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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plume, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Melting Can Propel Icebergs

    Icebergs have long served as a metaphor for not knowing what’s going on beneath the surface. Studies like today’s are a reminder of why that is. Researchers found that asymmetric icebergs–shaped, in this case, like a right triangular prism–can self-propel as they melt. Their shape forces cold, dense meltwater to slide down the surface, generating a sinking plume that propels the ice as a whole. The team demonstrated this effect in both fresh- and saltwater. For icebergs wandering into warm waters, the effect is particularly strong and may reach levels about 10% of the magnitude of dominant propulsive forces like wind. (Image and research credit: M. Berhanu et al.; via APS)

    #buoyancy #convection #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #iceberg #melting #physics #plume #science #selfPropulsion
  2. Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten des #Fediverse den Menschen, die #neuhier sind, etwas erklären:
    #DasFediverseIstMehr als Mastodon.

    In den unendlichen Weiten der digitalen Unabhängigkeit befinden sich so viele Möglichkeiten , das für jede*n etwas dabei ist. Das kann natürlich
    #Mastodon sein, aber auch:
    Microblogging Planeten
    #Akkoma
    #GoToSocial
    #Iceshrimp
    #Misskey
    #Pleroma
    #Sharkey
    Die Macroblogging Planeten
    #diaspora*
    #Friendica
    #Hubzilla
    #(streams)
    Die Fotografie Planeten
    #Pixelfed
    #Vernissage
    Die Publishing Planeten
    #Drupal
    #Ghost
    #Plume
    #WordPress
    #WriteFreely
    Die Video & Live Planeten
    #Loops
    #Owncast
    #Peer Tube
    Die Audio & Podcasts.Planeten
    #Castopod
    #Funkwhale
    Der Kalender & Events Planet
    #Mobilizon
    Der Foren & Diskussionen Planet
    Lemmy
    Und der Bücher Planet
    #BookWyrm

    Eine knappe Übersicht gibt es hier:
    https://fediversum.info/fediverse-software-und-dienste/

    Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten, aber auch berichten, warum wir unseren Planeten bewohnen und was wir an ihm lieben.
    Und wie spannend wäre es zu erfahren, was wie es ist seinen ganz eigenen Planeten zu haben und was man tun muss um ihn zu erschaffen und sich bei Bedarf Mitbewohner zu suchen.
    Das Fediverse ist so spannend. Wir sollten davon erzählen, damit die neuen Fediversebewohner neugierig werden und den perfekten Platz für sich finden können. Und auch wir alteingesessenen
    #Fedinauten lernen immer noch dazu.

    Also lasst uns unsere Geschichten erzählen, über unsere Heimatplaneten berichten.

    Unter den Hashtags
    #DasFediverseIstMehr #WirSindFedi #Fediliebe fange ich gleich mit einem ersten Post an. Und ihr, Fedinaut*innen der Planetenrunde?

    #DigitaleSouveränität #DIDit #diversität #DasFediverseErzählt

  3. Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten des #Fediverse den Menschen, die #neuhier sind, etwas erklären:
    #DasFediverseIstMehr als Mastodon.

    In den unendlichen Weiten der digitalen Unabhängigkeit befinden sich so viele Möglichkeiten , das für jede*n etwas dabei ist. Das kann natürlich
    #Mastodon sein, aber auch:
    Microblogging Planeten
    #Akkoma
    #GoToSocial
    #Iceshrimp
    #Misskey
    #Pleroma
    #Sharkey
    Die Macroblogging Planeten
    #diaspora*
    #Friendica
    #Hubzilla
    #(streams)
    Die Fotografie Planeten
    #Pixelfed
    #Vernissage
    Die Publishing Planeten
    #Drupal
    #Ghost
    #Plume
    #WordPress
    #WriteFreely
    Die Video & Live Planeten
    #Loops
    #Owncast
    #Peer Tube
    Die Audio & Podcasts.Planeten
    #Castopod
    #Funkwhale
    Der Kalender & Events Planet
    #Mobilizon
    Der Foren & Diskussionen Planet
    Lemmy
    Und der Bücher Planet
    #BookWyrm

    Eine knappe Übersicht gibt es hier:
    https://fediversum.info/fediverse-software-und-dienste/

    Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten, aber auch berichten, warum wir unseren Planeten bewohnen und was wir an ihm lieben.
    Und wie spannend wäre es zu erfahren, was wie es ist seinen ganz eigenen Planeten zu haben und was man tun muss um ihn zu erschaffen und sich bei Bedarf Mitbewohner zu suchen.
    Das Fediverse ist so spannend. Wir sollten davon erzählen, damit die neuen Fediversebewohner neugierig werden und den perfekten Platz für sich finden können. Und auch wir alteingesessenen
    #Fedinauten lernen immer noch dazu.

    Also lasst uns unsere Geschichten erzählen, über unsere Heimatplaneten berichten.

    Unter den Hashtags
    #DasFediverseIstMehr #WirSindFedi #Fediliebe fange ich gleich mit einem ersten Post an. Und ihr, Fedinaut*innen der Planetenrunde?

    #DigitaleSouveränität #DIDit #diversität #DasFediverseErzählt

  4. Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten des #Fediverse den Menschen, die #neuhier sind, etwas erklären:
    #DasFediverseIstMehr als Mastodon.

    In den unendlichen Weiten der digitalen Unabhängigkeit befinden sich so viele Möglichkeiten , das für jede*n etwas dabei ist. Das kann natürlich
    #Mastodon sein, aber auch:
    Microblogging Planeten
    #Akkoma
    #GoToSocial
    #Iceshrimp
    #Misskey
    #Pleroma
    #Sharkey
    Die Macroblogging Planeten
    #diaspora*
    #Friendica
    #Hubzilla
    #(streams)
    Die Fotografie Planeten
    #Pixelfed
    #Vernissage
    Die Publishing Planeten
    #Drupal
    #Ghost
    #Plume
    #WordPress
    #WriteFreely
    Die Video & Live Planeten
    #Loops
    #Owncast
    #Peer Tube
    Die Audio & Podcasts.Planeten
    #Castopod
    #Funkwhale
    Der Kalender & Events Planet
    #Mobilizon
    Der Foren & Diskussionen Planet
    Lemmy
    Und der Bücher Planet
    #BookWyrm

    Eine knappe Übersicht gibt es hier:
    https://fediversum.info/fediverse-software-und-dienste/

    Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten, aber auch berichten, warum wir unseren Planeten bewohnen und was wir an ihm lieben.
    Und wie spannend wäre es zu erfahren, was wie es ist seinen ganz eigenen Planeten zu haben und was man tun muss um ihn zu erschaffen und sich bei Bedarf Mitbewohner zu suchen.
    Das Fediverse ist so spannend. Wir sollten davon erzählen, damit die neuen Fediversebewohner neugierig werden und den perfekten Platz für sich finden können. Und auch wir alteingesessenen
    #Fedinauten lernen immer noch dazu.

    Also lasst uns unsere Geschichten erzählen, über unsere Heimatplaneten berichten.

    Unter den Hashtags
    #DasFediverseIstMehr #WirSindFedi #Fediliebe fange ich gleich mit einem ersten Post an. Und ihr, Fedinaut*innen der Planetenrunde?

    #DigitaleSouveränität #DIDit #diversität #DasFediverseErzählt

  5. Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten des #Fediverse den Menschen, die #neuhier sind, etwas erklären:
    #DasFediverseIstMehr als Mastodon.

    In den unendlichen Weiten der digitalen Unabhängigkeit befinden sich so viele Möglichkeiten , das für jede*n etwas dabei ist. Das kann natürlich
    #Mastodon sein, aber auch:
    Microblogging Planeten
    #Akkoma
    #GoToSocial
    #Iceshrimp
    #Misskey
    #Pleroma
    #Sharkey
    Die Macroblogging Planeten
    #diaspora*
    #Friendica
    #Hubzilla
    #(streams)
    Die Fotografie Planeten
    #Pixelfed
    #Vernissage
    Die Publishing Planeten
    #Drupal
    #Ghost
    #Plume
    #WordPress
    #WriteFreely
    Die Video & Live Planeten
    #Loops
    #Owncast
    #Peer Tube
    Die Audio & Podcasts.Planeten
    #Castopod
    #Funkwhale
    Der Kalender & Events Planet
    #Mobilizon
    Der Foren & Diskussionen Planet
    Lemmy
    Und der Bücher Planet
    #BookWyrm

    Eine knappe Übersicht gibt es hier:
    https://fediversum.info/fediverse-software-und-dienste/

    Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten, aber auch berichten, warum wir unseren Planeten bewohnen und was wir an ihm lieben.
    Und wie spannend wäre es zu erfahren, was wie es ist seinen ganz eigenen Planeten zu haben und was man tun muss um ihn zu erschaffen und sich bei Bedarf Mitbewohner zu suchen.
    Das Fediverse ist so spannend. Wir sollten davon erzählen, damit die neuen Fediversebewohner neugierig werden und den perfekten Platz für sich finden können. Und auch wir alteingesessenen
    #Fedinauten lernen immer noch dazu.

    Also lasst uns unsere Geschichten erzählen, über unsere Heimatplaneten berichten.

    Unter den Hashtags
    #DasFediverseIstMehr #WirSindFedi #Fediliebe fange ich gleich mit einem ersten Post an. Und ihr, Fedinaut*innen der Planetenrunde?

    #DigitaleSouveränität #DIDit #diversität #DasFediverseErzählt

  6. Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten des #Fediverse den Menschen, die #neuhier sind, etwas erklären:
    #DasFediverseIstMehr als Mastodon.

    In den unendlichen Weiten der digitalen Unabhängigkeit befinden sich so viele Möglichkeiten , das für jede*n etwas dabei ist. Das kann natürlich
    #Mastodon sein, aber auch:
    Microblogging Planeten
    #Akkoma
    #GoToSocial
    #Iceshrimp
    #Misskey
    #Pleroma
    #Sharkey
    Die Macroblogging Planeten
    #diaspora*
    #Friendica
    #Hubzilla
    #(streams)
    Die Fotografie Planeten
    #Pixelfed
    #Vernissage
    Die Publishing Planeten
    #Drupal
    #Ghost
    #Plume
    #WordPress
    #WriteFreely
    Die Video & Live Planeten
    #Loops
    #Owncast
    #Peer Tube
    Die Audio & Podcasts.Planeten
    #Castopod
    #Funkwhale
    Der Kalender & Events Planet
    #Mobilizon
    Der Foren & Diskussionen Planet
    Lemmy
    Und der Bücher Planet
    #BookWyrm

    Eine knappe Übersicht gibt es hier:
    https://fediversum.info/fediverse-software-und-dienste/

    Vielleicht sollten wir Bewohner der föderierten Planeten, aber auch berichten, warum wir unseren Planeten bewohnen und was wir an ihm lieben.
    Und wie spannend wäre es zu erfahren, was wie es ist seinen ganz eigenen Planeten zu haben und was man tun muss um ihn zu erschaffen und sich bei Bedarf Mitbewohner zu suchen.
    Das Fediverse ist so spannend. Wir sollten davon erzählen, damit die neuen Fediversebewohner neugierig werden und den perfekten Platz für sich finden können. Und auch wir alteingesessenen
    #Fedinauten lernen immer noch dazu.

    Also lasst uns unsere Geschichten erzählen, über unsere Heimatplaneten berichten.

    Unter den Hashtags
    #DasFediverseIstMehr #WirSindFedi #Fediliebe fange ich gleich mit einem ersten Post an. Und ihr, Fedinaut*innen der Planetenrunde?

    #DigitaleSouveränität #DIDit #diversität #DasFediverseErzählt

  7.  unity schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:36:39 +0200 Wer von den #neuhier, aber auch gerne mal die #althier über den Tellerrand von #Mastodon blicken möchte, kann sich gerne die Artikelserie über das #Fediverse von @GNU/Linux.ch ansehen. Dort erfährt man wirklich einiges über das Fediverse und deren vielfältigen Möglichkeiten. Eine wirklich sehr gelungene Möglichkeit, den eigenen Horizont zu erweitern.

    Den Start zu der Artikelserie findet man hier: https://gnulinux.ch/serie-%E2%80%93-fediverse-dienste-die-idee

    #Fediverse #Tellerrand #Calkey #Firefish #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Foundkey #GoToSocial #Friendica #Hubzilla #Lemmy #Kbin #Pixelfed #Peertube #Mobilizon #Funkwhale #Castopod #BookWyrm #WriteFreely #Plume #MacroBlogging #Microblogging


    Serie – Fediverse-Dienste: Die Idee



    Neben Mastodon bietet das Fediverse noch viele Dienste; in dieser Serie sollen diese ihre verdiente Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.
  8. Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
    --
    scientificamerican.com/article <-- shared technical media article
    --
    doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
    --
    oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ge <-- technical description of a geoid
    --
    [theories abound]
    "... KEY POINTS
    • Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
    • Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
    • These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

  9. CMBI’s USD Money Market Fund Now Live Across Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Plume - TLDR:

    CMBI’s USD Money Market Fund is now tokenized and deployed across Solana, Ethereum... - blockonomi.com/cmbis-usd-money #cmbi’susdmoneymarketfund #blockchain #arbitrum #ethereum #fintech #crypto #digift #solana #plume #defi

  10. [en] Eyjafjallajökull #eruption: rare observations of #volcanic clouds

    "By comparing characteristics of the #ash cloud ... through the video, the researchers were able to calculate the amount of ash spewed ... #volcano."

    "Demonstrating our lab experiments are realistic is really important, both for making sure we understand how ash #plume|s work ... #forecast ... effectively."

    cam.ac.uk/research/news/video-

    #ResearchHighlights #videoanalysis #volcanology #hazardousash #cambridge #research

  11. La bourgeoisie guidant le peuple (vers un avenir tombal)

    Plumes : Speedball hunt 102, 107 et 22 b
    Encre : Dr Martin's black star, bleu de pastel véritable.
    Papier : Canson XL bristol

    #illustration #drawings #dessin #DessinDePresse #encre #ink #nib #plume #crosshatching #hatching #hachures #paysages #landscape #satire #caricature #bourgeois #peuple #LutteDesClasses #canson

  12. @Codex ☯️♈☮ @CynthesisToday I think the #Fediverse is the easiest to understand for those who halfway know their way around computer stuff if you start at the protocol level.

    #ActivityPub is a digital communications protocol standard. Like e-mail or RSS or Atom or XMPP or Matrix, for example. Or like #StatusNet or the #Diaspora protocol or #DFRN or #Zot, now known as #Nomad in its latest incarnation.

    The server application projects that are based on ActivityPub are different server-side software implementations of the same protocol. Some have more features, some have fewer, some specialise in particular tasks which is possible because ActivityPub is not specialised itself, not a one-trick pony.

    Like, for XMPP, you have jabberd and ejabberd and Openfire and Prosody and Tigase. For e-mail, you've got various mail servers and MTAs.

    The main difference here is that ActivityPub is so versatile in its capabilities that it can be used for a whole lot of different things. #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #MissKey, #CalcKey etc. were made for microblogging. But ActivityPub can also be used for actual blogging platforms like #Plume or #WriteFreely, for video streaming like in the cases of #PeerTube and #Owncast, for audio streaming like in the cases of #Funkwhale and #Castopod and for link aggregators/discussion communities like in the cases of #Lemmy and #kbin. Only to name a few examples.

    Still, there are enough parts of this protocol fixed so that all these projects, all these implementations of ActivityPub can connect to one another and ideally communicate with one another.

    Now, why is all this made so that they can connect to one another?

    That's because they all use the same protocol. The alternative would have been to do like Mike MacGirvin did with DFRN for #Mistpark, later #Friendika, today known as #Friendica, and create a whole new protocol from scratch, even though StatusNet was readily available. Well, only that Mike's intention was to federate Friendica with everything that moved, regardless of protocol.

    Okay, better comparison: The alternative would have been to do like the four Diaspora* creators and create a whole new protocol from scratch with no intention whatsoever to connect to the outside world.

    Well, instead, all those clones of YouTube and Instagram and Reddit and GoodReads and so forth chose ActivityPub. It was a win-win situation: They could use an existing protocol which actually worked for them instead of taking upon themselves designing a whole new protocol first and then their server application on top. And they could expect a wider audience, namely everything else that uses ActivityPub. Two birds, one stone.

    Oh, and by the way: Neither the Fediverse nor ActivityPub was designed around Mastodon, nor was ActivityPub designed by Eugen Rochko (Mike Macgirvin did have some saying in it, though, AFAIK), and quite a few Fediverse projects already existed before Mastodon. Pleroma is three and a half weeks older. MissKey is two years older AFAIK. #Hubzilla was forked from Friendica four years before Mastodon came out. This means that Friendica has to be even older: six years older than Mastodon.

    None of these projects will ever give in to Mastodon's limitations and reduce their own feature set for the convenience of Mastodon users. Oh, and neither will the projects that came after Mastodon. If something from another Fediverse project doesn't look good on Mastodon, it's Mastodon's problem.
  13. @Kaity A @Ada While I do appreciate your effort, how much of the Fediverse do you plan this to cover within less than, say, two months?

    blahaj.zone?

    All #Mastodon instances?

    Or all instances of all #Fediverse projects?

    The latter, so much I can tell you, will be impossible to achieve. First of all, of course, this would require extensive modification to many Fediverse projects that aren't Mastodon. Keep in mind that there are some projects that are both years older than Mastodon and based on a protocol that is not #ActivityPub.

    #Friendica (6 years older than Mastodon) might have to dig deeply into its UI, its underlying #DFRN protocol (8 years older than ActivityPub), of course the ActivityPub connector and maybe actually also all the other connectors, of which Friendica has many. If bad comes to worse, Friendica would have to enforce Mastodon users' quote and interaction limits upon #Diaspora users, and Diaspora* and Mastodon aren't even federated with one another and only touch each other on a few projects that are federated with both.

    Second, the development of some projects has slowed down to an almost or actual still-stand. You won't see #Plume integrate everything that you've planned before July. It'd be a miracle to see Plume even roll out a bugfix release until then.

    Third, @Mario Vavti and @mike are very unlikely let anyone on Mastodon force them to design #Hubzilla and #Streams, or even the #Zot or #Nomad protocol, in any particular way. It's bad enough that the Mastodon core devs try to bully them into re-designing stuff that's many years older than Mastodon.

    By the way, both Hubzilla and (streams) have part of what you want to introduce built in already now. Hubzilla actually had it before Mastodon even existed.

    What you're trying to do is
    a) re-invent the wheel
    b) make your wheel design mandatory for the whole Fediverse
    c) force Hubzilla and (streams) to discard their way of handling permissions which is firmly integrated with the Zot/Nomad protocol and its own very detailed and fine-grained permission control, the kind of which even the #CalcKey devs couldn't imagine in their wildest dreams, and which has seen some 11 years of daily operation, and replace it with yours

    Fourth, there are still some instances of some projects out there that haven't seen a single update this whole year. Or for over a year. There still seem to be Hubzilla hubs alive that run 5.x or even 4.x while the current version is 8.2, and 8.4 is just around the corner. There are also still instances of the (indirect) Hubzilla forks #Osada and #Zap alive, and both projects have been EOL and discontinued since New Year's Eve. These instances will continue not having what you want the whole Fediverse to have.

    Next question: How exactly do you want such limitations to be enforced? Do you simply want to keep offending posts/comments from being created? Or do you actually want to go as far as UI buttons being greyed out or disappearing altogether on the UIs of all Web interfaces of all projects and on all desktop and mobile apps?

    In the case of quoting, either will be very difficult to achieve outside of Mastodon, especially on the old #FederatedSocialWeb projects Friendica and Hubzilla and their newest offspring, (streams).

    See, when Mastodon will introduce quotes, it'd be a button, and everything else will be hocus-pocus happening in the background. On Friendica and Hubzilla, quotes, just like any kind of text formatting, are done with BBcode which is in the post/comment editor in plain sight and can be edited. In (streams)' case, Markdown and HTML come on top.

    There are about a thousand and one ways for me to quote you or anyone else. I'd demonstrate a selection of them, but Mastodon's text formatting limitations won't let me, at least not short of taking a screenshot of both the source code and what it looks like. If you want to keep everyone on Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) from quoting those who don't want to be quoted with 100% reliability, these three projects would need editors that could catch all possible ways of quoting someone. If you still want them to rule out false positives, it's really approaching impossibility.
  14. @Kevin Davidson @LabSpokane @Chris Trottier It's the very same thing as people demanding the #Linux ecosystem be reduced to ONE distribution with no variants, ONE graphics toolkit, ONE display manager with ONE desktop environment. Because Linux is "too complicated" otherwise. Because it makes people choose where Windows and Mac users don't even have a choice.

    But this would leave many dissatisfied because that unified Linux will not cater to their individual tastes. If it sucks, Linux sucks altogether.

    Of course, in the #Fediverse case, the one unified project which the Fediverse must be reduced to is always #Mastodon. Preferably always with the same set of features. No other projects, not even forks.

    First of all, this would mean that the Fediverse would lose a great deal of its features. Mastodon can't do podcasts; #Funkwhale and #Castopod can. Mastodon can't do blogs; #WriteFreely and #Plume can. Mastodon can't do YouTube; #PeerTube can. Not to mention the many things that #Hubzilla can do that Mastodon can't.

    Now, someone could suggest to cram all features of all these projects into Mastodon. But not only is this very likely impossible without re-designing great deals of Mastodon which, for example, doesn't offer the multiple-channels-per-account model and doesn't even differentiate between posts and comments. It would also irritate those who stick with Mastodon because it's the most simple of all Fediverse projects.

    And indeed, there are many who wish for Mastodon to be frozen on the feature level of late 2022 when they joined. They're even opposed to the introduction of text formatting or quotes to Mastodon, features which would thereby vanish from the Fediverse altogether if the Fediverse was reduced to late-2022 Mastodon.

    Besides, you won't be able to get everyone to cooperate on Mastodon, much less on Mastodon staying at the level of late 2022. Literally every project leader who isn't Eugen Rochko will demand more features than Mastodon had half a year ago, actually, even more features than Mastodon has right now.

    So you've got two possibilies.

    One, Mastodon ends up an even heavier feature monster than Hubzilla because everyone can add to it what they deem necessary or useful.

    Two, Eugen Rochko becomes the supreme ruler over the Fediverse, and only he decides which features the Fediverse is allowed to have. And he bases his decision on the wishes of those who want Mastodon to stay simple. Everyone else is reduced to a code monkey with no free will, including Mike Macgirvin, inventor of the #DFRN protocol, #Friendica (both 6 years before Mastodon), the #Zot protocol, #NomadicIdentity (both 5 years before Mastodon), Red Matrix/Hubzilla (4 years before Mastodon), Osada, Zap, Roadhouse, #Streams etc.
  15. @Bob Wyman For starters, everything I've listed is not only part of the #Fediverse, but bi-directionally federated with #Mastodon. So there's little to do with regards to establishing interoperability in the first place.

    Beyond that: You can't blindly write a mobile app for these projects without knowing these projects in the first place. They aren't all Twitter-like microblogging services.

    You need to know that these projects exist. You need to know how they work. You need to know their features. You need to know their specific APIs if they have any.

    Also, #Friendica and #Hubzilla aren't even native #ActivityPub platforms. They have ActivityPub bolted-on as applications. On Hubzilla, you as a user even have to activate ActivityPub on your channel(s).

    Friendica uses its own protocol internally, #DFRN, which, along with Friendica, was created eight years before ActivityPub was established as a standard.

    Hubzilla was created around a protocol named #Zot which was invented in 2011 and introduced a concept named #NomadicIdentity. I can't see ActivityPub being expanded to everything that Hubzilla's current #Zot6 can do, much less everything that its direct successor, #Nomad, used by #Streams, can do.

    Also, if you wanted to standardise Hubzilla's full feature set in ActivityPub so that app developers can create a mobile app for Hubzilla without ever having seen Hubzilla, you'd have to blow that standard up to gigantic proportions.

    Since you obviously have never heard of it, let me list up some of its features:
    • cross-instance authorisation via #OpenWebAuth (which really only makes sense in a Web browser)
    • multiple separate channels per user account with separate identities, each with multiple profiles à la Friendica which can assigned to individual users or privacy groups
    • nomadic identity; not only easy moving of channels to other instances, but real-time mirroring of individual channels between multiple instances
    • fine-grained privacy/access rights control through both channel roles and pre-definable sets of contact roles
    • posts can have an almost unlimited number of characters; formatting is possible through the full standard set of BBcode plus Hubzilla-specific extensions, some of which tie into Zot/OpenWebAuth
    • additional long-form writing support through articles which support the same BBcode set
    • support for simple webpages which support the same BBcode set plus Markdown plus HTML
    • built-in wiki engine which supports BBcode and Markdown plus individual edit access control for other users/channels
    • built-in file server with WebDAV support and individual access rights control per directory
    • image gallery which can tie into the file server
    • public calendar inherited from Friendica
    • secondary calendar engine with variable access control for other users/channels and CalDAV support
    • address book with CardDAV support
    • ca. 55 built-in per-channel applications, most of which are optional
    • etc.

    Let me put it this way: Hubzilla is something which, at its current state, can barely be harnessed in a desktop browser with a hardware mouse, a hardware keyboard and a 20+" display. I can't see Hubzilla's full set of features be made accessible in a mobile app, much less more easily than on the desktop.

    If you really want to have all features from all Fediverse platforms standardised in ActivityPub, then ActivityPub would end up with three different calendar implementations alone, two of which Hubzilla uses (and they aren't connected to one another in any way), the third being that used by #Mobilizon.

    Besides, I can't even see long-form blogging working on mobile phones. Apps for writing articles on #Plume, #WriteFreely or Hubzilla's article application don't make much sense without a hardware keyboard. Not to mention that Plume, WriteFreely and Hubzilla have different implementations of long-form blog post writing.
  16. @Ada @defcon42/Mirko @[email protected] To me, it sounds more like some #Mastodon users, especially those who came in through the #TwitterMigration, actually can't stand there being something else in the #Fediverse than their beloved Mastodon. When they caught their first glimpse of the Fediverse beyond Mastodon, they reacted much like the people of Krikkit when they caught their first glimpse of the universe beyond Krikkit: "It has to go!"

    They make themselves and each other believe that Mastodon is superior to any other Fediverse project in just about any regard imaginable while apparently completely refusing to learn about those other projects. They're supported in their belief by mass media only ever writing about Mastodon and the number of Mastodon users.

    However, mass media only write about Mastodon because they simply don't know a thing about the rest of the Fediverse, and they didn't know a thing about Mastodon until the #TwitterTakeover had actually happened, and the second wave of former #birbsite users had come flooding into Mastodon in such numbers that it was impossible to ignore even for those who act as if #FLOSS doesn't exist.

    As for the numbers of Mastodon users, they're so high because I guess more than 90% of all Mastodon users still don't know that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon, because they have never heard of anything else in the Fediverse. Mastodon was pretty much the only Fediverse project advertised on #BirbSocial when this was still possible.

    There are various reasons why Mastodon users don't spread across the Fediverse in masses. None of it is because Mastodon is superior to everything else because, truth be told, it isn't. I'll come to this later. One reason is, again, that the vast majority of them still don't know anything else. Another one is because it was hard enough to get used to Mastodon after years of using #Twitter, and they don't want to get used to yet another platform. And another one is that it's hard to move from Mastodon to something else and take your account or at least your connections with you.

    Another reason may be because people don't need anything beyond microblogging, and that's what Mastodon does. Now, sorry for all those of you who fight tooth and claw to defend Mastodon against the competition, but #Akkoma does microblogging, too. With extra features beyond Mastodon, some of which Mastodon users have been pestering Eugen Rochko to include in Mastodon for ages (e.g. "quote retweet"). All while being more lightweight and requiring fewer server resources than Mastodon. Oh, and it federates with Mastodon.

    Other Fediverse projects aren't even competition for Mastodon because they specialise in something else. @Pixelfed specialises in posting pictures, much like #Instagram. @PeerTube specialises in video upload and streaming, not too dissimilarly from #YouTube. #Plume and #WriteFreely specialise in distraction-free traditional blogging, much like #Medium. #Lemmy specialises in groups and posting and discussing news, much like #Reddit or #HackerNews. You can't claim that Mastodon is better at each of these things than these platforms.

    And then there are the jacks-of-all-trades which are usually filed under either "macroblogging" or "like #Facebook ". They weren't launched to have something that goes beyond Mastodon because their history reaches far back before Mastodon. Mastodon was launched in 2016 (and not 2022 like many believe). #Friendica was launched in early 2010, even before the crowdfunding campaign for the development of #Diaspora started. And in that early stage, Friendica, then still named #Mistpark, was vastly more powerful than Diaspora* ever got and also vastly more powerful than Mastodon 13 years later.

    #Hubzilla, created by the same man as Friendica, is the most extreme one of them all. For starters, it eliminates the need for multiple accounts by having multiple independent channels with separate identities on the same account. Each channel can have multiple profiles like on Friendica so you can present your channel differently to individual contacts or groups of them and differently again to the general public.

    It can do micro- and macroblogging with 50,000 or more characters and just about everything that can be done with #BBcode (italics, bold type, underline, lists with bullet points or numbers, quotes, code blocks), and you can embed as many pictures as you want in your posts where you want them instead of them automatically being attached to the end of the post.

    Group handling in Hubzilla is much easier than list handling in Mastodon. You never have to type the name of a contact to find them. You can edit contacts and add them to groups or remove them, and you can edit groups and add or remove contacts, all with a few mouse clicks. And while Mastodon shows a maximum of four lists on the main page, Hubzilla will give you easy access to all your groups.

    On top of that, you can have
    • very fine-grained access rights control with pre-definable contact roles
    • forums (just like Friendica, Hubzilla has #Guppe built in)
    • more elegant macroblogging with articles which, in addition to BBcode, support #Markdown
    • simple webpages (or not so simple if you're the admin of a hub, and you can expand it further)
    • wikis (I'm not even kidding)
    • a public calendar
    • a virtually unlimited number of private calendars with #CalDAV connection
    • a virtually unlimited number of address books with #CardDAV connection
    • a file server with #WebDAV connection with its own access rights management which also ties in with the Photos and optional Gallery app (Mastodon drops your pictures somewhere, Hubzilla lets you upload them to your personal cloud space where you can access them whenever you want)

    All with one run-of-the-mill Hubzilla account. And once per channel, separately.

    And as if that wasn't enough, Hubzilla introduced the #Zot protocol and with it a concept named #NomadicIdentity.

    Mastodon and Friendica let you have multiple accounts, even on separate instances. They also support migration from one account to another, and unlike Mastodon, Friendica lets you take all your content with you. Hubzilla (and #Streams, the successor of its slimmed-down successor, still created by the same guy) goes even further: Not only can you easily move from one hub to another, you can have channels on multiple hubs and automatically keep them fully in sync! If one hub goes down, it doesn't matter because you've got everything on all your other accounts.

    Last but not least, both Friendica and Hubzilla federate with almost everything that moves, even far beyond the #ActivityPub Fediverse. This could be Diaspora*, this could be #GNUsocial, this could be #Wordpress blogs with or without the ActivityPub add-on, this could be RSS feeds (and they both generate feeds themselves, so this is bidirectional, too), this could even be Twitter until the API is shuttered. Friendica even used to federate with Facebook until Facebook put rocks in the way; this is the only connector that Hubzilla didn't take over.

    The obvious downside is that for someone who just came in from the #birdcage, all this is utter overkill. In fact, people who are used to Mastodon may find Friendica borderline unusuable due to its many features. And Hubzilla is so infamous for its own clumsy UI capitulating before its sheer power that even Friendica users find it hard to use, fresh converts from Twitter to Mastodon even more so.

    Some design decisions may be hard to understand for outsiders. Converts from other Fediverse projects to Hubzilla regularly fail at something as seemingly similar as connecting to users on other ActivityPub-based projects until you tell them that ActivityPub is an optional app on Hubzilla that has to be activated first because Hubzilla concentrates on Zot with its Nomadic Identity.

    Also, just because these projects offer so much power, that doesn't mean that everyone needs it. If you do, it can be convenient to have it all under one login. But if all you're looking for is a bit of microblogging and online socialising, you don't need to drag a CMS and a full-blown cloud server with all bells and whistles along with you that just clutter up the UI. In that case, projects like Mastodon and Akkoma win because they're more approachable.

    And while Friendica, Hubzilla & Co. can do threaded discussions and even have something like forums, Lemmy can do this more elegantly because it specialises in it. While you can use Hubzilla's private calendar feature for event planning, it's easier to do the same with #Mobilizon which, again, specialises in it. Or you can host podcasts on Friendica, Hubzilla & Co, but you can host them better on #Funkwhale and even better on #Castopod.

    Wanting the Fediverse to be only Mastodon hinders development, namely the development of new projects within the Fediverse that may be able to do all-new things that we haven't seen in the Fediverse yet. Things that, sorry to say again, you'll never be able to do with Mastodon.

    P.S.: For extra kicks, don't just read this on Mastodon. Open my original post; there you can see what Hubzilla is capable of, and what Mastodon strips away.
  17. ## Making Better Use of Space

    ### Moving that old white elephant in the room.

    There's been a lot of talk lately, and speculation, about the #Fediverse. Yet for the most part, only with respect to a single brand of server platform.

    What I find particularly odd about that, is it's a rather lackluster server platform (especially considering the hefty system requirements) with an extremely limited feature list. Mastodon servers have a hard coded default character count limit per post of only 500 characters - more than Twitter, but not often enough to get a complete thought out with a link to somewhere else, or engage in a conversational thread, and certainly nowhere near what you need to post a news article, holiday recipe, tutorial, HowTo, or movie review.

    As if a paltry 500 character limit isn't bad enough for this resource hog, virtually every other Fediverse platform provides for sensible , and configurable message lengths with common defaults of 2000, 5000, or more; most support #Markdown, and other ubiquitous text formats like #LaTex or #HTML, and some even have built in #WYSIWYG editors - like #WordPress, #Hubzilla, and #Drupal, with big players like #Imgur and #Tumblr already looking forward to their official Fediverse launches soon.

    When those latter two giants arrive on the scene, the world of social networking will truly be interconnected, having achieved critical mass. It will be a revolution, a juggernaut toppling the deprecated, legacy monolithic silos that have so insidiously subverted and subjugated the masses like chattel. But I digress.

    Other Fediverse platforms have offered the ability for people to edit their own posts for a long time, some for years, yet mastodon enabled this capability less than a month ago. It lags behind most other Fediverse platforms in several other ways too - groups, marketplaces, federated chat, and several other often requested functions are all but ignored by that platforms' developer while other Fediverse servers enjoy active and ambitious development cycles with new feature releases.

    So considering it is so lacking in basic functionality compared to the other more prominent contemporaries, I've assembled a curated list below where you can evaluate and testdrive others for yourself. I've included links to some of the most darling up and coming projects like #Foundkey and #Quanta, that scale to thousands of users, and if you truly want an even smaller, minimalist Fediverse platform I've included #MicroBlogPub too. There's a couple of web tools including databases so you can search for even more platforms, instances, and compare statistics.

    Choosing from the list below, you can join existing instances, self-host your own, or even have a professional #hosting_provider do it for you - simply pick a #turnkey provider where in just a couple of clicks your new fully managed Fediverse server will be online in only a minute or two!

    There are literally free and privacy respecting Fediverse platforms to replace everything from #Faceplant, #Twatter, #Reddit, #YouTube, #twitch, #InstaSPAM, #Spotify, #Quora and so very much more!

    And most are so light on system resources that you can run then on an old laptop or #Raspberry_Pi in your home.

    Without further adieu, here's a list of [some of] the most prominent Fediverse server platforms in operation.

    https://JoinTheFedi.com

    https://Soapbox.Pub

    https://Btrf.ly

    https://JoinPeerTube.org

    https://Mitra.Social

    https://Epicyon.net

    https://join.misskey.page/en-US/instances

    https://akkoma.dev/FoundKeyGang/FoundKey

    https://Pixelfed.org

    https://Friendi.ca

    https://Quanta.Wiki

    https://FediDB.org/software

    https://WriteFreely.org

    https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/apps

    https://microblog.pub

    https://socialhome.network

    https://hubzilla.org

    https://owncast.online

    https://join-lemmy.org

    #tallship #FOSS #Soapbox #Rebased #PeerTube #Mitra #Quanta #Pixelfed #Epicyon #Friendica #WriteFreely #Plume #FunkWhale #MicroBlogPub #Socialhome #GotoSocial #Owncast #LoTide #Lemmy #ActivityPub #Privacy #DeSoc #Federating #Decentralize

    I hope that helps! Enjoy!

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  18. Without further ado, here's a list of all the most prominent #Fediverse server platforms in operation.

    Choosing from the list below, you can join existing instances, self-host your own, and when have a professional #hosting_provider do it for your - just pick a #turnkey provider where in just a couple of clicks your new fully managed Fediverse server will be online in only a minute or two!

    There's literally free and privacy respecting Fediverse platforms to replace everything from #Faceplant, #Twatter, #Reddit, #YouTube, #twitch, #InstaSPAM, #Spotify, and so very much more!

    JoinTheFedi.com

    Soapbox.Pub

    Btrf.ly

    JoinPeerTube.org

    Mitra.Social

    Pixelfed.org

    Friendi.ca

    Quanta.Wiki

    FediDB.org/software

    WriteFreely.org

    funkwhale.audio/en_US/apps/

    microblog.pub/

    socialhome.network/

    owncast.online/

    join-lemmy.org/

    #tallship #FOSS #Soapbox #Rebased #PeerTube #Mitra #Quanta #Pixelfed #Friendica #WriteFreely #Plume #FunkWhale #MicroBlogPub #Socialhome #GotoSocial #Owncast #LoTide #Lemmy #ActivityPub #Privacy #DeSoc #Federating #Decentralize

    I hope that helps! Enjoy!

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  19. Without further ado, here's a list of all the most prominent #Fediverse server platforms in operation.

    Choosing from the list below, you can join existing instances, self-host your own, and when have a professional #hosting_provider do it for your - just pick a #turnkey provider where in just a couple of clicks your new fully managed Fediverse server will be online in only a minute or two!

    There's literally free and privacy respecting Fediverse platforms to replace everything from #Faceplant, #Twatter, #Reddit, #YouTube, #twitch, #InstaSPAM, #Spotify, and so very much more!

    https://JoinTheFedi.com

    https://Soapbox.Pub

    https://Btrf.ly

    https://JoinPeerTube.org

    https://Mitra.Social

    https://Pixelfed.org

    https://Friendi.ca

    https://Quanta.Wiki

    https://FediDB.org/software

    https://WriteFreely.org

    https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/apps/

    https://microblog.pub/

    https://socialhome.network/

    https://owncast.online/

    https://join-lemmy.org/

    #tallship #FOSS #Soapbox #Rebased #PeerTube #Mitra #Quanta #Pixelfed #Friendica #WriteFreely #Plume #FunkWhale #MicroBlogPub #Socialhome #GotoSocial #Owncast #LoTide #Lemmy #ActivityPub #Privacy #DeSoc #Federating #Decentralize

    I hope that helps! Enjoy!



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  20. Au revoir Framasphère

    #Framasphère était un pod du réseau social libre #Diaspora. Malheureusement, dans 4 jours cette instance cessera d'exister. Vous pouvez me retrouver sur la #Fediverse via #Hubzilla, #Hub que nous sommes en train de monter pour #TheChangeBook. Pour me suivre : [email protected] ou hub.thechangebook.org/channel/.

    #Fermeture #Contacts #Suivi #Fil #Fr #Publipostage #Zot #ActivityPub #GNUSocial #Friendica #Pleroma #Peertube #Plume #LogicielLibre #SocialMedia