Searching for Justice and the Missing
Oh, and by the way, there's another Meta Platforms product that no-one's talking about: Horizon. It's what "The Metaverse" referred to in late 2021, early 2022. Remember
There still seem to be a few thousand holding holding out there.
Interestingly, there's a free, open-source, decentralised "alternative" even for that: . Won't work on your Meta Quest, but you won't need one in the first place. You have much more land to explore, , and there's hardly any virtual world with cheaper land in combination with similar creative in-world possibilities.
It isn't part of the Fediverse, but it predates even Identi.ca, and its community has been regularly using the term "metaverse" since before Identi.ca.
Granted, the learning curve is enormous, it is very complex, and the new PBR-powered graphics come at the cost of basically requiring a machine with dedicated instead of on-board graphics hardware.
In a twist of fate, I happen to know someone who's in both, who could invite Horizon users over, hehe...
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #MetaPlatforms #Horizon #HorizonWorlds #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorldsInteresting things are going on in the Fediverse right now. And unexpected things.
See, I've always thought that when the shit hits the fan on Facebook, the Mastodon crowd would barge in and drag everyone to Mastodon, no questions asked, no explanation. And we would end up with another few million people for whom the Fediverse is only Mastodon.
I was also afraid of this happening because I know nobody who's on both Facebook and Friendica. In general, Friendica users have quit Facebook long ago, often after Facebook disrupted Friendica's Facebook connector.
Now the shit does hit the fan. But apparently, even on Mastodon, many people are becoming aware that Mastodon is not a good drop-in replacement for Facebook. And that Friendica is much closer. I mean, one of the most important features on Facebook are groups, Mastodon doesn't even know what groups are, but on Friendica, they're an integral part.
It's almost a miracle: Mastodon users are trying to guide Facebook users to Friendica. This also means it's likely that the new Friendicans will know that the Fediverse extends beyond Friendica. I mean, they'll find out anyway because Friendica indicates which server application a post or a comment comes from.
We might be getting to the point where the biggest buzz in the Fediverse quits being self-hosted GoToSocial (and that was the big buzz around New Year) and switches to the oldest surviving project in the Fediverse, not to mention something that's so very much not Twitter-style microblogging for a change.
The reason why Mastodon is so abuzz with Friendica talk is because those who try to guide Facebook users to Friendica often don't know much about Friendica themselves, and now they're shouting into the void for help, hoping that someone catches the hashtag.
I myself am not much of a Friendica expert. It's been a while since I've laid my hands on it. But: I'm connected to a lot of rank-and-file Friendica users. I think I can cover Friendica's entire core bubble in two steps or three at most.
I've succeeded in helping someone interested in Friendica by importing their post onto my stream and repeating it to my own contacts (thanks to Hubzilla introducing repeats). It definitely worked for I guess she would barely have been able to write (read this if you want to get folks off Facebook) if I hadn't stumbled upon her request for help, picked it up and forwarded it. In fact, I can be sure to always reach someone competent in Friendica this way. (Same goes for Hubzilla and (streams), but that's another story, and I could step in and assist myself, too.)
That said, I'm not too keen on manually searching for Friendica help requests and relay them one by one. I could subscribe to mastodon.social's #Friendica hashtag search feed instead. I could even try to make it a channel source and automatically relay what comes in this way to my connections. But that'd flood all that stuff onto the timelines of my hundreds of Mastodon connections as well. If it worked in the first place, because we've got a growing suspicion that this is broken currently.
So here's the shortcut: Maybe some of you Friendica users can subscribe to the #Friendica hashtag search feed on Mastodon yourself and see what's going on there. Here is the URL:
I'd ask if Friendica has per-connection filters, but the hashtag is so busy with support requests in the wake of Facebook's extra enshittification that there's hardly any cruft in-between that needs to be filtered now.
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Aber aus der Sicht von Nicht-Mastodon-Veteranen wie (Calckey) oder mir (Hubzilla), und ich knnte da noch einige mehr nennen und erwhnen, ist es aber schon mehr als nervig, wenn Mastodon-Nutzer das Fediverse mit Mastodon gleichsetzen. Es ist schlicht und ergreifend diskriminierend. Auch wenn Mastodon-Nutzer das nicht so sehen: Es ist diskriminierend.
Und wer sagt: "Ist doch scheiegal, ob man jetzt 'Fediverse' oder Mastodon sagt, und jetzt haltet eure Klappen", ist Teil des Problems. Erst recht, wer versucht, die Nicht-Mastodon-Teile des Fediverse dazu zu zwingen, genau wie Mastodon zu sein. Auch das passiert stndig.
Wenn es dich strt, da Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer auf die Existenz des Fediverse auerhalb von Mastodon hinweisen und sich dagegen einsetzen, das Fediverse mit Mastodon gleichzusetzen, dann schalte sie stumm. Oder blockiere sie. Dann hast du deine Ruhe.
Aber sage ihnen nicht, sie sollen ruhig sein. Das ist nicht nur diskriminierend, sondern das fordert das Recht auf Diskriminierung ein.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta Erstellt hat er es definitiv nicht.
ist einer der verbissensten Prediger, da das Fediverse nicht nur Mastodon ist. Sieh genau hin: Er selbst ist gar nicht auf Mastodon, sondern auf dem Misskey-Fork Calckey. Er begrt Neuankmmlinge auf Mastodon immer damit, ihnen sofort zu erklren, da das Fediverse nicht nur Mastodon ist.
Warum sollte ausgerechnet er ein Fediverse-Nutzerverzeichnis starten und es "Mastodir" nennen Das wrde implizieren, da "Fediverse" und "Mastodon" deckungs- und bedeutungsgleich wren. Genau das Gegenteil von dem, was er nicht mde wird, Mastodon-Nutzern zu erklren.
Statt dessen drngt er unablssig die eigentlichen Schpfer und Betreiber dazu, "Mastodir" in "Fedidir" umzubenennen, weil es eben nicht nur Mastodon-Konten enthlt, sondern potentielle Kontakte aus dem ganzen Fediverse.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NichtNurMastodon #FediDir Fun facts:
diaspora* was there before Google+. In fact, Google+ was an all-out diaspora* ripoff in several ways. Google's UI style from the early 2010s on Stolen from diaspora*. The "circles" which everyone claims Google has invented for Google+ Ripoffs of diaspora*'s "aspects". Nobody noticed because almost nobody knew diaspora*.
Also, it took diaspora* four developers, some $200,000 of crowdfunding and some six months (May to November, 2010) to release a very rudimentary, very unfinished alpha version of something rather basic in functionality.
Meanwhile, Mike Macgirvin , experienced developer of some three decades, needed four months (March to July, 2010), no crowdfunding and no help by anyone else to develop and release another free, open-source, decentralised, federated Facebook alternative which was more stable and more mature than diaspora* was in November, and which was a whole lot more powerful at that point already than diaspora* is today.
It was originally named Mistpark, renamed Friendika in late 2010, and since early 2012, it has been known by the name . It still exists today .
Friendica has everything that a Facebook alternative needs, e.g.:
On top of this, Friendica has features which neither diaspora* nor Mastodon can offer. For example, Friendica can just as well be used as a full-blown blogging platform with just about all features blog posts should have. Also, Friendica has a file space built into each account, complete with a file manager, that's also useful for uploading and storing images to embed into posts.
Friendica's main killer feature, however, is its connectivity. Next to its own DFRN protocol, it quickly supported native connectivity to e.g. StatusNet, Tumblr, Twitter (no, I'm not kidding), Libertree, via e-mail, a WordPress crossposter and an RSS/Atom feed aggregator. In spring 2011, Friendica single-handedly established full, bidirectional federation with diaspora* which, at that point, didn't have any documentation on its internal protocol, much less an API. For a short while in the early 2010s, Friendica could even bidirectionally connect to Facebook. I'm still not kidding. I was there back then.
And, of course, Friendica is a full-fledged member of the Fediverse. For as long as Mastodon has existed, Friendica has been fully federated with it, first via OStatus, later via ActivityPub. Mastodon users can even join Friendica groups.
The primary Facebook alternative in the Fediverse is not Mastodon. It is Friendica. Always has been.
Oh, and Friendica wasn't the end of the journey. Mike passed it on to its community in early 2012, and he has created a boatload of increasingly advanced forks and forks of forks.
In 2011, Mike solved the problem of Friendica users losing everything when their home node shut down by inventing () and designing the Zot protocol.
The reason why he handed Friendica over to the community in 2012 was so that he could fork it and concentrate on completely rewriting it against Zot, thus creating Red, later the same year renamed into the Red Matrix.
In 2015, the Red Matrix was renamed into () and redesigned into what's still the most feature-rich Fediverse software. Hubzilla is where I post from.
Hubzilla was handed over to the community in 2018 when Mike went on to develop even newer iterations of Friendica's concept, without many of Hubzilla's extra features, without most of Friendica's and Hubzilla's extra connectivity, but still nomadic, built on top of newer and newer versions of Zot and adapted to more and more recent states of the Fediverse itself.
Along with this development, new features emerged like which was backported to Hubzilla in 2020. It manages to get your login on one server instance recognised by other instances and ties into the advanced, fine-grained permissions system available since Red.
The newest stable server application, still by Mike, is from October, 2021. It's officially and intentionally nameless, brandless and released into the public domain, and colloquially, it is named after its code repository: . It is based on the most recent incarnation of the protocol now known as Nomad, and in addition, it supports Hubzilla's Zot6 as well as ActivityPub. In fact, it was the first Fediverse server application with (rather experimental in practice) support nomadic identity via ActivityPub.
But Mike already has the next incarnation in the making, although it's still so experimental that only he is using it and even that only with a semi-secret channel: is a direct fork of the streams repository. It only supports ActivityPub which means that it is the first Fediverse software that relies on ActivityPub for nomadic identity. Otherwise, it's the same as (streams).
In fact, Mike's vision is for the Fediverse of 2030 to be shaped by his creations. Nomadic, safe, secure, resilient and with no arbitrary limitations.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #FacebookAlternative #diaspora* #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #NomadicIdentity #OpenWebAuth I've let AI describe two of my images. After I've described them myself, each one twice even. It was just to see what'd happen.
The results were about as pathetic as expected. What the AI whipped up was incomplete and inaccurate. It wasn't even a match for my short descriptions which I had written for the alt-texts, much less for my long descriptions which went directly into the posts.
Maybe AI can describe a cat photo (and I've seen it fail even at that task). But AI will never be as good at describing images showing extremely obscure niche content as someone who really knows that particular niche topic inside-out. And I'm not even talking about explaining images in addition to describing them.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #AI #AIVsHuman #HumanVsAI On , and (still highly experimental and thus not quite public yet) Forte, you do, and you can. Along with the conversations they're in, along with your contacts, settings, filters, files etc. etc., basically everything that makes up your channel.
The magic that has made this possible for some twelve years already, longer than Mastodon has been around, is called see also the brand-new site.
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Fair warning ahead: Not only is none of this Mastodon, but none of this is based on Mastodon, and none of this is developed for Mastodon. Handling of groups listed on either of these may be a bit less than straight-forward and self-explanatory if Mastodon is all you're used to, also because Mastodon has no built-in support whatsoever for actual Fediverse groups.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #FediverseGroups #FediGroups #Groups #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #FediTipsScott M. Stolz But in order for Mastodon users to understand why you've just replied to their reply, they have to know two things.
One, that you are on Hubzilla. And not on Mastodon. A logo could solve this.
But two, that Hubzilla is not a Mastodon instance. And not a Mastodon fork either. That Hubzilla works vastly differently from Mastodon. And that this is not a bug, but an intentional design feature. That there is stuff in the Fediverse outside of Mastodon, fully federated with Mastodon, that nonetheless does not work exactly like Mastodon.
Now keep in mind that poll where three out of four voters declared that they had never even heard of the existence of Hubzilla before that poll. This poll was obviously held in a bubble in which more people than average know about Hubzilla, so the real figures have to be even more extreme.
And, again, just because someone has heard the name "Hubzilla" or seen the logo somewhere, doesn't mean they know what it is and how it works.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Hubzilla The issue goes a little bit deeper. Not everyone who replies is a reply guy.
But if you reply to someone, and that someone hasn't mentioned you in whatever you want to reply to, and you aren't mutually connected to that someone, then you may be seen as a reply guy. That's because, under these circumstances, that someone's post could not possibly have reached you on Mastodon. Allegedly.
This is already so simplified that it takes boosts out of the equation.
On Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, however, you're automatically served content that you'd have to go look for on Mastodon. Particularly replies.
On these four, a thread is not piecemeal loosely tied together, Twitter-style. On these four, a thread is an enclosed object with always exactly one post at the top and any number of comments. And if you have the post in your timeline/stream/whatever, you also receive all comments, at least all that come in after you've received the post. To the point of being notified about unread comments under a post, even though the commenters haven't mentioned you, and you aren't connected to any of the commenters. And in fact, Friendica is the only one out of the bunch that hasn't implemented conversation containers yet.
This entire behaviour, however, is largely unknown in the Fediverse. The majority of Mastodon users think the Fediverse is only Mastodon. For most of the rest, everything that isn't Mastodon still works like Mastodon because how could it possibly be any different And besides, hardly anyone on Mastodon even notices if something does not come from Mastodon.
So if I comment on some Mastodon user's comment on a post from one of my contacts, that Mastodon user may take me for another Mastodon user who has found their comment by searching mastodon.social and then manually importing it into my timeline. For them, there's no other way I could possibly have discovered it, seeing as I don't follow them, and they haven't mentioned me. And before I know it, I'm either blocked, or that user calls the mods, none of whom really knows anything about the Fediverse about Mastodon either.
I'm genuinely surprised that I haven't found a single Mastodon instance yet that has a substantial number of Friendica nodes and Hubzilla hubs blocked because they behave too un-Mastodon-like and completely against Mastodon culture.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Conversations
Interesting, however, how Hubzilla and (streams) count as parts of the Threadiverse now.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NLnet #Node9 #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)In case you haven't read that yet: This month, node9.org -) open culture sustainable media is in for a grant from for automated deployment of nodes and instances. I do hope this gives especially (streams) the push it deserves, seeing as it barely has any public instances anymore.
Interesting, however, how Hubzilla and (streams) count as parts of the Threadiverse now.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NLnet #Node9 #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)I think the list can be made more useful for showing it to Mastodon users who have never heard of Hubzilla, especially those who are fully convinced that Mastodon is the bee's knees.
I'm not sure if the line "Social Media" is appropriate. "Social media" usually refers to stuff like Twitter, but Hubzilla is nothing like Twitter. Hubzilla is more of a "social network" which is something like Facebook, but Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads aren't that.
One line that I think is really missing is "Character Limit".
Another three lines that could be useful:
"Polls" could have a number of maximum options which is unlimited on Hubzilla and 4 on Mastodon.
"Multiple Channels per Account" should rather be "Multiple Separate Identities per Account" because people who don't know Hubzilla don't know what "channel" means on Hubzilla. It means something totally different on Friendica, for example.
Likewise, "Block Channels" should be "Block Actors" or something else that everyone understands.
"Applications (Apps)" should be "Add-ons that can be activated by users" or something. When a Mastodon or Bluesky or Threads user reads "apps", they think of something that you can install on your phone.
The X for Hubzilla under Lists/Feeds makes it look like it's impossible to organise connections into groups and send posts only to a certain group on Hubzilla. Also, it looks like Mastodon has invented that feature. But Hubzilla has something like Mastodon's lists: privacy groups. I'd suggest to split this up and also add a line, "Posts Visible Only to Specific Groups of People".
"Prevent Replies to Your Posts" appears to have an explanation somewhere, but it doesn't.
Maybe you could add "WebDAV" under "Files (Cloud Storage)", "CalDAV Server" under "Events / Calendar" and "CardDAV Server", marked optional, under that.
Under "Networks and Protocols", there should be two lines for feeds. One could be "Built-in Feeds" (Hubzilla: yes, Atom Mastodon: yes, RSS), one could be "Subscribe to Feeds" (Hubzilla: yes, Mastodon: no).
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Mastodon #Threads #Bluesky You can't. It's impossible without external tools. But you don't have to.
FediMeteo offers Fediverse actors for specific towns and cities which you can follow from Mastodon.
Open . Scroll all the way down. There you'll find links for eight nations: , , , , , , and . FediMeteo is only available for these eight nations.
If you're living in one of these nations, click the link for your home nation. A new page will open with an explanation what FediMeteo is and a list of towns and cities supported by FediMeteo.
If your hometown or a place that's close enough to your hometown is on the list, copy the address of the link to your hometown or that nearby place. Paste it into Mastodon's search. Mastodon should find it and offer you a Follow button.
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OpenSim is similar to Second Life and largely based on the same technology, and it basically uses third-party Second Life viewers because it doesn't have any of its own.
Second Life's learning curve is already intimidating because it's extremely versatile and powerful, and it's very different from what one may be used to from other virtual worlds or MMORPGs. OpenSim's learning curve adds even more on top with even less documentation and no tutorials or mentors whatsoever because the general assumption is that everyone who joins OpenSim has been in Second Life before anyway.
Also, like Second Life, OpenSim is not kind to underpowered hardware. And since the introduction of physically-based rendering with OpenSim 0.9.3.0 and especially Firestorm 7, it isn't worth bothering if you've got on-board graphics or a machine that's over 10 years old. That is, unless you want to stick with Firestorm 6.6.17 (which has at least one known bug that's fixed in Firestorm 7) for all eternity, and even that won't guarantee you smooth FPS.
But look at in-world pictures from Second Life or OpenSim, then look at in-world pictures from virtual worlds made for stand-alone VR headsets such as Horizons, and judge yourself what's looking better. And, for example, my main OpenSim machine is on 2018's mid-range level with a six-core, twelve-thread Ryzen, 16GB of RAM and a Radeon RX 590 with 8GB of VRAM. It's actually faster with Firestorm 7 than with Firestorm 6 because Firestorm 7's multi-threading support removed a nasty bottleneck.
OpenSim does have its advantages. It's fairly easy to build in-world once you've gotten the hang of it. No need to build entire scenes in external editors, export them, convert them etc.
Land is dirt-cheap in comparison with most other virtual worlds. It is not tied to NFTs because OpenSim entirely works without blockchains, without cryptocurrencies and without NFTs. For example, in Second Life, a standard region of 256x256m costs you about $250 a month or more. Many OpenSim grids offer you the same size of land for $10 a month or cheaper. Another example would be 's , the grid with the most monthly active users and one of the two largest grids in terms of landmass. Its default land offering is one sim the size of 16 Second Life standard regions, 1024x1024m, for under $40, depending on the configuration. Some places even offer smaller parcels for free to residents.
You can also create your own land: Some grids let you attach self-hosted sims. , the oldest grid and the other one of the two biggest, doesn't even offer land rentals and only lets its residents attach sims. And you can even run your own grid.
It's hard to wander around Second Life and see everything, also because it's constantly changing. But the Hypergrid has more than four times Second Life's landmass, and both OSgrid and Wolf Territories are larger than Second Life, so you've got even more to explore. (The obvious downside has to be Empty World Syndrome: You're less likely to encounter other avatars unless you go to an in-world event.)
Also, almost all content in OpenSim is free. That is, admittedly, the huge majority of that free content was and is still being pirated from Second Life, many users defend this content piracy, and it's often hard to tell whether something is legal or not. But there are still idealists who try to get as far as they can with only legal content, and some of them still create their own content.
Unfortunately, OpenSim doesn't have an active community in the Fediverse. It's mostly Lone Wolf who occasionally advertises for his grid, unfortunately with no hashtags, Mal Burns announcing videos under , again with no hashtags, and a small bunch of French users. There's also grid owner who also represents her grid on PeerTube under , but I haven't heard of her in the Fediverse in a while.
Lastly, fair warning: I strongly advise against having an underage-looking avatar in OpenSim. If you have one, you will automatically and unavoidably be considered a paedophile, and you will be barred from a whole lot of places.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSgrid #WolfTerritories #WolfTerritoriesGrid #Groovyverse Das Fediverse ist sehr viel mehr als nur Mastodon. Vor allem ist das Fediverse sehr viel mehr als nur ein Twitter-Klon fr Microblogging.
Beispielsweise gibt es da auch Alternativen zu Facebook, etwa . Genau wie Facebook hat auch Friendica . Und obwohl du auf Mastodon bist, kannst du von da aus einer Gruppe z. B. auf Friendica beitreten und darin teilnehmen.
Noch grer ist das "Threadiverse", was der Sammelbegriff fr die Reddit-"Klone" im Fediverse ist, insbesondere , Mbin und PieFed. Fr Lemmy-Communities (entsprechen Subreddits) gibt es auch . Auch mit denen kann man sich von Mastodon aus verbinden, auch wenn es etwas holprig ist.
Kleine Warnung vielleicht: Generell ist das Erstellen neuer Threads von Mastodon aus in beiden Fllen nicht sehr intuitiv, wenn man bisher praktisch nur Mastodon kennt. Das wird auch dadurch erschwert, da Mastodon keinerlei Untersttzung fr Gruppen in irgendeiner Form hat und gar nicht wei, was das ist. Aber es geht, wenn man wei wie. Und das Anlegen ganz neuer Gruppen/Communities geht nur "vor Ort", nicht von Mastodon aus.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Gruppen #Facebook #Friendica #Reddit #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed Ich glaube, gerade Volt versucht, junge Leute da zu erreichen, wo die eigene Generation ist. Die allermeisten jungen Leute haben aber noch nie vom Fediverse oder auch nur von Mastodon gehrt, und wenn, ist es ihnen nicht cool und trendy genug.
Dabei knnte gerade Volt anderen Parteien ein ganzes Stck voraus sein und direktweg eine eigene Instanz von z. B. aufziehen, die dann mehr sein kann als ein Drop-in-Ersatz fr . Die deutsche Piratenpartei hat , der wohl die einzige Nicht-Mastodon-Fediverse-Instanz einer politischen Partei weltweit sein drfte. Und den hatte sie schon, bevor es Mastodon berhaupt gab.
Derweil ist fr die Parteien, die es schon zu Adenauers Zeiten gab, das Internet weiterhin immer noch Neuland.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Friendica #Volt #DEPol I'm not a big psychological or political talker. And this Hubzilla channel of mine is not my personal, all-purpose channel it's actually specialised on two topics, neither of which is politics or psychology.
But especially radical leftists appear to be very emotional, very impulsive and far from reason. They want their extreme solutions for everything, they want them now, and they're unwilling to compromise. They see themselves as the most tolerant people in the world, and yet, they consider any and all opinions and worldviews different from their own fascist.
The primary topic of this channel is a free and open-source system of 3-D virtual worlds. I know a lot of alternative leftists in these worlds, but I used to know a guy who really took the cake. For example, he boycotted the entire World-Wide Web for a while in favour of Geminispace, and he tried to push everyone whom he knew into Geminispace as well, just because of commercial, corporate advertising on the World-Wide Web.
One particular aspect about these worlds is that there's no general economy across all these worlds, and most don't have any economy. Most content is free. But in some worlds, it's possible to acquire content for currencies which can be exchanged with real-life money.
I remember one event where we where, where I mentioned some cool content which, however, is payware. This guy was immediately triggered into yelling out into the local chat, "ALERTA ALERTA ANTIFASCISTA!" He basically considered the existence of payware in our worlds deeply fascist.
In general, he did not tolerate any opinions that weren't his own. Whenever he didn't like something, he was basically eager to go onto a crusade against it. And whenever he did like something, he wanted to convince everyone of it as without alternatives.
Our home grid is led by a couple of mild anarchists, both not the youngest anymore, but even they compared his attitude to the Red Army Faction, an extremist leftist terrorist group that was active in Germany especially in the 1970s and 1980s. Particularly the "second generation" which, starting in 1975, was just senselessly brutal to the point of alienating those German leftists who had previously been in support of the RAF.
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And for your average Musk escapees, Mastodon alone is more than sufficiently advanced. These people believe that there's some magic going on that makes their fully public posts private and secure regardless. They want perfect security, but with zero inconvenience, and they think Mastodon provides them with exactly this.
In fact, they expect Mastodon to be an absolutely perfectly safe haven, simply because it isn't a corporate silo. Little do they know how close to being a corporate silo Mastodon is, what with having a US-based company and a lighthouse instance that accounts for 22% of the whole Fediverse in terms of MAUs.
On top of that, more than half of all Mastodon users think the Fediverse is only Mastodon, and most of the rest can't imagine that anything in the Fediverse could possibly have features that Mastodon doesn't have. Not unless you slap them right into their faces like character limits over 500.
They cling hard to and rely on an imagination of the Fediverse that has never even been close to reality and never will.
As for The Bad Space, its blocklist looks like it's curated not by evidence, but by emotional triggers. Generally, some blocklists go so wild that you have to ask yourself whether the reason why nobody has tried to block out everything that isn't vanilla Mastodon is because that'd be too big an effort (two out of three Fediverse instances aren't Mastodon), or whether such people simply don't know how far the Fediverse extends beyond Mastodon, so they don't know what to block. I mean, there should be reasons enough to block everything that isn't Mastodon.
Blocklist import from other instances doesn't make things any better. Just like on all networks where everyone can run a server, the Fediverse, especially Mastodon, has got admins who really shouldn't run a server. It looks very tempting to pick blocklists by length rather than content, the longer, the more "secure", import a bunch of them, but not curate them because that'd be extra effort.
In this light, it's a good thing that when switching from manual list curation to automated list aggregation a while ago. Especially tier 3 would have been easy to exploit with little to no curation, and there certainly were enough sufficiently paranoid Mastodon admins who'd subscribe to tier 3 without ever taking a single peek at the list.
Sometimes I feel like going to Mastodon's GitHub repository and submitting blocking or allowing entire Fediverse server applications by user agent, both for admins and for users, as a feature request, just to see what'll happen. Maybe dumbed down on the user side to a switch that blocks everything that isn't Mastodon. But maybe I should also mention that (streams) already has this feature on the admin side so that the Mastodon devs have to think up a way to sell this as invented by Mastodon.
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The MIT license is compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines which means that software under the MIT license is allowed into main on Debian and not forced into non-free. It is approved both by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, and it is compatible with the GPL.
In other words, both Debian and the FSF have officially declared the MIT license a free license.
It is possible and legal by license to pass your MIT-licensed software on to your user community so they can maintain and develop it, and then for the new developers to re-license your MIT-licensed software under the GPL. Exactly this has happened to Friendica.
Mike Macgirvin knew that the Friendica community wanted to re-license Friendica under the GPL. It wasn't a secret. (Proof: the short-lived Free-Friendika fork from very early 2012 that was created for there to always be an MIT-licensed Friendika.)
Also, both the X Window System, the Wayland protocol and the Sway window manager are MIT-licensed. X11 actually has its own variant of the MIT license. curl is MIT-licensed. Both Gitea and GitLab are MIT-licensed. Linux From Scratch is MIT-licensed. The XMPP server Prosody is MIT-licensed. And Ruby on Rails, which Mastodon is built with, is MIT-licensed, too, as is Rust.
The MIT license allows for just the same liberties as all variantes of GPLv2 and GPLv3, but without the restrictions that make all GPL variants viral.
You may argue that the GPLv3 is literally the only free license that has ever existed because all derivatives of GPL-licensed material are automatically GPL-licensed themselves and therefore free software when published.
I'm more on the side that the MIT license is actually freer than any versions and flavours of the GPL because it does not have any such restrictions and grants more liberties.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #MITLicense #GPL Kleiner Hinweis: Der Crash der Schwarzen Witwe an der Kreuzung war ein echter Unfall. Die Szene, in der der Konvoi zgig ber diese Kreuzung kurven sollte, war eigentlich entworfen fr leere Laster mit tiefem Schwerpunkt, und alle anderen Laster im Film waren leer. Die Schwarze Witwe hatte als einzige auf ihrem Laster Ladung, weil ein leerer Flachauflieger bld ausgesehen htte. Damit war der Schwerpunkt aber fr die schnelle Kurvenfahrt zu hoch.
Die Szene, wo der Laster umkippt, hat man kurzerhand dringelassen, obwohl sie eigentlich fr die Handlung sogar hinderlich war. Aber zu Actionfilmen gehren eben spektakulre Crashszenen, und da haben sie einen Crash frei Haus geliefert bekommen. Die Stelle, wo die Schwarze Witwe sich nach dem Crash ber den Laster beschwert, ist genauso geadlibt wie fast alle anderen Dialoge im Film.
Im Originalton heit die Schwarze Witwe brigens "Widow Woman", und im Drehbuch ist sie nicht ausdrcklich schwarz. Sie wurde nur eben von Madge Sinclair gespielt, die zufllig schwarz war.
Spider Mike wiederum sollte von vornherein den Stereotyp des "armen Niggers" bedienen, der als Fernfahrer mit Familie sowenig Geld zur Seite schaffen kann, da er immer noch eine Zugmaschine aus den 60ern fhrt. Genau dieser Stereotyp war damals in den spten 70ern im lndlichen Sden der USA noch allgegenwrtig.
Genauso allgegenwrtig war da auch der Rassismus bis hin zu rassistischen Polizisten, wie der Sheriff von Alvarez sie verkrpert. Guck dir den Film mal aufmerksam an und achte mal drauf, wie Lyle Wallace reagiert, als er sieht, wie der Sheriff von Alvarez Spider Mike zugerichtet hat. Der sollte Spider Mike eigentlich nur rausziehen und inhaftieren, aber nicht zu Mus prgeln.
Das war also Absicht. Und die Absicht war, den damals allgegenwrtigen Rassismus anzuprangern, ebenso wie die brutale Selbstjustiz, zu denen damals schon Kleinstadtsheriffs neigten (siehe auch Rambo oder Flashback).
Lyle ist brigens kein Rassist. Er hat nur Trucker, und zwar alle. Er stellt ihnen Fallen und lockt sie dann mit schmutzigen Tricks rein, was wahrscheinlich auch in den USA und speziell in Arizona illegal sein drfte. Der Grund, warum er Spider Mike am Anfang des Films sein ganzes Bargeld abknpft, ist, weil Mike eine groe Klappe hat.
berhaupt mag ich die Charaktere in dem Streifen.
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Doch, der Vergleich geht sehr wohl. Und ich werde darber noch einen Post schreiben.
Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer sind im Fediverse nmlich lngst real marginalisiert. Wie gesagt: Nur weil reine oder weit berwiegende Mastodon-Nutzer das nicht sehen, heit das nicht, da es nicht passiert.
Es ist nicht okay, jemanden wegen Hautfarbe, Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung oder Behinderung zu marginalisieren. Viele Weie bzw. Cishet-Personen tun das aber unbewut, und einige tun das mit voller Absicht.
Aber es ist ebensowenig okay, jemanden dafr zu marginalisieren, wo er oder sie im Fediverse ist. Viele Mastodon-Nutzer tun das aber unbewut, und einige tun das mit voller Absicht.
Frag den Calckey-Nutzer . Dem hat mal ein Mastodon-Nutzer gesagt, er solle geflligst seine Posts auf maximal 500 Zeichen limitieren oder sich aus dem Fediverse verpissen.
Auch ich bin schon so manches Mal angepampt worden, weil meine Posts ber 500 Zeichen lang sind, und davon auch so manches Mal direkt danach blockiert worden.
Frag den Friendica-Nutzer . Den hat mal eine Mastodon-Nutzerin blockiert, ganz einfach, weil er nicht auf Mastodon war. Sie dachte, er sei ein bser Hacker und Friendica ein bses Hackertool, mit dem er sich verbotenerweise ins Mastodon-Fediverse reingehackt habe.
Guck dir die ganzen Entwicklungen an, die "Fedi" oder "Fediverse" im Namen haben, die aber knallhart ausschlielich gegen Mastodon gebaut sind und deren Entwickler keinen Bock haben, daran was zu ndern.
Klar, jetzt knnte man sagen: Die Hautfarbe kann man nicht whlen. Auch eine Behinderung kann man nicht wegwhlen. Man kann sich selbst auch nicht dazu zwingen, cisgender oder heterosexuell zu sein. Man kann aber die Fediverse-Software jederzeit frei whlen. Von daher hinkt der Vergleich ganz gewaltig.
Das hiee: Man knnte selbst dafr sorgen, da man im Fediverse akzeptiert und nicht marginalisiert wird, indem man einfach wie die gewaltige Mehrheit Mastodon nutzt und nicht irgendwas anderes. Man kann es ja frei whlen, was man nutzt.
Nur knnte man dann eben nicht mehr frei whlen, was man nutzt, wenn man akzeptiert werden will. Wenn man akzeptiert werden will, htte man zu Mastodon, und zwar Vanilla-Mastodon mit 500-Zeichen-Limit, keine Alternative mehr.
Viele von uns wollen Mastodon aber eben gerade nicht nutzen, weil ihnen da essentielle Features fehlen wrden, die sie auch fr mehr Akzeptanz nicht bereit wren aufzugeben.
Da kann und sollte man als Mastodon-Nutzer nicht einfach mit der Schulter zucken und sagen: "Ja, dann seid ihr eben selber schuld, wenn ihr gemobbt und diskriminiert werdet." Ebensowenig kann man als Mastodon-Nutzer weiterhin mit der Schulter zucken und sagen: "Ich sehe nicht, da ihr irgendwo diskriminiert werdet, also sind das nur Hirngespinste, und niemand mu irgendwas anders machen."
Statt dessen mu generell damit aufgehrt werden, das Fediverse als nur Mastodon zu verkaufen. Auch in Medien mit mehr Reichweite. Auch Neulingen gegenber, damit die sich von vornherein daran gewhnen, da einige Leute im Fediverse Sachen nutzen, die total anders sind als Mastodon, und das vllig normal ist. Jeder sollte auch wissen, da das Fediverse auch nicht mit Mastodon anfing.
Neuentwicklungen im Fediverse, von denen das ganze Fediverse profitieren knnte, drfen nicht mehr nur gegen Mastodon gebaut werden, sondern sie mssen projektneutral gestaltet werden.
Das Fediverse braucht wieder eine neue Kultur. Die Kultur von 2022, die nur Vanilla-Mastodon bercksichtigt, mu ersetzt werden durch eine, die alles bercksichtigt.
Niemand darf mehr dafr attackiert werden, Posts zu schreiben, die auf Vanilla-Mastodon so nicht mglich sind (ber 500 Zeichen, Textformatierung, Listen etc.). Niemand darf mehr dafr attackiert werden, auf Posts oder Kommentare zu reagieren, die der- oder diejenige aus Mastodon-Sicht nicht auf natrlichem Wege htte empfangen knnen.
Quote-Posts mssen als unverrckbarer Teil der Fediverse-Kultur anerkannt werden. Auch wenn Mastodon sie nicht hat: So ziemlich alles, was nicht Mastodon ist, hat sie. Jetzt. Das Fediverse hatte schon Quote-Posts fnfeinhalb Jahre, bevor es Mastodon gab. So ziemlich alles, was nicht Mastodon ist, kann auch jederzeit Mastodon-Trts quote-posten. Und es sollte auch anerkannt und akzeptiert werden, da eine mastodoneigene, mastodoninterne, auf keinem Standard aufbauende Opt-Out- oder Opt-In-Funktion nicht fediverseweit funktionieren kann und wird.
Die Fediverse-Kultur darf keine Funktionen zwingend erforderlich machen, die Nicht-Mastodon-Anwendungen evtl. nicht haben. Beispielsweise CWs la Mastodon in Kommentaren, die von Hubzilla kommen. Oder "Unlisted", das es auch lngst nicht berall gibt.
Die Fediverse-Kultur darf keine Funktionen oder Features verteufeln, die Mastodon nicht hat. Beispielsweise Posts mit mehr als 500 Zeichen oder Zusammenfassungen in dem, was auf Mastodon das CW-Feld ist, oder Textformatierung oder Posts mit eingebetteten Bildern, die auf Mastodon "komisch" aussehen, weil die Bilder eben nicht mehr eingebettet sind.
Die Fediverse-Kultur mu aufhren, Mastodon als den Standard anzusehen und danach zu agieren. Und nein, Nutzerzahlen definieren keinen Standard. Nein, tun sie wirklich nicht.
Die Fediverse-Kultur mu aufhren, alles, was nicht wie (auf) Mastodon ist, als entweder kaputt oder falsch oder bse darzustellen.
Und jeder Mastodon-Nutzer, der sich jetzt in eine Defensivposition begibt, um Mastodon und die mastodon-normative Fediverse-Kultur zu verteidigen, ist aktiver Teil des Problems.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NichtNurMastodon #Diskriminierung Es ist doch immer so.
Irgendjemand auf Mastodon behauptet aus felsenfester berzeugung, das Fediverse sei nur Mastodon oder sogar, wie hier, Mastodon sei das einzige dezentrale soziale Netzwerk, das je existiert hat.
Sich darber beklagen tun nur Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer. Von den Mastodon-Nutzern wei es mindestens eine Hlfte auch nicht besser, und der Rest strt sich nicht an der Aussage.
Und wenn sich Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer darber beklagen und mit Widerworten kommen, heit es von den Mastodon-Nutzern gerne: "Ist doch scheiegal, reg dich nicht auf, ist doch nicht so schlimm, wieso berhaupt die Aufregung"
Wohlgemerkt, von beiden Sorten von Mastodon-Nutzern. Die einen haben gerade eben erst von den Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzern zum allerersten Mal berhaupt davon gehrt, da das Fediverse noch was anderes sein soll als Mastodon. Den anderen ist alles, was nicht Mastodon ist, einfach scheiegal.
Und dann gibt's da noch die Mastodon-Fundamentalisten. Die halten gerne wacker dagegen. Die einen tun das aus Rechthaberei, um zu verhindern, da diese Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer sie ungefragterweise eines Besseren belehren. Das nennt man nmlich auch "Fedisplaining". Die anderen tun das, damit das Fediverse um sie herum zumindest gefhlt weiterhin nur Mastodon bleibt. Zwischen den beiden Gruppen gibt es eine groe Schnittmenge.
Da werden Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer schon mal angegriffen. Da wird schon mal behauptet, da es die Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer seien, die falsch lgen, und ja, es gbe tatschlich ein in sich geschlossenes "Mastodon-Netzwerk", und schlimmstenfalls sogar, das Fediverse wre per definitionem tatschlich nur Mastodon, weil Eugen Rochko das doch erfunden hat und so weiter. Und es wird fleiig stummgeschaltet und blockiert in verzweifelten Versuchen, die Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer fediverseweit mundtot zu machen.
Leider ist es tatschlich so: Je reichweitenstrker und einflureicher Mastodon-Nutzer sind, desto weniger scheren sie sich um das Fediverse auerhalb von Mastodon. Es gibt Fediverse-"Influencer" und Leute, die sehr viel im Fediverse ber "das Fediverse" schreiben, die laufend so tun, als sei das Fediverse nur Mastodon. Da kann man dagegen kommentieren, soviel man will, die machen damit so weiter.
Inzwischen ist es im Fediverse fr Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer hnlich wie fr Schwarze, Schwule oder Transpersonen. Im Fediverse gilt der weie Cishet-Mann auf Mastodon als der Standard. Und wenn z. B. Schwarze oder Schwule, aber auch Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer von sowohl Unterdrckungstendenzen als auch von tatschlichen Angriffen schreiben, ist die Reaktion von Weien, Heten und Mastodon-Nutzern immer: "Nee, kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, da das passiert. Hab ich nie gesehen, und ist mir auch nie passiert. Ist doch alles nur Einbildung/nicht so schlimm."
Natrlich nicht. Wer selbst wei/hetero/auf Mastodon ist, ist selbst kein Ziel, und wer in einer Bubble lebt, in der jeder wei/hetero/auf Mastodon ist, bekommt auch nichts davon mit.
Das Fediverse stellt sich selbst ja gern als Ort dar, der fr alle offen ist, der alle willkommen heit, und an dem sich jeder frei entfalten kann. Leider gilt das immer weniger fr Leute, die nicht auf Mastodon sind. Und die Mastodon-Mehrheit bemerkt diese Art von Unterdrckung noch am wenigsten.
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But it was the intention of the creator, Mike Macgirvin , for all his works to be under the MIT license. The current Hubzilla maintainers, Mario Vavti and Harald Eilertsen, certainly won't relicense Hubzilla under the GPL in any shape or form, otherwise they would have done that.
It isn't even worth doing so just to have code from Friendica. After all, Friendica's backend is vastly different from Hubzilla's. Friendica is based on a mixture of ActivityPub and its own DFRN whereas Hubzilla is based on Zot with ActivityPub available through an optional add-on. On Friendica, your account is your identity it doesn't have Hubzilla's channel model, nor does it have nomadic identity.
Red came to exist by Mike forking Friendica and rewriting the whole thing against his new Zot protocol. Hubzilla hardly has any old Friendica code left over. So it's safe to assume that Friendica's code is incompatible with Hubzilla anyway.
Generally, there's nothing on Friendica that'd be worth taking over for Hubzilla. Not even themes because theming works entirely differently on Hubzilla.
Asking Mario and Harald to relicense Hubzilla under any form of the GPL is as likely to succeed as asking them to implement all kinds of proprietary Mastodon stuff to make Hubzilla more compatible with Mastodon and Mastodon apps:
Not going to happen.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #MITLicense #GPL #AGPL I guess one reason is to make it easy to adopt code from Hubzilla or fork it.
Friendica, which Hubzilla was forked from, used to be under the MIT license itself until the community relicensed it to the AGPLv3 post-fork. This, however means that while Friendica can theoretically use code from Hubzilla (if it can make that code fit), Hubzilla can't adopt code from Friendica.
The youngest publicly-used member of the family, , a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork) of Hubzilla, was intentially released into the public domain, save for third-party add-ons in the official add-on repository under different licenses. The idea was to make forking it into FLOSS easy and forking it into something proprietary a nightmare.
I think it's fair to mention that everything from Friendica to (streams) came from the same creator who has been developing software for a living since the 1970s.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) Es gibt auch noch . Das basiert auf etwas, was (streams) vor etwa einem Jahr eingefhrt hat. Bis dahin hatte (streams) dasselbe Konversationsmodell wie Hubzilla, das wieder dem von Friendica hnlich ist. Und vor einer Woche hat Hubzilla selbst Conversation Containers eingefhrt.
Davon mal abgesehen knnte das gesamte Threadiverse (Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed...) ohne ein Konzept von Konversationen auch nicht funktionieren.
Es geht also schon. Auch mit reinem ActivityPub. Die Entwickler mssen nur wollen. Aber Mastodon will im Grunde nichts, was Twitter vor Musk nicht auch hatte.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #ConversationContainers #FEP171b I do hope the "Mastodon equals Fediverse, and it must stay this way" crowd won't push only having one account and one identity in the Fediverse into the same "Mastodon culture" that's being forced upon the whole Fediverse by some Mastodon fundamentalists.
That would essentially "outlaw" two features that almost nobody in the Fediverse has ever heard of, but that have been available in the Fediverse for longer than Mastodon itself, both introduced by a Friendica fork from 2012 named Red, known since 2015 as . And at least three out of four Fediverse users have never even read that name before.
One feature is : You can have "clones", live, hot, bidirectional backups of your Fediverse identity on multiple server instances. Imagine having copies of your Mastodon accounts on other servers, but these copies include everything (posts/DMs, followers, followeds, settings, timelines, filters, lists etc. etc.), and these copies keep each other in sync all the time whenever something happens on them. That's nomadic identity.
You can long into your clones and use them just like you can use your main instance. You can make one of your clones your new main instance. Your Fediverse identity is safe from vanishing with the shutdown of a Fediverse server. And other servers that understand nomadic identity see all instances of your identity as one.
Currently, at least to non-developers, nomadic identity is only available on Hubzilla, using Zot, and (streams), using Nomad, and you can only clone between instances of the same server software. But the implementation using ActivityPub is being worked on, and the goal is to one day be able to have the same identity on servers of different applications.
Nomadic identity not only fulfills the dream of being able to move between instances with everything, but it goes way beyond. In many cases, it means you don't even have to move.
Nomadic identity means that you've got multiple accounts, but one identity.
The other feature is a byproduct of the creation of nomadic identity: multiple identities on the same account, the same login. Hubzilla and (streams) call them .
It actually makes sense to have multiple of these because (streams) channels can be versatile and Hubzilla channels even more so. On both, you can run a channel as a public or private discussion group. Or you can run a channel as you personal WebDAV/CalDAV/CardDAV server that's independent from your main social networking identity. Or you can run a channel as a blog that's separate from your main social networking identity. Or, on Hubzilla, you can run a channel as a wiki or a website.
You can run as many channels on one account as you want. The advantage of having multiple channels on one account over having one account per channel is that you can switch between channels without having to log out and back in.
In both cases, your Fediverse identity is detached from your login. A concept completely alien to most of the Fediverse. And I guess the only reason why Hubzilla users aren't mass-blocked for this is because sensitive Mastodon users often don't notice any of this.
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There still seem to be a few thousand holding holding out there.
Interestingly, there's a free, open-source, decentralised "alternative" even for that: . Won't work on your Meta Quest, but you won't need one in the first place. You have much more land to explore, , and there's hardly any virtual world with cheaper land in combination with similar creative in-world possibilities.
It isn't part of the Fediverse, but it predates even Identi.ca, and its community has been regularly using the term "metaverse" since before Identi.ca.
Granted, the learning curve is enormous, it is very complex, and the new PBR-powered graphics come at the cost of basically requiring a machine with dedicated instead of on-board graphics hardware.
In a twist of fate, I happen to know someone who's in both, who could invite Horizon users over, hehe...
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #MetaPlatforms #Horizon #HorizonWorlds #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorldsInteresting things are going on in the Fediverse right now. And unexpected things.
See, I've always thought that when the shit hits the fan on Facebook, the Mastodon crowd would barge in and drag everyone to Mastodon, no questions asked, no explanation. And we would end up with another few million people for whom the Fediverse is only Mastodon.
I was also afraid of this happening because I know nobody who's on both Facebook and Friendica. In general, Friendica users have quit Facebook long ago, often after Facebook disrupted Friendica's Facebook connector.
Now the shit does hit the fan. But apparently, even on Mastodon, many people are becoming aware that Mastodon is not a good drop-in replacement for Facebook. And that Friendica is much closer. I mean, one of the most important features on Facebook are groups, Mastodon doesn't even know what groups are, but on Friendica, they're an integral part.
It's almost a miracle: Mastodon users are trying to guide Facebook users to Friendica. This also means it's likely that the new Friendicans will know that the Fediverse extends beyond Friendica. I mean, they'll find out anyway because Friendica indicates which server application a post or a comment comes from.
We might be getting to the point where the biggest buzz in the Fediverse quits being self-hosted GoToSocial (and that was the big buzz around New Year) and switches to the oldest surviving project in the Fediverse, not to mention something that's so very much not Twitter-style microblogging for a change.
The reason why Mastodon is so abuzz with Friendica talk is because those who try to guide Facebook users to Friendica often don't know much about Friendica themselves, and now they're shouting into the void for help, hoping that someone catches the hashtag.
I myself am not much of a Friendica expert. It's been a while since I've laid my hands on it. But: I'm connected to a lot of rank-and-file Friendica users. I think I can cover Friendica's entire core bubble in two steps or three at most.
I've succeeded in helping someone interested in Friendica by importing their post onto my stream and repeating it to my own contacts (thanks to Hubzilla introducing repeats). It definitely worked for I guess she would barely have been able to write (read this if you want to get folks off Facebook) if I hadn't stumbled upon her request for help, picked it up and forwarded it. In fact, I can be sure to always reach someone competent in Friendica this way. (Same goes for Hubzilla and (streams), but that's another story, and I could step in and assist myself, too.)
That said, I'm not too keen on manually searching for Friendica help requests and relay them one by one. I could subscribe to mastodon.social's #Friendica hashtag search feed instead. I could even try to make it a channel source and automatically relay what comes in this way to my connections. But that'd flood all that stuff onto the timelines of my hundreds of Mastodon connections as well. If it worked in the first place, because we've got a growing suspicion that this is broken currently.
So here's the shortcut: Maybe some of you Friendica users can subscribe to the #Friendica hashtag search feed on Mastodon yourself and see what's going on there. Here is the URL:
I'd ask if Friendica has per-connection filters, but the hashtag is so busy with support requests in the wake of Facebook's extra enshittification that there's hardly any cruft in-between that needs to be filtered now.
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Aus reiner Mastodon-Sicht ist es nervig, wenn Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer immer wieder darauf pochen, da das Fediverse nicht auf Mastodon reduziert wird.Aber aus der Sicht von Nicht-Mastodon-Veteranen wie (Calckey) oder mir (Hubzilla), und ich knnte da noch einige mehr nennen und erwhnen, ist es aber schon mehr als nervig, wenn Mastodon-Nutzer das Fediverse mit Mastodon gleichsetzen. Es ist schlicht und ergreifend diskriminierend. Auch wenn Mastodon-Nutzer das nicht so sehen: Es ist diskriminierend.
Und wer sagt: "Ist doch scheiegal, ob man jetzt 'Fediverse' oder Mastodon sagt, und jetzt haltet eure Klappen", ist Teil des Problems. Erst recht, wer versucht, die Nicht-Mastodon-Teile des Fediverse dazu zu zwingen, genau wie Mastodon zu sein. Auch das passiert stndig.
Wenn es dich strt, da Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer auf die Existenz des Fediverse auerhalb von Mastodon hinweisen und sich dagegen einsetzen, das Fediverse mit Mastodon gleichzusetzen, dann schalte sie stumm. Oder blockiere sie. Dann hast du deine Ruhe.
Aber sage ihnen nicht, sie sollen ruhig sein. Das ist nicht nur diskriminierend, sondern das fordert das Recht auf Diskriminierung ein.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta Erstellt hat er es definitiv nicht.
ist einer der verbissensten Prediger, da das Fediverse nicht nur Mastodon ist. Sieh genau hin: Er selbst ist gar nicht auf Mastodon, sondern auf dem Misskey-Fork Calckey. Er begrt Neuankmmlinge auf Mastodon immer damit, ihnen sofort zu erklren, da das Fediverse nicht nur Mastodon ist.
Warum sollte ausgerechnet er ein Fediverse-Nutzerverzeichnis starten und es "Mastodir" nennen Das wrde implizieren, da "Fediverse" und "Mastodon" deckungs- und bedeutungsgleich wren. Genau das Gegenteil von dem, was er nicht mde wird, Mastodon-Nutzern zu erklren.
Statt dessen drngt er unablssig die eigentlichen Schpfer und Betreiber dazu, "Mastodir" in "Fedidir" umzubenennen, weil es eben nicht nur Mastodon-Konten enthlt, sondern potentielle Kontakte aus dem ganzen Fediverse.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NichtNurMastodon #FediDir Fun facts:
diaspora* was there before Google+. In fact, Google+ was an all-out diaspora* ripoff in several ways. Google's UI style from the early 2010s on Stolen from diaspora*. The "circles" which everyone claims Google has invented for Google+ Ripoffs of diaspora*'s "aspects". Nobody noticed because almost nobody knew diaspora*.
Also, it took diaspora* four developers, some $200,000 of crowdfunding and some six months (May to November, 2010) to release a very rudimentary, very unfinished alpha version of something rather basic in functionality.
Meanwhile, Mike Macgirvin , experienced developer of some three decades, needed four months (March to July, 2010), no crowdfunding and no help by anyone else to develop and release another free, open-source, decentralised, federated Facebook alternative which was more stable and more mature than diaspora* was in November, and which was a whole lot more powerful at that point already than diaspora* is today.
It was originally named Mistpark, renamed Friendika in late 2010, and since early 2012, it has been known by the name . It still exists today .
Friendica has everything that a Facebook alternative needs, e.g.:
- always mutual connections
- a one-post-many-comments conversation model
- no restrictive character limit
- directory-based user discovery
- contact lists (which actually pre-dated diaspora*'s aspects by some four months)
- discussion groups (which are actually user accounts with special settings)
- an event calendar
On top of this, Friendica has features which neither diaspora* nor Mastodon can offer. For example, Friendica can just as well be used as a full-blown blogging platform with just about all features blog posts should have. Also, Friendica has a file space built into each account, complete with a file manager, that's also useful for uploading and storing images to embed into posts.
Friendica's main killer feature, however, is its connectivity. Next to its own DFRN protocol, it quickly supported native connectivity to e.g. StatusNet, Tumblr, Twitter (no, I'm not kidding), Libertree, via e-mail, a WordPress crossposter and an RSS/Atom feed aggregator. In spring 2011, Friendica single-handedly established full, bidirectional federation with diaspora* which, at that point, didn't have any documentation on its internal protocol, much less an API. For a short while in the early 2010s, Friendica could even bidirectionally connect to Facebook. I'm still not kidding. I was there back then.
And, of course, Friendica is a full-fledged member of the Fediverse. For as long as Mastodon has existed, Friendica has been fully federated with it, first via OStatus, later via ActivityPub. Mastodon users can even join Friendica groups.
The primary Facebook alternative in the Fediverse is not Mastodon. It is Friendica. Always has been.
Oh, and Friendica wasn't the end of the journey. Mike passed it on to its community in early 2012, and he has created a boatload of increasingly advanced forks and forks of forks.
In 2011, Mike solved the problem of Friendica users losing everything when their home node shut down by inventing () and designing the Zot protocol.
The reason why he handed Friendica over to the community in 2012 was so that he could fork it and concentrate on completely rewriting it against Zot, thus creating Red, later the same year renamed into the Red Matrix.
In 2015, the Red Matrix was renamed into () and redesigned into what's still the most feature-rich Fediverse software. Hubzilla is where I post from.
Hubzilla was handed over to the community in 2018 when Mike went on to develop even newer iterations of Friendica's concept, without many of Hubzilla's extra features, without most of Friendica's and Hubzilla's extra connectivity, but still nomadic, built on top of newer and newer versions of Zot and adapted to more and more recent states of the Fediverse itself.
Along with this development, new features emerged like which was backported to Hubzilla in 2020. It manages to get your login on one server instance recognised by other instances and ties into the advanced, fine-grained permissions system available since Red.
The newest stable server application, still by Mike, is from October, 2021. It's officially and intentionally nameless, brandless and released into the public domain, and colloquially, it is named after its code repository: . It is based on the most recent incarnation of the protocol now known as Nomad, and in addition, it supports Hubzilla's Zot6 as well as ActivityPub. In fact, it was the first Fediverse server application with (rather experimental in practice) support nomadic identity via ActivityPub.
But Mike already has the next incarnation in the making, although it's still so experimental that only he is using it and even that only with a semi-secret channel: is a direct fork of the streams repository. It only supports ActivityPub which means that it is the first Fediverse software that relies on ActivityPub for nomadic identity. Otherwise, it's the same as (streams).
In fact, Mike's vision is for the Fediverse of 2030 to be shaped by his creations. Nomadic, safe, secure, resilient and with no arbitrary limitations.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #FacebookAlternative #diaspora* #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #NomadicIdentity #OpenWebAuth I've let AI describe two of my images. After I've described them myself, each one twice even. It was just to see what'd happen.
The results were about as pathetic as expected. What the AI whipped up was incomplete and inaccurate. It wasn't even a match for my short descriptions which I had written for the alt-texts, much less for my long descriptions which went directly into the posts.
Maybe AI can describe a cat photo (and I've seen it fail even at that task). But AI will never be as good at describing images showing extremely obscure niche content as someone who really knows that particular niche topic inside-out. And I'm not even talking about explaining images in addition to describing them.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #AI #AIVsHuman #HumanVsAI On , and (still highly experimental and thus not quite public yet) Forte, you do, and you can. Along with the conversations they're in, along with your contacts, settings, filters, files etc. etc., basically everything that makes up your channel.
The magic that has made this possible for some twelve years already, longer than Mastodon has been around, is called see also the brand-new site.
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Hope this helps. None of this is Mastodon, but all of this is connected to Mastodon.- Directory of 200+ groups/forums:
- Directory of 27,000+ communities:
- Lemmy communities, Mbin magazines and PieFed communities known to the biggest Mbin instance:
- Lemmy communities, Mbin magazines and PieFed communities known to the PieFed lighthouse instance:
- If that still isn't enough, here are lists of various forums and (streams) groups known to two Hubzilla hubs:
Fair warning ahead: Not only is none of this Mastodon, but none of this is based on Mastodon, and none of this is developed for Mastodon. Handling of groups listed on either of these may be a bit less than straight-forward and self-explanatory if Mastodon is all you're used to, also because Mastodon has no built-in support whatsoever for actual Fediverse groups.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #FediverseGroups #FediGroups #Groups #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #FediTipsScott M. Stolz But in order for Mastodon users to understand why you've just replied to their reply, they have to know two things.
One, that you are on Hubzilla. And not on Mastodon. A logo could solve this.
But two, that Hubzilla is not a Mastodon instance. And not a Mastodon fork either. That Hubzilla works vastly differently from Mastodon. And that this is not a bug, but an intentional design feature. That there is stuff in the Fediverse outside of Mastodon, fully federated with Mastodon, that nonetheless does not work exactly like Mastodon.
Now keep in mind that poll where three out of four voters declared that they had never even heard of the existence of Hubzilla before that poll. This poll was obviously held in a bubble in which more people than average know about Hubzilla, so the real figures have to be even more extreme.
And, again, just because someone has heard the name "Hubzilla" or seen the logo somewhere, doesn't mean they know what it is and how it works.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Hubzilla The issue goes a little bit deeper. Not everyone who replies is a reply guy.
But if you reply to someone, and that someone hasn't mentioned you in whatever you want to reply to, and you aren't mutually connected to that someone, then you may be seen as a reply guy. That's because, under these circumstances, that someone's post could not possibly have reached you on Mastodon. Allegedly.
This is already so simplified that it takes boosts out of the equation.
On Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, however, you're automatically served content that you'd have to go look for on Mastodon. Particularly replies.
On these four, a thread is not piecemeal loosely tied together, Twitter-style. On these four, a thread is an enclosed object with always exactly one post at the top and any number of comments. And if you have the post in your timeline/stream/whatever, you also receive all comments, at least all that come in after you've received the post. To the point of being notified about unread comments under a post, even though the commenters haven't mentioned you, and you aren't connected to any of the commenters. And in fact, Friendica is the only one out of the bunch that hasn't implemented conversation containers yet.
This entire behaviour, however, is largely unknown in the Fediverse. The majority of Mastodon users think the Fediverse is only Mastodon. For most of the rest, everything that isn't Mastodon still works like Mastodon because how could it possibly be any different And besides, hardly anyone on Mastodon even notices if something does not come from Mastodon.
So if I comment on some Mastodon user's comment on a post from one of my contacts, that Mastodon user may take me for another Mastodon user who has found their comment by searching mastodon.social and then manually importing it into my timeline. For them, there's no other way I could possibly have discovered it, seeing as I don't follow them, and they haven't mentioned me. And before I know it, I'm either blocked, or that user calls the mods, none of whom really knows anything about the Fediverse about Mastodon either.
I'm genuinely surprised that I haven't found a single Mastodon instance yet that has a substantial number of Friendica nodes and Hubzilla hubs blocked because they behave too un-Mastodon-like and completely against Mastodon culture.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Conversations
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In case you haven't read that yet: This month, node9.org -) open culture sustainable media is in for a grant from for automated deployment of nodes and instances. I do hope this gives especially (streams) the push it deserves, seeing as it barely has any public instances anymore.Threadiverse Reproducible Deployment
Reproducible deployment for Threadiverse servers
Fediverse is more than short form microblogging. The ActivityPub protocol connects all kinds of software for various communication needs. Some of those are concentrated on long blogs and threaded discussion forums. A common understanding of conversations in ActivityPub and their secure and safe-from-spam implementation is being developed in several fediverse projects. This project focuses on stable and documented automated deployment for two of them - Hubzilla and Streams, including interoperability tests. This will support threadiverse standardization efforts, and help to bring features like group photoalbums and full channel portability between instances.
Interesting, however, how Hubzilla and (streams) count as parts of the Threadiverse now.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NLnet #Node9 #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)In case you haven't read that yet: This month, node9.org -) open culture sustainable media is in for a grant from for automated deployment of nodes and instances. I do hope this gives especially (streams) the push it deserves, seeing as it barely has any public instances anymore.
Threadiverse Reproducible Deployment
Reproducible deployment for Threadiverse servers
Fediverse is more than short form microblogging. The ActivityPub protocol connects all kinds of software for various communication needs. Some of those are concentrated on long blogs and threaded discussion forums. A common understanding of conversations in ActivityPub and their secure and safe-from-spam implementation is being developed in several fediverse projects. This project focuses on stable and documented automated deployment for two of them - Hubzilla and Streams, including interoperability tests. This will support threadiverse standardization efforts, and help to bring features like group photoalbums and full channel portability between instances.
Interesting, however, how Hubzilla and (streams) count as parts of the Threadiverse now.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NLnet #Node9 #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)I think the list can be made more useful for showing it to Mastodon users who have never heard of Hubzilla, especially those who are fully convinced that Mastodon is the bee's knees.
I'm not sure if the line "Social Media" is appropriate. "Social media" usually refers to stuff like Twitter, but Hubzilla is nothing like Twitter. Hubzilla is more of a "social network" which is something like Facebook, but Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads aren't that.
One line that I think is really missing is "Character Limit".
- Hubzilla: unlimited (or you could ask the devs about the database field length and list that as a character limit)
- Mastodon: 500
- Threads: 500
- Bluesky: 300
Another three lines that could be useful:
- Text Formatting (Hubzilla: yes Mastodon: read-only, limited)
- Embedded Images (Hubzilla: yes, Mastodon: no)
- Number of Images per Post (Hubzilla: unlimited, Mastodon: 4)
"Polls" could have a number of maximum options which is unlimited on Hubzilla and 4 on Mastodon.
"Multiple Channels per Account" should rather be "Multiple Separate Identities per Account" because people who don't know Hubzilla don't know what "channel" means on Hubzilla. It means something totally different on Friendica, for example.
Likewise, "Block Channels" should be "Block Actors" or something else that everyone understands.
"Applications (Apps)" should be "Add-ons that can be activated by users" or something. When a Mastodon or Bluesky or Threads user reads "apps", they think of something that you can install on your phone.
The X for Hubzilla under Lists/Feeds makes it look like it's impossible to organise connections into groups and send posts only to a certain group on Hubzilla. Also, it looks like Mastodon has invented that feature. But Hubzilla has something like Mastodon's lists: privacy groups. I'd suggest to split this up and also add a line, "Posts Visible Only to Specific Groups of People".
"Prevent Replies to Your Posts" appears to have an explanation somewhere, but it doesn't.
Maybe you could add "WebDAV" under "Files (Cloud Storage)", "CalDAV Server" under "Events / Calendar" and "CardDAV Server", marked optional, under that.
Under "Networks and Protocols", there should be two lines for feeds. One could be "Built-in Feeds" (Hubzilla: yes, Atom Mastodon: yes, RSS), one could be "Subscribe to Feeds" (Hubzilla: yes, Mastodon: no).
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Mastodon #Threads #Bluesky You can't. It's impossible without external tools. But you don't have to.
FediMeteo offers Fediverse actors for specific towns and cities which you can follow from Mastodon.
Open . Scroll all the way down. There you'll find links for eight nations: , , , , , , and . FediMeteo is only available for these eight nations.
If you're living in one of these nations, click the link for your home nation. A new page will open with an explanation what FediMeteo is and a list of towns and cities supported by FediMeteo.
If your hometown or a place that's close enough to your hometown is on the list, copy the address of the link to your hometown or that nearby place. Paste it into Mastodon's search. Mastodon should find it and offer you a Follow button.
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Welcome on board (if you've actually made an avatar, that is)! OpenSim "veteran" of almost five years here (rezday: April 30th, 2020).OpenSim is similar to Second Life and largely based on the same technology, and it basically uses third-party Second Life viewers because it doesn't have any of its own.
Second Life's learning curve is already intimidating because it's extremely versatile and powerful, and it's very different from what one may be used to from other virtual worlds or MMORPGs. OpenSim's learning curve adds even more on top with even less documentation and no tutorials or mentors whatsoever because the general assumption is that everyone who joins OpenSim has been in Second Life before anyway.
Also, like Second Life, OpenSim is not kind to underpowered hardware. And since the introduction of physically-based rendering with OpenSim 0.9.3.0 and especially Firestorm 7, it isn't worth bothering if you've got on-board graphics or a machine that's over 10 years old. That is, unless you want to stick with Firestorm 6.6.17 (which has at least one known bug that's fixed in Firestorm 7) for all eternity, and even that won't guarantee you smooth FPS.
But look at in-world pictures from Second Life or OpenSim, then look at in-world pictures from virtual worlds made for stand-alone VR headsets such as Horizons, and judge yourself what's looking better. And, for example, my main OpenSim machine is on 2018's mid-range level with a six-core, twelve-thread Ryzen, 16GB of RAM and a Radeon RX 590 with 8GB of VRAM. It's actually faster with Firestorm 7 than with Firestorm 6 because Firestorm 7's multi-threading support removed a nasty bottleneck.
OpenSim does have its advantages. It's fairly easy to build in-world once you've gotten the hang of it. No need to build entire scenes in external editors, export them, convert them etc.
Land is dirt-cheap in comparison with most other virtual worlds. It is not tied to NFTs because OpenSim entirely works without blockchains, without cryptocurrencies and without NFTs. For example, in Second Life, a standard region of 256x256m costs you about $250 a month or more. Many OpenSim grids offer you the same size of land for $10 a month or cheaper. Another example would be 's , the grid with the most monthly active users and one of the two largest grids in terms of landmass. Its default land offering is one sim the size of 16 Second Life standard regions, 1024x1024m, for under $40, depending on the configuration. Some places even offer smaller parcels for free to residents.
You can also create your own land: Some grids let you attach self-hosted sims. , the oldest grid and the other one of the two biggest, doesn't even offer land rentals and only lets its residents attach sims. And you can even run your own grid.
It's hard to wander around Second Life and see everything, also because it's constantly changing. But the Hypergrid has more than four times Second Life's landmass, and both OSgrid and Wolf Territories are larger than Second Life, so you've got even more to explore. (The obvious downside has to be Empty World Syndrome: You're less likely to encounter other avatars unless you go to an in-world event.)
Also, almost all content in OpenSim is free. That is, admittedly, the huge majority of that free content was and is still being pirated from Second Life, many users defend this content piracy, and it's often hard to tell whether something is legal or not. But there are still idealists who try to get as far as they can with only legal content, and some of them still create their own content.
Unfortunately, OpenSim doesn't have an active community in the Fediverse. It's mostly Lone Wolf who occasionally advertises for his grid, unfortunately with no hashtags, Mal Burns announcing videos under , again with no hashtags, and a small bunch of French users. There's also grid owner who also represents her grid on PeerTube under , but I haven't heard of her in the Fediverse in a while.
Lastly, fair warning: I strongly advise against having an underage-looking avatar in OpenSim. If you have one, you will automatically and unavoidably be considered a paedophile, and you will be barred from a whole lot of places.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSgrid #WolfTerritories #WolfTerritoriesGrid #Groovyverse Das Fediverse ist sehr viel mehr als nur Mastodon. Vor allem ist das Fediverse sehr viel mehr als nur ein Twitter-Klon fr Microblogging.
Beispielsweise gibt es da auch Alternativen zu Facebook, etwa . Genau wie Facebook hat auch Friendica . Und obwohl du auf Mastodon bist, kannst du von da aus einer Gruppe z. B. auf Friendica beitreten und darin teilnehmen.
Noch grer ist das "Threadiverse", was der Sammelbegriff fr die Reddit-"Klone" im Fediverse ist, insbesondere , Mbin und PieFed. Fr Lemmy-Communities (entsprechen Subreddits) gibt es auch . Auch mit denen kann man sich von Mastodon aus verbinden, auch wenn es etwas holprig ist.
Kleine Warnung vielleicht: Generell ist das Erstellen neuer Threads von Mastodon aus in beiden Fllen nicht sehr intuitiv, wenn man bisher praktisch nur Mastodon kennt. Das wird auch dadurch erschwert, da Mastodon keinerlei Untersttzung fr Gruppen in irgendeiner Form hat und gar nicht wei, was das ist. Aber es geht, wenn man wei wie. Und das Anlegen ganz neuer Gruppen/Communities geht nur "vor Ort", nicht von Mastodon aus.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Gruppen #Facebook #Friendica #Reddit #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed Ich glaube, gerade Volt versucht, junge Leute da zu erreichen, wo die eigene Generation ist. Die allermeisten jungen Leute haben aber noch nie vom Fediverse oder auch nur von Mastodon gehrt, und wenn, ist es ihnen nicht cool und trendy genug.
Dabei knnte gerade Volt anderen Parteien ein ganzes Stck voraus sein und direktweg eine eigene Instanz von z. B. aufziehen, die dann mehr sein kann als ein Drop-in-Ersatz fr . Die deutsche Piratenpartei hat , der wohl die einzige Nicht-Mastodon-Fediverse-Instanz einer politischen Partei weltweit sein drfte. Und den hatte sie schon, bevor es Mastodon berhaupt gab.
Derweil ist fr die Parteien, die es schon zu Adenauers Zeiten gab, das Internet weiterhin immer noch Neuland.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Friendica #Volt #DEPol I'm not a big psychological or political talker. And this Hubzilla channel of mine is not my personal, all-purpose channel it's actually specialised on two topics, neither of which is politics or psychology.
But especially radical leftists appear to be very emotional, very impulsive and far from reason. They want their extreme solutions for everything, they want them now, and they're unwilling to compromise. They see themselves as the most tolerant people in the world, and yet, they consider any and all opinions and worldviews different from their own fascist.
The primary topic of this channel is a free and open-source system of 3-D virtual worlds. I know a lot of alternative leftists in these worlds, but I used to know a guy who really took the cake. For example, he boycotted the entire World-Wide Web for a while in favour of Geminispace, and he tried to push everyone whom he knew into Geminispace as well, just because of commercial, corporate advertising on the World-Wide Web.
One particular aspect about these worlds is that there's no general economy across all these worlds, and most don't have any economy. Most content is free. But in some worlds, it's possible to acquire content for currencies which can be exchanged with real-life money.
I remember one event where we where, where I mentioned some cool content which, however, is payware. This guy was immediately triggered into yelling out into the local chat, "ALERTA ALERTA ANTIFASCISTA!" He basically considered the existence of payware in our worlds deeply fascist.
In general, he did not tolerate any opinions that weren't his own. Whenever he didn't like something, he was basically eager to go onto a crusade against it. And whenever he did like something, he wanted to convince everyone of it as without alternatives.
Our home grid is led by a couple of mild anarchists, both not the youngest anymore, but even they compared his attitude to the Red Army Faction, an extremist leftist terrorist group that was active in Germany especially in the 1970s and 1980s. Particularly the "second generation" which, starting in 1975, was just senselessly brutal to the point of alienating those German leftists who had previously been in support of the RAF.
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Set Side B 2024 in Review
We used to do monthly summary posts, but they ended up being a lot of work to keep up, and often there would be something interesting I'd want to post about that would preempt them. So in their place, and in recognition of Set Side B's new Bluesky feed (which supplements, but doesn't replace, our Mastodon feed), here's a recap of what I consider to be just some
#2024
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
And for your average Musk escapees, Mastodon alone is more than sufficiently advanced. These people believe that there's some magic going on that makes their fully public posts private and secure regardless. They want perfect security, but with zero inconvenience, and they think Mastodon provides them with exactly this.
In fact, they expect Mastodon to be an absolutely perfectly safe haven, simply because it isn't a corporate silo. Little do they know how close to being a corporate silo Mastodon is, what with having a US-based company and a lighthouse instance that accounts for 22% of the whole Fediverse in terms of MAUs.
On top of that, more than half of all Mastodon users think the Fediverse is only Mastodon, and most of the rest can't imagine that anything in the Fediverse could possibly have features that Mastodon doesn't have. Not unless you slap them right into their faces like character limits over 500.
They cling hard to and rely on an imagination of the Fediverse that has never even been close to reality and never will.
As for The Bad Space, its blocklist looks like it's curated not by evidence, but by emotional triggers. Generally, some blocklists go so wild that you have to ask yourself whether the reason why nobody has tried to block out everything that isn't vanilla Mastodon is because that'd be too big an effort (two out of three Fediverse instances aren't Mastodon), or whether such people simply don't know how far the Fediverse extends beyond Mastodon, so they don't know what to block. I mean, there should be reasons enough to block everything that isn't Mastodon.
Blocklist import from other instances doesn't make things any better. Just like on all networks where everyone can run a server, the Fediverse, especially Mastodon, has got admins who really shouldn't run a server. It looks very tempting to pick blocklists by length rather than content, the longer, the more "secure", import a bunch of them, but not curate them because that'd be extra effort.
In this light, it's a good thing that when switching from manual list curation to automated list aggregation a while ago. Especially tier 3 would have been easy to exploit with little to no curation, and there certainly were enough sufficiently paranoid Mastodon admins who'd subscribe to tier 3 without ever taking a single peek at the list.
Sometimes I feel like going to Mastodon's GitHub repository and submitting blocking or allowing entire Fediverse server applications by user agent, both for admins and for users, as a feature request, just to see what'll happen. Maybe dumbed down on the user side to a switch that blocks everything that isn't Mastodon. But maybe I should also mention that (streams) already has this feature on the admin side so that the Mastodon devs have to think up a way to sell this as invented by Mastodon.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Blocklist #Blocklists #BlocklistMeta #CWBlocklistMeta
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The MIT license is compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines which means that software under the MIT license is allowed into main on Debian and not forced into non-free. It is approved both by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, and it is compatible with the GPL.
In other words, both Debian and the FSF have officially declared the MIT license a free license.
It is possible and legal by license to pass your MIT-licensed software on to your user community so they can maintain and develop it, and then for the new developers to re-license your MIT-licensed software under the GPL. Exactly this has happened to Friendica.
Mike Macgirvin knew that the Friendica community wanted to re-license Friendica under the GPL. It wasn't a secret. (Proof: the short-lived Free-Friendika fork from very early 2012 that was created for there to always be an MIT-licensed Friendika.)
Also, both the X Window System, the Wayland protocol and the Sway window manager are MIT-licensed. X11 actually has its own variant of the MIT license. curl is MIT-licensed. Both Gitea and GitLab are MIT-licensed. Linux From Scratch is MIT-licensed. The XMPP server Prosody is MIT-licensed. And Ruby on Rails, which Mastodon is built with, is MIT-licensed, too, as is Rust.
The MIT license allows for just the same liberties as all variantes of GPLv2 and GPLv3, but without the restrictions that make all GPL variants viral.
You may argue that the GPLv3 is literally the only free license that has ever existed because all derivatives of GPL-licensed material are automatically GPL-licensed themselves and therefore free software when published.
I'm more on the side that the MIT license is actually freer than any versions and flavours of the GPL because it does not have any such restrictions and grants more liberties.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #MITLicense #GPL Kleiner Hinweis: Der Crash der Schwarzen Witwe an der Kreuzung war ein echter Unfall. Die Szene, in der der Konvoi zgig ber diese Kreuzung kurven sollte, war eigentlich entworfen fr leere Laster mit tiefem Schwerpunkt, und alle anderen Laster im Film waren leer. Die Schwarze Witwe hatte als einzige auf ihrem Laster Ladung, weil ein leerer Flachauflieger bld ausgesehen htte. Damit war der Schwerpunkt aber fr die schnelle Kurvenfahrt zu hoch.
Die Szene, wo der Laster umkippt, hat man kurzerhand dringelassen, obwohl sie eigentlich fr die Handlung sogar hinderlich war. Aber zu Actionfilmen gehren eben spektakulre Crashszenen, und da haben sie einen Crash frei Haus geliefert bekommen. Die Stelle, wo die Schwarze Witwe sich nach dem Crash ber den Laster beschwert, ist genauso geadlibt wie fast alle anderen Dialoge im Film.
Im Originalton heit die Schwarze Witwe brigens "Widow Woman", und im Drehbuch ist sie nicht ausdrcklich schwarz. Sie wurde nur eben von Madge Sinclair gespielt, die zufllig schwarz war.
Spider Mike wiederum sollte von vornherein den Stereotyp des "armen Niggers" bedienen, der als Fernfahrer mit Familie sowenig Geld zur Seite schaffen kann, da er immer noch eine Zugmaschine aus den 60ern fhrt. Genau dieser Stereotyp war damals in den spten 70ern im lndlichen Sden der USA noch allgegenwrtig.
Genauso allgegenwrtig war da auch der Rassismus bis hin zu rassistischen Polizisten, wie der Sheriff von Alvarez sie verkrpert. Guck dir den Film mal aufmerksam an und achte mal drauf, wie Lyle Wallace reagiert, als er sieht, wie der Sheriff von Alvarez Spider Mike zugerichtet hat. Der sollte Spider Mike eigentlich nur rausziehen und inhaftieren, aber nicht zu Mus prgeln.
Das war also Absicht. Und die Absicht war, den damals allgegenwrtigen Rassismus anzuprangern, ebenso wie die brutale Selbstjustiz, zu denen damals schon Kleinstadtsheriffs neigten (siehe auch Rambo oder Flashback).
Lyle ist brigens kein Rassist. Er hat nur Trucker, und zwar alle. Er stellt ihnen Fallen und lockt sie dann mit schmutzigen Tricks rein, was wahrscheinlich auch in den USA und speziell in Arizona illegal sein drfte. Der Grund, warum er Spider Mike am Anfang des Films sein ganzes Bargeld abknpft, ist, weil Mike eine groe Klappe hat.
berhaupt mag ich die Charaktere in dem Streifen.
- Lyle Wallace, der truckerhassende Sheriff, der in seinem Wahn nicht wei, wo Schlu ist, nicht mal an der Grenze von Natosha County, Arizona, auerhalb von der er eigentlich gar keine Befugnisse hat, dessen Grenzen wir aber in Alvarez sehen
- Rubber Duck, der zufllig zum Leithammel eines riesigen Konvoi wird, der aber keinen Bock hat, fr irgendwen auer sich selbst Verantwortung zu bernehmen, und seinem persnlichen Konflikt mit Lyle noch einen draufsetzt, indem er was mit Lyles Frau hat, was Lyle nicht mal merkt
LovemachinePigpen, der mit seiner mehrfarbig metalliclackierten Zugmaschine nebst Wasserbett am CB den groen Zampano mimt, aber besagte Klappe nicht aufkriegt, wenn's drauf ankommt- Melissa, die offensichtliche Grostdterin, die in Arizona liegenbleibt am Steuer eines Exoten, fr den es im ganzen Bundesstaat und auf jeden Fall die nchsten sechs Wochen keine Ersatzteile gibt, die aber als einzige sowas wie diplomatisches Geschick hat
- Jerry Haskins, der Gouverneur von New Mexico, der Trucker eigentlich auch nicht leiden kann und Rubber Duck aus rein wahlkampftaktischen Grnden ausnutzen will, um nach D.C. zu kommen abgesehen davon stnde er als Gouverneur nicht gut da, wenn der Konvoi oder ganz speziell Rubber Ducks rollende Bombe in seinem Bundesstaat eine mittelschwere Katastrophe auslsen wrde
- der Verschwrungstheoretiker in dem Wohnmobil, aus dessen Geschwurbel die Grnde, warum er im Konvoi mitfhrt, auch nicht ersichtlich sind
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Und btw, der Selbstvergleich mit echten Marginalisierten besttigt schlimme Vorurteile und geht gar nicht!
Doch, der Vergleich geht sehr wohl. Und ich werde darber noch einen Post schreiben.
Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer sind im Fediverse nmlich lngst real marginalisiert. Wie gesagt: Nur weil reine oder weit berwiegende Mastodon-Nutzer das nicht sehen, heit das nicht, da es nicht passiert.
Es ist nicht okay, jemanden wegen Hautfarbe, Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung oder Behinderung zu marginalisieren. Viele Weie bzw. Cishet-Personen tun das aber unbewut, und einige tun das mit voller Absicht.
Aber es ist ebensowenig okay, jemanden dafr zu marginalisieren, wo er oder sie im Fediverse ist. Viele Mastodon-Nutzer tun das aber unbewut, und einige tun das mit voller Absicht.
Frag den Calckey-Nutzer . Dem hat mal ein Mastodon-Nutzer gesagt, er solle geflligst seine Posts auf maximal 500 Zeichen limitieren oder sich aus dem Fediverse verpissen.
Auch ich bin schon so manches Mal angepampt worden, weil meine Posts ber 500 Zeichen lang sind, und davon auch so manches Mal direkt danach blockiert worden.
Frag den Friendica-Nutzer . Den hat mal eine Mastodon-Nutzerin blockiert, ganz einfach, weil er nicht auf Mastodon war. Sie dachte, er sei ein bser Hacker und Friendica ein bses Hackertool, mit dem er sich verbotenerweise ins Mastodon-Fediverse reingehackt habe.
Guck dir die ganzen Entwicklungen an, die "Fedi" oder "Fediverse" im Namen haben, die aber knallhart ausschlielich gegen Mastodon gebaut sind und deren Entwickler keinen Bock haben, daran was zu ndern.
Klar, jetzt knnte man sagen: Die Hautfarbe kann man nicht whlen. Auch eine Behinderung kann man nicht wegwhlen. Man kann sich selbst auch nicht dazu zwingen, cisgender oder heterosexuell zu sein. Man kann aber die Fediverse-Software jederzeit frei whlen. Von daher hinkt der Vergleich ganz gewaltig.
Das hiee: Man knnte selbst dafr sorgen, da man im Fediverse akzeptiert und nicht marginalisiert wird, indem man einfach wie die gewaltige Mehrheit Mastodon nutzt und nicht irgendwas anderes. Man kann es ja frei whlen, was man nutzt.
Nur knnte man dann eben nicht mehr frei whlen, was man nutzt, wenn man akzeptiert werden will. Wenn man akzeptiert werden will, htte man zu Mastodon, und zwar Vanilla-Mastodon mit 500-Zeichen-Limit, keine Alternative mehr.
Viele von uns wollen Mastodon aber eben gerade nicht nutzen, weil ihnen da essentielle Features fehlen wrden, die sie auch fr mehr Akzeptanz nicht bereit wren aufzugeben.
Da kann und sollte man als Mastodon-Nutzer nicht einfach mit der Schulter zucken und sagen: "Ja, dann seid ihr eben selber schuld, wenn ihr gemobbt und diskriminiert werdet." Ebensowenig kann man als Mastodon-Nutzer weiterhin mit der Schulter zucken und sagen: "Ich sehe nicht, da ihr irgendwo diskriminiert werdet, also sind das nur Hirngespinste, und niemand mu irgendwas anders machen."
Statt dessen mu generell damit aufgehrt werden, das Fediverse als nur Mastodon zu verkaufen. Auch in Medien mit mehr Reichweite. Auch Neulingen gegenber, damit die sich von vornherein daran gewhnen, da einige Leute im Fediverse Sachen nutzen, die total anders sind als Mastodon, und das vllig normal ist. Jeder sollte auch wissen, da das Fediverse auch nicht mit Mastodon anfing.
Neuentwicklungen im Fediverse, von denen das ganze Fediverse profitieren knnte, drfen nicht mehr nur gegen Mastodon gebaut werden, sondern sie mssen projektneutral gestaltet werden.
Das Fediverse braucht wieder eine neue Kultur. Die Kultur von 2022, die nur Vanilla-Mastodon bercksichtigt, mu ersetzt werden durch eine, die alles bercksichtigt.
Niemand darf mehr dafr attackiert werden, Posts zu schreiben, die auf Vanilla-Mastodon so nicht mglich sind (ber 500 Zeichen, Textformatierung, Listen etc.). Niemand darf mehr dafr attackiert werden, auf Posts oder Kommentare zu reagieren, die der- oder diejenige aus Mastodon-Sicht nicht auf natrlichem Wege htte empfangen knnen.
Quote-Posts mssen als unverrckbarer Teil der Fediverse-Kultur anerkannt werden. Auch wenn Mastodon sie nicht hat: So ziemlich alles, was nicht Mastodon ist, hat sie. Jetzt. Das Fediverse hatte schon Quote-Posts fnfeinhalb Jahre, bevor es Mastodon gab. So ziemlich alles, was nicht Mastodon ist, kann auch jederzeit Mastodon-Trts quote-posten. Und es sollte auch anerkannt und akzeptiert werden, da eine mastodoneigene, mastodoninterne, auf keinem Standard aufbauende Opt-Out- oder Opt-In-Funktion nicht fediverseweit funktionieren kann und wird.
Die Fediverse-Kultur darf keine Funktionen zwingend erforderlich machen, die Nicht-Mastodon-Anwendungen evtl. nicht haben. Beispielsweise CWs la Mastodon in Kommentaren, die von Hubzilla kommen. Oder "Unlisted", das es auch lngst nicht berall gibt.
Die Fediverse-Kultur darf keine Funktionen oder Features verteufeln, die Mastodon nicht hat. Beispielsweise Posts mit mehr als 500 Zeichen oder Zusammenfassungen in dem, was auf Mastodon das CW-Feld ist, oder Textformatierung oder Posts mit eingebetteten Bildern, die auf Mastodon "komisch" aussehen, weil die Bilder eben nicht mehr eingebettet sind.
Die Fediverse-Kultur mu aufhren, Mastodon als den Standard anzusehen und danach zu agieren. Und nein, Nutzerzahlen definieren keinen Standard. Nein, tun sie wirklich nicht.
Die Fediverse-Kultur mu aufhren, alles, was nicht wie (auf) Mastodon ist, als entweder kaputt oder falsch oder bse darzustellen.
Und jeder Mastodon-Nutzer, der sich jetzt in eine Defensivposition begibt, um Mastodon und die mastodon-normative Fediverse-Kultur zu verteidigen, ist aktiver Teil des Problems.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NichtNurMastodon #Diskriminierung Es ist doch immer so.
Irgendjemand auf Mastodon behauptet aus felsenfester berzeugung, das Fediverse sei nur Mastodon oder sogar, wie hier, Mastodon sei das einzige dezentrale soziale Netzwerk, das je existiert hat.
Sich darber beklagen tun nur Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer. Von den Mastodon-Nutzern wei es mindestens eine Hlfte auch nicht besser, und der Rest strt sich nicht an der Aussage.
Und wenn sich Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer darber beklagen und mit Widerworten kommen, heit es von den Mastodon-Nutzern gerne: "Ist doch scheiegal, reg dich nicht auf, ist doch nicht so schlimm, wieso berhaupt die Aufregung"
Wohlgemerkt, von beiden Sorten von Mastodon-Nutzern. Die einen haben gerade eben erst von den Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzern zum allerersten Mal berhaupt davon gehrt, da das Fediverse noch was anderes sein soll als Mastodon. Den anderen ist alles, was nicht Mastodon ist, einfach scheiegal.
Und dann gibt's da noch die Mastodon-Fundamentalisten. Die halten gerne wacker dagegen. Die einen tun das aus Rechthaberei, um zu verhindern, da diese Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer sie ungefragterweise eines Besseren belehren. Das nennt man nmlich auch "Fedisplaining". Die anderen tun das, damit das Fediverse um sie herum zumindest gefhlt weiterhin nur Mastodon bleibt. Zwischen den beiden Gruppen gibt es eine groe Schnittmenge.
Da werden Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer schon mal angegriffen. Da wird schon mal behauptet, da es die Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer seien, die falsch lgen, und ja, es gbe tatschlich ein in sich geschlossenes "Mastodon-Netzwerk", und schlimmstenfalls sogar, das Fediverse wre per definitionem tatschlich nur Mastodon, weil Eugen Rochko das doch erfunden hat und so weiter. Und es wird fleiig stummgeschaltet und blockiert in verzweifelten Versuchen, die Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer fediverseweit mundtot zu machen.
Leider ist es tatschlich so: Je reichweitenstrker und einflureicher Mastodon-Nutzer sind, desto weniger scheren sie sich um das Fediverse auerhalb von Mastodon. Es gibt Fediverse-"Influencer" und Leute, die sehr viel im Fediverse ber "das Fediverse" schreiben, die laufend so tun, als sei das Fediverse nur Mastodon. Da kann man dagegen kommentieren, soviel man will, die machen damit so weiter.
Inzwischen ist es im Fediverse fr Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer hnlich wie fr Schwarze, Schwule oder Transpersonen. Im Fediverse gilt der weie Cishet-Mann auf Mastodon als der Standard. Und wenn z. B. Schwarze oder Schwule, aber auch Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer von sowohl Unterdrckungstendenzen als auch von tatschlichen Angriffen schreiben, ist die Reaktion von Weien, Heten und Mastodon-Nutzern immer: "Nee, kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, da das passiert. Hab ich nie gesehen, und ist mir auch nie passiert. Ist doch alles nur Einbildung/nicht so schlimm."
Natrlich nicht. Wer selbst wei/hetero/auf Mastodon ist, ist selbst kein Ziel, und wer in einer Bubble lebt, in der jeder wei/hetero/auf Mastodon ist, bekommt auch nichts davon mit.
Das Fediverse stellt sich selbst ja gern als Ort dar, der fr alle offen ist, der alle willkommen heit, und an dem sich jeder frei entfalten kann. Leider gilt das immer weniger fr Leute, die nicht auf Mastodon sind. Und die Mastodon-Mehrheit bemerkt diese Art von Unterdrckung noch am wenigsten.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NichtNurMastodon It could.
But it was the intention of the creator, Mike Macgirvin , for all his works to be under the MIT license. The current Hubzilla maintainers, Mario Vavti and Harald Eilertsen, certainly won't relicense Hubzilla under the GPL in any shape or form, otherwise they would have done that.
It isn't even worth doing so just to have code from Friendica. After all, Friendica's backend is vastly different from Hubzilla's. Friendica is based on a mixture of ActivityPub and its own DFRN whereas Hubzilla is based on Zot with ActivityPub available through an optional add-on. On Friendica, your account is your identity it doesn't have Hubzilla's channel model, nor does it have nomadic identity.
Red came to exist by Mike forking Friendica and rewriting the whole thing against his new Zot protocol. Hubzilla hardly has any old Friendica code left over. So it's safe to assume that Friendica's code is incompatible with Hubzilla anyway.
Generally, there's nothing on Friendica that'd be worth taking over for Hubzilla. Not even themes because theming works entirely differently on Hubzilla.
Asking Mario and Harald to relicense Hubzilla under any form of the GPL is as likely to succeed as asking them to implement all kinds of proprietary Mastodon stuff to make Hubzilla more compatible with Mastodon and Mastodon apps:
Not going to happen.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #MITLicense #GPL #AGPL I guess one reason is to make it easy to adopt code from Hubzilla or fork it.
Friendica, which Hubzilla was forked from, used to be under the MIT license itself until the community relicensed it to the AGPLv3 post-fork. This, however means that while Friendica can theoretically use code from Hubzilla (if it can make that code fit), Hubzilla can't adopt code from Friendica.
The youngest publicly-used member of the family, , a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork) of Hubzilla, was intentially released into the public domain, save for third-party add-ons in the official add-on repository under different licenses. The idea was to make forking it into FLOSS easy and forking it into something proprietary a nightmare.
I think it's fair to mention that everything from Friendica to (streams) came from the same creator who has been developing software for a living since the 1970s.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) Es gibt auch noch . Das basiert auf etwas, was (streams) vor etwa einem Jahr eingefhrt hat. Bis dahin hatte (streams) dasselbe Konversationsmodell wie Hubzilla, das wieder dem von Friendica hnlich ist. Und vor einer Woche hat Hubzilla selbst Conversation Containers eingefhrt.
Davon mal abgesehen knnte das gesamte Threadiverse (Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed...) ohne ein Konzept von Konversationen auch nicht funktionieren.
Es geht also schon. Auch mit reinem ActivityPub. Die Entwickler mssen nur wollen. Aber Mastodon will im Grunde nichts, was Twitter vor Musk nicht auch hatte.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #ConversationContainers #FEP171b I do hope the "Mastodon equals Fediverse, and it must stay this way" crowd won't push only having one account and one identity in the Fediverse into the same "Mastodon culture" that's being forced upon the whole Fediverse by some Mastodon fundamentalists.
That would essentially "outlaw" two features that almost nobody in the Fediverse has ever heard of, but that have been available in the Fediverse for longer than Mastodon itself, both introduced by a Friendica fork from 2012 named Red, known since 2015 as . And at least three out of four Fediverse users have never even read that name before.
One feature is : You can have "clones", live, hot, bidirectional backups of your Fediverse identity on multiple server instances. Imagine having copies of your Mastodon accounts on other servers, but these copies include everything (posts/DMs, followers, followeds, settings, timelines, filters, lists etc. etc.), and these copies keep each other in sync all the time whenever something happens on them. That's nomadic identity.
You can long into your clones and use them just like you can use your main instance. You can make one of your clones your new main instance. Your Fediverse identity is safe from vanishing with the shutdown of a Fediverse server. And other servers that understand nomadic identity see all instances of your identity as one.
Currently, at least to non-developers, nomadic identity is only available on Hubzilla, using Zot, and (streams), using Nomad, and you can only clone between instances of the same server software. But the implementation using ActivityPub is being worked on, and the goal is to one day be able to have the same identity on servers of different applications.
Nomadic identity not only fulfills the dream of being able to move between instances with everything, but it goes way beyond. In many cases, it means you don't even have to move.
Nomadic identity means that you've got multiple accounts, but one identity.
The other feature is a byproduct of the creation of nomadic identity: multiple identities on the same account, the same login. Hubzilla and (streams) call them .
It actually makes sense to have multiple of these because (streams) channels can be versatile and Hubzilla channels even more so. On both, you can run a channel as a public or private discussion group. Or you can run a channel as you personal WebDAV/CalDAV/CardDAV server that's independent from your main social networking identity. Or you can run a channel as a blog that's separate from your main social networking identity. Or, on Hubzilla, you can run a channel as a wiki or a website.
You can run as many channels on one account as you want. The advantage of having multiple channels on one account over having one account per channel is that you can switch between channels without having to log out and back in.
In both cases, your Fediverse identity is detached from your login. A concept completely alien to most of the Fediverse. And I guess the only reason why Hubzilla users aren't mass-blocked for this is because sensitive Mastodon users often don't notice any of this.
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