Interesting features in this one: language autodetect (you'll need to update to the latest electron build), new options on user profiles, accounts reorganization and some fixes too!
Fediverse-Serie: Pleroma & Akkoma: Einfache Kommunikation im Fediverse
Pleroma und Akkoma gehören wegen ihrer Einfachheit zu den beliebtesten Diensten im Fediverse. Gegenüber Mastodon bieten sie default 5000 Zeichen und einige weitere Funktionen.
Les gens qui montent leur propre instance, vous faites quoi pour essayer d’autres applications (notamment Pleroma et Firefish) ? Est-ce que vous créer un deuxième compte et vous tester pendant un moment (quitte à avoir 2-3 comptes) ? Vous déménagez direct et on verra plus tard si je re-déménage ?
It's a "language support" update: new post language settings, translation, etc.
Also, if you're using the Electron build, update to the last one (1.7.0) and get spellchecker synchronization when you change the language in the post editor!
Are there any #fediverse platforms that don't compress or others ruin image uploads? #mastodon reduces many images to under 2000 pixels in either direction, usually in the 1600-1800 range from what I've seen.
As far as admins being unkind to each other, I wonder if this is more of a #Mastodon & (to a lesser degree) #Pleroma cultural issue‽
I rarely see any hostility amongst #Pixelfed or #Misskey users, as both communities emphasize politeness & respect towards each other. I wonder why some platforms are friendlier than others‽
Wer es noch nicht kennt: Ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus dem großartigen #Fediverse! Gerne mit Menschen teilen, die hier noch neu sind. Dazu passt auch der Beitrag »Das Fediverse: Social Media losgelöst von den Fesseln kommerzieller Interessen«. 👇
is there a spreadsheet of how much it costs to run a #Mastodon instance based on # of users & activity?
i would like to see numbers from the hundreds to the millions
it would be cooler if we could have that information extended to all the other #fediverse platforms: #Pixelfed#Lemmy#Pleroma and amma gonna throw in #Drupal#OpenSocial in case there's any instances using ActivityPub & federating
(* lazyfedi is my take on the legendary #lazyweb asks from blogging days)
Here's a free, unsolicited marketing advice for the fediverse. First, take this words out of your vocabulary:
fediverse
instances
decentralized
server
ActivityPub
Never talk about those. Nobody cares. Nobody says that e-mail uses IMAP.
Second, call your username as "address" to make it easy. Mine is "@ fabioromeo @ calckey.art" (space added to break the autoformatting here), and you can find me at Mastodon.
"But you're using Calckey!"
Yes, I am. No, it doesn't matter. That's my third advice. If the user is new, sell it at Mastodon. Pleroma, misskey, calckey, doesn't matter. Drop your ego. You want this thing to work, you have to leverage the most familiar name. Two is one too many, it adds confusion to the regular user. If you really need it, sell the others as providers with extra features.
Last, never say "server" (see first advice). Say "service" or "provider". My provider is mastodon.social. Oh, they're not accepting new users? Try calckey.social, I heard they're pretty good too.
People join a service like Mastodon for one reason: to communicate. They want to read from people they like, and they want to talk. That's it. They don't give a shit about what makes this thing run. They WILL frown and balk at any sign of complexity that looks like an obstacle to what they want to do.
The fediverse suffers from the Linux ego, where everyone is too self important and too self centered, claiming that their own solution is the one and definitive, and it failed at homes because of that. Linux, like the fediverse, is too fragmented, too opinionated for its own good, struggling to gain space into people's life and finding solace amog the nerds and technical people.
And to me, that's a tragedy. Twitter was bought not to satisfy a billionaire's ego, but to silence dissenting voices that organized through that platform, an easy and simple to understand way of communication. If we want an open alternative to succeed, we need to stop the discussions about the technicalities and start talking about how it can enrich people's lives.
In the beginning, there was Laconica, which later became known as StatusNet. A massive amount of the work that went into this is due to Evan Prodromou ( @evan ) , who is now spearheading an effort to standardize work on a communication protocol with the W3C Social Working Group.As a networking project, it was the first public implementation of the communication protocol known as OpenMicroBlogging, which later evolved into the OStatus protocol. These technologies provided a significant building block for future federated networking projects to study and reference.
In terms of how StatusNet was used, it resembled an early version of Twitter, with the added benefit of group functionality. What made it unique is that users on one Laconica server could communicate with users on completely different servers.