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#AddioTwitter
Ho disattivato il mio account su X. Ho scritto e letto su Twitter dal 2009 al 2022, da 2 anni non postavo più e ogni tanto entravo per leggere con un certo senso di colpa. Alcuni account mi mancheranno e sicuramente mi spiacerà non leggere più i post di @orporick, ma adesso per me non è più possibile restare #Twitter #ElonMusk #SocialNetwork @maupao @scuola @informapirata
in reply to maupao

in effetti frequento poco, ma ultimamente sto rivalutando la mia presenza online e mastodon Al momento è l'unica piattaforma che vedo all'orizzonte.

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in reply to nilocram

fatta stessa scelta oggi.

Twitter, specialmente dal punto di vista di dibattito scientifico e info razionale è stato realmente qualcosa di super interessante. Adesso ha preso una piega che non sento mia, e l'unica decisione seria era smettere di contribuire, ed essere felici per quello che è stato.

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NodeBB v4.0.0 — Buon divertimento in federazione, dai!

Oggi è il gran giorno!

Dopo quasi un anno intero di sviluppo, è stata rilasciata la versione 4.0.0 di NodeBB, che porta la federazione tra le istanze di NodeBB (e una connessione al più ampio fediverso dei social media) nel software del forum

community.nodebb.org/post/1027…

@Che succede nel Fediverso?


NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!


Today's the day! :tada:

After nearly a full year in development, NodeBB v4.0.0 has landed, bringing federation between NodeBB instances (and a connection to the wider fediverse of social media) to forum software.

Fedi-what?


Fediverse! Here's a TechCrunch primer about it, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. All you need to know is that NodeBB plugs in to a wider social network so that you don't have to cultivate an audience, they're already there.

The genesis


It was back in mid-2023 when I had the initial idea of interconnecting NodeBB forums. Back then, I had far smaller ambitions... I wanted a singular NodeBB to be able to communicate with other forums running NodeBB. To do that, we'd need to build out a centralized service to act as a bridge between instances, and corresponding slim clients on individual installs to consume the relayed data. At the time, concept like decentralization were not even part of my thought process.

It was during this period when I was doing my research that I stumbled on Mastodon, and later, ActivityPub, the protocol that powers it all. Since then, it's been one wild ride getting NodeBB to speak the same language.

Funding


Soon after dipping my toes into all that Mastodon had to offer, I discovered the NLNet Foundation, and their corresponding fund — NGI Zero Core. With the promise of funding, NodeBB could fully commit to implementing the protocol in short order, instead of piece by piece over time. We sent in an application and were delighted to be approved for the August 2023 call.

Their funding was instrumental in providing the financial stability to experiment with ActivityPub and to participate in developer circles, such as the SWICG, FediForum, and much more.

The fund continues to operate, perhaps you could benefit, or donate to the cause. It has certainly made a difference to NodeBB.

Federate, or not, it's your choice


NodeBB v4 comes shipped with the capability to interact with other NodeBB forums and any other ActivityPub-speaking software, right out of the box. We opted to make this a core feature instead of a plugin, since there were many changes made to core to support even the concept of accepting content from outside itself.

To that end, any users upgrading from v3.x will automatically have federation disabled, in order to reduce surprise. Any new forums will federate automatically.

You can turn federation on and off (and adjust some other fun toggles) directly from ACP > Settings > Federation (ActivityPub).

Even after turning federation on, how you use it shapes how well connected you will be. There is no centralized authority artificially boosting your content, so the name of the game is establishing two-way follow relationships to other sites.

The ActivityPub Equalizer


We're not alone in this journey to interoperate with other decentralized services. We're not even the only forum software to attempt to do so.

  • Discourse has a working plugin.
  • Ghost is building out in the open.

I specifically highlight these two because they both started in the early 2010s, same as NodeBB. It's always been a bit of an informal competition between us, and we always checked in on what the others were doing (growth-wise, pricing-wise, etc.) Truth be told, I don't think the ghost team ever really noticed NodeBB, but I digress...

The funny thing about ActivityPub is that at the end of the day, the overarching goal of seamless communication breaks down any barriers between competing organizations.

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.

Funny how that works.

So how does it all work?


Our documentation portal has been updated with the latest information about the ActivityPub functionality in v4.

If you have any questions about how it works or how to configure some aspect of it, please don't hesitate to reach out in the corresponding v4 support thread.

If you run NodeBB, the quickest way to see this in action is to upgrade to v4, and then paste this post's URL into your search bar. It should show up automatically, and you should be able to read and reply to it, directly from your own forum. Neat!


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NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!


Today's the day! :tada:

After nearly a full year in development, NodeBB v4.0.0 has landed, bringing federation between NodeBB instances (and a connection to the wider fediverse of social media) to forum software.

Fedi-what?


Fediverse! Here's a TechCrunch primer about it, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. All you need to know is that NodeBB plugs in to a wider social network so that you don't have to cultivate an audience, they're already there.

The genesis


It was back in mid-2023 when I had the initial idea of interconnecting NodeBB forums. Back then, I had far smaller ambitions... I wanted a singular NodeBB to be able to communicate with other forums running NodeBB. To do that, we'd need to build out a centralized service to act as a bridge between instances, and corresponding slim clients on individual installs to consume the relayed data. At the time, concept like decentralization were not even part of my thought process.

It was during this period when I was doing my research that I stumbled on Mastodon, and later, ActivityPub, the protocol that powers it all. Since then, it's been one wild ride getting NodeBB to speak the same language.

Funding


Soon after dipping my toes into all that Mastodon had to offer, I discovered the NLNet Foundation, and their corresponding fund — NGI Zero Core. With the promise of funding, NodeBB could fully commit to implementing the protocol in short order, instead of piece by piece over time. We sent in an application and were delighted to be approved for the August 2023 call.

Their funding was instrumental in providing the financial stability to experiment with ActivityPub and to participate in developer circles, such as the SWICG, FediForum, and much more.

The fund continues to operate, perhaps you could benefit, or donate to the cause. It has certainly made a difference to NodeBB.

Federate, or not, it's your choice


NodeBB v4 comes shipped with the capability to interact with other NodeBB forums and any other ActivityPub-speaking software, right out of the box. We opted to make this a core feature instead of a plugin, since there were many changes made to core to support even the concept of accepting content from outside itself.

To that end, any users upgrading from v3.x will automatically have federation disabled, in order to reduce surprise. Any new forums will federate automatically.

You can turn federation on and off (and adjust some other fun toggles) directly from ACP > Settings > Federation (ActivityPub).

Even after turning federation on, how you use it shapes how well connected you will be. There is no centralized authority artificially boosting your content, so the name of the game is establishing two-way follow relationships to other sites.

The ActivityPub Equalizer


We're not alone in this journey to interoperate with other decentralized services. We're not even the only forum software to attempt to do so.

  • Discourse has a working plugin.
  • Ghost is building out in the open.

I specifically highlight these two because they both started in the early 2010s, same as NodeBB. It's always been a bit of an informal competition between us, and we always checked in on what the others were doing (growth-wise, pricing-wise, etc.) Truth be told, I don't think the ghost team ever really noticed NodeBB, but I digress...

The funny thing about ActivityPub is that at the end of the day, the overarching goal of seamless communication breaks down any barriers between competing organizations.

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.

Funny how that works.

So how does it all work?


Our documentation portal has been updated with the latest information about the ActivityPub functionality in v4.

If you have any questions about how it works or how to configure some aspect of it, please don't hesitate to reach out in the corresponding v4 support thread.

If you run NodeBB, the quickest way to see this in action is to upgrade to v4, and then paste this post's URL into your search bar. It should show up automatically, and you should be able to read and reply to it, directly from your own forum. Neat!

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in reply to julian

Re: NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!


If you have deployed NodeBB v4, and you updated to v4.0.1, please update now to v4.0.2 which fixes a regression that silently broke outgoing user follows.
in reply to julian

Re: NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!


@julian@community.nodebb.org said in NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!:
Do we need need to refollow?


Re: NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!


If you have deployed NodeBB v4, and you updated to v4.0.1, please update now to v4.0.2 which fixes a regression that silently broke outgoing user follows.


in reply to julian

Re: Federation issues


@julian I've been unable to get AP following to work in either direction. I mean it is sometimes possible to follow somebody and get followed by other sites, but no actual posts ever come into or out of my nodebb instance (forum.n66.pl). The only thing that works is importing posts directly by entering their URL in the search area, which is also temperamental – sometimes the same post can be imported and sometimes it can't. I also tried following people from individual categories. It never worked except for one instance where it seems to have been stuck with a "pending" message, but I have no way of accepting or rejecting the follow request on the other side (it should be accepted automatically). Sometimes the same happens when entering followed people's URLs in the search panel. Looking forward to fixes.
in reply to Jakub Urbanowicz

Re: Federation issues


My forum.n66.pl-proxy.conf is now very similar to official recommendations and doesn't seem to have any effect on AP following/sharing capabilities.
I am unaware of server tweaks to facilitate AP following/sharing.
in reply to Jakub Urbanowicz

Re: Re: Federation issues


Hi! I am also having federation issues on a fresh install of 4.0.3. For example, I can not see the content of all the posts here including the original post. I think I see the content of around half of the posts. I tried to reply on another post on community.nodebb.org, but after ten minutes it is still not visible at community.nodebb.org.

Ironically, I am not sure this reply will reach community.nodebb.org either.



Fediverso: cos’è e come rivoluziona il modo di connettersi

Il Fediverso rappresenta una nuova frontiera nel mondo delle reti sociali, contraddistinta dalla decentralizzazione e da una visione più aperta e libera dell’interazione online. In questa guida gli esperti di Accurate Reviews ti spiegheranno cos’è, quali sono le sue caratteristiche distintive e come si pone rispetto alle piattaforme proprietarie più note.

accuratereviews.com/it/fediver…

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

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Firefox Nightly: arriva il gestore profili
#Firefox
In questa video andremo a vedere il gestore profili introdotto in Firefox Nightly, una funzionalità che ci consente di mantenere separate le attività lavorative da quelle personali durante la navigazione, inclusi dettagli come password e segnalibri.

marcosbox.com/2025/01/20/firef…

in reply to Marco Giannini

perdonami Marco, come un bimbominkia ho commentato prima di aver visto il video. Nel frattempo ho recuperato. Scusa 🙏

Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ ha ricondiviso questo.


Release v2.4.5 of Ktistec


Ktistec release v2.4.5 rolls out the build time and executable size optimizations I've been blogging about here. It also fixes a few small bugs.

Fixed

  • Handle @-mentions with hosts in new posts.
  • Handle HEAD requests for pages with pretty URLs.
  • Destroy session after running scripts.

Changed

  • Delete old authenticated sessions.

I've started a branch full of query optimizations. My general rule—as highlighted in the server logs—is if a query takes longer than 50msec, it takes too long. It's time to address some problems...

#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang


The Ktistec executable is now ~24.7% smaller and build times are 28% faster.

I've been blogging about optimizations here, here, and here. This is the summary of the final outcome, with links to commits for the curious. I have one more post planned with a summary of my thoughts.

Here's my approach. Use nm to dump the symbols in a release build executable and then look for things that seem redundant. The first change and associated post below is a great example of what I mean—my original implementation led to the specialization of the #== method for every pairwise combination of model classes even though the result of the comparison was just false.

This might seem like a strange approach if you come from a compiled language where you mostly write all of the code yourself or invoke generics explicitly, but Crystal takes your code and does that for you. And it's not always obvious up front (to me, at least) what the final cost will be.

I've include counts of the lines added/removed because the point of this whole post is to say if you measure first and then optimize, a small change can have a big impact.

Here are the changes:

  • Specialize model #==. (+7 -5)
    I talked about this here but didn't have the commit to link to. This change results in a large reduction in executable size on regular builds (~4.0%) and a small difference on release builds (~0.2%).
  • Remove conversion to Hash. (+2 -2)
    This commit eliminates specialization of methods like __for_internal_use_only that get passed both named tuples and hashes by going all in with named tuples. It also eliminates instantiations of the Hash generic type itself for these cases. Reduces executable size by ~2.2%.
  • Eliminate duplicate code in the executable. (+3 -3)
    This small change reduces the size of the executable by a further ~0.4% by eliminating redundant definitions of __for_internal_use_only entirely.
  • Make InstanceMethods instance methods. (+1 -5)
    This was a goofy design I picked up somewhere. It's unnecessary. Changing this saves ~0.2% on release build executable size.
  • Move the code for digging through JSON-LD. (+246 -281)
    It looks like a lot of lines of code changed here, but the large numbers are the result of moving code line-by-line from an included module to a utility class. Invoking these as methods on the utility class rather than as instance methods on each including class reduces the executable size by ~0.5%.
  • Use map from base ActivityPub model classes. (+10 -2)
    map is a class method defined on each ActivityPub base model class. Each definition maps JSON-LD to a hash that is used to instantiate the class. Class methods defined on a base class are available on subclasses, as well. Calling the method on the subclass results in a copy of the method. This change reduces the executable size by ~5.8%.
  • Move map into helper. (+104 -88)
    The map method does not depend on class/instance state. This change ensures that the mapping code is not duplicated even if a subclass's map method is accidentally again called. It looks like a lot of changes but this commit is mostly reorganization. It reduces executable size by ~0.4%.
  • Replace classes with aliases. (+62 -148)
    Implementing ActivityPub's vocabulary with discrete model classes is expensive because every model class comes with machinery for type-specific CRUD operations. Enumerate aliases on each base model class (e.g. a "Service" is an "Actor"). This change reduces executable size by ~16.9%.

I'm off to optimize some queries now...

#ktistec #crystallang


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in reply to Todd Sundsted

one consequence of deleting old authenticated sessions is that you will be required to periodically re-authenticate. i think that’s a reasonable consequence and is better security to boot, but it deserves a mention.

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L’impossibile fuga da Facebook: perché le alternative faticano a emergere

Malgrado le tensioni politiche e l’ascesa del Fediverso, Facebook rimane un social ancora dominante. I numeri attuali non supportano un esodo significativo, con Friendica e altre piattaforme che non riescono a replicare l’ecosistema di Facebook

agendadigitale.eu/cultura-digi…

@fediverso

in reply to informapirata ⁂

SIamo schaivi.
Molti sono schiavi di una strattura e di una prospettiva di vita che viene ventuta bene.
FB ne e' un esempio.
L'errore e' voler replicare il sistema invece di superarlo.
Ma se si educano gli utenti fuori e dentro la rete ad una concezione delal esistenza prona a certi meccanismi, allora saremo smepre scahivi di certi privati, insusi e di una cerchia di persone che non ambisce affatto all'umana evoluzione.

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale
Leti66 🇮🇹
@talksina a me piace mastodon e ci sono entrata infatti, ma non posso dire che mastodon sia intuitivo per tutti! E trovo molte lacune su altro. Di social ne uso parecchi e diversissimi tra loro. Dire che uno è angelo e un altro demonio è sbagliato! Alla fine è l utenza media/bassa che decide. Quanti su 100 persone di varia estrazione sociale accettano di fare più account su server diversi per uno stesso social ? Molti mi hanno detto complicato e tempo che perdo.

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I leader della tecnologia hanno un piano per proteggere Bluesky da Elon Musk

Free our Feeds, un collettivo di leader della tecnologia tra cui il fondatore di Wikipedia Jimmy Wales e il presidente della Mozilla Foundation Mark Surman, vuole raccogliere 30 milioni di dollari per proteggere Bluesky

thelogic.co/news/quebec-ink/bl…

@informatica

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gotosocial - Collegamento all'originale
lorenzo
si, almeno qui chiede la mail per poter continuare la lettura.

Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ ha ricondiviso questo.


SGUARDI RESISTENTI
"La lotta di liberazione a Padova raccontata dagli studenti: un percorso di ricerca e di riflessione tra fonti, storia, cultura e arte": sguardiresistenti.it/
La mostra è aperta dal 25 Gennaio al 16 Febbraio 2025 a #Padova, Sala della Gran Guardia - Piazza dei Signori #Resistenza #storia #memoria #scuola #studenti #grafica @scuola@a.gup.pe @scuola@mastodon.uno @maupao @mauriziocarnago
@macfranc @lindasartini @wikimediaitalia @alephoto85

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Free Our Feeds is a new initiative for ATProto governance, Mark Cuban is open to investing in a TikTok alternative on ATProto, and a large interest in Instagram alternatives on ATProto with newly announced Bluesky client Flashes.


Bluesky sta lavorando per realizzare una propria app di condivisione foto, #Flashes

Altre buone notizie per coloro che vogliono uscire dall'ecosistema di app social di Meta in favore di un'alternativa più aperta: uno sviluppatore indipendente sta creando un'app di condivisione foto per Bluesky chiamata Flashes . L'app che verrà lanciata a breve è alimentata dalla stessa tecnologia che supporta Bluesky, il protocollo AT, ed è stata creata utilizzando il codice del precedente client Bluesky dello sviluppatore, Skeets .

techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/blue…

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

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⚙️ Attenzione: nei prossimi giorni il nostro server polivers* potrebbe subire stop o rallentamenti.

💻 Stiamo valutando di potenziare ulteriormente il server, che come sapete ospita sia l'istanza Poliverso.org che l'istanza Poliversity.it, ma non sarà possibile farlo in tempi brevi

❤️ Ci dispiace per il disguido

@fediverso



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⚠️Informazione di servizio: l'istanza poliversity.it è attualmente offline a causa di interventi di ottimizzazione sullo storage⚠️

@fediverso



A major news for governance this week on the open social web, with Mastodon shaking up their organisational structure and more. The News Mastodon published plans for their new governance structure, with control of Mastodon moving to a new non-profit organisation, and moving ownership away from CEO Eugen Rochko. Mastodon will set up a new […]


La campagna "Libera i nostri feed" mira a proteggere la tecnologia Bluesky dai miliardari

L'iniziativa, Free Our Feeds , mira a proteggere la tecnologia di base di Bluesky, il protocollo AT, e a sfruttarla per creare un ecosistema di social media aperto che non possa essere controllato da una singola persona o azienda, compresa la stessa Bluesky.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/a-ne…

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

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lemmy - Collegamento all'originale
mapto

Mi sfugge come questo potrebbe essere uno:
L'architettura del AT Protocol sourced from Wikipedia

Fonte: Wikipedia.

Forse siamo piuttosto sempre qui: ci piace fare tifosi e raccontarci le balle.

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lemmy - Collegamento all'originale
mapto
C'è qualcuno qui che ha scoperto come sfamarsi senza soldi? Oppure si sostenga che gli sviluppatori non hanno diritto a sopravvivenza?

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Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control. #MastodonNonProfit

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/…




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Feedback a caldissimo su NOSTR:

a suo tempo @informapirata ⁂ :privacypride: disse "occhio, Nostr è un protocollo interessante ma pieno di spazzatura".

Partendo dall'inizio: ho cercato sui motori di ricerca "come funziona Nostr" e il primo titolo è un video su un canale relativo alle criptovalute, di un tale Alessandro Mazza.

Alessandro lo spiega in modo abbastanza chiaro ma secondo me a un certo punto confonde, o almeno io mi sono sentita confusa quando ha parlato della chiave privata come "firma digitale", dicendo che è il modo di identificare un utente da un altro.

La "firma digitale" però è altra cosa - sempre crittografia ma ha valore legale e se uno si chiama all'anagrafe Severino Sparaballe, quella è legata al suo codice fiscale e (almeno in teoria) nessuno lo clona.

Nostr, invece, no.

Tu vai su un client che può essere SnortSocial o altri, ti crei la tua chiave pubblica e privata, gli dai un nome e stop! Ma puoi avere anche millantamila account con lo stesso pseudonimo.

Severino Sparaballe quindi ha la sua public e private key, associata a niente - nessun indirizzo email o altro dato e questo è interessante, specie se è uno che in rete parla di temi delicati e vuole tutelarsi da regimi e cose varie. Non si discute.

Poi però arriva Franco Onesti, rivelatore di segreti inconfessabili, si mette nome Severino Sparaballe, anche la foto del tizio in questione, chiave privata e pubblica nuove di palla, e manda in giro per Nostr l'opposto di quello che dice Severino reale, nessuno sarà in grado di distinguere chi sia quello vero da quello finto.

NIP-05: da quello che ho capito c'è modo di identificarsi con un nome "umanamente leggibile" con la chiocciola davanti, come quelli del Fediverso e c'è pure un plugin WordPress che ho installato per farlo. Non ho però idea se funzioni e come verificare se è andato davvero a buon fine.

Questione relay: se non ho capito male sono ancora più decentralizzati delle istanze, io del fediverso a volte ho perplessità perché non è detto ad esempio che i client mastodon funzionino anche con friendica, con nostr invece non hai problemi perché se ti colleghi a qualunque relay basta che tu abbia la chiave pubblica o privata, magari salvate in un'estensione browser, gli dici "login with extension" e vai dentro diretto.

Contenuti e spazzatura: io ho usato un client per iOS che si chiama Damus e mi sono trovata subito in home dei contenuti di estrema estremissima destra. Roba che manco l'algoritmo di Facebook mi fa.

Pazienza, sto studiando non ci sto interagendo; più che altro voglio capire quanto e se sia proponibile per trasmettere contenuti e le limitazioni, quanto e se siano pubblici, con la storia di Trump e Musk voglio capire con quali sistemi posso continuare a scrivere in modo libero in modo da avere meno probabilità di ricevere blocchi o oscuramenti "shadowban".

Fosse per me butterei su tutto su Nostr, curando i filtri; ma poi se uno ti deve seguire penso gli serva Nostr apposta.

#nostr #impressioni #crittografia #prove #informatica

in reply to Shai

@shai qualsiasi ecosistema che minimizza la gestione dei dati personali deve usare l'autenticazione basata su nome utente e password. Anche la nostra istanza feddit.it non chiede email, ma necessita di questa autenticazione. Se fai a meno di autenticazione, devi compensare con un sistema di tracciamento che solitamente è invasivo sia per ragioni di autenticazione sia per ragioni di sfruttamento commerciale dei dati personali e comportamentali dell'utente

@77nn @talksina @elvecio @talksina@poliverso.org

in reply to informapirata ⁂

@informapirata ⁂ :privacypride: @TiTiNoNero :__: @elvecio @Shai quando una cosa è troppo facile di solito bisogna chiedersi il perché - almeno stando le cose come stanno adesso.
Io sarei per un'autenticazione hardware, vedi te - da quando per diversi sistemi ho le chiavette FIDO2 vado comodissima, ce la ho sempre appesa al collo.

Naturalmente ne ho più di una, conservate in posti sicuri, perché se perdi o dimentichi il dispositivo da qualche parte e ne hai uno solo, ti trovi chiuso fuori.

Dopo? Ho la sensazione che si voglia un po' salvare capre e cavoli dappertutto: l'informatica di massa che induce le persone a usare la tecnologia in modo passivo illudendo che lo studio del computer e del suo funzionamento non sia più necessario. E dall'altra parte il diritto ad avere la privacy che confligge parecchio con la facilità d'uso.

IMHO è molto difficile che le tecnologie pro-privacy arrivino all'informatica di massa perché il mercato si muove dove un tema viene molto richiesto, ma per volerlo bisogna che la gente sia consapevole dell'urgenza che questo tema ha.

Ricordiamoci che la massa dei [parolaccia casuale] è quella che dice "Io? Privacy? Non ho niente da nascondere, non mi interessa!" E sparano nei social le foto anche di quando vanno in gabinetto. E dei loro figli minori.

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Bluesky rumoured to be valued at 700M USD, adds Trending Topics, Graze talks about how to monetise custom feeds, and a persistent bot problem on Bluesky.


Last Week in Bluesky – 2025jan.a

The year has only just started, and already the owners of the current Big Tech social networks have made it abundantly clear why open social networks matter. While it was never really true that networks, such as Twitter, were neutral platforms, we could at least collectively agree to that polite fiction. But in 2025, social networks are political, and have political alignments. Over the holidays I’ve taken some time away from all of my socials, and it’s been nice to have some space for reflection. Two articles came out this week that touch on some of my thoughts. The first is Henry Farrell’s ‘We’re getting the social media crisis wrong’, in which Farrell says: “The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.” He takes the perspective of information and how it shapes beliefs, but his core observation is powerful and worth repeating. In effect, social media is a tool of collective sense-making. We have let a few tech billionaires control our tools that we globally use to collectively make sense of the world, and it turns out that has some negative consequences, to put it mildly.

This is why I care about social networks, because they are one of the main tools that we use in 2025 to come to a collective understanding of how the world works. I think that it is bad that these extraordinary powerful tools are in the hands of a few fascist billionaires, allowing them unprecedented control over how society sees and understands the world. The value of open social networks is in creating new forms of governance for our collective sense making tools.

Bluesky Won’t Save Us by Katharina Alejandra Cross touches on more of the risks that having access to collective sense making tools bring, as well as the issues that Bluesky has to truly be a different place. I agree with all the major points here: Being on X is a severe risk for many reasons, but a major one is that it warps your perspective of collective thought, shaped by a fascist billionaire. Bluesky has struggled to adapt to what it wants to be exactly, and while it is clearly a much better place than X, it has not yet provided a good answer to the tension between building a safe (centralised) platform and a decentralised open protocol. Cross writes: “Our best hope, then, is that Bluesky acts as a halfway house—most especially for politicians, journalists, academics, influencers, and other people who clearly spend way too much time online to their detriment.” I also hope that Bluesky acts as a halfway house, although maybe in a slightly different way than Cross is talking about here. I think we need to invent new types of social networks that better serve their role as collective tools for sense-making. Bluesky is a good step in the right direction, but I think we can do more than ‘decentralised microblogging’. ATProto can provide a powerful substrate for people to experiment on with new forms of social networking, and I’m excited to see what 2025 will bring for that.

The News


Business Insider reports that Bluesky is now valued at 700 million USD, and that they are close to finishing another funding round, this time led by Bain Capital Ventures. It is not known how much money Bluesky would raise in this new round. The previous funding round, the series A, was led by Blockchain Capital for 15 million, just barely 3 months ago. The series A did not provide a valuation for Bluesky. The series A also was just before the massive inflow of new users following the results of the US election, and Bluesky has doubled its user base in the 3 months since, from 13 million to 26 million. The new inflow of users also led to significant extra costs for Bluesky, which quadrupled its moderation team from 25 to 100 people, as well as the additional technical costs that comes with the growing user base. Bluesky got critiqued during the previous funding round for Blockchain Capital’s ties with cryptocurrency. In Blockchain Capital’s investment thesis they describe investing in a ‘vision of social infrastructure’ more than investing into a specific product. Crypto-themed VC funds tend to be more open to investing into lower-level internet infrastructure. Bain Capital Ventures seems to be a more generic VC fund: it does not have the connections to crypto that a significant part of the Bluesky user base finds noxious, but does not have a clear indication of a willingness to invest in social infrastructure over products either.

Bluesky has recently added Trending Topics as a new feature to their app. When you hit search on the app, you’ll now see a list of the most talked about topics. The feature is also visible in the Discover feed. Trending Topics has been a long-requested feature, and especially the Brazilian community was asking for it a lot during their time on Bluesky in fall 2024. The technological underpinning of how Trending Topics work on Bluesky is noteworthy: every trending topic is a custom feed. Every time a new topic is trending, a new custom feed gets created, giving the team better control over the topic. It also allows for new possibilities that have not yet been explored, such as archiving and documenting feeds after the trend is over, or other options that have not yet been explored. One of the more interesting trends on Bluesky is the emergence of (some) custom feeds as digital places, with Blacksky as the most notable example. I am interested in seeing how Trending Topics also being custom feeds interacts with that dynamic.

Graze is a tool for people to create their own custom feeds on ATProto. It has an extensive feature set allowing for a great amount of customisability, complex logic and the ability to moderate content that appears in a feed. Graze recently published their plans for monetisation. Graze says that the project is experiencing explosive growth, and is escalating quickly from a small gamble, with the tool now serving over 170k unique people every day. Graze expects that they can host 90-95% of custom feeds for free, and view it as a priority to keep making feeds as accessible as possible. Operating the infrastructure for custom feeds is not free however, and Graze plans to make money as follows: they will allow feed operators to run sponsored posts in their Graze feeds, at a cost specified by the feed operator. Feed operators are free to run their own sponsored content or find their own sponsors. If feed operators decide to monetise their custom feed, Graze will take a cut of the transaction. Graze has not specified yet how that transaction cost will be determined.

Bluesky has seen a large increase in the number of bot and spam accounts in recent weeks. There are roughly three groups of bots active: porn and romance scams, inauthentic accounts posing as Democratic defenders, content farms, and Russian disinformation networks. The Bluesky team has finally managed to crack down on the current spam wave. As spam is an eternal cat-and-mouse game between spammers and moderation, the reprieve is likely temporarily however. The spam has significant impact on how community moderation functions, as the tools that are available are not up to the task of handling such a massive inflow of reports. More automod functions are needed for community labeling projects to deal with the spam.

The Analysis


There are multiple connections between these four different news stories. Early in 2024, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber gave an interview with The Verge, in which she talked about potential ways for Bluesky to make money. She described the idea of marketplaces that Bluesky could operate, such as marketplaces for algorithms. While she did not go into much detail on this, the basic idea seemed to be that people could create valuable systems (algorithms, moderation layers, custom feeds) and sell access to those systems to other people. Bluesky could then potentially operate these marketplaces, take a cut of every transaction as payment for providing the infrastructure, and make money this way. What we are seeing now with Graze is some version of this idea: Graze provides a marketplace for custom feed operators to put sponsored content in their feed, and Graze takes a cut of every transaction as payment for operating the infrastructure. It shows the interesting challenge for Bluesky PBC that is ahead: in an open system it is not actually guaranteed to be the first one to build marketplaces and become the default/largest operator of such a marketplace. If the potential is high enough, other organisations might just get there first.

There has been a lot of conversation about whether or not Bluesky will have advertisement in the future. The large majority of these conversations, and even remarks by Bluesky CEO Graber herself, imply a direct connection between people seeing advertisement when they open the Bluesky app, and the actions of Bluesky PBC. People assume that if they were to see ads on Bluesky, that is because Bluesky PBC put those ads there. The plans by Graze however show that this assumption is not always correct. In the near future, any ads people will see on the Bluesky app will likely be outside of the control of Bluesky PBC. Instead, the trend is towards ads being connected to the community/place/feed that shows the advertisement. I think this has a lot of implications for how we conceptualise advertisements on social networks that are hard to fully grasp right now, but certainly something I’m keeping an eye on.

One factor that has contributed to the bot spam in recent weeks is the inflow of a specific type of accounts, often called resistlibs in a derogatory manner. This is a group of people who identify as Democrat, and want to resist the Trump presidency by being active on social media. A defining characteristic is that they tend to engage in follow-back campaigns such as the ‘NoDemocratUnder1k‘ hashtag, where they follow all accounts that have that hashtag. Using Starter Packs this group can very quickly build up accounts that are followed and follow tens of thousands of people. This behaviour is easily hijacked by bad actors however, it is easy for spam networks to make accounts that look similar to resistlibs. Following Starter Packs, participating in follow-back culture and using the right hashtags makes it particularly easy for spam networks or other bad actors to build up large accounts on Bluesky. This has contributed to the influx of spam and bots on Bluesky recently, although it is far from the only factor.

The Links

Reading



ATProto links


Editors note: I’m experimenting with alternating the weekly newsletters with prioritising Bluesky and prioritising ATProto. I’ve found that especially ATProto tech needs more context. If you are an ATProto dev, here are some interesting tech to check out. And if you are not, next week I’ll give some more context on what is happening in the wider ATmosphere


Bluesky Tools


  • ByeSky allows you to filter the people you follow, for example by removing all non-mutual follows.
  • UnfollowPack allows you to unfollow entire Starter Packs with one click.
  • Hopper is a tool that lets you customize the websites and services used to view AT-URIs.
  • Convert a Bluesky post to Markdown or HTML.
  • Uksnowmap uses hashtags to display an interactive map of the UK to display where it is showing. The tool has been around for a while, and has now fully transitioned from Twitter to Bluesky.
  • BlueskyTimeline allows you to embed a Bluesky timeline on your site.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to receive the weekly updates directly in your inbox below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online.

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🌃 Buonanotte a tutti con la rassegna notturna di feddit.it, la migliore alternativa italiana a #Reddit🎑

Meta più simile a X: interrompe il servizio di fact-checking aiutando le polarizzazioni
feddit.it/post/13821280

Zuckerberg afferma che trasferirà i moderatori di Meta in Texas perché la California sembra troppo "di parte"
feddit.it/post/13821999

I federali indagano sulla "Actual Smart Summon" di Tesla dopo diversi incidenti
feddit.it/post/13822109

AWS afferma che investirà "almeno" 11 miliardi di dollari per espandere l'infrastruttura del data center in Georgia
feddit.it/post/13822316

Meta elimina i fact-checker negli Stati Uniti: le reazioni di Trump e Musk
feddit.it/post/13824553

La nuova Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite contro la criminalità informatica
feddit.it/post/13833952

Siti belli e basta: nona parte
feddit.it/post/13834765

Shutterstock e Getty Images hanno ufficializzato la fusione
feddit.it/post/13835277

Tutti i guai di OpenAI
feddit.it/post/13836833

Starlink, Meloni cerca Musk perché non sa che pesci pigliare per la banda ultralarga. L'approfondimento di Luca #Zorloni
feddit.it/post/13836916

La resa europea. Ma il padrone non è uno soltanto. Le considerazioni del prof. De Martin intorno al caso Musk
feddit.it/post/13837388

Quale licenza per le pubblicazioni scientifiche? Il post della biblioteca Universitaria di Lipsia @ubleipzig
feddit.it/post/13839295

Perché il Garante per la Privacy sfruculia Infocert di Tinexta
feddit.it/post/13840087

Leonardo svela Proteus, il concept del nuovo elicottero unmanned per la Royal Navy
feddit.it/post/13841438

Con il rilascio della release V2, ecco i primi 12 plugin di Castopod
feddit.it/post/13845926

Google deindicizza 200 siti di streaming per violazione delle sanzioni UE sulla Russia
feddit.it/post/13846630

I domini dimenticati stanno diventando l'arma segreta dei criminali informatici per aggirare la sicurezza della posta elettronica!
feddit.it/post/13846631

Il Giappone afferma che gli hacker cinesi hanno preso di mira il suo governo e le sue aziende tecnologiche per anni
feddit.it/post/13846633

Facebook Marketplace mostrerà gli annunci eBay per accontentare i regolatori dell'UE
feddit.it/post/13846689

Tutti i guai di OpenAI
feddit.it/post/13847400

Il robot cinese Unitree B2-W è un punto di svolta per l’industria
feddit.it/post/13847404

Il CEO di Mastodon definisce le modifiche alla moderazione di Meta "profondamente preoccupanti", e avverte gli utenti che pubblicano post incrociati da Threads
feddit.it/post/13848663

Secondo Bloomberg la UE vuole indagare “energicamente” sulla disinformazione e sui pregiudizi di destra su X
feddit.it/post/13850021

Poco “social”, uno studio rileva come la solitudine stia cambiando il rapporto con la realtà
feddit.it/post/13850812

La Heritage Foundation intende "identificare e prendere di mira" gli editor di Wikipedia
feddit.it/post/13850967

Trump rivela un piano da 20 miliardi di dollari per costruire più data center negli Stati Uniti con Il fondatore di DAMAC, il miliardario emiratino Hussain Sajwani
feddit.it/post/13851419

I ricercatori di watchTowr Labs hanno scoperto che le infrastrutture Internet abbandonate e scadute lasciate dai gruppi di hacker possono funzionare come backdoor all'interno di altre backdoor.
feddit.it/post/13851652

@informatica group

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Meta più simile a X: interrompe il servizio di fact-checking aiutando le polarizzazioni
#tech
spcnet.it/meta-piu-simile-a-x-…
@informatica


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LIBERARE IL MIO #SMARTPHONE PER LIBERARE ME STESSO, @kenobit , uno dei fondatori di livellosegreto.it ha pubblicato questo "Breve manuale di resistenza digitale" Si può scaricare da qui: kenobit.it/libri-e-fanzine/ sia in formato .pdf che in formato .epub ed è distribuito con licenza #CreativeCommons CC BY SA 4.0 prossimamente anche in versione cartacea. Un grosso grazie all'autore 👏 👏 👏 #ResistenzaDigitale

@scuola@a.gup.pe @maupao @scuola@poliverso.org @dado @lealternative @opensource

in reply to Kenobit

una curiosità, che distro linux usi? e con quale DE?

Scuola - Gruppo Forum reshared this.

in reply to Nicomede

@nicomede
Uso Mint con Cinnamon. Mi piace moltissimo.

Scuola - Gruppo Forum reshared this.



Il CEO di Mastodon definisce le modifiche alla moderazione di Meta "profondamente preoccupanti", e avverte gli utenti che pubblicano post incrociati da Threads

Il post pubblicato su mastodon da @Eugen Rochko indica che l'organizzazione è consapevole che l'integrazione di Threads potrebbe presto diventare una sfida di moderazione. "L'incitamento all'odio è proibito e prenderemo provvedimenti su qualsiasi account Threads che viola le nostre policy", ha avvertito in un post sul suo account Mastodon.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/mast…

@Che succede nel Fediverso?


The moderation policy changes at Meta are deeply troubling and should be a concern to anyone with a conscience. While the fediverse is a decentralized platform where different service providers have different moderation policies, at mastodon.social, hate speech is prohibited, and we will take action on any Threads account found violating our policies. I would strongly urge anyone with a Threads account to reconsider their alignment with the new direction at Meta and move to Mastodon instead.

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale
Matteo Angelucci 🛠️ 💻
@nicolaottomano il punto è che questi strumenti non sono al momento disponibili, e magari per ora meno necessari (per difetto o virtù, questo angolo di web è molto più piccolo rispetto a Meta e personalmente ho visto ben pochi contenuti "preoccupanti")...per cui, perché connettersi con un'entità che malevolmente sta abbassando la guardia su contenuti polarizzanti, per meri interessi economici? Per me è come dire "questo piccolo incrocio di campagna avrebbe bisogno di un semaforo, non è ancora pronto ma intanto facciamoci arrivare la mole di traffico di un'autostrada".
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@nicolaottomano la moderazione automatica deve essere utilizzata al massimo per segnalare contenuti inappropriati e non per operare provvedimenti, altrimenti è il male assoluto. Per quanto riguarda invece l'aspetto delle connessioni, al momento si può stare abbastanza tranquilli perché giusto qualche decina di migliaia di utenti hanno deciso di federare il proprio profilo Threads. Un successone, quindi 🤣

@Eugen Rochko @President Joe Biden @Matteo Angelucci 🛠️ 💻



Con il rilascio della release V2, ecco i primi 12 plugin di Castopod

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

Esplora i primi 12 plugin di Castopod, le nuove funzionalità, i miglioramenti dell'architettura dei plugin e i prossimi miglioramenti in vista della versione finale v2, tra cui il Plugins Repository, un indice per scoprire e installare i plugin.

Negli ultimi mesi abbiamo rimodellato l'architettura dei plugin sviluppando una raccolta di plugin ufficiali per Castopod. Questi plugin rientrano in due categorie:

🔺 funzionalità che in precedenza facevano parte del core e che sono state estratte
🟢 nuove funzionalità che introducono tag Podcasting 2.0 o miglioramenti attesi da tempo


1. 🟢 custom-head
aggiunge frammenti di codice nel <head>tag di tutte le pagine pubbliche: inserisce nuovi meta tag, stili personalizzati o script di terze parti.
2. 🔺 custom-rss
inserisce RSS personalizzati nel canale e negli elementi del tuo feed.
3. 🔺 Aggiungi il prefisso op3
all'URL dei tuoi episodi con il servizio di analisi Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3).
4. 🔺 owner-email-remover
rimuove tutte le occorrenze dell'email del proprietario dal feed RSS.
5. 🟢 podcast-block
indica quali piattaforme sono autorizzate a mostrare pubblicamente il tuo feed e i suoi contenuti.
6. 🔺 podcast-episode-season
indica il numero e il nome dell'episodio o della stagione del podcast.
7. 🟢 podcast-images
aggiunge più risorse di immagini per il podcast nei tuoi feed RSS utilizzando <podcast:images>il tag Podcasting2.0 di .
8. 🟢 podcast-license
indica la licenza del podcast
9. 🔺 podcast-medium
specifica il tipo di mezzo contenuto nel tuo feed RSS.
10. 🟢 podcast-podroll
consiglia altri podcast.
11. 🔺 podcast-txt
aggiunge testo libero, come un record DNS TXT.
12. 🔺 show-notes-signature
aggiungi una firma a tutte le note dello show dei tuoi episodi, un ottimo modo per includere i tuoi link social in una volta sola.
Puoi trovare il codice sorgente di questi plugin, tutti con licenza AGPL v3, su github.com/ad-aures/castopod-p… .


blog.castopod.org/castopod-fir…


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C'è chi dice che le istanze che bloccano threads proteggano al 100% da meta e dice una cosa falsa, per ignoranza o per dolo.

Si sa che il blocco dell'istanza o della persona su threads.net fornisce sempre e solo una protezione limitata.

Meglio di niente, ma per avere una vera protezione ci sono solo due opzioni:

1) bloccare #Threads e pubblicare post solo per i follower o solo in locale

2) Scrivere da un'istanza che si federa solo con server che bloccano Threads

privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-…

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in reply to Uno Academy

che senso abbia dire che metà fa schifo e federarsi con le sue propaggini resta un mistero



Mastodon's 2023 Annual Report with more insights into the organisation, Surf is a new browser for the social web, and some considerations about the federation between Mastodon and Misskey


Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ ha ricondiviso questo.


La settimana su #fedinews

Avete mai sfogliato la pagina con una selezione casuale delle ultime notizie pubblicate sulle comunità dell'istanza #feddit?
Che ne pensate?

#Fedinews è una creazione di @skariko per pescare tra le notizie pubblicate dagli utenti e creare una sorta di aggregatore dell'aggregatore

@fediverso

fedinews.it/


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“Event Bridge For ActivityPub” plugin released on WordPress.org


It’s been a long road, but now a first version (v0.3.5) of the plugin is available via the official plugin sources on WordPress.org.

wordpress.org/plugins/event-br…

Further features are almost ready and will follow in the coming days. This is includes some more complex features like aggregating events from other remote ActivityPub actors and improvements like better accessibility in the admin UI.

We are looking forward to feedback from users. You can find our guidelines for contributing here.

Unfortunately, interoperability with other applications is still limited, often caused by unresolved issues within other applications. However, we all are all working on it and are confident that things will be smoothed out in the course of this year!

Migration to Codeberg


This was a good reason for us to move the repository from our self-hosted Forgejo to Codeberg.org for several reasons:


Acknowledgement


We’d like to thank @NGIZero and @nlnet for allowing us to spend the considerable time we’ve put into developing this plugin.

#ActivityPub #codeberg #Events #WordPress


Event Bridge for ActivityPub: Upcoming 1.0 Release


The 1.0 release of our WordPress plugin Event Bridge for ActivityPub is scheduled for early January 2025.

Features based on evaluation results


Over the past year, the development plan for the 1.0 release of our WordPress plugin, Event Bridge for ActivityPub, has evolved significantly. After extensive testing and an evaluation process with real users, we’ve finalized the feature set for this upcoming release as follows:

  • Basic support for 10 widely-used WordPress event plugins.
  • Compatibility with multiple event plugins simultaneously, as we found that switching between plugins is common and maintaining archives is essential.
  • Event Aggregation from the Fediverse: follow other ActivityPub profiles to get and display their events. Will only be available with select event plugin integrations.
  • Map WordPress event categories to federated event categories, ensuring consistency across platforms.
  • Customizable event summaries for platforms like Mastodon that don’t natively support events in ActivityPub.
  • Send reminders (via Announce or custom Note) to followers at a configurable time before the event starts.
  • A streamlined admin dashboard that includes health checks and feedback to guide users to easily resolve faulty configurations.


Security and accessibility review


A security and accessibility review is currently taking place, and we will also be adapting the results of this.



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Letture del primo weekend dell'anno:
la nuova puntata di #NINAsec, la newsletter con le notizie #cyber e un simpatico #funfact ⤵️

ninasec.substack.com/p/securit…


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Mein WordPress Account im Fediverse wird in 2025 tatsächlich schon 10 Jahre alt.

Angelegt habe ich ihn, weil meine Nodes vor 10-12 Jahren noch eine Halbwertzeit von 6-12 Monaten hatten ;) Häufig sind sie gestorben, weil ich einfach keine Ahnung hatte, wie ich einen Fehler beheben konnte (Lernkurve).

Da war und ist es gut, wenn ich alle meine Posts irgendwohin verschieben kann und so eine Art Archiv erzeuge. Möglich war das durch ein Friendica Addon, mit dem alle Fediverse Beiträge auch auf ein WordPress gespiegelt werden. Das hat so gut funktioniert, dass ich die Funktion über die Jahre hinweg beibehalten habe.

Damals vor 10 Jahren (konkret am 09. Mai 2015) habe ich Föderation auf dem WordPress aktiviert. Danke an @Matthias Pfefferle und das Friendica Addon-Team, die das ermöglicht haben.

@social

#Friendica #Addon #WordPress #10Jahre

in reply to Matthias

Mein WordPress Account im Fediverse wird in 2025 tatsächlich schon 10 Jahre alt.


Also reif für die Pension ​:floof_peek:


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Only about half of #Mastodon stuffed toys are still in stock in the US. Help us pay our bills *and* get a friend-shaped travel and business companion! #Plushtodon

shop.joinmastodon.org/products…



È stata rilasciata la nuova versione stabile di Friendica "Interrupted Fern" 2024.12

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

Siamo molto lieti di annunciare la disponibilità della nuova versione stabile di Friendica "Interrupted Fern" 2024.12. Oltre a diversi miglioramenti e nuove funzionalità, questa versione contiene la correzione per la procedura guidata di installazione non funzionante .

I punti salienti di Friendica 2024.12 sono

  • aggiunto esportatore per prometheus,
  • abbiamo abbandonato il supporto di OStatus (il predecessore di ActivityPub) dopo aver valutato la quantità di server/contatti attivi che utilizzano ancora solo questo protocollo e deprecato il componente aggiuntivo fancybox
  • Friendica è ora compatibile con REUSE e supporta FEP-67ff
    Per i dettagli, consultare il file CHANGELOG nel repository.

forum.friendi.ca/objects/39bbe…


Friendica 2024.12 released


We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Interrupted Fern” 2024.12. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains the fix for the broken installation wizard.

The highlights of Friendica 2024.12 are

  • added exporter for prometheus,
  • we dropped the support of OStatus (the predecessor of ActivityPub) after evaluating the amount of active servers/contacts that are still only using this protocol, and deprecated the fancybox addon
  • Friendica is now REUSE compliant and supports FEP-67ff

For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.

What is Friendica


Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumblr and BlueSky.

How to Update
Updating from old Friendica versions


If you are updating from an older version than the 2023.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version as it contained some breaking changes.

Pre-Update Procedures


Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.

Using Git


Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.12 release would be
cd friendica
git pull
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
cd addon
git pull
If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.

Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.

Using the Archive Files


Due to unforseen changes in the CI not possible at the moment.

Post Update Tasks


The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script
bin/console dbstructure update
from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.

Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.

Known Issues


At the time of writing this, none with 2024.12

But the development branch is currently rather unstable and should be used with caution as the development diverged far (for Friendica terms) from the now stable branch. We will let our very valued ALPHA testers when the dev team things that the development branch is stable enough again.

How to Contribute


If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.

Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.

Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!


friendi.ca/2025/01/01/friendic…


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FOSDEM 2025


38c3 with many Fediverse related meet-ups has just finished but we are already looking forward to meet at FOSDEM at the first weekend of February. Tobias from the Friendica devel team will give a lightning talk about Friendica at FOSDEM 25 in the Social Web Dev Room.

Friendica – under the radar since 2010 is scheduled for Saturday (1.2.2025) from 16:00 to 16:10.


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FOSDEM 2025


38c3 with many Fediverse related meet-ups has just finished but we are already looking forward to meet at FOSDEM at the first weekend of February. Tobias from the Friendica devel team will give a lightning talk about Friendica at FOSDEM 25 in the Social Web Dev Room.

Friendica – under the radar since 2010 is scheduled for Saturday (1.2.2025) from 16:00 to 16:10.




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Friendica 2024.12 released


We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Interrupted Fern” 2024.12. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains the fix for the broken installation wizard.

The highlights of Friendica 2024.12 are

  • added exporter for prometheus,
  • we dropped the support of OStatus (the predecessor of ActivityPub) after evaluating the amount of active servers/contacts that are still only using this protocol, and deprecated the fancybox addon
  • Friendica is now REUSE compliant and supports FEP-67ff

For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.

What is Friendica


Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumblr and BlueSky.

How to Update

Updating from old Friendica versions


If you are updating from an older version than the 2023.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version as it contained some breaking changes.

Pre-Update Procedures


Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.

Using Git


Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.12 release would be
cd friendica
git pull
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
cd addon
git pull
If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.

Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.

Using the Archive Files


Due to unforseen changes in the CI not possible at the moment.

Post Update Tasks


The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script
bin/console dbstructure update
from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.

Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.

Known Issues


At the time of writing this, none with 2024.12

But the development branch is currently rather unstable and should be used with caution as the development diverged far (for Friendica terms) from the now stable branch. We will let our very valued ALPHA testers when the dev team things that the development branch is stable enough again.

How to Contribute


If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.

Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.

Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!


friendi.ca/2025/01/01/friendic…

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2024.12 is running good and stable so far across multiple instances.
in reply to Friendica News

@Tobias or @Steffen K9 🐰

Apparently the installer is broken, a known issue:
github.com/friendica/friendica…

Can you add on top of this announcement a text along the lines of:

Right now there is a problem with the installation script of the web page view.
Please perform an installation via the command line, see here for detailed information:
github.com/friendica/friendica…
If you experience troubles getting a password for the first registered admin account, you can change that password from the command line by executing the following commands:
root@VPShosting:/var/www/friendica# bin/console user password "<adminName>" "<newAdminPassword>"


[b]Right now there is a problem with the installation script of the web page view.[/b]
Please perform an installation via the command line, see here for detailed information:
https://github.com/friendica/friendica/blob/develop/doc/Install.md#option-b-run-the-automatic-install-script
If you experience troubles getting a password for the first registered admin account, you can change that password from the command line by executing the following commands:
root@VPShosting:/var/www/friendica# [code]bin/console user password "<adminName>" "<newAdminPassword>"
[/code]

@Friendica News


Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ ha ricondiviso questo.


Tinexta, figura barbina con gli hacker su InfoCert?


@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
InfoCert, la società di certificazione digitale del gruppo Tinexta legata a Spid, ha subito un attacco informatico: sarebbero stati sottratti i dati di oltre cinque milioni di utenti. Fatti, dettagli e numeri.

L'articolo proviene dalla sezione #Cybersecurity di startmag.it/primo-piano/tinext…


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Buoni propositi: quali nuovi social del fediverso proverete nel 2025?

- Twitter -> mastodon.uno
- Facebook -> Poliverso.org
- Reddit -> diggita.com
- Medium -> noblogo.org
- Eventbrite -> mobilizon.it
- yoututbe -> peertube.uno
- Instagram -> pixelfed.uno
- twitch -> nostream.mastodon.uno
- GoodReads -> bookwyrm.it
- Spreaker -> Castopod.it
- Soundcloud -> Funkwhale.it

#fediverso #devol

  • nessuno (18%, 33 votes)
  • almeno uno (47%, 84 votes)
  • più di uno (34%, 61 votes)
178 voters. Poll end: 3 mesi fa

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in reply to Devol ⁂

purtroppo l'anarchia non è possibile in un contesto digitale, perché chi ha più risorse può essere dominante.

In questo senso, la moderazione di qualsiasi comunità digitale è fondamentale se ovviamente è degna di fiducia e se mantiene regole chiare (che poi è esattamente quello che si intende con la parola "federazione").

Certamente la Federazione può costituire un rischio, un punto di vulnerabilità, ma è anche una protezione.

Del resto il Fediverso non è un "servizio critico", non deve garantire alta affidabilità, alta sicurezza e alta flessibilità, ma deve solo consentire agli utenti di interagire quanto più liberamente possibile

@paoloparti @84dee6e676e5bb67b4ad4e042cf70cbd8681155db535942fcc6a0533858a7240 @82341f882b6eabcd2ba7f1ef90aad961cf074af15b9ef44a09f9d2a8fbfbe6a2

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale
Devol ⁂
@artofstimart a breve ci sarà un bel aggiornamento ;)