@mario Non ho mai posseduto uno #smartphone, quindi non so in che senso dici "non sempre รจ possibile farne completamente a meno".
Credo sia una questione di volontร e di organizzazione. Fare a meno del tutto di un numero di #cellulare รจ davvero complicato, si dovrebbe rinunciare a #SPID e #CIE, vedendosi quindi negati una serie di diritti. Almeno per ora, perรฒ, fare a meno di uno smartphone รจ possibile.
Per ora.
Dipenderร anche da: in quanti continueremo a volere che resti possibile. @kenobit
@mario In effetti tutti i miei rapporti a distanza con le pubbliche amministrazioni passano attraverso computer, dopo autenticazione fatta con #CIE. Solo una volta son stato costretto ad installare l'app IO, quella volta funzionรฒ su un emulatore, oggi non saprei.
Quando dico che ci vuole volontร , intendo che bisogna insistere. La mia banca, non avessi chiesto, non mi avrebbe svelato la possibilitร di usare i servizi via rete autenticandomi tramite telefonata ad un numero verde. @kenobit
@dado @Ricciotto sรฌ! Una tiratura di 200 copie fatta con lo scopo di essere piรน economica possibile. Sto facendo gli ultimi calcoli, ma dovrei riuscire a venderle a 5/6 euro spedizione inclusa.
Scorso le pagine del pdf velocemente col tablet a letto ๐, cosi al volo mi pare di aver trovato delle imprecisioni (niente di che) e almeno una cosa che non mi piace ( mio problema personale che odia in certi frangenti le auto-promozioni), i vari link. Credo che quando si vuole veicolare certi argomenti si debba rimanere piรน in disparte. Ripeto รจ un mio problema. Domani vedo di leggere meglio. ๐
ho divorato la versione digitale l'altro ieri sera. Una lettura illuminante e che apre gli occhi. Non ti ringrazierรฒ mai abbastanza. Da due giorni sto seguendo le tue dritte per ripulire il mio smarthphone. Ho consigliato la lettura a piรน di una persona che puรฒ solo beneficiarne. In solo una giornata, non esagero, ho giร notato la differenza, ho avuto la prima serata totalmente in balia del relax, il tempo c'รจ sempre stato, lo stavo sprecando.
lo confermo. Un esempio freschissimo: ogni mattina sprecavo minimo un'ora e passa sulle app meta a scrollare cose che mi rendevano nervosa o mi lasciavano a fissare lo schermo come inebitita. Non me ne accorgevo. Oggi sono riuscita a fare cosรฌ tante cose che mi avanza metร giornata per far quello che mi piace davvero. E non รจ cambiato nulla nei miei orari lavorativi o negli impegni personali giornalieri. Sembra giร un'altra vita e sono passati solo due giorni.
Today, at Framasoft (bonjour!), we publish the very first version of the PeerTube Mobile app for android and iOS. A lot of care went into its conception, to help a wider audience watch videos and...
@alton @lps Hi, we'll progressively add other instances. We (unfortunately) limited the list for the first release in order to pass store validations. We also plan to release an "unlocked" app on F-Droid.
I'm sorry but this is horrible. It's obvious that the user experience isn't the priority because if it was then connecting to ones own instance would have been the first thing you added.
This is nothing more then a glorified search tool that doesn't even work that well. I couldn't find a single video from my own collection.
I can't believe that THIS is the direction that you're headed in. Especially after having a year to work on it.
@Mrfunkedude I'm sorry but your replies to this post are horrible. I agree that the app seems in an early stage, but they made it clear that it was the case. Giving feedback is great, but is it needed to be so aggressive ? You get this for free, and being respectfull (I'm not even saying kind, just minimum respect) seem to me like a minimum, and would actually give better results I am convinced.
I agree that being able to log in, selecting a custom instance is a must have though !
I'm a little confused. Are you saying that you HAD to present the app to Google and Apple as a search tool for only a handful of instances to get approval for further development?
The limited number of instances is because Google and Apple's store are very touchy about the content of new apps from new devs, and we want to get though the first publication process.
The log in is not in the beta test release because we are working on it and plan to add it in the -near- future.
Vorrei vederli, questi sedicenti "compagni", dietro le mura domestiche ๐
Ho subito a sufficienza da guardarmi le spalle da chi si riempie la bocca di alti principi ma con gli affetti stretti si comporta come una bestia disempatica.
Almeno chi รจ apertamente misogino lo stani prima.
Coloro che invece, appunto, si riempiono il tempo di giuste cause e poi umiliano, minimizzano, affamano d'affetto, trattano con sdegno, se non proprio picchiano e minacciano le proprie compagne hanno una facciata sociale piรน rispettabile e meno sospetta - un modo per ripulirsi la coscienza e ricevere prestigio.
Luke is a homeless #cat in Iran. He was found dragging himself along the street, crying for help. Many people contributed to his treatment and surgery to help him get back on his feet. Heโs a fighter, and he powered through. ๐ป Although heโs made significant progress in his recovery, he still needs a home, as heโs too vulnerable to live on the streets. Luke has come a long way because he loves life. If you want to witness and share in that passion for life, bring him into your home. For information: Shima +39 389 603 7889
Luke รจ un #gatto randagio in Iran. ร stato trovato mentre si trascinava per strada, piangendo per chiedere aiuto. Tante persone hanno contribuito alle sue cure e allโintervento per aiutarlo a rimettersi in piedi. ร un combattente e ha lottato con tutte le sue forze. ๐ป Anche se ha fatto grandi progressi nella sua guarigione, ha ancora bisogno di una casa, poichรฉ รจ troppo vulnerabile per vivere in strada. Luke ha fatto tanta strada perchรฉ ama la vita. Se vuoi condividere e ammirare questa passione per la vita, accoglilo nella tua casa. Per informazioni: Shima +39 389 603 7889
A black and white cat with yellow eyes is looking up at the camera. The cat is in a carrier, and its head is sticking out of the top. The cat has a white patch on its chest and a white line running down its nose. The carrier is grey.
A black and white cat is laying on a white mat. The cat has a bandage on its front leg and is looking towards the camera. A carrier is in the background.
Because of quitting twitter I hope everyone finds me here now. Could y'all boost this? โจ INTRODUCTION โจ Hi new people I'm Revy Non binary trans Lover of all things cute to horror Photographer & streamer
As with any other app, we flagged Fennec and Mull with KnownVuln until the app is updated. Contributors fixed the issues that delayed versions 130 and later. Stand by for the build.
@cretox We'we mentioned why 130 could not be built sooner back in f-droid.org/2024/09/26/twif.htโฆ so having all these issue overlap was unfortunate. How was that saying, 'when it rains, it pours'? ๐'
This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Sep 2024, Week 39Community NewsF-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.6.4 and no one will get this update. Wh...
@mark22k Note that the DivestOS developer helps with both Fennec and Mull in F-Droid, but they built the app for their own repo with the missing binaries taken from Mozilla. At F-Droid we need to build those ourselves, and that took time to setup.
The UX is a bit weird. Recommends to uninstall Fennec immediately due to a vulnerability, but doesn't have a link to/explanation of the vulnerability as far as I can tell.
@met @fdroidorg It would also be nice if F-Droid would mention mitigations that don't require uninstalling Fennec. I would guess that in this case not using Fennec would be enough.
@sertonix @met There are no mitigations as far as we know, besides the usual advice of not browsing shady sites and using uBlock. Also note that the warning message is rather generic, so that users notice and ask for more info. We can discuss a better text in our Forum if need be.
thanks for pointing that out, even though the message in F-Droid is somewhat misleading and might indicate that Fennec in general should be uninstalled and not only the specific vuln version. Also a note that it can be reinstalled once the updated version is available would have been nice. Like that it has caused quite some hassle in the community.
@Datenwolke ๐ก๏ธ @F-Droid I see that one fix to the app metadata was pushed shortly ago today. I think the updates should be available after next update and build cycles (few days).
Enjoyed sharing the recipe of how we run Cloud68.co using #opensource to provide our managed hosting services to small and medium teams. Lovely crowd ๐คฉ #linuxday2024
ร il momento delle rivelazioni personali (almeno in parte).
Fino a pochi anni fa, ero uno che di giorno lavorava come specialista di trasmissione Dati e Sistemi presso una grande e famosa azienda (di cui non farรฒ nome), di notte avevo la mia passione โฆ il mio club di motociclisti. Erano mesi che mi infastidiva un dolorino nei pressi della cervicale, a cui davo la colpa con noncuranza; sono un tipo abbastanza โprestanteโ e attribuivo il tutto alla mia vita molto movimentata. Un giorno decisi di andare da un fisioterapista per qualche massaggio che mi facesse passare quel fastidioso dolorino. Lui mi chiese, prima di mettermi โle mani addossoโ un esame, la risonanza magnetica. Dopo qualche giorno, la feci tranquillamente presso una clinica e andai via in attesa del referto. Ero al lavoro, mi chiamรฒ il primario della clinica, dicendomi che dovevo IMMEDIATAMENTE tornare da loro, senza aggiungere altro per telefono. Non posso negare che la cosa mi turbรฒ parecchio, chiamai in ufficio (ero fuori per lavoro) e avvisai che mi prendevo un paio dโore di permesso. Andai in clinica.
Al mio arrivo mi aspettava il primario che mi disse testualmente: โse cammini ancora รจ solo grazie al tuo fisico, un altro sarebbe in un letto immobileโ. Avevo un tumore, di circa 5 centimetri alla base del cranio, dovevo operarmi immediatamente. Nonostante le insistenze del primario, tornai prima a casa, con calma misi al corrente la mia compagna che subito mi fece ricoverare in ospedale, sotto supervisione del primario.
La storia รจ molto lunga, andiamo subito ad oggi.
Il tumore era (fortunatamente) benigno, ma a causa delle dimensioni e della posizione in cui si trovava, mi โtoccaronoโ punti particolari.
Concludendo, sono in pensione anticipata, su una sedia a rotelle e qualche altro โprobleminoโ.
Attualmente mi impegno con il computer (grazie anche al lavoro che facevo), studio approfonditamente Linux ( pixelfed.snowhouse.noho.st/p/sโฆ ), faccio ogni giorno palestra (quello che posso fare) e continuo a frequentare il mio club di motociclisti, che non mi ha mai abbandonato, ma niente piรน moto.๐
Tutto questo per spiegare il perchรฉ mi trovate sempre qui, รจ diventata la mia passione, il mio scopo di vita e ho trovato anche qui tanti nuovi amici.
La vita riserva sempre delle sorprese, cerco di adattarmi a questo mio nuovo stato.๐
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It is time for personal revelations (at least in part).
Until a few years ago, I was someone who by day worked as a Data and Systems Transmission Specialist at a large and famous company (whose name I will not mention), by night I had my passion ... my motorbike club. For months I had been bothered by a little pain in the neck area, which I blamed carelessly; I am a fairly โhigh performanceโ guy and I attributed it to my busy life. One day I decided to go to a physiotherapist for some massage to get rid of that annoying little pain. He asked me, before putting โhis hands on meโ an examination, an MRI. After a few days, I had it done quietly at a clinic and left to wait for the report. I was at work, the head doctor of the clinic called me and told me that I had to IMMEDIATELY go back to them, without adding anything else over the phone. I cannot deny that I was very upset about this, I called the office (I was away on business) and told them I was taking a couple of hours off work. I went to the clinic.
When I arrived, the head doctor was waiting for me, who told me verbatim: โif you are still walking it is only because of your body, another one would be in a motionless bedโ. I had a tumour, about 5 centimetres at the base of my skull, I had to have an operation immediately. Despite the chief physician's insistence, I went home first, calmly told my companion, who immediately had me admitted to hospital, under the supervision of the chief physician.
The story is very long, let's go straight to today.
The tumour was (fortunately) benign, but because of its size and position, I was โtouchedโ in particular places.
In conclusion, I am in early retirement, in a wheelchair and some other โlittle problemsโ.
At the moment I'm busy with the computer (thanks also to the work I used to do), I study Linux extensively, I work out every day (what I can do) and I continue to attend my motorbike club, which has never let me down, but no more motorbikes.๐
All this to explain why you can always find me here, it has become my passion, my life purpose and I have also found many new friends here.
Life always holds surprises, I try to adapt to this new state of mine.๐
Lo so, รจ un bel mattone di oltre 650 pagine, con caratteri medio/piccoli; sono recidivo, lo rileggerรฒ, c'รจ sempre da imparare. Repetita iuvant.๐ช ๐
Caspita! Hai una tenacia invidiabile, tieni duro, adattarsi al cambiamento รจ la chiave della evoluzione umana. Anche se non รจ sempre detto che sia facile, ma come diceva il Dott. Frankenstyn "Si Puรฒ Fare!"
๐ฅบ Ho gli occhi lucidi ma verso la fine sorridevo (come una scema)... ti immaginavo (mentre leggevo) su una sedia a rotelle "truccata" mentre eri al club dei motociclisti ๐๐ฆฝ. Ti auguro ogni bene. โบ
sentivo che c'era qls nel tuo modo di porti di una persona che sa la veritร , che ha gli occhi aperti sulla vita e non riuscivo a spiegarmelo. Piango e sorrido...
Mi sono trovato questo tuo post in TL grazie a un repost. Sono grato a chi ha fatto il repost per avermi fatto leggere la tua storia. Posso solo inchinarmi davanti a te ๐
Da quel che hai scritto (e da quel che ho capito dai commenti e controcommenti) direi che hai una forza enorme. E non parlo dei muscoli, ovviamente. Parlo di una forza molto piรน importante, quella mentale.
Grazie per aver voluto condividere un pezzo della tua storia personale. Dev'essere stata dura affrontare una cosa cosรฌ, ma mi sembra che tu l'abbia presa con l' attitudine migliore (anche se immagino ci siano stati alti e bassi).
Complimenti anche al fisioterapista, non รจ da tuttษ insistere su esami prima di mettere "le mani addosso". Un caro amico, che oggi non c'รจ piรน, per qualche tempo si era rivolto a vari fisioterapisti e chiropratici per un fastidioso mal di schiena. Lavorando in una libreria, era plausibile che avesse fatto qualche movimento errato muovendo scatole pesanti. Questi "professionisti" lo manipolavano e sembrava andare meglio per un po', ma poi il dolore tornava. Poi รจ venuto fuori che l'amico aveva un linfoma, e nel giro di pochi mesi รจ morto. Probabilmente sarebbe stato comunque troppo tardi, ma ecco, l'idea che questi si facessero pagare per massaggiarlo senza incoraggiarlo a verificare cosa ci fosse sotto, mi lascia ancora l'amaro in bocca, pur dopo tanti anni.
@SnowPix ร difficile immaginare che mazzata dev'essere stata, avere la vita radicalmente cambiata di punto in bianco. Da come la racconti la tua reazione รจ stata la migliore possibile: la vita e la voglia di vivere prevalgono su tutto. Come l'erba che cresce nelle crepe di un marciapiede, anche tu e tutti noi abbiamo la capacitร di adattarci e prosperare, nonostante tutto. Bisogna ricordarselo e ricordarsi che miracolo sia essere vivi e coscienti, su questo meraviglioso granello blu perso in un universo piรน grande di ogni immaginazione. Daje fortissimo!
La sto raccontando piรน semplice per non ammorbare tutti, ma il succo รจ questo, anche per non dare troppi dettagli. La reazione ... sembrava di essere in un brutto sogno, solo che non finiva al risveglio.๐ค
Ecco come un problema che abbiamo riscontrato sul nostro server Poliverso.org ci ha fatto accorgere dellโinvasione dei crawler che Meta sta sguinzagliando per il Web con lโobittivo di addestrare la sua intelligenza artificiale. E i media italiani, muti!
Ecco come un problema che abbiamo riscontrato sul nostro server Poliverso.org ci ha fatto accorgere dellโinvasione dei crawler che Meta sta sguinzagliando perโฆ
@Dieguito ๐ฆ๐ง๐ปโ๐ป๐ in effetti abbiamo scoperto un sacco di cose, Mr. Polivers* รจ molto soddisfatto, anche se si รจ stressato troppo... ๐
Caspita. E pensare che Meta rompe tanto le palle su 'ste cose... che scraping dai loro siti non si deve fare per ToS, che se lo fai ti ratelimitano pesantemente, a tal punto che succede che ti bloccano anche se vedi troppa roba in giro da un normale browser senza un account loggato... perรฒ poi loro sono i primi.
Paul, but you get into the diminishing returns territory pretty quickly. For someone poor, a million dollars would be life-changing. But one more million? Not nearly as much.
@axoplasm Now I wonder if "sometimes I want to be rich to somehow 'hack' my life in stupid conservative country" also counts... My chart in time would be a wave between that state and "I just don't want financial difficulties in more rough times",
Questo รจ lโultimo toot che pubblichiamo su questo Account. Lโistanza @social.admin.ch era un progetto pilota di un anno. Le ragioni che ci spingono a terminare il progetto, malgrado le caratteristiche fondamentalmente adeguate alla comunicazione governativa, sono indicate qui: admin.ch/gov/it/pagina-inizialโฆ Ci teniamo a ringraziare tutti i follower. Le info del Consiglio federale continuano ad essere disponibili su admin.ch, Instagram (gov.ch) e sรฌ, lร .
Non condivido assolutamente le motivazioni alla base della scelta di non proseguire con il progetto, ma io come italiano non posso certo criticare, visto che la nostra Repubblica ha deciso di ignorare il Fediverso.
Per il resto, posso solo sperare che l'amministrazione ci ripensi, anche in base al fatto che se non si pubblicizza un account, non si puรฒ rammaricarsi che non abbia molti account (e, nel Fediverso, 3.500 follower oggi sono veramente tantissimi)
@informapirata Qui sotto la motivazione per la chiusura dell'istanza...nulla da eccepire ovviamente . Solo la tristezza di constatare che nonostante tutto (che in questo contesto vuol dire, nonostante Musk, nonostante sia un servizio a pagamento, nonostante sia ripieno di pubblicitร ) il vantaggio competitivo di X รจ enorme. Come si salva Mastodon? Credo serva una sponsorship di livello ed un commitment da parte di qualche organismo magari europeo. Che ne pensate? #savemastodon #mastodon #x
@Paolost il Fediverso (quello libero, non Threads) รจ un canale che costa pochissimo gestire, che consente la massima diffusione, interazione e autonomia.
Tuttavia il Fediverso non solo รจ attualmente conosciuto dalla popolazione, ma non รจ conosciuto neanche dagli enti che ne hanno attivato istanze istituzionali con il budget e la competenza di un branco di dilettanti.
E l'incompetenza e l'improvvisazione mostrata oggi degli enti pubblici sta facendo molto male al Fediverso
@Paolost aggiungo che incompetenza e improvvisazione non vanno attribuiti solo agli enti pubblici, ma anche giganti dell'editoria come il FInancial Times hanno dimostrato di non avere competenze di marketing, comunicazione e, forse, neanche competenze tecniche, per gestire un'istanza istituzionale
@informapirata Si capisco quello che dici, ma questo fa capire dove siamo oggi, mi chiedo come sia possibile cambiare le cose e come poter aiutare il cambiamento. Io per esempio rimango sconcertato che tutti i politici, anche quelli seri, magari lontani da Mask, abbiamo un account su X e questo sia molto spesso l'unico account dove scrivono
@Paolost oggi mi sono fatto un bel giro su X, luogo che ormai frequento solo quando mi arrivano le notifiche di alcuni profili notevoli, e ho trovato una quantitร di video razzisti e suprematisti che non vedevo tutti insieme neanche quando navigavo su 4chan...
Perchรฉ allora politici e soprattutto giornalisti si trovano quasi tutti lรฌ? La risposta purtroppo รจ abbastanza semplice (segue)
(segue) Twitter รจ Insuperabile per quello che riguarda l'informazione istantanea. La centralizzazione del sistema avvantaggia il transito rapido di notizie provenienti da tutte le parti del mondo se senti una scossa di terremoto, guardando Twitter riesci a capire dove รจ avvenuta ancora prima di ricevere i dati dagli osservatori di geofisica. (segue)
(segue) Quel tipo di modello Non puoi batterlo, perchรฉ รจ il design stesso della tecnologia a renderlo Superiore rispetto all'architettura federata.
Ma il Fediverso NON ร TWITTER, un equivoco che purtroppo รจ dovuto all'attuale preponderanza di mastodon, dovuta a due fattori fondamentali: il fatto che i pochi utenti Twitter insoddisfatti lo abbiano alimentato diventando in quel momento di tantissimi del Fediverso. (segue)
Ma anche il design di mastodon, ergonomicamente superiore a tutte le altre App del Fediverso.
Ma questo equivoco ha ha fatto sรฌ che la maggior parte degli utenti del Fediverso lo considerassero una specie di Twitter..
Ma non รจ fatto per quel tipo di utilizzo. E Probabilmente ormai Twitter รจ comunque monopolista, se pensi che neanche Threads che pure รจ centralizzato รจ riuscito a scalfire il dominio di Twitter sull'informazione.
Quindi a cosa serve il fediverso? E soprattutto, serve ancora?
Naturalmente sรฌ, ma non per l'informazione istantanea, bensรฌ per la comunicazione libera, asincrona, distribuita e interoperabile.
Il punto รจ che c'รจ un bisogno immenso di un sistema di comunicazione libero e interconnesso. Ma ci vogliono competenze diffuse per creare le quali รจ necessario uno sforzo di quella parte di societร civile che piรน conosce il Fediverso
mi chiedevo se ci fossero qui musicisti interessati a collaborazioni "in remoto". In pratica, vorrei registrare delle parti per composizioni come questa. Per questo brano in particolare sarebbe meraviglioso collaborare con un violinista. Ho scritto parecchia musica con strumenti artificiali, e sarebbe bello per me renderla piรน "vera" sostituendo le tracce sintetiche con strumenti autentici.
Mi piacerebbe anche collaborare su brani nuovi, magari da scrivere assieme.
Se per favore fate circolare questo toot ve ne sarei grato. Grazie.
Problemi quotidiani di Poliverso da quando รจ stato aggiornato alla release 08.2024
Da quando abbiamo installato la release 08.2024 l'istanza Poliverso si "pianta" un paio di volte al giorno per qualche minuto... Anche se non ci piace installare su un server cosรฌ affollato una Release Candidate, forse stavolta ci toccherร farlo: in tal caso, cercheremo di avvertire per tempo tutti gli utenti
Non รจ satira. ร una descrizione accurata del trolling culturale che tiene i piรน chiusi in una bolla natangelo.it/2024/09/22/sagge-โฆ - per la quale, per esempio, chi dubita che la guerra in #Ucraina debba essere spinta fino alla guerra nucleare viene messo in ridicolo come paranoico ("le guerre ci sono sempre state"), oppure liquidato come propagandista russo, anche quando presenta documentazione da fonti non sospette. #Natangelo #guerra
@sposadelvento Facciamo la prova del 9 sulla pacatezza dell'utenza?
Proviamo a sostenere che l'immagine di cui non si abbiano i permessi non andrebbe usata. ร una scusa vuota il fatto che il mezzo lo permetta. Peggio l'aver "coraggiosamente" abbracciato quel quasi diritto al numero di interazioni (automatiche) che solo l'organizzazione centralizzata sa garantire, e coprire se le fa comodo...
Vediamo che succede di fronte alla generalizzata inosservanza basilare per tornaconto personale. @mcp
@sposadelvento Vero ma dico ciรฒ essendo chiaro il discorso iniziale. E la gamba tesa, che non รจ un attacco personale, รจ data dall'atmosfera stagnante suscitata da fenomeni come la crociata contro chi non usi l'alt text. Penso sia molto costruttivo chiedersi perchรฉ i bisogni di alcune minoranze vengono abusati mentre di altre rimangono tabรน, prima di iniziare a ritenerci "la normalitร rivoluzionaria" che, a causa di Musk, ha aperto un account dove ripetere le stesse dinamiche da cui fuggiva.
Quanto all'ampiezza invece, sรฌ, hai voglia se il discorso meriterebbe spazio nei forum. Speriamo non siano gestiti dai pochi a cui stiamo attribuendo il potere di usare la gente ammassatasi, in quella piรน o meno appagante atmosfera "alla Mediaset", per calpestare regolarmente la minoranza a loro scomoda.
Dopodichรฉ non mi aspetto la soluzione immediata a un gran problema, fra quelli che le piattaforme digitali pongono. Dunque possiamo anche chiudere la parentesi.
L'alt-text รจ una funzione per allegare testo a un'immagine, il che รจ facile da prendere come modo per risultare palesemente corretti, arrivato in un periodo in cui il destinatario della correttezza potrebbe piรน fidarsi di una conversione automatica della IA.
Alla base c'รจ che non รจ regolato il riuso delle immagini, inteso come permessi, il che dicevamo รจ un argomentone che pesa ai pochi produttori di "contenuti". Mentre la visibilitร รจ ormai quasi un >>
detto "guardate che il software non l'ho scritto io, dunque cerchiamo insieme spiegazioni".)
In generale รจ strano che in 15 anni di social commerciali (qui nel fediverso la vostra istanza, vista da fuori, incarna quello spirito) ci siamo assolutamente abituati a delle regole discutibili, anzi suggerite ma indiscutibili, tanto non sono trasparenti i giri che le comunicazioni fanno (algoritmi). Addirittura la intendiamo un'evoluzione per quanto รจ enorme il loro potere >>
diritto dei tanti, porelli, che solo mettono tutto nelle mani dei pochi amministratori di un'organizzazione centralizzata in grado di coprire usi sbagliati. (Lo share che i singoli hanno dato alle bigtech fa sรฌ che queste risultino sopra le istituzioni culturali dei singoli governi.) E che su mastodon tecnicamente le immagini, come qualcuno scriveva ma รจ rimasto tabรน, non sono poi cancellabili dal server a differenza del testo. (Bastava che qualcun altro avesse >>
ci si sente legati da un principio banale del tipo "noi siamo proprio buoni", piรน poi sarร facile vedere quanto non torna come il cattivo con cui prendersela per risolvere ad esempio i noiosissimi mali burocratici.
di persuasione, ma anche perchรฉ tante sono in cambio le magagne consentite e con cui ci sentiamo al passo...
Torniamo a noi che per natura saremmo divisi in istanze, anche se non sono tempi felici per la gestione dell'identitร tramite gli account nรฉ per ammettere di aver sbagliato a fidarsi dell'unico posto pubblicizzato (in una concezione che non prevedere pubblicitร ). Posso assicurarti che non giova alla serenitร di chi non รจ dei nostri il fatto che, piรน >>
@sposadelvento No, non pensavo a Mastodon nello specifico. Stavo pensando all'abitudine acquista di trattare le guerre come partite fra buoni e cattivi e di attaccare chi lo mette in discussione come un propagandista russo. Ne parlava giร @_Nico_Piro_ in nicopiro.it/maledetti-pacifistโฆ Mi sembra di vivere nel 1914 e la cosa mi spaventa. Piรน pedestremente, quando suggerisco testi (che io ho letto) e mi rispondono dopo un minuto, penso di avere a che fare con bot, umani o no, e chiudo la discussione.
NICO PIRO Maledetti Pacifisti People Collana: Pamphlet Prezzo cartaceo: 12,00 euro ISBN cartaceo: 9791259790699 Comprane una copia cartacea Comprane una copia in eBook Lancio 10/5 solo sul sito di People, dal 10/6 in tutte le librerie Sinossi: ยซNon sโฆ
@sposadelvento @_Nico_Piro_ Secondo un tedesco piรน anziano di lei, le guerre che si presumono - e proprio perchรฉ si presumono - giuste si trasformano facilmente in guerre di sterminio: btfp.sp.unipi.it/dida/kant_7/aโฆ Oggi perรฒ quel prussiano abiterebbe a Kaliningrad - e quindi deve essere solo propaganda russa ๐
New note by cybersecurity poliverso.org/display/0477a01eโฆ Il tweet di Durov sui prossimi cambiamenti in Telegram x.com/durov/status/18320546808โฆ@Etica Digitale (Feddit)๐ Telegram ha raggiunto 10 milioni di abbonati paganti. 10 milioni di persone stanno ora usufruendo di Telegram Premium!๐ Oggi, stiamo introducendo nuove funzionalitร e ne stiamo eliminando alcune obsolete.โ Abbiamo rimosso la funzionalitร Persone vicine, che era utilizzata da meno dello 0
๐ Telegram ha raggiunto 10 milioni di abbonati paganti. 10 milioni di persone stanno ora usufruendo di Telegram Premium!
๐ Oggi, stiamo introducendo nuove funzionalitร e ne stiamo eliminando alcune obsolete.
โ Abbiamo rimosso la funzionalitร Persone vicine, che era utilizzata da meno dello 0,1% degli utenti di Telegram, ma aveva problemi con bot e truffatori.
๐๏ธ Al suo posto, lanceremo "Aziende vicine", che metterร in mostra aziende legittime e verificate. Queste aziende saranno in grado di mostrare cataloghi di prodotti e accettare pagamenti senza problemi.
โ๏ธ Abbiamo anche disabilitato i nuovi caricamenti multimediali su Telegraph, il nostro strumento di blogging autonomo, che sembra essere stato utilizzato in modo improprio da attori anonimi.
โ๏ธ Mentre il 99,999% degli utenti di Telegram non ha nulla a che fare con la criminalitร , lo 0,001% coinvolto in attivitร illecite crea una cattiva immagine per l'intera piattaforma, mettendo a rischio gli interessi dei nostri quasi miliardi di utenti.
โ Ecco perchรฉ quest'anno ci impegniamo a trasformare la moderazione su Telegram da un'area di critica a un'area di lode.
The Fediverse is owned by the people and communities that use it. A basic server costs $5 a month all inclusive, anyone can make one. It's ad-free, made by volunteers, funded by donations, servers are independent.
BlueSky is a for-profit corporation funded by VC money. Its technical structure makes servers dependent on expensive corporate-run relays. BlueSky's business setup is eerily reminiscent of Ello: waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-deaโฆ
Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened?
Iโd started using Ello when it first became a rumor. I got an early invite and was happy with it. Some time after they started getting more users they asked the โcommunityโ what they wanted to focus on and art was the general consensus. I thought it was just fine as a general social network, but as art became the dominant matter, I moved on since writing wasnโt a part of the art scene on Ello. Oh well.
itโs kind of ingenious that theyโre offloading the costs of hosting and to lesser extent moderation onto the individual users while still reaping the benefits of a centralized feed.
Yeah, the PDS idea is neat, but what people are really using are the relays, indexers, labelers, and the apps. I can't believe how much personal data people are offering up when they subscribe to or create those custom feeds.
If it's not community-owned, it's not sustainable. Eventually VC-owned networks enshittify because the VCs want to see a return on their investment, and we end up with another Twitter/X or Meta/Facebook situation. Once they stop growing users, they start trying to squeeze more money out of each user etc etc, or else sell the company to someone awful.
The entire point of the Fediverse is to do things differently, to have slow sustainable growth so that enshittification doesn't happen.
@askans Blueskyโs a drag, but youโre mad at it for the wrong reasons. Most users donโt care about this stuff. All these Brazilians are only leaving Twitter now bc itโs being shut down. Consider why theyโre not flooding into Mastodon.
You don't really need to be mad at anyone to believe that the ingredients of Bsky likely constitute a fatal flaw.
For now, I rank it as the least worst SV social media, and for people who don't care about what may be unique selling points for Fedi, it has the cleanest history.
I'm not mad at anyone, I'm concerned about history repeating itself if we keep using social networks that have dangerous structural and governance problems.
Most people don't care about this stuff directly, but they do care about the practical effects. Brazilians are having to leave Twitter because it is a centralised network with bad governance, for example.
that is a fair point, even though looking back, those types of social networks have quite a long shelf life. My sympathy for the Fediverse is very high, also for FOSS, still the "other" models are much bigger. I do not see it changing.
Seeing federation with many flavors becoming a new business model is more than interesting.
This is a false dilemma: you can have commercial alternatives that are neither VC-owned nor "community owned", and you can have plenty of profit-based service providers that will be completely happy to serve a large-but-limited number of customers.
Give me 10-15k paying customers, and I will be able to run communick forever, even taking some of the profits to reinvest into development of the underlying projects. None of the "community owned" instances can do that.
There is a world of difference between making a sustainable stable profit and taking VC money.
If you receive enough money to keep a business going, that's great. You have built a sustainable business. ๐
If you take VC money to run a business at a loss in pursuit of growth, you will eventually have to start enshittifying in order to keep the VCs happy because they're partial owners of your business now. They don't just want profit, they want growth of profit.
If you look at the Ello article linked in the original post, it goes into detail about the problems of accepting VC money.
BlueSky isn't just for-profit, it's taken VC money and will therefore have to provide VCs perpetually growing profits. This will eventually become impossible unless they enshittify.
VC money is incredibly corrosive to the online world and real life world, because it demands that everything grows all the time, it's impossible to just stay at a steady state.
Any kind of ownership model is possible on the Fediverse because it is designed to be as open as possible to anyone who wants to start a server, including individuals, non-profits, for-profits.
BlueSky is different. It has been designed to depend on corporate-owned feeds that have a much higher barrier to entry. In an interview, BS mentioned they might have ads in the future. Combined with their VC ownership, these are all the ingredients for another Meta/Facebook or Twitter/X.
I am responding to your "If it's not community-owned, it's not sustainable" statement. This is the meme that needs to die.
I'd actually think it's the opposite: aside from instances that require payment from all members, I'm yet to see any service that can call itself sustainable.
I'd mean continuing to operate over a long period without exploiting users ("enshittifying"). There are plenty of instances that have done this, some of them date back to 2016 or before.
VC-backed services tend to demand growth within such a time frame. Continuing to exist in a stable state is incompatible with VC ownership.
What about the other side of the equation? How many instances disappeared due to moderator and admin burn out?
How many instances were created by enthusiastic people who were simply not able to manage it properly and shut their instances down when got their first wave of spam? How long do you think regular folks will be willing to keep hopping around because they picked an instance ran by amateurs?
That's a totally fair point, maybe the biggest challenge for the Fediverse. I just don't think that VC is the answer to it.
VC tends to turn a service to crap while the VC people walk away with the money and don't care what happens to the service itself. They just wanted the money all along.
Again, doing things for money is not the problem and it is not something that only "evil VCs" do.
I don't expect to get food on my table out of goodwill of a "community-focused" farmer. I don't expect electric power in my home out of the community. Why should I expect social media services to be provided out of "community"?
If developers still go to VCs for funding projects, it's because "the community" is not valuing their work.
Ideally we need this to be publicly funded, and a lot of Fediverse development has been, but obviously not enough. This also doesn't cover the running of servers.
I agree we have a funding crisis for developers, but VC money is not the answer because it causes developers' work to be used to do horrible things further down the line.
Please, "public-funded" is just a masturbatory idea that only appeals to people who never created anything. Or worse, armchair analysts who refuse to put any Skin in the Game.
The bureaucracy alone would grind innovation to a halt, and if you think that corporate-controlled communication networks are bad, imagine if they were controlled by politicians.
You are stuck in the VC-community duality and refusing to acknowledge an alternative that does not require infinite growth, but does require more than feel-good promises of support.
Let me try a different approach... If VCs are not acceptable, what would be best:
- commercial providers like communick, or omg.lol, or mastodon.green (all charging 20-30 USD per year?) from all members?
- donation-based instances that historically never get to 2% of the user base to contribute?
@Liberapay thanks for the hint, good to see solutions popping up. I never came across these solutions on a Mastodon account or similar, have I overseen it?
Okay, this is just a silly coincidence: I just searched *yesterday* to find out whether Ello and Diaspora still existed (after having forgotten about them for 5+ years)
If you've been happy after having left twitter, why should you be happy to be connected to another product of Jack Dorsey, who sold a manipulative corporate medium to another manipulator, to fund his next manipulative project?
@RenewedRebecca @ArenaCops I don't know what were the terms of the later investment round, but a few months ago Jay asked about who owns the company said "me and the team", which implies that at least outside investors don't have any controlling share
I've experienced data loss and corporate manipulation enough to be thankful I put the effort in to pitch my own instance this time. It will be well worth it.
that's a minimum of R$28 per month in a country where average monthly wages are like R$ 2979 (IBGE 2023), so even a small amount to Americans and Europeans can actually be a significant amount to others based on income and exchange rates.
And a lot of fediverse servers cost waaaay more than $5 / mo to operate.
@oblomov ypu still have the moderation, learning about trust and safety, understanding community management, covering costs for your community, understanding harms and how to deal with them, legal compliance, financials, etc etc.
A lot of work goes into running any instance that's more than a few people, and anything less and you're suffering through all that alone.
@jannem @thisismissem you don't mention elest.io on your site, which I think is also very good. They have services like Mastodon, PixelFed, and sharkey. Not to mention many more.
@jannem @thisismissem Technical and financial burden is one thing, are we educating people about the legal burdens as well? Are people being made aware of the need to register a DMCA agent if in the US, even if merely a single-person instance? Not to mention the additional moderation and legal responsibilities for a multi-user or open sign-up instance?
Yeah, that's fair comment, and in my site's guide (growyourown.services/making-yoโฆ) have tried to emphasise there may be legal requirements in many countries especially if you're running a public server, that people should get legal advice for their jurisdiction about this topic. Also encourage people to start out on a private single user server, not a public one.
(But this isn't any easier on BlueSky or anywhere else though.)
I disagree. vivaldi.social, bbc.social, and me.dm are all part of the fediverse despite being run by corporations. Flipboard, Wordpress, Ghost, and Discourse are all part of the fediverse,
There's plenty of historical precedent for this too -- Evan Prodromou's StatusNet (which evolved into GnuSocial, the basis of the early fediverse) took VC funding in 2009. Diaspora joined YCombinator for a while. etc etc etc
Yeah, those examples you give aren't really the same thing.
On BlueSky there aren't just corporate servers, but the infrastructure itself is designed to be run by corporations. You are forced to pipe your content via corporations, in effect.
On the Fediverse, you can completely ignore or even block corporate servers, there's no need to have anything to do with them. Every server is totally independent, and connect to each other directly.
@oblomov agreed that if any of these corporate-run servers controlled the entire network that would be a different thing, but they don't, and neither does Bluesky. Flipboard controls Flipboard, Wordpress controls Wordpress.com. viviadi controls vivaldi.social. Bluesky controls bsky.social. Why do you see that as different?
@FediTips I'm suggesting that Bluesky is one of those indendent servers. People on other fediverse instances can ignore it or block it; people on Bluesky can ignore people elsewhere in the fediverse. How does that as different from people on Flipboard or Wordpress.com who are also forced to pipe their content via the corporations that run them?
And in terms of the infrastructure itself being designed to run by corporations, that's exactly why StatusNet got funding, and it was clearly considered part of the fediverse.
you either have no understanding of how BS operates or are intentionally misrepresenting the situation. The Fediverse is built on top of ActivityPub, which is a W3C standard. No corporation controls the network. BlueSky has complete control of the AT protocol, which is what it uses for federation.
The Fediverse is defined by independent interoperable projects. The AT network is defined by what BlueSky decides.
@thenexusofprivacy BTW trying to insist that BS is a Fediverse server is a misrepresentation. BlueSky does not โspeakโ ActivityPub in any shape and form. The only reason why limited communication can happen between the Fediverse and BlueSky is because some third parties have set up a bridge: that doesn't make BS part of the Fediverse any more than Twitter because of the servers bridging Twitter to Fedi
First of all I strongly disagree with the idea of equating the fediverse with ActivityPub. The fediverse existed before ActiivityPub, and has always supported multiple protocols Yes, AP's been dominant ever since Mastodon did embrace-extend-extinguish thing and replaced OStatus with AP in 2017, but history didn't end at that point.
But, even taking the AP-centric view of the fediverse, I think Bluesky qualifies as a fediverse instance. Diaspora, Flipboard, Wordpress ... none of them are built on top of AP internally, but they're all considered part of the fediverse. And yes, any instance running any software can unilaterally cut themselves off from the rest of the fediverse, either by turning off all federation or making a change at the software level (disabling a bridge or plugin, changing to a new protocol). Until that happens, though, they're part of the fediverse.
But maybe we're just viewing things differently in general, so let's calibrate:
do you think Diaspora is part of the fediverse?
what about Wordpress?
Flipboard?
Threads?
For me the answer is yes to all. (On the last one, I think the fediverse would have been better off collectively blocking Threads just like they did Gab ... but that didn't happen.). But, maybe we also see those differently!
@thenexusofprivacy I do not consider Diaspora part of the Fediverse, and AFAIK it has never been considered part of the Fediverse, even in the OStatus days. WordPress is not part of the Fediverse as such. The WordPress installations that have an enabled ActivityPub plugin are.
@thenexusofprivacy Flipboard and Threads AFAIK do not implement full bidirectional federation, and until they do they cannot be considered part of the Fediverse proper, even though they're working to join (whether this is good or bad is an entirely different matter and OT for this discussion).
BlueSky isn't part of the Fediverse *at all* because it doesn't support ActivityPub in any shape or form (and no, the bridge doesn't count any more than the Twitter bridges do).
@thenexusofprivacy What the platform uses internally is not particularly important. The degree of support for ActivityPub they strive for (and thus the effort to interoperate with the rest of the Fediverse) is.
Friendica and Hubzilla are examples of platform that are part of the Fediverse despite having their own protocols (DFRN, Zot), because they also support ActivityPub, aiming for full interoperability.
@thenexusofprivacy BlueSky has no intention to interoperate with the rest of the Fediverse. It's entirely focused on its own protocol, of which they maintain complete control, with no intention to also support ActivityPub. Hence they cannot be considered part of the Fediverse.
Thanks for the clarification, I think I understand your position now -- your criteria is full bidiretional federation currently implemented, support of ActivityPub, and not using a bridge. Is that an accurate summary?
On Diaspora, btw, opinions differ. Wikipedia, fediverse.party, and fediverse.observer all include it as part of the fedvierse; FediDB did until sometime last year (when joindiaspora shut down). But others don't see it that way.
Diaspora cannot communicate with most of the Fediverse due to lacking ActivityPub compatibility. That doesn't mean Diaspora is a bad network, it just means it's separate.
My own take is that it gets a bit difficult for new people if we use the same name ("Fediverse") for two separate incompatible networks.
It is possible to be on both though if you use Friendica.
BlueSky is its own network, it isn't part of the Fediverse.
Flipboard is a website which is part of the Fediverse, no one is forced to use it or have anything to do with it. Some publications choose to have accounts there, but they aren't forced to.
WordPress is a bit more complicated as there are two things: wordpress.com and the WordPress software. The software is free open source, anyone can install it on their own servers, they don't have to use wordpress.com.
Thanks for the response ... I guess we just see it differently. To me, both Bluesky, and Flipboard are all their own social media sites. Nobody is forced to use them or have anything do do with them. Some publications choose to have accounts there but aren't forced to. Reasnable minds differ, I guess!
@oblomov @thenexusofprivacy I agree with your analysis. Could you explain further how the BlueSky infrastructure was designed to be managed by corporations, since the AT protocol is theoretically "open"?
@skarnio @thenexusofprivacy the AT protocol is only open in the sense that others can implement it and not get sued for doing so. The protocol itself is defined by BS (and in fact, more by their implementation than any document they put out).
The AT protocol created for BlueSky depends on "relays", which are expensive to run, which in effect means corporations would run them. BS servers cannot work without being connected to these relays, so BS is effectively forcing everyone to be connected to corporations.
@oblomov @thenexusofprivacy I know, but Relays help a lot. In any case, this information that the AT protocol restricts the federation to relays is what I really want to conform to. Thanks!
These are some informal notes on setting up a full-network atproto Relay, using the bigsky relay software developed by Bluesky. This is the same software we run ourselves at https://bsky.network.
no, a self-hosted PDS is not the closest comparison to a self-hosted instance, because a self-hosted ActivityPub server is sufficient to fully join the network, a self-hosted PDS in atproto is *not*, which is exactly the point me and @FediTips have been making. atproto is designed to depend on corporate (= expensive) relays to work. A PDS alone is useless.
@oblomov @skarnio @thenexusofprivacy other products build on atproto, such as event planner smokesignal.events, skip the relay altogether and do not use the relay at all. I am not 100% sure but I think linkaggregator Frontpage.fyi skips the relay as well. So not, it is not designed to be dependent on that, it is an optimalisation part for Bluesky.
While PDSs (write access to the network) are indeed cheap, read access definitely is not, especially since the cost scales with total network activity for each reader with the current PDS and Relay features.
Not saying that it's a bad protocol per se, because there is clear demand for global indexing and singleton frontends and ActivityPub is bad at those aspects, but the protocol economics are completely prohibitive for most indie participants in terms of providing unenshittified end user access.
@skarnio @laurenshof @thenexusofprivacy there are several protocols that do things similarly, most famously SSB, that turned 10 a couple of months ago.
I've just started experimenting with hosting my own GoToSocial instance (hiiii!!!!) and it's great ... but hashtags and search only include posts from people I follow, and the federated feed is almost empty, so there's essentially no access to global conversations. So it's not a comparison.
(Although I also don't think hosting your own PDS is really an equivalent of your own instance either. There isn't really an equivalent of anything but flagship instances (a combination of AppView, Relay, and PDS) in the AT architecture.)
Yikes. I made the parent reply on my self-hosted GtS instance an hour ago ... I didn't get a notification on this account, which I thought was weird, but whatever. But then I looked at the thread and realized that the post hadn't federated here. What's with that? So just now I did a search here to see if I could find the GtS post ... and it did. At which point the notifiation showed up here as well.
wtf. Who knows if it's an AP "by design" issue, or some kind of bug, or what.
@thenexusofprivacy @nexus @laurenshof @skarnio IME this is usually due to software bugs. I've also had delayed notifications. The most ridiculous one was just yesterday, for an update to a post that happened years ago.
@nexus @laurenshof @skarnio @thenexusofprivacy search and hashtags only happen in content known to the server, and this is actually not that different in AP vs AT: the only difference is that AT has these huge relays โthe effect is not that different compared to running a hashtag search on a large Fedi server like m.s,v except that AT basically requires that.
Well, even large fedi instances dont have access to the whole network. In general though I agree that there's a parallel to the way AT gives power to large Relays and AppViews and how AP gives power to large instances.
Relays seem like they'll be a lot cheaper to scale than instances, but it's early days so we shall see. There's a lot of experitmentation going on with smaller AppViews leveraging large Relays, again though it's hard to know how it'll work out in practice.
On the other hand when Threads looked at it they decided AP was a better target to exploit than AT, so I wouldn't assume that AP's more resistant to centralization than AT.
It's not so much that AP is more resistant as much as AT is essentially designed with it in mind. Yes, you can have a heavy centralized AP-based network, and you can have AT networks isolated from the BS one, but that's not what either of those is designed and intended for.
There's also the question of who is in charge. BS is run by a for-profit funded by VC money, this is a really dangerous combination. VC money almost always leads to enshittification in the long term, because VC-owned companies run out of any other way to grow profits.
Agreed that Bluesky shouldn't be trusted, they're VC-funded and are likely to go the exploitative and/or enshittification route once there's revenue pressure. In terms of the original question as to whether or not they should be considered part of the fediverse, that puts them in the same category as Wordpress and Flipboard. It's intellectually consistent to say none of them are; it's not intellectually consistent to say Wordpress and Flipboard are but Bluesky isn't for this reason. (Although other reasons for excluding them might be intellectually consistent, for example the Diaspora analogy -- I don't particularly agree with it, but it hangs together, it's just a different conclusion that flows from a different view of whether bridges not implemented by a platform count)
And @oblomov you're right that AP wasn't specifically designed for giving an advantage to large instances. I once asked Evan what scalability analysis had been done as part of the standardization process and he said "none!" Still, it's an obvious consequence of the protocol, nothing's been done to address that over the years, and Threads decided it's a good match for them. So I don't see as much of a difference on that front as you do.
I tried BlueSky a few months after I was on Mastodon and didn't like it. It was a wayyy different feel and community. Maybe it's more old Twitter-like? But I also wasn't on Twitter.
How do I exclude content from USA users, to prioritize regional connection? My fellow Australians are outnumbered by british users 3:1 and americans 10:1. I guess the same issue applies to other english speaking communities such as Argentina, South Africa, Colombia, Kerala, Kenya, Singapore etc.
There's no regional filter, as there is no location information collected about users.
However, some servers include an optional visibility setting that makes posts only visible to other people on the same server. So, if you were on a regional server with such a setting, that would be somewhat like a regional filter?
Another alternative is to post to groups that are dedicated to particular regions. More about groups here: fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-onโฆ
I recall friend feed, we shots, and other online photosites that closed down, sad but the server bills need to be paid and financial support was hard to find ...
VC money is not financial support, it's giving ownership to people who want constant financial growth. That's what the article about Ello goes into depth about.
That's why so much of the internet is enshittifying, the constant chasing of growth (not just profit but ever-increasing profit) at the expense of users' privacy and safety.
Yes, but that's because they've got money from VCs to play with so they can build up market share.
Eventually the VCs will demand something in return, and that's when the enshittification begins. That's why I linked to the article about Ello, it goes into detail about this, from Ello's birth to death.
If we want to break out of this cycle, we need to stop using social networks that depend on VC money.
p.s. Some misunderstanding of what is required to start a Fediverse server. You don't need to install software or do anything technical to create a Fedi server.
There are many managed hosting companies that do all tech stuff for you behind the scenes, including updates and maintenance. Using managed hosting is about as difficult as setting up an email account.
I run a website at growyourown.services to encourage more non-technical people to try managed hosting.
However, for those who are technically capable and also poor, you can save a lot of costs by doing it yourself. I would remind ppl throwing figures out on the interwebs that we don't know what currency they are using.
it would be beneficial if many such vendors wound exist. If it is priced correctly, demand could be high, especially if alternatives to the fediverse are becoming more annoying/worse. Just think about Twitter blue or however that is called now. People/bots already pay for that. People could be convinced that their own fedi server service would be more beneficial than this blue mark.
p.p.s. Another significant difference between the Fediverse and BlueSky:
- The official BlueSky app collects personal data.
- Most Fediverse apps (including the official Mastodon app) do not collect any personal data.
If BlueSky is already collecting personal data now, what do you think will happen a few years down the line when they're pushing for more profit growth?
i feel like that mastodon one is a little misleading re user content. The mobile apps may not but that Thatโs literally all the servers do: collect, store, and share peopleโs content.
Collecting is where a piece of data is taken without explicit consent. A user deciding to post something themselves using visibility settings they've decided is pretty much the opposite?
The core idea of privacy policies is to give users more control over what data is shared about them. If they're the only ones controlling the sharing, that means they have full control.
I dunno. "Contact info" is pretty common. Lots of reasonable reasons to ask for name or email addy, and it's almost always done with consent and needs to be called out in those data sheets even if it IS fully consensual .
If you click on "details", it turns out that the "contact info" on BlueSky means your phone number. Phone numbers are used by data brokers to discover people's identity across multiple data sets. That's why Facebook, Twitter etc started suddenly pushing people so hard to give their phone numbers, because it opens the door for a surveillance bonanza.
Once you give a corporation your phone number, they can usually find out your real name, postal address etc etc.
right, i fully agree about the data collection bad, BUT i was more getting at 2 things:
1. the mastodon disclaimer is misleading because mastodon servers do collect user content even if the mobile app technically doesn't. it just passes it on to the server. That's prolly true of the bluesky one too.
2. consent doesn't effect the requirement to have the label.
Yes, mastodon is radically better, but it doesn't collect nothing. it just collects nothing you don't want it to.
Data collection isn't the same thing at all as a user choosing to post something. If you say they are the same thing, it is just giving cover for privacy-invading services to claim they are the same as privacy-respectful services.
The only thing a Fediverse server knows about you is:
-Whatever email you used to sign up with (it can be throwaway or an alias)
-Whatever IP address you're using (which is true for any internet service)
yup. not arguing any of these points. just that the label on the mastodon app is misleading. The blue-sky app probably just funnels all the ๐ฉ up to the servers like the mastodon apps do. By that logic neither collects anything, but they BOTH do.
WHAT they collect & what makes it acceptable or not it is a separate discussion.
The Mastodon app isn't sending any data back to its makers.
The BlueSky app IS sending data back to its makers.
That's why their labels are so different.
If I use the Mastodon app with a server that isn't mastodon.social or mastodon.online, then the makers of the app never hear anything about me. What the servers collect is separate from what apps collect because on a federated network you aren't necessarily using the app on a server that the app makers have any connection to.
@masukomi In the most literal sense any method that involves a user's data ending up in your possesion is collection. Far from providing cover it makes a hard line. When someone posts on your server they are explicitly requesting that data collection under the terms as set when they joined.
That all this is counted as collection means there are hard limits on what you can do with the data and you can demand that all data they have on you be deleted.
@masukomi This is absolutely true, but I'm talking about why GDPR doesn't allow sneakarounds for when a user submlits data rather than it being requested.
It's also possible that even though no data is being collected by the app-makers, it will be treated as a data processor on behalf of whatever servers it connects to. This would mean that it comes under 'sharing with third parties' or similar.
Blue Sky is constantly reminding you of their data scraping when they ask for permission for more permanent access to your photos every new day you post or save an image, so at least they are somewhat open in that regard.
I wish I visited Blue Sky more- Iโm sorry I think they are failing despite having the most old school Twitter attitude and appearance. But people opt in to the more invasive meta ecosystem, because, numbers. Fedi can be a bit too preachy, controlling, in own ways.
Well yeah, but Meta is a lot further down the path of enshittification. This is the kind of thing we can expect to see in BlueSky's future, they've already taken the first steps.
In case this week hasn't made it super clear: people, in general, are willing to trade some data & privacy for not getting brigaded with racist/anti-trans/sexist/ableist crap.
I've mostly enjoyed using Mastodon, but I have many friends here & elsewhere who deal with & talk about the crummy user safety experience Masodon provides for huge swaths of users in minority/disenfranchised/vulnerable populations.
Their friends & colleagues are hearing loud and clear.
I agree Mastodon isn't doing what it should about safety, but Mastodon isn't the only platform on the Fediverse. There are others which have placed a much higher priority on user safety.
I'm particularly following @gotosocial which lets users decide who and how others can interact with their posts, and includes support for allowlist federation where all servers are blocked by default.
Once GoToSocial enters beta (which they've been saying is imminent) I'll be promoting it a lot more.
It's not a choice between Mastodon and VC-backed corporate networks. There are other options which avoid the dangers of VC corporate and also give users better safety features.
The danger of VC-backed for-profit networks is absolutely horrific:
If you follow any of the #GoToSocial developers you've probably seen this going around already, but 0.17.0 of #GoToSocial will be the first release that includes interaction policies, aka reply-controls.
In the first iteration of this feature, you'll be able to configure your account so that new posts created by you will have an interaction policy set on them, which determines whether your instance drops or accepts replies, likes, and boosts of your posts, depending on the visibility of the post, and whether or not an account trying to interact with you is in your followers/following list.
So for example, you will be able to create Public posts that can only be replied to by your followers and people you follow, or unlisted posts that nobody can reply to or like, etc.
GoToSocial interaction policies will be a superset of other reply control proposals created elsewhere (and already implemented by softwares like Pixelfed and Peertube), so your GoToSocial instance should recognize interaction restrictions set not only by other GoToSocial instances, but by Pixelfed and Peertube as well.
If you're interested in reading about how this will work on a protocol level, you can take a look at the documentation here: docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/โฆ
Please note that this feature is not 100% finished yet, and may be subject to change before release. We're aware of where the headaches and difficulties are, so please don't reply to this post griping about them; we already know (and this instance is still running on 0.16.0 so no interaction policies yet).
I'm not a big fan of VC-backed networks and understand the risks and problems. For many folks, though, the problems they and their friends experience are visible and visceral and truly affect them personally, while the problems introduced by VC-backed platforms don't directly affect their daily health and well-being, even if overall they are horrible.
I look forward to reading more about the other platforms and tools you're talking about here!
that's all true. But since people don't care if a social media platform is owned by a fascist and one of the richest people on the planet, who supports one of the biggest threats to the planet, a far-right movement, what would stop the majority of users from going to an alternative that has the problems pointed out?
People will stay where their peers are. No matter what's involved. This is a good example of how many people will stand up if they see themselves in a table surrounded by nazis.
Very interesting article. When Ello came out and me and a work colleague got invited, we did not have a doubt. It seemed really nice to us at first and got engaged with some users as an underground alternative with high hopes and a creative focus.
Then came the fake users contacting with scam links, then those obscure news about its direction and finally the design contest ads... We got suspicious and just stopped using it. We made our posts backup "manually" ๐ฎโ๐จ but it was a letdown.
Going for "higher numbers" is exactly the problem, because it isn't happening sustainably or ethically.
If growth happens, it has to be sustainable and ethical, otherwise you're just stealing money from exploited people in the future.
Once you take VC money, going for higher numbers has to happen forever, even if it means exploiting your users and doing really immoral stuff. It's short term money for long term disaster.
What is the point of growing an alternative if it ends up as bad as the thing it's replacing? What has that achieved? What difference has it made?
The Fediverse is trying to do things differently in the hope of making something more ethical and sustainable in the long term. At the moment, no one else seems to be doing this?
@jose8 I see it possibly growing and then going down the path that all commercial ventures go - the one away from user freedoms and towards capitalist agendas
The reason it's so cheap is the economy of scale from a managed hosting company providing hosting for many different instances.
Part of the reason I run my accounts is to encourage more non-technical people to get involved in running their own internet presences, whether it's a website or social media instance or whatever.
It's not as difficult or expensive as people think, it's never been cheaper or easier.
@jose8 I love the growyourown.services concept. I have been expanding and improving my own self-hosted services for years for next to nothing (low power focus, on demand services, solar power, etc). I have stepped away from most of the major providers this way and only hold minor accounts as needed for access to certain services.
If the Ello story is typical (which I think), then the Fediverse should not try to out-compete BlueSky by growing faster than it: It must only survive. Sooner or later, any profit-oriented social media will go down.
True of so many things in real life unfortunately ๐
Hopefully there is some steady state possible, where you receive enough money to cover costs without wrecking the place trying to pursue ever-higher profits.
@faduda You don't need to be a lawyer: GDPR is written in plain English (plain a-lot-of-languages, actually).
The legal definition is found in Article 4: "Definitions".
> โpersonal dataโ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (โdata subjectโ);
> an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as [โฆ] an online identifier [โฆ]
If I sign up on a server and choose the username i9024jinsiujfiosjfioesj, and I never use that username anywhere else, how can that be used to identify me?
I really don't think it's wise to start saying that this is in the same class as real names or addresses or phone numbers, which obviously make it easy to identify someone.
It lets apps which do collect all kinds of dubious unnecessary info claim "well all apps collect personal data" and try to normalise it.
I think the biggest turn off with bluesky is the smuggy people of Twitter have made camp there. Almost all I see there is people telling.me how Important they are or this is way Twitter use to be. Twitter while had some good points before musk was still not the best place it was a marketing machine dream. People wanna look back with rose colored glasses. But it was getting bad before musk bought it. The pompous just were too self involved to notice
Farming out fediverse systems to some corporation is still supporting a corporation.
Beamship is running on a laptop with 1TB hard drive and 4MB RAM. Fiber ISP connections are practically everywhere. Our ISP blocks serving anything so, we bounce across a VPN.
MicroShit just bought GitHub and I have no doubt will decide all the programs on it is their property now.
All these corporations are using AI bots to steal everything. Gmail included.
Stasera ho sentito di dover riaprire il mio archivio fb per recuperare e postare un mio pensiero di anni fa. Credo fu ispirato dagli attentati di Bruxelles del giorno prima. Sento ancora la stessa cosa. #ucraina
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