Nei prossimi giorni dovrò ottimizzare le grandi tabelle del database di libranet.de e venera.social. Il database è cresciuto a tal punto che il server esaurirebbe lo spazio su disco nelle prossime settimane.
Questo è un processo che richiede molto tempo e risorse e che può bloccare altre query del database. Ecco perché attiverò prima la modalità di manutenzione.
Inizierò con le grandi tabelle del database di venera.social. Quando questo sarà fatto, continuerò con libranet.de.
In the next days I need to optimize the large database tables of libranet.de and venera.social. The database has grown to an extent where the server would run out of disk space in the next weeks.
This is a time-consuming and resource-intensive process that can block other database queries. That's why I will switch on maintenance mode beforehand.
I'll start with the large database tables of venera.social. When this is done I'll continue with libranet.de.
I gruppi non sono una novità per Pixelfed, abbiamo il supporto webUI ma la funzionalità non era abbastanza perfezionata per l'uso, fino ad ora✨
:pixelfed:I gruppi saranno compatibili con #Lemmy, #Mbin, #Smithereen e altri progetti e assomiglieranno ai gruppi di Facebook nella nostra app ufficiale!
Restate sintonizzati, invieremo il supporto aggiornato per i gruppi nell'app e nell'interfaccia utente Web questo fine settimana🚀
Bluesky PBC shares their protocol roadmap, and a way to indicate user preference to how external parties can handle their data. Tangled is a newly launched Git collaboration platform built on ATProto, and much more news.
To frame making changes in preparation for #Bluesky permitting (selling???) user content for AI scaping as letting "people set their preference (‘user intent’) on how their data should be handled outside of the protocol," is manipulative garbage.
People do not want their content used for AI training. There is no one clamoring for this.
The most precious bit is that the default "undefined" category will be up to "downstream" (read AI companies that get/purchase/scrape Bluesky content) to determine what the user's intent actually is.
@mastodonmigration "But bsky is super cool and all the cool people are hanging out there, they couldn't possibly be trying to treat me like a product!" - plebs who have extremely short memories
Ma vabbe', l'articolo è un esempio del classico genere pedagogista "denuncia del nozionismo e centralismo del curriculum ministeriale". In effetti una volta letto Mario Alighiero Manacorda ogni successivo esempio è superfluo.
Tu dici, @macfranc? Io non lo trovo così malvagio.
Personalmente insegno matematica e con ogni classe prima o poi mi capita di dedicare un'oretta a mostrare che non in tutti i contesti 2+2=4. Oltre a dover ripetere spesso che il "principio di autorità" in matematica non vale gran ché.
Forse l'appunto che farei all'articolo è: personalmente uso la parola "verificabile" quando la verifica è un esperimento scientifico. In matematica userei invece "dimostrabile". @nilocram @scuola@a.gup.pe @scuola@poliverso.org @maupao
l'appunto che farei all'articolo è: personalmente uso la parola "verificabile" quando la verifica è un esperimento scientifico. In matematica userei invece "dimostrabile".
Ecco, hai fatto un esempio interessante. Ho iniziato a leggere la scorsa estate il libro di Chiara Valerio "Matematica eè politica" e ho trovato tante imprecisioni di questo tipo. Provenivo da letture di libri di Lucio Russo e di Carlo Rovelli e ho avuto la stessa impressione che ebbi quando passai dai libri di Luciano Canfora sulla democrazia al pamphlet di Massimo Fini. Con la differenza che Massimo Fini è un bravo scrittore e che conosce i propri limiti culturali.
@Pare sarei comunque curioso di sapere cosa ne pensa @mau di quell'articolo
Bisogna ammettere che la matematica è un terreno scivolosissimo da affrontare in contesti divulgativi (anche un vecchio furbacchione come Odifreddi certe volte non riesce a soddisfarmi), ma lo è ancora di più in contesti divulgativi legati alla pedagogia.
È lì che la discussione sulla pedagogia matematica deve districarsi tra la complessità vera e tentazione di stigmatizzare i luoghi comuni attraverso il contrario, altrettanto banalizzante, di quegli stessi luoghi comuni
Sull'articolo: a parte che nemmeno io avrei usato verificabilità (ma avrei preferito "deducibilità") secondo me Valerio ha detto una cosa giusta ma l'ha detta male.
Mi spiego: la mia lettura (politica) è questa. Valerio pensa "Valditara cerca di sfruttare la 'verità' della matematica come base per buttare a mare il relativismo: col cazzo che la matematica è vera, è relativa come tutto il resto". E giù dovizia di esempi.
Tutto condivisibile: ma se stai scrivendo su Repubblica devi esplicitare la tua tesi prima di demolire quella altri, altrimenti i lettori non ti seguono. Per me insomma non basta dire
«Usare il teorema di Pitagora per dire che esiste una verità perenne e immutabile è un pensiero che reprime la volontà di lottare per il futuro. »
cosa che tra l'altro non è nemmeno corretta. I matematici dopo aver dimostrato il teorema di Pitagora hanno detto " orpo, adesso non abbiamo più nulla per lottare?"
Mah, io so di avere dei limiti culturali, ma non sempre riesco a non varcarne i confini, per quanto io tenti di evitarlo.
Citi Carlo Rovelli. Ho presente almeno alcuni capitoli di suoi libri in cui a parer mio parla a sproposito di cose di cui non sa abbastanza. Ciò non mi impedisce di stimarlo e di apprezzarne i libri.
forse dettandolo proprio corretto, compreso l'articolo, lo strumento automatico avrebbe avuto una minore probabilità di inserire un refuso
Sì, è così. Quando una frase viene dettata per esteso il sistema riesce a interpretarla molto meglio. Uno dei problemi principali che ho si verifica quando devo dettare monosillabi fuori dal contesto, come gli "è" o gli "ho/ha". È in quei casi che la dettatura dà il meglio di sé con mostriciattoli come "ogni hanno", "ha casa", "non e bello"
Quante imprecisioni che scriviamo per "limiti culturali" o "limiti tecnici" o ...
Questa frase sarebbe formalmente corretta in sé, ma nel contesto della nostra discussione, non sono disposto a lasciarla passare senza una necessaria puntualizzazione: sarebbe infatti metodologicamente scorretto e sostanzialmente sbagliato porre sullo stesso piano il falso ricordo dell'articolo determinativo di un titolo letto otto mesi prima, con le approssimazioni e le banalizzazioni che si trovano in quel libro
Accettare le proprie e altrui debolezze è sempre un buon inizio.
Questa frase invece non mi convince affatto. Certo, potresti aver utilizzato il verbo accettare per errore, mentre avresti voluto dire "essere consapevole", ma, premesso che accettare non significa far finta di non vedere, l'accettazione di una propria debolezza (non di un limite, ma di una debolezza) è un atteggiamento sbagliato.
Quanto alle debolezze altrui, non sono disposto ad accettarle se si ripercuotono negativamente su di me o sull'ambiente in cui vivo.
Se invece —come immagino— parliamo di "limiti culturali" o "limiti tecnici", allora è epistemologicamente difficilissimo comprendere i propri limiti e quindi è altrettanto difficile accettarli. È invece molto più facile accettare i limiti altrui, ma anche in questo caso c'è un problema: saremmo in grado di accettare solo i limiti altrui che siamo in grado di riconoscere e non i limiti altrui che non siamo in grado di riconoscere come limiti, perché vanno al di là della nostra portata; il ché dovrebbe farci capire che forse tutta questa fatica è antieconomica per tutti, sia in termini di risorse sia in termini di tempo...
Limite, o debolezza?, dei miei messaggi è il voler restare nella brevità della piattaforma che uso: 500 caratteri.
Si potrebbe approfondire, ma vedo tanta di quella gente che pur di non accettar le proprie debolezze le nega o distrugge il mondo che ha attorno pur di nasconderle, che arrivo a preferire chi le accetta; e magari coopera, con chi ne ha di diverse per reciproca compensazione.
As well as Friendica, the app is also compatible with Mastodon and Glitch Mastodon.
Friendica is a Fediverse platform so you can follow and interact with Friendica users from Mastodon. If you've never heard of Friendica and want to know more, have a look at fedi.tips/friendica-a-flexible…
Guessing that might be a result of Google Play's weird rules?
Google Play and Apple App Store have very odd rules regarding federated social networks. Big tech app stores assume all apps will only be designed for centralised networks, and the rules make no sense for decentralised networks. They may require the app maker to take responsibility for content.
(Weirdly these rules don't apply to email, but I guess that is so common already that they don't want to exclude it.)
@Fedi.Tips content classification is the result of how I filled in the form while creating the application page on Google Play. As a developer of the mobile app, I can not take legal responsibility of what servers host, so I gave very "conservative" answers. And the result was a 18+ classification. Hope I won't go to jail at least... @Alper Çelik
I just downloaded it ... It's having issues logging into Facebook.space ... It goes to my instance and then says operation successful {?} ... And goes back to the login page
Hugz & xXx
Edit ... Sorted out, I had to remove the app as a connected app, and reconnect ... All good now
1. No, this isn't a dating app! It's just a general social media platform on the Fediverse. It has features somewhat similar to Facebook's.
2. The "18+ Extreme Violence" tag is totally misleading, this isn't an adult app and it doesn't contain any violence. The label is there just because Google Play's rules aren't really suited to apps which let you sign in on a server of your choice. Google effectively forces Fedi app makers to use restricted ratings.
I think it's because the web and email have already established themselves and Google Play's rules would look even more obviously silly if browsers and email were all rated "18+ extreme violence".
Hopefully at some point all federated apps will be exempt.
If I understand you about being "federated", there - could - be a dating server and a server for picture and short movies showing the... scantily clad.
Such a strange concept; "ecological computing networks" of cross connected servers hosting various "niches".
I heard social media apps are required to add a "url to report inappropirate content" when the dev want to publish it on Google Play, which makes it unnecessarily hard for fedi app devs. Fedilab has switched its category to general "tools" to avoid that.
@. ݁₊ ⊹ Juniper . ݁₊ ⊹Mastodon glitch-soc is a friendly fork of Mastodon that offers some improved features: - posts formatted in Markdown or HTML - enhanced features for publishing concatenated threads - more customizable interface, with the possibility to collapse long posts - publishing posts visible only from the instance
Of course the formatting options can be used to their full potential only if the 500 character limit is removed, but that can be done without using glitch-soc
Glitch is an unofficial customised version of Mastodon with extra features added, such as rich text formatting and making it easier to have higher character limits.
A lot of the features on Mastodon were originally created by Glitch Mastodon and then copied over to the official version of Mastodon.
Because Mastodon and Glitch Mastodon are both free open source software, they can use and contribute to each other's code like this.
Pixelfed raises 138k Canadian dollars for their project, and a new way to connect researchers to the fediverse with an upcoming ORCID bridge.
The News
The Pixelfed Kickstarter campaign has concluded, and the project has raised 138k Canadian dollar (88k EUR/95k USD). The campaign raised money from over 2100 backers, and reached far past it’s original goal of 50k CAD. The campaign has grown significantly in scope, and indicates that the Pixelfed campaign is much more than just about the image-sharing platform Pixelfed. Pixelfed itself has also grown, and there are now reportedly 8 people joining the team. With the money, the team is working on the following:
Further development of Pixelfed, as well as supporting the pixelfed.social and pixelfed.art servers
Development of Loops, and getting it to a state where it can be made available as open source. In the most recent update Pixelfed says that this will be “once it is ready in 2025”.
Building a dedicated server environment around the world, that can handle “the 1000s of TBs of video traffic (plus storage requirements)”.
Building Fedi-CDN to host and serve Loops videos, as well as offering “excess compute/bandwidth to other fediverse platforms as a collaborative shared service.”
Building an E2EE messaging platform Sup, with the near future focused on development planning.
The latest update of the Kickstarter also notes that Pixelfed has started another side project, FediThreat, for fediverse admins to share information about lower-risk harmful actors such as spam accounts. This project is currently in the proof-of-concept stage.
Launching a Pixelfed Foundation. Setting up a foundation was originally put behind to a 200k CAD stretch goal, but it seems like this will still happen, even though the goal is not met. The latest Kickstarter update notes that a Pixelfed Foundation is currently being worked on, as a non-profit under the government of Alberta, Canada.
The amount of money that Pixelfed has raised is significant, especially by fediverse standards. At the same time, this is a lot of different types of projects that the team is undertaking. Pixelfed has a history of overpromising and underdeliving, for example the Groups feature has been announced to be released “soon” for over 2 years now, and this is a feature that they have gotten an NLnet grant for. The new projects that Pixelfed is working on, such as a shared CDN are definitely valuable for the fediverse. But with the attention of the Pixelfed team being pulled in so many different directions, and a lack of clarity on which projects will get focus, it is unclear on which timeline Pixelfed can deliver the planned features.
Encyclia is a newly announced project to make ORCID records available on the fediverse. ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a unique identifier for researchers and scientists. Every researcher can have their own unique ORCID, and with it, every publication become records connected to that ORCID. With Encyclia, all these ORCIDS can be followed from your ActivityPub account, meaning that you can always keep up to date with research, even when the researcher does not have a fediverse account. Encyclia is currently still in pre-alpha, and not yet available for use by the public.
This weekend was the SXSW festival, and Flipboard hosted the Fediverse House, with quite some well-known names within the fediverse community, as well as representatives from Bluesky and Threads, as well. There does not seem to be recordings available, but Jeff Sikes was there and had a good live blog if you want to also experience some FOMO.
In my recent updates on Bluesky and ATProto I talk about how Bluesky is increasingly becoming a political actor, due to the presence of various high-profile people who are actively speaking out against the Trump/Musk regime. This impact so far is less visible on the fediverse, as there are no politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez using the platform to speak out. But resistance does not only come from high-profile individuals, it comes from people on the ground that organise themselves. To that end, Jon Pincus wrote two articles on organising on the fediverse: If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next has an overview of the current state of the networks in relation to organising. Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere has a lot more practical details, examening various softwares that can be used in practice. Both articles are great sources of information to get more practical details for people who are considering using decentralised social networks.
The Links
Decentralized Social Networks & WordPress with Alex Kirk. The Open Web Conversations has a new Fediverse series, hosted by WordPress ActivityPub plugin creator Matthias Pfefferle. They discuss talk about how a WordPress blog can be build into a full decentralised social networking node with the Friends plugin by Kirk and the ActivityPub plugin by Pfefferle.
Standards War? – Robert W. Gehl. Gehl compares IFTAS’ funding struggles with the Free Our Feeds campaign, who are raising money to build alternative ATProto infrastructure, and describes it as an illustration of the emerging standards war between ActivityPub and ATProto.
The Software Sessions podcast did an interview with Hong Minhee. Hong is the developer for ActivityPub framework Fedify, as well as Hollo, a single-user microblogging platform.
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Sulla Forge des communs numériques éducatifs si può testare l'app #PDF2flip che permette di trasformare un #Pdf in un libro sfogliabile (#flipbook): pdf2flip.forge.apps.education.… Un grand merci à @eyssette 👏 Nella descrizione delle immagini la traduzione italiana delle istruzioni. #ALT
È tutto molto bello. Se ho capito bene si possono aggiungere PDF. Lo si può fare a beneficio di tutti? Un esempio è Ada & Zangemann, dove il PDF è ormai disponibile in moltissime lingue.
Friendica è una piattaforma social straordinaria e vanta una serie di caratteristiche che la rendono unica nel panorama della federazione: • supporto a post di grandi dimensioni, formattati, con titolo e spoiler; • supporto nativo ai gruppi ActivityPub; • messaggi diretti; • galleria multimediale dove è possibile gestire foto album; • possibilità di organizzare i contatti in cerchie; • possibilità di citare (cross-post) post altrui; • importazione di feed RSS; • calendario eventi integrato; • ovviamente molto altro (fare riferimento alla documentazione ufficiale).
L'interfaccia web è ottima per accedere a tutte queste funzionalità, ma su un dispositivo mobile ci sono vincoli diversi per usabilità e leggibilità, quindi è utile avere un'app per utilizzare le più importanti tra le funzioni offerte dalla piattaforma.
Funzionalità principali:
• visualizzazione timeline con la possibilità di cambiare tipo di feed (pubblica, locale, iscrizioni e liste personalizzate); • dettaglio post, visualizzare le risposte, le ricondivisioni e gli utenti che l'hanno aggiunto ai preferiti; • dettaglio utente con visualizzazione post, post e risposte, post fissati e multimediali, e possibilità di registrarsi per le notifiche, seguirlo, visualizzare elenchi di seguaci e seguiti; • supporto ai gruppi ActivityPub, con possibilità di aprire i thread in modalità forum; • visualizzare i post di tendenza, gli hashtag e i link in tendenza e i suggerimenti su chi seguire; • seguire/smettere di seguire un hashtag e visualizzare tutti i post che lo contengono; • interagire con i post (ricondividere, aggiungere ai preferiti o segnalibri) e – nel caso dei propri post – modificarli, cancellarli o fissarli sul profilo; • ricerca globale di hashtag, post e utenti in base a termini di ricerca; • personalizzare l'aspetto dell'app cambiando i colori, font o dimensione del testo, ecc. • effettuare l'accesso tramite il protocollo OAuth2; • visualizzare e modificare i dati del proprio profilo; • visualizzare e filtrare l'elenco notifiche; • gestire le richieste di essere seguito; • visualizzare la lista dei preferiti, segnalibri o hashtag seguiti; • creare post e risposte formattati, con allegati (e testo alternativo), spoiler e titolo; • schedulare post (e cambiare la data di schedulazione) o salvarlo nelle bozze; • segnalare post e utenti agli amministratori per la moderazione dei contenuti; • silenziare/bloccare utenti e gestire la lista dei propri utenti silenziati o bloccati; • gestire le proprie cerchie (liste personalizzate); • visualizzare i sondaggi (sola lettura); • supporto multi-account con possibilità di cambiare account (e, in modalità anonima, di cambiare istanza); • inviare messaggi diretti ad altri utenti e visualizzare le conversazioni; • gestire la galleria foto; • visualizzare il calendario eventi (sola lettura).
La guida di Informapirata a Friendica, dedicata a tutti coloro che dal Fediverso vogliono ottenere tutto il possibile.
Un Mastodon con gli steroidi e attualmente l’unica alternativa a Facebook di tutto il Fediverso. Con mille pregi e, soprattutto, mille difetti. E mai nessuno che ci spieghi come utilizzarlo. Almeno finora…
Que massa, @Thiago Skárnio ! Eu nem acesso muito o Fediverso do celular, mas atualmente estou usando o Fedilab. Funciona bem, mas é genérico. Vou dar uma conferida nesse aí. Valeu!
@Aracnus @Thiago Skárnio Fedilab solo utiliza las API de Mastodon, por lo que se pierde la mayoría de las funciones de Friendica. Racoon, por otro lado, utiliza tanto la API de Mastodon (y de hecho funciona bien con Mastodon) como la API de Friendica. Y de hecho puedes gestionar casi todas las funciones web excepto las configuraciones estrictas y la creación de eventos. ¡Pruébalo y cuéntamelo! 😉
@aracnus @oigreslima Um dos motivos da nossa instância atual ser com Mastodon é a falta de um bom app mobile. Também uso o Fedilab mas ele não dá conta de tudo. Pelo visto não tenho mais desculpas para não retornar ao projeto inocial. Helele.
@Thiago Skárnio Estoy de acuerdo. También sé que el desarrollador @𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 está trabajando en agregar notificaciones y traducciones, pero obviamente es una tarea compleja y la aplicación solo tiene unos meses, por lo que imagino que comenzará a trabajar en ello seriamente solo si su aplicación tiene una buena respuesta en términos de usuarios activos.
@Aracnus Me gustaría agregar que una de las características innovadoras de esta aplicación es la posibilidad de explorar los mensajes en tu cronología de derecha a izquierda y viceversa. Esta es una característica que ni siquiera las aplicaciones multimillonarias de Facebook, Instagram y X, tienen.
Quando abbiamo aperto la nostra istanza #SearXNG, speravamo di smuovere coscienze. Oggi in molti hanno seguito l’esempio, usando e creando istanze SearXNG! 🚀
Perché è rivoluzionario? Perché si è capito che l’indipendenza dai motori di ricerca centralizzati non è un sogno, ma un diritto.
A chi ha replicato il nostro modello, a chi ha condiviso la nostra guida, a chi ora cerca senza tracciamento: GRAZIE. Ogni istanza nuova è un nodo in più in una rete indipendente, un segnale contro le Big Tech.
IFTAS is shutting down most of their services following a lack of funding, and Tumblr-like platform Wafrn now has its own apps, and a Bluesky integration to boot.
The News
The fediverse trust and safety organisation IFTAS has announced it is shutting down most of its services, following a lack of funding. Last month the organisation said that they would soon run out of funding, and that they’d do a final effort at getting structural funds for the organisation. This has not happened, and now IFTAS will shut down most of their services. The biggest project to be shut down is IFTAS’ Content Classification Service, a service which handled CSAM scanning and reporting for fediverse servers. When fediverse server admins encounter CSAM, most countries have mandatory reporting requirements that admins are obliged to follow. Another project that is shutting down is FediCheck, which provides shared deny lists that server could use to build their own deny lists for their servers.
IFTAS shutting down their services is a double blow to the fediverse. The obvious one is that functions like IFTAS’ Content Classification Service were aiming to provide a service that filled an crucial gap in the operations of many fediverse servers. Scanning for CSAM, and handling the legal requirements on reporting to the relevant agencies is a challenging task for server admins to execute, and many fediverse servers do not have good procedures in place to handle this delicate process. IFTAS’ CCS would have provided a way for smaller fediverse server to handle the legal obligations they have regarding handling CSAM.
The second blow to the fediverse is in that IFTAS fills an important role in building a collaborative structure for moderation across fediverse servers. The fediverse is a network of independent places (servers), and while they are interconnected on a technical level via a protocol, building connections between servers for collaborations is proving to be much harder. Over the years there have been many suggestions and ideas on how fediverse servers could work together, for example regarding on sharing information on which servers to block. These conversations currently take place mainly via admin backchannels or via the #fediblock hashtag, and a more structural interface could help streamline this process. For such a process to work trust is needed between fediverse server admins to participate with such infrastructure. IFTAS, as a grassroots fediverse organisation, is one of the best-placed organisations to have build trust and provide a nexus around which such infrastructure could be build. IFTAS got pretty far with their rollout of FediCheck, which was building such a place for collaboration between server admins. Now that IFTAS will not be the center around which shared moderation infrastructure can be build, will there be another organisation in the future to do so? Especially when IFTAS found out that getting funding for such a project is so difficult?
Fediverse platform Wafrn has announced they now have apps for Android and iOS available in testing. I have not talked about Wafrn much, but it is one of the more interesting fediverse platforms that is currently being worked on. Wafrn is a Tumblr-inspired platform that clearly does not take itself too seriously: the name stands for “We Allow Female Representing Nipples“. It is a reference to a decision by Tumblr to ban adult content, and they used the phrase “Female-presenting Nipples” in their community guidelines which became a target of ridicule. Wafrn has a variety of unique features, such as a place to ask and answer questions for the Wafrn community. The most standout feature of Wafrn however is a native integration of both ActivityPub and ATProto. A Wafrn account allows you to have a full connection with the fediverse, as well as with Bluesky. On the fediverse, your account is visible as @name@app.wafrn.net, while on Bluesky your account is visible as @name.at.wafrn.net. Because this is not a bridge, and instead a native integration, a Wafrn account can interact with any Bluesky and fediverse account, other accounts are not required to opt-in in order to connect. In a real way, this means that Bluesky is now indeed federated, it just took an app called “We Allow Female Representing Nipples” to get there.
Link aggregator platform PieFed has added support for feeds. Feeds on PieFed are similar to how multi-reddits work on Reddit: it allows you to create a custom feed that displays posts from multiple communities. Feeds can also be shared, allowing people to follow a feed that others have created. Feeds on PieFed are somewhat similar to their Topics feature. Topics are also a collection of multiple fediverse communities around a certain theme. The main difference between topics and feeds is that topics are created by the server owner, and set for the entire server. With feeds, anyone can create and share one, and you can also follow feeds from other PieFed servers.
The Links
Timeline app Tapestry has gotten an investment by Tumblr.
WeDistribute writes about Funkwhale and their decision to filter out far-right music.
Ghost‘s weekly update on their ActivityPub implementation
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Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from across
Welcome to the bi-weekly tech-focused update on everything that is happening on Bluesky and the wider ATmosphere. The theme continues to be: “can ATProto scale down“? Next week will be focused again on Bluesky and it’s surrounding ecosystem of media apps. The News Constellation is a project that recently released that provides a database of […]
Welcome to the bi-weekly tech-focused update on everything that is happening on Bluesky and the wider ATmosphere. The theme continues to be: “can ATProto scale down“? Next week will be focused again on Bluesky and it’s surrounding ecosystem of media apps.
The News
Constellation is a project that recently released that provides a database of all backlinks in the entire network. Constellation now has a database of over 1.2 billion links, and an accompanying website with statistics to slice through. The Constellation API is now also getting integrated into multiple PDS browsers, both PDSls and atp.tools show backlinks to the ATProto records now. This puts PDS browsers more into their own specific place on the network: not a full AppView, but more than just a way to view the content of a PDS.
Bluesky PBC has put out a new proposal for ATProto, Sync 1.1. The proposed update concerns the relays, and the validation work they do. As part of the Authenticated Transfer, which ATProto is named after, relays validate every event on the firehose. This validation process currently requires a relay to store the entire repo, which can take up a lot of space. This is one of the aspects that make hosting a relay more expensive. The proposed update changes the way validation works, which allows a relay to validate the integrity of all the data going through the firehose without having to store the entire repo. Bluesky engineer Devin Ivy provides an explainer thread on how this works here. This update makes it much more feasible for people to self-host relays.
Another proposal by Bluesky PBC is for moderation routing report. The new feature allows labelers to select which type of report they want to receive. A common problem that labelers currently face is that users tend to receive reports that are not relevant for their specific labeling service, which causes them unnecessary extra work, as well as getting unnecessarily exposed to awful content. The new proposed update allows labelers to opt-out of specific reporting categories. Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold says Bluesky PBC is currently working on implementing the feature, aiming to ship it soon.
In Other News
Bluesky has posted some new job vacancies, and they are now hiring a System Integrity Engineer, Product Designer and Senior Trust and Safety Lead. Both the System Integrity Engineer and Trust and Safety Lead indicate that Bluesky is expanding their Trust and Safety work: both of these jobs are newly created positions, with the engineering position explicitly focused on moderation systems and regulatory compliance.
Some podcasting news: two podcasting apps, Transistor and TrueFans, both added support for displaying Bluesky comments on the podcast episode page. TrueFans also supports fediverse comments, so that a podcast episode page can display comments and reactions from both networks.
Bluesky engineer Jaz wrote an article about ‘lossy’ timelines. The summary is that to maintain performance, the home timelines of accounts that follow more than 4k accounts will not always see all posts on the timeline.
Upcoming ATProto short-form video platform Spark shared their outline on some of the limits they’ll set. Spark aims to allow videos of 300 MB or 3 minutes long (compared to Bluesky’s 50MB or 1 minute), and 12 files for image posts (5MB each). This is part of the reason why Spark is not using Bluesky’s lexicon, instead developing their own. Setting these limits higher will also require Sparks to provide their own PDSes, as the file size limit is set by the Bluesky PDS. Hosting video is expensive, and it is not yet clear how Spark will finance this.
A short tutorial on how to publish lexicon verification. The first verified lexicons are now starting to show up on lexidex.
Roomy has posted a deep dive on their tech stack, how they are combining ATProto and Automerge to build public chatrooms.
Web browser Opera adds Bluesky integration, allowing you to more easily doom scroll in the sidebar of the browser.
Bluesky video client Skylight is now available in beta on Android, after Skylight had trouble with Google to get the Android beta approved.
Some events: Feed builder Graze will hold a meetup in New York this Friday the 28th, and at SXSW (March 10th, Austin) there will be Bluesky meetup.
The Links
An interview with Game Industry Labeler developer Trazy on how builds a community of thousands of game devopers on Bluesky.
A guide (in Japanese) on how to upload videos using Bluesky API (XRPC)
An interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber at Knight Media Forum.
A podcast interview with the developer of the ATProto art platform Pinksea
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Un video di protesta generato tramite intelligenza artificiale, che mostra Donald Trump mentre bacia i piedi di Elon Musk, è diventato virale dopo essere stato trasmesso in un ufficio governativo. Il video, condiviso su Bluesky dall'utente Marisa Kabas. è stato rimosso dalla piattaforma, classificandolo come "non consensuale", dato che né Trump né Musk avevano acconsentito alla sua creazione. Bluesky ha notificato Kabas via email, spiegando che il video violava le linee guida della comunità. Kabas ha contestato tale decisione, argomentando che il contenuto fosse di interesse pubblico e costituisse una forma legittima di informazione... ma nulla!
Sebbene le politiche di moderazione dei contenuti sui social generalmente consentano critiche verso figure pubbliche, la rimozione del video appare utilizzare la presunta neutralità delle policy come giustificazione per proteggere Trump, attraverso una poderosa captatio benevolentiae.
Bluesky has deleted the most viral post reporting on an internal government protest agains the President of the United States and the world's richest man.
a parte le linee guida e merito a Bluesky, che differenza c'è se fosse stata una vignetta che mostra Trump che bacia i piedi a Musk? Sarebbe stato non consensuale cqe. La vignetta sarebbe stata rimossa? È da molto che mi chiedo la differenza tra disegnare a mano e usare l AI ( quando sai che è falso ovviamente) per la satira. Però io non trovo corretto mettere il nome della persona nell' articolo che l ha messo online: a cosa serve? A cosa serve un minimo di privacy ?
Non è così. La notizia non è la condivisione del video, ma la condivisione di un video riprodotto sugli schermi televisivi all'interno di un edificio per uffici del governo federale, un ovvio atto di protesta. Se volessimo mantenere la similitudine della vignetta, qui non si tratta di diffondere una vignetta, ma di mostrare la vignetta che è stata appesa in tutte le bacheche del ministero. Non è la condivisione di un meme, ma la condivisione di una notizia!
> non trovo corretto mettere il nome della persona nell' articolo che l ha messo online: a cosa serve? A cosa serve un minimo di privacy ?
La persona in questione è una giornalista e non credo che abbia nulla in contrario alla pubblicazione del suo nome
While the news in the world is louder and intenser than ever, the fediverse has had one of it’s most quiet news weeks in a long time. But as compensation I’ll have another article out tomorrow, that I did not manage to finish for today.
The News
Some updates for GoToSocial: GoToSocial published the documentation that would also allow other fediverse platforms to implement their Interaction Policies. And Slurp is a new CLI tool to import your posts from other fediverse servers into GoToSocial. A guide to import your Pixelfed posts into GoToSocial with Slurp is available here.
Last week I wrote extensively about Mastodon’s plan to implement quote post. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput confirmed in a follow-up that Mastodon will not display quote posts if they are made using another implementation than Mastodon proposes. This means in practice that even when Mastodon has added support for quote posts, it will not display quote posts made by Misskey, unless Misskey also implements Mastodon’s new proposed system for quote posts.
Elgg is an old-school open source social network that started in 2004. It added a plugin for ActivityPub this week.
The Identity Graph Explorer is a simple tool to find out how “identifiers on the Fediverse / Social Web are connected to one another”.
The Hexbear Lemmy community recently lost control of their domain, leading to a bidding war for the domain name for thousands of dollars. The admins now report that they have gotten back control of their domain.
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English writer Hanif Kureishi from his wheelchair begins his article entitled Why I am becoming a fascist in this way: "If I could raise my arms, I’d be doing a Nazi salute right now. If I could walk, I’d be goose-stepping." #trumpism #autocracy #fascism #democracy #MAGAHat #liberalism
> Nationalism promises glory but delivers division, preaches unity but thrives on fear. [...] Nationalism is a con—a cheap trick played on those who long for simplicity in an intricate world. And while it may offer fleeting comfort to some, it comes at the cost of empathy, progress, and the very freedoms it claims to protect. So no, I won’t be raising my arm in salute [...].
Social platforms are not, and can not, be neutral in a context of authoritarianism, and Bluesky cannot avoid this dynamic either. On a lighter note, many experiments with building image and video clients for Bluesky are ongoing, more insight in how ATProto can scale down, and more.
Quando autocrati come Donald Trump prendono il potere, le istituzioni, le aziende e le organizzazioni della società civile non possono semplicemente continuare come prima. Quello in cui Google e Apple sbagliano, l'organizzazione no-profit Wikipedia riesce a fare meglio. Un commento di Leonhard Dobusch.
Il nome che da 500 anni viene dato al mare tra la costa meridionale degli Stati Uniti, il Messico e Cuba sembra essere uno dei problemi più importanti degli Stati Uniti. O almeno, così si potrebbe pensare. Perché uno dei primi atti di Donald Trump nel suo secondo mandato è stato quello di rinominarlo. Con un decreto, ha fatto rinominare il “Golfo del Messico” in “Golfo d'America”, secondo l'interpretazione ufficiale del governo statunitense.
Google e Apple rinominano il Golfo del Messico
In primo luogo, la “cambio di nome” è ovviamente un atto altamente simbolico che risponde a riflessi nazionalistici. Fa parte della strategia Flood-the-zone-with-shit-Strategie (Inonda il campo di merda) della nuova destra di Trump & Co. Ma è più di uno stupido scherzo, più di un semplice simbolo. Il cambio di nome costringe gli altri a relazionarsi con Trump.
Questo pone un problema ai produttori di mappe mondiali. Il mare deve essere chiamato come Trump lo immagina o come il resto del mondo e la maggioranza delle persone lo conoscono da secoli? I giganti della tecnologia statunitensi, Google e Apple, hanno deciso: si allineano ai rispettivi governi del paese - in questo caso anche a Trump. Negli Stati Uniti, questo è l'unico nome che utilizzano nei loro servizi di mappe. Ma nella versione in lingua tedesca di Google Maps, il “Golfo del Messico” è stato recentemente etichettato anche come “Golfo d'America”.
La propaganda autocratica non è normale
Quanto più assurda è l’azione di autocrati come Trump, tanto più forte è se gli altri potenti coinvolti si comportano come se questo fosse normale, come se si trattasse di faccende quotidiane. Questo è esattamente ciò che hanno fatto Google e Apple. Lutz Mache, responsabile degli affari governativi e delle politiche pubbliche di Google, ha risposto alle critiche sull’immsdiato cambio di nome di Google Maps: “In questo caso viene rispettata la legge in vigore. Nulla di più, nulla di meno”.
Inoltre, Mache ha citato una dichiarazione ufficiale (naturalmente su X-Twitter, dove se no?) in cui Google fa riferimento alla “prassi di lunga data” di adottare i cambiamenti di nome se sono stati modificati in fonti governative ufficiali (negli Stati Uniti si tratta del “Geographic Names Information System” (GNIS)). Può darsi che sia così, ma tale consuetudine non è una legge. E finché il GNIS non è stato usato impropriamente per la propaganda nazionalistica del governo, non è stato un problema.
Ma se i politici autoritari abusano delle istituzioni statali per scopi propagandistici, allora anche l'abitudine di continuare a fidarsi ciecamente di queste istituzioni deve essere messa in discussione.
Senza resistenza, gli autocrati vanno sempre più lontano
Questo è importante perché tutto ciò che funziona senza resistenza è visto dagli autocrati come un invito a mettere una marcia in più. È così anche in questo caso: un deputato repubblicano ha presentato una mozione per rinominare la Groenlandia “Red, White and Blueland”.
Ci sono certamente delle alternative a questa reazione. Wikipedia, ad esempio, non solo è più resistente alla disinformazione rispetto alle piattaforme orientate al profitto, ma anche agli interventi propagandistici delle forze autoritarie.
Wikipedia è più resistente
Nella Wikipedia in lingua inglese, il “Golfo del Messico” viene ancora chiamato così. Il motivo è da ricercare nelle convenzioni di denominazione di Wikipedia: ciò che conta è il modo in cui ci si riferisce prevalentemente a un luogo, non come qualcuno pensa che debba essere chiamato.
È quindi giunto il momento che Google riconsideri la sua “prassi consolidata”. Perché non adottare semplicemente i termini geografici di Wikipedia? In ogni caso, il tempo del “Business as usual” è finito. Questa non è un’esercitazione.
Grazie per la segnalazione. Aggiungo un po' di osservazioni:
Trump, almeno per il momento, non è un "autocrate" al modo dello zar di tutte le Russie. Il suo regime è cominciato come una democrazia autoritaria - è stato eletto, dopo tutto, ed è da oligarchici in pectore dimenticarselo - anche se può condurre a una sorta di destrutturazione/dissoluzione dello stato;
I poteri distribuiti e non aziendali resistono meglio di quelli centralizzati e aziendali (i cui interessi al lucro sono concentrati oligarchicamente o anche autocraticamente)
anche per questo non è una buona idea aziendalizzare e accentrare i poteri sulle e nelle istituzioni che si occupano della ricerca della verità - a meno che non si sia cultori in pectore di forme autoritarie;
ma tutto questo lo avevamo già detto, e in tempi non sospetti, quando i più fischiettavano.
A new P2P group chat with Roomy, Microcosm makes ATProto even more modular, other new tools and much more!
Welcome to this week’s edition of all the news that happens in the wider ATProto ecosystem. This edition is somewhat more technical, next week I’ll focus again on Bluesky and the growing ecosystem of video and image apps around it.
@Ernesto Wong García estaba pensando en hacer algo así para los hashtags, a ver... ¿qué te parece?
Se va a poder hacer clic en cada elemento (por ej. "linux" aquí) y abrir la pantalla correspondiente con todos los post que contienen el hashtag seleccionado.
This week I'm zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they'll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.
This week I’m zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they’ll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.
On bridging and fediverse culture
Erin Kissane wrote an excellent article this week, about ‘bridging’ (connecting separate networks), fediverse culture, and why this regularly leads to drama and blowups. Kissane gives three explanations as to why this type of drama keeps happening, of which I want to highlight one: ‘Conflicting models of what the fediverse “really” is’. Kissane focuses on two different cultures on the fediverse regarding how connections between different places on the fediverse should be made, and how they should deal with consent.
I agree with Kissane’s observation, both that these competing models exist, as well as that a lack of acceptance that there are different models leads to conflict. Just last week I wrote about two separate cases of drama between various people about fediverse software that deals with these conflicting models on what the fediverse really is. In general I think that it is highly important to have a good understanding of what the fediverse truly is, and not only what people want the fediverse to be.
This Sunday was the NFL Superbowl, with the halftime show by Kendrick Lamar. Lamar made some powerful visual statements in his show, such as a flag of America that consists entirely of Black men. Browsing both the fediverse and Bluesky this Monday morning served as a good indication of how different the cultures of these two networks are.
On Bluesky, 20 of the most liked 25 posts of the entire network 1 discussed the Superbowl, and of those 20, 12 were specifically about Lamar’s halftime show. Shortly after the end of the show, network traffic spiked to almost double the traffic for a short period as people logged in to talk about the show.
On the fediverse, I had a hard time finding any posts discussing the Superbowl. I saw one post on the trending page of mastodon.social. Browsing through all posts made with the hashtag #superbowl gave me more than five times as much superb pictures of owls as it gave me posts about the halftime show.2 There is a long tradition of posting pictures of owls with the tag SuperbOwl, that far predates the fediverse.
It shows two social networks with very different cultures: one as a place to discuss mainstream cultural events, and one as a place for counterculture and the subversion of mainstream culture. I do not think this difference is an anomaly either, in general I see significantly less conversations about pop culture on the fediverse. This specific example with the Superbowl halftime show is just a clear example of a larger trend
To be clear here: this is not a criticism of the fediverse, nor is it a call for the fediverse to change and suddenly start posting about Lamar. The reason I’m highlighting these difference is to show what the fediverse actually is. There is a significant group of people that have an interest in the fediverse for the potential that it can be. This group frames the fediverse as an alternative to platforms like X, as a way to build social media platforms that are welcoming for everybody. This is a laudable goal to strive for. The ongoing coup in the US illustrates the urgent need for social platforms that are not owned by the oligarchy. But I also think that working towards such goals requires a good understanding what the fediverse currently actually is.
That is why I’m placing this observation in the context of Kissane’s post, who notes that people having ‘conflicting model of what the fediverse “really” is’ leads to conflict, and hampers potential for change in the fediverse. To me, how the fediverse responded to the Superbowl is a good illustration of the current culture of the network. What the fediverse currently is, is a countercultural network with little interest in mainstream pop culture. This is an absolutely fine identity to have! But for the people who are working to bringing the fediverse into the mainstream, it is important to realise that this countercultural identity clashes with with bringing a mainstream cultural identity to the fediverse.
The News
IFTAS has announced that they are running out of funding, and that barring new funding sources that will come through this month, the organisation will have to scale down their activities significantly. IFTAS says that they are currently focused on getting funding for their Content Classification Service (CCS). CCS is an opt-in system which helps fediverse server admins with CSAM detection and reporting. Running a social networking server comes with a fair amount of requirements regarding reporting CSAM, which are difficult to do for fediverse admins. CCS is intended to help with that, but IFTAS describes it as an “a ridiculously expensive undertaking, far beyond what the community can support with individual donations”. If IFTAS cannot secure funding by the end of the month, they will have to suspend the operation of CCS and its CSAM detection service. Other work that IFTAS will have to halt if no funding comes through is giving policy guidance, like their recent work for server admins on how to navigate the new UK Online Safety Act.
Funding Trust & Safety has been a major challenge for the fediverse. Recently, Mastodon tried a fundraiser for a new Trust & Safety lead, where Mastodon only managed to raise 13k of the aimed 75k. It is a concerning situation for the fediverse. One of the selling points of the network is that it can be a safer place for vulnerable people. But it turns out that actually funding the work that can make the fediverse a safer place is a lot harder than it should be.
Tapestry is a new iOS app by Iconfactory, who once made the popular Twitter client Twitterific. Tapestry is a combination of a news reader and a social media site. It allows you to combine many feeds into a single timeline. Tapestry supports social feeds like Mastodon, Bluesky and Tumblr, as well as RSS, YouTube, and more. The app was funded via Kickstarter last year. In a review, David Pierce from The Verge describes Tapestry as a ‘timeline app’, in a similar category as apps like feeeed and Surf. In his review, Pierce describes how timeline apps are about consuming information and new in a different way, and help manage the information overload that social media feeds present us with. I think that is also why I find these types of apps interesting, as they also frame the fediverse in a different way. Most popular fediverse software like Mastodon and Pixelfed are wired around social interaction. However, they follow the same patterns as the Twitters and Instagrams that came before, and over the last 15 years society has reshaped itself so that platforms like Twitter became not only used for talking, but also as a way to distribute news. So far, the fediverse is repeating this structure; Mastodon is used both for organisations that just want to send out a link to their news article as well as for people to chat with their friends. Timeline apps like Tapestry help split out these use cases, and allow people to take one part of the interaction pattern of Mastodon (following news and updates) without the other pattern (chatting with friends).
The Links
Some more videos of fediverse presentations that happened at FOSDEM last week were published online:
The Brazilian Institute for Museums, a Brazilian government agency, is hiring two people to expand their integration with ActivityPub.
Flipboard has published more information and a schedule for Fediverse House, a conference about the social web. It will be held in Austin, Texas, on Sunday March 9th and Monday March 10th.
I checked at 6am PST, and looked at the past 12 hours. ↩︎
Also checked on 6am PST, and checked all posts made with that hashtag as visible from the mastodon.social server. I saw 61 pictures of owls, and less than 10 pictures by non-automated accounts of the show by Lamar. I’m saying less then 10 here because there were some automated bot accounts in there who mirror posts from news websites. Due to the size difference in userbase between Bluesky and Mastodon I’m less interested in the absolute numbers as in the relative difference between them. ↩︎
Oggi, la National Security Agency (NSA) sta pianificando una "Big Delete" di siti web e contenuti di rete interni che contengono una qualsiasi delle 27 parole vietate, tra cui "privilegio", "parzialità" e "inclusione". La "Big Delete", secondo una fonte della NSA e la corrispondenza interna esaminata da Popular Information, sta creando conseguenze indesiderate. Sebbene i siti web e gli altri contenuti siano presumibilmente cancellati per rispettare gli ordini esecutivi del Presidente Trump che prendono di mira diversità, equità e inclusione, o "DEI", la rete a strascico sta eliminando il lavoro "relativo alla missione". Secondo la fonte della NSA, che ha parlato a condizione di anonimato perché non è autorizzata a parlare con i media, il processo è "molto caotico", ma sta comunque andando avanti.
Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion.
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@carini è normale. La lamentela sulla cenZura del politicamente corretto è diventata un meme
Chi può lamentarsi di una presunta censura, se non chi la censura vorrebbe farla egli stesso?
È quindi fisiologico che i nuovi censori pratichino la censura esattamente così come immaginavano nella propria fantasia malata che la censura venisse esercitata dai loro odiati liberal
Eh ... la censura è sempre quella degli altri. Poi c'è chi ha l'onestà di protestare sempre e quelli che protestano solo quando fa comodo alla loro parte.
@carini allo stesso modo, le religioni più totalitarie ed eversive sono quelle che rivendicano spazi pubblici in base alla libertà di religione. Salvo poi, una volta giunti al potere, cancellare ogni libertà religiosa o non religiosa... O la tirannia con la democrazia. È un gioco antico dal quale Popper ricavò il suo famoso paradosso della tolleranza
Peccato che il "gioco della tolleranza" di popper viene spesso citato (a sproposito) dagli intolleranti, esattamente nello stesso modo in cui l'effetto Dunning-Kruger viene costantemente citato proprio dai meno competenti.
In ogni caso non si applica alle religioni che non possono, per definizione, essere tolleranti.
Il tutto è molto utile per personalizzare il proprio account affiancando al nome alcune emoji significative o per indicare i propri interessi nella descrizione.
Se manca qualche emoji che usereste molto volentieri segnalatela e la renderemo disponibile.
Bluesky’s public launch was one year ago today, and here you can see how the network has grown and changed over this first year. In that year, Bluesky has managed to find a serious role in the larger media ecosystem. The media ecosystem itself has shifted rapidly as well: outlets like Wired and 404 Media, and independent reporters like Marisa Kabas and Nathan Tankus at the forefront of reporting what is happening in the US. I do not think it is an accident that they are all active on Bluesky
Note: I’ve been sick for the past few days, so this edition is a bit shorter and a day late, apologies. Next week’s edition will be focused again on the more technical side of AT Protocol (ATProto).
Credible exit
One of the core concepts why Bluesky is build on the open ATProto is to give users ‘credible exit’. The Bluesky company (Bluesky PBC) is mindful of how companies turn bad over time, and CTO Paul Frazee explicitly talks about how he sees his own company as a ‘future adversary‘. The idea is that in a future where Bluesky has become an adversary to its users, people can have a ‘credible exit’ away from Bluesky towards another microblogging app. People can take their digital identity (the DID, in ATProto terms), social graph and posts with them, and seamlessly continue microblogging on ATProto using another app. Such another competitor microblogging app on ATProto currently does not exist, and an important factor in that is the incentives to build such an app currently are not there. Bluesky is currently not an adversary, has a well-designed app and some significant funding, and it is hard to compete with that. Still, the assumption made by Bluesky PBC is that over the years, Bluesky PBC will gradually turn ‘bad’ in some way, and at some point the incentives are such that another company will build a microblogging competitor on ATProto, and people will have the option to have a credible exit.
The ongoing coup in America changes the dynamic however. Autocratic regimes are not particularly compatible with platforms that allow for free speech by people that oppose the regime. This creates a possibility that either the Musk or the US government will force Bluesky to censor speech or ban accounts that they don’t like, or that either party will come after Bluesky directly. Musk has called Bluesky ‘pedosky’ multiple times, indicating his feelings of contempt for the network that rivals his X platform. Such actions would likely be wildly illegal and should be fought in court, but in a world where an unelected private citizen can decide to shut down entire US government departments, it is prudent to account for the possibility that other illegal stuff might happen as well.
This new political environment changes the understanding of Bluesky having a credible exit as well. So far, Bluesky PBC frames credible exit as a way for people to move to a different app on the same network when the company becomes an ‘adversary’. But in the current political climate, it might just be that the US government becomes an adversary which prompts a need for a credible exit.
Bluesky clients
Bluescreen is the latest video app for Bluesky, made by the creator of the popular Bluesky client Skeets. It is similar to apps like Skylight and Videos for Bluesky, all three apps provide a TikTok-like interface to watch videos that are posted on Bluesky. Over at TechCrunch, Sarah Perez wrote an overview of all the video apps for ATProto that are currently being developed.
Now that I’ve gotten to play around with all three video apps for Bluesky, I am not convinced that Bluesky video clients are the way forward to build a ‘TikTok for Bluesky’. Bluesky’s recent update for video feeds have turned the official Bluesky app into a suitable video client as well, and I find that the video watching experience on the official Bluesky app is better than on any of these three apps. Part of it is that the competitor client apps are all still early in development, and this may change over time. But more importantly, videos on Bluesky get posted in an environment where there are lots of non-video content as well. If I watch a video on Bluesky and I want to see that account’s profile, I’m want to be able to see all of their posts, not just their videos. I can do this with the official Bluesky app, but not with any of the Bluesky video-focused clients.
There are now multiple image-focused Bluesky clients as well. Pinksky was recently released with an interface that is heavily inspired by Instagram. Bluescreen also now has a Bluesky client specifically for photo-sharing, Flashes, that entered open beta this week. Atlas is a Bluesky client for images that has collections similar to Pinboard. These image-focused Bluesky clients all bring something to the table that the official Bluesky client does not have, by restructuring the interface around images. But just with video, I’m wondering if it is enough to build a steady user base.
The Links
Two RSS readers added Bluesky support this week: Feedly and Inoreader.
handles.net allows for large-scale managing of Bluesky handles, similar to other services like Aviary.
Another way to add bookmarks to Bluesky, this time with a separate app.
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FOSDEM and the fediverse match well together, some issues regarding data privacy and consent, and multi-network client Openvibe gets 800k in funding.
The News
FOSDEM, the free event for open source software was this weekend in Brussels, with a large presence for the fediverse and the social web. There were three events, presentations by various fediverse software developers in the SocialWeb Devroom, an extra smaller event on Sunday for more presentations, and a more casual event on Sunday evening at Brussels Hackerspace. All the events were fully packed, showing the large amount of interest from the community for the fediverse and the social web. The Social Web Foundation has been the main initiator of these events.
Some thoughts and observations:
Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEP) are documents with the goal to improve applications on the fediverse. People can write proposals, and developers can decide to support and implement proposals as they see fit. There are some great technical FEPs, but one of the challenges of such a grassroots system is getting buy-in from developers to support specific FEPs. NodeBB developer Julian Lam held a presentation ‘The Fediverse is Quiet — Let’s Fix That!’ as an advocacy for a specific FEP. The proposal Lam talks about is about fixing the problem of missing replies, where people do not see all replies on a post. What I think is noteworthy about Lam’s presentation is that it frames a FEP not only as a technical document, but as a process that needs community buy-in for other developers to support and implement a FEP. Hopefully, more of such advocacy might help see more FEPs implemented as well.
Mastodon presented the progress on their Fediverse Discovery Provider project. The project builds an opt-in decentralised service for better discovery and search. In the presentation (and on the website), Mastodon stressed that the project is not only a Mastodon project, but is intended to be used by the entire fediverse. Mastodon developer David Roetzel said that he hoped that the goal is that many servers will run a “Fediverse Auxillary Service Provider”. Personally I think that it is instructive to look at Bluesky here. While the AT Protocol is decentralised, in practice everyone uses infrastructure owned by the Bluesky company. I’m not convinced yet that the Fediverse Discovery Provider project will not run into the same problem, as I’m unclear on what the incentives are for people to run competing Fediverse Discovery Provider projects.
Some of the more interesting presentations I saw were about the integration of different types of protocols with ActivityPub. The ActivityPods project combines ActivityPub with Solid Pods, which shows quite some similarities with how the PDS system of ATProto works. All your data is stored on your Pod, multiple types of apps can connect to your Pod, and communicate via ActivityPub. It allows you to have a single account that is used for multiple platforms, similar with how your ATProto account can be used for multiple types of apps.
One of the most valuable parts of a conference like FOSDEM is getting developers together in a room to meet and build relationships. Fediforum has provided such a place for people to gather digitally, but meeting people in real life remains one of the best ways to build trust and relationships. Some practical ways this was visible this FOSDEM was by getting the NodeBB, WordPress ActivityPub plugin, WriteFreely and Ghost developers together and recognising themselves as the ‘longform’ people. This group of developers getting together this way helps with the various projects becoming more interoperable, and better support for longform content in the fediverse.
Two issues regarding consent and data processing this week. The first is with GoToSocial and fediverse statistics sites like fedidb.org and fediverse.observer. Some GoToSocial servers have blocked statistics sites from indexing their platforms via robots.txt, but the crawlers of fedidb.org and fediverse.observer ignore those. In response, the main GoToSocial server decided to serve up randomised numbers, messing up the statistics of these sites. Fedidb developer Daniel Supernault removed GoToSocial altogether from the statistics site, but does not seem to be willing to respect the opting out of crawling via robots.txt. The second is regarding the shutdown of FediOnFire, that displayed public posts from a relay in a format similar to one of Bluesky’s firehose visualisation tools.
How the fediverse treats consent for public posts is unusual, and make it stand out from other networks. For a significant group of people, consent for processing other people’s ‘Public’ ActivityPub posts is done on an opt-out bases if the service doing the processing is vaguely shaped like a full 2-way interacting fediverse server. In contrast, consent for processing other people’s ‘Public’ ActivityPub posts is done on an opt-in basis if the service doing the processing is vaguely shaped like a crawler. The line between these two situations is hard to draw, even more so in an internally coherent way. Still, this line clearly exists, and ignoring it leads to high-profile blowups such as with Searchtodon and Bridgy Fed. Defining the permissions clearly for posts would help here, and it is frustrated to see that the situation has not meaningfully improved in years. Furthermore, that fediverse stats sites have ignored the opt-out on a server level via robots.txt indicates that servers setting permissions is not a panacea either.
The Pixelfed Kickstarter has seen some updates this week. First was the update that setting up a Pixelfed Foundation is now moved to the stretch goal of $200k CAD, and that for $300k CAD the stretch goal is to expand the team to hire additional developers. A few days later, developer Daniel Supernault said that the $300k CAD stretch goal is now to build a Tumblr alternative. That brings the goal of the Pixelfed Kickstarter to build four platforms: Pixelfed, Loops, Sup (an encrypted messaging platform) and an unnamed Tumblr alternative, as well as building a foundation and a developer testing kit with Pubkit. Moving the foundation to a stretch goal that has not been met yet does not feel great to me, as good governance of such large platforms is highly important. Adding a Tumblr alternative to another later stretch goal also makes me concerned that Supernault is taking on too much here, as that is a lot of products to build and maintain.
Openvibe, a client that combines your Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr and Threads account into a single feed, has raised 800k USD in outside investment, with Automattic among the investors. Openvibe is an early mover in the space, and it’s a name I regularly see pop up when people recommend clients. However, open networks and open APIs means that it is hard to build a competitive moat. Still, most apps are hobby projects, and I’m curious how far Openvibe can push their app with the new funding.
For the past two years, Radio Free Fedi has held a special place in my heart. The community operation started as a small experiment, but quickly grew into a Fediverse institution. In the time that it
Its another massive week for Pixelfed, growing by another 100k active users and doubling their Kickstarter goal, raising over 100k CAD. Tumblr confirms they still intend to join the fediverse.
Its another massive week for Pixelfed, growing by another 100k active users and doubling their Kickstarter goal, raising over 100k CAD.
The News
Pixelfed continues to grow rapidly, adding almost 100k monthly active users in a week, and has now almost 300k monthly active users. Just over a month ago, Pixelfed had around 20k monthly active users. Developer Daniel Supernault launched a Kickstarter this week for Pixelfed,Loops and Sup. The Kickstarter proved popular, raising 100k CAD, double its 50k CAD goal. The Kickstarter is mainly for to fund the continuous development of the platforms, with the primary goals listed as ‘acceleration development’ for Pixelfed and Loops, and starting the development of messaging platform Sup. Sup is a planned encrypted messaging app that is supposed to compete with WhatsApp and Snapchat. Supernault has mentioned working on the project in the past, but it is unclear how far along the project is.
Supernault says that the operational costs for running all of his projects is now over 4000 USD per month. The large majority of people joining the flagship servers pixelfed.social and loops.video, which are both run by Supernault. Still, it seems like Supernault is not particularly interested in sharing out the load of users to other servers, saying that people unfamiliar with the fediverse want to join a a flagship instance. He also says that “using random servers to register on is very dangerous, because not all of them are as dedicated to this as I am, some of them don’t update frequently or handle mod reports as fast as we do.” Supernault is currently the only moderator for both the pixelfed.social server as well as the pixelfed.art server. He also says that Pixelfed.social needs to establish a mod team. One barrier to adding extra moderators is that Pixelfed does not have a specific ‘moderator’ role in the software, there is only the possibility to give someone full admin rights. Supernault says that he is working on adding such a feature.
The Pixelfed Kickstarter also lists a Pixelfed Foundation as its stretch goal. It is not particularly clear what such a Foundation would entail: the Kickstarter describes it as both a foundation and a corporation, as says that it “hopefully” would be a not-for-profit. Some of the potential work of the Pixelfed foundation would be to grow the Pixelfed and Loops social networks, and also support other developers in the wider fediverse ecosystem.
Tumblr has reconfirmed that it is working on connecting to the fediverse. In late 2022, Automatic CEO Matt Mullenweg said that the site was going to add ActivityPub support ‘soon’. Plans changed for Tumblr, including staff layoffs, and for a long time it was unclear if this plan was actually going to happen. In summer 2024, Tumblr announced that they would be working on moving the backend of Tumblr to WordPress. In an AMA this week, the company said that this migration of Tumblr to WordPress means that Tumblr can also use the plugins of WordPress, including the ActivityPub plugin. This means that people will be able to add ActivityPub to their Tumblr blogs. Not much is known about how this would work in practice.
The Analysis
Editor’s note: I wrote the section below before Supernault published his latest update on Kickstarter a few hours ago. In the latest update the Pixelfed Foundation is now moved towards a new stretch goal of 200k CAD. This changes my analysis, but I currently do not have the time to properly analyse and write about it before this newsletter will go out. I’ll write more about this next week.
Some more thoughts on Pixelfed:
I worry about the moderation side for Pixelfed, and specificially the flagship pixelfed.social. Pixelfed.social is now a server with over 200.000 monthly active users, and Supernault is the only moderator for the server. 1 moderator for over 200k active accounts is not a whole lot, to put it mildly. One of the main goals of the Kickstarter is to “expand the moderation, security, privacy and safety platforms”, and my hope is that the financial success of the Kickstarter can help get a bigger moderation team for the servers as quickly as possible.
One of the consistently most difficult aspects of fediverse platforms is the governance of the software. Mastodon has gotten a lot of pushback for its ‘Benevolent-Dictator-For-Life‘, and correspondingly, a lot of praise when Mastodon recently moved away from this model. For Pixelfed and Loops the power concentration into a single person is even more pronounced, with a single developer running two different platforms, two flagship servers as well as various other prominent fediverse projects such as fedidb. It shows the incredible amount of work that Supernault has contributed to the fediverse, but it also indicates the centralisation of power that has resulted from this. The Kickstarter promises a Pixelfed Foundation, but it does not say anything about how the Foundation will deal with governance. The short description of the Foundation mainly seems to be focused on financial sustainability and growth of fediverse projects. The section on the Pixelfed Foundation ends with a quote from Mastodon’s blog post: “The people should own the town square”, but it does not explain in any way how “the people” will get to “own the town square”.
Over on Bluesky, the short-lived TikTok ban in the US has put video front-and-center. As a response, people are starting to take Bluesky posts that contain video, and build a TikTok-like UI around it. Bluesky launched video feeds in their app last week, and SkyLight is a high-profile project to build a video-only UI for Bluesky posts. I’m curious if Pixelfed’s renewed prominence will lead to more interest in similar image-viewing fediverse clients that less bound to server platforms, whether that is Pixelfed, Mastodon or other fediverse platforms.
The dominance of Mastodon and microblogging over the wider fediverse has led to a situation where Mastodon and the fediverse get equated as mostly the same in coverage of larger news outlets. The growth of Pixelfed, and the mainstream attention that it brings now changes this dynamic. This Forbes article about Pixelfed is a good example, where the fediverse gets introduced from the perspective of Pixelfed instead of from a perspective of Mastodon.
The Kickstarter states an “Commitment to open source and open principles”, and says that “all of the source code for Pixelfed is licensed under the AGPL license and is publicly available on GitHub”. I am not clear why Loops is not mentioned here for a commitment to open source. Loops is not currently neither open source nor federating, according to the official Pixelfed account. While Supernault also says that he is “working on that”, I find it strange that Loops is not mentioned under the commitment to open source.
Building an encrypted messaging app is difficult, to put things mildly. Building an encrypted messaging as a solo developer, while also building an Instagram competitor as well as a TikTok competitor is just wildly optimistic. I fear that Supernault is spreading himself too thin here, committed to too many different products. Supernault’s shifting attention makes it difficult for him to ship features he has promised. Notable example of this is the Groups feature for Pixelfed, which Supernault has promised as coming “very soon” since summer 2023. His latest estimation for groups is now for Q2 2025.
Tumblr saying that they are working on their fediverse integration is great news for the fediverse. For a quite a while it seemed that Tumblr would not actually follow through on early announcements by CEO Mullenweg. The answer by Tumblr that ActivityPub support will depend on a plugin makes it plausible to me that Tumblr blogs will likely have to opt-in to connecting themselves to the fediverse by adding the plugin. So based on the limited information available it seems likely to me it will not be a situation where the fediverse instantly grows by millions of active users.
Welcome to the 100th edition of Fediverse Report! It’s been a wonderful and strange 2 years to report on all the developers in the fediverse and the wider open social web. The current state of the open social web is nothing like I expected it to be when I started writing. When I first started I expected the fediverse to slowly gain wider adoption over the years. Instead, adoption has dropped compared with 2 years ago. At the same time, the current state of the internet and social platforms make it loud and clear that there is a huge need for better social platforms. I do not know what role the fediverse and the open social web will play in all of it, but I do strongly belief in the importance of helping people understand what is going on in the space. Thank you all for reading and the support over the years!
The News
Pixelfed has seen massive growth over the last week. The photo sharing platform grew from some 20k monthly active users in December to almost 200k MAU right now. The inflow of new people is driven by a combination of three things: people are actively looking for an alternative to Instagram, as well as renewed media attention to Pixelfed as a result of the official app release. Pixelfed’s launch of the official apps has gotten significant media attention (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The reviews of the Pixelfed apps show that there are two reasons for people to look for an Instagram alternative: not only are people looking to ditch Meta products due to their alignment with Trump, people are also looking for another photo sharing app that has not gotten as bloated as Instagram has. The title of the Lifehacker review makes that point clear, describing Pixelfed as a “Return to Instagram’s Glory Days”.
Pixelfed developer Daniel Supernault says he has gotten multiple offers from VCs to chat about Pixelfed, but that he has rejected them all. Instead he will launch a Kickstarter on January 22nd. Not much is clear yet about the Kickstarter, but in the introduction Supernault makes it clear he has big plans, saying: “We aim to be the first Fediverse app with a billion people by taking on the worlds biggest players using open source standards.” Loops got critiqued for it’s “predatory” Terms of Service, which Supernault responded to a few days later by changing the ToS of Loops to be the same as those of Pixelfed.
Forum software NodeBB has officially launched their 4.0 version, which includes ActivityPub support. NodeBB has been working on adding ActivityPub for almost a year, and been testing it for a while as well. The community.nodebb.org forum has been connected to the fediverse for a while now, showing what a connection between forums and microblogging looks like in practice. Developer Julian Lam says that existing NodeBB forums will have to opt-in to the fediverse connection, while it will be enabled by default for new forums going forward. Lam also says that the work on ActivityPub also helped connect NodeBB with competitor Discourse, saying “NodeBB and Discourse have been vying for the exact same market share (forums, community-building, self-started or enterprise) for over 10 years, and it was only after ActivityPub came around that the dev teams even started talking to one another.” By both working on ActivityPub, these competitors are now also collaborators, and both their forums can connect with each other.
BotKit by Fedify is a new framework for building bots on ActivityPub. It is powered by Fedify, a TypeScript library for building with ActivityPub. Using BotKit allows people to easily build bots for ActivityPub, instead of building bots on Mastodon or Misskey.
The WordPress ActivityPub plugin now gives you the ability to show fediverse engagement on the page itself. I’ve enabled it below as well, go check it out!
The Analysis
Some stray thoughts on Pixelfed’s growth:
It has been a long time since the fediverse has seen a notable increase in users and new signups: the last major event was in July 2023 with people looking for Reddit alternatives. Over time, Bluesky became the default destination for people looking to migrate away from X. The ATmosphere does not have a dedicated place for sharing photos, giving all the more opportunity for Pixelfed to be the new home of people looking for an Instagram alternative.
One of the advantages of the fediverse is in the interoperability between different platforms, even when two platforms are focused on a different modality of communications. Mastodon and Pixelfed can interoperate with each other, but the much more question is: will this be feature that will be actively used, or more of a niche nice-to-have? Mastodon does have an active traditions for the sharing of photos with hashtags such as #silentsunday, and I’m curious if/how these traditions will evolve with a more active photo sharing platform.
Supernault is now responsible for the development of two different types of platforms: Pixelfed and Loops, and is also responsible for running the flagship servers for both platforms: pixelfed.social and loops.video. The amount of work that Supernault puts into the fediverse is incredibly impressive. At the same time, it does give me cause for concerns for governance of the platforms. It is an incredibly amount of load and responsibility that is all placed on a single person. Supernault would do well to delegate a significant amount of responsibility here. However, previous cases where other developers have tried to work together have not gone well, for various reasons. I’m concerned that the fediverse is replicating the same problems that Mastodon has had with governance here.
Pixelfed looks to replicate the same power dynamic that Mastodon has with the mastodon.social server. The large majority of new signups are going to the main pixelfed.social server. The power dynamics of Pixelfed are even more skewed than they are with Mastodon: 75% of Pixelfed’s current monthly active users are on the pixelfed.social server.
One of the fundamental challenges of building a decentralised social network with ActivityPub is in the tension between local and global. The fediverse is a super-network of connected social networks: you can see mastodon.social as its own social network, that has joined the larger fediverse. This theoretically allows for benefits such as local digital communities with local norms and moderation. In practice, most fediverse software is not interested in the local communities part, and actively discourages using the software as such: Mastodon explicitly prohibits posting only to your local server, for example. As such, the fediverse as it currently is, is mainly a singular global network, and less a network made of a plurality of spaces. This current dynamic in the fediverse is what makes forums like NodeBB adding ActivityPub to their platforms so interesting. Forums like NodeBB are understood to be local communities. When you go to a forum, you expect to see only people and posts from that specific forum. Forums are often tied around a specific topic or community, making much easier to define what the local forum community is all about. Now these forums that understand the value of having a clear local community have an additional connection to a wider network. It is effectively the reverse sales-pitch of most current fediverse servers. Mastodon says: join the larger fediverse, and you might have some additional benefits if you join the fediverse via a specific community/server. NodeBB says: join our specific forum community, and you might have some additional benefits by being connected to a larger fediverse network.
TechCrunch checked in with Threads on their plans to add account portability to their fediverse integration, writing: “A Meta spokesperson couldn’t confirm that the topic was even on the Threads roadmap, let alone when it was due to be addressed.” I recently published that I do not have a satisfying answer as to “Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads?”. Last week I also reported that the Threads-fediverse connection is seeing incredibly low uptake from the side of Threads; in total at best only a few thousand people on Threads follow someone from the fediverse. As Meta is quickly aligning itself politically with Trump, and applying censorship accordingly, the question becomes louder and louder: why is the fediverse still bothering with Threads? In practice nobody on Threads is interested in connecting with the fediverse, it does not allow for people to migrate their account from Threads to the fediverse, and it is bad optics for the fediverse to boot.
In This Issue
* A Longer Note From The Editor
* Technical Updates
* Owncast 0.2.x Series Released
* New Features for Roku Owncasts
* Features
* JNKTN Holiday Season Stream
* A Heartfelt Farewell to Radio Free Fedi
* Closing Remarks
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Questi personaggi alla fine risultano anche antipatici perché quando dicono
> grazie alla nostra ingenuità, remissività e arrendevolezza
E la sordità verso tutti i lamenti che in questi anni si sono alzati contro l'uso di quelle piattaforme non la ricordano? Con chi parlavano? Chi ascoltavano?
@ilarioq Io leggo l'articolo con wallabag un reader di pagine web che mi permettere di leggere solo il testo, oppure con i feed rss e un un qggregatore come per esempio flym @nilocram @dado @prealpinux @valigiablu @informapirata @scuola
anzi ne approfitto, non sapevo dell'esistenza di wallabag, stavo pensando di installarne un istanza sul mio yunohost. Sai se si possono esportare gli articoli in epub per leggerli su un reader? @nilocram @dado @prealpinux @valigiablu @informapirata @scuola
@ilarioq Su app da telefono. Solo che mi sono accorto che wallabag non legge il contenuto di quell'articolo in particolare 🙁 L'ho letto con flym, un reader rss
@ilarioq non conoscevo wallabag, è un progetto interessante, dato che al giorno d'oggi fin troppi giornali online mettono nei loro articoli dei video fastidiosissimi che ublock origin non riesce a bloccare. Forse è la soluzione
@sabrinaweb71 Un'altra cosa che ho scoperto è che attivando la modalità lettura browser (non mi ricordo come si chiama, è l'icona con le righette che si trova accanto alla stella) si bypassando tutte le richieste dei cookies @ilarioq @nilocram @dado @prealpinux @valigiablu @informapirata @scuola
@sabrinaweb71 mah, riporto dalla loro policy "A titolo informativo si precisa che la gestione dei cookie è complicata, sia da parte del gestore del sito (che potrebbe non riuscire a gestire correttamente i cookie di terze parti) che da parte dell'utente (che potrebbe bloccare cookie essenziali per il funzionamento dei sito)."
di Roberto Contu Consigli di classe. Scuola, democrazia e società, rubrica a cura di Mimmo Cangiano Con questo contributo voglio condividere alcuni pensieri nati a seguito di una lezi…
Lo scorso anno ho dovuto lavorare a lungo in una terza di un Liceo delle Scienze Umane perché praticamente tutte le studentesse ritenevano che fosse cosa buona torturare i detenuti.
L'idea alla base di #Tapestry è quella di raccogliere in un unico posto diverse fonti di informazioni provenienti dal web.
Nel corso degli anni, molte piattaforme sono emerse come hub per diversi tipi di contenuti. Ma un'app che è solo un lettore RSS o supporta una piattaforma potrebbe non essere sufficiente a coprire tutte queste fonti.
L'app ha una nuova funzionalità chiamata Muffle, presa in prestito da Twitterific, che non nasconde il contenuto dalla tua cronologia quando si verifica una corrispondenza delle regole, ma lo mostra come un elemento compresso. È un buon modo per nascondere temporaneamente il contenuto a cui non vuoi disattivare completamente l'accesso, come faresti con l'audio.
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I Gruppi del Fediverso: un modo per incontrare altri utenti Mastodon, Friendica o Pixelfed in base ai loro interessi
Il Fediverso è un luogo fatto soprattutto di interazioni sociali ma rispetto ai social commerciali non è facilissimo trovare utenti che condividano i nostri stessi interessi. Ecco come giocarsi la carta dei “Gruppi”
I dieci comandamenti di Friendica. Cosa fare con l’account che abbiamo aperto su Poliverso?
Siccome ci sono state tante iscrizioni nel’ultimo mese, ricordiamo a tutti la guida a Friendica leggibile a questo link. @Che succede nel Fediverso? Per semplificare un po’ le cose abbiamo però deciso anche di scrivere una sorta di decalogo su Friendica. Ci sono molti link che possono appesantire la lettura, ma speriamo che vi piaccia e soprattutto ci auguriamo che lo troviate utile!
I – ABBI PAZIENZA. FRIENDICA IS NOT FRIENDLY
Friendica è una piattaforma complessa sotto diversi punti di vista: – fa parte del Fediverso e, per chi non sa cosa sia il Fediverso, possono nascere problemi di contestualizzazione – ha un ventaglio di opzioni di personalizzazione e configurazione abbastanza ampio e questo può disorientare – l’interfaccia non è facile e intuitiva e alcune funzionalità si possono attivare solo dal browser
Chiunque è in grado di superare queste difficoltà, ma la risorsa più importante per farlo è la pazienza. Se vuoi usare Friendica, abbi pazienza; se non hai pazienza ti vogliamo bene lo stesso, ma Friendica non sarà mai l’ambiente giusto per te!
II – NON PARLARE DA SOLO E IMPOSTA LA VISIBILITÀ DEI TUOI POST E DEL TUO PROFILO
Quando ti iscrivi a Friendica, nessuno (tranne il tuo amministratore) si accorgerà di te. Questo è il momento giusto per:
1) Scegliere un’immagine e una descrizione del tuo profilo 2) Pubblicare il primo messaggio (guarda il III comandamento…) di presentazione da “fissare” sul tuo profilo 3) Iniziare a esplorare l’ambiente, “mettere un like” ai messaggi che ti piacciono, ricondividere i messaggi che secondo te meritano di essere diffusi, rispondere ai messaggi che ti ispirano una risposta e, solo alla fine di tutto questo, iniziare a seguire qualche utente.
III – FAI IN MODO CHE I TUOI POST CON TITOLO SIANO LEGGIBILI PER GLI UTENTI MENO FORTUNATI CHE USANO MASTODON
Con Friendica puoi scrivere post con il titolo (come su WordPress) e post senza titolo (come su Mastodon), ma nel caso dei post con titolo, gli utenti Mastodon (che ricordo sono la maggioranza degli utenti che incontrerai su Friendica) leggeranno il tuo post come se fosse costituito dal solo titolo e da un link. Per rendere leggibili i post con il titolo, puoi fare così:
A) vai alla pagina delle impostazioni (qui: poliverso.org/settings/connect… ) e seleziona “Social Network” B) Seleziona “Impostazione media sociali”, scorri in basso, seleziona la voce “Article Mode” e scegli “Embed the title in the body”
Ecco che adesso i nostri post saranno completamente leggibili da Mastodon!
IV – ANCHE SE HAI GIÀ UN BLOG O UN ALTRO ACCOUNT DEL FEDIVERSO, FRIENDICA È IL TUO MIGLIOR ALLEATO
Friendica dispone di tante funzionalità, alcune delle quali automatiche.
Se hai già un account Mastodon, potresti usare Friendica per il tuo account secondario, per: A) Scrivere o rispondere post più lunghi, formattati e con immagini in linea B) Usare Friendica per ricondividere i post pubblicati dal proprio account Mastodon (informapirata.it/2024/07/25/w-…) C) Creare un gruppo Friendica (vai al VII comandamento) D) Creare un account collettivo (vai al VI comandamento) E) utilizzare alcune funzionalità di ricerca avanzata (informapirata.it/2024/07/25/w-…) F) mantenere un account di riserva G) ricordarsi che non esiste solo il microblogging di Mastodon
Ma anche se hai un Blog, potresti usare Friendica per ricondividere i post del tuo blg (che sia o no federato), potenziare il tuo blog Writefreely o creare un gruppo Friendica per ripubblicarne gli articoli
V – UTILIZZA RACCOON FOR FRIENDICA PERCHÉ È UN’APP ECCEZIONALE E FUNZIONA ANCHE CON MASTODON
Raccoon è un’app android molto speciale, sviluppata da un programmatore italiano e nata per rendere facile la navigazione e la scrittura di post su Friendica. L’app ha alcune novità assolute rispetto a tutte le altre app social, incluse quelle dei social proprietari: – visualizzazione semplificata dei gruppi – barra di formattazione per scrivere i messaggi – anteprima dei messaggi – scorrimento laterale dei messaggi
L’app ha pochi mesi di vita, quindi non siate troppo severi nel giudicarla. Tra qualche settimana dovrebbe comparire sul Play Store, ma potete già trovarla sullo store libero F-Droid o scaricare il file .apk dai link indicati nel nostro post: informapirata.it/2024/10/18/ra…
VI – CREA ACCOUNT SECONDARI COLLEGATI AL TUO PROFILO
Creare account secondari è un’opportunità interessante. Potete creare: – un account secondario in una lingua diversa o con un diverso taglio tematico – un account “pagina” dedicato a un progetto – un account “gruppo” per gestire conversazioni di più utenti
Potete anche creare un account ex novo e delegarne la gestione al vostro profilo principale!
VII – SOSTITUISCI I “GRUPPI FACEBOOK” (ANCHE QUELLI PRIVATI) CON I GRUPPI FRIENDICA E GESTISCILI INSIEME AI TUOI AMICI
I gruppi pubblici (precedentemente chiamati “Forum”) sono utenze del Fediverso, leggibili come tali anche dai software come Mastodon che non gestiscono in modo nativo i gruppi, e funzionano come una lista di distribuzione. Sono una tipologia prevista dallo standard ActivityPub (lo standard internazionale del Fediverso) e nascono come supporto per le discussioni di gruppo.
Con Friendica puoi creare nuovi gruppi, ma controlla prima se esiste già qualche gruppo esistente che puoi usare per trovare altre persone con i tuoi stessi interessi (PS: le comunità Lemmy sono anch’esse un tipo di gruppo: informapirata.it/2023/03/14/co…
VIII – IMPARA A USARE IL CALENDARIO EVENTI DI FRIENDICA, TOTALMENTE FEDERATO CON MOBILIZON, GANCIO E WORDPRESS
Anche Friendica ha un calendario eventi come Facebook e può gestire i calendari di altri software del Fediverso come Mobilizon o Gancio. Non sapete cosa siano? No problem: avete tempo per scoprirlo.
Ricordatevi però di modificare il fuso orario da UTC a quello di tua preferenza per evitare discrepanze sul calendario eventi (da Account | Impostazioni base) Link: poliverso.org/settings
IX – SE HAI UN ACCOUNT BLUESKY GESTISCILO DA FRIENDICA E FAI SCHIATTARE DI INVIDIA GLI UTENTI BLUESKY
Sebbene sia Friendica sia Bluesky siano progetti di social decentralizzati, essi si basano su protocolli differenti. Ciò significa che gli utenti Mastodon possono interagire con altri utenti del Fediverso, utilizzando il protocollo ActivityPub, ma non possono interagire con le persone che pubblicavano su Bluesky, perché esso è basato sul protocollo AT (anche detto ATProto).
Alcuni software come Friendica presentano la possibilità di collegare il proprio account BlueSky con il proprio account Friendica per operare crosspost e visualizzare la timeline di Bluesky “dentro” al proprio Friendica.
X – RICORDA DI SUPPORTARE FINANZIARIAMENTE LA TUA ISTANZA
Gestire un’istanza è dispendioso sia in termini di costo macchina, sia per il tempo dedicato.
Ma Poliverso non vuole essere solo un progetto per i propri utenti ma un modo per far conoscere e migliorare il Fediverso italiano, grazie agli account di informazione di Poliverso (come il nostro bollettino sul Fediverso, la rassegna sulla Cybersecurity, quella sulla Privacy e quella sulle notizie dei Pirati internazionali) e i gruppi Friendica!
Perciò, se vuoi contribuire al sostentamento della nostra istanza puoi fare una donazione al progetto Poliverso su questi due canali di raccolta: – Ko-fi – Liberapay
Ciao @Cinciallegra In effetti non è particolarmente strano che questa app che ha solo pochi mesi di vita non sia ancora stata inserita all'interno della lista di fediverse.info. Le app che si trovano là dentro hanno tutte almeno un anno di vita e possono essere scaricate dagli Store più famosi.
In ogni caso ti ringrazio per la segnalazione, che inoltrerò allo sviluppatore
grazie per questo articolo. 🙏 Mi sono sentita tanto rispecchiata. Ma leggerlo in modo così chiaro, nero su bianco, mette ordine e da forma ai miei pensieri sparsi ed spansi come ragnatele impazzite. Sono nuova nel #fediverso e non ho così molti strumenti di cultura digitale, nonnostante ciò man mano che percorrono questi vialetti, trovo la strada verso una vera rivoluzione politica: possibile, aperta, democratica e con i valori che condivido.
@Ellasola Un limite per me nel Fediverso è avere a che fare con nickname e non con nomi e cognomi. Vengo da Facebook, dove è obbligatorio registrarsi con il proprio nome reale.
ma in realtà non ce nessun modo di sapere si quelli nomi e cognomi sono o meno reali. Quindi alla fine diventano nickname in formato " nome e cognome " . Come ad esempio quelli delle volontarie che si occupano dei gatti e mettono di cognome " Gattara ". Poi ci sono quelli che si fanno passare per altri, fingendo generi/ età/ luogo e persino lauree che non hanno. Io sono tanti anni che non uso Facebook, magari sto parlando a vanvera e sono cambiate le cose.
@Ellasola Sono pochi casi. In genere le persone indicano nomi reali e altre indicazioni come il lavoro, la città eccetera. Non ho mai avuto difficoltà a identificare i miei contatti.
mi rendo conto ora che L' ho fraintesa. Chiedo scusa. Lei si riferisce agli AMICI su Facebook. E riguardo a questo ha ragione. Si può avere fra le amicizie persone che uno conosce per nome e cognome, e che persino conosce nella vita fuori dal virtuale. Anche se sembra assurdo me ne ero scordata. È che personalmente uso i social per vedere diverse visioni su temi che ho a cuore o destano il mio interesse, anche per confrontare idee ed esperienze fuori del mio circolo di amici.
personalmente mi sono abituata ad usare un nickname dopo che hanno cancellato il mio account con nome e cognome, senza nessun motivo tranne pensare diversamente dal proprietario ed i loro seguaci. Inoltre mi ha fatto sentire vulnerabile ed sposta. Il mio nickname mi permette essere senza paure totalmente me stessa. Anche parlare apertamente di temi sensibili che riguardano me o la mia famiglia.
Groups will be compatible with Lemmy, Mbin, Smithereen and other projects, and will resemble Facebook Groups in our official app!
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Mastodon Migration
in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •So sick of this gaslighting.
To frame making changes in preparation for #Bluesky permitting (selling???) user content for AI scaping as letting
"people set their preference (‘user intent’) on how their data should be handled outside of the protocol," is manipulative garbage.
People do not want their content used for AI training. There is no one clamoring for this.
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Mastodon Migration
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •The most precious bit is that the default "undefined" category will be up to "downstream" (read AI companies that get/purchase/scrape Bluesky content) to determine what the user's intent actually is.
Come on! 🤦♂️
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Darren du Nord
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •Late to this discussion, but I would be interested to learn if @bsky.brid.gy users will even get a choice.
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sfunk1x
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •"But bsky is super cool and all the cool people are hanging out there, they couldn't possibly be trying to treat me like a product!" - plebs who have extremely short memories
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