Most #bigtech social media platforms allow personalisation: like a profile picture or a header image for example.
What if we'd use these to advertise the #fediverse? Help those unaware of the existence of the fediverse to explore it & experience the Internet as intended.
Use those in-active Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram etc accounts for some good!
What do you think? Could we organize something like this?
@zleap kindly serves a copy of a fediverse flyer we made in Feb 2021. Its only dated because it doesn't push #Akkoma but Pleroma, which no longer works in Tor. If our memory is correct #Pleroma slows Tor to a crawl. The flyer is based around the older icon. Is also probably too complex understand in some parts.
@caos Es setzen nicht alle Plattformen "Markdown" gleich um. #Pleroma macht aus Markdown HTML und sendet es dann so. #Firefish sendet "richtiges Markdown" - so viel ich weiss - das kann dann auch #Pleroma nicht richtig darstellen. @caos@kathakatze@nick
@fediverse Let's face it. When talking about the Fediverse, it is very hard to sell interoperability between different types of instances as a major advantage.
#Tusky is a classic app, available also on F-Droid. There exists more members... #Pachli was started based on Tusky 23. And there are #Husky (adding #Pleroma specific stuff) and #Yuito.
so far in terms of my desired features and rough usage here at blahaj, it seems that either #pleroma or #akkoma is what i want. unless there is an even more lightweight one that isn't microblog.pub?
Journalists are realising Mastodon and the Fediverse is not so complicated to use after all
As Notopoulos writes, the Fediverse is a better, more user-centric social media concept than the one we currently have, where you amass followers on a single platform then lose them if that platform dies or becomes bad and you decide to quit. Federated social ...continues
How can the one we have be better than the one we have?
Perhaps it would have been clearer if the latter was presented in past tense - the one we had?
#Mastodon_social does not, however, qualify, since it is itself the deprecated model, considering it's just another monolithic silo itself in most respects.
Journalists are also realizing stock Mastodon isn't acceptable either due to a paltry 500 char limit; #Friendica, #Mitra, #Pleroma, #Firefish - much better!
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I don’t have time to check my socials during a busy workday so I usually browse in the evenings or weekends. Oh boy. Just went through reading hundreds of comments.
Never experienced anything like this on other social media platforms before. Even on LinkedIn when my update got viral once and had like hundreds of thousands of impressions I’ve never got as much comments than on here on a regular Monday!
@rolle just to correct you, will ask a few questions:
You're stating that #Fediverse is social, but you only saying so, just because you got a huge number of followers. People from 0-35 to 100 followers don't get that much attention, unlike you. At least, that's how Mastodon's algorithm specifically works, unlike Friendica's and other networks's algorithms!
Keep in mind, that #Mastodon isn't "Fediverse". Fediverse is a huge large, as I call it, "collection" of many (as I call them) "projects" (or "networks" if you want to call it that way), that includes #Friendica , #Diaspora (many people mention that network but nobody discusses/recommends it, which is weird. Plus, Friendica is the only one Fediverse project that supports Diaspora protocol, so how on the Earth does Diaspora counts as a part of Fediverse, I gotta no clue, buddy!), #Pleroma , #BookWyrm , #Pixelfed and #Mastodon too (didn't listed them all, but you got my point, I think, right?).
@Aakerbeere ist nicht Mainz im weitesten Sinne in und um Koblenz gelegen 😉 ?
... nee, im Ernst: denke, #Akkoma / #Pleroma wird relativ viel von SingleUser-Instanzen genutzt, weil es auch sehr sparsam laufen soll. Es gab zwischenzeitlich auch mal ein paar mehr offene Instanzen, die aber momentan die Registrierung geschlossen haben, wie disroot.org zum Beispiel. @crossgolf_rebel
Making people pay to tweet should be the nail in the coffin for #Twitter; but then again I thought turning it into a glorified Parler would've been that nail already. As they say, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Like, everyone outside of Mastodon must issue a #CW if they use
bold type
italics
a code block
a bullet-point list
or anything like that because it irritates those who are still used to the #Fediverse only being old-school Mastodon. You know, just like #LongPosts with over #500Characters.
But most people will hear about #mastodon first and there are many #mastodon instances with longer limits that would suit those people perfectly, if only they could find them easily.
Would it make sense for Notesnook to be able to publish notes to ActivityPub? Is that a right use case for it or would it require hacks? What would be the best way to approach/implement this?
From a very quick research, it'd require a self hosted fediverse compatible server. Users would have to sign up or their accounts would need to be created there.
Thank you for putting out that query - short answer is...
Yes. You definitely have a use case here, but first, being just a little familiar with your product I'd like to welcome you to the #Fediverse even though your arrival coincided with the November Rain phenomenon that was much todo about nothing, and in the end, most Twitugees simply returned there after creating accounts here - I'm glad you stuck around! You're product is FOSS, and this is a #FOSS world here in the Fediverse, so it makes sense, this being your natural home and where people can expect to find you :)
Ever since I decided to ditch the proprietary Evernote, I've been using a #Vim Plugin that uploads my buffer to a Gist in an easy peasy way - it would be really kewl if I had a way to send (encrypted or unencrypted) notes to myself as a Fediverse DM, or share some of them with a select group of others in such a manner - Maybe (if it's textual in nature) actual clips I've saved. The graphics, well, if they are uploaded as a graphic that will work too, and they can even be sent to #Pixelfed accounts (if there is a graphics or movie file).
So, you're concerned about having to setup a centralized server or something that your userbase can be recognized on or something? Perhaps like a relay of sorts? I don't think that's the way to go actually. It sounds like a lot of heartache that might not even surivive beyond the intial proof of concept is rolled out - Spam being just one reason that makes the likelihood of failure a distinct possibility.
Here's what I think you can try doing, and it will alleviate any grandiose plans you may have been kicking around - Keep it in the client. A feature mechanism that either lets you clip and post it as an #ActivityPubNOTE to a user's actual instance (server) where they already have an account - You can collect the user's Fediverse account credentials and use that to post to their own existing account - no additional infrastructure is required on your part.
Those posts can be a single post to oneself (a private Fediverse DM to themselves) or it can include a list of recipients - just like any other post you can make.
This will also afford you the absolute maximum in #Spam_control too! You don't have to accept any registrations obo your Fediverse features - you're merely allowing people with existing Fediverse accounts to enter their credentials into your client and then your users make the decision as to whether they want to use your existing store or their Fediverse account to publish the clips to their stores there.
Since you've been around here for a while now, I'm sure you've realized how severely limited mastodon is when it comes to ways you can exploit the existing capabilities in the Fediverse - I've already mentioned Pixelfed, but there's a lot of other platforms that support HTTP signatures necessary for backfills and e2ee constructs; the support for BBCode and/or Markdown; post containing text with character counts greater than the paltry 500 characters that masto can muster, #LaTEX (actually, only Misskey and Firefish support that at this time AFAIK); local only posts (shared only with those who have accounts on the same instance), and a host of other unsupported features in masopub.
I appreciate that you made the effort to address this as an ActivityPub and Fediverse capability, and not simply, "yet another mastodon branded feature". Especially when mastodon won't be able to take advantage of many of the advanced features you already offer that other more capable Fediverse platforms can make use of :)
If you focus on adding support for people to enter their Fediverse account credentials, or multiple accounts like #Takahe and #Fedilab and #Misskey support, Then those are the servers you need right there! The spam problem remains as it is with the particular instances, since they control the new account registrations.
There's also the rapid adoption of #smolweb and single-user focused Fediverse platforms too, such as:
And of course, any platform, now matter how heavy or resource intensive can be deployed as a smolweb or single-user instance (even the klunky kludgey mastodon). And speaking of which, there are several popular forks that don't have these limitations that are very popular like #Hometown and #Glitch-soc, Etc.
There may even be some use cases for #Lemmy and #Kbin too, as link/discussion boards too - perhaps posting from a users vault/store to those platforms? There's a lot of different possibilities but ActivityPub can open up a huge market for you while at the same time Fediverse is exposed to large numbers of people who will discover that they too may have a good use case to adopt for themselves a Fediverse account :)
tl;dr: Basically, yes! there's a huge use case for your thoughts there - and if you're reading this on a Mitra, #Pleroma, Soapbox, #Akkoma, Firefish, Friendica, Hubzilla, or Misskey server, you'll see some very pretty formatting in Markdown - if you're reading this on a regular mastodon server (not one of the really good and popular forks), then... not so much - but at least mastodon does degrade Markdown and HTML somewhat gracefully :)
Well I hope that helps and do feel free to reach out to me via my contact methods listed in my profile or in the Fediverse-City Matrix room, and I'm sure that we can get a few of some of the more prominent Fediverse platform devs to round-table with you for some wire framing sessions.
I'm confident that you'll find a lot of support in your endeavor to achieve this initiative.
In a few weeks @w3c social web community group meeting may receive a proposal to explore chartering new social web working group that would only be open to people who work at W3C member companies. (The CG is open to all). Today there was an in person discussion at TPAC, the yearly W3C-wide f2f. It was a day-of addition to the agenda. Now is a good time to join the CG, subscribe to mailing list, and start participating in the discussions. https://www.w3.org/community/SocialCG/#vote#activitypub
@BlackAzizAnansi
Yes, it will run on a VPS, and there are companies who will do that for you. Mastodon itself can be resource intensive but there are less demanding alternatives such as @firefish and #pleroma or #akkoma
Extra-features (disabled by default) is somewhat confusing in #Fedilab.
This option allows to enable features that #Mastodon doesn't support (quotes, reactions, submit messages in a specific format, etc.)
But softwares like #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #GlitchSocial, #FireFish don't support (currently) same features.
We plan to use #NodeInfo to automatically enable features depending on the user's instance (ie: software).
My #Fediverse viewer now supports any server type (as long as the server's APIs are correctly configured)!
Find out if a server is right for you based on custom emojis, character limit, users, translation, and more.