morph

navigium, 8 hours ago to random

I just installed #deltachat for the first time. I like the idea of using one of the oldest decentralized messaging systems, email, as base technology for a modern-ish chat app.
They also provide a minimal email service which simplifies on boarding, called chatmail.

Anyone using #deltachat regularly? How well does it hold up for everyday use?

morph, 17 hours ago to random

Sedum hispanicum

#mosstodon

eclectech, 1 day ago to photography

If you blow on a dandelion seed head in just the right way, you get to meet one of these cuties. Nice.

#sillyScribbles #photography #nature #silly #nonsense #drawing

RonjaBiernat, 4 days ago to Plants Dutch

Some of my beloved chillie plants are getting strange leaves. The leaves look a bit crippled (sorry for the word).

Do you have any idea why this is happening and how to fix it?
I've already checked for pests such as small flies but couldn't find any.

#IndoorGardening #Plants #Gardening #ufochilli #habeneros #growing #chilli #chili #chillies #chilipeppers #chilisaison #Plantjournal
#Plantdiary
@podast
@gardening
@homegrownfood

evan, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

Do you say "Fediverse" or "Social Web"?

#EvanPoll #poll

morph, 12 days ago to random

The tiger looks a bit grumpy today.

#TuesdayTiger

Kuchenschwarte, 15 days ago to gardening German

@gardening @plants
Has someone a cherry tree with two different varieties crafted onto one Gisela5 or really tiny cherry spindles/espaliers?

I have either space for two tiny spindles/espaliers or one solitary tree with two varieties (for pollination).

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Hat jemand Erfahrung mit zweierlei Süßkirschen auf einer Gisela5-Unterlage oder wirklich kleine Säulen/Spalierkirschen?
Ich habe Platz für entweder zwei Säulen/Spalierbäume oder einen Baum mit zwei Sorten.
#garten #pflanzen #obstbaum

jwildeboer, 17 days ago to random

Found something while cleaning. Long time no see, old friend :)

#Coins #DeutscheMark #GermanMark

The back of a German 1 mark coin from 1990, so after reunification.

gabriel, 19 days ago to random

Done! https://gabe.rocks/rss

RE: https://mk.gabe.rocks/notes/9sasu9afta

Paul, 24 days ago to breakfast

It's been a surprisingly busy day today. I've only just stopped for #breakfast.

Good morning #fediverse and #tzag to all.

me, 24 days ago to fediverse

Hello, #Fediverse friends! Just got some wonderful news and wanted to share it with someone, and who better than you all. A dear friend who has been ill for a while has overcome their illness. We'll reunite tomorrow to celebrate together, but I'm bursting with joy already. Life has a way of bringing good news just when we need it most. #GoodNews #Celebration #Grateful

pfefferle, 26 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to fediverse German

It’s a Thing!

Das Fediverse tut sich schwer, das volle Potential der verschiedenen Activity-Objects auszunutzen, hauptsächlich aus Angst, sie falsch oder schlecht darzustellen und deshalb teilen die meisten großen Netzwerke leider nur Notes.

Dabei könnte es so einfach sein!

@deadsuperhero schreibt auf seinem Blog, dass er eigentlich gerne Articles veröffentlichen will, aber (hauptsächlich) durch Mastodon zu Note gezwungen wird, wenn er sicher gehen will, dass der Text vollständig dargestellt wird.

Here’s the problem, though: the biggest player in the space, Mastodon, does a poor job of supporting Article. Instead, every post Mastodon uses is instead a Note. From a semantic point of view, it might not seem like there’s a lot of difference between the two: both are effectively texts posts that can contain some formatting markup, both can hold an arbitrary amount of characters, and both can effectively be used to represent a full article.

A Content-Fallback Mechanism for the Fediverse

Ironischerweise zeigt Mastodon eine föderierte Note vollständig an, auch wenn der Text weit über die eigentlich erlaubten 500 Zeichen hinaus geht, bei einem Article wird statt dessen aber nur die kurze summary benutzt.

Seine Idee: Ein Content-Fallback Mechanismus!

Das heißt jede Aktivität, egal von welchem Typ, liefert zusätzlich zu dem spezifischen Objekt, eine standardisierte Note (content-fallback):

<span><code class="hljs language-json">{  <span class="hljs-attr">"@context"</span>:[    <span class="hljs-string">"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"</span>,    {      <span class="hljs-attr">"Hashtag"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"as:Hashtag"</span>    }  ],  <span class="hljs-attr">"id"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/iftas-dsa-guide/"</span>,  <span class="hljs-attr">"type"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"Article"</span>,  <span class="hljs-attr">"content-fallback"</span>: {    <span class="hljs-attr">"content"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"IFTAS, the dedicated Trust & Safety organization ..."</span>,    <span class="hljs-attr">"mediaType"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"text/plain"</span>,    <span class="hljs-attr">"summary"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">""</span>,    <span class="hljs-attr">"tag"</span>:[{      <span class="hljs-attr">"href"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"https://wedistribute.org/tags/fediverse"</span>,      <span class="hljs-attr">"name"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"#fediverse"</span>,      <span class="hljs-attr">"type"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"Hashtag"</span>    }],    <span class="hljs-attr">"type"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"Note"</span>,    <span class="hljs-attr">"updated"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"2024-04-11T20:55:29Z"</span>  }}</code></span><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-1"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code-Sprache:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">JSON / JSON mit Kommentaren</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">json</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small>

Ich verstehe das Problem und finde die Idee generell nicht schlecht, aber eigentlich bietet ActivityPub alles Nötige schon von Haus aus! ActivityPub oder besser ActivityStreams ist so aufgebaut, dass alle Objekte von einem Art Base-Object abgeleitet werden. Das heißt Article, Note, Event oder Place, haben ein gleiches Minimal-Set an Attributen:

• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-attachment">attachment</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-attributedto">attributedTo</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-audience">audience</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-content">content</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-context">context</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-name">name</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-icon">icon</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-image">image</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-inreplyto">inReplyTo</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-published">published</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-replies">replies</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-summary">summary</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-tag">tag</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-updated">updated</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-url">url</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-to">to</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-bto">bto</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-cc">cc</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-bcc">bcc</a>
• <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-mediatype">mediaType</a>
• …und mehr

Und auch wenn beispielsweise Place oder Event einige spezifische Eigenschaften haben, die nicht jede Plattform „kennt“ und „versteht“, sollte es immer möglich sein, die Beschreibung (content oder summary) und den Titel (name) anzuzeigen.

Das Prinzip ist ähnlich wie, wenn nicht sogar inspiriert durch, schema.org/Thing. Auch hier basieren alle Objekte letztendlich auf einem Thing und trotz der wesentlich größeren Anzahl1 an Objekten und Attributen, können Suchmaschinen sich immer sicher sein, dass es zumindest einen name, eine description und eine url zum Anzeigen gibt.

Bevor wir über also über ein content-fallback nachdenken, sollten wir (meiner Meinung nach) erst einmal dafür sorgen, dass die vorhanden Möglichkeiten richtig genutzt werden.

1. The vocabulary currently consists of 806 Types, 1474 Properties 14 Datatypes, 90 Enumerations and 480 Enumeration members. – https://schema.org/docs/schemas.html ↩︎

morph, 27 days ago to random

@stefan Nice! I just noticed that the embedded post made with your fediverse-embed plugin is brought by ttrss properly and complete (just the image missing) as a quote. The links of hashtag and post meta are working and guide to the source post.

ngons, 1 month ago to random

Crescent vortex tiling

#Tiling #MathArt #MathsArt #Hexagon #Geometry

pfefferle, 1 month ago to wordpress

what do you think about: set all linked mastodon (et al) posts as in-reply-to when federating a #WordPress posts!?!

very similar to the old #pingback and not so old #webmention days?

#fediverse #activitypub #wordpress

movodehe, 1 month ago to FediPact

When I try to visit @barackobama with @apps from the social.tchncs.de instance, I actually get to @BarackObama

When I log in via browser I get redirected to the threads website https://www.threads.net/@barackobama/ but do not see the account on my instance.

Does anyone know why this is, espacially how I end up at @BarackObama? Probably has something to do with #fedipact I guess?

atomicpoet, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to fediverse

President Joe Biden’s Threads account @potus is federating on the Fediverse!

And I’m following him from atomicpoet.org!

Wow! This is as monumental as Barack Obama joining Twitter! A truly historic day for the #Fediverse!

@fediversenews

evan, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Is there a Mastodon client that makes writing threads (sequences of notes) easier? I use Phanpy for desktop and mobile right now.

jupiter_rowland, 1 month ago to random

Unpopular opinion: I hope Hubzilla won't stick to sending Note-type objects forever. It still has the Article-type/Note-type switch that was introduced with Hubzilla 9 on Friday, but as I've just discovered, a recent hotfix has basically rendered that switch useless, and Hubzilla only sends Note-type objects again.

Article-type objects have a lot of advantages. Yes, on Mastodon. Whether Mike or Mario or anyone else on Hubzilla or (streams) likes it or not.

With Note-type objects, I have to count characters and, when a post exceeds 500 characters, issue long post content warnings like the one above and add the filter-triggering hashtags #Long, #LongPost, #CWLong and #CWLongPost. That's because posts with over 500 characters disturb so many Mastodon users, especially those on a phone using the official Mastodon app that doesn't fold posts over 500 characters in.

With Article-type objects, I wouldn't have to do that because Mastodon would reduce even an 80,000-character monster post to a cute little link with title, summary and hashtags. Much easier on Mastodon users than having 80,000 characters slammed into their faces right away.

With Note-type objects, I have to link to sensitive images because Mastodon refuses to hide images embedded in or attached to Hubzilla posts, no matter what I do.

With Article-type objects, I wouldn't have to do that because Mastodon would have people click or tap the link to the original post before they can see the post with the sensitive image in it. Of course, that link would be accompanied by an appropriate content warning.

That said, Mastodon might still automatically use that sensitive image as the preview image for the link. There'd be nothing you can do against it on Hubzilla except for adding another safe image first and hoping Mastodon will pick that one. But that'd require one more image description.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Hubzilla 9 #CharacterCount #500Characters #UnpopularOpinion