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  1. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 00:11:49 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    Also, #Signal and #Telegram are said to be flooded with new users.

    I'm both glad and unglad to hear that.

    Signal is fully end-to-end encrypted ( #E2EE ), so that's better than all other #corpocentric alternatives, but:
    * they are centralized
    * they collect data such as telephone number (can't use it without giving said info)
    * I haven't used it, but I hear their video and audio calls are poor quality

    Telegram has optional E2EE on certain types of communications.
    * I believe their encryption is home-grown, so not battle-tested like professional algorithms.
    * They are centralized

    Anything is better than using any product or service owned by Facebook, so I'm glad to see the outmigration, but not glad that other centralized services are the main beneficiaries.
    In conversation about 9 days ago from web permalink
  2. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jan-2021 01:24:53 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    I'm hearing that #Google and #Apple are removing the apps for the #Parler #socnet from the #Android PlayStore and the #iOS AppStore.

    I'd argue that given their duopoly on mobile operating systems, the power to arbitrarily kick someone out is scary (regardless of how deserving Parler might be; I'm not even sure I've seen a screenshot of the site). I'd argue that this is evidence that the mobile OS and app store groups of both companies need to be split up, so that competition can come ... including strong competition for mobile app stores on each platform.

    Again, Parler may deserve it, especially if their users used the socnet to organize their insurrection attempt. (Though I suspect many of them probably used odious #corpocentric sites like #Twitter or #Facebook, which are not being punished.)
    In conversation about 16 days ago from web permalink
  3. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jan-2021 18:52:55 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    Years ago, when #sonTwo started taking Photography courses at the local college, I stood up a site for him using "Gallery 2". We had a bunch of plugins, including a bridge from G2 to a regular CMS, so he could use his main site for authentication on his photo gallery. Then came G3, which never had the same functionality. We tried "Coppermine Photo Gallery" (CPG), and a few more, eventually settling on Koken.

    Over time, I was concerned about the lack of continuing security patches, so we pulled it down.

    While he's off work for the next few months, he's going to try to do more photography , and he's looking to host his work again. I'd like to be able to suggest something that isn't Flickr / 500px or other #corpocentric site.

    Federation is not needed, as he's looking mostly for a way to market his work and maybe sell a few prints. I suggested that he look at #PixelFed, but I don't know enough about it to even be sure it could meet his needs. I don't know if his hosting is capable of something like #MediaGobllin (Python based), but that project is still awakening from a long hibernation.

    Anyone have knowledge of a self-hostable PHP based photo gallery?
    In conversation about 21 days ago from mustard permalink
  4. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Nov-2020 15:48:57 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • GNU Social
    • VegOs ✅ ♋ 🌍 📷
    @vegos I agree. To most organizations, their primary concern is reach. So they congregate on big #corpocentric #socnets, even when the central corporation running things is actively hostile to their point of view.

    Then they're butthurt when their accounts are shadowbanned.

    Years ago, I tried to persuade some local Black churches and ethic-focused organizations to join !GNUsocial and #Diaspora, but was unsuccessful. I think they all joined #Facebook, where their posts are hidden by the algorithms.
    In conversation about 2 months ago from mustard permalink
  5. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 04:25:38 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    I may back up, remove and reinstall #Manyverse before I give up on it. A lot of the people I used to see are overly political. I don’t miss that, but I’m interested—or at least I was—in the potential to enable normal (not politically obsessed) people to connect outside of #corpocentric #socnets.
    In conversation about 3 months ago from Shoyu permalink
  6. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Sep-2020 05:30:44 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    He's talking about things that decentralized networks (and the people and software projects involved in them) can do to be better (more attractive to users) than #corpocentric networks. Naturally, he's focused on the #ActivityPub subset of the #Fediverse, but some of this applies to other decentralized networks as well.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  7. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2020 18:17:05 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    https://toot.cafe/@nolan/104580682382486704

    People discussing problems of #corpocentric #socnets without considering the various decentralized networks that try to avoid some of those problems.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from mustard permalink

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    1. nolan: "So Much for the Dec
      from Nolan
      "So Much for the Decentralized Internet" by Ian Bogost https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/twitter-hack-decentralized-internet/614593/ No mention of Mastodon, the fediverse, Scuttlebutt, etc. I guess nobody is trying to solve the problem of centralized social media! The rest of the article is good though.
  8. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2020 18:43:40 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    An article I recently read talked about the copyright battles of the late 1990s as instructive to what #decentralized, #federated and #peer-to-peer networks will face if and when we become threatening to the big #corpocentric networks. I think it is something we need to think about.

    Unfortunately, some parts of the #Fediverse (primarily, but not exclusively #Mastodon) have marketed themselves with promises of privacy, control, immunity from recourse, and personal security that none of these networks (nor the protocols they use) were ever designed to provide. The article looked at that as failure, instead of recognizing it for what it was: marketing & advertising puffery.

    “It slices! It dices!”
    In conversation about 6 months ago from Shoyu permalink
  9. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-2020 23:11:51 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    https://nu.federati.net/url/272873 [www theverge com]
    .
    #Corpocentric #socnet #Twitter appears to have been cracked.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from AndStatus permalink

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    1. Twitter has shut off the ability for some people to tweet after massive hack
      from https://www.facebook.com/cgartenberg
      Twitter temporarily shuts down for some users.
  10. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2020 20:41:11 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    “Turn on Play Protect”

    None for me, thank you. I see the kinds of garbage that gets into the #Google #Play_Store. I’d rather rely on a few motivated #F-Droid maintainers to inspect and package the software on my devices than your auto-scan software.

    (BTW, let me emphasize again that #de-google is NOT ENOUGH. #DecentraLife ... I want to remove not just Google from my life, but all #corpocentric gatekeepers.)
    In conversation about 8 months ago from Shoyu permalink
  11. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2020 19:26:41 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    Signage change at the #coin_laundry. More crowded today. Did someone post #NoCrowdTuesdays on one of the #corpocentric socnets? https://nu.federati.net/attachment/267966
    In conversation about 9 months ago from AndStatus permalink

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  12. simsa03 (simsa03@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2020 01:58:59 UTC simsa03 simsa03
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    in reply to
    • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    • simsa03
    • N-5-O-body
    @n5admin @lnxw48a1

    Oh, it does. The family suggested we use it instead of WhatsApp.

    End-to-end encryption seems to be in place only with the "secret" or "hidden" chats, that is, it can be activated (depending on the chat type) but is not activated by default. But I only want to talk with my nieces, not engage in something reckless:

    https://www.counterextremism.com/terrorists-on-telegram

    (ISIS has been booted from Telegram until recently as mid December 2019)

    But I guess I will only use it for to chat with family, and here only very rarely.

    And no, I don't care much if it's #corpocentric . I always feel a bit uneasy about refusing to give away at least some (meta-)data, as it can/could make you deemed suspicious by the authorities. And I really don't want to be on the radar of Homeland Security, the Big Five, and the "Server in the Sky" program...
    In conversation about a year ago from pleroma.site permalink

    Attachments

    1. Terrorists On Telegram
      Terrorist and extremist groups use encrypted application Telegram to recruit new members, fundraise, incite to violence, and even coordinate terrorist activity. Telegram’s messaging application has both public-facing and private components. This flexible interface enables extremists to do everything from self-promotion, brand development and propaganda dissemination, to secret plotting of attacks outside detection or interference from law enforcement.
  13. N-5-O-body (n5admin@n5.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2020 01:29:33 UTC N-5-O-body N-5-O-body
    Remote profile options...
    in reply to
    • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    • simsa03
    @simsa03 I don't really know much about #Telegram. The client is open source, and it uses "C2S" encryption, I'm not sure whether end-to-end encryption is turned on by default. Nor do I know whether metadata is stored or even available to the service provider.

    No one I know uses it and I don't want to suggest another #corpocentric service. Sorry if this does not help.

    @lnxw48a1
    In conversation about a year ago from n5.federati.net permalink
  14. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2020 19:23:20 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • nil
    @sim In other words, we often intentionally try to look like the #corpocentric networks and hide the things that make this one different. Then we are caught off-guard when users (especially new users, but sometimes people who have been around for a year or two) show ignorance about the fundamental differences inherent a #federated network. We need to make it clear, from the beginning, that this is NOT really a clone of Twitter or Facebook, but something far different.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  15. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2019 02:42:55 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    http://www.obscuritus.ca/Technology/Federated_vs_Global.html

    This is worth a read. This person has spent some time thinking about these issues. I'm not saying his/her conclusions are "the right" conclusions or that he/she has discovered all the potential issues. But when we discuss these topics, we need to have a (shared) starting point, where everyone understands what particular terms mean.

    #Federated networks versus #Corpocentric (Global) networks
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  16. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2019 21:48:35 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • Internet Turtle 🏴
    @tealturtle I knew of some people from West Africa (but none from Southern or Central Africa) years ago, before the #bifurcation.
    .
    I think they were #lost to the #corpocentric networks when Identica switched to #Pump.io and many #StatusNet instances closed.
    In conversation about a year ago from AndStatus permalink
  17. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2019 19:40:20 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    RE: The article linked in https://mstdn.fr/@ButterflyOfFire/103171203248328739 ( https://www.devporto.com/fediverse-has-a-discovery-problem-and-thats-not-good/ )

    I don't think that having a different kind of discovery from #corpocentric networks means that the #Fediverse's discovery mechanisms are wrong. Having been a #Twitter user for over a decade, they don't have the greatest discovery mechanisms either. They try to fill that in with "who to follow" and trending tags suggestions that are almost always wrong, wrong, wrong.

    No universal view is a positive feature, not a negative one. If your group is using the tag #abc123 for something in your local scope (your instance and the instances where your contacts are hosted), it doesn't necessarily collide with another group using #abc123 in their own local scope. This can reduce confusion and conflict. It also means that people can post in whatever languages they desire on instances where said language is the majority and not have posts they can read buried under a multitude of other-language posts.

    Many existing Mastodon and Pleroma instances have shared announcement servers (that's not the official name, but I can't recall it right now) that collect public and hashtagged posts and distribute among the other instances using that server. So with judicious choosing of announcement servers, the advantages listed above can be spread over a larger subset of instances and users without as many collision issues as a global view would cause.

    No, discovery is not perfect. But let me ask you this: How do you discover e-mail addresses of people you wish to contact? Outside of your organization's address list, you can't just search a directory. You have to ask them or people that already know them. That's probably a better solution than plugging "firstname lastname" or "usual_nick" in a search box anyway.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink

    Attachments

    1. Fediverse Has A Discovery Problem And That’s Not Good
      from devPorto
      Fediverse Has A Discovery Problem And That’s Not Good
  18. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2019 20:23:13 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • an actual bear in a hazmat suit
    @guizzy I understand and agree.

    I also think that if you have more than 10-20 active users, you should probably ask members of the community to contribute if they can ... financially, moderation-wise, admin tasks, customizing the design and function of the site, and so on. We do our users no favor by reinforcing that sites and servers are provided without any cost. That's what the #corpocentric networks do, but then they have ads and data-collection to extract resources anyway.

    If we think that peer-to-peer is the eventual goal, then everyone will be responsible for their own bandwidth, backups, and administration (updates, settings). That cannot happen if we keep teaching people that "I can play for free because someone else will do the work without any cost".

    Not everyone can or will contribute, of course, but if a few people help in those areas, it can be the difference between keeping the instance going or shutting it down.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  19. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2019 15:57:06 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • Infected Moomin
    @moonman And the content creators are on Twitter and other #corpocentric socnets because of audience size, so that's not likely to change.
    In conversation about a year ago from AndStatus permalink
  20. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2019 19:42:18 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    It’s important to realize that your contacts that keep asking you to join #Facebook and #Instagram and #Twitter, but refuse to follow your out-migration from #corpocentric platforms to decentralized platforms like the Fediverse, are not likely to change just because you did. If you feel it necessary to use those platforms alongside these, feel free. Just remember to #POSSE (Post on your Own Space, Syndicate Elsewhere), so their non-owner ownership of your content does not affect how you can use your own posts.
    In conversation about a year ago from Shoyu permalink
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