zudem hat die Datenbank bei mir die vierfache Größe meiner Misskey-Datenbank 😲
Die aktuelle Version sieht in vielen Bereichen noch ganz stark wie #Misskey aus, aber mir scheint dieser Fork viele der Neuerungen wie die »Reactions«, die für mich mit ein Grund war #Firefish zu testen, werden wohl Stück für Stück auch dort integriert, die wesentlich besseren Voraussetzungen für eine wirklich funktionierende Instanz zu haben.
Ich werde denjenigen, denen ich bereits auf meiner Firefish-Instanz folge, auch hier erneut folgen.
Those wanting to try out an alternative to Mastodon, you're welcome to create an account on https://sharkey.world. #Sharkey has a very different layout, but most of the same features as Mastodon, and many features Mastodon hasn't. Just see for yourself, and it's fine to either use it as a second account, or you can decide to migrate your current account to it, if you really like it.
Out of curiosity, I tested the Mastodon Autopost plugin on Wordpress with my Sharkey test instance, and well it works with their version of the Mastodon API. I can authorize with it and send a test post. This is something that does not work on Firefish, so at least there is one working autosharing plugin.
Sadly, the one built into Jetpack still doesn't work, probably has to do with their implementation of OAuth.
So....I want to migrate from Mastodon to Sharkey. The catch is, I would LIKE to end up back on my current domain....is this possible at all?
I have a domain I could park a Sharkey instance to migrate to, but if I make a new Sharkey instance on my current domain after I shut the Mastodon instance down, will I be able to migrate back with little issue?🤔
Ich habe gestern eine Subdomain angelegt, ein Zertifikat dafür erzeugt und dann nach der Anleitung in der Dokumentation sharkey mit Docker installiert. nginx zeigt per Reverse-Proxy auf den Container und die Seite ist auch ganz regulär erreichbar. Nach dem ersten Aufruf musste/habe ich das Admin-Konto erstellt. Soweit alles prima.
Nun habe ich aber zwei (womöglich noch mehr) fette Probleme. Ein Datei-Upload ins Drive bricht mit einer Fehlermeldung ab. Ich kann also nicht einmal ein Profilbild, nochsonst irgendwas hochladen. Leider hilft mir die Fehlermeldung nicht weiter, denn die ist einfach nur kryptisch:
Hochladen fehlgeschlagen
Internal error occurred. Please contact us if the error persists.
INTERNAL_ERROR
5d37dbcb-891e-41ca-a3d6-e690c97775ac
Was will mir das sagen? Wo liegt das Problem? Was habe ich beim Installieren ggf. übersehen?
Noch schlimmer ist, dass ich nicht föderiere und meine Instanz irgendwie keine anderen Instanzen "sieht". Eine Suche nach Nutzern führt zur Fehlermeldung> Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten
oder ähnlich.
Ich habe einige Relays eingerichtet. Die globale Timeline ist auch aktiv, wobei etliches da auch nicht landet.
Kann mir jemand (der eventuell ähnliche Probleme hatte) mal irgendwie einen Tipp geben? Muss keine fertige Lösung sein... ich wühle mich gerne selbst durch. Derzeit habe ich jedoch keine Idee.
Yesterday I created a subdomain, generated a certificate for it and then installed sharkey with Docker according to the instructions in the documentation. nginx points to the container via reverse proxy and the site is also accessible as normal. After the first call, I had to/have created the admin account. So far everything is fine.
But now I have two (possibly more) big problems. A file upload to Drive is cancelled with an error message. So I can't even upload a profile picture or anything else. Unfortunately, the error message doesn't help me because it's just cryptic:> Upload failed
Internal error occurred. Please contact us if the error persists.
INTERNAL_ERROR
5d37dbcb-891e-41ca-a3d6-e690c97775ac
What is this trying to tell me? What is the problem? What might I have overlooked when installing?
What's worse is that I'm not federating and my instance somehow doesn't "see" any other instances. A search for users leads to the error message> An error has occurred
or similar.
I have set up some relays. The global timeline is also active, although some things don't end up there either.
Can someone (who may have had similar problems) give me a tip? Doesn't have to be a ready-made solution... I like to dig through it myself. But at the moment I have no idea.
@puniko
I could not login today because the sign in pop up got under Ai's chest.
I reloaded and restarted browser, invalidated cache a lot but it did not help. I deleted the picture in the inspector but it was not just the picture, popup was at the very bottom layer of the interface and did not receive any clicks or keyboard focus.
I ended up deleting all of the front page interface until only login popup remained, and then I could login. #sharkey
I'm definitely moving away from #Firefish (@irfan) and making this #Sharkey instance my new home. Most of my exports have finally completed (why does it take so long even just to export small following lists and such?), and I'm just waiting for my notes/posts export to hopefully complete sooner than later since I heard that migrating away from FF would cause you to lose access to the account or something like that? Idk sounds kinda weird and complicated. Happy to be moving, and happy to see others have moved too from such a dumpster fire of an instance of an otherwise neat service/project.
Back when my naive self started Fedi, I went with the most known software (mastodon). But after months of dev incompetence, it's obviously not where I want to be, but I like my domain....
I guess I'm basically stuck with all these bad UI updates and no moderation features....😬🤦♂️
Hello again #Fediverse, I may need your #fedihelp. So, here's a list of the Fediverse software I'm about to make temporary accounts for to test all the features and differences:
So, did I miss anything noteworthy? Does anyone have any tips or recommendations before I choose a server for any one of these? I'll probably be going for the most popular server on each for improved federation and maintenance.
Note: I'm using #Sharkey right now and Misskey forks are already overrepresented, so that's why it's not included.
Ich werde der ein oder andere Person einen #Fediverse#Account auf meinen #Server ermöglichen und habe dazu eine allgemeinere #Domain als meine eigene crazy-to-bike.de registriert.
Nun stellt sich noch die Frage nach der richtgen #Software für die #Instanz.
Das gefällt mir aber im Vergleich zu anderen Möglichkeiten weder optisch, noch finde ich die #Zeichenlimitierung gut.
Derzeit bin ich ja auf #Firefish unterwegs, aber das scheint den letzen Prognosen zu Folge ein höchstwahrscheinlich totes Pferd zu sein.
#Sharkey als weiteren #Misskey-Nachfolger #Fork teste ich gerade auch, was für mich eine mögliche Alternative zu Firefish ist. Aber auch dieses Projekt ist ja noch sehr frisch und in meinen Augen einfach nicht absehbar, wie dauerhaft das Ganze fortbesteht.
Auf #Friendica war ich ja auch schon eine Zeit lang unterwegs, aber das ist optisch auch sehr angestaubt und hat bei mir auf dem Server auch datenbanktechnisch rebelliert.
Ich weiß, dass es noch eine ganze Reihe Alternativen gibt, will und kann aber nicht alles durchprobieren.
Daher hoffe ich auf gute Tipps.
Wichtig ist
kein, hohes oder einstellbares Zeichenlimit
gute Strukturierung und Kategoriesierung von Lesezeichen (wie bei Firefish und Sharkey mit den Clips)
Folgen von #Hastags und / oder Begriffen (wie bei Firefish und Sharkey mit den Newspickern / Antennen)
gutes, ansprechendes und leicht bedienbares responsive Design für die Nutzung auf dem Smartphone (oder volle Unterstützung durch eine App wie bei Mastodon)
Schön wäre
Konfigurierbarkeit des Speicherverbrauchs durch die Föderation (was wird wie lange auf dem eigenen Server vorgehalten) wie bei Mastodon
automatische Löschung von Beiträgen konfigurierbar wie bei Mastodon
hohe Wahscheinlichkeit einer nachhaltigen Weiterentwicklung
Moderierte Kontoerstellung wie bei Mastodon
Je länger ich hier schreibe, denke ich, dass Mastodon für sehr vieles davon wohl die richtige Software wäre - will ich aber eigentlich aus Gründen nicht.
Better start looking for a Sharkey compatible iOS app I guess....IceCubes doesn't seem to support it, even though Sharkey claims to use the Mastodon API, I guess that's not enough for seemless app usage....😬
Antennas.
Antennas are effectively custom timelines. They work approximately like watching hashtags, but they can look for normal text as well. You can add as many phrases as you like and the results can be filtered with an ignore list.
You can make an antenna that just shows posts from specific users and notifies you when they post something new, you can make an antenna that collects posts containing or excluding certain key words, or you can make an antenna that collects only posts with files attached. You can even make an antenna consisting of “Posts from specific users” with “Show replies” checked.
Setting up
You can set up antenna by going to the More! section on your sidebar, and selecting Antennas. Press Add + to create your first. This is where you can also manage & edit previously created antennas.
Images:
Where to find More! on the sidebar (highlighted)
Where to find Antennas in the More! menu (highlighted)
My antennas page showing Add + button and my previously created antennas.
4 & 5) When you click Add + you get this page to set up your antenna. I've set one up as my Calckey antenna and another to alert me when PastaThief posts. There's a lot to go through here. Expect a separate post sometime soon.
6 & 7) What those antenna feeds look like.
On our progressive web app you can access your antennas by selecting the UFO in the top right corner.
Clicking on the UFO button brings up all my antennas and the link to manage/edit them
The increased spam bots have show that misskey instances lack moderation tools to deal with massive spam campaigns, we will be looking into improving instance moderation tools in #sharkey, to maybe get them as powerful as Akkoma MRF or atleast close
It's almost time. We're super-excited. #FediGroups is entering public testing now, before a full live launch.
Many of us have used other Boosting Groups, but they only work well if you follow from Mastodon accounts. We know there is a wider fediverse. FediGroups works with all the favourites, including #Mastodon, #Firefish, #Iceshrimp, #Catodon, #Sharkey, and more. One big happy family 👪
This is why you use Sharkey and not Mastodon. You won't get these strange sports betting users trying to sign up for your instance just to advertise their betting site.
Sharkey does what Mastdon't. :sylveonsmug:
(But no joke, we get these accounts every day and I have to end up suspending them).
:MokouWha: what's with #forkey related developers doing shit in the #fediverse that can only be dreamed by the absolutely deranged :suwawawa:
first we have someone trying to make migrating a #mastodon instance to #sharkey possible, now we have #firefish to some #tumblr lookalike called #wafrn :TenshMelt:
pls keep coming up with this shit, the fedi needs more of this :RumiaPray:
Ok, so apparently #Sharkey has ListenBrainz integration, but I'm not sure how it works :neofox_googly_shocked:
There's a text field in the user settings that just says "ListenBrainz", but doesn't explain what I'm supposed to type here. Do I just need to type my username, or am I supposed to copy and paste my user token? :neofox_googly_shocked: