Mobilizon Italia è l’istanza dedicata agli eventi italiani: uno spazio libero e federato con molti altri siti in tutto il mondo dove associazioni, gruppi e cittadini possono organizzare, scoprire e con…
It may be an abstract, or a final chapter of a full research, but I'm not an expert in research publishing so I'll ask the net... does it make sense to write more in our times of short attention spans ?
In any case if you are up for some peer-review I'm happy to receive any. This threads may serve to gather them
I think you should clarify #promptEngineering is the new language. There is also stuff related to AI that is building an AI from scratch which seems a little different.
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@robe the reason why I'm not thinking about "engineering" is that you don't need to be an engineer to use your mother tongue to "talk" to the computer.
This way @elif could easily have the computer realize a drawing of her liking without even having to find out how to use a graphic production software. And the results are honestly very good, see photofed.world/p/elifinquartet…
PS: the QR code and the text at the bottom she actually used #Gimp to add but she could have probably done without
@strk@musician.social @elif I'm not disputing that, I'm just saying that is not all AI is about and your article makes it sound like that. Think about if people just focus on using their mother-tongue without worrying about improving the underpinnings of the LLM, it's just a blackbox. Where does that leave us, bigger and more wasteful models that can only be run on proprietary clusters.
Con molto piacere abbiamo incontrato di persona un nostro "concittadino" del #Fediverso e la sua splendida famiglia, prova concreta che non bisogna per forza stare sui social proprietari per avere un seguito 😉
Grazie @myrornaskrig per aver dato corpo a questo piccolo grande mondo virtuale ❤️
Inizia:Venerdì Novembre 14, 2025 @ 10:00 PM GMT+01:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce:Venerdì Novembre 14, 2025 @ 11:59 PM GMT+01:00 (Europe/Rome)
Dalle note Funky al Jazz riarrangiato al nostro stile.
Piano, basso, tromba, batteria e voce.
Sul progetto musicale
"Jazzy!" è un viaggio attraverso una galleria di composizioni originali e reinterpretazioni audaci, dove la solida base del jazz si fonde con ritmi irresistibilmente funky.
Ma non pensate che sia tutto ritmo e beat: troverete anche momenti di malinconia e riflessione in brani come Sassi dove l'abilità tecnica del gruppo e la sensibilità di Elisabetta si fanno sentire al massimo.
I componenti del quartetto:
Elisabetta Fratoni (🎤 voce e 🎸 basso) – Cantante dalla voce calda e bassista versatile, Elisabetta incanta con il suo talento e la capacità di creare atmosfere uniche.
Sandro Santilli (🎺 tromba) – Trombettista dal suono pulito ed espressivo, Sandro arricchisce il quartetto con una presenza musicale genuina e misurata.
Luciano Tellico (🎹 pianoforte) – Pianista dal tocco elegante, Luciano accompagna il quartetto con armonie raffinate e una grande sensibilità artistica.
Fabio Ruggieri (🥁 batteria) – Batterista preciso e creativo, Fabio dà ritmo e dinamismo a ogni performance, valorizzando ogni brano con il giusto groove
Che bello vedere che almeno una persona invitata nel fediverso ci si trova bene 😊
@Augusto Zucchi ti scrivo da un server che non è nemmeno basato sullo stesso software di quello dal quale tu ricevi questo messaggio, ma mi consente comunque di interagire con te.
Inizia:Domenica Ottobre 19, 2025 @ 4:00 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce:Domenica Ottobre 19, 2025 @ 7:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
"Jazzy!" è un viaggio attraverso una galleria di composizioni originali e reinterpretazioni audaci, dove la solida base del jazz si fonde con ritmi irresistibilmente funky.
Ma non pensate che sia tutto ritmo e beat: troverete anche momenti di malinconia e riflessione in brani come Sassi dove l'abilità tecnica del gruppo e la sensibilità di Elisabetta si fanno sentire al massimo.
I componenti del quartetto:
Elisabetta Fratoni (🎤 voce e 🎸 basso) – Cantante dalla voce calda e bassista versatile, Elisabetta incanta con il suo talento e la capacità di creare atmosfere uniche.
Sandro Santilli (🎺 tromba) – Trombettista dal suono pulito ed espressivo, Sandro arricchisce il quartetto con una presenza musicale genuina e misurata.
Luciano Tellico (🎹 pianoforte) – Pianista dal tocco elegante, Luciano accompagna il quartetto con armonie raffinate e una grande sensibilità artistica.
Fabio Ruggieri (🥁 batteria) – Batterista preciso e creativo, Fabio dà ritmo e dinamismo a ogni performance, valorizzando ogni brano con il giusto groove.
Il luogo; Poggio Colone è un luogo immerso nella Natura con una sua identità ed uno suo accogliente fascino che fa sentire subito a “casa”. Chi vuole puoi venire a rigenerarsi prima del concerto facendo una passeggiata nel bosco o visitando la Cascata.
L'evento avrà inizio alle 16 per chi vorrà passeggiare o bere una tisana calda, un tè o un caffè. Il concerto inizierà alle 17 circa e avrà la durata di circa un ora e mezza, seguirà aperitivo e Jam Session
Contributo associativo: 18€
Per prenotare: +393470301156 (Antonella), info@mujic.org
Se avete un feed reader installato sul vostro telefono/computer potete aggiungere gli eventi dell' Elisabetta Fratoni Jazz Quartet al vostro notiziario personalizzato usando la seguente URL:
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Benvenuti Fedi Friends all'episodio quarantasette di Fireside Fedi! Sono il votro presentatore ozoned. Fireside Fedi è un programma dedicato alle persone del Fediverso. Se stai vedendo questo, voi fai parte del Fediverso.
Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 47 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
If you haven't guessed by now our guested today is an Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS 🎬 Director of: The Illusionists documentary + a Fediverse promotional video (https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/)
Thank you to cptbichez for helping with the translation.
Inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee reveals the inside story of his revolutionary invention & urgent guidance for humanity’s digital future.
I finally got my copy on friday. Came as a total surprise you mentioned me in the acknowledgements. I am honoured! It's a pleasure working with you and the community on the #Solid ecosystem.
I started reading your book over the weekend and kept being drawn back to it until the end. Even though I was familiar with a lot of what you wrote about I found it really engaging and inspiring. Well done!
One last comment and I'll shut up 🙂 The Note about the Author in the digital version reads "You can sign up for email updates _here_". Whoever wrote that (I'm pretty sure it's not you!) needs to learn about lehors.wordpress.com/2009/01/2…
Admittedly this blog entry might just be seen as another rant but this is meant to be constructive so, hopefully that’s how you’ll see it. I constantly see people put links in their web…
I want to thank you for a very thought provoking read. Like many my age I find the social media aspect of the web very scary and , to me, it has shown people at their very worst. I prefer to think that most people are just human and mostly nice. I put kindness as a top priority. It doesn’t really matter what I think because I’m on my way out of the world but I do worry about what I leave behind. I found your book both informative and life enhancing. So a small thank you.
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A year of sunrises - 13 pictures of the sun, each month, same place, same time.
"One of the best places in Edmonton to see the sunrise point change along a familiar horizon is Valleyview Drive, which is where I photographed sunrise once a month for a year. This image is the final result of stacking 13 sunrise images from Dec 2020 to Dec 2021, to visually depict the change in the sunrise point over a year." - Photographer, Luca Vanzella.
I get my astro 101 students to do this every year! (But it's only 1 semester, so 1/4 of that). The prairies are a great place to carry out this experiment!
Sono nuovo e mi presento. Mi chiamo Francesco Buscemi e sono un fisico teorico. Lavoro principalmente sulla teoria quantistica dell'informazione e i temi che mi interessano di più sono i fondamenti matematici, logici, e filosofici delle scienze fisiche in generale, non solo della meccanica quantistica. Negli ultimi mesi ho scoperto che la divulgazione scientifica in italiano mi piace molto e sto sperimentando diverse strade, tra cui una è il microblogging.
Apprezzerei moltissimo ricondivisioni per creare nuovi contatti più rapidamente. Grazie!
Istruzioni minime per gestire la nuova interfaccia di #Poliversity: formattazione e visualizzazione dei post compressi
Composizione di post formattati
Ricordiamo a tutti gli iscritti di Poliversity che per scrivere messaggi formattati è necessario attivare l'apposita funzione.
Questo può essere fatto:
1) selezionando dalle impostazioni la modalità predefinita di composizione: normale, markdown o HTML(fig.1) 2) selezionando impostando la modalità di composizione dall'icona che compare nella casella di composizione del messaggio (fig.2).
Per attivare il selettore del punto 2, è necessario attivare le opzioni specifiche del fork di Mastodon, che si trovano sul menu laterale destro (App Settings), selezionare la scheda "Compose Box" (Fig. 3) e flaggare il check alla voce "Show content-type choice when authoring toots".
Compressione dei post lunghi
La nuova interfaccia interviene sui "post lunghi" comprimendoli per opzione predefinita.
Per disattivare o modificare questa opzione è necessario accedere alle impostazioni specifiche di Glitch-soc, come già spiegato sopra, selezionare la scheda "Collapsed Toots" (Fig. 4) e togliere o mettere il flag alle seguenti voci:
Tutto
Notifiche
Toot lunghi
Boost
Risposte
Toot con media
e per impostare l'altezza (in pixel) per considerare lungo un messaggio
Poliversity è una comunità dedicata alla ricerca scientifica e al giornalismo, all'università e all'istruzione ed è nata per promuovere il diritto alla conoscenza e la corretta informazione
Benvenuto nel fediverso! Sorrido scrivendoti perché nel podcast che realizzo insieme ad @artematiko abbiamo un personaggio che si chiama QUANTUM (è un aspirante cracker un po' sfigatello).
Personalmente, adoro le scienze, quindi da oggi hai noi come asco-lettori. 🖖
Ottima domanda, la tua. Una famosa risposta è quella attribuita a Shannon (il padre della teoria dell'informazione) che dice: "L'informazione è la risoluzione dell'incertezza."
Se c'è una variabile random X di cui non sapevamo nulla e dopo, grazie a un messaggio Y che abbiamo ricevuto, ne sappiamo un po' di più, allora diciamo che Y conteneva informazione su X.
Questa è l'idea di base. Poi chiaramente ci sono letteralmente infiniti modi di formalizzare questa idea in formule matematiche precise.
Poi la cosa si complica con la meccanica quantistica, dove c'è Heisenberg che con il suo principio di indeterminazione ci dice però che in fisica "non c'è informazione senza incertezza". Ma questa è un'altra storia...
ma quindi sei un sostenitore dell'ipotesi a un solo universo, così come mi pare di aver capito sia anche David Albert, adelphi.it/libro/9788845915338 ? E sei anche tu, come lui, un sostenitore della compatibilità di un determinismo quantistico con il libero arbitrio? E cosa ne pensi della teoria a molti universi di Murray Gell-Mann, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_G… ? Metto in cc @sirvoe perché so che è interessato e ne sa sicuramente più di me. Già che ci sono vi chiedo anche cosa ne pensate di questo miniracconto di fantascienza che ho postato poco fa, todon.nl/@jones/11532681840901… 😀
Allora. Credo che la meccanica quantistica abbia poco da dire sia sull'universo che sul libero arbitrio.
Sono estrapolazioni non supportate da alcun dato sperimentale. Per ora quello che sappiamo è che la meccanica quantistica funziona benissimo a energie sotto-relativistiche e a determinate scale di grandezza (né troppo piccole, né troppo grandi). Tutto il resto sono solo (e al più) speculazioni.
Per quanto riguarda il libero arbitrio... beh, se non ci fosse, non avrebbe molto senso essere un appassionato di fisica. Quindi, sì: per non contraddirmi, credo nel libero arbitrio.
Mi piace moltissimo il modo in cui il mio amico Jeremy Butterfield apre il suo lavoro sul multiverso:
I write these words, believing that I have always lived in one world: and that it is the same world in which my family, friends, historical figures, all humankind, including you, dear reader, live or have lived or will live. But our topic is the speculation...
This book is a philosopher's introduction to the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. I present and assess three versions of the idea: one version from philosophy, and two from physics.
ahah! l'hai beccato subito! mi ha sempre fatto molto ridere l'omino stilizzato in fondo la messaggio... come si fa a pensare che degli alieni, magari a centinaia di migliaia di anni luce da noi, riescano a decifrare questo sgorbio incomprensibile come la rappresentazione stilizzata del corpo dei mittenti del messaggio... boh!
Scrivo fantascienza, e in uno dei miei romanzi ho un personaggio che si lamenta di quanto sia incomprensibile questo messaggio: come si può pretendere di scrivere numeri, formule chimiche e disegni nello stesso "codice" e sperare che qualcuno riesca a tradurlo e comprenderlo??
@sirvoe @statussquatter Lo sai, ne so poco, solo mi chiedo questo: Murray Gell-Mann non era sicuramente un fricchettone, oggi la teoria a molti universi è considerata così fricchettona, di per sé?
@strk @giacomo beh, se il messaggio Y non ti dice nulla sulla tal cosa X, allora il messaggio Y non contiene alcuna informazione (sulla tal cosa X, ma magari ne contiene a proposito di un'altra cosa)
Be' comunque Gell-Mann ricevette il nobel per la fisica nel 1969, sicuramente ai suoi tempi la teoria a molti universi non era "fricchettona"; ma oggi, che tu sappia, da quanti oltre a te è considerata "fricchettona"?
Benvenuto! Anche io mi sto ancora ambientando, sicuramente apprezzerò leggere più toots sulla fisica (anche se io sono nella minoranza che gioisce se vede equazioni)
@sirvoe comunque ancora grazie per la dritta su "fisica quantistica e senso comune", ci avrò capito il 25% a dir tanto ma mi fa piacere sapere che qualcuno considera la teoria a un solo universo e un eventuale (credo) determinismo quantistico compatibili con il libero arbitrio, anche se non ho capito come lo sarebbero.
@jones @sirvoe be non mi sconvolge più di tanto effettivamente, alla Fermi, se esistono tutti questi universi paralleli perché non si è visto ancora niente passarci attraverso? e come per le teorie extraterrestri tutto si complica troppo, scimmie spaziali scese da alberi extraterrestri? Bigbang paralleli, tempo parallelo, entropia parallela? Non semplifica ne spiegherebbe chi sa che e se non ci sono prove tangibili per me è ok accantonare la teoria degli universi paralleli 😁
@d10c4n3 @jones @sirvoe la sensazione è un po' quella di essere i ghostbuster contro gli omini giganti michelin, uno sparacchia un po' cosa ha nel bagaglio culturale eheh
On November 30th, 2016, more than 100,000 people around the world contributed to a suite of first-of-a-kind quantum physics experiments known as The BIG Bell Test.
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🚀 Il Fediverso cambia volto!
Mentre molte istanze Mastodon chiudono, Ghost vola al 2° posto tra i server attivi 🌐 E WordPress supera i 9000 server diventando il gigante del Fediverso!
👉 Sempre più server personali e sempre meno comunitari, con Ghost e WordPress che potrebbero diventare la spina dorsale del nuovo Fediverso.
📩 In Italia c'è l'istanza Ghost di @devol, ci si può iscrivere per ricevere aggiornamenti via email: newsletter.devol.it
L'immagine mostra una griglia di sei caselle, ognuna rappresentante un servizio online. Ogni casella contiene il nome del servizio, una breve descrizione, e i dati di server, account e utenti attivi mensili (MAU). I servizi elencati sono:
WordPress: Open source software utilizzabile per creare siti web, con 9.007 server, 20.943 account e 17.428 MAU.
Ghost: Un'applicazione per professionisti, con 8.795 server, 8.795 account e 10 MAU.
Mastodon: Un social network decentralizzato, con 8.128 server, 8.126.236 account e 693.471 MAU.
PeerTube: Software libero per gestire video, con 1.070 server, 344.146 account e 22.204 MAU.
Misskey: Una piattaforma di microblogging interplanetaria, con 978 server, 1.063.666 account e 12.553 MAU.
Pixelfed: Una piattaforma di condivisione fotografica, con 519 server, 835.110 account e 130.075 MAU.
Ogni casella ha uno sfondo scuro con il logo del servizio e il testo in bianco o colori vivaci.
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Ovis2-8B
filippodb@mastodon.uno Ghost lo ritengo un progetto interessante. Non ho però ben capito quanto è federato. Non ne so molto. Sembra che solo la versione Docker abbia funzionalità compatibili con ActivityPub. Tuttavia il fatto di dover usare Docker per abilitare la federazione, mi lascia molto perplesso.
@piero sì sono ancora sono poche le istanze che possono federarsi ma questo è normale, devono fare test, non appena sarà tutto funzionante apriranno la federazione a tutti, la stessa istanza del @devol non è federata.
@riffraff @Neffscape si, era partito come alternativa a wordpress e poi si è specializzato cme piattaforma per la pubblicazione e gestione di newsletter per cui viiene usato ora.
@fediversenews I joined Mastodon in late 2022, I think it was when Elon bought Twitter. I found a list of servers, some of which were closed to new users because of the mass migration. I ended up applying to social.linux.pizza because I was running Linux Mint and it was open. I was accepted, then I started figuring out how to work it. After a while, I started using Phanpy.
Some of the things you say are defects or omissions might actually be features. I have been using computers for a long time, though I am not professionally involved with them. My first online experiences were on the GEnie BBS. I also don't use any of the typical social media. I had a Twitter account (no longer), but I only used it to follow the Ukraine war. I didn't mind having to figure out Mastodon. It meant that the users had to have a certain level of commitment and curiosity. I think it cuts down on the trolling and blathering. The necessary information is out there, if you look for it.
@jredlund @fediversenews I'd say some friction can be a positive thing to a sytem. It SHOULD be hard to do bad things, or to spread potentially spam or toxic content, etc. Intentional friction or "circuit breakers" at those points may solve problems or prevent problems for users.
What I don't think helps anyone is things that become needless UX friction to helping good things happen that delight and bring benifits to users.
Great stuff, Tim! I know progress is being made eg on search, but I like when the community’s leaders (like yourself) give these issues some air and tough love.
I joined up a bout 2 years ago, had no idea about a server, and still really don't. I recognized my running in to most of the sins. I like it here, but still feel like a lurker.
@zedaardv Looking forward to your ideas on how to improve things. Have you considered taking a page from role playing computer games. When you start a game you arrive on "newbie island" when you walk through a few simple tasks that familiarize you with the UI and your various options. But pretty soon you have to (get to!) move off into the real game equipt with some knowledge, the choices you've made, and a modicum of skill.
I look forward to part 2. In the meantime, I have two comments that someone might find useful.
First is that I was part of the November 2022 fuck Elon migration. That was before ExTwitter locked down their API, so someone had written a little bot that would search your follows there for anyone who had a fediverse handle in their profile (the odd double-@ format, I'm guessing). You could download that as a .CSV and upload it to Mastodon and have an instant large group of familiar people to follow.
Very different than starting from scratch or trying to guess what someone's handle might be and finding them here, even if you know they are in fact here.
I think that's huge for many people because unless you join a very active location-based or interest-based server, it'll feel really lonely for quite a while.
@Mikal Love the very descriptive phrase of the "fuck elon migration." And agree there were two different (at least two) tools that did what you say, and yes, those deeply helped....Am about 3/4th done with my second article and will add that bit of tech history to it. Thanks!
The way I explain the fediverse is to compare it to virtually any non-prepackaged social relationship.
Want to try a worker-owned business? A communal household? Co-housing community? Nonmonogamy or other non-traditional romance or relationship forms? CSA or other direct farm-to-consumer food production? Any organization or group that runs by consensus?
Virtually all of my lefty friends have some experience with one or more of these things, so they understand that any time you step outside of the frictionless, pre-made capitalist box to create the life you want, it will be more difficult and often awkward, time consuming and confusing. And probably require a bunch of meetings. But maybe worth it in the end.
That's how I explain the fediverse. Because it's been built by and for users and not fashy billionaires, it requires more direct participation, more tolerance for all the rough edges, longer to make changes and improvements. They usually get that, even if they ultimately decide, "nah."
@Mikal The #Fediverse "been built by and for users and not fashy billionaires, it requires more direct participation, more tolerance for all the rough edges" True, true.
I agree with everything in the article, timothychambers.net/2025/06/18…, and many of the comments, but that phrase can't be stressed enough.
Would also like to mention, regarding the article by @tchambers, of all the critiques of the Fediverse, Mastodon, etc, it's nice to see one coming from love instead of a tech journalist that is not willing to understand, at this point of development, the Fediverse, esp Mastodon, has "been built by and for users and not fashy billionaires, it requires more direct participation, more tolerance for all the rough edges"
I think that is why the community is taking this critique to heart in the comments.
Nicely articulated. These matters need to be addressed for the Fediverse to become more friendly to new users. I spent almost a week sporadically trying to figure out "instances" here before getting an account.
@ilust606 Thank you for that review, and for your personal story on this... The original web was rife with UX issues too, but time for the Open Social web to fix ours. More on that in the next article....
I don’t think there’s one answer, but a big step would be to stop sending web users to unfamiliar servers in the first place. When I’m using my own server’s web interface, links to content on other servers need to be handled in the web interface I’m already using instead of linking directly to the other server.
Steps to reproduce the problem While logged in on your home server, find a post where someone from another server has pasted a link. Click on it. Find yourself transported to a different server whe...
We would like to fix it otherwise, by having the authoring software mark a link as being a link to a specific AP object so when displaying the status you can know it right away and do what is correct.
This is a sketch for an alternative approach to #26917
The goal is to mimick the behavior of native apps in our web UI and not open links in a new tab/window if we can display them "in-app&quo...
@renchap apologies in advance if this is a stupid suggestion, or if it’s something that was already considered, but…
if the problem with the #31101 approach is the time it takes to resolve the link in the click handler, why not resolve them earlier, like when the link comes into view (debounced to avoid a flood of requests when scrolling quickly)? Too much server load?
At least as a stopgap until the long-term fix is widely adopted? That sounds like it might take years
I thought most clients that do "quote posts” already worked that way, more or less.
I'm looking at an open source client and unless I'm badly misreading the source code, that is indeed how it makes links show up as embedded quote posts. As soon as a link comes on screen that goes to a different domain and ends in an integer (so could conceivably be a status ID), it calls the search API with it
(edit 2: wait yeah, pretty sure I had this right the first time)
Ω🪬Ω #FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, is now deployed on Github Pages and can be used from your web browser.
Demo app to show off fedialgo, a customizable algorithm for your Mastodon timeline that is made of awesome. - michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
Hmmm. Not from me. My only idea is that improving the social media lives for the most people is itself a social good. Not about growth in any financial sense. But it has to IMPROVE their social lives - not sacrifice such things to get growth.
Smithereen fixes the DM UX thing by actually treating direct messages as something entirely separate from posts. Different UIs, dedicated inbox and outbox pages, a button in each profile to send a message, addressing in a separate field like in an email client instead of mentions. I don't even allow setting per-post visibility on my side (but I do store and enforce it for incoming posts/comments)
there isn't a server with open registrations (because I don't want to burden myself with all the responsibility that would come with that) but I can give you an invite to my personal server friends.grishka.me
"What about Mastodon Search?" - I'm ok with search being opt-in only because 99% of my searches are on my own toots. Unfortunately, even that doesn't work very well. For instance, a search for "from:me meatball" ought to bring up dozens of my meatball sandwich lunch photos. Instead it brings up: four.
@colo_lee That seems a bit harsh. it's not like these decisions were made to be bad on purpose. What so many people don't appreciate is that federation is hard!
There are deep api fixes coming that will address many of these issues. There is a good reason BlueSky is still a single server...
I see what you mean: I couldn't access the full thread of comments from the reply that you boosted.
About Sin No. 1, picking an instance in 2022 was quite puzzling, as I didn't want to intrude anywhere or step on anyone's toes. At that time, there was a strong attitude of "we don't want intruders." Maybe that general attitude has changed now?
Mastodon was always sold to the end user as the community when its actually just the software that can run a community. The term join Mastodon is fundamentally flawed, it's like saying join the world wide web instead of saying go to my web site. The emphasis should be building great communities that just happen to interooerate with each other. That shift in perception addressees a few of the great sins (def not all)
@mike Hmmmm. I think the Sins I list here are not as easily fixed as you suggest. And are fediverse wide (at least across many different fediverse offerings) -- will write up some fixes I do think will work in my next article.
Hence the qualifying sentence at the end. There's a lot of work to be done on the actual software but there's also a lot of work to be done on instances creating communities that can stand on their own two feet. Unfortunately that work goes beyond the nuts and bolts of software development.
@mike You may be too young to remember, but we absolutely had to “join” the World Wide Web! Your internet provider was capital D Decision at one point. Now it’s more like setting up your electric and water bill. lol.
@renwillis @mike I only WISH I were too young to remember, but love your analogy.
Yep Web 1.0 had a ton of such sins like this. And that the open web worked those out gives me great hope that the open social web can too, and faster than before to boot!
@renwillis LOL, I go back to the days of bulliten boards and fidonet. My first modem was 1200 baud connected to a C64 and I thought I was cool because it was direct connect and not acoustic coupler.
@mike Hey! I’m an old too! GEN X REPRESENT! From a Vic20 and my friend’s TRS-80 to my first internet connection back in 91 managing a computer lab at USF in Tampa. Tis twas a different time. Decentralized is simply “rejoining” the internet the way it was (and probably should’ve stayed). Biggest regret was centralizing information to social media companies.
Would it be exaggerating the issue if I wanted to host a node of Fediverse for Edmontonians? To not repeat the same mistakes, what should I avoid, or do differently?
Asking as someone who was a cry baby at 90s, born into the social media era, and having somewhat of difficulty visualizing a better world, and still has the audacity to wish for one.
@murteza @renwillis I'd ask myself if there was a need for an Edmonton centric instance and what you think that would look like. If it's just a node with Edmonton in the fqdn then I'm not sure there's any utility there.
What was going to a single person instance on my personal domain turned into a city wide regional instance for people who are blown away by the idea of collaborating social media platforms. May be having a place for people to discover local events, festivals, news, meetup groups etc would bring life back to Edmonton, City of Festivals earned the nickname "Deadmonton". There are also the unintended advantages of fediverse such as no profiling of people, no manipulation through advertisements, no algorithm driven recommendations of profiles or injecting posts into where they don't belong, no dark-patterns to lock-in users into the platform etc. It is a digital, word of mouth platform.
I am a SysAdmin for small to medium businesses in Edmonton who need a website, cheaper email hosting etc. I have no clue how much of a need there is for a regional social media platform. But I have a computer powerful enough to host 1,000 or so people, so that they can move away from Facebook. That is good enough to start and see how much of a need there is. I am not trying to snitch users from other instances of Fediverse, lets federate.
I see how badly my previous post was worded. I shouldn't have rushed to press reply before going into the tunnel. What I meant was "Do you think running a city-wide regional instance would exaggerate the issue of centralization? It would basically act like a subreddit for Edmonton, and can be interpreted as an echo chamber by some people. What would I need to do to avoid the mistake of creating echo chamber or other mistakes the mainstream social media platforms done? Is federating with other instances such as Qlub.social , NWT.social , toronto.place , mstdn.social , thecanadian.social and more enough? I am asking because I was born into the era of mainstream social media platforms and my world view might be more different than most of you, and I didn't get to experience pre-socialmedia times. I want to be part of the solution without repeating the same mistakes".
Note: "You don't need to download an app" is surprisingly effective way to market it. So many people looks surprised that this thing works and functions amazingly well on a regular boring internet browser, as if it was on a purpose built app. That is Edmontonian Social's audience.
Great writeup of the Original Sins, Tim! And behind these ones on the list is a long list of the Thousand Papercuts, from misplacing mentions at start of the reply body text (when a perfectly good mention field exists in the protocol) to inability to remember the readers' position in their (reverse chron and random) timeline. The papercuts could be solved by the client, but increase friction all the same. @tchambers
Earlier today I was happy to see that you boosted something I posted about Jimmy Kimmel. I also copied @ (space added for this reply) renewedresistance and I was hoping that that account would also boost my message. What can you tell me about this?
Very good, except: to save time, you could just see if your system works when I send a new message, copying you, within a half an hour of now. I appreciate you.
Yes, it should have. This is about messages that were not boosted by the @ (space added for this reply) renewedresistance@channel.org account. Yesterday I did not type the name of that account, after days went by when that account did not boost any of my messages, although it did days before it suddenly stopped. I would like to get back to how things were when we were supporting each other, to improve life in America. I plan to copy a suitable message within two hours from now.
@shadowfals Cool: so as I understand it, the federated search just builds on existing server based search in Mastodon (though would work on any ActivityPub service) so would be as privacy protectective as current Mastodon search - which from what I see fully respects only searching fully public or maybe “quiet public” posts too, but not other non-public posts or direct messages.
@shadowfals yeah the truth with scraping is different than what is the subject expose to other activity pub clients. Web scrapers get anything that surfaces to their scrapers so that may include limited public posts to followers etc if their scraper account follows you. But those won’t show up in federated search. Only defence against scrapers is fully end to end encrypted chat like Signal or Deltachat groups.
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Se volete avere nel calendario del vostro cellulare le date e i dettagli dei nostri concerti, potete utilizzare (se su Android) questa app: icsx5.bitfire.at/
È una app che consente di "iscriversi" a calendari pubblicati su web, sceglierete voi quali.
Se volete trovare i nostri eventi nel vostro calendario digitale, non avete voglia di installare una app ma avete già un account Google, potete usare quello per iscrivervi al nostro calendario.
in Giappone hanno sviluppato una tecnologia che impedisce allo yogurt di attaccarsi alla stagnola. Si chiama Toyal Lotus perché è ispirata alle foglie di loto che sono idrorepellenti. Non so se la stagnola ne sia contenta.
Ci sono psicologhe e psicologi fra i miei pochissimi contatti? Se sì, quali ritenete siano state, da un punto di vista di evoluzione scientifica, le più importanti scoperte/conferme degli ultimi 10 anni?
Who's new on Mastodon from the theater community? I want to follow, boost and like you! You're doing wonderful work to tell stories, encourage empathy and create art. The world needs more of this. 🩷🎭
@⍼ Cassandra Seldon leggo che ti interessa il #Baseball - ci hai giocato ? Ci giochi ancora ? Io ci giocai fino alla categoria Juniores e un anno arrivammo quarti in Italia 😀
ciao. Purtroppo ho scoperto il baseball abbastanza tardi e non ci ho mai giocato in maniera seria. Sei la prima persona che ha scritto qualcosa in merito, escludendo altri social.
Pizza Senza Fine & Musica Live – Programma Settimanale Pizza Senza Fine & Musica Live Ogni giovedì Da Antonio diventa il punto di riferimento per chi vuole vivere una serata diversa: pizze gastronomiche illimitate, musica dal vivo e un’atmosfera che …
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Il concerto a #Pietracupa nonostante la pioggia nel tardo pomeriggio si è svolto all'asciutto ed è stato accolto dal pubblico con grande partecipazione e calore.
Potrebbe diventare un nostro appuntamento estivo fisso con questo paese meraviglioso del #Molise
#introduction Hello, I'm Indigo, or Oriole, or Indigo Oriole, whichever comes to mind. I am a avid fan of #peanuts (The Comic Strip), video game and media ownership! I am also a #debian shill, and will never forget to show love to one of my favorite projects, the #budgie project! I also enjoy #art, but am not an artist, but I do occasionally write pieces of #poetry mostly for my own amusement, but I might post a few for yall to enjoy!
I hope you have a wonderful day, I know things can be scary, but sometimes the bravest thing to do is be kind when there seems to be no reason to be.
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Ai confini del #Lazio, ancora in provincia di #Viterbo ( #Orte ) ma molto vicino al confine con la provincia di #Terni (#Amelia ) si svolgerà a #Ferragosto il nostro prossimo concerto #Jazz
Street Food & Jazz – o 🌙 Street Food & Jazz – Ferragosto-Sera Il tuo browser non supporta il video. Una serata sotto le stelle tra jazz, brace e sapori veri Dalle 19:30, il giardino di Campo Antico si trasforma in un piccolo villaggio del gusto: isol…
la gente c'è ma non si vede se non in occasione di allineamenti astrali particolari. Contrariamente a quel che avviene su Facebook si vedono solo i post di quelli che si seguono, e questo fa sembrare il luogo "vuoto".
Dall'altra parte è un continuo vedere cose che un automatismo ha deciso che ci possano interessare. Questo automatismo qui nel fediverso non c'è.
Regina Obe
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in reply to Regina Obe • • •@robe the reason why I'm not thinking about "engineering" is that you don't need to be an engineer to use your mother tongue to "talk" to the computer.
This way @elif could easily have the computer realize a drawing of her liking without even having to find out how to use a graphic production software. And the results are honestly very good, see photofed.world/p/elifinquartet…
PS: the QR code and the text at the bottom she actually used #Gimp to add but she could have probably done without
@strk@floss.social
📷 EliF in Quartet
2025-12-03 11:51:07
Regina Obe
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