#rebased — Public Fediverse posts

We've been discussing these issues, amongst others lately in the Fediverse-City room on Matrix, what with the relative demise of Meetup.com following its acquisition by WeWork, and the rise of *events over at Faceplant further obviating them having much to do with a plethora of event management projects exploding onto the scene for the past couple of years.

It's been a while since I've visited #Faceplant, so long in fact, I only recently became aware a couple of years ago that they had a marketplace that has largely supplanted craigslist, and finding out just today that they in fact have some sort of events system - that speaks volumes, I think, toward my dedication to dogfooding my #FOSS and simply ignoring, for the most part, there are still some privacy disrespecting operators in the deprecated monolithic silo space of social networking.

#Mobilizon, #Hubzilla, #Rebased, and #Friendica have their own take on how these event management systems should #Federate through the rest of the #Fediverse, while others mentioned in the article below, including #WordPress try to fit into that niche in a cooperative, interoperable way... and it's paying off. Bigtime.

It's a good read, events are powerful for hobbyists, technologists, sports enthusiasts, and just about any kind of IRL or remote attendance awareness and organizing; so it only stands to reason that #DeSoc, and social networking in general include the capabilities to seamlessly propagate events as globally possible.

At the very least, events are heralded as one of the best ways to get free pizza 🍕 and beer 🍺 with others that have common interests. After a veritable shitload of funding from many sources, including NGI0 and even larger corporate sponsors, we're approaching a place where anyone with a Fediverse account, even on the smolweb or most obscure platforms like Threads, will be privy to things like announcements, RSVP, alerts, Etc., of upcoming events, regardless of whether your Fediverse platform of choice directly supports event management.

And it is perhaps a little ironic, that #Threads users themselves will likely have at their disposal, an event notification and management capability in direct conflict with the one that Meta wants them to use - I dunno how that's going to work out, but I think it's pretty kewl that nobody else does either at this time.

#tallship #Fediverse_City #NGI0 h/t to @silverpill for the heads up on the following article, he just always seems to know where that rabbit is hiding in the tophat and pulls it right out when it's most needed, lolz.

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RT: https://event-federation.eu/2023/12/20/it-is-all-about-the-community/

The #cIM family sites/services:

* #Mastodon: https://c.im (5000 characters) -- follow me: @youronlyone

* #PeerTube: https://p.lu -- follow me: @[email protected] (account); or @youronly.one (channel)

* #Rebased (#Pleroma): https://c.wtf (5000 characters) -- follow me: @[email protected]

The latest!

* #Lemmy: https://r.nf -- follow me: @[email protected]

#Fediverse #DDFON #ActivityPub #Mycelium #MyceliumNetwork #MycelialWeb #SNS #SocialWeb #YourOnlyOne

My list of ‘tested’ “general use” #fediverse instances per software:

(in no particular order)

* Hubzilla (with Account Portability / Nomadic Identity)
* https://zotum.net (with diaspora connection)
* https://node9.org (with diaspora connection)

* Calckey (note: pending rebrand; a Misskey fork)
* https://calckey.social (flagship)

* Mastodon
* https://c.im
* https://writing.exchange

* Socialhome
* https://socialhome.network (with diaspora connection)

* Glitch-soc (a Mastodon fork)
* https://aleph.land (my original Mastodon-software home 2017-04-05)

* Misskey
* https://hashi.icu

* Meisskey (a Misskey fork)
* https://meisskey.one (no Local / Social timelines)

* Rebased (a Pleroma fork)
* https://c.wtf

#SNS #MyceliumNetwork #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #YourOnlyOne #Listicle #Listicles

#Hubzilla #Calckey #Mastodon #Socialhome #Glitchsoc #Misskey #Meisskey #Rebased #Pleroma

@[email protected]

@[email protected] That, and #Mastodon is far from the only #microblogging service of the #Fediverse. You have #Akkoma #GoToSocial, the #keyApps (#Misskey, #Calckey & #Foundkey), #Kibou, #Pleroma, #Rebased, …

Most of which offer more functions than Masto does, and often add fuctions Twitter never had. (… Or have long since removed.)

A fun way to understand the #fediverse: #roleplaying / #immersion!

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Journal entry #1105

In this entry, I will try to describe how our reality is, in the hopes that our reality can be easily understood.

1. Our universe is called the Fediverse.

2. There is what we call #DarkMatter, it glues everything together preventing the universe from being torn apart. This dark matter is everywhere, and it is through this that communications across the universe is possible, we call this technology #ActivityPub.

3. There are countless of galaxies, some still being born, some already known, like: #Friendica #Calckey #Hubzilla #Rebased #Streams #Pixelfed #Bookwyrm #FunkWhale #PeerTube #WriteAs #Lemmy #GoToSocial and #Mastodon.

4. Each galaxy contains different worlds. Some are flat, some round, some a generational ship, and some wayward worlds dubbed #WanderingEarth. These are the worlds that I've visited so far:

* c.im - the people here believes the world is round, because of this unusual belief, they can say things up to 5,000 characters. This world is in the Mastodon galaxy, where many of the other worlds are flat 500 characters.

* hashi.icu - this world is a generational ship. They travel to different worlds, creating bridges, their motto: ICU (you know, I See You). Oh, be warned, they speak up to 300,000 characters! After all, they have plenty of stories to tell.

* c.wtf - this world was recently founded in the Rebased galaxy. Like their origin world, c.im, they can speak up to 5,000 characters.

* p.lu - the people of c.im are truly explorers. They discovered the PeerTube galaxy and were amazed by the technology there: hosting videos through the peer-to-peer protocol! They immediately established a colony in one of the worlds in the PeerTube galaxy.

* i.calckey.cloud - this is the primary world of the Calckey galaxy, and it is a world filled with clouds. Some think that it means its people are high, well, they are high, they live on (or in?) the clouds after all! However, its people are great calculators, I mean, at calculation. Did I not mention they can speak up to 3,000 characters?

* zotum.net - a “Wandering Earth” in the Hubzilla galaxy. This world is one of the oldest. Rumour has it that it used to be located in the Friendica galaxy. A wandering earth indeed!

Those are only a few of the worlds I have seen for myself. But, there is something far larger than this universe.

You see, my dear reader, the Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, and #SocialHome galaxies developed technology to communicate with another universe. This universe is called #TheFederation and their communication technology, also based on dark matter, is called #diaspora.

That's not all. It was also discovered that there is another universe. The people in this universe calls it #Jabber and their dark matter based communication technology is called #XMPP. The technology to commmunicate with them is still in experimental stages, only few worlds in the fediverse are brave enough to test this technology.

My tip, if you are a migrant, find any world and start there. Understand the basics of our universe. You can always move to a new world with your social connections, or start all over again, with a fresh identity if you like.

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There is this thing called #Twitter, and most migrants are coming from there. It is probably a universe, though based on whispers, it is a #LostWorld floating between universes, in total darkness. I even heard one migrant comment that that world is about to implode.

Note: If you are a citizen of the fediverse, please welcome and guide everyone in this #TwitterMigration. They are looking for a new home, and our universe can be confusing for them. If whispers are to be believed, Twitter is but a single world, and ours is a universe.

End of journal entry #1105

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## 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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Other #Fediverse platforms should just go ahead and make @evan 's vision come true.

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He puts the success of Mastodon down to its “very pragmatic and user-focused development team,” led by Eugen Rochko.

That said, Prodromou thinks that Mastodon isn’t using the full capabilities of the protocols he helped define.

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Currently, the main API for Mastodon is its custom API, which Prodromou thinks limits the creativity for developers wanting to build in the fediverse.

“Taking the fediverse to that next level and seeing the implementation of a standard client API would mean a lot to me,” he said, “because it would unlock a lot of that creativity in terms of the content that we see on the network.”

https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse/

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#ActivityPub #FederatedWeb #FederatedSNS #SocialWeb #SNS #lemmy

[#Mastodon #Pleroma #Rebased #Calckey #Misskey #Hometown #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #PixelFed #BookWyrm #PeerTube #Lemmy #Glitchsoc #Guppe #diaspora #Plume #WriteFreely #FunkWhale]

@lupyuen

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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