retronautickz

@retronautickz@beehaw.org

Pallas | 29 | | | Disabled | Fat | + clusterouther & anderflor | and plato-averse | (Similo) | Grey-orchid in a non-platonic way and queering all types of attraction

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retronautickz,

Done. I want, I need the retro/vintage community. But I wanna know, what kind of content, and from which decades/centuries would go there?

retronautickz,

Cool. I probably would use as a catch all, maybe there could be two communities: retro tech and retro media?

retronautickz,

Thank you

A question: Is it possible on Lemmy intances to put the reason for defederation beside the server domain on the defederated intances list?

retronautickz, (edited )

Here you have a list of Lemmy instances, check the defederation list of both Beehaw and Lemmy World to see which is better from you.

Have you thought on joining a Kbin server instead? They're all open to new registrations and you can see and interact with Beehaw and Lemmy World content from there as none of them are defederated.

retronautickz,

In my experience, it helps people new to the fediverse (specially if they want to start their own server) to know who to block/limit. People who actually want to be in those kind of massively defederated instance know how to join them and even have their own list of instances to join, without looking at the list from a small queer instance or even sites like JoinFediverse and the like.

retronautickz,
  • Are you looking at all the instances on the fediverse, or only lemmy?
  • Trolls and Spammers would have nothing to do in those kinds of servers.
  • I mean, all other platforms have the option of mentioning the reason for defederation and there hasn't been any legal problem with it nor with fediblock. As I already say, there are few the instances of these type that use the same software/fork than the rest. They have their own forks and this forks have federation cut from other ActivityPub/Zot/Diaspora*/OStatus based software.
  • No, I'm talking about the fediverse in general, not only Lemmy, not only Beehaw. Most of the servers I'm in in other federated platforms are small to mid queer servers that have the list of defederated instances with reason for defederation.
  • This list are also public and downloadable, so anyone can import them to their server.
retronautickz,

My question was precisely about Lemmy because Lemmy is one of the few platforms that doesn't have that option. It's common almost everywhere else and hasn't caused any problem.

retronautickz,

Apart from adding alt text (which someone in another comment has already explained how), I want to add other ways to help Blind and visually impaired people and other people that require the use of screen readers and text to speech apps (like myself)

  • When using tags with more than one word, always write the first letter of each word in uppercase so the screen readers and text-to-speech apps can read them as separate words

#/LikeThis and not #/likethis

  • Avoid special fonts as they cannot be detected by screen readers and TTS software. Most of the time the letters are actually phonetic or mathematical symbols and the software interpret them as such.
retronautickz,

I've written a microblog post explaining how to describe images on my kbin account for those who aren't sure/don´t know how to write image descriptions.

Be free to ask any question you may have.

Kbin and Lemmy should come to a consensus on how to name stuff

Is there really a reason, for example, for there to be the distinction of "magazine" and "community"? When you're federating, the same features should be called the same, if close enough. That way everyone can talk with everyone about stuff and we all immediately understand each other....

retronautickz,

Why? They are different platforms.

Mastodon, Misskey, GoToSocial and Pleroma don't use the same terminology either.

retronautickz,

A veteran there, so it's not much of a replacement for me, but many Redditors seem to have migrated to Tumblr.

Most of the subreddits I was subscribed to were about Classical music, there's no much on that topic on the fediverse, but I've found a forum and I'm planning on registering on it.

retronautickz,

Not only expensive. Creating banners for each community would be extremely time consuming. It's not an easy task and only one banner can take ours to design, even if they're all based on a same basic style.

retronautickz,

No. We know how Facebook is and what their intentions are.

retronautickz,

No. Facebook. For me it will always be Facebook (company, not platform).

"Meta" is nothing more than an attempt to clean their image.

retronautickz, (edited )

The illusion of Privacy is Mastodon (or social media in general)

There's a reason why when you go to "private mentions" on Mastodon, this appears:

Private mentions. Post on mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted.Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon

While yes, we should be able to delete our content if we want, but it's a bit naive to think there could be true privacy in any decentralised social media platform.

There's a reason why one of the think people tell you when you come to the fediverse is not to share personal and sensible information.

The only decentralised social media that has some level of privacy is Matrix, and that's why it has it's own protocol and only federates within/between its own servers.

retronautickz,

Exactly.

That with the addition that the function of thread-like social media is being a place to discuss topic and share information/knowledge. So content needs to be kept even if the account that posted it exist no more. The contain remaining when the account gets deleted is a feature, because otherwise important information could be lost.

Content deletion should be an option, but the content remaining if you delete your account its a needed feature for this type of platform

retronautickz,

I completely agree. I'd add that. in general I wouldn't put any type of personal information on the internet, no social media site, is really private.

retronautickz,

The problem here is that your data is not only recopilated by your server and accessible to your server admins, the servers of the communities/magazines or people you interact with also recopilate any activity you have in relation to any community/magazine or user hosted in their server.

So, while the admin of your server has the obligation of deleting your data if you ask for it, the other servers admins don't necessarily have that obligation.

Also, I'm reading the GDPR and the "right to be forgotten" that many are quoting seems to refer to personal information only.

retronautickz,

I have an email that I specifically use for the fediverse. I wasn't asked to give email here, but otherwise it would have been hard to know when and whether my join in request was approved or not.

pariscope, to fediverse
pariscope avatar

I've started and accounts to understand both, then eventually chose one. Leaning towards kbin as of now. Any advice?

retronautickz,

I did the same.

I like Lemmy aesthetic better, I find it more "inviting". But I also like that Kbin has microblogging options.

I'm also having trouble to use kbin because the dark theme (which I need to navigate as I have severe photophobia) seems to be working bad (at list for me) and there are like "flashes" of the light theme every time I click a kbin page (be the main page of a server, a magazine, whatever). The sudden change to light theme it's making it very hard for me to use kbin.

retronautickz,

I'm assuming you're a cis man, correct me if I'm wrong.

You can go by they/them and still being a man.

Pronouns sometimes have more to do with expression and aesthetic preferences than with one's particular gender.

It's also ok to sometimes or always like things that aren't masculine that doesn't deny nor contradicts your cis manhood (same applies to cis women liking things that aren't feminine or using a set of pronoun different than she/her)

You may be gender non-conforming. If you think this gender nonconformity may influence your gender, I'd suggest you to look up Genderqueer Guy/Man

retronautickz,

There is a different between created and verified. A /u/ page is created for every account that's registered, regardless if it's verified or unverified. When an user is rejected, the profile page is deleted

Elegast, to fediverse

Can't make an account on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml?
Everytime I try it just spins indefinitely. Any ideas?

retronautickz,

They aren't accepting new user.

You can check the register status of any Lemmy server here

retronautickz, (edited )

Defederation and regulation of federation are part of decentralisation.

"Decentralised social media" doesn't mean "the same as a centralised social media, but on a bigger scale"

It's just that instead of belonging to a corporation that seek profit, it belongs to common people who can have their own servers/chose the server they want to be and interact or not with the people or content of other servers as they please.

Decentralisation gives you the choice to:

  • Not having to see intolerant/discriminatory content
  • To interact more easily with people akin to you, as part of federation in certain platforms is the ability to create "bubbles", which consist on sister instances that are closely connecting and interacting with yours.
  • Being able to register to a server that fits your need and it's in agreement with your ideas.
  • It also gives you the opportunity to move on to another instance if something happens to the one your in or you simply find that it wasn't for you. Because there are hundreds of servers using a same software, you don't need to put up with anything, if you don't agree with the admins you just move to another instance. Neither are still possible here, but other platforms have features like "migration" and "nomadic identify" that facilitate this.

Limiting who can be part and interact with your server is also essential because most of the people that choose the fediverse and other open source social media over corporative one (not people who are simply here because their fav social media giant fucked them over) do so because they want to be safe from the harassment and bullying promoted in big capitalistic social media platforms. These people belong to marginalised groups, are political or some other kind of activists, etc.

The humanity of the person behind an account is very important here.

As such attitudes like trolling, interacting in bad faith, baiting, etc that were seeing as neutral, "great fun" and encouraged on big for-profit social media platforms aren't acceptable here. "Trolling" and "shitposting" is a valid reason for defederation here.

So, no. This is not a replacement, this is a completely different model of social media that caters to a completely different public.

Lemmy and kbin aren't "multiserver Reddit"

Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, etc aren't "multiserver twitter"

Friendica and Hubzilla aren't "multiserver Facebook"

Nor they ever aim to be.

retronautickz,

I had issues registering the first time (spinny-submit-button), I simply tried later and had no problem and was approved in less than an hour.

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