Notices tagged with statusnet
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 21:08:16 UTC 
Bob Jonkman
I seem to recall there's a standard API that should be common to all the #StatusNet derivitave servers. I'm pretty sure that in its infancy Mastodon conformed to that API. But Mastodon's API expanded beyond that, and I suspect some of the common API was removed, probably around the time #OStatus was dropped from Mastodon too.
But that's sheer speculation on my part.
Time to upgrade my server, so I can upgrade PHP, so I can upgrade this GNUsocial instance... -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 17:50:52 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda
> We made GNU social which had its part in starting the Fediverse! GNU social was a spin-off from GNU FM, which was the software we made to run Libre.fm -- Libre.fm has been federated for a very, very long time.
I’m not sure when FooCorp’s GS project started, but the ##Fediverse predates the merger of #StatusNet, #FreeSocial, and #GNUsocial into the modern GS project. Y’all have some historical accomplishments already, so there’s no need to overinflate your role. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 19:25:03 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
One thing about this surge of people migrating from #Twitter to the #Fediverse is that people who gave up on #federated #socnets years ago and solely used #corpocentric platforms are now coming back.
Thus, I get announcements about people I knew from #Tent (thanks to fellow former Tentler @bthall) along with news about people from #Identi.ca and other #StatusNet and #Pump.io instances returning. -
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 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Oct-2022 04:26:23 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I actually think that the overwhelming majority of blocking should be done by individuals curating their own timelines. I am sensitive to the effect on the Fediverse as a whole, especially as we've already been through this.
Even the original #bifurcation (when the largest instance at the time, Identica, severed communication with #StatusNet / #GNUsocial & #OStatus and switched to the #Pump.io protocol and software) and the subsequent #ActivityPub - #OStatus split have caused untold breakage. I've seen AP-side devs, admins, users patting themselves on the back while commiserating about brokenness that is built into the protocol itself or at least its common implementations.
I have also seen people telling other people to create "alts" on various instances, so that their posts can reach all of their intended contacts. Not for resilience against instance shutdowns or separating by posts and recipients by topics and interests (which is what groups and Diaspora style Aspects / GPlus style Circles are for), but because #blockwars prevents posts and members from one instance to be seen on certain others.
For the record, I think that instance governance is something that Mastodon should include in its instances.social instance-picker, along with instances' topical foci. People should have a way to see what they're agreeing to (and what the alternatives are) before the sign up.
In other words, it isn't my way or the highway so much as it is making it possible to know what one is getting into. I am certain that there are (or were) instances with democratically chosen rules. I also believe that we're not doing the people who use an instance any favor by not making it possible for them to contribute to the financing and administration of the instance. If you're paying all the costs and doing all the work to maintain and moderate the instance, it is difficult to let an election institute a policy that you disagree with. (I've started to really disagree with the idea of individuals hosting public instances wholly out of their own financial and time resources. Besides the "truck factor", it is much easier to keep an instance going if everything was already handled by a team and at least partly member supported.)
On the other hand, if the instance encourages those in its membership who can do so to participate in keeping it going, then it is perfectly reasonable to expect the admin team to carry out the decisions voted by the membership. I do realize that not everyone can contribute funds, nor can everyone do the technical labor ... but as @simsa04 will remember, things like writing documentation, contributing in discussions about improving the software, designing and implementing themes, and even marketing-type tasks such as creating a logo and a favicon or promoting the instance to people outside the #Fediverse are beneficial. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Nov-2020 03:53:16 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
History of #Laconica, #StatusNet, #GnuSocial ... and the beginning of #PostActiv https://social.umeahackerspace.se/conversation/455000 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2020 16:04:03 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
By the way, @tobias, I think your #Textile plugin for #StatusNet was the basis for @chimo's #Markdown plugin for #GNUsocial. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2020 03:16:06 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Definitely all #GS (and #StatusNet if there are any left; and #postActiv) instances, most #Friendica and a few #Hubzilla instances. A few remaining (not updated) #Mastodon and #Pleroma instances.
At one time, there was a plugin for WordPress that let people comment over #OStatus. I do not know if said plugin is still maintained. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2019 07:17:37 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Why look at https://fluxbb.org/ when you know you’re not planning to set up a forum? It was just interesting. I came across it accidentally, from a site which had integrated a #FluxBB forum.
Oh, wow. Does anyone still remember the #StatusNet wiki ( #MediaWiki ) and forum ( #VanillaForum ) ? What a battle we had trying to keep back the spammers! -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2019 21:48:35 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@tealturtle I knew of some people from West Africa (but none from Southern or Central Africa) years ago, before the #bifurcation.
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I think they were #lost to the #corpocentric networks when Identica switched to #Pump.io and many #StatusNet instances closed. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2019 04:06:17 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Getting ready to shut down the #VPS that I used for my first self-hosted #StatusNet instance and my first self-hosted #Friendica instance. -
dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2019 04:47:21 UTC 
dansup
@lnxw48a1 @kaikatsu The fediverse was started in Canada too! #statusNet #WeTheNorth
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 00:57:32 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@infernalturtle I think they are still around. I don't know if they can still federate with the outside world. AFAIK, they were still using custom-themed #StatusNet. -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2018 06:28:52 UTC 
Strypey
@lj_writes I agree with Mike here, AP provides for many functions that aren't yet implemented across all the #fediverse apps, because they couldn't be federated under #OStatus (the older standard #Mastodon adopted from #StatusNet / #GNUsocial) or choices were made not to use them (eg groups in Mastodon). @mike can you recommend the DW crew a more general resource on implementing AP than the Mastodon one they are looking at?
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 10-Nov-2018 02:46:22 UTC
Bob Jonkman
And if it's not possible to run !GNUsocial or #StatusNet on #PHP7, whether it's possible to run #Apache with #PHP7 in one virtual server, and #PHP5 in another... -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Jun-2018 22:34:35 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Whatchutalkinbout Willis? #GNU_Social has supported federated polls since the #StatusNet days, and long before #Twitter added it. (I don't think Qvitter supports polls, but there are other reasons to avoid it already.) -
tuttle_(defunct) (tuttle@somsants.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 06:23:42 UTC 
tuttle_(defunct)
Somsants went live early 2012, we hoped other nodes would appear in other barrios de Barcelona and a new sovereign network would be born. But it never happened (yet, anyway). Back then we all ran statusnet software. I don't know the details on exactly how the transition to gnusocial happened. @mattl @mmn I think the !fediverse really took hold after the identica incident. It was as if the sun had been removed from the solar system. Just a few disorientated planets left behind. It was only then, once the overwhelmingly big central node had gone, that other nodes grew in equal conditions.
I also remember Erkan finding us and getting in touch personally by email. Pulling us together, letting us know we were not alone and creating a sense of sysadmin community. I found this old email.
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From: Erkan Yilmaz
Date: 2013/7/16
Subject: Fwd: 1. security hole in your Statusnet instance
Hola,
see below points 1 and 3-5 (don't make the patch public yet until we reach most of the SN admins)
join also the SNadmins group (1) + the mailing list (2) so next time I have not so much work to do.
Also: if you know the email of other SN admins, tell them please.
Erkan
Hi,
1. we discovered today a SQL injection bug in Statusnet (SN)
I'm trying to get hold of most SN admins but my dent (1) seems not to reach you (2) this is the fix: http://somsants.net/url/113352
2. The text at the bottom of your statusnet install says: http://somsants.net/url/3787 is a microblogging service brought to you by "Free Software Foundation". but the link is wrong (the part between " ")
http://somsants.net/url/113353
3. don't distribute the patch for 1. yet in public before we reach all SN admins (3)
4. Joshua will report this soon as CVE
5. you can reach us in the freenode irc channel #statusnet
Erkan
(1) http://somsants.net/url/113354
(2) http://somsants.net/url/113355
(3) http://somsants.net/url/1595
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@kat So, quitter/se was on the fediverse _before_ hannes wrote the new interface?
http://somsants.net/url/113356
@kat @zoowar @luke @mmn @bobjonkman @veg05 @mcscx2 @therubackup @grmpyoldman @ghostdancer @morph @merce@hispagatos.space @bob @lnxw48a1 @beni -
maiki (maiki@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 00:45:07 UTC 
maiki
@kd0bpv I haven't used #OStatus since I hosted a #StatusNet instance, but I recall I could follow my blog. Not sure how that works these days, but I bet it is easier with #GNUSocial than #Mastodon. Although, maybe pop a blog URL in the search box, see what happens.
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utzer (utzer@social.yl.ms)'s status on Monday, 16-Apr-2018 19:53:43 UTC 
utzer
Anyone in the other parts of the #Fediverse wants to try #Friendica? I would love to see my idle server get something to do, so sign up and try it. friendica.utzer.de/ #Mastodon #Diaspora #Pleroma #TheFederation #GnuSocial #gnusocial.de #hubzilla #red #StatusNet #socialhome #ganggo #federation #newhere #neuhier -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 23:51:07 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@deejoe @bobjonkman @bob Happy to be of assistance there.
An additional item to what @bobjonkman wrote:
Part of why Evan P was funding #Identi.ca & #StatusNet mostly out of his own pocket was that he formerly had a VC-funded enterprise behind it, but advertising revenues were weak and users demanded its removal. There were some commercial customers and some individuals that paid, but probably not nearly enough.
He had looked at some #OStatus protocol enhancements that could have improved federation and reduced cost, but many of the component protocols were sponsored by companies like #Google, which was no longer interested in them.
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