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08 Dec - 12 Dec 2022
# rPi sets the snot nosed kiddies straight
## A lesson in reality for little Marxist children
### Was it the enticing aroma from pigs in a blanket?
Okay so PR folks do that thing where their reach exceeds their grasp. Maybe this is one of those times, and maybe not. It does however, illustrate the pent-up teenage angst and folly of adults subjugated by adolescent mob psychology.
It's factual enough to say that rPi was dogpiled by miscreants triggered by virtue of not having validated demands of idiots who think that pictures of 🍗🐔 🍖🥓🥩🐄🐖 should have a content warning (please block and/or defederate yourself, or your Fediverse instance - no one likes you anyway, nobody cares what you think, and no one will miss you when you've vanished into the ether).
### Hiring an innovative maker is s good thing.
So rPi hired an ex-cop. So fricken' what? Big deal.
This is how you can tell they're miscreants. A company hires someone with expertise in a field where the product does exceedingly well in sales and deployment applications and a bunch of spoiled children either begin to dogpile because of the wise company decision, or because they're not finished attacking the company out of sport stemming from their bloodlust to agitate. It's a common past time - one that people who enjoy mostly peaceful riots and arson can all agree upon: "It's fun to burn other people's stuff down and bludgeon them!"
### Defending your integrity is not cool, bruh\! I'mma cancel you.
Yeah. This is where the rubber meets the road actually, and where the irony of it all is exposed - naked. As in, Look mommy! The Emporer has no clothes!
1. ) The first irony
- Not all, but certainly a hefty amount of people new to the #Fediverse aren't here because they were going to something better, but rather, because they were running away from something they were told was bad.
- The irony here is the notion that they were trying to escape a deprecated, monolithic silo platform that had long since become historically characteristic of evil dystopian despotism. And just as it was beginning to be cleaned up in the middle of taking out the trash that made it such a shithole in the first place (I hear Marlon Brando whispering, "Oh... The horror."). And they migrated as refugees to a place antithetical to the evils of censorship and manipulation, from that terrible dystopian place they came from.
- Now they want that censorship back - you can't have it. The Fediverse doesn't work that way at all, bitches. In fact it's the opposite, it's censorship resistant.If you don't like someone, you've always had ordinary controls over what you're going to permit in your inbox (feed/stream/wall). You can simply mute, block, or otherwise choose to let your machine disappear them "infernal undesirable types" on your own behalf for your personal account.
Problem resolved.
Not quite, you say? Well now here's where the insidious nature of these bolshevik social justice warriors start to flex their evil ulterior motives - if they don't like somebody, it's not enough that they make that other person disappear, they want you to make them disappear too.
What's even more despicable than that? I'm glad you asked!
They also want to take away your ability to make those decisions for yourself. They want the powers that be (instance admins) to defederate themselves from the entire other Fediverse instance where that person they don't like has their account.
Now that's ridiculous - but it's how a filthy Communist thinks. Bolsheviks rule by fear and terror (they murdered the mensheviks) - that's why wherever you see something like this it almost always includes doxing and death threats from the community by people that say they're so against that in their terms of service in the first place.
I know. It makes no sense. Oh, the irony.
Okay, I guess they're just guidelines, not rules for them, only rules for others.
2. ) The second irony
- In the words of Red Foreman, "Hey dumbass! You're not de-federating them, you're #defederating yourself you idiot!"
It's called, "Painting yourself into a corner", and these children, with their knee-jerk reactions to edit their MRF settings are only doing a couple of things.
- Removing the choice of your users to engage with the people of the site you just blocked them from. You've got 300 active user accounts and most of them like and purchase Raspberry Pi products and accessories. They also engage with the users on that Fediverse server for tips, tricks, and advice in their rPi adventures.
- You've got an immoral minority, a very loud, and vitriolic vocal component of about 11 rabid bolshevik SJWs that first reported the rPi server for posting pictures of meat without a CW, and again because when they trolled a user over there they find themselves unceremoniously blocked by that user - as it should be.Nothing pisses off a hater more than to be summarily dismissed, knowing that their bigotry and enmity will never again cloud the skies of those they have fixated their projections for their own self-loathing.
So next they begin to bully their own instance admins. A few outcomes are likely...
- Admin says screw these diks. I'mma ban them.
- Admin says STFU or find another server to join where you are free to hate other people.
- Admin says, "I'm a spineless sissy wimp, the people of my instance have spoken, and I will defederate my Fediverse server instance from that other one that those 11 in the angry mob don't like, for not putting CWs on pictures of meat and daring to hire ex law enforcement officers.
- Admin says, "Fuck the patriarchy! Prepare for defederation!" (This gizmo is a true chump).The smart money is on the second scenario. A modicum of civility is in order here. Trolling, hate, doxing, and ad hominem are certainly against the AUP/ToS/CoC/Rules - whatever you call yours, and these self-loathing haters have absolutely broken the tenants of their social contact with you.
Sure, those types of behaviors do warrant a ban, but you're a seasoned Admin, having managed a lot of public forums over the years, and you know it's probably best to give them a warning in lieu of a ban for this first offense and avoid them engaging in the same type of fruitless campaign against the good users of your community Fediverse instance... Coz these kinds of entitled subversives live for that, and again, you know this from experience - there is nothing new here.
But there first option works too. You just don't know where those cockroaches will next come at you from. But just like what started this whole thing? You know you can just filter their voices out and be done with them.
The third option is probably the most disturbing, because that admin is an enabler and wants to be liked - at the expense of her own users. She will continue to appease these evil people until almost all of her users have moved their accounts to Fediverse instances that are vibrant, happy communities, and she will wonder whatever it was she could have done that was so wrong.
Now I like the sort of server administrator that is so immature and reactionary that he is just looking for a reason to pull the trigger - these are often, but not always, overwhelmingly of the teenage demographic. It really means very little to them when they disregard their userbases and pull the lever. They are in congruence with the haters hammering the report button and demanding that this instance defederates from the object of their bloodlust; they also relish their growing #fediblock list as a collection of trophies - for them, the Fediverse is sport, s blood sport, yet they don't comprehend that "In space, no one can hear you scream"
Eventually, they actually do find themselves in the vacuum of space, having completely defederated themselves from the Fediverse, save for a few instances of ascerbic, hateful bigots; all of the nice, upstanding citizenry of their userbase has long since migrated away.
These pathetic sort of sdmin types discover their personal echo chambers are nothing more than a few whispers here and there, with the memory of the ghosts that once made it a vibrant and engaging community - people from all walks of life, engaged in civil discourse....
So they close down the server, and get a job bagging groceries at the local market because their parents want them to finally move out.
## The aftermath
### But what about our naive little hater admin?
Eventually, the paint in her bedroom dried, and she was able to get out from the corner of self-imposed exile in her bedroom, get that job bagging groceries, growing into a fine adult, and contributing member of society.
She went for her MS in electrical engineering, got a job as a C-Level suit, married, and is now raising three children with her wife. Her future is bright. She grew up - that's what most kids eventually do. And she now commands a healthy modicum of decorum.
She's also her own patriarchy, but she takes turns filling the responsibility of that role with her wife, sometimes delegating that responsibility to their oldest child while they're working long hours, and he just got his driver's license so he can take his siblings to games and practices...
But he's still a little bit immature - kinda like she used to be. 🙂
### whatever became of Raspberry Pi?
Why, what do you mean whatever happened? After all the evil haters removed themselves from federation, life simply went on as before. Sure. There were issues, mostly related to supply chain issues, but that only increased demand, and the good folks that brought us computers for under fifty bucks did their very best to keep prices down during those precarious times too.
And everybody still loves them. The good people on those Fediverse instances administered by stupid people? Well they all found other servers that weren't being run by assholes, or got really enlightened and deployed smallweb single user Fediverse instances with no regrets.
And that ex-cop they hired? Well that guy introduced a brand new line of FOSS based rPi packages and kits for residential customers, empowering homeowners and ranchers to setup easy turnkey surveillance networks to protect their own property, safeguard their families, all without having to be afraid of how evil deprecated legacy silos (like Google and Amazon) were themselves engaging in government sponsored surveillance of their own customers!
Everyone was happy, and we ate from bowls of porridge that weren't too hot, weren't too cold, but were just right.
And we all lived happily ever after...
Except for the bolsheviks - they're still hating themselves and projecting that hatred towards everyone else. But fuck 'em. They've painted themselves into a corner.
# Epilog
Nope. That's it. Nothing else really to add to any of that. It's all just common sense.
Wait! I did forget something.
- If you're wondering why you're seeing traces of pretty formatting, but instead it's not at all pretty, with paragraphs scrunched together and such - that probably means you're in s Mastodon server.
I might be tempted to say it sucks to be you, but that would be mean spirited, and if you're a #newcomer, you probably didn't know any better anyway. So you can just deal with it like all other Mastodon users have to when people format their articles in #Markdown, or try one of the other solutions below:
- Create an account for yourself on pretty much any other kind of Fediverse server. Most all of them offer support for rendering in Markdown.
- Feel free to unfollow me - that's what started this whole calamity and it started to exacerbate in the first place... When @[email protected] kindly suggested that a known Internet troll "just chill" out a bit. Of course they blocked that twit - he was being a dik to other human beings (in violation of his own servers policies), and most folks can appreciate that they just don't have time for that nonsense from high schoolers, or "YouTube Personalities", lolz.### brief list of Markdown enabled Fediverse servers
https://join.misskey.page/en-US/instances
And much more!
# impetus
I was compelled to publish this article in the Fediverse after reading the following article (because it got pretty much everything backwards), and also the buzzfeed interview article it linked to, which had coverage that was fair enough:
https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/
#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #Raspberry_Pi #rPi
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08 Dec - 12 Dec 2022
# rPi sets the snot nosed kiddies straight
## A lesson in reality for little Marxist children
### Was it the enticing aroma from pigs in a blanket?
Okay so PR folks do that thing where their reach exceeds their grasp. Maybe this is one of those times, and maybe not. It does however, illustrate the pent-up teenage angst and folly of adults subjugated by adolescent mob psychology.
It's factual enough to say that rPi was dogpiled by miscreants triggered by virtue of not having validated demands of idiots who think that pictures of 🍗🐔 🍖🥓🥩🐄🐖 should have a content warning (please block and/or defederate yourself, or your Fediverse instance - no one likes you anyway, nobody cares what you think, and no one will miss you when you've vanished into the ether).
### Hiring an innovative maker is s good thing.
So rPi hired an ex-cop. So fricken' what? Big deal.
This is how you can tell they're miscreants. A company hires someone with expertise in a field where the product does exceedingly well in sales and deployment applications and a bunch of spoiled children either begin to dogpile because of the wise company decision, or because they're not finished attacking the company out of sport stemming from their bloodlust to agitate. It's a common past time - one that people who enjoy mostly peaceful riots and arson can all agree upon: "It's fun to burn other people's stuff down and bludgeon them!"
### Defending your integrity is not cool, bruh\! I'mma cancel you.
Yeah. This is where the rubber meets the road actually, and where the irony of it all is exposed - naked. As in, Look mommy! The Emporer has no clothes!
1. ) The first irony
- Not all, but certainly a hefty amount of people new to the #Fediverse aren't here because they were going to something better, but rather, because they were running away from something they were told was bad.
- The irony here is the notion that they were trying to escape a deprecated, monolithic silo platform that had long since become historically characteristic of evil dystopian despotism. And just as it was beginning to be cleaned up in the middle of taking out the trash that made it such a shithole in the first place (I hear Marlon Brando whispering, "Oh... The horror."). And they migrated as refugees to a place antithetical to the evils of censorship and manipulation, from that terrible dystopian place they came from.
- Now they want that censorship back - you can't have it. The Fediverse doesn't work that way at all, bitches. In fact it's the opposite, it's censorship resistant.If you don't like someone, you've always had ordinary controls over what you're going to permit in your inbox (feed/stream/wall). You can simply mute, block, or otherwise choose to let your machine disappear them "infernal undesirable types" on your own behalf for your personal account.
Problem resolved.
Not quite, you say? Well now here's where the insidious nature of these bolshevik social justice warriors start to flex their evil ulterior motives - if they don't like somebody, it's not enough that they make that other person disappear, they want you to make them disappear too.
What's even more despicable than that? I'm glad you asked!
They also want to take away your ability to make those decisions for yourself. They want the powers that be (instance admins) to defederate themselves from the entire other Fediverse instance where that person they don't like has their account.
Now that's ridiculous - but it's how a filthy Communist thinks. Bolsheviks rule by fear and terror (they murdered the mensheviks) - that's why wherever you see something like this it almost always includes doxing and death threats from the community by people that say they're so against that in their terms of service in the first place.
I know. It makes no sense. Oh, the irony.
Okay, I guess they're just guidelines, not rules for them, only rules for others.
2. ) The second irony
- In the words of Red Foreman, "Hey dumbass! You're not de-federating them, you're #defederating yourself you idiot!"
It's called, "Painting yourself into a corner", and these children, with their knee-jerk reactions to edit their MRF settings are only doing a couple of things.
- Removing the choice of your users to engage with the people of the site you just blocked them from. You've got 300 active user accounts and most of them like and purchase Raspberry Pi products and accessories. They also engage with the users on that Fediverse server for tips, tricks, and advice in their rPi adventures.
- You've got an immoral minority, a very loud, and vitriolic vocal component of about 11 rabid bolshevik SJWs that first reported the rPi server for posting pictures of meat without a CW, and again because when they trolled a user over there they find themselves unceremoniously blocked by that user - as it should be.Nothing pisses off a hater more than to be summarily dismissed, knowing that their bigotry and enmity will never again cloud the skies of those they have fixated their projections for their own self-loathing.
So next they begin to bully their own instance admins. A few outcomes are likely...
- Admin says screw these diks. I'mma ban them.
- Admin says STFU or find another server to join where you are free to hate other people.
- Admin says, "I'm a spineless sissy wimp, the people of my instance have spoken, and I will defederate my Fediverse server instance from that other one that those 11 in the angry mob don't like, for not putting CWs on pictures of meat and daring to hire ex law enforcement officers.
- Admin says, "Fuck the patriarchy! Prepare for defederation!" (This gizmo is a true chump).The smart money is on the second scenario. A modicum of civility is in order here. Trolling, hate, doxing, and ad hominem are certainly against the AUP/ToS/CoC/Rules - whatever you call yours, and these self-loathing haters have absolutely broken the tenants of their social contact with you.
Sure, those types of behaviors do warrant a ban, but you're a seasoned Admin, having managed a lot of public forums over the years, and you know it's probably best to give them a warning in lieu of a ban for this first offense and avoid them engaging in the same type of fruitless campaign against the good users of your community Fediverse instance... Coz these kinds of entitled subversives live for that, and again, you know this from experience - there is nothing new here.
But there first option works too. You just don't know where those cockroaches will next come at you from. But just like what started this whole thing? You know you can just filter their voices out and be done with them.
The third option is probably the most disturbing, because that admin is an enabler and wants to be liked - at the expense of her own users. She will continue to appease these evil people until almost all of her users have moved their accounts to Fediverse instances that are vibrant, happy communities, and she will wonder whatever it was she could have done that was so wrong.
Now I like the sort of server administrator that is so immature and reactionary that he is just looking for a reason to pull the trigger - these are often, but not always, overwhelmingly of the teenage demographic. It really means very little to them when they disregard their userbases and pull the lever. They are in congruence with the haters hammering the report button and demanding that this instance defederates from the object of their bloodlust; they also relish their growing #fediblock list as a collection of trophies - for them, the Fediverse is sport, s blood sport, yet they don't comprehend that "In space, no one can hear you scream"
Eventually, they actually do find themselves in the vacuum of space, having completely defederated themselves from the Fediverse, save for a few instances of ascerbic, hateful bigots; all of the nice, upstanding citizenry of their userbase has long since migrated away.
These pathetic sort of sdmin types discover their personal echo chambers are nothing more than a few whispers here and there, with the memory of the ghosts that once made it a vibrant and engaging community - people from all walks of life, engaged in civil discourse....
So they close down the server, and get a job bagging groceries at the local market because their parents want them to finally move out.
## The aftermath
### But what about our naive little hater admin?
Eventually, the paint in her bedroom dried, and she was able to get out from the corner of self-imposed exile in her bedroom, get that job bagging groceries, growing into a fine adult, and contributing member of society.
She went for her MS in electrical engineering, got a job as a C-Level suit, married, and is now raising three children with her wife. Her future is bright. She grew up - that's what most kids eventually do. And she now commands a healthy modicum of decorum.
She's also her own patriarchy, but she takes turns filling the responsibility of that role with her wife, sometimes delegating that responsibility to their oldest child while they're working long hours, and he just got his driver's license so he can take his siblings to games and practices...
But he's still a little bit immature - kinda like she used to be. 🙂
### whatever became of Raspberry Pi?
Why, what do you mean whatever happened? After all the evil haters removed themselves from federation, life simply went on as before. Sure. There were issues, mostly related to supply chain issues, but that only increased demand, and the good folks that brought us computers for under fifty bucks did their very best to keep prices down during those precarious times too.
And everybody still loves them. The good people on those Fediverse instances administered by stupid people? Well they all found other servers that weren't being run by assholes, or got really enlightened and deployed smallweb single user Fediverse instances with no regrets.
And that ex-cop they hired? Well that guy introduced a brand new line of FOSS based rPi packages and kits for residential customers, empowering homeowners and ranchers to setup easy turnkey surveillance networks to protect their own property, safeguard their families, all without having to be afraid of how evil deprecated legacy silos (like Google and Amazon) were themselves engaging in government sponsored surveillance of their own customers!
Everyone was happy, and we ate from bowls of porridge that weren't too hot, weren't too cold, but were just right.
And we all lived happily ever after...
Except for the bolsheviks - they're still hating themselves and projecting that hatred towards everyone else. But fuck 'em. They've painted themselves into a corner.
# Epilog
Nope. That's it. Nothing else really to add to any of that. It's all just common sense.
Wait! I did forget something.
- If you're wondering why you're seeing traces of pretty formatting, but instead it's not at all pretty, with paragraphs scrunched together and such - that probably means you're in s Mastodon server.
I might be tempted to say it sucks to be you, but that would be mean spirited, and if you're a #newcomer, you probably didn't know any better anyway. So you can just deal with it like all other Mastodon users have to when people format their articles in #Markdown, or try one of the other solutions below:
- Create an account for yourself on pretty much any other kind of Fediverse server. Most all of them offer support for rendering in Markdown.
- Feel free to unfollow me - that's what started this whole calamity and it started to exacerbate in the first place... When @[email protected] kindly suggested that a known Internet troll "just chill" out a bit. Of course they blocked that twit - he was being a dik to other human beings (in violation of his own servers policies), and most folks can appreciate that they just don't have time for that nonsense from high schoolers, or "YouTube Personalities", lolz.### brief list of Markdown enabled Fediverse servers
https://join.misskey.page/en-US/instances
And much more!
# impetus
I was compelled to publish this article in the Fediverse after reading the following article (because it got pretty much everything backwards), and also the buzzfeed interview article it linked to, which had coverage that was fair enough:
https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/
#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #Raspberry_Pi #rPi
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I actually answered that question. Probably why those rants are #pedantic? 🙂
But since you felt the need to ask the question already asked and answered, here's something really special...
One of my favorite #hellthreads (of all time) on the subject of #Mastodonia - by some of the actual creators of #ActivityPub themselves.
I hope you enjoy the hellthread 🤘🤡🤘
So without further adieu:
https://octodon.social/@cwebber/109393122688499252
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And you should return the favor by never posting unsanitized Twitter links to the #Fediverse either 🙂
I recommend you do a search for "IndyWeb POSSE" program. Which explains the philosophy behind only posting Fediverse links into the deprecated legacy silos, and never posting unsanitized links from places there like twitter into the Fediverse.
Basically, you do a disservice posting links in the Fediverse that lead people to the very monolithic, privacy disrespecting silos that they've already left behind.
Instead, if you even bother to use those deprecated legacy silo systems, post links bringing the people there at places like twitter to content that exists here in the Fediverse, thereby providing incentives to create accounts on Fediverse platforms like #Friendica, #FunkWhale, #MicroPub, #Mitra, #PeerTube, #Pixelfed, #Pleroma, #Soapbox, #Quanta, Etc., Thereby joining the Fediverse 👍
If you find that you really must post a link leading to one of the deprecated silos, then please consider #sanitizing such links. i.e., in the case of Twitter, you can use the very popular #Nitter by just replacing the "twitter .com" with "nitter .net" in the URL.
If you're on #Android, #Fedilab does this "automagically" for you if you have safe posting enabled.
If you're on desktop, there's a whole list of similar sanitation tools you can use for #Reddit, for example, by changing the domain in the URL to #Teddit .net and similar tools for #InstaSPAM, #Quora, and many others too. For #YouTube, you can use #Invidious.
A long list of these privacy protecting utilities is provided at:
And you can install Fedilab from F-Droid too:
You can also install the #UntrackMe app at F-Droid for generating safe links when not posting to the Fediverse - desks details are at three Fedilab website above.
I hope that helps!
#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #POSSE #Indyweb_POSSE #privacy #fdroid
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@jeffmcneill @anders @atomicpoet
Yes, there are some good #IPFS enabled Fediverse servers. #Quanta and I believe #Mitra too, to name a couple.
And #Wasabi can provide an affordable storage soltion too, that is easy to implement:
I hope that helps!
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #twittermigration #twitugees
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Mastodon IS NOT the #Fediverse!
The #BDFL of that project saying it's is "vital" illustrates the branding philosophy and corporate, ego driven mindset behind so many PRs and requests that have repeatedly been rejected by an overwhelming amount of Fediverse users and developers - just look at how many 👎 "thumbs down" 👎 reactions his post received (that is rarely seen on GitHub).
His language and marketing have been largely successful, confusing newcomers during this Twitter egress (including media coverage) and conflating just what the Fediverse and mastodon are...
People are saying, "I just joined mastodon!" - NO, you did not. You just joined the "Fediverse", by creating an account on a mastodon server. Even newcomers creating accounts on #Friendica and #Pleroma servers are often seen saying this, and it needs to "STOP".
The Fediverse is the network they are joining, and mastodon is just one of a dozen or so viable platforms that people can use to do so.
Truth be told, mastodon is one of the least feature complete Fediverse server platforms, lacking in many of the most basic social networking tools and features that most other popular server platforms introduced ages ago.
It doesn't even render Markdown, have have quotable boosting, only introduced editing of posts a couple of weeks back, and has a hard coded limit of a paltry 500 characters for each post, forcing users to create those confusingly chronologically backward hellthreads that are interspersed and broken up in everyone's feeds, and there's many more deficiencies to list here.
This is why there are so many different forks.
When you create a #PeerTube account, you haven't joined the PeerTube network - you've joined the Fediverse!
When you create a #Pixelfed account, you haven't joined the Pixelfed network - you've joined the Fediverse!
If you create a mastodon account, you haven't joined "mastodon" - you've joined three Fediverse!
There is no such thing as a mastodon network!
It's just one type of Fediverse server platform, among many, like:
#Akkama, Pleroma, Friendica, #Lemmy, #Soapbox, #Misskey, PeerTube, #Mitra, Pixelfed, #MicroPub, #Epicyon, #Quanta, #GoToSicial, #Socialhome, #FunkWhale, and many many other platforms that open up the entire Fediverse to people, allowing them to share and seamlessly communicate with one another.
There are analogs for #Faceplant, #Twitter, #InstaSPAM, #Reddit, and pretty much any type of social networking experience you can find in the deprecated, centralized, legacy silo systems that cannot, and do not wish to interact with each other - which the Fediverse breaks the paradigm of, and empowers everyone engage with each other globally.
Mastodon's marketing has very deliberately been designed to subvert that narrative and replace this reality with its own, self serving commercial interests to the detriment of Fediverse itself.
A wake up call us coming very soon when the #non_FOSS based platforms like #Tumblr and #Imgur join their (millions) substantial user bases to the Fediverse at which time, mastodon itself may find itself drowned out and largely irrelevant due to its very lacking feature set, and ask if the other existing Fediverse platforms providing so much more if what is possible for us all.
This is typically what happens when your development is driven by egocentric, ulterior motives (whether he actually realizes this about himself or not) to benefit yourself personally - just look at how his donations have jumped, even though newcomers are creating accounts on other Fediverse and mastodon servers begging for donations that for the most part are going directly to him.
#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #introductions #newcomers
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Too bad mastodon is incapable of rendering #Markdown or punishing posts with more than 500 characters.
That's perhaps a good reason to consider moving to #Fediverse platforms like #Akkama, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Pleroma, and #suffix, and #SoapBox.
#tallship #FOSS #SaaS #ActivityPub
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Fast and #Easy_Peasy #light_theme and #dark_theme swap outs in #Fedilab.
Lightning fast cross-account #boosting and favoriting.
Integrated two tap post translation powered by #FOSS based #LibreTranslate.
#Scheduled posting and boosting.
True #bookmarking
Unlimited Multi-Account management.
Full #moderation suite of tools for regular user accounts and admin level server management.
Complete native #Support for the most popular #Fediverse server platforms including #Akkama, #Friendica, #GnuSocial, mastodon, #PeerTube, #Pixelfed, #Pleroma, #Rebased, #Soapbox, and partial basic support for many more.
Configurable #hashtag following collection management with search and #timeline_reordering.
#Automagic link sanitation using #Invidious and #Nitter when posting, and following twitter timelines with integrated Nitter support.
Truly the most #feature_complete and trusted Fediverse client for #Android - no hidden blocks or crippleware like others, ever.
If you’re looking for the best #Android app for all your Fediverse needs, you need look no further. #Fedilab is available via F-Droid and The Google Playstore.
#tallship @apps #UntrackMe #FDroid #ActivityPub
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RT: https://toot.fedilab.app/users/apps/statuses/109474849867080460 -
Yes, our pubic launch announcement is imminent, basically coinciding with this next #Gitea release.
Forĝejo will remain a drop in replacement, as we continue to develop out #ActivityPub based #forge #federating capabilities.
You have a great day!
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #ForgeFed #Forgejo
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@ruario @tallship @Vivaldi I think it's great that you decided to self-host, we should all dogfood our #FOSS when we can, and I think it's great that you chose to select a Mastodon server as the type of Fediverse platform that works for you 🙂
Lately, however, the media coverage, especially the #Time_Magazine interview last month where the word #Fediverse wasn't mentioned a single time, and the mastodon brand was made to sound as if it was the entire network itself?
While I can certainly appreciate that the #BDFL of that product wants to dominate with his brand, that's just ego i suppose, but one of the most significant contributions you can make with the sidebar, IMO, is to place the Fediverse or #ActivityPub logo there.
Seriously. And you can download one from Wikipedia under CC-BY.
I love #Vivaldi, and put up with a lot of jankiness while you were going through growing pains because i knew it would grow into the stellar platform it is today. I constantly update git repos, adding #Vivaldi as an, "also tested to work with" browser in several softwsre projects, because I believe it's important to recognize and acknowledge great symbols of freedom - like #FOSS, like Vivaldi, and like the well deserved recognition that the Fediverse has earned when someone clicks on that button in Vivaldi's sidebar 👍
It's becoming rather alarming, considering that, as FOSS and Privacy Advocates we're facing a difficult endeavor educating folks that Mastodon is NOT the Fediverse - because new adoptees are confused on this critical distinction.
Mastodon can't do #Faceplant, it can't do #InstaSPAM, it can't do #Reddit and it can't do #YouTube functions either... And it is notably lacking in much of what #Twitter does, although it has other merits.
But #Friendica, #Pixelfed, #Lemmy, and #PeerTube do actually directly address those particular niche roles as the Fediverse analogs for those deprecated, legacy silo platforms, respectively.
It would be wonderful if that informative task wasn't made more complicated by what many will consider as careless (and confusing) branding of a feature in what is arguably the best chromium based browser in the contemporary market.
BTW. I typed out this reply in Vivaldi on my #Android 😎
I hope that helps, and kindest regards,
#tallship
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Boom Shakalaka!
Now you can haz #Cheezburgerz 🍔
https://blog.castopod.org/castopod-v1/
#tallship #CastoPod #FOSS #podcsst
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Boom Shakalaka!
Now you can haz #Cheezburgerz 🍔
https://blog.castopod.org/castopod-v1/
#tallship #CastoPod #FOSS #podcsst
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@Vivaldi What about the rest of us millions of people in the #Fediverse, and the millions more coming soon with #Tumblr and #Imgur integrating into the Fediverse?
Even #WordPress and #Drupal call their integrations "Fediverse" and #ActivityPub.
Platforms like #Friendica, #Soapbox, #Pixelfed, #Pleroma, #PeerTube, #Misskey, #Mitra, #Akkama, #Calkey, #FunkWhale, #Hubzilla, #MicroPub, #Hometown, #Quanta, #Epicyon, #GoToSocial, #Socialhome, and many many more Fediverse platforms with people seamlessly engaging and interacting with each other globally...
And you choose to place the logo of a single Fediverse platform - a Fediverse server with one of the most limited feature sets of all, in your sidebar?
Know that mastodon interaction is identical to most any other Fediverse "brand" above, except that it doesn't render #Markdown and other types of text input, and only enables a paltry limit of 500 characters per post, doesn't support quoted boosts like the others, and after all this time only in the last month has introduced an "edit" function standard in other Fediverse servers for years.
Perhaps your choice to commercialize and capitalize on that single brand to the detriment of the others, is more of a #disservice to those of us who have been advocating for and using #Vivaldi, than any sort of benefit it could have been to the great asset that the #FOSS built Fediverse is to decentralized social networking and safe communications for people around the globe.
You made a really bad call there.
#tallship
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Where are these discussions taking place?
And what's wrong with email? I suppose using #ETH addresses for login, or #RetroShare, something like that might work, but you're still tied to DNS otherwise if that is the big beef with email... Just speculating though, which is why I asked.
If #DNS isn't the offender, then perhaps the simplest would be #Keyoxide, #Matrix, #Fediverse address or #XMPP account verification?
https://github.com/Cameron-IPFSPodcasting/podcastnode-Umbrel
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@tallship I’m not a #Rubyist or much of a #JavaScript hacker, but in skimming the #Mastodon source I think I found the 500-character limit hardcoded in just two places:
Backend: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/bbc7afa2a24519ac238cbcd4e8aec310a002c40e/app/validators/status_length_validator.rb#L4
Frontend: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/c95d9aab56dcde8c183f15d565cd1e8746d42c48/app/javascript/mastodon/features/compose/components/compose_form.js#L93 -
If you don't like it then don't do the new lease agreement. Tire Uber no obligation to change the existing terms of your contract.
That's why they're called agreements. If either one or both parties don't agree, then they shouldn't sign - because they don't agree.
If you don't sign, then your agreement automatically converts to a month to month contract under the existing terms.
#tallship #contract #agreement #lease #rental_agreement #lease_agreement #yoga #attire
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After a few years of following your invaluable input, I have to ask whether you've participated in the https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep community which addresses these very issues?
If not, then why not?
If so, what have been your personally most significant contributions to this #DeSoc and #legacy_silo_averting free namespsce?
Kindest regards,
Bradley
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #FEP #lemmur #Spritely #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #extending #extensions #engagements
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More clarification and review material by my friend Danie on the amazingly practical #Keyoxide.
#Danie publishes one of the very best FOSS Tech blogs on the Internet and his video product review drill downs are unparalleled in their in depth coverage and cookbook style instructional aspects - but only to you come away with a good sense of the products suitability and viability for your particular needs and applications, but also a basic understanding of onboarding and studio usage of these FOSS projects did you can hit the groundv running, after being introduced to the basics.
https://gadgeteer.co.za/keyoxide-is-a-privacy-friendly-open-source-tool-to-create-and-verify-decentralized-online-identities-using-a-cryptography-based-approach-to-bidirectional-linking/
We even use and leverage the utility of Keyoxide with our release signing at #Forgejo
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Privacy #Keyoxide #identity #cryotographically_proven_identity #cryptographic_proofs #verification #gpg #OpenPGP #Keybase #rel_me #freedom @daanie @keyoxide @yarmo
I hope that helps!
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Stunning!
Captures the essence of "forge", with a #mascot that stores a most valuable resource of sustenance for later retrieval and on its person (squirrels stuff lots of nuts in their cheeks and #stash them away nearby)...
FOSS is the #sustaining food of the Fediverse, and this #squirrel is #forging that basic staple.
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Forgejo #forge #hammer #anvil #Revoy
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Stunning!
Captures the essence of "forge", with a #mascot that stores a most valuable resource of sustenance for later retrieval and on its person (squirrels stuff lots of nuts in their cheeks and #stash them away nearby)...
FOSS is the #sustaining food of the Fediverse, and this #squirrel is #forging that basic staple.
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Forgejo #forge #hammer #anvil #Revoy
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Stunning!
Captures the essence of "forge", with a #mascot that stores a most valuable resource of sustenance for later retrieval and on its person (squirrels stuff lots of nuts in their cheeks and #stash them away nearby)...
FOSS is the #sustaining food of the Fediverse, and this #squirrel is #forging that basic staple.
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Forgejo #forge #hammer #anvil #Revoy
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Stunning!
Captures the essence of "forge", with a #mascot that stores a most valuable resource of sustenance for later retrieval and on its person (squirrels stuff lots of nuts in their cheeks and #stash them away nearby)...
FOSS is the #sustaining food of the Fediverse, and this #squirrel is #forging that basic staple.
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Forgejo #forge #hammer #anvil #Revoy
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Stunning!
Captures the essence of "forge", with a #mascot that stores a most valuable resource of sustenance for later retrieval and on its person (squirrels stuff lots of nuts in their cheeks and #stash them away nearby)...
FOSS is the #sustaining food of the Fediverse, and this #squirrel is #forging that basic staple.
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Forgejo #forge #hammer #anvil #Revoy
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@wndlb @clay @arinbasu1 @admin @silverpill @trishussey
Hi Wendell,
To be certain, it's a complicated matter under the surface, and to some degree a bit more non-trivial than the average user who is not concerned with #Privacy conscious issues is prepared to devote time to read and implement (it's not actually difficult).
Most #twitugees are of this disinterested mindset.
Here's two current or emerging solutions:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-c390.md
https://fosstodon.org/@keyoxide
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Ummm...
Apologies for posting an unsanitized link...
Here it is still cleaned up:
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=htiWqklosf8&local=true
#tallship #pr0n #Cheezburgerz! 🍔
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