Find the latitude of any place.  

Tauranga City Council confirms grant for

That's a pretty major UX fail right there.
Any progress on finalising an FEP for using nomadic identity with AP

I think it'll take more than that one FEP (FEP-ef61 Portable Objects) to do that. I expect to whip up more FEPs in the on-going process of turning Mitra from something like most Fediverse software (non-nomadic, account equals identity) into something that's every bit as nomadic as Forte.
Thing is, Mitra still has a long way to go, also because it aims to have an implementation of nomadic identity that's entirely covered by FEPs. Forte has nomadic identity via ActivityPub, but that's technology adopted from Zot/Nomad that needed to be made to work first and foremost with no regards for FEPs.
Besides, the existence of FEPs doesn't matter as long as Mastodon refuses to adopt them. And Mastodon has already silently rejected client-side support for OpenWebAuth magic sign-on by refusing to merge an existing, ready-to-merge pull request that would have implemented it immediately.
This means we'll probably never even see Mastodon become capable of recognising nomadic channels. And I'm not talking about Mastodon going nomadic itself (which, by the way, would also give Mastodon the easy account moving that its users have been craving for for so long).
# # # # # # # # # # # # # Teilweise ja, aber selbst du auf Mastodon kannst sehen: Da ist der Text formatiert. Oder da ist eine Stichpunktliste. Oder da ist ein Link eingebettet (wobei ich glaube, 95% der Mastodon-Nutzer nehmen eingebettete Links berhaupt nicht wahr, weil sie sich nicht vorstellen knnen, da Links ohne sichtbare URLs im Fediverse berhaupt mglich sein, weil die eben in Mastodon-Trts nicht mglich sind).
Und daraus sollte dann sofort ersichtlich sein: Dieser "Trt" ist kein "Trt", weil er nicht von Mastodon ist. Weil er nicht von Mastodon kommen kann. Weil Mastodon das, was in dem "Trt" drin ist, gar nicht erzeugen kann. Und da, wo man solche Sachen erzeugen kann, "trtet" man nicht, weil das eben nicht Mastodon ist.
Oder wenn die Erwhnungen "komisch" aussehen, dann wei man auch: Das kann so unmglich von Mastodon kommen. Sowas macht Mastodon nicht. Mastodon erwhnt so nicht.
Da braucht es nicht wie auf *key oder Friendica oder (streams) oder Forte eine Angabe ganz oben, wo genau ein Beitrag herkommt, um zu sehen, da der nicht von Mastodon ist.
Woher genau der ist, ist erstmal nachrangig. Wichtig ist erstmal nur, da er nicht von Mastodon kommt. Dann hrt man als Mastodon-Nutzer vielleicht auch mal auf

Also genau die Sachen, wo reine Mastodon-Nutzer sagen: "h, das passiert Hab ich noch nie gesehen." oder "Ist doch scheiegal, oder", die aber die Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer wie zur Weiglut bringen.
Insofern geht es sehr wohl darum, wo jemand "eine Nachricht schreibt".
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Tauranga City Council confirms grant for 50m Mount Maunganui College pool

He ended up moving from Tauranga to Auckland as there were better facilities and more training buddies. The

Groups are tied permanently to the originating server.

Not true for Hubzilla forums as well as (streams) and Forte groups.
I could set up a Hubzilla forum channel that simultaneously resides on half a dozen or more fully independent servers. All instances of the channel will incrementally back themselves up to all other instances of the channel in near-real-time, bidirectionally.
One server goes down, I still have 100% identical living copies on all the other servers.
The miracle of . Established in 2012, daily-driven on production channels for longer than Mastodon itself.
Literally the only disadvantage is that the non-nomadic parts of the Fediverse, including Mastodon, will perceive each clone as its own separate Fediverse account.
# # # # # # # # # # # # # Na ja, an ein paar Dingen kann man schon sofort erkennen, da ein Beitrag so nicht von Mastodon selbst kommen kann.
Beispiel: Fett Kursiv Unterstrichen Code
Zitat

Kann Mastodon alles nicht erzeugen. Wenn sowas da ist, kann der ganze Beitrag nicht von Mastodon sein.
Anderes Beispiel: Erwhnungen. Mastodon und seine Forks erwhnen
Also .
Misskey und seine Forks (und Forks von Forks usw.) erwhnen
Also .
Friendica und Hubzilla erwhnen
Also .
(streams) und Forte erwhnen standardmig wie Friendica und Hubzilla, knnen aber optional mit Kurznamen erwhnen, wobei auch dann das nicht im Link ist.
Mit Hashtags ist es hnlich: Auf Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) und Forte ist das # kein Teil des Link, sondern es steht vor dem Link. brigens knnen die vier auch sehr viel mehr Zeichen im Hashtag haben, sogar Leerzeichen.
Wenn jemand in einem Bildpost erwhnt, da man von dem Post das Original ffnen sollte, um alle Bilder zu sehen, weil er mehr als vier Bilder enthlt, kann der Post auch nicht von Mastodon sein.
Antworten, die nicht jeden vorherigen Poster erwhnen Sowas kann nur von Friendica und seiner Familie oder aus dem Threadiverse (Lemmy, /kbin, Mbin, PieFed) kommen, wo Antworten keine Erwhnungen brauchen.
Es gibt noch ein untrgliches Zeichen, da ein Beitrag nicht von Mastodon kommen kann. Und das ist, wenn sich darin jemand darber aufregt, da mal wieder das Fediverse mit Mastodon gleichgesetzt wird. Beinahe allen Mastodon-Nutzern ist das komplett Wurscht, oder sie glauben selbst, das Fediverse sei nur Mastodon.
Auch Leute, die sich darber aufregen, wenn jemand einen langen Beitrag in lauter kleine Stcke zerschnippelt, gibt es so nicht auf Mastodon. Generell: Wenn jemand ber irgendetwas motzt, was auf Mastodon vllig normal oder gar Pflicht oder sogar technisch zwingend notwendig ist, dann kommt das definitiv nicht von Mastodon.
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Ein Irrglaube nicht nur von so ziemlich ausnahmslos jedem Mastodon-Neuling, sondern auch von vielen, die schon seit Jahren dabei sind, ist, da das Fediverse nur Mastodon ist. Das stimmt nicht das Fediverse war nie nur Mastodon. Nie.
Wenn man dann lernt, da das Fediverse nicht nur Mastodon ist, ist es hufig trotzdem unvorstellbar, da die ganzen Serveranwendungen im Fediverse nicht nur innerhalb ihrer selbst, sondern auch untereinander kommunizieren. Auch das bestrkt den Irrglauben vieler Mastodon-Nutzer, alles, was sie in ihren Timelines sehen, ist selbst auch von Mastodon.
war lange auf Calckey und ist inzwischen auf Sharkey. Calckey und Sharkey sind beide Forks von Misskey, einer in Japan entwickelten "Microblogging"-Serveranwendung im Fediverse. Und Misskey wird seit 2014 unabhngig von Mastodon entwickelt.
Ich selbst schreibe hier gerade von Hubzilla (, ). Eigentlich sollte offensichtlich sein, da das hier nicht von Mastodon kommen kann, weil es Sachen beinhaltet, die Mastodon nicht kann, z. B.:

Hubzillas Geschichte geht zurck bis nach Friendica, das 2010 vom selben ursprnglichen Entwickler an den Start gebracht wurde, also fnfeinhalb Jahre vor Mastodon, als Eugen Rochko noch zur Schule ging. Besagter Entwickler hat es 2011 zweimal geforkt und dann 2012 und 2015 jeweils grndlich umgebaut. So entstand Hubzilla, die mit Abstand mchtigste Fediverse-Serveranwendung und das genaue Gegenteil von Mastodon. Du kannst es dir vorstellen als Facebook trifft WordPress trifft GeoCities trifft Google Cloud Services trifft noch einiges mehr an Zeugs. Sachen, die fr Mastodon vllig unvorstellbar sind, kann es schon lnger, als es Mastodon berhaupt gibt. Mit Mastodon kommunizieren kann es trotzdem.
tldr: Im Fediverse gibt es Sachen, die sehr viel mchtiger sind als Mastodon. Und es gibt sie schon lnger als Mastodon selbst. Mit Mastodon fing im Fediverse gar nichts an, hchstens die als selbstverstndlich und gottgegeben angesehene Mastodon-Zentrizitt und der Glaube, das Fediverse sei nur Mastodon.

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1973 Vintage Magazine Cover - Nostalgic Fashion and Style

The image is a vintage magazine cover featuring two individuals in close proximity, with one partially obscuring the other. The person on the left wears a brown suede coat or jacket adorned with what appears to be fur detailing around the collar area. Their hair seems dark and possibly styled loosely.

On the right side of the photo, there's another individual who has their hand resting under their chin in a thoughtful pose, wearing a long-sleeved sweater that matches the color scheme of the brown coat on the left. The lighting is soft, with some highlights reflecting off what could be strands of hair or surface texture.

The overall aesthetic suggests a fashion spread from decades past, capturing a moment between two people dressed in warm clothing suitable for cooler weather. This image may evoke feelings associated with nostalgia and style trends of earlier times.

No discernible text is present within the visible portion of this cover.
Tags: vintage, magazine cover, brown suede coat, fur detailing, thoughtful pose, long-sleeved sweater

-sleevedsweater

Driver flees after collision in LongBranch

Toronto police say a male has been taken to a hospital after he was involved in a two-vehicle collision on Tuesday night. The incident occurred in the Lake Shore Boulevard West and Forty First Street area just after 8:45 p.m., according to police. Investigators say one of the drivers fled on foot. Meanwhile the male in his 20s was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. ,

No, but neither are the authors of these 5 references that I've listed on the page I've linked to. They all say that "Photo of" does not belong into alt-text. One of them is even on Mastodon.
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Any other kind of medium: yes. Digital photo: no.
It simply is redundant and uses up space and screen reader time. Digital photos have become so ubiquitous that any image that isn't explicitly described as something else can and has to be assumed to be a digital photo.
Related page from my alt-text/image description wiki:
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I come down the stairs at the 44th entrance and these young women are dancing in place. Shake it! I say, Shake it like you mean it! and they clutch each other, laughing.
But my card is empty and we become grownup New Yorkers, using neighboring OMNI machines. Once my card is full, and I realize their music is still softly playing, I dance a bit as I retrieve my card. I Love New York.
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De Nieuwe Podcast "Bij ons aan de keukentafel" staat online! - S1A5

Kwetsbaar Eerlijk & Openhartig

Covid

By: MorpurgoMedia.nl

A night alone with the Universe by Vagelis Pikoulas

#1435 #2025

Russian oil rig in Caspian Sea halts production after Ukrainian drone strike

Ukraines Security Service (SBU) struck Russias Vladimir field in the for the first time with -range , halting and production from more than 20 , a source in the said on Dec. 11

I've only used AI for image descriptions twice. It was LLaVA. And that was not for actual productive use, but to pit it directly against my own hand-written descriptions. I had described the images myself before I let the AI loose on it.
In my opinion, the results were abysmal. But that was to be expected.
Granted, I had unfair advantages. For one, the images showed something so extremely obscure that the AI barely had an idea of what it was looking at I did. Besides, the AI had to describe the image by looking at the image at its very limited resolution. I could describe the image by looking at the original at a near-infinite resolution. This is also why the AI didn't even transcribe one bit of text in the image, and I transcribed them all.
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It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.
Richard Jefferies

How unfinished is Iceshrimp.NET This unfinished:
Iceshrimp.NET appears to have no support for conversations. At all. I'm not just saying it has no support for enclosed conversations like on Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte, Facebook and every last blog out there, not to mention FEP-171b "Conversation Containers".
I'm saying it has no concept of threads. It has no concept whatsoever of a message having a parent or children in a thread.
All it seems to know is stand-alone messages. Iceshrimp.NET only shows you single messages, and it gives you no way at all to access even only what these messages reply to. This is even worse than Mastodon, and that has to say something.
Also, Iceshrimp.NET seems to use some exotic, home-brew message format that must have little to do with the W3C ActivityPub standard, even taking FEPs into consideration. It's impossible to use Hubzilla's search to import an Iceshrimp.NET message onto your stream.
And: redirects to the Iceshrimp.NET code repository. Which, in turn, contains a link to an iceshrimp.net website at the top. Another to-do that isn't even on any to-do list. Yeah, I know that and have no websites either, but Mike doesn't pretend they have websites, and especially (streams) has very good reasons not to have an official website.
Let's just hope that it has overcome the *key-inherent federation issues by having been rewritten.
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Iceshrimp.NET appears to have no support for conversations. At all. I'm not just saying it has no support for enclosed conversations like on Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte, Facebook and every last blog out there, not to mention FEP-171b "Conversation Containers".
I'm saying it has no concept of threads. It has no concept whatsoever of a message having a parent or children in a thread.
All it seems to know is stand-alone messages. Iceshrimp.NET only shows you single messages, and it gives you no way at all to access even only what these messages reply to. This is even worse than Mastodon, and that has to say something.
Also, Iceshrimp.NET seems to use some exotic, home-brew message format that must have little to do with the W3C ActivityPub standard, even taking FEPs into consideration. It's impossible to use Hubzilla's search to import an Iceshrimp.NET message onto your stream.
And: redirects to the Iceshrimp.NET code repository. Which, in turn, contains a link to an iceshrimp.net website at the top. Another to-do that isn't even on any to-do list. Yeah, I know that and have no websites either, but Mike doesn't pretend they have websites, and especially (streams) has very good reasons not to have an official website.
Let's just hope that it has overcome the *key-inherent federation issues by having been rewritten.
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You will still lose lots of reach.
People won't see your image posts because they have technical means of hiding or completely removing any and all posts with images without alt-text from all their timelines.
People will block you upon first strike when finding one of your image posts without an alt-text.
Followers will unfollow you.
You will be lectured. You will be scolded. You will be verbally attacked. You will be called an ableist swine. Even more so if you try to defend yourself.
If you want at least some reach on Mastodon, and if you want to be left in peace, your only choice is to add a hand-written, non-AI-generated, accurate, sufficiently detailed alt-text to every single last image that you will ever post. Immediately when posting it.
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Ive gotten to where I wont post anything anywhere without alt text in the photos.

Same here, only that I won't just simply add some alt-text. Rather, I go all the way and add what someone may need described and/or explained.
When I post a meme, this means a roughly standard-sized alt-text with a short visual description and transcripts of the relevant bits of text plus explanation in the post itself.
When I post an original image which is always a 3-D virtual world rendering, the image description in the alt-text is much longer. And in addition, there is an even longer long image description in the post itself that contains what I can't fit into the alt-text plus even more explanations than for my meme posts.
I never know who might see it and I want people to enjoy what I post.

On top of that, I want people to understand what I post. I don't want anyone to have to ask me for explanations in order to understand my images. I don't want anyone to have to look anything up themselves. Because my experience is that having to ask or having to look something up is not accessible.
But I only ever post about super-obscure niche topics. That's either super-obscure 3-D virtual worlds that nobody knows anything about. Or it's memes about the Fediverse which usually means the Fediverse beyond Mastodon which, again, hardly anyone on Mastodon knows a thing about.
In addition, when I post a virtual world rendering, I have to assume that people who can't see the image don't know what anything in the image looks like. I mean, they've certainly never seen a single image from within one of these worlds, right Still, they might be super curious about anything and everything in the image.
And so I have to write the longest image descriptions the Fediverse has ever seen. This doesn't take only a few minutes. It takes hours if I'm lucky and days if not.
was two months ago. It was also the only image I've posted this year.
was almost a year and a half ago. And its descriptions are actually fairly short. I've done even longer ones in the past. But the images were intentionally kept simple with little to describe and explain.
was last year, too.
(All three links lead to Fediverse posts. They don't take you to Mastodon toots. These are posts on which is part of the Fediverse, too, and federated with Mastodon. And all these posts have very much reached Mastodon timelines.)
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MS-13 and Trump Backed the Same Honduras Presidential Candidate

Gangsters from MS-13, a Trump-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, intimidated Hondurans not to vote for the left-leaning presidential candidate,
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Sydney sisters with ultra-rare condition dream of first summer safely outdoors

Its sad and confronting, their mother Yvette Walker told news.com.au during an emotional interview. No amount of UV


I'm not visually impaired, but ALT text frequently "explains it to me like I'm five"... because "If you know, you know" often doesn't apply to me.

This is actually sad and frustrating.
For one, next to nobody on Mastodon knows that because . Besides, they have 1,500 characters of alt-text per image, but only 500 characters for the toot, and mentions, hashtags and even CWs gnaw away on these 500 characters.
So they have no other choice than to explain things either in a thread or in the alt-text.
Fortunately, I myself don't have to worry much about character limits. I've got over 16.7 million characters, including alt-texts, but excluding CWs which are summaries here (as if that mattered). Fortunately because the kind of stuff that I tend to post is so very obscure that it requires extensive explanations on multiple levels. An image post of mine may end up with tens of thousands of characters of explanations which can all go into the post and into one post.
I only have to take into consideration that Mastodon, Misskey and their respective forks will chop off extremely long alt-texts from other Fediverse server applications at the 1,500-character mark. Also, Mastodon and its forks reject posts over 100,000 characters. I think Pleroma and its forks reject posts over 20,000 characters, and Misskey and its forks reject posts over 10,000 characters already, but I barely have any audience for images there.
Sometimes I post photos without ALT Text initially, then add it later after I overcome writer's block.

I never post any image without a sufficiently set of descriptions and explanations. Ever. Even if it takes me more than a year to write the descriptions for a series of images (and it currently does).
My goal is to always be lightyears ahead of present and future requirements imposed by the Mastodon alt-text police. And I've yet to see the Mastodon alt-text police sanction anyone for overdoing things. I've probably been blocked by tens of thousands of Mastodon users for posting more than 500 characters at a time. But I probably haven't been blocked nearly as often explicitly for overly long and detailed image descriptions and explanations.
(By the way: Don't go looking for my most recent image posts here. I no longer use this channel to post images. I post them elsewhere in the Fediverse now, if I ever post them. So the last image post here is over a year and a half old.)
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Girl Smashes a Long Drive With Crazy Power!

- # needs to invest in alleviating this burden. Its already a pain for shorter things.

What is Mastodon supposed to do Lift the 1,500-character limit for alt-texts
There's a good reason why just about every alt-text guide out there...

...tells everyone to keep alt-texts short.

Besides, I myself am not even on Mastodon. I'm on Hubzilla which was developed years before Mastodon, wholly independently from Mastodon and for different purposes than Mastodon.


- As far as Im concerned the purpose of this field is to be a caption. Theres absolutely zero reason to try to reproduce the entire contents of an image.

I beg to differ. Here's an article that I've written a while ago:

- This is exactly the alt field from an HTML img tag. Never host images without that field.

I know what it is.
Here on Hubzilla, we don't put alt-text into a separate text field. We put it into image-embedding markup code like in a forum post or a blog post. BBcode instead of HTML, but still.
- Im not important. Neither is anything I say. Who cares if I boost you or dont If you do care for any reason, put something in that field to make the decision easier for me.
- Others disagree with me on these points. I may boost you anyway. They may do something else.

It may be only you who thinks like that.
It may just as well be legions of Mastodon users who will block anyone upon first strike when they catch them not transcribing text in an image in alt-text, regardless of there being transcripts in the post itself.
I'm trying to satisfy as many and as many different people as possible. And that's horribly difficult for me as a) I'm on something that's very, very much not Mastodon, and b) I post images like next to no-one else. But I'd risk even more reach within the Fediverse than I already do.
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Something that practically nobody on Mastodon (or anywhere else in the Fediverse) knows:
Explanations do not belong into the alt-text. There must never be exclusive information only in the alt-text. Explanations and other extra information must always go into the post text.
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Why
Because not everyone can access alt-text.
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# # # # # # # # # # # So this means that if I have an extremely long and fully detailed image description in the post (my character limit is not 500, but over 16.7 million), and that image description contains verbatim transcripts of all text that's anywhere within the borders of the image (been there done that)...
...I still have to provide another image description in the alt-text that's still sufficiently detailed and accurate, and that contains all the same verbatim transcripts of all the same texts
Now, I'm not talking about Twitter or Bluesky or Mastodon screenshots. I'm talking about renderings from within 3-D virtual worlds. They may have a whole lot of text in them even if it isn't always large enough to be readable.
For example, take this image from the same Fediverse channel that I'm replying to you right now:

I've posted it in this Fediverse post (as in the post did end up in a lot of Mastodon timelines):

I have described the image twice. In the post itself, there is a long description of 60,000+ characters, including all necessary explanations to understand the image and the description, and including transcripts of all texts:

In the alt-text which is exactly 1,500 characters long, there is a short image description of a bit over 1,400 characters which does not contain any text transcripts. That's because it doesn't have enough room for all these transcripts plus visual descriptions of where each one of all these bits of text is.
If it's a hard requirement to add all these text transcripts into the alt-text and, of course, describe where they are (because they'd be useless otherwise), then I can no longer post any images with text anywhere in them. And I probably have to delete all my image posts that do contain text and hope that they will be deleted from everywhere on Mastodon and Pixelfed as well.
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My eyelashes are annoyingly long. Whenever I wear glasses I can feel them pressing up against the lenses.
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Watch the time lapse video of this drawing on YouTube Shorts:
See the latest at
The 2025 20-25 Challenge.
This year lets get better at something by finding a little practice time most days, in my case drawing. - Do your activity for at least 25 minutes, at least 25 days per month.
- Use the hashtag on social media etc to track your progress
- Also use the hashtag to cheer on others.
Thats about it!
Have fun with your activities, whatever they may be!
Drawing, programming, dancing, cooking, make up, reading, languages, gardening, mastering high fives, sewing, astrophysics, vcr clock setting ...
...where "always" means "since before there was even Mastodon".
A side-effect of their model, present at least on Hubzilla and Hubzilla's descendants, including still existing (streams) and Forte, is that comments/replies cannot exist in a stream without a) a parent and b) a start post. On all of them, including Friendica, it isn't a post if it replies to something, very much unlike Mastodon where a thread is a bunch of posts.
Depending on whom you ask, a conversation looks either like this:
or like this:
And by default, you always see it like this, very much unlike Mastodon where you only see single-message piecemeal in any timeline, and you have to dig deep to see a whole thread.
If you delete a comment or a reply, this won't just remove the comment from the conversation and rip a hole into the branch in the conversation where the comment used to be. Instead, it will delete the comment, all comments on it, all comments on these comments and so far from the conversation because all these comments on comments no longer have a parent, and therefore, they no longer have anywhere to attach in the conversation.
If you delete the post, you delete the whole conversation. The comments on the post will no longer have a parent, and nothing in the conversation will have a post to refer to anymore.
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1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

#3.7B

Unfortunately, I can't join that discussion for some reason.
Just so much, : Most of my Fediverse data and identities are anything but locked to any instance. All my and channels are . I could make more clones, I could declare any clone the new main instance, and no matter which server goes offline, my channels will carry on.
Each of these servers corresponds not to an ATmosphere PDS and not to a full ATmosphere PDS/relay/AppView stack either, but to a Mastodon server, only that these servers use something else than ActivityPub as their primary protocol and ActivityPub only as an optional extra protocol. However, with the creation of Forte in August, 2024, this technology was first implemented entirely with ActivityPub.
This technology is neither new nor experimental in fact, it has been around for longer than Mastodon, much less Bluesky: It was conceived in 2011 and first implemented on a precursor of Hubzilla in mid-2012.
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Title: Chteau Inferno
Episode of 3 main maps + 2 secret levels in an Infernal Castle

Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output

-run -term

Can I pay off a loan with home sale proceeds and get capital gains tax exemption

I have taken an education loan against my residential property. If I want to sell the house and
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That's why I'm working on an entire wiki on how to describe images and write proper alt-texts in the Fediverse. Right now, it's planned to have over 40 pages, even though not even half of them are written yet. The topic is actually that complex, and there's so much that nobody on Mastodon knows when it comes to alt-text.
Besides, there isn't any image description guide otherwise that takes the non-Mastodon Fediverse in account. I'm going to cover that as well, although I won't add step-by-step guides on how to add an alt-text with this Web frontend or that mobile app. But I'm going to take into consideration that the non-Mastodon Fediverse is never limited to only 500 characters.
In case you're curious:
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Find the latitude of any place on earth.