#journa-host — Public Fediverse posts

Good morning all! TheCanadian.social, Journa.host, and Newsie.social are all running Mastodon v4.5.9 now!

Have a great day 👋

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.9

#mastoadmin #TheCanadian #JournaHost #NewsieSocial

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mastodon_releases/116284988294100035

Happy Tuesday y'all 👋

#TheCanadian is now running on Mastodon v4.5.8! Along with #JournaHost and #NewsieSocial 🫡

Have a great day!

#mastoadmin

My apathetic arrival on Bluesky last spring did not suggest I had much interest or confidence in that decentralized social network: I opened my account on April 25, posted for the first time on April 27, and then waited more than two months to grace Bluesky with a second post.

And yet over the past two months, Bluesky has become my primary successor to Twitter as the platform that now goes by X continues its spiral into conspiracy-theory hell under Elon Musk’s militantly ignorant misrule. Bluesky now ranks as one of the first apps I check in the morning and among those I revisit most often during the day–even though my follower total of 608 is far smaller than the 1,404 following me on Mastodon or the 18,713 followers of my idle Twitter account.

The top reason is the quality of the conversations on Bluesky. I see more engagement with my posts here–see, for instance, the comparison I did in December when I shared the same PCMag story about Comcast rate hikes on Bluesky, Twitter, Mastodon and Meta’s Threads–and that feedback is more likely to leave me more enlightened or at least amused. I keep thinking this won’t last, especially after the platform dropped its invite system in February, but so far Bluesky’s banter remains mostly pleasant.

It also helps that so many of the voices I valued on Twitter have made their way over to Bluesky–and that I’ve had the pleasure of discovering new voices there. And since I’m not getting paid for any of this or deriving other obvious and direct professional benefit (as in, I know how few people clicked through to stories I shared on Twitter), those things matter to me.

Second, Bluesky has advanced faster than I might have expected. A small team of developers led by CEO Jay Graber has built out its foundational feature of account portability with impressive speed. That means not just the option to take my followers to a new account with a different handle, what I call settings portability as offered at Mastodon, but the ability to move my entire presence, including the handle that I’ve set to my robpegoraro.com domain name, to a different host.

That progress in building a legitimate breakthrough in social networking gives me confidence that Bluesky’s developers will check off such lesser to-do details as these items on a product-roadmap update posted May 7: direct messaging, inline video, in-app tools to create and manage custom feeds (for example, my D.C.-area airports feed), and login-security upgrades enabling a choice of multi-factor authentication options.

An edit button, however, is not among those roadmap items, and in that aspect Mastodon maintains a distinct advantage over Bluesky. But while I continue to have good conversations there, too many of the people I liked seeing on Twitter either haven’t set up shop on Mastodon or tried it and have since moved on.

A large fraction of the Twitter diaspora, meanwhile, has looked past both Mastodon and Bluesky to migrate to Threads instead. But while the default “For You” algorithmic feed isn’t as hopelessly vapid in my Threads account as it was six months ago, I still find the notion of handing over that much more of my online social presence to Meta to be profoundly distasteful. I do not need a single point of social-media failure that large, especially not one with Meta’s history of bad-faith behavior towards journalism.

Also distasteful: how I still have to read Twitter because of all the people who have not bailed on that platform and continue to share enlightening tidbits there. I mainly do that through lists I created that help me avoid the clout-chasing randos, conspiracy-lie merchants and fascism-curious creeps now polluting that platform, but because I cover social media I also have to keep up with Musk’s reputational self-immolation through his increasingly delusional tweets.

I don’t know that Bluesky will ever replace what Twitter was, or if anything can or even should. But while much about this project remains uncertain–most of all, if this public-benefit corporation can secure a reliable business model–at least I know my free writing online isn’t underwriting a shitposting billionaire’s vanity value-destruction project.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/10/one-year-in-some-of-the-clouds-around-my-bluesky-experience-have-cleared/

#Bluesky #BlueskyFeeds #bsky #DMs #domainVerification #editButton #ElonMusk #ElonMuskTwitter #JackDorsey #JayGraber #journaHost #Mastodon #meta #Threads #Twitter #X

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@Josh
Thank you for the detailed information! The other two accounts are also mine on other #Fediverse services: #Pixelfed and #Bookwyrm.

So your search results mean that I'm suspended on #JournaHost, which is probably the same situation on #NewsieSocial. It's my understanding that both servers are owned by the same guy, but I may be wrong. What may be interesting here, though, is why my account was suspended on both servers...
@TexasObserver @drewharwell @arstechnica @emilybell

When I click the “Publish” button at the top right of this page, this post won’t only appear at the Web address this blog has occupied since April of 2011. People who have chosen to follow this blog on Mastodon will get the full text on that network–and if they reply, their feedback there will show up as a comment here.

At least, that’s how I think things will work. I’ve only had a couple of days to grasp WordPress.com’s announcement Wednesday of its new integration of the ActivityPub open standard behind Mastodon and other federated-social-media platforms. Since I’ve already had nine other people take up my invitation to follow this blog on the “fediverse,” notwithstanding its ungainly “@[email protected]” handle–and since I wrote about this venture Thursday for PCMag–I hope I’ve got that right.

Seeing this sort of open-ended experimentation happen is a good thing about life in the fediverse. I like participating in a project that’s still in a creation stage.

But the last two weeks also reminded me of the potential costs of setting up shop on a social platform in flux: The Mastodon instance I’ve mostly-happily occupied since last November, journa.host, merged into another journalism-centric instance, newsie.social, with no advance notice visible from its admins. I learned about this from an easily-missed announcement in the Mastodon Web app, after which a post from the journa.host admin team pledged that “Journa.host will continue to operate as an independent server and there will be no changes for our current members.”

And then two apparently migration-induced server glitches left me unable to use my account for an hour or two, after which I had to resolve an images-not-loading issue in one browser.

None of those things amount to an instance-firing offense (for a contrary perspective, see this thread from freelance journalist Zecharias Zelalem), but the experience did lead me to think about what changing instances might be like if things came to that. And the answer would be: not great! Mastodon’s data-transfer support is closer to “settings portability” than “account portability.” To wit, while moving my account to a new instance would let me keep my follower and following lists, my handle would change and my older posts would not show up at my new fediverse abode.

The AT Protocol underneath Bluesky, the decentralized Twitter alternative at which I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time, does allow full account portability–although that support remains somewhat evanescent until a good set of competing “Personal Data Servers” come online. So my Twitter-bailout scenario remains unclear, even if I’m increasingly sure that the answer won’t be Meta’s Threads.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/10/13/one-step-forward-one-step-sideways-in-the-fediverse/

#ActivityPub #ATProto #ATProtocol #Bluesky #journaHost #Mastodon #newsieSocial #postTwitter #Threads #TwitterExodus #wordpress

https://Journa.host is leveling up today! 🚀

Please note that there is a planned and scheduled system move, server upgrade and DB Maintenance

📅 Today, Oct 6
⏰ 1:30 pm (EST)
⏳Expected downtime ~1- 5 hours

Apologies for any inconvenience. Stay tuned for an improved experience! ✨

#journahost

Journa.host does appear to still be offline (DNS issue). The host is fine, the DNS is not. (fixed this by stuffing their IP address into my local server... they are on masto.host). No posts by users in the last hour. #journahost

Making plans.

International Journalism Festival 2024
Perugia - April 17-21

#IJF #Newsie #Journahost #Journalism

@violetmadder

Every instance has somebody who manages it, sometimes that's an organization...now I don't think Meta would like to buy #JournaHost, I mean if they wanted to get looked at seriously by journalists, sure, they could do it.

#Mastodon may already be too big, that if they wanted to buy everyone, it would be a lot of people to "buy".

Also how would it happen? Would they try to employ everyone?

At what salaries? Just cause you got money, doesn't mean #InfiniteMoney.

Can anyone recommend a small-to-medium #instance that hasn't permanently limited federation with mastodon.social and journa.host? I'm gay and based in Aotearoa, but mainly I'm interested in conversations about the big issues of our age, such as #ClimateJustice, #decolonisation, and #intersectionality, as well as staying abreast of the news (both global and local). I find the long-term blocks on #MastodonSocial and #JournaHost are limiting my ability to navigate threads and discover interesting perspectives and analysis.

This is really important! Best of luck to the good people from the Narwhal. Thank you for the leadership and the award winning investigative journalism.

‘I felt kidnapped’: Canada police sued for arresting photographer covering protest | #Canada | #TheGuardian

"A Canadian environmental publication (The Narwhal) has announced plans to sue the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), arguing it violated the rights of a photojournalist after she was arrested and detained while on the job.

The lawsuit, if successful, could have significant implications for Canadian journalists reporting in areas where police try to limit both public and media access."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/13/royal-canadian-mounted-police-amber-bracken-arrest-lawsuit

#environment #cdnpoli #activism #justice #police #humanrights #journalism #journahost #environmentalism #oldGrowth #directAction #legal #lawsuite

Any Irish journalists on #journahost?

Since Twitter is now "waging war" against #Mastodon a thing #journalists could do this coming week is to use their still existing Twitter accounts to co-ordinate a retaliation as follows:

Choose a big news story.

All write an article on said news story.

Post link to story on Twitter.

Include a link on the page pointing to an exposé of Twitter's suppression of links to Mastodon.

#Twitter users will be shown exactly how they are being kept in the dark about alternatives

#Newsie #JournaHost

Over at the Other Place, I am flipping from 'may or may not be notable' to 'notable' like a pancake at a PTA fundraiser. But I am pleased to announce that here I have been deemed verified - which seriously only means my name is my name and I embarrass my publications out in the open. Thank you #Mastadon and #journahost for your decided lack of lunacy.

@mattblaze it is interesting to watch the both-sides press crash with the "no, there's definitely a side, and you're not on it" mastodon folks.

for example: #journahost which seems to be the de facto home for a lot of journalists, is blocked by quite a few instances for platforming hate.

@chadloder journalists should do them the favor and leave. #journahost

Changed my #Mastodon #instance because my old one blocked #journahost. Very happy to be here!

NYT on @journa.host. Does anyone know if they’ve been refederated? I can’t tell if I can see them.

#joirnalism #journahost #defederation #refederation #fediblock

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/style/mastodon-twitter-adam-davidson.html

@NSFVoyager2 And, withe #Thanksgiving obligations breathing down my neck, & having freshly read up on the #JournaHost kerfuffle, I could wish I were there with you.

#PeopleGonnaPeople

A good interview of Adam Davidson by Julia Angwin about #journahost.
https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment

@parkermolloy My partner @grumpywitch has been following you for quite awhile on the ex-parrot. Be that as it may, I'm going to leave #journaHost in the killfile. At least until I hear better things about them. What they claim to be would be very useful.

@davetroy Hi Dave. I'm interested in the bigger picture....how ingroup-outgroup politics affects federation decisions and how the community of the local instance participates. Some defederation decisions will be obvious and simple while others may generate controversy within the community. I am very interested in the level of transparency and input for these decisions because we are ALL the content moderation team now, to.some extent. Thinking about #journahost and how.that went down....