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reiver, 10 months ago to fediverse

I just set up a #Lemmy #threadiverse server.

I am going to document my experience, and first-impressions.

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reiver, 7 months ago to fediverse

There is a fork of Mastodon that has a bunch of features I know many people wish Mastodon had:

Ecko
https://joinecko.com/

• longer posts,
• more poll choices,
• favicon update from web console,
• markdown support,

...

I wonder if it is a soft-fork or a hard-fork. I.e., are they still pulling in all the latest Mastodon code.

#Ecko #Fediverse #FediverseUX #Mastodon

reiver, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to fediverse

I have a new Kbin server.

I am going to document my experience as a new Kbin user and sysop.

Note that I already have experience as a Lemmy user & sysop. Some of that experience may be applicable here, too — but we will see.

🧵

#fediverse #kbin #threadiverse

reiver, 2 months ago to random

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It doesn't take much effort to make your website join the Fediverse and the open social-web IN A VERY BASIC WAY,.

And by "VERY BASIC WAY" I mean — being able to look up your website using a Fediverse ID and have a profile show up.

I did it for my (new) personal website last night.

(Screenshot of the profile Mastodon shows for my (new) personal website attached.)

NOTE: DO NOT FOLLOW IT YET. FOLLOWING DOESN'T WON'T WORK YET.

...

All I had to do was —

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reiver, 5 months ago to archive

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There are people who worry about information, history, and culture being lost.

They want to preserve it — preserve it for themselves and future generations.

They try to save it — save files, save books, save articles, save photos, ... save anything they feel is important.

These people are called archivists.

#archive #archivism #archivists

reiver, 1 year ago to programming

"BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming."

"Why Johnny can't code" (2006)
https://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/

#programming

reiver, 1 month ago to fediverse

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Let's talk about #Akkoma

Akomma is Fediverse software — like Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and many others.

#Akkoma is a fork #Pleroma

But —

What is an "akkoma"‽
Where did that name come from‽

Why is the tag-line for Akkoma:
"magically expressive social media"‽

And what is the meaning behind the Akkoma logo‽

reiver, 1 month ago to random

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I was curious how a Threads account shows up on the Fediverse.

I have seen Threads users on the Fediverse — but I noticed that when I tried looking up many people, they didn't show up.

Later, I saw mention of Threads users having to enable Fediverse.

This is how a Threads user turns on "Fediverse sharing" on their Threads account.

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reiver, 8 months ago to fediverse

There is a discussion going on on Lemmy about what people think the future of Lemmy (and the Threadiverse part of the Fediverse) will be.

Some of the comments are interesting.

https://lemmy.world/post/4349778

#fediverse #threadiverse #lemmy

reiver, 6 months ago to random

@erwin_schmidt

Welcome to Mastodon and the Fediverse! 🙂

The Fediverse is better when you follow more people 🙂

Here are some accounts to consider —

reiver, 1 year ago to opensource

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I've been in the #openSource scene for a long time. From BEFORE this was even called "open-source" — back BEFORE the phrase "open-source" even got coined and became common.

Here is a problem with most open-source software projects have, including most #Fediverse software —

reiver, 8 months ago to programming

I started working with SQLite recently —

(SQLite is one of the databases that PostFreely supports. This support was inherited from WF)

So far I like SQLite

There is no database-server. And the database seems to just be a single file

(Might make for easy backups)

There is even a command-line tool, that lets you inspect and work with a SQLite data file

I am assuming that SQLite has a much lower "footprint" than MySQL, Postgres, and others

#PostFreely #Programming #SQLite #SQLite3

reiver, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to fediverse

A demo of Akkoma with the Mangane front-end.

A look at the home-page before logging in.

#akkoma #fediverse #fediverseux #mangane

reiver, 10 months ago to threads

One thing that I think #Threads did well is that — they were able to bring over large chunks of communities over from #Instagram to Threads.

(They did it by pulling in users from Instagram to Threads https://mastodon.social/@reiver/110665875303226142 )

I think that this is one challenges the Fediverse has had, that affects retention.

One of the draws of a social-media network is the individuals and the communities that are there.

#meta #facebook #project92 #p92

reiver, 11 months ago to fediverse

If you imagine #decentralization & the #Fediverse "winning" —

What does that scenario realistically look like for Big social-media?

They are unlikely to all disappear.
So that cannot be your answer.

So then what?

reiver, 8 months ago to random

🚨 Please help us name Fediverse Software

The software is geared towards long-form writing and blogging.

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reiver, 1 year ago to SmallWeb

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What is Gemini?

I have seen more than one person ask that question recently.

So here is a thread explaining — what Gemini is.

But I need to give a bit of historical context to make Gemini make more sense.

Here goes —

.

( #gemini #geminiProtocol #gemtext )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

reiver, 11 months ago to random

#AnsiArt is similar to #PixelArt

reiver, 8 months ago to random

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These 5 things are similar, and are probably deserving of a name (for this type of thing) —

reiver, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Since Twitter (now called 𝕩) purged the words "tweet" and "retweet" from their platform —

Should we (in the Fediverse) claim these words for our ourselves, and start using them over here?

reiver, 10 months ago to fediverse

I have never really liked that with the #HTTP protocol, that if you give it a different "Accept" HTTP request header, that it is idiomatic to get back a different response in a different format.

In practice, #Fedivese software makes use of this b/c of #ActivityPub

For example, using curl —

This will give you back HTML

curl -H "Accept: text/html" https://mastodon.social/@reiver/109280772735288142

But this will give you back ActivityPub activity JSON

curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" https://mastodon.social/@reiver/109280772735288142

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reiver, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to fediverse

Which of these alternate Mastodon front-ends are you aware of?

#Fediverse #BirdUI #Elk #ElkZone #MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI #Phanpy

reiver, 8 months ago to fediverse

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Following someone on the Fediverse is broken — the user-experience (UX) is not good.

Especially if the person you want to follow is on a server different from yours.

Sure it technically works, BUT in practice it is broken —

I have done user testing with people who have used other social-media, but who have never used the Fediverse

Virtually all of them fail at following someone on a remote server

THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO COLLECTIVELY FIX.

I'll explain —

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#Fediverse #FediverseUX

reiver, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to fediverse

What topics about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech are you most curious about?

What questions about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech do you hav?

(The Fediverse includes all the Fediverse software.)

Reply with your topics and questions.

#AllYourBases #Fediverse

reiver, 6 months ago to SmallWeb

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One reason that HTTP(S) came to dominate application development is —

A lot of firewalls block all Internet traffic that isn't HTTP(S) — i.e., that isn't sent over TCP port 80 or 443.

That presents a problem for small-net protocols.

Will they in practice "work" for most people — will they be accessible by most people — given so many firewalls block non-HTTP(S) traffic‽

Should small-net protocol developers even care‽

#HTTP #HTTPS #HTTPUpgrade #smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb