TIL that you can click on timestamps in the notification section to open the full conversation thread in Pleroma UI. 🤯
This is a game changer for me. I won't feel the need for a custom front end anymore. Such a simple thing has been a major pain point all this while.🤣
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!
How? You know you can join more than one server and export/import your follow lists?
There's no reason to be beholden to just one server and when I joined #Mastodon last November almost everyone I followed was on more than one instance.
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.
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.
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.
I was REALLY disappointed to see the GoFundMe for a non-federating CalcKey instance for Black Fediverse users (supported by some of the most important Fediverse founders besides the LGBTQ+ ones) was shut down. It is nearly impossible for Black folx to use the Mastodon Network. It NEEDS to be easier. To this end I have started a new #Pleroma fork named #Melanoma.
Features:
runs on lower hardware specs like feature phones
easy installation via Verizon App Store
named after the most powerful chemical compound in the universe, melanin
The below, incidentally is what happens if you don't run self-destruct when closing a fedi server.
The green line is the total number of "hey this server's dying!" pings that mastodon.bloonface.com has sent out. Total for today is about 278k. The red line is the number that have failed because the destination instances is unreachable. These are running at about 25% of total requests. On a dip sample, the servers that have failed have just gone down - simply deleted from the Internet.
If the self-destruct command had been run on all these instances, that'd be 25% off the total of about 700,000 requests, because m.b.c would already know that they're dead, and know not to ping them. I'd also have been using less disk space, since Mastodon will scrub all user and post records for dead servers once notified. I wouldn't mind so much but this is coming up to 24 hours just running these scripts and it'd almost be done by now if all these servers had shut down cleanly, and time is quite literally money here (since I can use a smaller Linode plan once m.b.c is gone, since even a Mastodon instance with nobody using it is a massive drain on disk space and system resources.)
Please, for the love of god, if you're going to decommission your Mastodon instance, whether it be because you can't afford it or you're sick of Mastodon or you're just bored... please run tootctl self-destruct (or whatever the equivalent is on #Pleroma/#Misskey/#Calckey/whatever) and wait for the Sidekiq queue to clear before doing so. It'll save everyone else a lot of aggro in the long run.
I would be very interested in knowing if there are #fediverse projects other than #mastodon that will be committed to keeping a pure Fediverse, #activityPub spec and compatibility THAT IS NOT lead or even influenced by #meta ...
I fear that our BENEVOLENT Dictator may succumb to the dark side quite quickly:(
#mastohelp
I installed #pleroma via OTP release and i can log in, I'm federated and is mostly working. But I cannot upload media: it fails saying the uploaded file cannot be moved from /tmp to pleroma's media folder. I tried to write in both position with the pleroma user to be sure the user can actually write: it can. Anyone has an hint on what is possibly going wrong?
Trying out #Lemmy. First impressions are that it's a bit intimidating.
Much like moving from Twitter to #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #CalcKey, #Akkoma, or others, Lemmy intially appears rather sparse compared to #Reddit (or at least the instance I joined does). As with the rest of the #Fediverse, you have to seek out communities to join. However, the decentralisation of Lemmy introduces some friction there which isn't present on Reddit, and I haven't really experienced it on Mastodon either.
Does anyone know if posts from Pleroma/Akkoma can be embedded?
This closed issue from three years ago suggests this should be possible, but I can't seem to get this to work. Unless this is not typically enabled on instances?