#wafrn — Public Fediverse posts

Okay, so I'm putting this out there, and let the chips fall where they may cuz I'm stupid confused.

What is WAFRN really? What I mean is.. Is this an app that is meant to bridge together other socials in the fediverse, or is WAFRN an alternative option/choice for a social (network) on it's own that also connects to the fediverse for convenience?

Admittedly, this whole fediverse thing is very confusing to me. I did read WAFRN FAQs and other general information prior to opening an account, but I still don't fully "get it".

I've of course seen bluesky here, but I've also seen people from other sites like mastodon, but I'm not sure how it's happening.

I guess that's a good enough explanation of my confusion and DUHness… maybe. Sigh. Help? 🥺

Okay, so I'm putting this out there, and let the chips fall where they may cuz I'm stupid confused.

What is WAFRN really? What I mean is.. Is this an app that is meant to bridge together other socials in the fediverse, or is WAFRN an alternative option/choice for a social (network) on it's own that also connects to the fediverse for convenience?

Admittedly, this whole fediverse thing is very confusing to me. I did read WAFRN FAQs and other general information prior to opening an account, but I still don't fully "get it".

I've of course seen bluesky here, but I've also seen people from other sites like mastodon, but I'm not sure how it's happening.

I guess that's a good enough explanation of my confusion and DUHness… maybe. Sigh. Help? 🥺

The fediverse is comprised of many unique pockets of communities, many inspired by big existing platforms.

When it comes to the fediverse Tumblr, #WAFRN is exactly that, but more.

What sounds like a biological weapon, is actually a clever acronym "We Allow Female Representing Nipples", a direct shot at Tumblr and their misogynistic moderation policies.

Kudos to @gabboman for freeing the nipple, keep it weird folks, we don't have VCs to appease!

https://wafrn.net

#FreeTheNipple

The fediverse is comprised of many unique pockets of communities, many inspired by big existing platforms.

When it comes to the fediverse Tumblr, #WAFRN is exactly that, but more.

What sounds like a biological weapon, is actually a clever acronym "We Allow Female Representing Nipples", a direct shot at Tumblr and their misogynistic moderation policies.

Kudos to @gabboman for freeing the nipple, keep it weird folks, we don't have VCs to appease!

https://wafrn.net

#FreeTheNipple

𝙬𝙞𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙀 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙡 𝙙𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 & 𝙧𝙀𝙙𝙚𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙏𝙮…

aT this plAcE identity travels through a federated network wiThout surrendering iTs soul To a central server…
Lao Tzu leaves thee wAy open while Confucius treats harmony aS a protocol of reSpecT…
Socrates quesTions every default permission while PlaTo imagines thee ideal commons and ArisTotlE tests whether iT survives contact wiTh people…
Rumi turns logic towards longing while René DescarTes rebooTs doubt into thought…
Friedrich NietZsche audiTs inherited source code while Alan Turing asks whether intelligence iS process Or presence…
Al-Khwarizmi gives every algoriThm iTs ancestry…
Ibn al-Haytham mAkEs light answer To evidence…
HypaTia keEps geometry and courage inside thee samE framE…
Ada LovelAcE leaves poetry inside symbols before thee machine knows what they may becOmE…
Leonardo da Vinci refuses thee firewall betwEen ArT & science…

thee self-pOrtraiT was assembled entirely in photoshop from personal photography; no generative AI…
none supplies a final answEr…
that may bE their most intelligent gift…
each opens a gaTeway where certainty loses authority and wonder gains bandwidth…
in a federation, difference neEd not fragment uS…
iT can teach OnE network thee graceful architecture of UniTy…
So keEp travelling through every human connection willing To share…
T…
i…
mE…
&…
Sp@cE…

Wafrn #Fediverse #DigitalPhilosophy #SoulAndSilicon #SelfPortrait #Taiyzun

https://www.taiyzun.com

𝙬𝙞𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙀 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙡 𝙙𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 & 𝙧𝙀𝙙𝙚𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙏𝙮…

aT this plAcE identity travels through a federated network wiThout surrendering iTs soul To a central server…
Lao Tzu leaves thee wAy open while Confucius treats harmony aS a protocol of reSpecT…
Socrates quesTions every default permission while PlaTo imagines thee ideal commons and ArisTotlE tests whether iT survives contact wiTh people…
Rumi turns logic towards longing while René DescarTes rebooTs doubt into thought…
Friedrich NietZsche audiTs inherited source code while Alan Turing asks whether intelligence iS process Or presence…
Al-Khwarizmi gives every algoriThm iTs ancestry…
Ibn al-Haytham mAkEs light answer To evidence…
HypaTia keEps geometry and courage inside thee samE framE…
Ada LovelAcE leaves poetry inside symbols before thee machine knows what they may becOmE…
Leonardo da Vinci refuses thee firewall betwEen ArT & science…

thee self-pOrtraiT was assembled entirely in photoshop from personal photography; no generative AI…
none supplies a final answEr…
that may bE their most intelligent gift…
each opens a gaTeway where certainty loses authority and wonder gains bandwidth…
in a federation, difference neEd not fragment uS…
iT can teach OnE network thee graceful architecture of UniTy…
So keEp travelling through every human connection willing To share…
T…
i…
mE…
&…
Sp@cE…

Wafrn #Fediverse #DigitalPhilosophy #SoulAndSilicon #SelfPortrait #Taiyzun

https://www.taiyzun.com

doing some fun shenanigans on wafrn.

https://codeberg.org/wafrn/wafrn/pulls/706

doing some fun shenanigans on wafrn.

https://codeberg.org/wafrn/wafrn/pulls/706

Sorry wafflers, but I will more than likely be migrating my web-blog from here to quenq. I love this community, but I've found an open-source alternative to myspace, that has similar philosophy to the fediverse. As I've previously stated, its open-source, and it also has no algorithm; in its place is a groups tab, which works similar to a subreddit, and the general feed page is just profiles within the general "neighborhood" of profiles you've interacted with. Something I personally view as a plus over wafrn is that there's full html customization. I'm aware that there is some html customization on here, but it's quite limited compared to quenq.

https://my.quenq.com/u/luminastrike

@lavaeolus

maybe #wafrn. talk to @gabboman.

@lavaeolus

maybe #wafrn. talk to @gabboman.

good nyeevening wafrn !!! how are you? sorry that this blog has been erratic, loll

good nyeevening wafrn !!! how are you? sorry that this blog has been erratic, loll

@[email protected]

Welcome aboard. If'n you haven't looked at it, you might find Wafrn to be interesting, it has built in support for Bluesky (ATP?).

@[email protected]

Welcome aboard. If'n you haven't looked at it, you might find Wafrn to be interesting, it has built in support for Bluesky (ATP?).

Made wafrn logo for the canvas.fediverse.events

Made wafrn logo for the canvas.fediverse.events

Genuine question, is there a way to carry over blocks from bsky to WAFRN? I've been getting a lot of likes from bot bsky accounts. I can tell they're blocked on bsky because when I look at who liked my post with 11 likes, I only see 2 real people, the rest are bots blocked by one of those massive public block lists. But on WAFRN I get notifications for them all.

Genuine question, is there a way to carry over blocks from bsky to WAFRN? I've been getting a lot of likes from bot bsky accounts. I can tell they're blocked on bsky because when I look at who liked my post with 11 likes, I only see 2 real people, the rest are bots blocked by one of those massive public block lists. But on WAFRN I get notifications for them all.

good noontime wafrn `!!!

good noontime wafrn `!!!

Can #PostyBirb be used to post to #Wafrn? My brain is just doing a "???" looking at all these fields in the custom account section.

Dałam w sumie na mastodonie, ale czuję, że to idealnie pasuje na wafrn i pewnej sytuacji z adminem co chciał, by wafrn zaczął usuwać pewne zdjęcia :blobfox3c:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV2H712ldOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wiYk-tlboQ

looking for more wafflers to attack on artfight!
give me the link to yalls ocs you havent been attacked with on artfight yet if you want a free drawing :3

good mornyaan barkwolpchat!

good mornyaan barkwolpchat!

Wooting on a big TV wafwafwafwafwafwafwafwafwafwaf

me when-

I give up.

I have tried every way I can to establish a private instance for all of my #fediverse and #socialnetworking needs. I've tried Hubzilla, GNUSocial, and Friendica, but maintaining the cost of a virtual private server isn't justifiable to me and those apps don't play well with shared hosting, which is all I can afford right now (and I don't have the space to set up a personal server).

The fact of the matter is that the only self-hosted application that checks the boxes of being a) dead simple to install on shared hosting--preferably through Softaculous since I just don't feel like jumping through hoops, b) well-supported, c) easy to use, and d) able to connect with both ActivityPub and AT protocols is WordPress, which I am reluctant to use because Matt Mullenweg is a pretty detestable as a human.

That said, I am holding my nose and using WordPress as my social networking hub until and unless something that isn't tainted with Mullenweg's nonsense comes along, so here I be.

I am rebuilding my profile and follow lists, and I apologize to those of you who seem to get a new follow request from me every other day, but I plan on this being the last time until the unlikely WordPress-killer comes around.

Thank you for your patience.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

I did say

… legally responsible for moderating the entire slice of the Fediverse visible to their instance.

so I am aware that a Fedi instance owner does not have to literally moderate the entire network. :-)

Why is the increase in moderation load (necessarily) linear though? Say, I am an instance owner, and a new user joins my instance. If she follows the conventional Fedi wisdom (“you are your own algorithm—follow a LOT of people and build a rich feed”) and immediately follows a lot of users from other instances, and if many of those users post a lot, and/or boost a lot, then all those posts will now land on my instance, and I am legally responsible for moderating them. Similarly, if my new user starts boosting a lot of posts from other instances, then I am responsible for moderating those too. So at least in this hypothetical example, the moderation load increases exponentially.

Of course, in case of an inactive user, the load may not increase at all.

I think the more important point is the uncertainty of not knowing what new stuff from other instances may suddenly start landing in your storage. (When I earlier said “more or less the entire network”, it’s this uncertainty that I had in mind.) Your existing user may start following some toxic person, and suddenly in comes the deluge. You may not have the bandwidth to look at some moderation report, and by the time you get round to it, the issue may have blown up.

In comparison, an admin/owner has a lot more authority and control over their own users, so there isn’t as much anxiety.

My only point was this: a PDS owner in the ATProto world does NOT have to moderate stuff originating on any other PDS. In the ActivityPub world, this option does not exist. To a lot of people, this difference matters.

By the way, you said:

If you want to form a community, with standards, you either need to run an appview, in which case you are truly moderating the entire network, not just the portion your users interact with …

I was under the impression that a PDS can directly communicate with another PDS without the need of an intermediary relay or AppView. Isn’t that correct? So couldn’t someone host a PDS + AppView (no relay), directly communicate with a small number of PDSs, and have their AppView show only those conversations? Wouldn’t this PDS + AppView setup be the equivalent of a Fedi instance? I could be wrong, but I believe wafrn does something like this on the ATProto end.

Regarding your broader argument:
I agree with you that moderation is a critical part of community building. (A corporate executive may say that in case of social media, moderation is the product.) I also know that moderation is a social + political + economic exercise, in addition to being a technical measure.

Personally, I think we need to urgently imagine what ought to be the political economy of social media. Is the Fediverse a public utility? If yes, who is providing the public utility? The state? Which state? Or some NGO? Some philanthropist? To whom is the public utility being provided?

Or is the Fediverse a market of commodities? If yes, who is selling those commodities? To whom?

One can ask similar questions about the ATmosphere. (The movers and shakers in that world seem to imagine it as a market of commodities, as you point out. But that may be just Americans on autopilot, there may be no deep thought behind it.)

The questions of moderation and community building are deeply entangled with the questions of political economy. People arguing about moderation and community building often have fundamentally differing visions for the political economy of the Fediverse, but those differences never get unpacked, so people end up talking past each other.