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@Jakub Urbanowicz So I guess this change should be proposed to (streams) and Forte.
As I've said, the *keys fail rather ungracefully as they're caught off-guard.
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CW: Mentions and hashtags on Hubzilla are more "normal" in version 11.4, and this probably isn't pandering to Mastodon; CW: long (over 3,200 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, hashtag meta
I've noticed that Hubzilla 11.4 handles mentions and hashtags (closer to) the Twitter way instead of the Identi.ca way now. The@and the#became part of the link (@Jupiter's Fedi-Memes on (streams), #Hashtag, for example).
I wouldn't cry out "pandering to Mastodon" now. I don't think this happened in the same vein as Forte giving the choice between starting an enclosed conversation and starting a microblogging-style loose thread. After all, it's vanilla Mastodon out of all microblogging applications that handles the old Identi.ca way quite gracefully. And even what didn't work as intended didn't cause a big mess instead either.
Other Fediverse applications are way less prepared for this. From the Mastodon fork Glitch to all the *keys and, I think, the *omas, not only can't they handle the Identi.ca way, but they tend to fail rather ungracefully because they don't even expect anything else than the Twitter way. Especially on Misskey, this has been recognised as a bug in 2024 already, and nothing much has happened in terms of fixing it. Of course, all the Forkeys have inherited the bug, and I think none of them has fixed it instead of waiting for upstream Misskey to fix it. I'm not even sure if Iceshrimp.NET, a complete rewrite in C#, hasn't re-implemented it.
I mean, if lots of Fediverse server applications render Hubzilla's old "#Hashtag" (with the number sign outside the link, the Identi.ca way) as its Markdown representation, "#[Hashtag](https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Hashtag)", and people keep complaining, then someone has to step in and put an end to this mess. And lots of fingers were pointing at Hubzilla. While tens of thousands of Mastodon accounts blocked Hubzilla channels for their long posts, hundreds of *key accounts blocked Hubzilla channels for how completely messed up their hashtags came out.
Also, unless I'm completely wrong, the first Fediverse server application that handled mentions and hashtags the Twitter way rather than the Identi.ca way wasn't Mastodon either; it was GNU social, itself a fork of StatusNet, the software that used to power Identi.ca before its switch to pump.io.
So this wasn't a case of Hubzilla acting up on Mastodon. It was a case of Hubzilla acting up across at least half the Fediverse, Mastodon actually largely excluded.
That is, it may still worry you that Hubzilla whose foundation was laid in May, 2012, based on Friendica which is another two years older, adapted to software which came later instead of playing the "we were here first" card. A whole lot of software which came later and which was largely created independently from Mastodon (although both Mastodon and Pleroma started their lives as something akin to alternative frontends for GNU social), but still.
By the way, don't Friendica, (streams) and Forte still cause the same issue? Especially Forte that has actually started pandering to Mastodon as of late?
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@Chao-c'BTW I had account on identi.ca, which was StatusNet powered (I believe).
It was. At least until Evan and Erin could no longer justify it running on that janky OStatus protocol. The result was the ActivityPump protocol, the pump.io software and Identi.ca's switch to pump.io with all hands on board.Yes, and it should not be implemented in Ruby or PHP or something like that. I have seen one online discussion forum being rewritten from PHP to Rust few years ago, and the improvement in responsiveness of the web platform was amazing. (I do C, not Rust, but C is too oldschool now, and the performance penalty of Rust is minor, probably not noticeable at all)
This reminds me of how the Fediverse is all over the place in terms of programming languages. Everyone has their own Holy Grail.
Friendica and its descendants are written in PHP. They may not be the fastest (even though what bogged down early Friendica were its heavyweight federation connectors to everywhere, especially the one for Facebook that came in 2011). Mike either discarded or rewrote these when he rewrote Red. But they happily run on a run-of-the-mill LAMP stack.
Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails. Hubzilla runs circles around it in terms of performance per account/channel, and that has to say something. The only thing that managed to top this was early diaspora*, written in Ruby on Rails for Mac with MongoDB as the database system.
The *omas are built in Elixir. Granted, they're utter featherweights, especially considering their features. They're legendary for their low server impact. Then again, Pleroma apparently is spaghetti code straight from hell. Its own devs often don't have a clue where to go look for bugs, much less how to fix them. (Miraculously, the Akkoma devs do manage to get ride of quite a number of them.)
The *keys are built in TypeScript and Vue.js. I guess one reason why Misskey is infamous for having so many forks and forks of forks is because there are tons of people who can code in JavaScript, the primary mobile programming language.
Iceshrimp.NET is a still very incomplete "rewrite" of old Iceshrimp in C#. It was largely tackled to get rid of all those nasty bugs inherited from Misskey that even Misskey doesn't manage to get rid of. I've heard quite some outcry: Iceshrimp.NET is a sell-out to Microsoft. I guess whoever uttered that didn't go check who owns TypeScript.
PieFed is a dead giveaway: Python. And PieFed makes more headlines in the Threadiverse for server politics than for its underlying technology, except that Lemmy pales in comparison.
GoToSocial is a dead giveaway, too: Go. And it was one of the first Fediverse server applications to not come with a Web UI. Those who use it for a single-user server often don't even bother installing one and use some Mastodon app or other instead. Besides, why drag around a Web UI if there are much better third-party Web UIs than whatever you could whip up?
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@DavidM_yeg @Dennis What more is needed?
A full visual description of the settings, the people (of course, avoiding their gender and describing their skin tone rather than their race), their outfits, the surroundings?
The title of the film, including an explanation what this film is, who made it, what it is about, when it was released, who the characters are and who the actors are?
Regardless of neither of this belonging into the alt-text because information that is neither available in the message text nor plainly visible to sighted users in the image does not belong into the alt-text? Because there are people who cannot access alt-text?
https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/wiki/jupiter_rowland/How(20)to(20)describe(20)images(20)in(20)the(20)Fediverse/Don(27)t(20)explain(20)things(20)or(20)give(20)other(20)information(20)only(20)in(20)alt-text(21)
https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/wiki/jupiter_rowland/How(20)to(20)describe(20)images(20)in(20)the(20)Fediverse/Can(20)everyone(20)access(20)alt-text(3f)
And, pray tell, how is all this supposed to fit in 512 characters or fewer so that Misskey, Calckey, Firefish, Iceshrimp-JS, Sharkey, CherryPick and the other Misskey forks won't discard the alt-text?
https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/wiki/jupiter_rowland/How(20)to(20)describe(20)images(20)in(20)the(20)Fediverse/How(20)long(20)can(20)alt-text(20)be(3f)
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@william ⁂ maggos In this regard, Mastodon has only got one major advantage: It has an official app.
Phone users used to see Twitter as a phone app that they loaded from their app store. Mastodon is the only *blogging thing in the Fediverse that they can load from their app store.
This is one reason why just about all Mastodon newbies use the official app and why they're on mastodon.social (it's the default in the official app, and since they don't know what this setting does, they leave it on default).
Mastodon even gets away with an official app that's far from good, much less fully features. All the newbies don't have anything to compare with. If Mastodon is a phone app to them, then the official app's feature set is Mastodon's feature set. If a feature isn't implemented in the official app, then Mastodon doesn't have it. I dare say that well over 80% of all Mastodon users have never in their lives used Mastodon's Web UI.
If someone takes the step and moves from the official Mastodon app to Ivory or Mona or IceCubes or Tusky or Fedilab or something like this, it's almost always the first time in their lives that they use an online service through an app that has a different name than the online service. Many people couldn't even imagine doing that.
This means that if Friendica and Hubzilla want to be more successful, growing beyond Mike's old "if you build it, they'll come" credo and advertising more isn't sufficient. People must be able to load Friendica/Hubzilla onto their phones from their app store. This requires an official app named "Friendica"/"Hubzilla" with a native, up-to-date iOS UI in the Apple App Store and one with a native, up-to-date Android UI in the Google Play Store. The existence of an official phone app in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store is essential for being considered existent in the first place.
A commonplace attitude on Friendica and even more so on Hubzilla is that both can be installed as a PWA. But seriously, 99.9% of all phone users don't even know that PWAs exist. They don't know what that is. Not to mention that they expect and demand a native mobile UI in the style of their phone OS and not a generic Web UI.
Now, what would this app have to look like?
If the advantages of Friendica and Hubzilla over Mastodon are to be emphasised and underlined, and if this app is to become people's one and only daily driver UI, it will have to be fully featured. Minus the settings for the Web UI (e.g. the theme settings and the PDL editor on Hubzilla), minus stuff that you'll never need if you only ever use the phone app and never the server UI (e.g. Webpages on Hubzilla), but otherwise fully featured. This would also demonstrate just how vastly more powerful Friendica and Hubzilla are than Mastodon.
The obvious downside is that such an app would be a feature monster. Bigger and more feature-laden than any Android e-mail app or OpenStreetMap editor.
There has been some talk about building an official Hubzilla phone app. Some Hubzilla users have proposed an app that only offers the very basics. However, their idea behind this is not to make the app easier for newbies to use, but to make it easier for the developers to build. They're often still stuck in the early 2010s when phone apps for websites were considered gimmicks. They think that people will only use the app when they're out and about, and when they're back home, they'll sit down behind their computers and use the Web interface. Thus, phone apps only need the most basic features implemented.
But 2026 is not 2011. The huge majority of Mastodon users only use Mastodon through a phone app. Even when they're at home. As I've said: If the app doesn't have a feature, the whole product doesn't have the feature, regardless of whether or not the feature is implemented in the server backend and even in the Web frontend.
Besides, even Friendica's basic features that you'll need all the time are a lot. Hubzilla's basic features that you'll need all the time are even more numerous.
Shall people be limited to posting in public when they're on a phone because the phone app doesn't have any permission settings?
Shall people be limited to posting to their contacts when they're on a phone because someone decided that support for groups would make the phone app too complex?
Shall people wait until they're home, and they've got some time to fire up a computer, open a Web browser and log onto the Web interface to accept connection requests because the phone app doesn't have any connection settings? What if they don't have a computer?
Let's face it, social networking itself is a complex thing. And I mean actual social networking. Not misusing glorified SMS as a social network. Real social networking. Facebook-level social networking. Google+-level social networking. MySpace-level social networking.
Thus, a social networking phone app with all features necessary for real social networking has to be complex. This isn't a Friendica/Hubzilla issue. Don't believe that the official Facebook apps are simple.
This is also why so many prefer 𝕏 over Facebook. Facebook is complex. Facebook isn't just register, follow, post. 𝕏 is much more simple. 𝕏 is glorified SMS. 𝕏 is literally just register, follow, tweet. Facebook is rocket science whereas 𝕏 is for dumb-dumbs.
And it's because Mastodon is so lacking that it's for dumb-dumbs by Fediverse standards. In fact, if you don't read those panicky "it's too complicated because you have to know what a server is" posts, if you just load the app and create an account, Mastodon, through the official app, is for dumb-dumbs by all standards.
However, those who actually are on Facebook are willing to put up with something more complex. They need something more complex than glorified SMS for dumb-dumbs. They need the extra features that Facebook has that 𝕏 doesn't, even if these are the very features that deny Facebook the "for dumb-dumbs" attribute.
Send them to Mastodon, and they'll be irritated and even repelled because this feature isn't there, and that feature isn't there, and that feature is cut down beyond recognition, and they can't find any interesting people (not because Mastodon is decentralised, and the interesting people are on other servers, but because Mastodon's directory sucks arse in comparison with Facebook's), and what's with that stupid character limit?
On Friendica and Hubzilla, this feature and that feature have been there for longer than Mastodon itself, that feature is even more powerful than on Facebook proper, interesting people are being shoved into their faces once they've filled out their profile, even more so once they've got some connections, and there is no character limit worth speaking of.
But as long as Friendica and Hubzilla don't have official, fully daily-driveable phone apps named "Friendica" and "Hubzilla" respectively, they simply don't exist.
Granted, there's another obstacle. Many Mastodon users say the Fediverse needs a Facebook alternative. If you tell them about Friendica and its descendants, some will be very thankful because they've genuinely never heard of any of these.
Others will tell you that they know Friendica and maybe even Hubzilla. But they also say that none of these are Facebook alternatives. For when they say, "alternative," what they really mean is, "1:1 clone, just with a different name and decentralised and with ActivityPub and without spying and without the recent enshittification and without the evil CEO, otherwise absolutely identical."
One big aspect of this is that, as they say, the Fediverse needs an alternative to Facebook Groups. Friendica groups are exactly that because they were designed to be exactly that. Hubzilla forums, (streams) groups, Forte groups, all just that. But according to these people, they don't count because they aren't handled in precisely the same way as Facebook groups. Facebook groups aren't separate accounts. And different equals bad.
What really has me shake my head is that those who want a 1:1 Facebook clone continue to use Mastodon as a Facebook alternative. Even though Friendica and its family are vastly closer to Facebook regardless. Even though Mastodon not only doesn't have groups at all, but it doesn't even have any support for external groups. Is shouting into the void with a bunch of hashtags and hoping the right people will hear you really that much better than a Friendica group or a Hubzilla forum or maybe a PieFed community?
By the way: Just how faithful a Twitter clone is Mastodon really, seeing as Misskey and the Forkeys have the odd Twitter feature that Mastodon still lacks, seeing as even Mastodon gradually becomes more complex than 𝕏, much more so than when-it-still-was-good Twitter?
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CW: What the Mastodon overlords are allowed and justified to do, and what the non-Mastodon savages are not; CW: long (over 6,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, character limit meta, CW meta
Yeah, I get it.
Mastodon and its users rule supreme over the Fediverse. After all, the Fediverse was invented by Gargron. It started when Mastodon started, and everything that isn't Mastodon just latched onto Mastodon and its Fediverse.
Mastodon users are the only civilised users in the Fediverse, the only ones with something like a culture. The Fediverse culture is Mastodon's culture as defined in the spring of 2022. All those who don't live by Mastodon's culture are uncivilised, uneducated, savage barbarians. And it isn't just the Mastodon users' right and privilege to educate them and shape them into good Mastodon users, it's their duty.
Even when it turns out that these barbarians aren't even on Mastodon, that they're on something that's very much not Mastodon, they can't possibly have a culture of their own. After all, they don't live by Mastodon's culture, and if it isn't Mastodon's culture, it isn't culture at all. Not even if it predates Mastodon's current culture by over a decade like Friendica's culture does.
Of course, this also means that when non-Mastodon users come and give Mastodon users unsolicited "advice" or recommend them to use Mastodon in a certain way that goes against Mastodon's culture, the Mastodon users are fully justified to silence them by any means available.What this means:
When a Mastodon user uses "Fediverse" and "Mastodon" mutually synonymously, it's the right thing to do because that's part of Mastodon's culture. And it makes things easier to understand.
When a non-Mastodon user explains that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon, and that "Fediverse" and "Mastodon" do not mean the same, it's evil and intrusive and deeply disturbing.
When a Mastodon user refers to any message in the Fediverse as a "toot", it's the right thing to do because that's part of Mastodon's culture.
When a Misskey or Forkey user talks about "notes", it's irritating. When a Friendica or Hubzilla or (streams) or Forte user distinguishes between "posts" and "comments", it has even less of a place in the Mastodon Fediverse.
Features that only Mastodon has are actually mandatory for the whole Fediverse. Any Fediverse server software that hasn't got these features implemented in exactly the same way as Mastodon is broken.
Features in non-Mastodon Fediverse server software that Mastodon doesn't have are wrong and evil and not allowed to be used.
Mastodon users are allowed, justified and expected to tell non-Mastodon users to limit their posts to no more than 500 characters. It especially disturbs those who refuse to move away from the official Mastodon phone app.
Non-Mastodon users are not allowed to tell Mastodon users to not cut their long posts into threads.
Mastodon users are allowed, justified and expected to tell non-Mastodon users to put content warnings into their summary/abstract field.
Mastodon users are allowed, justified and expected to tell non-Mastodon users to only use their summary/abstract field for content warnings. After all, that's what Gargron invented that field for.
Non-Mastodon users are not allowed to tell non-Mastodon users that it was Evan Prodromou who invented that field as early as 2008. That he invented it as a summary field. That it was actually a Mastodon user who repurposed that field for CWs in 2017, the year after Mastodon was launched. Gargron only let it pass.
Non-Mastodon users are not allowed to use that field for anything else than CWs.
Non-Mastodon users are not allowed to add hashtags instead of CWs so that reader-side CWs can automatically be generated by filters. Even though Mastodon itself has literally introduced this very feature with version 4.0 in October, 2022.
Mastodon users are allowed, justified and expected to tell non-Mastodon users to not only write alt-texts for all the images they post, but to write them nicely long and detailed. After all, they've got 1,500 characters for alt-texts.
Misskey and Forkey users are not allowed to tell Mastodon users to limit their alt-texts to no more than 512 characters because that's the maximum that Misskey and the Forkeys accept, and on top of that, due to a bug, they delete all alt-texts longer than that. From a Misskey/Forkey point of view, writing long alt-texts is like not writing any alt-texts at all. But the Misskey/Forkey point of view is invalid in Mastodon's culture.
Mastodon users are allowed, justified and expected to toot to Lemmy any way they want, and that's the Mastodon way. If it doesn't work properly on Lemmy, then Lemmy is broken.
Lemmy users, even Lemmy moderators, and other users of Fediverse software that supports groups are not allowed to tell Mastodon users how to post to Lemmy in a way that Lemmy understands.
Mastodon users are allowed, justified and expected to even tell Lemmy users to limit their "toots" to no more than 500 characters and use hashtags, but not too many of them.
Lemmy users and even Lemmy moderators are not allowed to tell Mastodon users to stop spamming Lemmy with mentions and with hashtags that don't work on Lemmy anyway, also because both highly irritate the Lemmy users. Almost all of them came straight from Reddit after their third-party apps were killed, and almost none of them have ever been on Twitter or Mastodon.
Mastodon users and Mastodon admins are allowed and justified to block any and all non-Mastodon servers because they misbehave by Mastodon's standards.
(streams) and Forte admins are not allowed to block the entirety of Mastodon, all present and future servers, by user agent (which, by the way, they're totally capable of) because it misbehaves by their standards. Mastodon doesn't misbehave, and the Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte standards are all wrong if they differ from Mastodon's standards.
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@Roknrol Here are a few older alt-texts that I've written for original images of my own.Digital shaded rendering of the main building of the Universal Campus, a downloadable island location for 3-D virtual worlds based on OpenSimulator. The camera position is about three metres or ten feet above the ground. The camera is tilted slightly upward and rotated slightly to the left from the building's longitudinal axis. The futuristic building is over 200 metres long, stretching far into the distance, and its front is about 50 metres wide. Its structure is mostly textured to resemble brushed stainless steel, and almost everything in-between is grey tinted glass. The main entrance of the building in the middle of the front has two pairs of glass doors. They are surrounded by a massive complex geometrical structure, very roughly reminiscent of a vintage video game spacecraft with the front facing upward. Four huge cylindrical pillars carry the roof end, the outer two of which extend beyond it. All are tilted away from the landing area in front of the building and at the same time outward to the sides. The sides of the building are slightly tilted themselves. In the distance, a large geodesic dome rises from the building. There is a large circular area in front of the main entrance as well as several wide paths. They have light concrete textures, and they are lined with low walls with almost white concrete textures. Furthermore, various shrubs and trees decorate the scenery. A more detailed description including explanations and text transcripts can be found in the post.
Digital rendering from OSgrid, one of the biggest out of thousands of 3-D virtual worlds based on OpenSimulator. It shows Juno Rowland, a female avatar, standing at the end of a wooden pier with the ocean in the background. The avatar is designed to resemble a woman who is no older than in her 30s. She is slim underneath loose-fitting clothes. She has light to medium-light skin, brown eyes and black hair which is styled as a neck-long bob. She is wearing a black tank top with the logo of the 17th birthday of OSgrid on it, a straight, lower-thigh-length, light-to-medium-light-brown denim miniskirt, a pair of black flat ballet shoes and a golden necklace with the OSgrid logo. The OSgrid logo is made up from five identical parallelograms arranged in a circular, star-like pattern. It is also part of the birthday logo which is mostly two tones of yellowish orange. The writing on the birthday logo reads, from top to bottom, “OSgrid”, “The Open Source Metaverse” and “17th Birthday”. A more detailed description of the image, including explanations, can be found in the post itself. If you are on Mastodon, Misskey or one of their forks, you can find it by opening the summary and content warning which includes, “CW: long (22,270 characters, including 20,377 characters of image descriptions), eye contact”, and then following the actual post text. If you are on Pleroma, Akkoma, another Pleroma fork, Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams), the full description will follow right after the images.
Digital rendering from OSgrid, one of the biggest out of thousands of 3-D virtual worlds based on OpenSimulator. It shows Juno Rowland, a female avatar, standing at the end of a wooden pier with the ocean in the background. The avatar is designed to resemble a woman who is no older than in her 30s. She is slim underneath loose-fitting clothes. She has light to medium-light skin and black hair which is styled as a neck-long bob. She is wearing a black tank top, a straight, lower-thigh-length, light-to-medium-light-brown denim miniskirt, a pair of black flat ballet shoes and a golden necklace. She is looking at the cover of the Leonard Cohen album Recent Songs on a white easel. The cover is a painting of the musician's face. He is shown to be a middle-aged man with light skin, green eyes and black hair in a black shirt. A hummingbird is drawn hovering above his shoulder to the left. The background is medium blue. Cohen's name and the album title are written in the top corners. A more detailed description of the image, including explanations, can be found in the post itself. If you are on Mastodon, Misskey or one of their forks, you can find it by opening the summary and content warning which includes, “CW: long (22,270 characters, including 20,377 characters of image descriptions), eye contact”, and then following the actual post text. If you are on Pleroma, Akkoma, another Pleroma fork, Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams), the full description will follow right after the images.
Good? Too long? Still not sufficiently detailed? If the latter, then rest assured: When the alt-text announces an additional, much longer image description in the message text, then there actually is one.
That is, nowadays, my goal is to limit my alt-texts to a maximum of 512 characters. That's because if a post with a longer alt-text arrives on Misskey or Iceshrimp-JS or Sharkey or another Misskey fork, then the alt-text is deleted without any trace. It will look like there has never been any alt-text to begin with.
When I post memes, it's usually easier to keep alt-texts shorter. The tricky part is to still have all the text transcripts in the alt-text because I only write one visual description for each of my meme images unless it's based on a virtual world rendering. I do give some explanations in my meme posts, though.
These two are very recent:Image macro, based on a screen capture from the Disney and Pixar animated film Finding Nemo. At the top, there is a white space with a two-line caption: “OSgrid: offline for weeks to come,” and “Owners of other grids, looking at OSgrid residents:”. In the screen capture below, ten seagulls are perched on two mooring lines in the background. An eleventh seagull pokes its head into the image from the bottom right. They all look at the camera. Each one is labelled with the question, “Mine?”
Image macro, based on a screen capture from the animated film Finding Nemo. At the top, there is a white space with a two-line caption: “Fediverse admin: announces the end of their instance and asks their users to migrate to other instances,” and “Admins of other instances:”. In the screen capture below, ten seagulls are perched on two mooring lines. An eleventh seagull pokes its head into the image from the bottom right. They all look at the camera. Each one is labelled with the question, “Mine?”
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Just discovered that Misskey actually doesn't truncate alt-texts with over 512 characters, but it silently discards them entirely. If your alt-text is longer than 512 characters, this gives the impression that you're too lazy to write alt-texts altogether.
https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/issues/13823
I don't know if any Forkeys have fixed this, though.
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CW: Misskey only allows for 512 characters of alt-text which is bad for my image posts; CW: long (over 8,600 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, alt-text meta, character limit meta, content warning meta
Just the other day, I found something out. Something very inconvenient about Misskey and maybe also the Forkeys.
It should be commonly known that Misskey has a local limit of 3,000 characters for posts (which it refers to as "notes"). What is not so well-known is that Misskey has a limit of about 8,000 characters, probably 8,192 or so, for inbound messages, ironically fewer than this post is long. Also, it has a limit of 512 characters for alt-text, both locally and in-bound.
Mastodon has a character limit for in-bound content, too, at least for Note-type objects (not for Article-type objects because it refuses to render them fully and links to the original instead). To my best knowledge, it rejects messages with over 100,000 characters. As for its 1,500-charater limit for alt-text, it enforces that by truncating alt-text that's longer.
Misskey, in contrast, truncates everything that exceeds its limits while still letting it in. If your post is longer than the inbound limit of ca. 8,000, all excess characters are chopped off and thrown away. If your alt-text is longer than 512 characters, all excess characters are chopped off and thrown away.
I don't know which Forkey behaves how in this regard, seeing as all Forkeys I know about have a configurable local post character limit that can be adjusted to well over 8,000. But even if the inbound limit is configurable, too, I don't think any *key admin cranks it over 60,000 or over 70,000 or over 100,000. It's simply unimaginable that someone, anyone, could ever post that much at once if your idea of the Fediverse is pure microblogging.
Also, I don't know what *key users do when they come across a truncated post or what blind or visually-impaired *key users do when they come across a truncated alt-text. Do they even suspect that it's a truncated copy of something that's longer at its source and then go check the source? Either way, it's very inconvenient.
It's especially inconvenient for me. My longest posts by a gigantic margin are image posts with original images. They always have a long image description block in the post itself that tends to be tens of thousands of characters long. It contains highly detailed visual descriptions of all images in the post. It contains all explanations necessary to understand the post, the images and the descriptions. It contains verbatim transcripts of all bits of text within the borders of the image that I can read, no matter whether or not my audience can.
In addition, each image has a shorter description in the alt-text, along with a bit that announces the long description, including where to find it. I even used to explain how to get to that description for Mastodon users for whom the summary and content warning hides the post text, but not the images, depending on which Mastodon version and frontend they use. This alone took up several hundred characters in the alt-text. All in all, I got to a point in which my alt-texts always ended up either at precisely 1,500 characters or just a few characters short.
I myself am not really bound to character limits. I used to post images here on Hubzilla where I have over 16.7 million characters for the post, including all alt-texts. Now I post them on (streams) where I have over 24 million characters. I could theoretically write alt-texts as long as I want to, seeing as, unlike on Mastodon, they aren't separate text fields; instead, they're being woven into the image-embedding markup code in the post text.
Still, I stick to a maximum of 1,500 characters for alt-text to keep Mastodon from truncating it. If you post images into the Fediverse, the main audience for your alt-text is on Mastodon, and most of them don't understand that there's something, anything, out there in the Fediverse that does not work exactly like Mastodon. And 1,500 characters can be tight already.
But if I have to stay within Misskey's limits, I can hardly post images anymore. At least not with appropriate descriptions and explanations.
Since late 2024, I have been working on-and-off on a series of fairly simple avatar portraits or rather their image descriptions. The idea is for the long description to consist of a preamble that starts with a general summary, followed by explanations, then followed by visual descriptions of what all images in the post have in common. Next come the individual descriptions of each image. Each post shall have three or four images with three or four portraits each, all in the same pose, all with only minor differences in outfits, all with a neutral, bright white background.
In addition, of course, each image shall have an alt-text, and none of the alt-texts shall depend on each other.
Now, the problem is that I have to describe three or four individual portraits in each alt-text. I'm actually struggling to squeeze such a description plus the note that announces the long description into 1,500 characters, especially if I want to fulfill Veronica Lewis a.k.a. Veronica With Four Eyes' requirements for outfit descriptions to a tee in the alt-text as well (https://veroniiiica.com/how-to-write-alt-text-for-casual-outfits/, https://veroniiiica.com/writing-image-descriptions-for-red-carpet-outfits/; see also https://veroniiiica.com/how-to-write-alt-text-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/ and https://veroniiiica.com/how-to-create-visual-descriptions/).
But in 512 characters so that even Misskey users won't get a severely truncated version? This is absolutely impossible. Even if I limit the long description announcement to some 100 characters, even if I didn't walk people through how to get to the long description, I'd have fewer than 140 characters on average to describe each individual outfit.
The long description won't fare any better. Currently, the preamble starts with some 14,000 characters of explanations, most of which are necessary to understand the visual descriptions. But when Misskey goes and truncates the post at the 8,000-something mark, Misskey users won't even get to any visual description because all visual descriptions would be chopped off.
What makes matters worse is that the preamble grows the longer, the easier to understand I make it and the less I leave people with unexplained technical or jargon terms which you shouldn't use in image descriptions at all anyway. So the next time I go through it and rewrite it to make it easier to understand, I'll also make it even longer than it already is.
But what if I simply cut all the explanations? For one, I'd leave people to their own devices to understand extremely obscure niche content. They won't. My explanations aren't 14,000 characters long because I've artificially inflated them, but because there is so much to know before you understand the post and the images and the descriptions.
Besides, the visual descriptions alone won't fit into 8,192 characters either. What I currently have is over 5,000 characters of common visual description for all portraits in all images plus about 2,500 characters of individual visual description for the three portraits in the first image. That's over 7,500 characters altogether already. And I still have to describe nine portraits in another three images. The post will end up with some 15,000 characters of visual descriptions unless they grow longer when I simplify them again.
I guess users of Misskey or any Forkey will still have to put up with truncated alt-texts and truncated long descriptions in the future. But my future image posts will contain a paragraph at the beginning that explains that the post and/or the alt-text may be truncated on Misskey and the Forkeys, and that both are uncut at the source. Still, this means that *key users will have to put up with the extra hassle of opening my original post at a source with a quite cumbersome UI. And I've got my doubts that this UI is really accessible.
Unfortunately, this also means that *key users won't get any hashtags along with these posts. But then again, the handling of Identi.ca-style/Friendica-style hashtags with the number sign outside the link is broken on all *keys and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Calckey #Firefish #Sharkey #CherryPick #Iceshrimp #Iceshrimp-JS #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #A11y #Accessibility -
@crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts @Silvia Auf *key ist doch sowieso jeder eine potentielle Katze.
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@crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts @「 Jürgen 」:fedi_mastodon: So ist das. Es zeigt aber auch sehr deutlich den Unterschied zwischen dem Fediverse in der westlichen Welt und dem Fediverse in Ostasien.
So, wie bei uns im Westen das Fediverse im wesentlichen Mastodon ist, ist in Ostasien das Fediverse im wesentlichen *key. Die kennen auch Mastodon, aber das spielt da nur eine untergeordnete Rolle. Etwas, was dem Platzhirsch Misskey das Wasser nicht reichen kann, hat da einfach keine Chance.
In Ostasien gibt's im wesentlichen zwei Gründe für Forkeys. Zum einen ist Misskey eigentlich verbuggt bis zum Gehtnichtmehr. Die Bugs sind bekannt. Die Bugs sind in Issues auf GitHub dokumentiert. Aber es passiert einfach nix. Man könnte Pull Requests einreichen, mit denen ein Bug sofort aus der Welt geschafft werden könnte. Die werden aber einfach nicht gemerget.
Was machst du also? Du machst aus deinem Entwicklungsfork, mit dem du deinen Patch gebaut hast, ein eigenes Projekt mit eigenem Namen und haust das als direkte Konkurrenz zu Misskey raus. Also als Soft-Fork, wo du ab und an mal Commits von Misskey rüberholst und bei dir einpflegst. Oder wenn du an Misskeys Weiterentwicklung eh nicht glaubst, gleich als Hard-Fork, wo du letztlich die ganze Weiterentwicklung selbst machst.
Zum anderen gibt's immer wieder Ideen, wie die Usability von *key verbessert oder in andere Richtungen getrieben werden könnte. Das kann man natürlich nicht unbedingt mit Misskey selbst machen. Also macht man dafür eben einen Fork.
Die Featuritis westlicher Art in japanischen und südkoreanischen Forkeys kam doch eigentlich erst richtig auf, als man in Ostasien bemerkte, daß zum einen Misskey im Westen populärer wurde (immer mehr englische Notizen auf Misskey-Instanzen, immer mehr englische Issues auf GitHub, wo früher mal alle japanisch waren, etc.) und zum anderen Misskey im Westen geforkt wurde (ein Blick in die Liste der Forks des Misskey-Repository genügt).
Im Westen sind die Gründe für Forkeys etwas anders gelagert. Erstens wollten vermutlich besonders die ganz frühen westlichen Forkeys die Ästhetik verändern. Ich meine, vor ein paar Jahren hatte Misskey noch diese typische knallbunte Ästhetik von Shibuya und Akihabara und Manga und japanischen Verkaufsautomaten. Die Amis und Europäer wollten eher ein sachlicheres Aussehen haben, das Maid-Café in eine Studentenkneipe umgestalten, ungewohnte Melonenbrause durch gewohnte Cola ersetzen.
Zweitens, wo man schon mal dabei war: Features, Features, Features. Man war beeindruckt davon, was Misskey konnte, was das eigentlich als Standard und Goldstandard geltende Mastodon nicht konnte. Aber da ging noch was, da war noch Luft nach oben. Und weil verschiedene Entwickler verschiedene Vorstellungen hatten, was jetzt ein Forkey an Features haben soll, standen wohl einige Zeit vor allem FoundKey und Calckey in Konkurrenz zueinander.
Zu den Sachen, auf die sie sich einigen konnten, war, daß ein hartgecodetes Zeichenlimit von 3000 genauso Käse ist wie ein hartgecodetes Zeichenlimit von 500 auf Mastodon. Deswegen hat doch so ziemlich jeder Mastodon-Fork, der was auf sich hält, ein konfigurierbares Zeichenlimit. Und jeder Forkey, der was auf sich hält, auch.
Drittens: Bugfixes. Allerdings nicht nur von Misskey-Bugs, die von den Forkeys geerbt wurden, sondern ebenso von Bugs, die mit der Featuritis Einzug gehalten haben. Deswegen war Sharkey ("Hauptsache, erstmal Features") vs. Iceshrimp ("Hauptsache, erstmal Stabilität") das neue FoundKey vs. Calckey.
Viertens, das habe ich noch gar nicht erwähnt: ein nicht cishet-normatives Fediverse. Sogar eine Nische im Fediverse ganz ausdrücklich für Transpersonen, deren serverseitiger Unterbau selbst von Transpersonen entwickelt und gepflegt wird. Warum? Weil der Admin von misskey.io, der größten Misskey-Instanz überhaupt, durch das Shadowbanning entsprechender Begriffe mal eine gewisse Homophobie, Transphobie und generelle Queerphobie impliziert hat. Wohlgemerkt, der Admin von misskey.io, nicht irgendeiner der Entwickler von Misskey. Aber damit stand Misskey als Ganzes und wohl auch die ganze japanisch-südkoreanische Forkey-Szene doof da.
Hajkey hatte ich ja schon erwähnt. Von einer Transfrau entwickelter Forkey für eine von einer Transfrau gegründete Instanz. Noch offensichtlicher geht's fast schon gar nicht mehr: Hajkey war inspiriert von und benannt nach dem IKEA Blåhaj, dem plüschigen Transgender-Wappentier. Und auch Sharkey wurde von trans Instanzadmins angeschoben, um eine Pro-2SLGBTQQIA+-Alternative zu Misskey mit besonderem Fokus auf Transpersonen zu haben, die Misskey selbst in den Schatten stellt. Ich meine, warum ist das Maskottchen von Sharkey ein Anime-Mädchen in einem blauen Haianzug?
Sharkeys Ziel dürfte auch gewesen sein, einen Fediverse-Alleskönner zu bauen. Egal, was man im Fediverse machen will, egal, was man für Features braucht, sie sollten auf jeden Fall auch erhältlich sein von trans Entwicklern und nicht nur von Cishet-Männern. Wohl auch deshalb wurde Sharkey aufgebläht zu einem Featuremonster, das im Rahmen der Möglichkeiten von *key Friendica und sogar Hubzilla Konkurrenz zu machen versucht. Transpersonen sollten anstelle dieser beiden Anwendungen, die praktisch komplett von Cishet-Männern entwickelt und gepflegt werden, mit möglichst wenig Einschränkungen auch Sharkey nutzen können.
Das Problem im Westen ist nur, Entwickler zu finden und zu halten. Wie gesagt, in Fernost dominiert *key alles. Hier im Westen ist *key eine Nische. Hier ist alles Nische, was nicht Mastodon ist. Ein erheblicher Teil der Fediverse-Nutzer kennt nur Mastodon, glaubt gar, das Fediverse sei nur Mastodon. Ein paar mehr glauben, das Fediverse sei nicht viel mehr als Mastodon, PeerTube und Pixelfed. Geschätzt mindestens die Hälfte aller Fediverse-Nutzer glaubt, Mastodon sei die einzige auf Microblogging ausgelegte Anwendung im Fediverse.
Dazu kommt die Konkurrenz. Neben Mastodon gibt's ja nicht nur *key. Auch Pleroma und Akkoma wollen ein Stück vom Kuchen abhaben, und die dürften mindestens so bekannt sein wie *key. Daneben gibt's noch sehr viele weitere Projekte in sehr vielen weiteren Größenordnungen von snac2 über GoToSocial bis Mitra, die alle dasselbe wollen wie Mastodon und die *keys.
Entsprechend verteilen sich dann auch die fähigen Entwickler. Die meisten forken entweder Mastodon, um daraus etwas zu bauen mit Features, die "das Fediverse" dringend haben müßte, die aber schon Misskey längst hat. Nur haben sie von Misskey nie gehört und auch nicht von Pleroma oder Friendica oder sonstwas. Oder sie fangen ihre eigene Microblogging-Anwendung an mit denselben Beweggründen und demselben Basiswissen bzw. Mangel daran. Ich schätze, von denen wissen auch einige bis heute nicht, daß es Misskey und Pleroma gibt. Oder sie bauen irgendwas ganz anderes direkt gegen Mastodon.
Unter denen, die Misskey kennen, gibt's nicht viele fähige Entwickler. Das sieht man ja auch an den Smartphone-Apps: Reine Mastodon-Apps kommen gefühlt im Monatstakt. Aber es hat eine Ewigkeit gedauert, bis es auch nur eine einzige App gab, die direkt auf Misskey und die Forkeys ausgelegt war, geschweige denn stabil und nicht nur auf Japanisch und vielleicht noch Hangul verfügbar. Das heißt auch: Die paar wenigen fähigen Entwickler, die Misskey kennen, sind entweder schon irgendwo eingebunden oder gebrannte Kinder (oder Ostasiaten, die kein Englisch können, was die Kommunikation ziemlich erschweren würde).
Wer also Mitstreiter fürs eigene Projekt sucht, vor allem so vertrauenswürdige, daß die dann auch committen dürfen, wird keine finden. Gleichzeitig ist es aber absoluter Wahnsinn, einen Soft-Fork von Misskey alleine ohne jegliche Hilfe zu pflegen und weiterzuentwickeln, insbesondere, wenn der an Fahrt aufnimmt und von mehr und mehr Leuten genutzt wird. Genau daran ist Firefish letzten Endes eingegangen.
Im Grunde braucht es heutzutage gar nicht mehr diesen Wust an Forkeys, jedenfalls nicht im Westen. Das heißt, im Grunde könnte CherryPick rein technisch die meisten Anforderungen erschlagen, und noch dazu soll es bombenstabil sein. Nur hat man dann etwas, das so aussieht, wie Matcha oder Melonenbrause schmeckt, und wo die meisten Commits, die nicht von Misskey kommen, auf Japanisch oder Hangul beschrieben sind.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Calckey #Firefish #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #CherryPick #FoundKey #Hajkey -
@「 Jürgen 」:fedi_mastodon: @crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts @Don di Dislessia Soweit ich weiß, war es so (man möge mich wiederum korrigieren; kursiv sind die "Forkeys höheren Grades", die nicht von Misskey geforkt wurden):- Misskey
Der Ursprung in Japan. - Calckey
Soft-Fork von Misskey mit einigen Extrafeatures.
Entwickler hatte irgendwann keine Zeit/keinen Bock mehr. - Firefish
Fortführung von Calckey unter neuem Management. Wurde aufgrund einer massiven Werbeaktion eines begeisterten Nutzers mit viel Reichweite so populär, daß der Name "Calckey" irgendwann einfach doof war und das ganze Ding eine neue Identität bekam.
Entwickler verschwand irgendwann sang- und klanglos von der Bildfläche. Nach einem halben Jahr stellte sich raus: Entwickler hatte wegen Abschlußarbeit usw. keine Zeit mehr, nicht mal, sich zu verabschieden.
Wurde unter neuer Führung mit neuem Repository und neuer Leuchtturminstanz weitergeführt, aber ohne neue Website. Wurde wieder eingestellt, weil es für eine einzige Entwicklerin viel zuviel war, die ganzen alten Co-Entwickler von Firefish alle zu Iceshrimp gewechselt waren und keine neuen Mitentwickler angeheuert werden konnten. - Iceshrimp
Fork von Firefish von ehemaligen Firefish-Entwicklern. Rebased nach Misskey, weil es auf Firefish nicht weiterging. Erklärtes Ziel war, Stabilität über Calckeys Featuritis zu stellen.
Weil Misskeys Codebase an sich einiges an grundsätzlichen Macken hatte, wurde beschlossen, es ist einfacher, das ganze Zeugs von Grund auf neu zu schreiben, als zu versuchen, das alles auszubügeln. Und bei der Gelegenheit wollte man von JavaScript (TypeScript und Vue.js) weg. Also hat man angefangen, das ganze Ding in C# neu zu schreiben als Iceshrimp.NET. Ziel ist featuremäßige Deckungsgleichheit mit dem bisherigen Iceshrimp und gleichzeitig Anpassung an Mastodon. Iceshrimp.NET ist noch sehr unfertig.
Bei der Gelegenheit wurde das alte Iceshrimp in Iceshrimp-JS umbenannt und in den Wartungsmodus versetzt = gibt keine Weiterentwicklung und keine neuen Features mehr, nur Sicherheitspatches und evtl. Bugfixes. - Catodon
Soft-Fork von Firefish. Ziel war, ein Forkey zu haben, das sich in der Bedienung wie Mastodon anfühlt. Quasi Mastodon-Fassade mit *key-Struktur dahinter. Also ein Forkey für den möglichst leichten Umstieg von Mastodon nach *key.
Wurde, als Firefish endgültig eingestellt wurde und damit die Basis tot war, nach Iceshrimp rebased.
Nachdem Iceshrimp zu Iceshrimp-JS wurde und in den Wartungsmodus ging, hatte Catodon ein Problem: Man kann nicht einfach von etwas, das in TypeScript und Vue.js geschrieben ist, nach etwas rebasen, das in C# geschrieben ist (Iceshrimp.NET). Und zur Weiterentwicklung wäre ein Rebase nötig gewesen, weil man jetzt wieder eine fast tote Basis hatte. Aber nach Misskey wollte man nicht (siehe Hajkey weiter unten), und Sharkey war einerseits zu mächtig und andererseits zu kapriziös.
Inzwischen gehen Catodon die Instanzen ein. Die meisten dürften geschlossen worden sein. - Sharkey
Soft-Fork von Misskey mit dem Ziel, so ziemlich alles, was je für Forkeys an Features entwickelt worden war, in einen einzigen Forkey zu packen und noch mehr obendrauf.
Quasi das Yang zu Iceshrimps Yin. Machte lange den Eindruck, als gingen Features über Zuverlässigkeit. Sharkeys Implementation der Mastodon Client API war schon regelrecht legendär schlecht, und alle hofften auf den Retter, der daherkommt und die Implementation von Grund auf neu schreibt, weil sie als unrettbar im Eimer galt. Inzwischen soll Sharkey seine Zuverlässigkeit im Griff haben, zumindest insofern, wie auch Misskey zuverlässig ist.
Die Entwickler haben eine zweifelhafte Reputation. Unter anderem haben sie Crowdfunding-Gelder für einen Sharkey-Server gesammelt und von dem Geld einen Minecraft-Server aufgezogen, aber keinen Sharkey-Server. Mitunter wird deshalb zum Boykott von Sharkey aufgerufen. - CherryPick
Südkoreanischer Soft-Fork von Misskey. Tatsächlich älter als Sharkey, mindestens von 2021, aber später wurde wohl einiges von Sharkey nach CherryPick portiert. Das Ziel war, einen stabilen und zuverlässigen Forkey zu haben ohne die Macken von Sharkey und sogar ohne die Macken von Misskey, der aber gleichzeitig gut Features hat. Das ist wohl sogar weitestgehend gelungen.
Vom ästhetischen Stil her so ähnlich, wie Misskey früher mal war, also sehr auf den japanischen bzw. südkoreanischen Geschmack ausgelegt: bunt, grell, poppig, genki, kawaii. Alleine das zeigt, daß CherryPick von Misskey geforkt wurde, bevor Misskey gänzlich an den westlichen Geschmack angepaßt wurde.
Unklar, ob es Entwickler hat, die Englisch verstehen bzw. schreiben können; falls nicht, dann als Soft-Fork-Basis ungeeignet. Wäre ohne die Kommunikationsbarriere vermutlich der ultimative *key.
Mein letzter Stand: Bis auf eine Instanz im Großraum Washington, D.C. gibt es CherryPick-Instanzen nur in den Großräumen Tokyo und Seoul. War deshalb lange Zeit im westlichen Fediverse fast unbekannt. - FoundKey
Wohl der erste Forkey, der in PascalCase geschrieben wurde.
Meines Wissens direkter Soft-Fork von Misskey. Wird tatsächlich (oh Wunder) kleckerweise gepflegt, aber nicht für Instanzen mit mehr als 20 Nutzern empfohlen.
Ein paar andere *keys:- Hajkey
Soft-Fork von Calckey, der meines Wissens erst nach Firefish und dann nach Misskey rebased wurde. Wurde exklusiv nur für eine einzige Instanz entwickelt: transfem.social. Inzwischen eingestellt, weil wohl der Aufwand, so einen Wolpertinger nur für eine Instanz zu pflegen (man rebaset nicht mal eben von Firefish nach Misskey), zu groß war. transfem.social wurde entsprechend auf Sharkey umgestellt und ist da jetzt eine der größten Instanzen. - Neko
Soft-Fork von Misskey mit dem Ziel, es tauglich für Docker zu machen. Laut Repository nur für eine einzige Instanz gebaut. Ist nie released worden, was aber Wurscht ist, wenn es eh nur einen Admin als Zielgruppe hatte.git fetchkönnen Releases nämlich piepegal sein. - Meisskey
Japanischer Soft-Fork von Misskey von 2019 (!), der aber lange Zeit der Weiterentwicklung der Basis hinterherhinkte. Wird tatsächlich immer noch weiterentwickelt. - Leisskey
Wiederum japanischer Soft-Fork von Meisskey. Ist seit mindestens 2021 in Entwicklung, seit Februar 2023 aber eine ewige Beta, weil es seit damals keinen Release mehr gegeben hat. Dürfte zu den letzten noch in Entwicklung befindlichen "Forkeys 2. Grades" gehören. - Tanukey
Weiterer japanischer Soft-Fork von Misskey und daher so obskur im Westen, daß man schon die Websuche anstrengen muß, um das Repository zu finden (ist wohl im letzten Oktober von GitHub nach GitLab umgezogen). Noch ein Beispiel für *keys, bei denen selbst das Wissen über ihre Existenz Ostasien kaum je verlassen hat. - Backspacekey
Noch ein ambitionierter, aber eingeschlafener westlicher Misskey-Soft-Fork.
Siehe übrigens auch die Delightful Fediverse Experience: hier und hier.
Verglichen damit ist die Familie von Mistpark bis Forte schon wieder übersichtlich, vor allem, wenn die anderen mehreren Dutzend toten Forkeys mit dazugeholt werden. Immerhin stammt von Mistpark bis Forte über etwa 15 Jahre alles vom selben Schöpfer, der einfach nur sein eigenes Zeug geforkt hat.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Calckey #Firefish #Iceshrimp #IceshrimpJS #Iceshrimp.NET #Catodon #Sharkey #CherryPick #FoundKey #Hajkey #Neko #Meisskey #Leisskey #Tanukey #Backspacekey - Misskey
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CW: Why Sharkey fails to render hashtags from Friendica, Hubzilla & Co. properly, and how long this bug has been known already; CW: long (over 6,600 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta
So there's that nasty bug on Sharkey that mangles hashtags in messages from Hubzilla and probably also Friendica, (streams) and Forte. They always look like this:
#[Hashtag](https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Hashtag)
Basically, Sharkey receives fully standard Rich Text from Hubzilla. It manages to convert this Rich Text into its own Misskey-Flavored Markdown. But then its Markdown parser does not parse it and leaves the Markdown code visible to everyone. It simply doesn't expect there to be a hashtag character in front of an embedded link because, seriously, who'd ever do that and why?!
Friendica would. In fact, Friendica does. It puts the hashtag character in front of the tag, as in outside the tag, as opposed to at the beginning of the tag. It has been doing that since its beginnings in 2010 because it was designed from the get-go to also federate with StatusNet from 2008. And StatusNet does hashtags the same way on its few remaining servers. In fact, so did Identi.ca from 2008, from which StatusNet emerged.
Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte do it, too, because they have inherited it from Friendica.
On StatusNet, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, a hashtag in a message looks like this:
#Hashtag
Notice how the hashtag character has the same colour as the rest of the post text. And not the same colour as the rest of the hashtag. This means that the hashtag character is not part of the link. (To Mastodon users who don't know this: If something in a "toot" has a different colour from the rest of the "toot", it's a link. Even if it doesn't show a URL in plain sight.)
On 𝕏, Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, the various Forkeys and a whole lot of other Fediverse software, a hashtag in a message looks like this:
#Hashtag
Notice how now the hashtag character has the same colour as the rest of the hashtag. This means that the hashtag character is part of the link.
But why did Identi.ca do hashtags differently from Twitter? Because Identi.ca did hashtags before Twitter. AFAIK, when Identi.ca was launched, it had support for hashtags right away. About one year before Twitter.
The hashtag itself had already been invented by the Twitter community. Chris Messina had already codified it in 2007. But it wasn't until 2009 that Twitter actually introduced a technological implementation to support it.
Again, Identi.ca must have had hashtags as early as 2008, and there was no way that Identi.ca creator Evan Prodromou could possibly predict what Twitter would do the following year. So he did what he thought was right and what actually made sense to him.
But nowadays, everybody "knows" that Twitter had the world's very first hashtag implementation ever because nobody, even in the Fediverse, has ever heard of Identi.ca. I mean, the majority of Fediverse users "know" that the Fediverse started with Mastodon.
You know, just like Officer James Barrett "knew" that there is no intelligent life outside Earth only a few minutes before he became Agent J of the Men In Black.
This is also why just about all Fediverse software that does hashtags the Twitter way expects everything to do hashtags the Twitter way. It does not expect hashtags to be done differently. And when a message comes in from Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) or Forte with hashtags in it, it fails at varying degrees of ungracefully.
Hashtags with the hashtag character outside the link are older than hashtags with the hashtag character inside that they're not only completely unexpected, that they cause software to malfunction, but the same software often can't even handle that malfunction. It's a miracle that the Friendica/Hubzilla family doesn't cause Fediverse servers to crash or even server databases to go corrupt by simply sending hashtags.
Mastodon used to be an exception of sorts, but only because, before version 4.0 from October, 2022, its HTML "sanitiser" actually ripped out any and all rich text code from incoming messages and left nothing but plain text behind. And then it didn't recognise hashtags in messages from outside Mastodon as hashtags at all.
When Mastodon 4.0 came and supported some rich text, including embedded links, it went haywire, of course. But then someone from Friendica and Hubzilla went in and complained about this malfunction and explained what happened, why it happened and why it was not Friendica and Hubzilla that did things wrong. Besides, if something utterly defaces "toots", then Mastodon developers do step in to stop it. After all, Mastodon has a few more of them at hand, paid, full-time professionals even. You have to give it that.
Which takes us back to Sharkey. Sharkey is developed by a small handful of individuals in their spare time. Granted, it's a soft fork of Misskey, so a lot of development work is done by the Misskey devs and taken over by the Sharkey devs, but they still have to weave the code changes coming from Misskey in and make them work with what's different on Sharkey.
So it turned out that (Link content warning: eye contact) this bug has already been filed to the Sharkey devs in October, 2024. All that has happened since then until today was that Hazelnoot added two labels. But the bug report came with no explanations. In fact, it misattributed one of my Hubzilla posts as a Friendica post.
And in fact, it turned out that this is actually (Link content warning: Microsoft GitHub link, eye contact) a Misskey bug which has been filed in January, 2024, two years ago. The bug report is a bit more elaborate, but the reporter still knew precious little about what's going on. So I wrote a comment in which I explained the bug from a Friendica/Hubzilla POV as well as what's going on on the technical side, and why the error has to be on Misskey's side.
I hope this will finally help get the bug fixed. Unfortunately, this fix would come too late for Iceshrimp. Iceshrimp-JS is a true Forkey, but in maintenance mode, so I guess only security patches and critical bugfixes will be merged from Misskey, if anything. And Iceshrimp.NET is a complete rewrite of a pre-this-fix Misskey fork, so the Iceshrimp devs probably don't know about this issue either. If it fails ungracefully upon receiving hashtags with the hashtag character outside, it will require its own bug report.
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@Lucas Das ist in der Tat eine gute Frage.
Bei Leuten, die von Windows nach Linux umsteigen wollen, ist ja traditionell ein Problem, daß sie sich nicht vorstellen können, daß ein Betriebssystem anders funktionieren und sich folglich auch anders bedienen kann als Windows. Also erwarten sie von Linux ein kostenloses Windows ohne Onlinekontenzwang und ohne Spionage, aber ansonsten haargenau mit der UX von Windows.
Und dann sind sie schon überfordert mit der Paketverwaltung und mit der völlig anderen Struktur des Dateisystems (oder auch nur, daß sie sich jetzt mit dem Dateisystem auseinandersetzen müssen). Wenn man ihnen dann auch noch mit "diesem doofen MS-DOS-Fenster", also der Konsole, kommt, statt ihnen für alles Klickibunti-Lösungen zu präsentieren, dann sind sie endgültig vergrault. Ach ja, und mit Quellcode und Lizenzen braucht man ihnen auch nicht kommen.
Bei Leuten, die von 𝕏 wegwollen, ist es doch nicht anders. Das haben uns doch die letzten knapp vier Jahre gezeigt.
Mastodon sieht nicht haargenau aus wie 𝕏 und bedient sich auch nicht so? Und tschüß! Ab nach Bluesky, das sieht wirklich aus wie Twitter, als Twitter noch gut war. Da muß man nicht umdenken und fast nichts neu lernen.
Bei Mastodon "muß" man eine "Instanz" wählen? Viel zu kompliziert! Bluesky stellt sich technischen Laien dagegen einfach nur als Handy-App dar, wo man sich so einfach registrieren kann wie damals auf Twitter. Ungeachtet der Tatsache, daß sowohl die offizielle Mastodon-App als auch die offizielle Bluesky-App beide eine Instanzauswahl bieten, die auch noch auf beiden optional ist, weil sie eine Instanz (mastodon.social, bsky.social) voreingestellt hat.
Auf Mastodon hat man die 800.000 Follower, die sich in 12 Jahren auf Twitter angesammelt haben, nicht innerhalb einer Stunde? Da ist doch "keiner", da hat man voll keine Reichweite und keinen Fame, das lohnt sich nicht. Sieht man ja schon daran, daß der Feed, äh, die Timeline nicht sofort nach dem ersten Login rappelvoll mit Tweets, äh, Tröts ist.
Diejenigen, die geblieben sind, sind unter entsprechend hohem Leidensdruck geblieben. Oder ihnen war und ist auch Bluesky suspekt. Oder als Bluesky aufkam, hatten sie schon mehr Interaktion, als sie auf Twitter je hatten.
Wer also "literarisch Twitter ohne Musk" sucht und partout seinen Denkkasten nicht benutzen und sich nicht umgewöhnen will, wird enttäuscht werden.
Umgekehrt kann es aber auch Leute geben, die von der Kultur auf 𝕏 komplett wegkommen wollen und etwas ganz anderes suchen. Die werden auf Mastodon auch nicht unbedingt glücklich werden. Gerade auf Mastodon und da vor allem auf den typischen "Anfängerservern" wie mastodon.social gibt es viele, die sich tatsächlich nicht umgewöhnen können oder wollen. Die benutzen Mastodon genau, wie sie 𝕏 benutzt haben. Und die verhalten sich auch wie auf 𝕏. Für die ist Mastodon "literarisch Twitter ohne Musk", nur daß es eben anders aussieht.
Vielleicht wären diese Leute auf z. B. Sharkey besser aufgehoben. Klar, Sharkey ist mit Mastodon föderiert, so daß man möglicherweise auf dieselben Nasen stoßen wird. Aber man ist nicht sofort von genau diesen Nasen umgeben, weil es die auf dem eigenen Server nicht gibt. Und wenn man auf diese Leute stößt, hat man dann schon ein Umfeld, das einem hilft, sich gegen diese Leute zu verteidigen.
Das Schöne am Fediverse außerhalb von Mastodon ist doch: Die Leute, die einfach mit geringstmöglichem Widerstand den nächstbesten 𝕏-Klon haben wollen, bleiben allesamt auf Mastodon hängen. Viele von denen wissen nicht mal, daß das Fediverse mehr ist als nur Mastodon. Das wollen die auch nicht hören, das überfordert sie nur. Einige dürften sogar glauben, das Fediverse bestünde nur aus mastodon.social.
Jenseits von Mastodon trifft man nur die Fortgeschrittenen an, die Ambitionierten, die wirklich etwas anderes als 𝕏 suchen. Die verhalten sich dann auch nicht, als wären sie noch auf 𝕏. Die verhalten sich nicht mal, als wären sie auf Mastodon.
Ich bin überhaupt dafür, mehr Leute von 𝕏 direkt nach etwas im Fediverse zu holen, das nicht Mastodon ist. Umgewöhnen werden müssen sie sich so oder so. Aber dann gewöhnen sie sich nicht an ein reines Mastodon-Fediverse, zumal etwa Misskey und die Forkeys ihnen anzeigen, von welcher Serveranwendung ein Beitrag kommt. Dann gewöhnen sie sich nicht an ein Fediverse, das nur Mastodons Features hat. Dann gewöhnen sie sich von vornherein an Features, die 𝕏 nicht hat, die Mastodon nicht hat, wo sie sich dann aber fragen, wie sie so lange ohne diese Features auskommen konnten.
Und wenn sie irgendwann selbst Leute ins Fediverse holen, dann werden sie denen auch nicht vorgaukeln, das Fediverse sei nur Mastodon.
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@Rob Ricci Maybe this is interesting for you:
(streams) had almost all nodeinfo code intentionally removed. This was done to keep (streams) from being crawled by instance-listing websites and dragged into competitions between server applications and particular servers.
Also, (streams) does not have a unified instance type identifier. Server admins may not only enter their own name for the server, but also their own custom instance type. If no instance type is given, (streams) uses the first word in the server name as the instance type.
Likewise, Forte's stats being reported as zero is fully intentional in order to keep it out of competitions. I'd be very surprised if there was an ActivityPub-compliant way around this.
By the way, here is a correction: Iceshrimp.NET is not a Misskey fork. It is being rewritten from the ground up in C# whereas Misskey and all Forkeys are written in TypeScript and Vue.js.
A few more Forkeys, dead or alive:- Tanukey (you've listed it elsewhere)
- Neko
- Catodon
- Hajkey
- Metaskey
- Backspacekey
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@tux0r :openbsd: "Forkey" bezeichnet Forks von Misskey, Forks von Forks von Misskey usw.
Iceshrimp.NET fällt da nicht drunter, weil es komplett neu geschrieben wird. Es ist vom Funktionsumfang her noch ziemlich mager. Das Ziel des Rewrite war, soweit ich weiß, zum einen, die Macken loszuwerden, die alle Forkeys von Misskey geerbt hatten, und zum anderen von JavaScript wegzukommen (Misskey und alle Forkeys sind in TypeScript und Vue.js geschrieben).
Aber gut, es gibt auch viele, die sich nicht vorstellen können, daß gute Serversoftware in PHP geschrieben sein kann. Mike Macgirvin entwickelt seit jeher in PHP. Und was er baut, ist nicht nur sehr mächtig und fortschrittlich, sondern auch noch leicht zu installieren und zu administrieren und weniger leistungshungrig als Mastodon.
Relatierter Memepost auf meinem Fediverse-Meme-Kanal.
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@Herr TurTur @crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts @tux0r :openbsd: Die Idee hinter Sharkey war mal, in einen einzigen Forkey quasi alles auf einmal reinzuschmeißen bis hin zur Küchenspüle. Das fiel vor allem auf, als es noch mehr lebendige Forkeys zur Auswahl gab.
Und in der Zeit hatte Sharkey auch noch gewisse Macken, z. B. eine schon legendär unzuverlässige Implementation der Mastodon Client API, wo es hieß, am besten setzt sich einer hin und schreibt die neu. Wer was Zuverlässiges wollte, setzte damals auf Iceshrimp. Sharkey war für wagemutige Spielkinder, die sich an Hubzilla nicht rantrauten.
Inzwischen ist Calckey tot, Firefish ist tot, Iceshrimp-JS ist im Wartungsmodus (Iceshrimp.NET ist derweil noch meilenweit von "fertig" entfernt), Catodon ist auch schon siech, und das nur für eine Instanz gebaute Hajkey ist schon verwest.
CherryPick hat fast nur Server in den Großräumen Tokyo und Seoul und fühlt sich so auf den ostasiatischen Geschmack ausgelegt an wie vor ein paar Jahren noch Misskey selbst. Vielleicht erinnern sich ein paar noch daran, wie Misskey mal den Charme japanischer Verkaufsautomaten hatte.
Und der ganze noch lebende Rest scheint selbst mit Misskeys Entwicklung nicht mithalten zu können, also im Kern veraltet zu sein.
Derweil ist Sharkey wohl inzwischen ziemlich zuverlässig. So ist es zumindest im Westen zum einzigen noch nennenswerten Forkey avanciert.
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@「 Jürgen 」:fedi_mastodon: Fifth class. All of them.
As I've said, everyone talks about Mastodon as "the" Twitter alternative in the Fediverse. This means that microblogging server apps that aren't Mastodon, and that don't have the same level of publicity and fame as GoToSocial and snac, are next to unknown by Mastodon's standards.
Mind you, this ranking is extremely Mastodon-centred. But Mastodon-centrism has been the default in the Fediverse for many years now.
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@mradcliffe The danger in this, however, is that another Fediverse feature that's way older than Mastodon and at the same time absent from Mastodon would be reappropriated as something else, making Mastodon even more incompatible with the rest of the Fediverse.
In 2017, Mastodon introduced its content warning field. Ever since, almost everyone on Mastodon has been fully convinced that Eugen Rochko had invented that field from scratch. (Be honest, how about you?)
However, Mastodon's content warning field is actually a summary field that has been used by StatusNet, Friendica and Hubzilla as such since 2008, 2010 and 2012 respectively. Mastodon hadn't had any support for that summary field at first, for you don't need a summary for 500 characters. And I guess that coder from the demo scene who submitted the merge request that reappropriated the summary field as a content warning field was blissfully unaware that Mastodon was actually connected to something that did use the summary field as such.
And now you have Mastodon users scolding Friendica users because the latter allegedly misuse the CW field for "like a subject or smth idk", unaware that the self-same field has been the abstract field on Friendica for five and a half years longer than Mastodon has even existed and some seven years longer than Mastodon had its CW field.
Today, in 2025, next to nobody on Mastodon knows that the Fediverse already has group actors, and probably neither do many on the *keys. Neither Mastodon nor Misskey nor their respective forks have or support groups in any way.
If they go and reappropriate group actors as starter packs, this will break compatibility with Friendica groups, Hubzilla forums, (streams) groups, Forte groups, Lemmy communities, /kbin magazines, Mbin magazines, PieFed communities, NodeBB forums etc., all of which can be and often already are being followed by Mastodon and *key users right now. And again, they've all had group actors since their respective inception.
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@crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts @Stadtrandler @PuschyMTB 🚴♂️🚩 Wäre an dieser Stelle nicht die nächste Fediverse-Sprechstunde erwähnenswert? Da geht es doch um die *keys. Ich kann leider nicht dabei sein.
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@Tim Chambers @Seth of the Fediverse @Johannes Ernst @@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @Andy Piper I hope this won't end up in a culture clash due to how big Misskey and other Forkeys are in East Asia (CherryPick almost only exists in Japan and South Korea) while Westerners tend to talk about the Fediverse and Mastodon as if they're one and the same.
Language has a chance of being an obstacle, too. If you want to get e.g. Japanese Forkey devs on board as well, chances are they don't speak English.
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@Julian FietkauI don't know if translating the absence of a FEP-044f quote policy as “not quotable” was the right decision. Maybe it wasn't.
If you use server software that has quote-posts implemented with no quote policy, I think it's rather safe to assume that you're okay with being quote-posted.
I mean, if you're on Misskey, complaining about being quote-posted is like complaining about emoji reactions, MFM shenanigans or the overall genki feeling. Misskey is not Mastodon with 3,000 characters; deal with it. And I haven't even mentioned "Speak as Cat" yet that's popular around the Forkeys.You might have seen my comment in the forum thread on a way to make it easier for platforms like Friendica to signal a free-for-all quoting permission.
I was just about to say that this goes doubly for those server applications where quote-posts are an integral part of the communication culture.
Seriously, if you're on one of these, but you don't want anyone to quote-post you, and you still insist in always posting in public, you're doing something wrong. And just as seriously, unlike Mastodon, especially the Friendica/Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte family won't mollycoddle you. If you come to stay, we expect you to know what you're doing and why.
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@Julian Fietkau I'm surprised to read that (streams) allegedly has FEP-e232 implemented. As I happen to have two (streams) channels myself, and as (streams) allows me to have a look at the whole source code of any activity (whereas Hubzilla only shows me that of the content), I've checked a fairly recent post of mine that includes a link. And while it does define the hashtags just like Mastodon and Hubzilla, it does not define links in a way that conforms to FEP-e232. Either that, or (streams)' implementation of FEP-e232 is newer than the software was when I sent that post.
Next, I wanted to see if (streams) had its way of quote-posting changed in the last seven years or so of development and forking. I expected it to quote-post like Hubzilla, namely by turning a BBcode short code into a dumb copy of the original upon sending, but I wanted to see proof. As (streams) is a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork) of Hubzilla that's still maintained by Hubzilla's own creator, I would have been surprised if he had changed the way (streams) quote-posts at some point on the way.
So I quote-posted my own post on (streams) just to see what happens. And (streams) acted exactly like Hubzilla and not at all like described in FEP-044f on the surface. It still inserts a dumb copy.
Good thing I have access to the full source code of any message on (streams). So here's what happened, namely what I expected to happen: (streams) quote-posts like Hubzilla.
First of all, when I clicked the "Share" button, this short code was inserted into the post editor:[share=1198713][/share]
The number, by the way, is the running number of the message to quote-post on the server.
Upon sending the post, (streams) automatically "expanded" the short code into the dumb copy I had expected.[share author='Jupiter+Rowland' profile='https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/channel/jupiter_rowland' portable_id='_moYLN61-o3FbP3jyThygMDf-bjF2cApXgkrwlAE77iKy19xM1_6F06V4b71eTkqqNaTUjGiN0lfw2dyn5nXRw' avatar='https://streams.elsmussols.net/xp/6b50efa4bb804860f6128bba791b74fab4a0a5e09dbcbee8d8ca77cee00f0330-6' link='https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/0a1cdda5-eb1c-4a33-9574-ddd896977b4f' auth='true' posted='2025-09-21 19:42:56' message_id='https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/0a1cdda5-eb1c-4a33-9574-ddd896977b4f'] ...(the source code of the original message goes here)... [/share]
Both Hubzilla and (streams) render this the same way, namely with a header line above the copy that includes the profile picture of the original author, the name of the original author with a Zot/Nomad-type link to their channel/account and a Zot/Nomad-type link to the original of the post ("Zot/Nomad-type" means that[zrl][/zrl]is used rather than[url][/url]which means that the ID of an observer on Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte is attached to the link for OpenWebAuth identity recognition purposes.)
At the same time, curiously, (streams) includes the line"rel": "https://misskey-hub.net/ns#_misskey_quote"and a line that starts with"name": "RE:and continues with the URL of the original message into the code for the link to the original message. The latter is identical to what Misskey and all Forkeys have in quote-posting notes in plain sight, only that (streams) only reveals it in the source code rather than in the content as well.
So this part of FEP-044f is implemented, albeit concealed from most people and only happening in the code.
Now, looking at the quote policy part, that looks like it could be possible to add to the Fediverse's permission champions Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. After all, they already have comment controls with no FEP backing it (and if GoToSocial's quote policy can be made into an FEP, maybe so can (streams)' and Forte's comment controls so that they actually do blank out reply buttons on the farther ends of the Fediverse if the software on the farther ends implement support for that FEP).
This could be done at three levels again. I'll illustrate this with (streams) and Forte because they're quite a bit less complex than older Hubzilla.
At channel level, quote-posting (and maybe quoting as well) could be set as usually, namely to semi-public (= everyone in the Fediverse = no quote policy), restricted (= only your contacts) and only yourself. (Seriously, you don't want random passersby with no accounts to quote-post you. Even though you can allow them to comment on your posts if you dare.)
"Only yourself" could be overridden at contact level by permitting certain contacts to quote-post (and maybe quote) your messages. This is actually standard behaviour on (streams) and Forte.
And then there is the per-post level which would be similar to (streams)' and Forte's comment controls. These allow you to limit who may comment on a post to only your contacts and those who have already participated in the same conversation, and they allow you to turn off comments altogether.
Quote authorisation would not be much different in handling from manually moderating comments from those who technically aren't permitted to comment (only that spammers don't quote-post, at least not yet, and they probably never will because that simply makes no sense). So that'd be nothing really new.
Of course, this would have some limitations which come from how Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte work and from their conversation architecture.
The first limitation is that you could only give certain contacts permission to quote-post your posts if you didn't give it to the whole Fediverse. Channel-wide permissions are always inherited by contact-specific permissions, and this cannot be overridden. So you couldn't generally allow everyone to quote-post your posts except for one certain contact of yours.
The second limitation is that you can only control the permissions of contacts, but not of non-contacts. So you can't disallow some stranger whom you aren't connected to to quote-post your posts while everyone else is allowed.
Then again, FEP-044f doesn't make either of these two possible either. It can only define who is permitted to quote-post a post, not who isn't.
The third limitation is that, on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, comments always have the same permissions as the post that they belong to because comments always have the same owner as the post that they belong to. Basically, if FEP-044f was to be defined for each comment individually, it would have a chance of clashing with conversation containers as per FEP-171b.
Here on Hubzilla, as well as from (streams)' point of view, everyone's comments in this thread are owned by me because I've started the thread. And the permissions on all these comments are defined by my post. I've seen my share of permission clashes whenever someone on Mastodon replied to a public post or a public comment with a DM, and Hubzilla overrode this by forcing the permissions of the post on that reply.
In practice, this means that the quote policies of all comments would be the same as that of the post. At least that's how Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte would understand them because the concept of comments having different permissions than the post is alien to them. So if you say that I'm not permitted to quote-post your comment, but I say that anyone can quote-post my post, Hubzilla and (streams) override the quote policy that you've given your comment on Mastodon with the quote policy that I've given my post on Hubzilla, and I can quote-post you.
So the actually difficult part would be to implement an exception in how Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte handle comment permissions for quote policies and make them individual for each comment rather than making comments inherit them from the post.
Well, and lastly, if you permitted all your contacts to quote-post a post of yours, and you had a few more contacts, the"canQuote"section would end up monstrous. (A bit less so if you could cherry-pick those who are allowed to quote-post you on a per-post base, just like you can cherry-pick those who are allowed to see the post in the first place.) Also, I'm wondering just how well policies as per FEP-044f (and their implementations in various server applications) will work with DIDs as per FEP-ef61 which (streams) and Forte use, and I guess, so does Mitra now.
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@Matthias @C.Suthorn :prn: Ich habe es oben geschrieben: So ein System ist fediverseweit gar nicht möglich. Es ist technisch nicht realisierbar.
Was Mastodon da gebaut hat, funktioniert nur innerhalb von Mastodon. Ich habe es ja oben erklärt:- Auch wenn du einen Post als nicht quote-post-bar einstellst, können Pleroma, Misskey, Friendica & Co. den trotzdem ungehindert quote-posten.
- Gleichzeitig kann niemand auf Mastodon irgendwas auf Pleroma, Misskey, Friendica & Co. quote-posten, obwohl es jeder darf.
Das liegt daran, daß Mastodon mal wieder mit voller Absicht das Rad neu erfunden hat.
Sie hätten die Art des Quote-Postens übernehmen können, die Misskey schon lange hat und die auch Threads verwendet. Sie hätten die Art des Quote-Postens übernehmen können, die Friendica seit über 15 Jahren erfolgreich einsetzt. Nein, statt dessen hat Mastodon eine eigene, proprietäre Technik entwickelt und sich mit vollem Vorsatz zum Rest des Fediverse noch inkompatibler gemacht.
Aber noch einmal: Mike Macgirvin sagt, es ist technisch nicht möglich, Quote-Posts von öffentlichen Posts zu verhindern. Und noch einmal: Der Mann muß es wissen.
Mike entwickelt schon seit fast einem halben Jahrhundert Software. Er ist Profi. Er war mal bezahlter Profi. Mike hat Friendica rausgehauen, da ging Eugen Rochko noch zur Schule.
Mike hat mehr Fediverse-Serveranwendungen entwickelt als jeder andere da draußen. Jede einzelne davon ist von den Features her leistungsfähiger als alles andere, was es im Fediverse gibt. Mike hat im Alleingang sogar mehr Fediverse-Protokolle entwickelt als jeder andere da draußen. Mike hat nomadische Identität im Alleingang erfunden, und sie funktioniert seit 2012.
Und Mike hat in puncto Sicherheit und Berechtigungssteuerung weit mehr gemacht als jeder andere Fediverse-Entwickler. Das, was er entwickelt hat, ist in seiner Funktionalität auch nicht eingeschränkt auf die eigene Software, sondern er hat sich immer auch Gedanken darüber gemacht, wie es außerhalb funktioniert, während für Eugen Rochko alles außerhalb von Mastodon Feindesland ist, das ignoriert wird und totgeschwiegen gehört.
Ganz ehrlich: Was vor allem Hubzilla und (streams) und Forte können in puncto Berechtigungssteuerung, das ist für die meisten Mastodon-Nutzer vollkommen unvorstellbar. Es gibt Berechtigungseinstellungen auf bis zu drei Ebenen (ganzer Kanal, einzelne Kontakte, pro Post/Thread) für fast alles bis hin zu Features, die Mastodon gar nicht hat.
Nur für Quote-Posts gibt's keine. Weil das fediverseweit nicht möglich ist.
Wenn es öffentlich ist und jeder es sehen kann, dann kann es auch jeder quote-posten. Das geht schlicht und ergreifend nicht zu verhindern. Nicht mal innerhalb von Hubzilla und (streams) und Forte. Außerhalb schon mal erst recht nicht.
Innerhalb von Mastodon geht's nur aus zwei Gründen. Zum einen, weil Mastodon den ganzen Rest des Fediverse bestenfalls komplett ignoriert. Zum anderen, weil Mastodon-Nutzer zwingend für jeden Pups auf GUI-Knöpfchen angewiesen sind. Sie sind es nicht gewohnt, irgendwas in ihren Tröts per Hand zu formatieren, weil sie noch nie irgendwas haben formatieren können. Und weil gefühlt beinahe jeder nur ein Smartphone und eine dedizierte Mastodon-App verwendet und kein Copy-Paste kennt, ist das Quote-Post-GUI-Knöpfchen das einzige, was sie haben, abgesehen von Screenshots.
Aber schon Mastodons Methode funktioniert, wie ich oben schon schrieb, nicht über Mastodon hinaus. Und da kann Mastodon lange drauf warten, daß der Rest des Fediverse seine eigene jahrelang etablierte Technologie wegschmeißt und auf Mastodons proprietäre Technologie umschwenkt.
Auf Misskey, den Forkeys und allen anderen, die auf dieselbe Art quote-posten, ist Quote-Posten überhaupt nicht verhinderbar. Das liegt daran, daß Quote-Posts pupeinfach als Link auf den Originalbeitrag ausgeführt sind mit "RE:" davor.RE: https://domain.tld/Adresse_des_OriginalbeitragsZack, hast du einen Quote-Post. Und mal ehrlich, für sowas braucht man kein GUI-Knöpfchen, wenn man tippen und URLs copy-pasten kann.
Auch auf Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) und Forte, die ganz anders quote-posten, ist Quote-Posten öffentlicher Beiträge nicht verhinderbar. Da nutzen die Leute keine Apps auf Smartphones. Nein, die meisten sitzen am Desktop-PC oder Laptop mit Hardwaretastatur und nutzen einen Standardbrowser statt einer dedizierten App. Copy-Paste ist für sie kein Problem und schon gar kein Fremdwort. Außerdem sind vor allem die alten Hasen es höchstwahrscheinlich meistens gewohnt, Markup-Code für Formatierungen per Hand einzutippen, statt sich auf die GUI-Knöpfchen zu verlassen, die auch nur BBcode-Stückchen in den Editor reinpflanzen.
Mike Macgirvin sagt: Es gibt genau eine Art und Weise, wirksam fediverseweit zu verhindern, daß du gequote-postet wirst. Und das ist, nicht öffentlich zu posten.
Für jemanden für ihn ist es aber auch einfach, das zu sagen. Gerade auf Hubzilla, (streams) und Forte gibt es etliche Abstufungen zwischen öffentlich und DM. Auf Hubzilla kann ich einen Post- in alle Öffentlichkeit
- nur an mich selbst
- an eine bestimmte Privacy Group (quasi wie eine Liste auf Mastodon, aber sehr viel mächtiger)
- an diejenigen, denen ich ein Profil zugewiesen habe, das nicht das Standardprofil meines Kanals ist (Mastodon hat dagegen nur ein Profil pro Konto)
- an ein bestimmtes Forum/eine bestimmte Gruppe
- eine beliebige individuelle Auswahl aus einzelnen Kontakten, Foren/Gruppen, Privacy Groups und Profilzugewiesenen
Und der Witz ist: Das steuert nicht nur, an wen der Post geht. Das steuert auch, wer den Post (und sämtliche Kommentare zum Post) sehen darf. Wenn der Post nicht an dich geht, wirst du ihn nie zu Gesicht bekommen. Nein, auch nicht per Boost. Das ist nämlich bei nichtöffentlichen Posts explizit verboten, und das dafür nötige Bedienelement ist schlicht und ergreifend nicht da.
Es wird noch besser: Das funktioniert sogar bis nach Mastodon. Denn wenn es nicht öffentlich ist, dann stellt es sich Mastodon gegenüber als DM dar.
Ich setze noch einen drauf: Im krassen Gegensatz zum restlichen Fediverse posten Hubzilla, (streams) und Forte mit Standardeinstellungen nicht öffentlich. Alle drei haben standardmäßig schon eine Privacy Group/Zugriffsliste namens "Freunde", in der alle neuen Kontakte landen. Und alle drei posten standardmäßig nur zu dieser Privacy Group/Zugriffsliste namens "Freunde". Aus Mastodon-Sicht verschicken alle drei standardmäßig immer nur DMs. Wenn du öffentlich posten willst, ist das Extraaufwand.
So gehen Sicherheit und Privatsphäre. Und nicht mit proprietärem, zu nichts anderem kompatiblem Hokuspokus für Doofe wie auf Mastodon.
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CW: The various issues with quote-posts on Mastodon that nobody on Mastodon is aware of; CW: long (almost 6,800 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, Mastodon looking bad in comparison with the rest of the Fediverse, quote-post meta
Okay, everyone, sit down. I'll tell you a few things about Mastodon's quote-post feature that you know nothing about. Definitely not if all you know is Mastodon. Oh, and by the way, in case you don't know yet in spite of following me: The Fediverse is not only Mastodon.Mastodon has been quote-post-able for as long as it has been around
Eugen Rochko is bringing quote-posts to Mastodon. But he is not bringing quote-posts to the Fediverse. The Fediverse has had quote-posts for 15 years.
It was Mike Macgirvin who introduced quote-posts to the Fediverse in July, 2010, when he launched something called Mistpark back then and Friendica today (https://friendi.ca, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica). That was five and a half years before Mastodon was launched.
In fact, when Mastodon was launched, it immediately federated itself with Friendica and with Hubzilla, a fork of a fork of Friendica by Friendica's own creator which has quote-posts, too. So when Mastodon was launched, it immediately became possible to quote-post Mastodon toots. Not on Mastodon itself, but on Friendica and Hubzilla.Just about everything that isn't Mastodon has already got quote-posts right now
Here are a few (but not even all) Fediverse server applications that already have quote-posts:
And they're all part of the Fediverse which means that they're all connected to Mastodon. People on all of these can theoretically read your Mastodon toots. And people on all of these can theoretically quote-post your Mastodon toots.Mastodon's quote-post opt-in is not a water-tight defence against being quote-posted
So you can choose not to be quote-posted. But you can only choose not to be quote-posted by Mastodon users. This opt-in does not work with the rest of the Fediverse.
First of all, that's because Mastodon's quote-post feature is not compatible with anything else out there. Mastodon's developers have chosen to re-invent the quote-posting wheel from scratch. They've intentionally chosen to do so in a way that's completely incompatible with everything else out there.
Their intention was to reinforce Mastodon's appearance to its own users as the one and only Fediverse and ActivityPub gold standard and to make Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, CherryPick, Catodon, Mitra, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte etc. look broken. It's part of their plan to keep Mastodon users on Mastodon in the wake of Mastodon's market share in the Fediverse shrinking.
Also, they did not publish any specifications on their quote-post implementation, so even those non-Mastodon developers who are fast enough didn't have a chance to implement support for Mastodon's opt-in.
This means that even if you've set your posts to un-quote-post-able on Mastodon, everything I've listed above can still quote-post you with no resistance.Absolute Fediverse-wide protection against being quote-posted is impossible
And don't get your hopes high that the day will come when nobody on the Fediverse will be able to quote-post you, whether they're on Mastodon or not. Such a setting is technologically impossible.
Who says that? Mike Macgirvin says that. The guy who launched Friendica and brought quote-posts to the Fediverse 15 years ago, remember? This guy has built the Fediverse's most elaborate, most complex, most fine-grained, most advanced permissions system into (streams) and Forte.
These two have reply control, the kind of which you couldn't image in your wildest dreams. I'm serious. They have permissions settings for almost everything on two or three levels, for your whole channel, individually per contact and sometimes even per post or per file or folder in the file storage.
But they don't have quote-post permission settings. Because that's impossible to enforce Fediverse-wide. And even if it was possible, it'd be pointless. If they can't quote-post you, they'll copy-paste you. If they can't copy-paste you either because they're on a phone, they'll post screenshots of your toots.
Mike also says, there is exactly one way to keep people from quote-posting you, and that's by not posting in public. Unfortunately, unlike what he has created, Mastodon has little between "public" and "DM", if anything.Mastodon cannot quote-post the non-Mastodon Fediverse
This may be the big surprise: It has recently been discovered by chance that Mastodon's quote-post feature only works with Mastodon toots.
On the one hand, Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Sharkey, Friendica, Hubzilla etc. can quote-post just about everything that comes in from Mastodon. But on the other hand, no Mastodon 4.5 user will be able to quote-post anything from either of these. Or from Pixelfed or PeerTube or Loops or Castopod or WriteFreely or whatever.
That's because Mastodon is looking for a quote-post opt-in. But nothing else in the Fediverse supports Mastodon's quote-post opt-in, also seeing as it's still officially in development. And it's highly unlikely that everything in the Fediverse will adopt another piece of non-standard, proprietary Mastodon tech."Quote" actually means something else
Lastly, Mastodon has the audacity to call this feature "quote".
A "quote" is something else. Remember forums? Like, bulletin-board forums with subforums and all? Where posts are quoted in follow-ups, entirely or only partially? That's what a quote is. That has got nothing to do with quote-posts.
Why I say that there's a difference? Because I also say that Friendica has had both quotes and quote-posts.
It has had them for 15 years, both quotes (which it calls "quotes", go figure) and quote-posts (which it calls "quoted shares", and which include the original author of the quoted post, complete with their profile picture and a clickable link to them, as well as a clickable link to the original post).
Hubzilla has both. (streams) has both. Forte has both. And I wouldn't be surprised if other Fediverse server software had both, too.
The irony is that Mastodon itself has been able to render actual quotes since version 4.0 from October, 2022. At the same time, it will continue to be unable to render any quote-posts done outside of Mastodon for the foreseeable future.
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@Eli Wallach's favorite Bass Important: Don't use alt-text to write around your character limit!
That's because not everyone can access alt-text. And those who can't can never read the extra stuff you've put into your alt-text. It's lost to them.
If you need more than 500 characters, you should instead- move to a Mastodon server with a higher character limit
- move to Misskey
3,000 characters (hard-coded)
fully federated with Mastodon - move to a Misskey fork like Sharkey
thousands of characters (configurable by admin without hacking into the source code)
fully federated with Mastodon - move to Pleroma or Akkoma
5,000 characters (configurable by admin without hacking into the source code)
fully federated with Mastodon - move to Friendica
16,777,215 characters (database field size)
fully federated with Mastodon - move to Hubzilla
16,777,215 characters (database field size)
optionally fully federated with Mastodon - move to (streams) or Forte
> 24,000,000 characters (database field size)
fully federated with Mastodon
CC: @Jayne
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@silverpill Who are the longformers anyway?
They're those who either are commercial or looking for professional/commercial users or both. Flipboard. Automattic (WordPress). Ghost. These kinds.
They know themselves. They know each other. And they know Mastodon. And that's it.
None of them has ever heard of Pleroma or Akkoma.
None of them has ever heard of Misskey or the Forkeys.
None of them has ever heard of Mitra.
None of them has ever heard of GoToSocial.
None of them has ever heard of Hollo.
None of them has ever heard of Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) or Forte, even though Friendica and Hubzilla are both older than Mastodon. And apparently, neither has @Helge. But then again, Friendica and its nomadic, security-enhanced descendants are being overlooked by almost everyone. That's why there's always on-going work for features to be "introduced to the Fediverse" which Friendica has had for a decade and a half.
Granted, the HTML support on Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte can be summarised with "yes". But elaborate tables that show what either of them supports how would be very useful.
Also, granted, everything I've mentioned above (normally) uses something else than HTML for formatting in the frontend. For example, Misskey and all Forkeys use MFM ("Misskey-Flavoured Markdown"). Friendica uses extended BBcode with the option to use Markdown instead. Hubzilla uses even more extended BBcode. (streams) and Forte can use the same even more extended BBcode and Markdown and HTML at the same time within the same post, although not all markup languages support all features.
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@Rob Why are people even forking Mastodon left and right?
Is it because they want "Mastodon, but with feature XYZ, but otherwise Mastodon" and not something that's very much not Mastodon?
Or is it because they don't know that Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Sharkey, CherryPick, Catodon, Mitra etc. are readily available with exactly the feature(s) they want right now? Not to mention the software family that started with Friendica?
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@crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätspostsich glaube, das Mastodon die einzige Software ist, die so rigoros in die Beiträge anderer eingreift.
Natürlich zeigt nicht alles alles an.
Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) und Forte müssen z. B. passen bei Inline-Spoilern, die jetzt dank frisiertem Markdown mehr und mehr um sich greifen, wo einfach kurze Textpassagen mitten im Absatz ausgeblendet sind (nicht mehr nur auf den *keys, sondern jetzt auch auf PieFed). Die vier haben ja noch die old-schooligen Spoiler zum Ausklappen, die wiederum sonst nirgendwo funktionieren.
Woanders ist dann wiederum nicht gewährleistet, daß im Text eingebettete Bilder, die die vier beherrschen, auch tatsächlich im Text eingebettet dargestellt werden. Ich glaube auch, es gibt nicht sehr viele Fediverse-Serveranwendungen, deren Webinterfaces Tabellen in Posts darstellen können. Eigentlich schade, Tabellen können noch praktischer sein als Listen, wenn man sich nicht beim Bauen von Tabellen in BBcode die Finger und das Hirn verknoten müßte.
Aber tatsächlich gibt es keine Serversoftware im Fediverse, die Posts so entstellt wie Mastodon. Erst seit Version 4.0 von Oktober 2022 zeigt es zumindest ein bißchen grundlegende Textformatierung an. Aber im Text eingebettete Bilder entfernt es weiterhin ersatzlos. Wenn Friendica & Nachfahren nicht beim Versenden per ActivityPub alle im Post eingebetteten Bilder zusätzlich als Dateianhänge an den Post klemmen würden, würde Mastodon gar keine Bilder anzeigen. Und selbst von den nachträglich angehängten Bildern, wo man dann raten darf, wo sie in den Post reingehören, kommen nur maximal vier mit.
Zugegeben, eigentlich ist es nicht im Sinne der ActivityPub-Erfinder, Note-Type Objects, die ja eigentlich Kurznachrichten sein sollen, wie Blogposts zu gestalten. Dafür gibt's eigentlich Article-Type Objects. Friendica verschickt standardmäßig Posts mit Titel als Article-Type Objects und ohne Titel als Note-Type Objects (das ist abstellbar). Auf (streams) und Forte kann man wie eine kurze Zeitlang auf Hubzilla den ganzen Kanal hin- und herschalten.
Aber Mastodon weigert sich, Article-Type Objects überhaupt darzustellen. Seit sich damals nach der ActivityPub-Einführung mal Mike und Eugen über Textausgestaltung vs. nur Reintext in der Wolle hatten, werden Article-Type Objects nur noch verlinkt. Eigentlich hat das seine Vorteile: Mastodon-Nutzer sehen die Posts an der Quelle und nicht durch Mastodon entstellt, und was Mastodon selbst anzeigt, ist schön kurz und knapp, egal, wie lang der Post ist. Aber andererseits lesen dann noch weniger Mastodon-Nutzer diese Posts, weil sie keinen Bock haben, den Link zu öffnen. Deshalb hält Hubzilla eisern an Note-Type Objects fest und bietet Article-Type Objects nicht mal mehr als Option.
Aktuell bekommt Mastodon wohl einiges an Druck von Ghost, Flipboard und Automattic (WordPress). Die wollen, daß Mastodon ihre Posts a) direkt in der Timeline und b) bitteschön mit voller HTML-Formatierung darstellt. Mal sehen, ob da noch was kommt. In den Ankündigungen für die nächsten Mastodon-Versionen ist meines Wissens nichts drin.Auch zeigen die anderen immer alle Bilder an, sei es Sharkey, Misskey, Friendica, Pixelfed usw. Außer man ist mit Mastodon unterwegs.
Da wird einem nicht mal mitgeteilt, das es den Beitrag verändert und Teile des Inhalts einfach wegwirft.
Wobei die wie gesagt nicht unbedingt im Post eingebettet dargestellt werden, wenn sie im Original im Post eingebettet sind.Dann kommen noch die Mastodon Hooligans dazu, die möchten, das alle nur das machen, was Mastodon kann.
Und jeder, aber auch wirklich jeder auf Mastodon schwört hoch und heilig, daß es solche Hooligans nicht gibt, weil sie das selbst so noch nie erlebt haben.
Ach ja, und selbst wenn das stimmen sollte (tut es, weisen sie aber zurück), empfinden sie das auch nicht als diskriminierend.Eine vollkommene Missachtung dessen, was das Fediverse ist. Und es war schön immer ein Langtext Netzwerk, lange bevor es Mastodon überhaupt gab.
Erklär das denen, für die es unvorstellbar ist, daß es überhaupt ein Fediverse vor Mastodon gab.
CC: @RockyBoulder
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@Sven222 Kommt drauf an.
Misskey und die Forkeys zeigen an, von wo ein Beitrag kommt. Friendica zeigt es an. (streams) und Forte zeigen es an.
Hubzilla zeigt es nicht an, aber Hubzilla hat noch ganz andere Baustellen, gerade auch in der Weboberfläche.
Mastodon zeigt es auch nicht an. Und so gehen die meisten Mastodon-Nutzer bei jedem Beitrag von einem nativen Mastodon-Tröt aus. Selbst wenn etwas so wie das hier eigentlich nur zu offensichtlich gar nicht von Mastodon stammen kann, glauben wahrscheinlich viele trotzdem an irgendeine "gehackte", frisierte Mastodon-Instanz.
Ein Unterschied ist ja auch noch: Gerade Friendica- und Hubzilla-Nutzer sind es ja gewohnt, sich in alle möglichen und unmöglichen Richtungen zu verbinden, zumal die allermeisten Hubzilla-Nutzer von Friendica kommen. Und das meint nicht nur das ActivityPub-basierte Fediverse, sondern z. B. auch mal diaspora* oder RSS-/Atom-Feeds oder Tumblr oder jüngererdings auf Friendica auch mal Bluesky. In den frühen 2010ern waren die populärsten öffentlichen Friendica-Nodes die mit Facebook-Anbindung.
Ein Grund, warum (streams) und Forte so unpopulär sind, ist, weil sie eigentlich keine Zielgruppe außerhalb von Hubzilla haben, aber die Hubzilla-Nutzerschaft auf Hubzillas Features überwiegend nicht verzichten will. Dazu zählen auch die diaspora*-Verbindung und der Feed-Aggregator; beides gibt's auf (streams) und Forte nicht mehr. Forte versteht ja überhaupt nur noch ActivityPub und ist daher auch blind für Hubzilla- und (streams)-Kanäle, wo ActivityPub aus ist.
Der Friendica-Veteran hat verinnerlicht: "Wenn es existiert, kann ich mich damit verbinden."
99,99% der Mastodon-Nutzer lernen dagegen Mastodon und das Fediverse als in sich geschlossenes reines Mastodon-Netzwerk kennen ohne jegliche Verbindung nach woanders. Entweder ist das ihnen gegenüber bei der Einladung impliziert worden, oder es ist ihnen direktweg so gesagt worden. Und daran gewöhnen sie sich dann auch.
PeerTube, Pixelfed und dergleichen lernen sie dann irgendwann kennen als sowas wie Add-ons für Mastodon, also ein an Mastodon drangeklebtes YouTube, ein an Mastodon drangeklebtes Instagram usw. Viele von denen scheißen sich komplett ein, wenn sie erfahren, daß es auch noch andere Mikroblogging- und/oder Social-Networking-Sachen im Fediverse gibt und die dann auch mit Mastodon verbunden sind, aber eben nicht nachträglich an Mastodon drangeklebt.
CC: @Regezi
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