fedi

@fedi@masto.ai

I post mostly about the fediverse. Formerly on Mastodon.Technology

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

kushal, to RedHat
@kushal@toots.dgplug.org avatar

This is not the I grew up with.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

fedi,

@kushal they kept the branding after being bought by IBM. Rocky Linux seems to be a good replacement.

fedi, to kbin

The massive growth of the threadiverse shows no sign of slowing down:

https://lemmy.world/post/632941

fedi,

@Kaldo it was put together by VantaBlack. I'm fairly sure most of the people who signed up to it do take it seriously.

fedi,

@Kaldo

'no proof anyone signed anything'
I don't know exactly what kind of proof you expect.

I agree that it could be more clearly explained. There was a fair bit of discussion on 'Mastodon' about it so some of that context might not be clear.

Re the donation links. It is quite common for people who show up on the fediverse and put in some work to ask for donations.

I mean it is a attempt to rally community to a cause but it was put together by one person off their own bat.

fedi,

@14specks
the person behind the feditips mastodon account is, I am fairly sure a different person. But it is a pseudonymous account, so in theory it could be.

[Posted from Mastodon]

fedi, to Facebook

Fosstodon admin Kev turned down Facebook's offer of a 'roundtable' meeting.

Discussion thread on lemmy:

https://beehaw.org/post/715934

Kev's original post: https://fosstodon.org/@kev/110592625692688836

fedi, to random

Term of the day

Mastodon H.O.A.

noun. pejorative(negative)

busybodies about the fediverse who stick their nose into other people's business, tell people who they shouldn't talk to and what phrases, terminology are unacceptable.
notorious for refusing to let bygones be bygones and dredge up irrelevancies from years ago.

Mastodon Homeowners Association.

fedi, to random

I'm becoming more suspicious of Facebook's project to integrate a new service into the fediverse.

It makes absolutely no sense.

An open 'social network protocol' and its implementaions are a threat to multi-billion companies like Facebook who absolutely need to retain tight control over their user base to extract profits.

Once plugged in the danger of their user base 'escaping' through the new connection is large.

But I still can't quite pin down why they are doing it.

Maybe sabotage.

fedi, to random

What is interesting about lemmy is that you can start a thread on a different server. You can't follow people on lemmy, just communities. It seems that this model results in a network with topics are a central feature whereas on Mastodon the central feature is the individual account.

I've always found the microverse(mastodon) to be a poor place for discussions; they tend to be way to disjointed, spread out.

The character limit on posts on most Mastodon servers also results in people limiting..

The internet is great again, thanks to all of you 🙂

I'm 32, I remember using the internet before google was a thing, discovering flashy websites, hanging out on all kinds of internet forums and chatrooms, ebaums world, MySpace, new grounds... I rember when YouTube was just starting off and it was exploding with all kinds of content....

fedi,

@Labotomized
BBS - bulletin board system

1970s-80s
a person would run a server (often from home) and people would dial in over a regular phone line and browse the forum(bbs) and leave a text message. If you had one phone line only one person could log in at a time. you might wait weeks for someone to reply to your message. Both ends needed a modem to encode decode from digital to analog and back.

[sent from the microverse(mastodon)]

fedi,

@Jaluvshuskies yes federation is when users on a kbin website(instance) can talk to users on a totally different kbin instance. The protocol used is called ActivityPub.

But more than that it is also when a kbin user can talk to a lemmy user. Both are parts of the threadiverse (before kbin it was mostly called the lemmyverse).

The microverse (more usually called mastodon) can also interact with the threadiverse because of federation using ActivityPub.

In fact this reply is from a mastodon

liaizon, to fediverse
@liaizon@wake.st avatar

What is a Fediverse Galaxy?

As more and more instances are providing multiple services under the same management, we need a term to talk about this type of arrangement. A Fediverse Galaxy is a collection of federated software that is provided by the same admin or collective.

posted to the [@fediverse Lemmy group]
#fediverse #FediverseGalaxies #FediDev

fedi,

@liaizon
this is a really good idea. Say providing a mastodon, lemmy, funkwhale, pixelfed, peertube etc. to all users. I think any communities that do this in an organised fashion would gain a lot of new users..... but it is a lot of work. Would love to see mastodon.art do this.

Shrigglepuss, to random
@Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website avatar

Eugen Rochko of Mastodon gGmbH fame, being a core member of EUnomia (working with cops) fame, being hired by Purism to entirely remove the report feature from their Mastodon fork fame, funnelling people towards obscenely big and badly moderated flagship instance within a federated social network for growth and influence fame, rarely open to any sort of constructive community criticism fame, is having secret meetings with Meta. An other day at the office for him, really?

fedi,

@Are0h
related:

many fedi admins have signed an anti-facebook thingy:
https://beach.city/@vantablack/110565941741382039

fedi, to reddit

As thousands of mods defy reddit and keep their subreddits dark reddit appear to be taking substantial actions with reports of mods being stripped of their positions and subreddits handed to more compliant mods.

As long as you are on reddit, reddit will always control the 'root' account.

/r/piracy and /r/startrek which famously opened lemmies have now been co-erced into opening back up.

https://reddark.untone.uk/

further links in reply....

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atomicpoet, to reddit
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org avatar

Android Authority doesn’t get it.

Compared to , sucks. And so does . We all know that.

The isn’t about any app being better than Reddit. It’s about a company that’s grown on the backs of volunteer labour now claiming ownership of that labour.

Reddit didn’t write those posts, draw those illustrations, make those videos. We did.

And Reddit sure as hell didn’t create those communities, nurture them, and moderate them. We did.

I agree with tech writers who say that the average person just “wants their memes”. But Reddit never made those memes. We did.

Content might be king. But who makes content? We do.

I have no doubt that the average person just wants content. But while we might be providing content for free, we’re not dancing monkeys. Who decides why content is made, how it’s made, and where it exists? We do.

The Fediverse doesn’t exist merely as an engine for content. It exists so that people can share what they love.

Why are people coming to the Fediverse specifically? Because we rightfully see ActivityPub as insurance for our content – which, again, is made by and for us.

Not Reddit. Not Big Social. Us.

If I’m giving my content away for free, then so long as it is federated, no one company can own it – putting up gates, demanding payment for my work. Instead, my work is out there, living on 24,000 nodes that presently exist.

Android Authority might dismiss this as “suffering the same fate” – what fate they perceive, I don’t know. But to me, the true “suffering” is when a company like Reddit claims ownership of my work, locking 3rd party developers out from API access.

For this reason, I’m locking Reddit out from my work.

Perhaps the author of this post, Dhruv Bhutani, doesn’t consider that he’s writing for a, well, blog. And that this blog exists on its own domain, with its own design, as its own property. He could have written this entire post on Reddit, but he didn’t.

Why? I suspect it’s because he believes his work has value, and Reddit simply doesn’t give him what he believes is his worth.

Same deal with me. I’m not looking to get paid for my work on Reddit. I do it for fun – always have. But if I’m doing something for fun, it’s still going to be on my terms.

Not all of us creatives are willing to be a cog in Big Social’s machine. That’s why I’m here on the Fediverse right now. I don’t give a damn whether the average person just wants memes. I create for me.

So yeah, Lemmy and Kbin suck. I can live with that – they will both improve. And I have no doubt that, with time, they might prove to be better than Reddit.

But this isn’t about how good Lemmy or Kbin are. Nor is this about the insatiable appetite for memes.

This is about my need to create on my terms – and I’m not alone here.

Decentralization is the killer feature here.

https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-3335429/

@fediversenews

fedi,

@atomicpoet how terrible to suffer the same fate as mastodon:

12,500,735 accounts
+2,597 in the last hour
+64,969 in the last day
+283,802 in the last week

source:
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110555668394528723

fedi, to fediverse

follow @newcommunities for details of new communities popping up in the threadiverse/lemmyverse

fedi, to fediverse

Stux has set up a new lemmy

https://u.fail

fedi, to fediverse

Interested in setting up your own lemmy?

Managed lemmy hosting:
https://elest.io/open-source/lemmy

fedi, to random

Web sites weren't supposed to be representative of your personality. For years dot com, dot net and dot org were enough for everyone.

"I'd like to abandon all pretense of being professional"

"just DM me at plump-squirrel at foraging dot now"

Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

These are REAL websites run by REAL people:

blahaj dot zone
MEOW dot social
toot dot cafe
GODFORSAKEN dot website

They have played us for absolute fools.

fedi, to linux

I'm becoming more convinced that there is a 'gap in the market' for a distro to grab maybe 50 million desktops or more from MS/Apple.

If it adheres to the following:

  • free to download - revenue could be from cloud storage, email, tech support for companies etc.

  • consistency - desktop OSes in the 2020s don't need to change every few months - pick a set of standards and stick to them. eg: gnome, standard package manager etc

  • vastly reduced choice of software - this is key ....

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fedi, to random

Seeing a thread dissing open source source software is strange.

It's the single most important pillar holding back the complete domination by Big Tech over the average person's tech environment.

In the absence of meaningful regulation of Big Tech it might be the only pillar.

Without free and open source software the 98% hold Big Tech has would be 100%.

fedi, to bluesky

The notion of being promoted as a benevolent, open, decentralised standard for the social web never did add up:

  • it was funded by Twitter which stands to lose a 44Bn market share if an open, decentralised alternative thrives

  • it dilutes an already existing and thriving incumbent: the fediverse (which uses a different protocol: ActivityPub)

  • it was secretive about its project, the exact opposite of what an open standard requires

Conclusion: Bluesky is probably a sabotage effort

fedi, to fediverse

General reminder that in a network of over a million people defederation between instances is a 'natural' way for the network to let off steam and self-organise. It is not inherently bad - far from it.

Lumping too many people into an unstructured mess is a recipe for an upleasant environment.

Defederations can be reversed, back channels can be established etc.

fedi, to internet

If Bluesky was a benevolent initiative they would have spent some small part of their many millions over the past 3 years engaging in meaningful dialogue with the world's foremost decentralised social network: the fediverse. They didn't do that.

They did try to poach some key figures from fedi's tech pool though, no doubt offering salaries well above what most here earn.

Caveat Emptor. Buyer beware.

fedi, to random

One way to prevent undue control of social media by even relatively friendly operators (Mastodon Gmbh, ahem) is to normalise not using the word 'Mastodon' to refer to the microblogging part of the fediverse (even if it is the majority software). Fediverse refers to the entire ecosystem( microblogging, peertube, pixelfed etc) and is neutral.

But as of now there is no neutral term widely used to refer to just the microblogging part.

Possibilities:

microshpere,
microblogosphere?
lakestream?

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