@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

ada

@ada@blahaj.zone

I'm an Australian woman, based in Meanjin / Brisbane, but in love with Argentina. In a previous life, I was a Trans activist, runner, and RollerDerby player. Now that we are all "post" covid, I feel like I'm still somehow finding my feet, and working out what I want to keep from my old life, and what I want to add to it! I have the feeling I will never get a final answer :)

I'm co-admin blahaj.zone and lemmy.blahaj.zone.

My photography can be found at @ada https://pixelfed.au/i/portfolio/Ada

I can also be found on matrix at ada:chat.blahaj.zone

Estoy aprendiendo español y a veces mi toots estará en mal español!

​:blahaj_zone:​ ​:Blobhaj_Ani_Hearts:​ ​:Blobhaj_Flag_Transgender:​ ​:Blobhaj_Flag_Transfemme:​

Banner image is a wide angle photo of Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, taken from La Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur

#Meanjin #Brisbane #Trans #transgender #RollerDerby #queer #español #espanol #BuenosAires #Argentina #runner #parkrun

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rolle, to fediverse
@rolle@mementomori.social avatar

I would like to endorse other minor web apps in the #Fediverse, but most of them are full of UI glitches, are incomplete and downright buggy looking odd things.

From my designer point of view #Mastodon and #Pixelfed are the only effective ones, because they speak to people who are used to proper visual design language (read: Non-nerds, non-engineers, the regular people and design oriented people).

Things like #BookWyrm, #Lemmy, #Friendica and newer niche apps cause reactions like: "What is this?", they look like back end is fine but nobody is in charge of the design and the UI has no direction whatsoever. It's the general culprit in the programming world: A back end developer thinks everything is fine when we add a CSS framework and that's that.

If we just get the UI right everywhere, we get more people to the #Fediverse. I just wish there was more #CSS/design people willing to contribute. #UI #UIDesign

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@rolle It sounds like you need to try out Calckey. One of Calckey's stand out features is just how beautiful it is

aurynn, to random

Remember: don’t just block things. Report them! Your mods can’t do anything if they don’t know!

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@juliewebgirl I run a community for queer and gender diverse folk. My goal is to make this community a safe one where they don't have to constantly be on edge.

To that end, I will suspend remote users and possibly even defederate instances where necessary.

Which means I basically don't care about the specifics of the rules on the external server, I care whether their users hurt my community and whether the external instance lets them keep doing that.

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@juliewebgirl @aurynn Doesn't have to be the rules of the posters instance. If the poster is hurting my community, I want to know, even if they're not breaking any rules on their end.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

🎈🥳 https://calckey.org is LIVE! 🥳🎈

This is 's official landing site for the project now!

Not only does it have incredible eye candy, it really demonstrates what's so special about the project!

Use it for finding Calckey servers, compatible apps, the official app, documentation, merch, and source code!

What do you all think of this https://calckey.org?

@fediversenews

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@EpiphanicSynchronicity @atomicpoet @fediversenews

And if so, how? I’ve poked around but haven’t been able to figure it out.

You don't do anything special. They look just the same as any other user

supakaity, to random

So some of you might have noticed that I have been quiet for a bit and have been wondering what I have been up to.

Well, this is my current labour of love:
https://codeberg.org/supakaity/hajkey/src/branch/blahaj-zone/packages/backend/src/server/api/endpoints/notes/threads.ts

What is it you ask?

Well Calckey currently has a bunch of timelines and lists and channels and antenna.

They all live their as separate APIs and have quite a bit of code duplication. And they also cause a lot of post duplication and messy timelines with things you've already seen appearing multiple times.

So what am I doing? Well the first thing I want to do is to build a single timeline endpoint that's configurable in weird and wacky ways... Like a timeline with my "Calckey" and "Blåhaj" antennas, plus my "friends" list, plus the "ask the admins" channel, plus my followees, plus anything from local.

This new endpoint also has anti-duplication built-in so you'll never see the same post boosted multiple times in the same feed.

I'm hoping we can replace a large portion of the existing timeline endpoints, as well as allow our users to produce some custom timelines for themselves.

After that, I'm building a new thread view (yes, I know the Calckey team are currently overhauling this too, but I have wanted to do this for a while, and I think my way will be interesting and efficient, I guess we'll see). This new view will be kinda like a love child between Facebook and Reddit if you can imagine inline thread expansion without reloading the page. You start seeing the thread bit around where you entered and the general outline of the thread in other parts, then can fill in bits of the threads you're interested in by expanding into them. I dunno I am probably doing a really poor job of explaining.

Anyhow, that's the development update from your friendly sysadmin gal.

​:Blobhaj_Hug:​

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@ZoDoneRightNow @supakaity I love that there is another Hajkey instance out there :)

atomicpoet, (edited ) to fediversenews

As former Community Manager of Diaspora, @deadsuperhero has important insights on ActivityPub vs. AT protocol.

Diaspora was once the most widely adopted platform on the Fediverse. At one point, it had 500,000 accounts.

But Diaspora refused to adopt ActivityPub. As a result, they’re a ghost of their former selves.

That could happen to Mastodon. Bluesky too.

That is, if protocol adoption doesn’t diversify across apps.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@deadsuperhero@treehouse.systems/110301803785359267

@fediversenews

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@nodebb @devnull @atomicpoet @deadsuperhero @fediversenews I guess it depends on what you define as forum software. LemmyBB uses ActivityPub

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

I created a new Fediverse group: @socialmedianews

This is for sharing news about the general social media industry with an especial focus on Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, etc. -- what I often affectionately call "Big Social".

The Fediverse will not be a focus for this group. To share news related to the Fediverse, tag @fediversenews instead.

Since last December, I've noticed that Fediverse groups have been popular -- and I hope to continue this success with @socialmedianews

Have fun!

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@Christopher @atomicpoet You don't need to use friendica to use friendica groups. As long as someone on friendica sets it up initially, anyone on the AP Fediverse can use it

hpkomic, to fediverse
@hpkomic@horrorhub.club avatar

So will I be able to follow people on from and be followed by users?

That is how this thing is supposed to work, right?

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@hpkomic Yep, that's how it works! If you're on mastodon, you won't even know when someone you're interacting with is on Calckey!

smallpatatas, to random

Lol anyone else on getting 4-month-old posts from @unattributed pushed to the top of their timeline right now?

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@smallpatatas @unattributed It just means they're importing their old posts. They backdate, but if you're watching the timeline as they import, you'll see them import in real time

nyates314, to random

According to https://calckey.fediverse.observer/list, looks like Calckey.social ​:calckey_full:​ may hit 1000 users soon (overnight?)! Congrats! 🎉

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@rudiev @nyates314 I'm on Calckey. I just can't work out what the original emoji was meant to be :)

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@rudiev @nyates314 What is that emoji meant to be?

alfredo_liberal, to random

Anyone know if works on tusky if you are an user

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@alfredo_liberal Yes it does, but through the mastodon API, so it's not feature complete

julia, to random

OH MY GOD BLAHAJ SWITCH CASE 🥺

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@julia I would buy a switch just for this...

kristian, to random

I love this widget on .
37,8% of my day is already gone, time to get started!

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@kristian I took this one at the end of last year :)

RL_Dane, to random
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

Hey folks,

What's the benefit of calkey beyond just the pretty web interface?

(I rarely use the mastodon web ui)

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@RL_Dane

Are there any Calckey-focused clients yet

There aren't any great 3rd party apps. There's a few out there, but none are great. You can find a list here https://calckey.org/apps/> And where does the name come from? XD

The lead developer uses the handle "ThatOneCalculator", so "Calckey"

No idea about the origins of the original Misskey name though

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@RL_Dane Oh, sorry, forget the second part of your question. The edit function is in progress and being developed by my very own co-admin of Blahaj zone :)

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@RL_Dane Antenna are basically advanced filters of the federated timeline.

So, they watch for words or hashtags that you provide, and then put those posts in a dedicated timeline for you to look at.

So for example, you could set up an antenna on the word Calckey, and then any public post that mentions Calckey will get filtered in to your antenna.

You can have multiple terms in each antenna, and can use hashtags or just plain words

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@RL_Dane Off the top of my head, antenna, channels, pages, search, threaded view, RSS, widgets

pootriarch, to random

i see an occasional quip that the masto overlords are moving toward insisting on being called The Mastodon™ Social Network and not having Their Name taken in vain. for other text-based fedi worlds – i have seen hometown, calckey, and friendica mentioned – do they have a more foss approach? each has features over masto, none seems quite as mature, but i'm concerned about having time for a controlled leap rather than a rapid unscheduled disassembly

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@a @pootriarch I personally think the Friendica timeline is second to non compared to anything else on the fediverse. But it does in general feel old and outdated. But that's true of Mastodon too IMO

maegul, to fediverse
@maegul@hachyderm.io avatar

@fediversenews

One of the interesting things I've seen on the fediverse:

blahaj.zone run both a and instance under the same domain/community. (I learnt this by running into @ada on lemmy, who is also @ada on calckey)

See:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/
https://blahaj.zone/

I don't know how effective it is in practice, but it sure seems like a great way to foster more diversity and richness in the fediverse experience, especially if some integrations can be built, like mutual ids.

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@maegul @fediversenews @ada It's worth nothing that the lemmy instance was not spun up to be effective, it was spun up because I wanted to try it out :)

And now it's a part of my daily routine and has a small but growing user base :)

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@MetalSamurai @fediversenews @ada @maegul They're separate. It's an interesting idea to tie them together to a central identity, but as a user rather than an admin, I'm not sure I'd be happy to use a feature like that unless identities were truly mobile.

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@maegul @MetalSamurai @fediversenews @ada I mean, independent of a particular instance. So you own it and can take it with you elsewhere, rather than it being tied to the instance/community you happen to be using.

GayCookie, to random

Anyone knows how long it can take for changes to my instance to take effect on other instances? I changed the nyame and icon like 12+ hours ago but so far it seems to not have taken effect yet

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@GayCookie Calckey won't update a user profile if it's been updated/fetched in the last 24 hours. When a post arrives on a Calckey server, Calckey will check and see if it has a copy of the profile of the poster yet. If it doesn't, it will fetch it. If it does have a copy, and it's older than 24 hours, it will fetch a new copy. But if the current copy is still "fresh" it won't fetch it again.

I'm assuming that it's similar for other platforms.

Quinnae_Moon, to random

So, anyone reading anything interesting about Bluesky? Particularly its fediverse interoperability aspirations? Interested to see what folks are talking about!

ada,
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@Quinnae_Moon Not even slightly. It sounds like everything I was trying to get away from when I left twitter

ada, to fediverse
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

This is a heatmap for the number of posts on blahaj.zone on a day by day basis. It goes back to November until today.

That jump in brightness coincides with the the recent popularity of Calckey in fediverse discourse.

Quite the jump!

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