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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 00:53:18 UTC 
Ji Fu
Another article about the #Fediverse written by people who don't understand the verse "Mastodon gives you the features of Twitter but with no neo-nazis" -
Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 08:52:00 UTC 
Aral Balkan
If you see a surveillance capitalist affiliation proudly displayed on someone’s profile here on the fediverse, ask “are you proud to work for them and why?” “Do you realise this space exists in reaction to the toxic, exploitative, and extractive spaces created by surveillance capitalists like your employer?”
#surveillanceCapitalism #fediverse #corporateCapture #activism
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 04:20:06 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
If I had a little extra money, I'd probably visit #LowEndBox or #LowEndTalk on Friday to find a deal on a #VPS or two. If I'm going to instantiate one of my #Fediverse vaporware projects, I should set up one or two test instances early on. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 17:10:44 UTC 
simsa04
As dishwasher and lavatory attendant I do dirty work, not coding. So I did not watch hotmail, gmail, etc.
I used "federated silo" in the sense of "silo on the fediverse". That there may be other silos using distributed networks is beside the point. It's about this network, the #fediverse, with its thorough propaganda ¹ of "open / free / community" that got subdued by various activities, including design decisions by the leader of the Mastodon network.
¹ See as recent example https://gnusocial.net/conversation/7517599#notice-13138118 and my reply to its author: https://gnusocial.net/conversation/7517599#notice-13146139 -
aab (aab@khp.ignorelist.com)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 16:43:44 UTC 
aab
@Nicole Mastodon has been here for some years, and the #Fediverse for a lot more (since 2008, at least).
We've been doing great, and we'll keep doing it :)
https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/ -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 03:15:37 UTC
simsa04
Very true. To me it's more and more the "Mastodon network" (i.e., all servers of all instances running the software Mastodon) vs. the #fediverse. Never thought there could be a federated silo. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 00:40:55 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I'm thinking that I'll find a couple of online #PHP / #MySQL / #LAMP courses. I have some ideas for a #Fediverse server and I'd like to try them out.
Depending on my skills, available time, and whether the projects' CoCs are acceptable, I would also like to contribute to both #GNU_Social and #Friendica. I know both projects can use a little additional momentum. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 19:43:47 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
The instant messenger #Signal now has a #Fediverse ( AP side ) account. https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/109366254765864819 -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 20:40:47 UTC
Ji Fu
@casey is remote the few times I have been early, like #Fediverse I first joined #statusNet (now Ostatus/GNUsocial) in like 2010, but I never used it as my primary until I gave up #facebook for lent this year, and made 100% change in June when they locked my account until I activated #2fa I HATE 2fa -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 23:14:57 UTC
simsa04
@administrator @lnxw48a1
Given how Gargron even in times of OStatus-support of Mastodon refused to consider features relevant to other projects confirms me all the more that he is not that different from people like Zuckerberg or Musk, and that it is indeed justified to speak of a "Mastodon network" of its own. Too obvious is his (and its) ambition to separate from other projects while at the same time trying to dominate the #fediverse by establishing "standards". Awful, scary, and creepy. -
admin de gnusocial.net (administrator@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 17:08:34 UTC 
admin de gnusocial.net
@dermot If you are interested, have a look at https://fediverse.party/ and https://fedidb.org/software for an overview. The #Fediverse is huge. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 17:01:48 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I've never thought of banking as federated, but you're right that it has a number of similarities. Like any analogy, if one takes it too far, it breaks down, but it is useful enough for explaining the #Fediverse to outsiders. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 20:23:02 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#Pjuu ( #OtterSite ) starts planning a rewrite that adds #federation ( probably only #ActivityPub ). Looking to become an alternative to #Mastodon and #Pleroma, while still joining the #Fediverse.
https://pjuu.com/joe/5b0383de620211edba040242ac140002 [pjuu com] -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 19:02:15 UTC
simsa04
The #fediverse should perhaps think about bifurcation and split: the Mastodon-network that already creates a silo of its own, and the other instances. Right now the mass-scaling of the mastodon-network ousts smaller instances not running mastodon software. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 18:55:50 UTC
simsa04
Why the Mastodon-network slowly strangles the #fediverse
https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/
« If ActivityPub (the protocol) and Mastodon (a server that adheres to that protocol) were designed to incentivise decentralisation, having more instances in the network would not be a problem. In fact, it would be the sign of a healthy, decentralised network.
However, ActivityPub and Mastodon are designed the same way Big Tech/Big Web is: to encourage services that host as many “users” as they can.
This design is both complex (which makes it difficult and expensive to self-host) and works beautifully for Big Tech (where things are centralised and scale vertically and where the goal is to get/own/control/exploit as many users as possible).
In Big Tech, the initial cost of obtaining such scale is subsidised by vast amounts of venture capital [...]
However, unlike Big Tech, the stated goal of the fediverse is to decentralise things, not centralise them. Yet how likely is it we can achieve the opposite of Big Tech’s goals while adopting its same fundamental design?
When you adopt the design of a thing, you also inherit the success criteria that led to the evolution of that design. If that success criteria does not align with your own goals, you have a problem on your hands.»
#decentralisation #fediverse #federation !gnusocial !fnetworks -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 18:32:52 UTC
simsa04
Aral Balkan, "Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)" https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/
A wonderful blogpost explaining why mass and scale are a danger to the #fediverse. Thanks @aral for unearthing this problem for the #Fediverse (not just the silo-esk Mastodon-network).
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« [O]n the fediverse, I find myself in a somewhat unique situation where:
1. I have my own personal Mastodon instance, just for me.4
2. I’m followed by quite a number of people. Over 22,000, to be exact.
3. I follow a lot of people and I genuinely enjoy having conversations with them. [...]
Unfortunately, the combination of these three factors creates a perfect storm which means that now, every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. [...]
So, what’s the solution?
Well, there’s only one thing you can do when you find yourself in such a pickle: scale up your Mastodon instance. The problem with that? It starts getting expensive. »
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Yes, scale the instance and have it get more expensive is one problem.
But the other is that by doing so you either oust smaller instances or force them to scale up as well to stay visible and "see" enough accounts.
#fediverse #federation !gnusocial !fnetworks -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 14:27:06 UTC
simsa04
Let me suggest to you instead:
* Instances are not *places*. Instances are not places at all but *conversations*, most often mingling with others farer away.
* Accordingly, not only are users dependent on their hosts but hosts are dependent on their users as well, for the quality of the conversations that take place, the atmosphere that rules the instance, and the reputation the instance "acquires" (or rather: *grows*) from that.
Obviously one should support the host/admin in the various ways that are possible. But an instance is not an "appartment buidling" in which the landlord deals with raucous tenants ("My house, my rules"). Nor is it a "community". It's voices mingling, and ideas taking advantage of that, pursuing their own goals and destinations.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 13:44:34 UTC
simsa04
Over in the Mastodon-network (a silo of its own), people keep doing the self-introduction thing. I find this idea rather befuddling, esp. when it comes to sharing personal info which we learnt we shouldn't do on the web.
I think you can learn more about a person when you listen to her tone of voice, her manners, and only to some extent via her interests. With regard to the latter, an annotated list of my tags may suffice.
#batteries (although in the context of infrastructure, energy, climate, less as hardware or essential building blocks but as objects on which people put their misguided hopes on)
#counterculture (I went along with it for many years, now I primarily think about its negative impacts; historical interest)
#drought (is more than "heat" a concern to me)
#ecocolonialism (from the perspective of how Greens and Progressives offset environmental costs on poor nations when trying to jump-start their green economies)
#energy (broad category, includes "renewables", "nuclear", often "infrasturcture")
#federation (how its technical aspects create the conversations-based foundation of the Fediverse)
#fediverse (history as well as present and future developments of something that is more than the Mastodon-network)
#goodread (a corollary to "sources")
#heat (rarely)
#identica (history)
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aab (aab@khp.ignorelist.com)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 15:39:40 UTC
aab
@mattl Fine! And it's nice to say hi to one of the people that created the #Fediverse software I'm using :) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 13:37:25 UTC
simsa04
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109300967725833789
So @Gargron calls "network" the network of mastodon running servers, that is, a subset of the #fediverse, not the fediverse as a whole. Good to know. And no wonder the media got confused and equates both. Yokel!
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