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Notices tagged with diaspora

  1. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 18:28:49 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    "The post"{https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@Elizafox/105562613778968936} seemed to be a lot of fear-mongering, even more than the article itself.

    (1) #Twitter has millions of users. There is no #ActivityPub nor #OStatus implementation in which an instance hosted on a $5/mo #DigitalOcean / #Linode / #Vultr #VPS could handle the volume of a seamless connection with #Twitter. If they adopted AP OStatus, #Diaspora, or any other current open federation protocol, instances that didn't use firewall blocking would topple once the two userbases had sufficient interconnections (within a few hours or a few days after they started federating).

    (2) Twitter's business model is to push ads disguised as tweets. If their users could escape those and still interact with all the same contacts, they would. I'm certain that Twitter's management know this. They also turn all links into tracking links, and sell access to media (images, video, audio) uploads of important news events to news organizations.

    (3) Most Fediverse instances are financed out of the admin's pocket. Some have financial contributors, but nothing like Twitter's revenue. As the largest and best-financed instance, they would immediately have to start implementing modifications to make AP or other existing federation protocols useful to them, and those modifications would (as Mastodon's currently do) become unofficially mandatory in order to be compatible.

    (4) This isn't the first time that Twitter has considered federation, though this may be the first time they openly discussed it. Back when Identica was still a happening place (during Twitter's fail-whale days), Twitter considered federating. They didn't do it then, and I honestly do not believe they will do it now.

    (5) I'd say that Twitter's #BlueSky initiative is more meant to try to get bidirectional connections across #Facebook's moat and wall than it is to surround Twitter with a cloud of #Fediverse instances.
    In conversation about 3 days ago from web permalink

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    1. JBOD Shadow Legends (@Elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me)
      from JBOD Shadow Legends
      https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/15/twitters-vision-of-decentralization-could-also-be-the-far-rights-internet-endgame/ So Basically Twitter is trying to push 45 and Q through the backdoor Amazing. I hate it. I hope people don't fall for this nonsense and federate with Twitter. Trust not their gifts nor admit their horse, etc.
  2. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 01-Jan-2021 00:04:46 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    It is 2021 in UTC!

    I know this because JoinDiaspora sent me a bunch of notification e-mails about people’s birthdays. (I think it just assigned YYYY-JAN-01 for anyone that didn’t fill out a birthday; as far as I remember, giving that information wasn’t even an option when I joined #Diaspora. I truly think it is betraying the “we’re privacy focused” approach they promised all those years ago. #JD, this should be something that accounts opt into.)
    In conversation about 19 days ago from Shoyu permalink
  3. 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
  4. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Sep-2020 13:31:03 UTC Tobias Tobias
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    ♲ @AlexVoss@fosstodon.org: Student of mine is conducting a survey on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. Your input would be much appreciated. Please boost.

    standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe…

    #fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #mastodon #activitypub #ostatus #pubsub #xmpp #mstdn
    #indieweb #friendica #peertube #hubzilla #socialhome #pixelfed 
    #fedilab #nextcloud

    In conversation about 4 months ago from social.diekershoff.de permalink
  5. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2020 02:13:07 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    I got lots of birthday notices in my inbox from JD. I consider it an example of "All information that you collect, you will eventually store. All information that you store will eventually be misused." Why? At the time I and most of my contacts joined, #Diaspora was _the privacy-centric network_. Birthdays were not going to be used to trigger alerts and e-mails to tell everyone about them. But here we are.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from mustard permalink
  6. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Monday, 27-Jul-2020 04:51:27 UTC Tobias Tobias
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    ♲ @Wenting@fosstodon.org: Hey guys, what's up

    I am conducting an anonymous survey for my MSc dissertation on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. If you're interested, please click the link below. Your input would be much appreciated!

    The link is:
    standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe…

    #fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #friendica #peertube
    #alternative #socialhome
    #pixelfed #nextcloud

    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.diekershoff.de permalink
  7. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2020 18:10:43 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    • 竹下憲二 (たにん)
    https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/21/coronavirus-hijacks-cells-in-unique-ways/ [www statnews com]

    The #SARS-CoV-2 virus, the #coronavirus that causes #COVID-19, blocks one arm of the body's anti-virus defenses, while stimulating the other. This unique behavior allows unhindered replication while causing inflamation.

    #2019-nCoV

    Seen via @tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com's #Diaspora feed.
    In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink

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    1. ‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells
      from Sharon Begley
      A deep dive into how the new coronavirus infects cells has found that it orchestrates a hostile takeover of their genes unlike any other known viruses do.
  8. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2020 17:16:36 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    • Eugen
    @gargron wants to replace the current scope limited #Mastodon fake direct messages with real DMs, E2E encrypted using OLM (an implementation of Signal’s encryption). Good. People have sent personally identifying information and financial data across fake DMs, not aware that others could accidentally see the contents.

    Bad: Scope limited posts are going away entirely. SLPs / SLMs are useful. They are just regular messages, but sent only to the @mentioned users. That could be the foundation for something like #Diaspora’s Aspects. If there’s no pretense that they are private, and they are treated and displayed like other posts, they are good.

    The issue has always been the name. Pretending SLMs are DMs means people send each other private information. I don’t believe any instance admins would intentionally read them or misuse information in such posts, but having that information in your database could be bad news when “John Q Cracker” breaks into the server.

    @trnwh@mastodon.social
    In conversation about 8 months ago from Shoyu permalink
  9. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2020 01:41:39 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    • Michael Vogel
    https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/8642 #Friendica Someone that is familiar with #Diaspora is writing a new socnet based on #ActivityPub, wishes to change other #Fediverse software to follow Diaspora's model (viewer's server hijacks hashtags so the #hashtag search points to the viewer's home server, not the original poster's home server). The model that has been followed by almost all federated socnets for over a decade is that hashtag search links are inserted by the poster's server and point back there.

    IMO, a remote server changing the links is sketchy as heck*, but if they added local hashtag links in a separate area outside the post itself, that's acceptable. Or if they followed the #Pump.io idea of keeping hashtags completely separate from the basic server, then an external server (e.g. ragtag\.io) would be called to index and link the tag during the posting process, and searches would be performed based on results from the tag server.

    Anyway, I can't be bothered logging into Github to comment, but maybe @heluecht and other Friendica devs will see this and take this into consideration.

    * Remote servers editing the contents of one's posts is about as sketchy as it gets. There are rare occasions where that may be acceptable (i.e., to insert NSFW tags / image hiding on posts from instances where untagged NSFW content originates), but editing content to hijack hashtag search is about as questionable as one could get.
    In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink

    Attachments

    1. ActivityPub objects contain links to Friendica for hashtags and mentions · Issue #8642 · friendica/friendica
      Expected behavior Content in objects transmitted over activitypub should not contain hashtags and mentions surrounded by links to the Friendica server. Actual behavior Content in objects transmitte...
  10. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2020 04:06:28 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • simsa03
    @simsa03 That's for my account on the #Diaspora network, where most of my real contacts have left years ago, leaving dozens of spammy newsbots squatting on my subscribed hashtags and flooding out real people.
    In conversation about 8 months ago from mustard permalink
  11. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2020 03:25:28 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    I've been 'ignoring' newsbots (and one person that often posts the identical thing from 3-4 different accounts) that pollute the #Linux hashtag on #Diaspora.

    That's cleaned up my timeline quite a bit, but it will probably be stagnant now.
    In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink
  12. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 11-May-2020 19:34:43 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    So many #newsbots / #bots squat on the #Diaspora "Linux" hashtag. Most of them have multiple incarnations on different instances, so each post may appear in the stream 2-3 times. No wonder I only log in about once every 2-3 months.

    (I'm using "ignore this poster" to manage the most frequent posting bots. They seem to make hashtags useless, because they pollute the stream with peripherally-connected junk articles.)
    In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink
  13. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2020 22:19:13 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • Douglas A. Whitfield
    @musicman #LockedOut used say I'm a #Ruby expert ... because I filed some issues on #Diaspora.
    In conversation about 9 months ago from AndStatus permalink
  14. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 12:38:06 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    Under marked otherwise, all posts from this account are #CC #BYSA 4.0. Unless I send a DM, I want all my posts publicly visible, to any web browser, and any other user app or archival/ research system that speaks #ActivityPub (and ideally #Diaspora and #Zot too). I'm happy for them to be indexed by any search system and included in any relevant search. That's why I publish them on the web with Mastodon. When I want to have private discussion, I use DMs. One day the AP-verse will do this better.

    In conversation about 10 months ago from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  15. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2020 02:04:42 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    • FiXato

    @fedilab awesome. Being able to use both #Diaspora and an AP-compatible account within the same client would make me much more likely to use my D* account (which I haven't for ages TBH)
    @FiXato

    In conversation about 10 months ago from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  16. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2020 09:46:14 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    • jcgruenhage

    @jcgruenhage
    > that's a lot better than having all conferencing on the whole network go through the central jitsi instance.

    True, but not as good as having all the conferencing going through the client apps (as Jami does), with no dependence on servers. Also, as with the attempt to shoehorn #Jabber chat into #Diaspora, it makes hosting a Matrix server even more of a headache if you also have to stand up a Jitsi Meet stack and duct tape the two together.

    @mark

    In conversation about 11 months ago from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  17. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2020 02:03:20 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    • Kevin Marks
    • neil
    • nil
    • Greg McVerry

    @jgmac1106
    > my dream is the semi-private post where I can choose which networks of friends can see certain content.

    #Diaspora has always allowed this. If only somebody outside the core team would come up with a way for D* instances to inter-operate with AP apps ...

    @neil @bhaugen @KevinMarks

    In conversation about 11 months ago from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  18. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2020 17:35:28 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    in reply to
    • Strypey
    #GPlus is / was a non-federated clone of Diaspora. When GPlus opened, I immediately knew how to use it because I already used #Diaspora.

    Unfortunately, D*'s development stagnated once its focus on confining posts to a selected audience was no longer unique.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  19. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2020 07:30:34 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    Over and over I come across people saying that #Diaspora is "like FB". It really isn't. It's more like a federated version of G+. The main thing that makes the UI different from Titter or Mastodon is that by default it doesn't have a character limit, and as well as as public or private, posts can be sent only to a group of users defined by the sender.

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  20. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2020 00:46:06 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    • Doc Edward Morbius ⭕

    @dredmorbius same :) I currently blog on an ancient Wordpress fork hosted by #CoActivate.org, but I'm keen to transition to something that interacts with the #fediverse, as well as publishing to the web. I've considered using apps that allow long form posts and speak a number of federation standards. Eg #Friendica (#OStatus, #Diaspora, #ActivityPub) or #Hubzilla (all those plus #Zot). I'm also watching the tech deployed for @blog (WP + plugins).

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
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