#socialhome — Public Fediverse posts

NOTE: This is a repost from the Fediverse-City Matrix Room.

I meant to post on the progress that @toddsundsted has been making on kristec.

You can also checkout this ambitious project itself at:

https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec

I've been thoroughly impressed with all of the publishing features of his Fediverse server.

Some of the shortcomings, if that's how you choose to view them, might be that it's essentially a smolweb server leveraging noSQL and an accounts database that trusts all users as literal admins.

But if you're looking to self-host, and your primary interest is in publishing your own material on the #Fediverse, then this may be just the thing you've been looking for.

I cannot atest to the veracity of his claims because I haven't actually installed or tested its capabilities, but it's indeed a laundry list of features I've been hoping to see - leaving that Twitter style cloning of communications in the past, like I've been hoping for.

So for those interested, if you're impressed with the capabilities that #PieFed and #Mitra and #Socialhome bring to the table then here's a fourth initiative that is both visionary and inciteful in it's ambitions.

Your thoughts, observations?

#tallship #FOSS #kristec #Star_Trek #Fediverse #ActivyPub #publishing

NOTE: This is a repost from the Fediverse-City Matrix Room.

I meant to post on the progress that @toddsundsted has been making on kristec.

You can also checkout this ambitious project itself at:

https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec

I've been thoroughly impressed with all of the publishing features of his Fediverse server.

Some of the shortcomings, if that's how you choose to view them, might be that it's essentially a smolweb server leveraging noSQL and an accounts database that trusts all users as literal admins.

But if you're looking to self-host, and your primary interest is in publishing your own material on the #Fediverse, then this may be just the thing you've been looking for.

I cannot atest to the veracity of his claims because I haven't actually installed or tested its capabilities, but it's indeed a laundry list of features I've been hoping to see - leaving that Twitter style cloning of communications in the past, like I've been hoping for.

So for those interested, if you're impressed with the capabilities that #PieFed and #Mitra and #Socialhome bring to the table then here's a fourth initiative that is both visionary and inciteful in it's ambitions.

Your thoughts, observations?

#tallship #FOSS #kristec #Star_Trek #Fediverse #ActivyPub #publishing

NOTE: This is a repost from the Fediverse-City Matrix Room.

I meant to post on the progress that @toddsundsted has been making on kristec.

You can also checkout this ambitious project itself at:

https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec

I've been thoroughly impressed with all of the publishing features of his Fediverse server.

Some of the shortcomings, if that's how you choose to view them, might be that it's essentially a smolweb server leveraging noSQL and an accounts database that trusts all users as literal admins.

But if you're looking to self-host, and your primary interest is in publishing your own material on the #Fediverse, then this may be just the thing you've been looking for.

I cannot atest to the veracity of his claims because I haven't actually installed or tested its capabilities, but it's indeed a laundry list of features I've been hoping to see - leaving that Twitter style cloning of communications in the past, like I've been hoping for.

So for those interested, if you're impressed with the capabilities that #PieFed and #Mitra and #Socialhome bring to the table then here's a fourth initiative that is both visionary and inciteful in it's ambitions.

Your thoughts, observations?

#tallship #FOSS #kristec #Star_Trek #Fediverse #ActivyPub #publishing

2 great federated and open source LinkedIn alternatives:
1. https://nolto.social
2. https://socialhome.network

Here are my profiles:
1. https://nolto.social/profile/rik
2. https://socialhome.network/u/rik

#opensource #fediverse #federation #mastodon #digital #DigitalSovereignty #nolto #socialhome #LinkedIn @murena @e_mydata @nolto @hq

The first on even offers LinkedIn data import:

El #fediverso y las #redessociales alternativas, son una oportunidad de libre expresión.

Ayudemos en conjunto a su difusión y crecimiento #impulsando sus plataformas

¿Cuáles usas? Deja tus instancias en los comentarios.

Alternativa a #x y #threads
1 #mastodon
2 #bluesky
3 #gnusocial

Alternativa a #facebook
1 #diaspora
2 #friendica
3 #socialhome

Alternativa a #instagram
1 #pixelfed

Alternativa a #youtube
1 #peertube

Alternativa a #spotify y #potcasts
1 #funkwhale
2 #CastoPod

Hallo zusammen,

https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-1867-a911-21d2-310418287856

"The real breakthrough of the year was when we split the UI into one screen for long-form published content and a separate social feed for everything else — which also allowed us to create an interface for publishing short-form content.

Suddenly, we could see a path to your personal website becoming the single source of your identity on the social web."

https://activitypub.ghost.org/the-story-so-far/

Exactly! This is the insight that @jaywink and his team built into #SocialHome;

https://socialhome.network/

#fediverse

The overall experience it really frustrates me...

What I am trying to say is that Mastodon/Twitter/X like intercommunication works very poorly with Friendica. #Friendica works great with #Diaspora, #Hubzilla, #SocialHome, and itself of course, in few words with the first wave of open-source social networks.

The #FartingMode threading pushed by #Mastodon doesn't suite me, every day I find less interesting the interaction between Friendica & Mastodon, while I use Mastodon even lesser than Diaspora.

Diaspora is an agonized desert but it still looks the saner social network to me...

@lianna

I see, for the same reason I stopped using titles in Friendica because it converts your post in links that Mastodon users must click to read.

I was happier when it was mainly #Diaspora, #Friendica, #Hubzilla & #SocialHome, really #Mastodon screwed up the Fediverse... 😖

In case anyone is still curious, a SocialHome page looks like this;

https://jasonrobinson.me/u/jaywink/

Jaywink is the founder of the project and still a core dev.

I guess @atomjack was not cool with me linking to their SocialHome as a demo, because AFAICT the account has vanished since I did. Sorry about that!

#ActivityPub #SocialHome

"what if GeoCities but with social networking?"

https://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refactor-treat/

Exactly! In case anyone is curious, a SocialHome page looks like this;

https://socialhome.network/p/185edd76-ef5e-4b07-936c-25fd1884f49c/.

I picked this account because the instance is the first thing that came up when I did a web search for "SocialHome", and this account appears to be the most actively used one right now. Hope that's OK @atomjack!

#SocialHome

I was reading a blog about abandoned Takahē devs plans today and this bit ...

"While it'll focus on microblogging at first, I also want to provide some other 'homepage' functionality that allows our profile pages to act as someone, or something's, home on the web."

https://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refactor-treat/

... reminded me of SocialHome. Haven't heard much from you since Feneas wound up @jaywink. I see SH sites are still in use, are you still working on it?

#fediverse #ActivityPub #SocialHome

@FinchHaven @DrPen

Oh my, lolz. With specificity, I recommend you checkout the archives in the Fediverse City Matrix community where so many Fediverse lead devs share, and then there's dozens of news articles and blog posts I've covered over the years with respect to #Fediverse, #ActivityPub, and #FOSS daemons in general.

But real quick, I can offer a couple of nuggets for you to take a look at and evaluate for yourself...

Android:

- Relatica is one of the finest clients for Friendica, not to take my recommendation lightly because I rarely recommend any client specifically designed for a single platform.
- Fedilab is IMO, perhaps the best, supporting your deprecated mastoSilo, #PeerTube, #Pixelfed, #Pleroma, and most other Fediverse platforms and their families of forks.

If the devil is in the details, then translation leveraging via #LibreTranslate, lightning fast cross boosting/liking/bookmarking/scheduling, quote posting, dynamic character count limits per account/server, multiple input methods and just way too much to list.

A few years back when many apps were getting booted from the playstore, the trust of their userbases eroding for their crippleware practices when several of them, and most notably tusky, hard coded blocked lists of Fediverse servers that their users could not log onto. This violated truth in advertising laws and it's water under the bridge now but the stain remains, and #Fedilab was almost singularly the app that refused to violate the spirit of #FOSS or alienate users. Get it at F-Droid.

Web:

- Without a doubt the best experience is almost universally the native web UI. Some exceptions do exist, and have even spawned entire Fediverse server projects. This is unfortunately why I don't use the excellent platform #GoToSocial very often, although I like it, and I no longer use Takahē much nowadays either since they dropped their excellent web UI.
- Phanpy is a fav of many #Mitra users, although I can't use it because it breaks webfinger addresses through what @cheeaun calls "short usernames", often rendering identification extremely problematic on a regular basis. I prefer the good looking native web UI for Mitra anyway, mitra-web, because Mitra is a privacy conscious publishing platform that does indeed natively support #Monero based subscriptions for anyone in the Fediverse (think substack or medium but respecting privacy - even anonymity) - I believe Ethereum support has already been completely dropped. Maybe you can still login that way. There's been quite a few specialized projects spawned from Mitra, perhaps not in small part due to it's stubborn commitment to only open standards, like FEP-ef61, along with #Streams - the bleeding edge in Fediverse technology, actively developed by the same dev that created #Friendica, arguably the oldest extant Fediverse platform 🙂
- I would be remis in my list if I didn't include Pinafore, once considered the most cross-server compliant client, but like anything built with frameworks that are replaced wholesale, the dev felt it just wasn't worth it to go through and completely modernize the entire base (there's a blog post about why).... Well, there's a lot of pretty little third rate semi-crappy clients nowadays, and a few top notch ones too. I'm only giving honorable mention to a few that I recommend you familiarize yourself with for grounding :)

I really like #SocialHome too, another full on Fediverse publishing platform, but the web UI is really the way to go.

On the publishing platforms in the Fediverse, the real beauty Stones when articles are boosted to other platforms that also support #Markdown, #LaTex, #MFM, etc. And of course they can also do whatever that shitty one trick pony 'mastopub' can, literally a cheap Twitter clone that strives to itself be the next deprecated monolithic silo (just check the list of Twitter cofounders on the board).

Desktop:

I'm only going to mention Sengi real quick here, there's a few, but here's a bit of advice from someone who's been administering #Linux servers since 1992 and #UNIX in general since the 80's - avoid snap and flatpaks and appimage unless you're rolling your own or there's just no choice for your skill level.

Depending upon your particular distro, look for usually a .deb or a .rpm package (you can thank me later, as you'll get the full featured experience as the dev intended that's the native package for your Linux distro).

Okay I kinda like Whalebird too, it's what I use for GoToSocial and I like it for #Misskey flavors too, including #Iceshrimp and #CherryPick🍒 is a fav in that family too.

I've tested very little of anything in Windows however, and completely, categorically dismiss anything Apple 🍏 that's Post-Woz 😜

If you have alterations related to historical aspects of any of these platforms or apps that long predate the existence of masto, feel free to hit me up and I'll see if I can't point you towards some good resources.

I hope that helps! Live long and prosper 🖖

#tallship #nomadic_identity #Fediverse_clients #Takahe

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امروز با پروژهٔ #سوشال‌هوم آشنا شدم. یک #نرم‌افزار_‏آزاد تحت AGPL که با #پایتون و #ویو نوشته شده و امکان راه‌اندازی یک شبکه اجتماعی آزاد و نامتمرکز رو فراهم می‌کنه که توش می‌شه با دست بازتری به تولید محتوا پرداخت. به زبان خودش، یک نمایهٔ اجتماعی نامتمرکزه.

#Socialhome

بالاخره یه پروژهٔ پایتونی به درد بخور دیدیم 😜

Found 10 new servers and 31 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

22,400 servers checked. 13,969,183 Total Users with 1,519,116 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

transfeminine.art a #akkoma server from France
uncertain.place a #socialhome server from Armenia
social.ckatt.de a #mastodon server from Germany
social.heckbrewing.com a #mastodon server from France
kapibala.icu a #misskey server from Hong Kong
fedi.davewinter.social a #mastodon server from France
kts.mv2k.com a #kitsune server from Germany
artwith.care a #gotosocial server from United States
misskey.akiken-lab.net a #misskey server from Private
driusan.net a #fedi9 server from United States

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

@[email protected]

I just love #Socialhome. Inline images in the course of articles are so nice, and Markdown that renders as you write, so you have a feel of what your posts will look like once you hit the publish button.

The downside? Well, there's really no downside with respect to other Socialhome servers in the #Fediviverse, but when other platforms pick it up through #federation, most all of them place the (max of 4) photos at the bottom of the post:

Here's the original
https://socialhome.network/content/15090460/

@Teri_Kanefield

Hi Teri,

I'm writing you because I came across your blog site and thought you may be able to leverage the Fediverse in conjunction with your WordPress site's publishing horsepower.

As a #FOSS advocate with great enthusiasm for mass #Fediverse adoption, I'd like to suggest a couple of things for you to consider, and the following treatment can also benefit others who also have bridged over to the Fediverse that already have a WordPress installation, or have been looking to deploy one.

- First, that you think about establishing a Fediverse account other than that of a stock Mastodon instance. Sure, keep your @Teri\[email protected] account, just create another account for yourself on a platform that will afford you more options that can facilitate your creative freedom (let's not dissect that word, lolz) to publish posts that are in excess of a paltry 500 characters, along with things like Markup capabilities, Etc. Just a thought. ...

This leads into the next suggestion, ...

- Second, why not make that account your existing WordPress blog, where you already have a permanent, branded presence and readership? Let's supercharge your WordPress site by making it a full and complete publishing platform completely integrated with the Fediverse.

There's a couple of methodologies, but generally speaking, once you install the ActivityPub plugin any future blog posts are on the Fediverse as well as any other distribution channels you may already have (say, by virtue of having installed the JetPack Social plugin that propagates into the deprecated silo networks).

One method I can recommend is to follow this basic procedure to popularize your blog posts and gain followers - just like you probably have been with the mastodon.social account you already have:

1. ) If you've already created a new account on a more feature complete platform that's better suited for long form posting, inline images, Etc., like #Friendica, #Socialhome, any #Misskey or #Pleroma family fork platform, #Hubzilla, or #Mitra (They all have excellent Markdown support too); simply follow your #WordPress user account @<username>@terikanefield.com. If not, then simply follow your WordPress Fediverse user account from your existing masto account - which you should do anyway since I gather you have some respectable measure of followers.

2.) Everytime you publish a new news article / blog post on your WordPress site, you'll see it in your stream on your fediverse accounts.

3.) Boost each article from those accounts, your followers will see what you boost in their streams.

4.) encourage them to boost as well and/or comment - you'll see those comments in the reply section of each article on your WordPress site - Awesome!

5.) Now that you have followers of your WordPress user's Fediverse account you should be able to garner more direct interaction on your WordPress site, instead of having to post links to those posts from your mastodon.social account.

6. ) From your @<username>@terikanefield.com account at your WordPress site, you can now directly interact with your followers, even those who post replies/comments to your articles, whether or not they are a follower of yours.

I'm taking the time to write because I see that you have a relatively decent circulation and engagement between readers and your blog articles, and the more people that see you engaging with others in the Fediverse directly from your WordPress site, the more people are encouraged to Join the Fediverse.

I am, as stated in my profile and also leading in to this, a FOSS and Privacy Advocate.

So here's a couple of links, one to the plugin itself - it's easy to install and deploy. Another older one that's still relevant that shows you how to do the install, and I think that's about it. We'll see ;)

- WordPress ActivityPub Plugin - This is where you get the plugin
- HowTo with Video - Really simple, easy install, right from your WordPress admin panel
- JetPac Social - I'm definitely not a fan of this kind of engagement (with the privacy mining, deprecated, monolithic silo networks), but you do you - it can afford you with even greater reach through syndication, and if you write about the Fediverse, well, ... So much the better!
- You should also consider following the magnanimous @pfefferle - one of the primary authors of the #ActivityPub_Plugin.

I hope that helps! All the best!

#tallship

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@ILoveNumAn if you like diaspora, but lack of multi-columns is the only thing keeping you away, then you could also try @isaackuo 's #userstyle for it: https://userstyles.world/style/827/diaspora-multi-column
Another alternative you could consider is #Socialhome. Looks like @hq currently has open registrations, so you should be able to try it out easily at https://socialhome.network/

It sure would be nice if the inline images from #Socialhome servers were picked up as such by all of the other Platform #instances on the #Fediverse

I can haz #Cheezburgerz? 🍔

#tallship #FOSS #Inline_Images

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RE: socialhome.network/content/1c0a8144-3273-4d12-b2e0-a51649672e93/

I'm looking to expand my :Fediverse: #Fediverse experience since I follow almost entirely Mastodon accounts.

In particular, I'm looking to follow interesting Fediverse users, forums and sites (especially about music, art, or anything nerdy!) on:

#FunkWhale,
#Pixelfed,
#Libervia,
#Lemmy, #Kbin, and #lotide forums,
#Guppe groups,
#OwnCast and #PeerTube servers and channels, and
#Plume, #Streams, #WriteFreely, #Zap, and #SocialHome blogs.

Comment your suggestions and please #boost! :MOULE_Happy:

@boris_pohler Warum Mastodon?

Muss eh nicht. Kann ruhig auch #Firefish, #Pixelfed, #Peertube, #Hubzilla, #Misskey, #Foundkey, #Pleroma, #GoToSocial, #Bonfire, #Goldfish, #Friendica, #WriteFreely, #Lemmy, #Kbin, #Plume, #Akkoma, #Epicyon, #GNUSocial, #Hometown, #Smalltown, #Socialhome, #Streams, #Swanye, #Tahake, #Castopod, #Funkwhale, #Owncast, #Gancio, #Mobilizon, #NextCloudSocial, #Inventaire, #BookWyrm oder sonst was im #Fediverse sein.

@notesnook

Thank you for putting out that query - short answer is...

Yes. You definitely have a use case here, but first, being just a little familiar with your product I'd like to welcome you to the #Fediverse even though your arrival coincided with the November Rain phenomenon that was much todo about nothing, and in the end, most Twitugees simply returned there after creating accounts here - I'm glad you stuck around! You're product is FOSS, and this is a #FOSS world here in the Fediverse, so it makes sense, this being your natural home and where people can expect to find you :)

Ever since I decided to ditch the proprietary Evernote, I've been using a #Vim Plugin that uploads my buffer to a Gist in an easy peasy way - it would be really kewl if I had a way to send (encrypted or unencrypted) notes to myself as a Fediverse DM, or share some of them with a select group of others in such a manner - Maybe (if it's textual in nature) actual clips I've saved. The graphics, well, if they are uploaded as a graphic that will work too, and they can even be sent to #Pixelfed accounts (if there is a graphics or movie file).

So, you're concerned about having to setup a centralized server or something that your userbase can be recognized on or something? Perhaps like a relay of sorts? I don't think that's the way to go actually. It sounds like a lot of heartache that might not even surivive beyond the intial proof of concept is rolled out - Spam being just one reason that makes the likelihood of failure a distinct possibility.

Here's what I think you can try doing, and it will alleviate any grandiose plans you may have been kicking around - Keep it in the client. A feature mechanism that either lets you clip and post it as an #ActivityPub NOTE to a user's actual instance (server) where they already have an account - You can collect the user's Fediverse account credentials and use that to post to their own existing account - no additional infrastructure is required on your part.

Those posts can be a single post to oneself (a private Fediverse DM to themselves) or it can include a list of recipients - just like any other post you can make.

This will also afford you the absolute maximum in #Spam_control too! You don't have to accept any registrations obo your Fediverse features - you're merely allowing people with existing Fediverse accounts to enter their credentials into your client and then your users make the decision as to whether they want to use your existing store or their Fediverse account to publish the clips to their stores there.

Since you've been around here for a while now, I'm sure you've realized how severely limited mastodon is when it comes to ways you can exploit the existing capabilities in the Fediverse - I've already mentioned Pixelfed, but there's a lot of other platforms that support HTTP signatures necessary for backfills and e2ee constructs; the support for BBCode and/or Markdown; post containing text with character counts greater than the paltry 500 characters that masto can muster, #LaTEX (actually, only Misskey and Firefish support that at this time AFAIK); local only posts (shared only with those who have accounts on the same instance), and a host of other unsupported features in masopub.

I appreciate that you made the effort to address this as an ActivityPub and Fediverse capability, and not simply, "yet another mastodon branded feature". Especially when mastodon won't be able to take advantage of many of the advanced features you already offer that other more capable Fediverse platforms can make use of :)

Platforms like #Friendica, #Firefish, #Mitra, #Hubzilla, #SocialHome, #Soapbox, #Peertube, Pleroma, #Epicyon, #Castopod, #WriteFreely, #Quanta, #Drupal and even #WordPress - those latter three have potentially, especially ambitious use cases with clips and notes being able to be actually published on platforms already built for long form or 'blobs' to be pushed to them. Hubzilla, #Streams, and Friendica have special features to accommodate your products notes too :)

If you focus on adding support for people to enter their Fediverse account credentials, or multiple accounts like #Takahe and #Fedilab and #Misskey support, Then those are the servers you need right there! The spam problem remains as it is with the particular instances, since they control the new account registrations.

There's also the rapid adoption of #smolweb and single-user focused Fediverse platforms too, such as:

- MicroBlogPub
- Tapir
- Bovine
- And of course, any platform, now matter how heavy or resource intensive can be deployed as a smolweb or single-user instance (even the klunky kludgey mastodon). And speaking of which, there are several popular forks that don't have these limitations that are very popular like #Hometown and #Glitch-soc, Etc.

There may even be some use cases for #Lemmy and #Kbin too, as link/discussion boards too - perhaps posting from a users vault/store to those platforms? There's a lot of different possibilities but ActivityPub can open up a huge market for you while at the same time Fediverse is exposed to large numbers of people who will discover that they too may have a good use case to adopt for themselves a Fediverse account :)

tl;dr: Basically, yes! there's a huge use case for your thoughts there - and if you're reading this on a Mitra, #Pleroma, Soapbox, #Akkoma, Firefish, Friendica, Hubzilla, or Misskey server, you'll see some very pretty formatting in Markdown - if you're reading this on a regular mastodon server (not one of the really good and popular forks), then... not so much - but at least mastodon does degrade Markdown and HTML somewhat gracefully :)

Well I hope that helps and do feel free to reach out to me via my contact methods listed in my profile or in the Fediverse-City Matrix room, and I'm sure that we can get a few of some of the more prominent Fediverse platform devs to round-table with you for some wire framing sessions.

I'm confident that you'll find a lot of support in your endeavor to achieve this initiative.

Well I hope that helps. Enjoy!

#tallship #Notesnook #Federation

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attached: Fediverse logo in gummy bear jelly colors

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]

• #Pleroma (#^https://pleroma.social/, #^https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Pleroma%253F) has quotes. And it's part of the Fediverse and federated with Mastodon.
  
• #Akkoma (#^https://akkoma.social/), a Pleroma fork, has quotes. And it's part of the Fediverse and federated with Mastodon.
  
• #MissKey (#^https://misskey-hub.net/en/, #^https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Misskey%253F) has quotes. And it's part of the Fediverse and federated with Mastodon.
  
• #CalcKey (#^https://calckey.cloud/, #^https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Calckey%3F) has quotes. And it's part of the Fediverse and federated with Mastodon.
  
• #FoundKey (#^https://akkoma.dev/FoundKeyGang/FoundKey) has quotes. And it's part of the Fediverse and federated with Mastodon.
  
• #GoToSocial (#^https://docs.gotosocial.org/, #^https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_GoToSocial%3F) has quotes. And it's part of the Fediverse and federated with Mastodon.
  
• #Socialhome (#^https://socialhome.network/) has quotes. And it's part of the Fediverse and federated with Mastodon.

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.

PS
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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@fraying

Hi Derek!

And greetings from the remote mountain regions of #Humboldt where we export the genetics for those 🌺 flowers 🤘💀🤘

Anyway...

I'm trying to your post in which you both misconstrued and misinformed the reader with alarmist, and generally misunderstood narrative.

Specifically, and respectfully:

>***"I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US. Section 230 protects what we do here every day. Politicians threatening 230 are threatening free speech on the internet."***

Although we'll go over both sentences, the part that I really take exception to is the first one:

- "I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US."

I quoted you twice for emphasis, because what you said is simply NOT TRUE, at all Derek, but who would want to run a single user mastodon server instance anyway?

Okay a select few, but it's not economical to do so - here's why:

It's such #bloatware and a #resource_hog compared to other, more capable and featureful #Fediverse servers, like #Pleroma, #Takahē, #Epicyon, #Akkoma, #Calckey, #Soapbox, #Friendica, #Socialhome, #MicroblogPub, #Misskey, #Smithereen, and the list goes on and on for a while; a veritable laundry list of platforms endowed with more feature rich, more resource and energy conserving footprints.

You could call mastodon the white elephant in the room when it comes to kruft, waste of energy and resources, or lack of the most desired features by it's traditional userbase (although people are nowadays migrating their accounts to these other Fediverse platforms in ever increasing numbers).

Like you, I'm also a staunch proponent of Section 230, as it was originally intended and written - to protect publishers, NOT editors. But most of the conservative agendas to which you refer only seek to remove protections for sites that cross that line between that of #publisher to that of #editor anyway - so as long as you don't interfere with a user's #speech those deprecated silos would have nothing to worry about.

It's the Marxist/Leftist agendas in Congress that you need to worry about - they're proposing complete evisceration of section 230 - and yes, that would jeopardize, probably even put those monolithic deprecated silos out of business for good.

- I see very little that is bad about killing a rabid animal... Or a fox in the henhouse.

But... riddle me this Batman:

What would be so bad about that? It would destroy the surveillance plutocracy and data farming of individuals and their identities by those socalled, "Big-Tech" subjugation engines like #Faceplant, #InstaSPAM, #Reddit, #Twitter, and to a large degree, #Google too... (It won't do anything to stop the likes of Amazon or Apple though wrt their surveillance programs).

All if that, while at the same time encourage the migration of people to a fully decentralized and safer social media network where there are either no platforms (only censor proof protocols), as in #nostr; or #federated #SmallWeb and single user #ActivityPub platform instances; or those #Fediverse platforms that vow not to #molest_users who #publish on those platforms by imposing draconian #editorializing (censorship) upon their users.

Either way you can certainly look at this as a win-win situation for the #individual in #social_media networking. The question really is therefore, "How badly do you wish to punish the privacy disrespecting subjugation farms that comprise that deprecated, monolithic silo space?"

I hope that helps, Enjoy!

#tallship

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@HuffiMuffiGuffi @yuvalne @I

ההגדרה שאני מכיר אפילו יותר רחבה: גם שרתים שלא מדברים #ActivityPub (:activityPub: ) אבל כן מדברים בפרוטוקולים אחרים ששרתים בפרוטוקולים מבוזרים אחרים מדברים בהם נחשבים, כל עוד האחרונים מדברים ActivityPub. למשל, יש הרבה שמחשיבים את #diaspora ( :diaspora: ) לחלק מה #פדיברס, למרות שהיא מדברת רק בפרוטוקול שלה. למה ? לדוגמא: כי #Friendica ( :friendica: ) , #SocialHome , ו #HubZilla מדברות גם הן את הפרוטוקול הזה וגם :activityPub: (ויש המשך)

:joinfediversewiki: #JoinFediverseWiki :joinfediversewiki:

I'm looking for more editors and translators to help with the wiki.

Check out the todos here: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Join_the_Fediverse:Todos

:fedi: Missing what is pages
The wiki aims to have a "What is project xy" page for every Fediverse project.
Missing are among others: #FediBird #HomeTown #GlitchSoc #Akkoma #GNUsocial #Takahe #Bonfire #Swanye #diaspora* #SocialHome #Plume #Gancio

📚 Other missing pages
I'd love if someone could write an article about #art in the Fediverse.
Also, as I said before, an article about #racism in the Fediverse would be nice.
And a page about #FreeSoftware is also missing.

✏️ Pages need updating
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Mastodon_features_explained still doesn't include the Mastodon 4 features.

💬 Translations
Currently we have about 9 active languages, but with very different levels of completion of translations.

## 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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@downey

Mastodon IS NOT the #Fediverse!

The #BDFL of that project saying it's is "vital" illustrates the branding philosophy and corporate, ego driven mindset behind so many PRs and requests that have repeatedly been rejected by an overwhelming amount of Fediverse users and developers - just look at how many 👎 "thumbs down" 👎 reactions his post received (that is rarely seen on GitHub).

His language and marketing have been largely successful, confusing newcomers during this Twitter egress (including media coverage) and conflating just what the Fediverse and mastodon are...

People are saying, "I just joined mastodon!" - NO, you did not. You just joined the "Fediverse", by creating an account on a mastodon server. Even newcomers creating accounts on #Friendica and #Pleroma servers are often seen saying this, and it needs to "STOP".

The Fediverse is the network they are joining, and mastodon is just one of a dozen or so viable platforms that people can use to do so.

Truth be told, mastodon is one of the least feature complete Fediverse server platforms, lacking in many of the most basic social networking tools and features that most other popular server platforms introduced ages ago.

It doesn't even render Markdown, have have quotable boosting, only introduced editing of posts a couple of weeks back, and has a hard coded limit of a paltry 500 characters for each post, forcing users to create those confusingly chronologically backward hellthreads that are interspersed and broken up in everyone's feeds, and there's many more deficiencies to list here.

This is why there are so many different forks.

When you create a #PeerTube account, you haven't joined the PeerTube network - you've joined the Fediverse!

When you create a #Pixelfed account, you haven't joined the Pixelfed network - you've joined the Fediverse!

If you create a mastodon account, you haven't joined "mastodon" - you've joined three Fediverse!

There is no such thing as a mastodon network!

It's just one type of Fediverse server platform, among many, like:

#Akkama, Pleroma, Friendica, #Lemmy, #Soapbox, #Misskey, PeerTube, #Mitra, Pixelfed, #MicroPub, #Epicyon, #Quanta, #GoToSicial, #Socialhome, #FunkWhale, and many many other platforms that open up the entire Fediverse to people, allowing them to share and seamlessly communicate with one another.

There are analogs for #Faceplant, #Twitter, #InstaSPAM, #Reddit, and pretty much any type of social networking experience you can find in the deprecated, centralized, legacy silo systems that cannot, and do not wish to interact with each other - which the Fediverse breaks the paradigm of, and empowers everyone engage with each other globally.

Mastodon's marketing has very deliberately been designed to subvert that narrative and replace this reality with its own, self serving commercial interests to the detriment of Fediverse itself.

A wake up call us coming very soon when the #non_FOSS based platforms like #Tumblr and #Imgur join their (millions) substantial user bases to the Fediverse at which time, mastodon itself may find itself drowned out and largely irrelevant due to its very lacking feature set, and ask if the other existing Fediverse platforms providing so much more if what is possible for us all.

This is typically what happens when your development is driven by egocentric, ulterior motives (whether he actually realizes this about himself or not) to benefit yourself personally - just look at how his donations have jumped, even though newcomers are creating accounts on other Fediverse and mastodon servers begging for donations that for the most part are going directly to him.

#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #introductions #newcomers

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The #Fediverse (#ActivityPub) has surpassed 7 million users!

For the first time, all #SocialMedia that are connected by ActivityPub are at 7,252,751 users (4.1m active six months, 2.7m monthly active). Thanks to #Mastodon 6.3m users, #PeerTube 389k, #Pixelfed 122k , #Pleroma 97k, #WriteFreely 62k #Lemmy 39k, #Plume 25k, #Friendica 19k, #Mobilizon 14k and many more.

https://the-federation.info/

#Fedigrowth #Misskey #Funkwhale #Hubzilla #hometown #Wordpress #bookwyrm #Socialhome

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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The #Fediverse (#ActivityPub) has surpassed 6 million users!

For the first time, all #SocialMedia that are connected by ActivityPub are at 6,036,616 users (2.7m active six months, 1.4m monthly active). Thanks to #Mastodon 5.1m users, #PeerTube 378k, #Pixelfed 112k , #Pleroma 95k, #WriteFreely 63k #Lemmy 37k, #Plume 27k, #Friendica 19k, #Mobilizon 14k and many more.

https://the-federation.info/

#Fedigrowth #Misskey #Funkwhale #Hubzilla #hometown #Wordpress #bookwyrm #Socialhome

@axbom Oh, you can probably also add #Socialhome platform/software. It can connect to both #diaspora and #ActivityPub protocols.

Its flagship server is at: https://socialhome.network

Also, #Hubzilla have its own protocol #Zot / #Zot6 which supports #portability of accounts (and others).

Socialhome.Network as a searchable federation archive

The Socialhome node socialhome.network/ is both widely federated AND searchable by non-members. It displays both posts AND profile pages even to non-members, which is NOT the case for Diaspora* pods.

If you're looking for specific content from a now-defunct pod, Socialhome may be able to turn that up for you.

You can search for a specific profile by the its handle, e.g., [email protected] or [email protected], for my present and now-defunct Joindiaspora profiles, using the site's Search feature.

My (now-offline at origin) Joindiaspora profile appears as:

socialhome.network/p/702b2f0c-…

Note that the profile GUID is NOT the same as it would be for my Joindiaspora profle itself (`d8210c0de509264f``). The Diaspora* GUID can be used to construct a URL visible from the Diaspora* Pod you have an account on and are logged in to, but not as a globally-viewable third-party-accessible URL. Socialhome solves this problem.

That is, if you are on Glasswings, this URL links to my Joindiaspora profile:

diaspora.glasswings.com/people…

But if you're not, it won't. Glasswings users might try a different pod such as Diasp.org:

diasp.org/people/d8210c0de5092…

Instead, third-party visitors are presented with a log-in / registration page. Socialhome solves this problem specifically.

There may be additional features / API apparent at the Socialhome GitLab repo: git.feneas.org/socialhome/soci…

Noting that that is a FENEAS URL, also likely to go offline in the near future, GitHub:

github.com/jaywink/socialhome

Limitations

The downsides to Socialhome seem to be that:

• References to content and profiles does not follow Diaspora*-assigned GUIDs. That is, there's no automated way to refernece a specific post or profile.
• I'm not seeing an obvious way of exposing a JSON abstract of posts or profiles --- the Diaspora* trick of appending .json to the end of a URL does not work, and I'm not seeing a JSON abstract in the raw HTML. There may still be an API.

Photos are displayed but appear to be served from the original host, not separately federated. Once the origin host goes offline, photo links / embeds will be broken.

It's not clear how widely or deeply content is federated, though some should be better than none. This option was brought to my attention by @isaackuo in comments here.

#Diaspora #DataArchival #Federation #SocialHome #Pluspora #Joindiaspora #DataMigration #Archives #Plexodus #GooglePlus #GPlus #FENEAS

i am making a #fediverse #hungergames kinda thingy (that one site brainsteele.net/hungerhames). why? idk i had the idea and i'm like "yeah let's do it"

anyways who wants to participate? tell me in the replies! only the first 24 people get to be in so be quick if you wanna participate. share this!

#activitypub #mastodon #misskey #pleroma #hubzilla #friendica #fedi #mastodonsocial #mstdnsocial #blobcat #koyuspace #masto #nixnetsocial #koyu #absturztau #smoothbrain #users #user #gnusocial #kibou #microblogpub #ostatus #socialhome #socialnetwork #microblogging

also #pixelfed probably

If you run a service that hosts other people's content (I tagged a bunch below), you should read #Schneier's post on revising CDA 230 (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/12/reforming_cda_2.html).

#mastodon #pixelfed #peertube #socialhome #frendica #matrix #podmin #diaspora

“Share Freedom” is an extension for #Firefox to share web pages with #GNUsocial, #Mastodon, #Hubzilla, #Diaspora, #Friendica, #Pumpio, #Socialhome and #Prismo.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/share-freedom/

#sharefreedom

♲ @[email protected]: Hey there social media hosting people and developers working on any of the #Fediverse systems!

Is there anyone of you at the Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig this year right after Christmas? Is there anyone interested to have a meeting there?

Just some exchange, we would need some people to moderate the event, but basically some meetup to exchange information and get to know other players in the field.
"Someone" could then register a "talk" or "meetup" for the upcoming congress, I'd say a duration of about 1.5 to 2 hours and maybe 60+ people can be expected, assuming there is many #webmasters or #developers among the visitors at the #35C3.

Any #devs and #webmaster of the following systems, or any that I might have missed that are using #ActivityPup and can communicate with the others, please comment here if you like the idea!
#Friendica #Diaspora #red #Hubzilla #GnuSocial #StatusNet #Mastodon #Pleroma #Socialhome #Ganggo

Let me know if you have any questions.
@utzer