Notices tagged with fediverse

@loke #ActivityPub supports the groups functionality and there are projects like #Prismo (@prismo) and #Lemmy (and #Anancus but dev seems be dormant) are building federated forum platforms using AP groups. I'd love to see !groups return to the #fediverse is some form, but I suspect these #Reddit-a-likes are probably a better UI for it.
@bob @Wolf480pl

@lordbowlich I really enjoy the #fediverse but because most of its software is modelled on the #DataFarm platforms (text-heavy social media interaction with strangers), I think it's at risk of causing similar problems. I'd really like to see federated network efforts focusing on building tools for private social networks, and especially voice conversations, and building community using them.
@Wolf480pl @RandomDamage

There is both a risk and an opportunity in the current political sabre-rattling against "social media" in multiple countries. The #DataFarms will attempt to capture any new regulation and twist it into anti-competitive forms that disproportionately target smaller players, and even non-commercial ones like most #fediverse instances (eg #Article13). But if we can educate politicians enough, they might begin dismantling the datafarming revenue model that gives #TheStacks their dominance (eg #GDPR).

What I desperately want to know is, what do these politicians and pundits mean when they say "social media"? Are they talking specifically about ad-selling, corporate-owned #DataFarms like FB, YT, and the birdsite? Or they using it in its technical sense, where it distinguishes platforms for user-generated media (including the #fediverse) from #infotainment media where the ability to publish is controlled by editors and other gatekeepers?

@carlo #Mastodon is a very heavy engine (#RubyOnRails etc). Have you considered trying out one of the more lightweight #fediverse servers? There's a growing list of options here:
https://gitlab.com/fediverse/fediverse.gitlab.io/wikis/watchlist-for-activitypub-apps @czottmann

@cadwellsocialcoop good point. I noticed this when activists started to shift from posting their news stories, press releases, and op-eds on #Indymedia site and other shared media spaces, to having individual blogs, FB pages, etc for themselves and their groups. I really felt the loss of the cross-pollination, multi-perspective debate, and solidarity, generated by participation in shared platforms. The possibility of rekindling that is one of the reason the #fediverse excites me.
@Steve

It's awesome to see another new ActivityPub project in development!

Lemmy is a federated reddit alternative. I'm not sure if it federates yet, but I'm sure its on the roadmap #fediverse #activityPub

https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

Thank you to everyone who supported the project and spread the word.

I think 2019 will be the year of next generation fediverse projects like Anfora, Funkwhale, Go-Fed, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Plume, Prismo, Pterotype and WriteFreely. #activityPub #fediverse #federation

It's Wednesday! It's beer and pizza night. Cheers, #fediverse and good evening.

Metro (Instagram), Micro (Tumblr) and Moment (500px/Flickr) UIs have been in development for months.

I have come to realize that MicroUI was a mistake, MetroUI is the priority and MomentUI is long overdue.

Do one thing right. #pixeldev #photoSharing #fediverse

@jonah
> are you including the social.privacytools.io part of the username?
Nope. Gotcha. All the ones I tested worked when I do that. User error on my part ;)

> not pulling in older posts is somewhat expected behavior

Now that you mention it, I always wondered why some users seemed to have no older posts. It does seem like something that could be fixed (not by you). If a web browser can access the older posts from the remote instance (by navigating to its URL), why not a #fediverse client?

@BurungHantu @jonah FYI I'm having trouble finding some of the users on social.privacytools.io or their posts. There are some users I can see on here:
https://social.privacytools.io/public

... but can't find in a search. Others I can find, but I can't see their posts. Possible causes:
* folks using #Mastodon privacy settings to hide themselves or their posts from the wider #fediverse (fair 'nuff)
* bugs or configurations weirdness with your instance, the one I'm on, or the web client I use (#Pinafore.social)

@Mayana "direct messages" are called that for a reason. They are not private messages, but an experimental first step towards them, only supported for now by two #fediverse projects, #Mastodon and #Pleroma. If DMs are sent to a user on an instance of anything other than those, they are just displayed on the web like any other message.
@BurungHantu @jonah

@mike_hales I've been getting really into podcasts lately and thinking about what a #Disintermedia podcast might be like. Interviews with folks from OAE/ CTA projects, #fediverse projects, and really any project at the intersection of new tech and activism/ community-led development, would definitely fit the bill. Watch this space ;)
@neil @bhaugen

@mike_hales I've been getting really into podcasts lately and thinking about what a #Disintermedia podcast might be like. Interviews with folks from OAE/ CTA projects, #fediverse projects, and really any project at the intersection of new tech and activism/ community-led development, would fit the bill. Watch this space ;)
@neil @bhaugen

"Excuse me, how do we figure out how to tell people if they are welcome or not to our yet to be picked out, thus far only hypothetical lawn?"

Perfectly normal conversations in the #fediverse. Never change.

Coffe time! Good morning, #fediverse and #tzag to all

Good morning #fediverse and #tzag to all