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That would hardly even be possible. That is, possible maybe, but not feasible.
Essentially, anyone would have to be able to grab their iPhone and load a professionally-hardened LAMP stack + SSL certificate etc. etc. + Friendica from the App Store, just like so, without any prior knowledge.
First of all, not everyone should run a server. No, really. I'm serious.
I keep seeing in what happens when the "wrong" people run their own grid. Not only people who lack the mental maturity to run a server, but also people who lack the technical knowledge to run a server. Everything was fine and dandy when you needed the command line to install and maintain an OpenSim grid.
But then came that doesn't require you to know anything about servers, and that actually doesn't even require you to know that much about computers. Install it, double-click the icon on the desktop, and you've got your own grid. Of the well over 3,000 or even over 4,000 grids, well over 90% run on this software. Many of them have issues because their owners don't know what they're doing.
Server software available as mobile apps in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store would enable people who have never even touched a computer in their lives to run their own servers. People who know zilch about computers. People who don't even know what a file or a folder is. People who know precious little about their phones, and when their phones have some booboo, they either take them to the shop, or they discard them and buy new ones.
You want such people to run a full-blown, hardened Web server with SSL encryption, with an attached MariaDB or PostgreSQL database, with an included mail transport agent or even a full-blown mail server etc. Without even knowing what exactly is happening behind that icon Like, tap that icon, and you've got your own server on a level that takes a professional-grade admin hours to set up perfectly, and I'm not even talking about maintaining and occasionally upgrading it yet
Also, phones make for bad Web servers for five more reasons.
One, if you have a public Web server on your phone, it has to be online 24/7 with ideally no interruption, constantly with a high-quality, high-reliability, high-speed connection. Other Fediverse servers will constantly be sending stuff to your server and pulling stuff from your server. But you may end up someplace where mobile Internet is bad. Or your quota may run out, and you may end up with a super-low connection at the end of the month. And switching between mobile and WiFi while there's a transmission going on is a very bad idea.
Two, this also means your phone must reliably be on 24/7. If it shuts down because the battery is empty, that's bad for your Fediverse server app.
Three, a server should not change its IP address just like so. But if your phone switches from your home WiFi to mobile to the public WiFi on a bus to mobile to the public WiFi on another bus to mobile to the public WiFi at some caf within, like, half an hour, it does change its IP address all the time. And this implies that the transport company and the caf owner let you run a public Web server through their WiFi and upload hundreds of MB of data while commuting or having your mocha.
Four, a server on a phone is a bad idea. A server on a phone that's running on battery is an even worse idea. Depending on what's going on on your Fediverse server, your phone may be running at full blast constantly. Do you hate it when you watch videos on your phone, and the battery goes out quickly Well, with a Fediverse server on your phone, the battery will go out even more quickly. When you're out and about, and you have your phone with you (of course you do), you need to have your phone connected to a power bank the size of a brick. Otherwise, you leave home in the morning, and by noon, your phone shuts down.
In the meantime, by the way, your phone may be running so hot that you can barely touch it. Good luck chatting on it or using it as an actual phone.
And five, a Fediverse server app will eat through your data plan in no time. So you're on Friendica with a few hundred contacts, with a few hundred posts of your own, with various media on your server. And you want to play it safe, and you get yourself, like, a 10GB plan. But even if it's a private, single-user node, it will eat through your plan in days.
The ideal environment for a Friendica node is not a phone. It's a rack iron with a big honkin' Intel Xeon CPU, with fans that scream at full blast constantly, with ample of internal storage in a RAID array, running a sturdy GNU/Linux distro with no graphical components, connected permanently through wires (or even fibre) that can reliably transfer gigabytes per second in-bound as well as out-bound.
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I mean, the Fediverse already has Lemmy, KBin, and MBin.
So there's already an ecosystem of pre-built communities out there.

/kbin is dead. Has been since last year. The last instances that haven't moved to Mbin are withering away.
However, in the "Lemmy clone" category, there's also PieFed, and Sublinks is still in development.
Also, the Facebook alternative ("Facebook alternative" not as in "Facebook clone", but as in "better than Facebook") has had since its launch in, 2010, five and a half years before Mastodon. has had groups since 2012 when it still was a Friendica fork named Red. (2021) and (2024) have groups, too. All four are part of the same software family, created by the same developer. And interacting with their groups from Mastodon is somewhat smoother than interacting with a Lemmy community.
On Friendica, a group is simply another user account, but with different settings: In "Mastodon speak", it automatically boosts any DM sent to it to all its followers. In reality, it's a little more complicated because, unlike Mastodon, Friendica has a concept of threaded conversations. (No, seriously, Mastodon doesn't have it. If you think Mastodon has it, use Friendica for a year or two as your only daily driver, and then think again.)
Likewise, on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, it's another with similar settings.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #FediverseGroups #Groups #PieFed #Sublinks #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte Bad idea. ( user here.)
Hashtags are not only for discoverability (and critically so on Mastodon). They're also the preferred way of triggering the automatic generation of individual reader-side content warnings.
Content warnings that are automatically generated for each user individually based on keyword lists have a long tradition in the Fediverse. Friendica has had them long before Mastodon even existed, much less before Mastodon hijacked the summary field for content warnings. Hubzilla has had them since its own inception which was before Mastodon, too. (streams) has them, Forte has them.
On all four, automated reader-side content warnings are an integral part of their culture. And users of all four (those who are not recent Mastodon converts at least, i.e. those who entered the Fediverse by joining Friendica in the early 2010s) insist in automated reader-side content warnings being vastly better than Mastodon's poster-side content warnings that are forced upon everyone all the same.
Oh, and by the way, Mastodon has this feature, too. It has only introduced it in October, 2022, and since the re-definition of Mastodon's culture in mid-2022 pre-dates it, it is not part of Mastodon's culture. But Mastodon has this feature.
However, in order for these content warnings to be generated, there needs to be a trigger. The safest way is by hashtags: If you post content that not everyone may want to see, add corresponding hashtags, enough to cover as many people as possible. If you don't want to see certain content right away, add the corresponding hashtags as keywords to NSFW (Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte) or a CW-generating filter (Mastodon).
In fact, hashtags can also be used to completely filter out content that you don't want to see at all. And they can be used to trigger such filters. This should work everywhere in the Fediverse.
I myself post stuff that some people don't want to see all the time. Hence, I need a whole lot of hashtags.
Let me explain the "hashtag wall" at the bottom of this comment to you.

• #Long, #LongPost
  This comment is over 500 characters long. Many Mastodon users don't want to see any content that exceeds 500 characters. They can filter either or both of these hashtags and at least get rid of my content with over 500 characters.
  Why two hashtags Because I can't know beforehand which one of them people will filter. And because I can't know beforehand which of one of them people will search for or follow.
• #CWLong, #CWLongPost
  The same as above, but making clear that it's supposed to stand in for a content warning ("CW: long (over 8,300 characters)"). Also, filtering these instead of the above has less of a chance of false positives than the above.
  Why two hashtags Because I can't know beforehand which one of them people will filter. And because I can't know beforehand which of one of them people will search for or follow.
• #FediMeta, #FediverseMeta
  This comment contains Fediverse meta content. Some people don't want to read anything about the Fediverse, not even as by-catch or boosted to them by someone whom they follow or even only on their federated timeline. They can filter either or both of these.
  Why two hashtags Because I can't know beforehand which one of them people will filter. And because I can't know beforehand which of one of them people will search for or follow.
• #CWFediMeta, #CWFediverseMeta
  The same as above, but making clear that it's supposed to stand in for a content warning ("CW: Fediverse meta" or, in this case, "CW: Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta").
  Why two hashtags Because I can't know beforehand which one of them people will filter. And because I can't know beforehand which of one of them people will search for or follow.
• #Fediverse
  This comment is about the Fediverse. If you don't like it, you can filter it out. Otherwise, click it or tap it to find more content on the topic. Also, the hashtag helps people looking for content about the Fediverse find my comment.
• #Mastodon
  This comment touches Mastodon as a topic. If you don't like it, you can filter it out. Otherwise, click it or tap it to find more content on the topic. Also, the hashtag helps people looking for content about Mastodon find my comment.
• #Friendica
  This comment touches Friendica as a topic. If you don't like it, you can filter it out. Otherwise, click it or tap it to find more content on the topic, especially if you don't know what the hell is, but you're curious. Also, the hashtag helps people looking for content about Friendica find my comment.
• #Hubzilla
  This comment touches Hubzilla as a topic. If you don't like it, you can filter it out. Otherwise, click it or tap it to find more content on the topic, especially if you don't know what the hell is, but you're curious. Also, the hashtag helps people looking for content about Hubzilla find my comment.
• #Streams, #(streams)
  This comment touches (streams) as a topic. If you don't like it, you can filter it out. Otherwise, click it or tap it to find more content on the topic, especially if you don't know what the hell is, but you're curious. Also, the hashtag helps people looking for content about (streams) find my comment.
  Why two hashtags if they're the same on Mastodon Because they are not the same on Friendica, Hubzilla (again, that's where I am), (streams) itself and Forte. If I have to choose between catering to the technologies and cultures of Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte and catering to Mastodon's, I will always choose the former.
• #Forte
  This comment touches Forte as a topic. If you don't like it, you can filter it out. Otherwise, click it or tap it to find more content on the topic, especially if you don't know what the hell is, but you're curious. Also, the hashtag helps people looking for content about Forte find my comment.
• #MastodonCulture
  This comment touches Mastodon culture as a topic. If you don't like it, you can filter it out. Otherwise, click it or tap it to find more content on the topic, including critical views upon how Mastodon users try to force Mastodon's 2022 culture upon the users of Fediverse server applications that are very different from Mastodon, and that have had their own culture for much longer. Also, the hashtag helps people looking for content about Mastodon culture find my comment.
• #Hashtag, #Hashtags
  This comment touches hashtags as a topic. If you don't like it, you can filter it out. Otherwise, click it or tap it to find more content on the topic. Also, the hashtag helps people looking for content about hashtags and their implications find my comment.
  Why two hashtags Because I can't know beforehand which one of them people will filter. And because I can't know beforehand which of one of them people will search for or follow.
• #HashtagMeta
  This comment contains hashtag meta content. Some people don't want to read anything about it, not even as by-catch or boosted to them by someone whom they follow or even only on their federated timeline. They can filter either it.
• #CWHashtagMeta
  The same as above, but making clear that it's supposed to stand in for a content warning ("CW: hashtag meta").

By the way: Hashtags for triggering filters are even more important on Hubzilla in comments when Mastodon users may see them. That's because Hubzilla cannot add Mastodon-style content warnings to comments (= everything that replies to something else here on Hubzilla, it's very different from a post that isn't a reply). What's a content warning on Mastodon is still (and justifiedly so) a summary on Hubzilla. But from a traditional blogging point of view (Hubzilla can very much be used for full-fledged long-form blogging with all bells and whistles), a summary for a comment doesn't make sense. Thus, the comment editors have no summary field on Hubzilla. Thus, I can't add Mastodon-style CWs to comments here on Hubzilla.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #MastodonCulture #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta

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No, and there never will.
For one, there is no way to sync these filters not only between server instances (unless you're on Hubzilla, (streams) or Forte), but even between instances of completely different servers.
Besides, not all filters are fully compatible with one another.
On Mastodon, you can define multiple individual filters for your whole account, and they also cover hiding posts behind a generated CW. On Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, you have one filter for your entire channel with a whitelist and a blacklist, hiding posts behind a generated CW is done by a separate filter system, and in addition, you can have one individual filter with a whitelist and a blacklist for each of your contacts. It'd be quite an effort to translate back and forth between these.
On Mastodon, you can configure per filter whether the keywords in the list shall only be recognised as whole words or not. Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte use regular expressions. For one, you'd have to translate back and forth between one Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte filter with regex and multiple (and always the same) Mastodon filters. Besides, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte can do a whole lot more with regex than Mastodon can do with its settings switches (match the beginning of words, match the end of words, make characters optional etc.).
Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte also have something called "filter syntax" (which is mutually exclusive with regex, though). For example, verb == Announce in a blacklist filters out boosts. Hubzilla needs this in a filter line, but it can be used both for the whole channel and for individual contacts. (streams) and Forte have a dedicated switch for this for individual contacts, but the line doesn't have to be translated to that switch because the filter syntax line still works. But many other Fediverse server applications don't even have the capability to filter boosts out, much less filter everything out that isn't a boost which is what happens when you enter that line into a whitelist.
If, instead of syncing between instances, you could actually set up one list outside these instances, that list would only cover the common bare minimum of filter features available in all Fediverse server applications. Say buh-bye to CWs created reader-side by a keyword list. Say buh-bye to regex. Say buh-bye to filtering boosts away. Say buh-bye to letting comments and/or PMs pass through unfiltered (available on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte by using filter syntax).
Besides, as long as there is no decentralised Fediverse server application where you can host your filter list, you'd have to host it yourself. As in, either run a small Linux computer with no screen at your home 24/7 or pay for a Web server and, again, learn Linux and the command line. But any of this is moot because no Fediverse server application can pull in personal filter lists from external sources.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Filter #Filters #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte

Nintendo Direct 3/27/25 Review
Well, there's been another Nintendo Direct, yesterday it was. And while there wasn't much news on the Switch 2, one of the announcements was that there will be another Nintendo Direct on April 2, in just five days, about it.

The presenter this time was (check Wikipedia) Senior Managing Executive and Corporate Director Shinya Takahashi. He has some

Ich bin auf Hubzilla und (streams), und ich kann sagen, das ist nicht gut frs Muskelgedchtnis. Aber es ist machbar.
Von Friendica ist es natrlich sowieso ein Riesenumdenken, weil (streams) nicht einfach "Red Matrix 2.0" ist, also nicht einfach Friendica mit nomadischer Identitt. Schon als Zap 2018 entstand, wo das UI allmhlich umgebaut wurde, hatte Friendica seit sieben Jahren neue Entwickler, die schon auf die Entwicklung von Red Matrix und Hubzilla keine Rcksicht mehr nahmen.
(streams) fat jetzt fast alle Einstellungen unter Burgermen > Einstellungen zusammen. Das heit, das Herumgehhner mit den Zahnrdern oben links entfllt, wobei es /settings/features immer noch gibt und es immer noch keinen Weg ber das UI dahin gibt. Jedenfalls stellst du da auch die kanalweiten Berechtigungen ein (wobei "Kanal" keine Auswahl an Inhalten ist, die reinkommen, sondern eine Identitt, von der du auf einem Konto mehrere separate haben kannst, quasi wie mehrere Friendica-Konten, aber mit einem und demselben Login).
Gewisse Features sind optional wie Hubzilla ist auch (streams) hochgradig modular. Das heit, die wirst du erst auf der Admin-Seite als "App" aktivieren mssen und dann auf der Nutzer-Seite als "App" "installieren" mssen. Einige Sachen, die auf Hubzilla noch eine App sind, sind auf (streams) in den Kern eingebaut.
Berechtigungsrollen (Hubzilla: Kontaktrollen) sind jetzt umgekehrt standardmig zumindest fr Nutzer nicht mehr installiert, weil man die nicht mehr braucht. Auf Hubzilla sind ja Kontaktrollen zwingend notwendig, weil sie die einzige Mglichkeit sind, die Berechtigungen eines Kontakts zu steuern. Auf (streams) kannst du bei jedem Kontakt jede Berechtigung einzeln schalten Berechtigungsrollen sind einfach nur Presets, um dir das Leben leichter zu machen, wenn du bei gewissen Kontakten eh immer dasselbe einstellst.
brigens: Was "teilen" auf Friendica ist, heit auf Hubzilla und (streams) "wiederholen". "Teilen" auf Hubzilla und (streams) drfte auf Friendica "mit Zitat teilen" sein.
Ansonsten guck dir mal meine an.
Support fr (streams) gibt's bei Streams. Auerdem kannst du dich an Der Pepe (nomd) wenden, der betreibt auch zwei Hubzilla-Hubs und je einen (streams)- und Forte-Server, oder auch mal an mich. Am aktivsten bin ich hier auf Hubzilla auf (streams) findest du mich als Jupiter's Fedi-Memes on (streams) (mein Outlet fr Fediverse-Memes wenig aktiv) und Jupiter Rowland's (streams) outlet (mein Outlet fr Bilder aus OpenSim noch weniger aktiv).
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte

and it doesn't look like you can attach documents to posts

You can't on Mastodon. I could, both here on and on where I post my images.
But I wouldn't have to. Vanilla Mastodon has a character limit of 500. Hubzilla has a character "limit" that's so staggeringly high that nobody knows how high it is because it doesn't matter. (streams), from the same creator and the same software family as Hubzilla, has a character "limit" of over 24,000,000 which is not an arbitrary design decision but simply the size of the database field.
By the way: Both are in the Fediverse, and both are federated with Mastodon, so Mastodon's "all media must have accurate and sufficiently detailed descriptions" rule applies there as well unless you don't care if thousands upon thousands of Mastodon users block you for not supplying image and media descriptions.
In theory, I could publish a video of ten minutes, and in the same post, I could add a full, timestamped description that takes several hours to read. Verbatim transcript of all spoken words. Detailed description of the visuals where "detailed" means "as detailed as Mastodon loves its alt-texts" as in "800 characters of alt-text or more for a close-up of a single flower in front of a blurry background" detailed. Detailed description of all camera movements and cuts. Description of non-spoken-word noises. All timestamped, probably with over a hundred timestamps for the whole description of ten minutes of video.
Now I'm wondering if that could be helpful or actually required, or if it's overkill and actually a hindrance.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #MediaDescription #MediaDescriptions

Start the spring off right with our next live concert in the homeroutes series, suzievinnick, originally from Saskatoon now living in the Niagara region. Held in the beautiful events room BirdsCanada, come listen to some great music, grab a drink at our bar and meet some like minded people!
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To be fair, full data portability via ActivityPub has only been available in a stable release of anything for two weeks.
That was when Mike Macgirvin 's , created in mid-August of 2024 as a fork of his own and the latest member of a family of software that started in 2010 with Friendica, had its very first official stable release.
And, in fact, Forte just uses ActivityPub to do something that (streams) and its predecessors all the way to the Red Matrix from 2012 (known as Hubzilla since 2015) have been doing using the Nomad protocol (formerly known as Zot). It's called . This is technology that's over a dozen years old on software that was built around this technology from the get-go, only that it was recently ported to ActivityPub.
Now, nomadic identity via ActivityPub was 's idea. He wanted to make his nomadic. He started working in 2023. The first conversion of existing non-nomadic server software to nomadic still isn't fully done, much less officially rolled out as a stable release.
If Mastodon actually wanted to implement nomadic identity, they would first have to wait until Mitra has a first stable nomadic release. Then they would have to wait until nomadic identity on Mitra (and between Mitra and Forte) has become stable and reliable under daily non-lab conditions. (Support for nomadic identity via ActivityPub on (streams) worked nicely under lab conditions. When it was rolled out to the release branch, and existing instances upgraded to it, it blew up in everyone's faces, and it took months for things to stabilise again.)
Then they would have to look at how silverpill has done it and how Mike has done it. Then they would have to swallow their pride and decide to adopt technology that they can't present as their own original invention because it clearly isn't. And they would have to swallow their pride again and decide against making it incompatible with Mitra, Forte and (streams) just to make these three look broken and inferior to Mastodon.
And only then they could actually start coding.
Now look at how long silverpill has been working on rebuilding Mitra into something nomadic. This takes a whole lot of modifications because the concept of identity itself has to be thrown overboard and redefined because your account will no longer be your identity and vice versa. Don't expect them to be done in a few months.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Mitra #RedMatrix #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #DataPortability #NomadicIdentity This. Let me add Friendica and Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte to the list. Especially Friendica's culture is actually a whole lot older than Mastodon's culture. It was there and firmly established in 2016 when Mastodon was launched, and it was there and firmly established in 2022 when millions of Twitter refugees redefined Mastodon's culture while completely disregarding and ignoring Mastodon's already existing culture.
Also, just because something in the Fediverse that isn't Mastodon has a different culture than Mastodon, doesn't mean that its culture is wrong and needs to be corrected. It's just made for different software with different purposes and, most importantly, different features. And in this case, "different" doesn't mean "wrong" either.
There is no reason why e.g. Hubzilla absolutely must abolish its own culture (that's older than Mastodon's culture, too) and over 90% of its features along with it and fully adopt Mastodon's culture instead that's geared towards a wholly different set of features.
Many Mastodon users act somewhat like European colonists in the New World: They try hard to force the native population to give up their own "primitive"/"barbarian"/"wrong" culture and adopt their culture and their rules and their mannerisms and their beliefs. Or else!
The only difference is that the European colonists were not convinced that they were there first, and that the natives had arrived after them. For comparison, too many Mastodon users are fully convinced that not only Mastodon was there first, but that stuff from Pixelfed to Lemmy to Friendica was created after they themselves had joined Mastodon, simply because they've first heard of Pixelfed/Lemmy/Friendica only now.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #MastodonNormativity #MastodonCentricism #FediverseCulture #MastodonCulture Long Was die Suchergebnisse angeht: Wenn du auf Misskey, Iceshrimp, Sharkey oder einem anderen Misskey-Fork bist, ist das leider normal. Die Suche auf Misskey und allen Forks ist, sagen wir, nicht besonders gut. Iceshrimp.NET wird es hoffentlich besser machen, wenn es fertig ist.
Ansonsten hast du auf keiner Instanz einen berblick ber restlos das ganze Fediverse. Instanzen knnen nur das kennen, was ihre Nutzer selbst reinholen, indem sie jemandem auf einer anderen Instanz folgen. Keine Instanz, nicht mal mastodon.social, kennt alles, was im Fediverse passiert. Das ist technisch auch gar nicht mglich.
Letztlich kann es auch sein, da

• mastodon.berlin gewisse andere Instanzen blockiert hat, deine andere Instanz aber nicht
• umgekehrt deine andere Instanz gewisse andere Instanzen blockiert hat, mastodon.berlin aber nicht
• Instanzen wiederum nur mastodon.berlin oder nur deine andere Instanz blockiert haben
• einzelne Nutzer dein Konto auf mastodon.berlin und/oder dein Konto auf der anderen Instanz blockiert haben

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse Not everyone will want to offer their music on Bandwagon for money. Some may want to give it away for free for various reasons (non-commercial license, German hobbyist artists not wanting to hassle with the German tax system and GEMA etc.), and Funkwhale may not be a viable option for them. At the same time, they may not want to or even be able to pay the same prices for anything beyond basic functionality as musicians or bands who intend to actually make money with their music.
Some features should remain free for music that's offered for free. For example, it shouldn't be lossless downloads that a musician or a band has to pay for as a feature, but charging money for lossless downloads. Having everyone pay for e.g. offering FLAC downloads favours commercial artists, and the anti-capitalist parts of the Fediverse will criticise you for that.
Alternatively, you could make the license choosable from a pull-down list per song or per album or for an entire account. And when a commercial license (or any license that isn't decidedly non-commercial) is selected, certain features are greyed-out or removed unless they're paid for. At the same time, when a non-commercial license is selected, the UI elements for charging money are greyed out or removed.
Also, if you ever plan to open-source and decentralise Bandwagon, you can't expect all instances to charge the same for the same. Even if you hard-code in what must be paid for, the moment Bandwagon is open-source, there will be at least one fork where certain or all payments are not hard-coded anymore. Not only will some musicians or bands prefer that fork for their own instances, but it's even likely that public instances of such a fork will be launched.
At that point, your pricing calculation will become moot.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Bandwagon with very during for

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Something that accessibility professional are unaware of, that they're likely to deny, or that they're even likely to try and fight against:
Image description standards are vastly different in the Fediverse than on websites, in blogs, on , on Facebook, on Instagram, on Threads, on Bluesky, on LinkedIn, on TikTok and everywhere else. They were shaped by sighted Twitter-to-Mastodon converts with zero input from accessibility professionals or actually blind or visually-impaired people.
Accessibility professionals are likely to scream in agony when they see an alt-text that's over 125 characters long. Mastodon users celebrate alt-texts that are over 1,000 characters long and include tons of information that's available neither in the image nor in the post.
I guess you can actually be sanctioned by Mastodon users for a 250-character alt-text, not because it's too long, but because someone thinks it lacks some important information.
At the same time, nobody has ever criticised me for my more recent alt-texts that are either precisely 1,500 characters long or only a few characters short of 1,500. And I've hardly ever been criticised for my long image descriptions that I put directly into the post, and that tend to end up longer than several dozen Mastodon toots.
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When you read exceptional alt text, do you ever compliment its author What is the epitome of alt text, either in general terms or using a specific example

I'd really like to know that myself, also to up my own game further and always stay way ahead of image description quality requirements.
I mean, over the last two years. But I guess I can still learn something new, even if I think I already take care of everything, even if the technical possibilities I have here on Hubzilla for describing images surpass those on Mastodon by magnitudes.
Maybe, if I learn something new from those who reply, I can weave it into the image descriptions for a series of images that I've been working on since late last year (the descriptions, not the images which are ready to go).

Alt text sometimes merely explains what I am viewing other times it draws my attention to special details in a photo that I would have otherwise missed.

I never explain in alt-text. I do always explain a whole lot because I always have to explain a whole lot. For my original images, it takes me over 1,000 characters alone to explain where an image was made.
But I only ever give explanations in the long, detailed image descriptions that go into the post text body (in addition to shorter and purely visual descriptions in the alt-texts).
Or if there's no additional long image description in the post itself which is the case for my meme posts, I still supply enough explanation in the post text body (still not in the alt-text) for just about everyone in the Fediverse to understand them without having to look anything up themselves. If I can link to external information, e.g. KnowYourMeme for the template I've used, I do so. If I can't, I write the missing explanations right into the post myself.
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Auf jeden Fall noch vorm Kauf drauf achten, da das Ding nicht mit einem Supervisor-Pawort verdongelt ist. Damit wrdest du nmlich nicht in die UEFI-Konfiguration kommen, um die Bootreihenfolge zu ndern, und normal sind die Dinger so eingestellt, da als erstes vom eingebauten Festspeicher gebootet wird.
ThinkPads der T-Klasse sind sehr oft Leasingrcklufer von greren Kunden, und da ist gerne ein Supervisor-Pawort gesetzt und nie zurckgesetzt worden. Wenn die Vorbesitzer eh nur das vorinstallierte Windows genutzt haben, dann strt sie das nicht nur nicht, sondern meistens merken sie das berhaupt nicht. Und meines Wissens braucht man zum Zurcksetzen des Supervisor-Paworts einen Ltkolben.
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Das kommt auch davon, da die Mastodon-Neulinge alle am Anfang lernen, da das Fediverse nur Mastodon ist. Oder gar, da das Netzwerk Mastodon heit, und genau gar nichts ber das Fediverse.
Und dann kommt die Mastodon-Community an und verteidigt das auch noch gegen die Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer, die jedem von Anfang an erklren wollen, da das Fediverse mehr ist als nur Mastodon. Angeblich ist das bergriffig, und das berfordert die Neulinge nur, und das mssen die nicht gleich wissen, und das finden die sowieso irgendwann noch raus, blafasel.
Die Folge ist aber, da diese Mastodon-Neulinge sich in der Zwischenzeit an ein Fediverse gewhnen, in dem alles Mastodon ist. Und das wird fr sie zum Social-Media-Ideal, zum besten vorstellbaren sozialen Netzwerk. Sie fangen an, Software zu entwickeln, die in jeglicher Hinsicht nur zu Mastodon kompatibel ist. Sie ziehen Dienste auf, die auch nur mit Mastodon gehen, schreiben aber "Fedi" dran.
Allerhchstens fordern sie neue Features "im Fediverse", die buchstblich alles, was nicht Mastodon ist, schon ewig hat. Noch eher aber sind sie gegen die Einfhrung gewisser solcher Features "im Fediverse".
Dann aber erfahren sie auf die harte Tour, da das Fediverse nicht nur Mastodon ist. Also nicht, indem ihnen jemand von PeerTube und Pixelfed erzhlt, sondern indem ihnen ein Friendica-Nutzer antwortet und sich dabei keine Mhe gibt, die Antwort wie einen Mastodon-Trt aussehen zu lassen. Ein oder mehrere Teilzitate, Textformatierung und vor allem deutlich ber 1000 Zeichen.
Nicht wenige von denen drehen dann komplett frei und wollen mit Gewalt ihr Nur-Mastodon-Fediverse wiederhaben. Etwas, wovon sie weder wissen noch wahrhaben wollen, da es das nie gab. Denn "bekanntlich" hat Eugen Rochko das Fediverse erfunden.
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Was strt's den Friendica-Nutzer, wenn der Riesennode, auf dem er ist, von 8000 Mastodon-Instanzen blockiert wird, weil Friendica Mastodons Quote-Post-Opt-In/Opt-Out nicht bercksichtigt Und auf ber 700 *key-Instanzen, weil deren Admins gar nicht wissen, warum zum Fediblock dieses Node aufgerufen wurde, aber vorsichtshalber mal mitmachen
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Drkos bzw. Drukos.
Auf Friendica, Hubzilla & Co. das Teilen von Posts, das seit 2010 im Grunde die Standardmethode ist und die meiste Zeit die einzige verfgbare Methode war, um Posts an andere Leute weiterzuleiten.
Die Twitter-nach-Mastodon-Konvertiten, die aber den berwiegenden Teil der Fediverse-Nutzer ausmachen, kennen das als Quote-Tweets, aber auch nur als Methode, um Farbige, Schwule usw. auf Twitter zu drangsalieren. Das ist der einzige Verwendungszweck, den sie dafr kennen. Einen anderen knnen sie sich auch gar nicht vorstellen. Das kommt in der Twitter-Kultur so nicht vor.
Die 60% sind eben die Twitter-nach-Mastodon-Konvertiten. Und von diesen 60% "wissen" mindestens 59, da es im Fediverse keine Quote-Posts gibt. Und mindestens 35, da das Fediverse nur Mastodon ist.
Jetzt hat Mastodon die Einfhrung von Quote-Posts angekndigt. Die 60% flippen jetzt natrlich ihren Shit, vor allem die Angehrigen von Minderheiten, die auf Twitter mit Quote-Tweets drangsaliert werden.
Aaaaaber: Mastodon hat auch angekndigt, da es einen Opt-Out- oder Opt-In-Schalter fr Mastodon-Profile geben wird. Damit sollen Mastodon-Nutzer kontrollieren knnen, ob andere Mastodon-Nutzer ihre Trts quote-posten knnen oder nicht.
Wie gut kennst du Hubzilla Stell dir eine Berechtigungseinstellung "Darf meine Beitrge wiederholen und teilen" vor. Nur da Mastodon kein Berechtigungssystem hat.
Und nur da das ein Eigengezcht von Mastodon sein wird, das keinerlei Grundlage in ActivityPub hat, geschweige denn in irgendwas, was schon irgendwo implementiert ist.
Heit mit anderen Worten: Pleroma und seine Forks, Misskey und seine Forks, Friendica und seine Forks usw. usf., die werden weiterhin allesamt Trts von jedem Mastodon-Nutzer widerstandslost quote-posten knnen, egal, ob sie das qua Mastodon-Kontoeinstellungen drfen oder nicht. Weil sie gar nicht wissen knnen, ob sie das drfen oder nicht.
Auf Mastodon glaubt aber beinahe ausnahmslos jeder, dieser Opt-In oder Opt-Out ist absolut wasserdicht. Es glaubt ja auch beinahe ausnahmslos jeder, da Mastodon die erste und dann einzige Fediverse-Software sein wird mit Quote-Posts.
Wir haben im Grunde geschtzt folgende Aufteilung:

• 35%, die das Fediverse fr nur Mastodon halten.
• 15%, die schon mal von Misskey und/oder Friendica gehrt haben, sich aber nicht vorstellen knnen, da die mit Mastodon verbunden sind, weil das doch ganz was anderes ist.
• 9%, die wissen, da Misskey, Friendica & Co. mit Mastodon verbunden sind, die aber nicht wissen, da Misskey, Friendica & Co. Mastodon-Trts quote-posten knnen.
• 1%, die wissen, da andere Fediverse-Serveranwendungen Mastodon-Trts quote-posten knnen. Entweder, weil sie Leuten wie , Der Pepe (Hubzilla) und mir aufmerksam zugehrt haben, oder weil sie selbst mal was anderes als Mastodon ausprobiert haben, und zwar etwas intensiver, oder weil sie noch etwas anderes als Mastodon nebenher nutzen.
• 40%, die primr etwas anderes als Mastodon nutzen und wissen, da Quote-Posts im Fediverse eben nicht bswillig genutzt werden. Schon gar nicht ausschlielich. Und die auch ganz genau wissen, da so ein Opt-Out oder Opt-In auf Mastodon sie nicht daran hindern knnen wird, Mastodon-Trts zu quote-posten.

So, dann kommst du und teilst einfach mal einen interessanten Post von Mastodon. Was du nicht weit: Der Nutzer, der das gepostet hat, hat in seinem Mastodon-Konto eingestellt, nicht gequote-postet werden zu drfen. Kannst du nicht wissen. Kann auch Friendica nicht wissen. Aber trotzdem quote-postest du den.
Da kannst du mir glauben, der wird aber mal so richtig hart austicken. Der wird ja gar nicht wissen, da du auf Friendica bist. Woher auch Mastodon zeigt das nicht an. Und auf Mastodon geht auch keine Sau auf die lokalen Profile von Leuten und guckt, wo die sind. Keine Sau.
Zwei Dinge seien noch erwhnt. Zum einen: Wenn Friendica-, Hubzilla-, (streams)- oder Forte-Nutzer Mastodon-Trts quote-posten, werden die Trter darber benachrichtigt. Zum anderen, noch einmal: Auf Mastodon gelten Quote-Posts immer als Akt der Aggression. Immer.
Der wird also glauben, da du entweder auf einer gehackten Mastodon-Instanz bist oder auf irgendwas anderem, was explizit und mit Vorsatz so ausgelegt wurde, da es den Mastodon-Quote-Post-Opt-In/Opt-Out umgeht.
Und dann wird das Geschrei losgehen. Bestenfalls wird gefordert, einen der beiden Friendica-Hauptentwickler (also dich) zu fediblocken, also da du auf allen Fediverse-Instanzen (zumindest denen, die mitmachen), dauerhaft vom Admin gesperrt wird.
Schlimmstenfalls wird das gefordert fr den ganzen Friendica-Node, auf dem du drauf bist, also inklusive allen anderen Nutzern. Warum Weil Pirati.ca bse ist. Weil Pirati.ca Mastodon-Trts quote-posten kann, auch wenn das gar nicht erlaubt ist.
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Dann mchte ich noch einmal daran erinnern, da dereinst von einer Mastodon-Nutzerin geblockt wurde, weil die glaubte, da er ein bser Black-Hat-Hacker ist und Friendica ein bses Black-Hat-Hackertool, mit dem er sich illegalerweise und mit boshafter Intention ins Mastodon-Fediverse reingehackt hat, das von Gargron so entwickelt worden ist, da nur Mastodon-Server sich miteinander verbinden knnen.
Frag ihn. Ist in echt so passiert. Also gibt's solche Leute auch in echt.
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Another long exposure and also using the solar filter (the filter used usually to observe solar eclipses), but this time, coupled with my modified camera a camera that is tinkered with to be able to take a full-spectrum images (with the help of other filters). Again, I'm using here the Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens, which is completely manual, and the solar filter was taped to the back of the lens.
I was quite surprised for the exposure here. I was expecting something in the range of 3-5 hours because I did so with a regular camera few days prior to this, but unexpectedly, the calculated exposure time here was about 42 minutes and 50 seconds, so approximately 43 minutes. The general look here looks like a scene that I'd get from using an infrared filter on the lens with a low threshold (650700nm). It seems that the solar filter might block most of the visible (and maybe the ultraviolet) range of light, but when it comes to infrared, it is quite permissible!
-exposure Some may have moved to Bluesky because it is what they've been looking for in Mastodon: literally Twitter without Musk.
Some may have moved to other Mastodon instances.
Some may have moved to other places in the Fediverse that are not Mastodon. Maybe they needed more characters and more features and found them on Iceshrimp or Sharkey or Akkoma. Maybe they also wanted to move away from Facebook, got themselves a Friendica account, and then they discovered that a) Friendica is much more powerful, and b) you can follow Mastodon accounts from Friendica and vice versa. And they decided that their Mastodon account was now superfluous because Friendica can do just about all the same and a whole lot on top. Maybe they were even daring enough to tackle Hubzilla's massive learning curve to be rewarded with Hubzilla's massive set of features.
Either way, in the cases in the above paragraph, they couldn't mark their Mastodon accounts as moved to some other specific place, so you won't know.
Still, I think it's bad manners not to tell anyone where you've gone.
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Wow, from the year 2025: use for scripts! Apparently, typing a few extra characters will save the world from and mayhem. How did we ever survive without this wisdom

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First of all, "image description" and "alt-text" don't mean the same thing.
Alt-text is what's added directly to the image. It's what screen readers used by blind or visually-impaired people read out loud as they can't "read out loud" an image. It's what people see instead of the image if the image doesn't show for them (text-based client, too slow Internet connection, whatever).
Alt-text should never convey more information than the image which it is a replacement for.
An image description that goes into the post itself is not alt-text.
I don't see any rule or part of the "Fediquette" or "Mastodon culture" that speaks against adding that additional information to a reply.
Whether it works or not depends on whether your customers accept it or not. I guess that 99% of your aspiring customers in the Fediverse will be on Mastodon, only see your start post and not be bothered to check the replies. So my suggestion is to leave room in the original post for tellling your customers that prices can be found in a reply to that post.
But seeing as this will happen to you a lot, it may be worth looking for someplace that offers you more than 500 characters:

• a Mastodon instance with a raised character limit
• Pleroma (5,000 characters by default, configurable by the admin)
• Akkoma (5,000 characters by default, configurable by the admin)
• Misskey (3,000 characters, hard-coded just steer clear of misskey.io)
• the various forks of Misskey and forks of their forks like Iceshrimp or Sharkey (thousands of characters by default, configurable by the admin)

If you need a five-digit character count, the best you can do requires basically re-learning the Fediverse, mastering a significantly steeper learning curve and very likely abandoning dedicated apps. Here we're talking about Mike Macgirvin's creations from Friendica (200,000 characters) to Hubzilla (probably even higher) to (streams) and Forte (over 24,000,000 characters).
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta The only talk about a Discord "alternative" in the Fediverse comes from people who want 1:1 clones of all kinds of commercial stuff with an absolutely identical UX, but free and open-source and decentralised with ActivityPub.
Otherwise, for just simply chatting, including multi-user chatrooms, there are Matrix (iOS/Android: Element) and XMPP (iOS: Monal IM, Android: Conversations). They are not part of the Fediverse, but they are free, open-source and decentralised. And they are alternatives to iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp as well.
For discussion groups/forums, and very much in the Fediverse as in connected Mastodon, there are

• Lemmy (Reddit clone)
• Mbin (like Reddit, but better)
• PieFed (like Reddit, but better)
• Friendica (like Facebook, but better and more powerful)
• Hubzilla (like Facebook, but much better and much, much more powerful)
• (streams) (like Facebook, but much better and more powerful)
• Forte (like Facebook, but much better and more powerful)

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Discord #DiscordAlternative #XMPP #Jabber #Matrix #Groups #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte If the prices can be read in the image, you should add them to the alt-text. A price tag is text, and text must be transcribed.
If the prices are not in the image, they go into the post text. If you only have 500 characters, make room for them. But do not only make them available in the alt-text.
Not everyone can access alt-text. There are people with physical disabilities who cannot open an alt-text. Information that is only available in the alt-text, but neither in the post text nor in the image itself, is inaccessible and lost to them. This means that information must be in the image and the alt-text or in the post text, but never only in the alt-text.
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Hans van Zijst The Comment Control app on (streams) and Forte lets you

• disallow comments on a specific post
• limit comments on a specific post to only your approved connections
• allow comments on a specific post only until a certain date and time in the future

In addition, even without that app, you can generally limit commenting permissions to

• everyone in the Fediverse
• only your approved connections
• only you yourself plus connections whom you specifically give that permission by connection settings/permission role (for those who don't know Hubzilla and its descendants, this means that you can allow some of your mutual followers/followed to reply to you and disallow it for all your other mutual followers/followed while those who follow you without you following them back are not allowed to reply)

You can define a number of days for which people can comment on your posts after sending them.
And you still have Hubzilla's option to "moderate" comments that are, technically speaking, not allowed. (This means that you and only you see them at first. You have two buttons under them. One is for accepting them. In this case, you officially add them to the conversation, and your Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte connections will fetch it from your channel. The other one is for rejecting them which also deletes them.)
I don't think that any of this has any influence on whether someone can quote-post ("share") any of your posts or comments. That is, quote-posts are only allowed in public threads anyway. And if there was a permission for quote-posting, it would be defined by the start post for the whole thread because individual comments cannot have individual permissions.
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