You can't describe images in Fediverse
This, by the way, is something that next to nobody in the Fediverse knows, and that many will deny and fight with all they can:
Alt-text must never include exclusive information that is neither in the post text nor in the image itself. Such information must always go into the post itself. If you don't have room in the post, add it to a reply or multiple.
That's because not everybody can access alt-text. Certain physical disabilities can make accessing alt-text impossible, for example, if someone can't use their hands. Money quote from way down :
I have a disability that prevents me from seeing alt text, because on almost all platforms, seeing the alt requires having a screenreader or working hands. If you post a picture, is there info that you want somebody who CAN see the picture but DOESNT have working hands to know Write that in visible text. If you put that in the alt, you are explicitly excluding people like me.
But you dont have to overthink it. The description of the image itself is a simple concept.
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Let's just say I'm a bit critical about that because, in my opinion, it doesn't work in the Fediverse.
Sorry, but that's non-sense. At least for anything that goes significantly beyond a real-life cat photo.
If you describe an image through a phone, you describe it to one person. Usually a person whom you know, so you've at least got a rough idea on what they need described. Even more importantly, you can ask that person what they want to know about the image if you don't know. And you get a reply.
If you describe an image for a public Fediverse post, you describe it to millions of Fediverse users and billions of Web users. You can't know what they all want, nor can you generalise what they all want. And you can't even ask one of them what they need described before or while describing, much less all of them. In fact, you can't ask at all. And yet, you have to cater to everyone's needs the same and throw no-one under a bus.
If I see a realistic chance that someone might be interested in some detail in one of my images, I will describe it. It won't be in the shorter description in the alt-text instead, it will be in the long description which I've always put directly into the post so far, but whose placement I'm currently reconsidering. If something is unfamiliar enough to enough people that it requires an explanation, I will explain it in the long description.
Right now, only meme posts are an exception. They don't need as much of a visual description as long as I stick to the template, and a poll has revealed that people do prefer externally linked third-party explanations over my own ones blowing the character count of the post out of proportion. This is the one time that I can safely assume that I actually know what most people want.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Inclusion #A11y #Accessibility
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #QuotePost #QuoteTweet #QuoteToot #QuoteBoost One thing you could do is AltText hashtag which many put on their posts with alt-text. Also, AltTextHallOfFame hashtag and follow .
However, I'm not sure if that will lead to the desired outcome. Checking Mastodon users' alt-texts and the reactions upon these was part of what . In fact, I ended up describing all my original images twice, including with a long image description in the post itself. And I'm constantly upping my game, improving my style and declaring old image descriptions obsolete because I keep learning new things and trying new things.
Granted, you may not be inspired to go as far as I did, seeing as you've got 500 characters in posts whereas I have hundreds of thousands or even millions. But still, chances are that analysing other people's alt-texts may have you overthink image descriptions even more rather than less.
For reference, here are my latest original image posts in reverse chronological order (the older, the more obsolete):
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta If you have a lot to describe, and/or if you need to explain your image, the best you can do is to give two descriptions for the same image.
A "short", purely visual description in the alt-text, also to satisfy the alt-text police and the Mastodon HOA who demand there be an alt-text for all images, no matter what.
And a long, detailed description that includes all explanations, and that goes into the post.
Yes, it will exceed 500 characters. But if you regularly have to describe that much, it's best to move someplace with a much higher character limit. Spreading a long description across multiple Mastodon toots can only be a short-term kluge.
Misskey offers you hard-coded 3,000 characters. All its forks have configurable character limits which tend to be higher. Akkoma offers you at least 5,000 characters. Friendica offers you 200,000 characters, but adding alt-text isn't as straight-forward as on Mastodon.
The limit I have here on Hubzilla is even higher I don't know how high it is, but it doesn't really matter because AFAIK Mastodon rejects all posts from outside with over 100,000 characters.
But I don't post images here anymore because Hubzilla cannot make Mastodon blank out sensitive images. I have two channels for images on (streams) now which can make Mastodon hide images, Jupiter Rowland's (streams) outlet and Jupiter's Fedi-Memes on (streams). (streams) has a fixed character limit of over 24,000,000 that's defined by database field size.
That is, I rarely post images nowadays. Explaining my Fediverse memes is tedious enough already. But properly describing and explaining my original virtual world images so that everyone gets them takes up so much time and energy (one image post always takes up several hours, and I touch-type on a hardware keyboard) that there are practically always months between two image posts.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Akkoma #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta*jayrope Von KI fr Bildbeschreibungen fr meine Bilder halte ich gar nichts. Meine Bilder sind ber ein extremes Nischenthema, und um sie zu beschreiben und zu erklren, braucht es extremes Nischenwissen.
Ich hab's demonstrativ zweimal mit LLaVA versucht. habe ich selbst in acht Stunden und ber 25.000 Zeichen beschrieben. LLaVA hat in vielleicht einer halben Minute etwas ber 550 Zeichen rausgetan. .
Fazit:
Das wird der Altbot nicht signifikant besser knnen.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #Bildbeschreibung #Bildbeschreibungen #BildbeschreibungenMeta #CWBildbeschreibungenMeta #AI #KI #LLaVA #Altbot Long
Dazu kommt, da man Hubzilla nicht einfach so mit Standardeinstellungen nutzen kann. Da gibt's eigentlich irre viel, was erst eingestellt werden mu, damit Hubzilla vor allem im heutigen Fediverse vernnftig funktioniert. Hubzilla ist von seinen Standardeinstellungen her darauf ausgelegt, wie man sich 2012 vorstellte, wie das Fediverse 2015 mal aussehen soll.
Um dich z. B. mit Mastodon verbinden zu knnen, mut du erst ActivityPub als "App" "installieren".
Du wirst dich mit dem Berechtigungssystem auseinandersetzen und dir mindestens zwei, drei verschiedene Contact Roles anlegen mssen. Nur auf dem Wege kannst du nmlich die Berechtigungen deiner Kontakte steuern.
Wenn du Privacy Groups "installierst", um sowas wie Mastodons Listen (auf Koks und Steroiden) zu haben, wirst du bei der standardmigen Privacy Group abschalten mssen, da normalerweise alle deine Posts dahin gehen, weil du sonst nicht ffentlich posten wirst, wenn du nicht aufpat.
Es lohnt sich generell, mal in Augenschein zu nehmen. Da gibt's auch .
Auf jeden Fall lohnt es sich, dem Hubzilla Support Forum beizutreten und zustzlich Pepes Hubzilla-Sprechstunde.
Falls dich Hubzilla zu sehr erschlgt: Vielleicht brauchst du keine Verbindung zu diaspora*. Oder Artikel, Planungskarten, Wikis oder Webpages. Vielleicht mut du auch nicht unbedingt RSS- oder Atom-Feeds abonnieren. Vielleicht kannst du leben ohne so schicke neue Themes wie Neuhub Tab oder die Utsukta-Themes und ohne die Mglichkeit, so ziemlich alle Farben im "guten alten" Redbasic einstellen zu knnen. Vielleicht brauchst du auch keine mehreren Profile pro Kanal.
Vielleicht kommst du frs erste auch ohne nomadische Identitt aus, weil es ganz einfach noch kaum Instanzen gibt, auf die man klonen knnte.
Dann kannst du dir mal die zwei jngsten "Nachfolger" von Hubzilla angucken, falls du von denen noch nicht gehrt hast.
Zum einen ist da von Oktober 2021 . Inoffiziell wird es nach dem Code-Repository "(streams)" genannt, also immer in Klammern, weil es eigentlich nicht der Name ist. (streams) ist ein Fork von einem Fork von drei Forks von einem Fork (von einem Fork) von Hubzilla von Hubzillas eigenem Schpfer Mike Macgirvin.
Ein paar Vorteile:
Da betreibt Der Pepe (nomd) brigens auch . Support gibt's hier: Streams.
Falls es dich interessiert: .
Und dann ist da etwas, was Mike Macgirvin selbst Mitte August 2024 von (streams) geforkt hat (er entwickelt immer noch beides weiter), was aber offiziell erst vor vier Tagen, am 12. Mrz, erstmals releaset wurde: . Im Prinzip funktioniert Forte wie (streams). Aber whrend (streams) auf der neuesten Version des Nomad-Protokolls basiert und ActivityPub immer noch optional ist, basiert Forte komplett auf ActivityPub und erledigt als erstes Fediverse-Projekt auch nomadische Identitt komplett ber ActivityPub.
Einen Tag nach Release hat die wohl auch wieder aktuell gestartet, wobei ich nicht wei, ob da Registrieren mglich ist. Und er hat als Supportforum gestartet.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte
The only exception seems to be Horizon itself, but only because it was spearheaded by a former Linden. And even then, Horizon failed because Zuckerberg had too much control and, at the same time, no idea whatsoever how virtual worlds work.
It's especially the cryptobros who put raking in money above and before anything else. Sure, a commercial virtual world needs a business model and a steady source of income to stay afloat. But the "business model" of many crypto-based virtual worlds is, "First I'll sell land to celebrities and megacorporations for cryptocurrency worth millions of real-life dollars a patch. Then I'll rake in even more money when the cryptocurrency rises in value as people start speculating with it. And then, well, yeah, I guess I'll take care of the world." Lots of "metaverses" tanked because they sold NFT deeds to virtual land that they never actually managed to create.
Decentraland actually exists, you have to give them that.
Still, the makers of Decentraland had and still have to if they refuse to look at other worlds and .
This includes in-world building. Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it's convenient. And virtual worlds based on game engines like Unity3D or the Unreal Engine don't make it convenient. If you want a city in-world, you have to build the entire city in an external game scene editor as one block, all small details included, script it there, export it, convert it, and then you can import it. You can't actually build anything in-world. You can't change anything in-world. If you have a few more visitors at home, and you want to add a chair or two, you have to fire up the editor, edit the whole scene, add the chairs there, export it again, convert it again and throw everyone out of your home because you have to delete and re-import the entire scene.
Second Life lets you add a chair right there, right then. Second Life lets you build furniture on the spot if you're skilled enough. Or entire buildings. At "worst", the external tools you use are Blender for 3-D meshes and Photoshop or GIMP for textures so the single objects you make look better. And still, you piece your part of the world together from big and small objects in-world. Say about Second Life's graphics engine what you want, but it facilitates world-building greatly because it doesn't require in-world places to be static, monolithic scenes like in video games.
Speaking of which, Second Life is often criticised for its learning curve and bad on-boarding. Decentraland seems to manage to be even worse.
Oh, and if the makers of Decentraland had actually done their homework and some more research, they wouldn't use that stupid "first decentralised metaverse ever" claim. It's stupid because it's wrong.
The "first decentralised metaverse" came to exist in 2007 already with , a free and open-source server-side re-implementation of Second Life's technology. The term "metaverse" has actually been used around OpenSim since 2007, including by (now offline for extended maintenance) , the first public OpenSim grid, the oldest still existing OpenSim grid and one of the two biggest OpenSim grids.
Decentraland is "decentralised" in the crypto sense: It uses its own cryptocurrency rather than relying on one of the big ones like Bitcoin, Etherium or Dogecoin. But as a virtual world, it's still one big monolithic walled garden.
OpenSimulator is decentralised by being the technology underneath well over 3,000 big and small individual virtual worlds. Now it comes: Almost all of them are connected to one another via the so-called Hypergrid which was created in 2008. You can have an avatar on one grid and visit another grid with that avatar, even taking your inventory with you. You can have friends on other grids. You can join groups on other grids (although group functionality across grid borders can be hit-and-miss).
Lastly, virtual land NFTs being cash cows only works because people don't know about Second Life or think it's dead, and because they've never heard of OpenSim. There are more than enough stories of people or companies shelling out eight-digit US dollar sums for patches of land in new virtual worlds.
AFAIK, Second Life charges you some $250 of monthly rent for a 256x256m standard region with an island on it, surrounded by ocean, and $300 per month for the same size of land on the mainland. Granted, only if you can get that land in the first place.
's has , depending on land size and capacity. The default is a bit over $25 a month for 1,024x1,024m and 20,000 prims. And the Wolf Territories, being a commercial grid, are actually considered expensive because the "standard" has been $10/month for 256x256m and 15,000 prims, and some grids go as low as $5/month for 256x256m. You're likely to get what you pay for, but still.
This is also possible because, unlike Second Life, unlike Decentraland, unlike Horizon, unlike almost all other virtual worlds, land is not scarce in OpenSim. Anyone can literally make their own land in OpenSim. You can run OpenSim on a Web server or on a machine at home. You can host your own land as a stand-alone and attach it to an existing grid, although only few grids allow this. Or you can even host your own entire grid and open it to the Hypergrid if you so desire. The vast majority of grids is home-hosted.
In fact, all those who are working on building the "open Metaverse" should take quite a few more closer looks at OpenSim. Otherwise they're bound to make some very painful mistakes.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #Decentraland #Blockchain #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Cryptocurrencies #NFTs #MetaPlatforms #MetaHorizon #Horizon #HorizonWorlds #SecondLife #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Hypergrid #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Decentralised #Decentralized It may not be very active because explaining my memes has proven to be very tedious, even if people let me get away with linking to external explanations. But you may try my "" channel. It's on which is part of the Fediverse and one of its Facebook alternatives. You can follow it from Mastodon.
Just beware: If I get going again, chances are I'll lampoon Mastodon. A lot. In ways that those who think Mastodon is the bee's knees, the best there is, may not like.
Also, there is where I post my memes as well. It's on , one Fediverse alternative to Reddit. But, again, you can follow it from Mastodon.
This time, however, you're most likely dealing with people who didn't come from Twitter to Mastodon to Lemmy, but rather with people who came from Reddit directly to Lemmy without ever having been on Twitter or Mastodon. They may not know much about the Fediverse outside of Lemmy, so most memes are only about Lemmy without saying so.
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Move to Friendica.
Refollow everyone on Friendica whom you follow on Mastodon.
Integrate your Bluesky account directly into Friendica. Your Bluesky contacts will become Friendica contacts. No Bridgy Fed bridge needed.
Then you have one unifiedtimeline stream with Friendica and Mastodon and the whole rest of the Fediverse and Bluesky. And diaspora*. And Tumblr (yes, right now already). And Libertree. Etc.
Better yet: You can send one and the same post to the Fediverse and to Bluesky and to diaspora* etc. all at once and receive comments from all these places under the same post.
Even better yet: A Friendica post can be as long as 400 Mastodon toots. And it can contain just about every kind of text formatting that's possible with HTML, up to and including a virtually unlimited number of images embedded in-line (instead of a maximum of four images always only dangling under the post as file attachments). And it can have a title.
Only two caveats: You'll probably need an account on a Friendica node in the USA to be able to federate with Threads. Even then you're at Meta's mercy because it's up to them whether that node is allowed to connect to Threads or not, and Friendica nodes are very likely to not be allowed to connect because Friendica's culture may collide with Threads' federation requirements.
Also, Friendica can't do polls.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads #diaspora* #Tumblr #Friendica
To my best knowledge, Hubzilla cannot import anything from Mastodon. No posts, no followed, especially no followers.
(streams) can import CSV-formatted follow lists I don't know if Mastodon can export them, or if Mastodon has its own proprietary follow list format. But (streams) cannot make your followers on Mastodon your followers on (streams) because it cannot make people follow you. Also, (streams) cannot import posts from Mastodon.
Mass-importing 5,000+ connections from Mastodon to Hubzilla or (streams) would be a stupid idea anyway. You'd have to go through all of them and configure them. Yes, whereas Mastodon only has "I follow you" and "I don't follow you", Hubzilla and (streams) have extensive configuration options for connection. And you will need them.
You'd have to edit 5,000+ connections, one by one, and
Neither Hubzilla nor (streams) is something that you can join and use away on 100% bone-stock default settings just like that.
And truth be told: If you give 5,000+ Fediverse actors full permissions to send you all their stuff, your unread activities counter (this exists, yes) will be up to "99+" every few minutes. I myself don't even have 100 active connections that are allowed to send me anything. On some of them, I filter boosts out. And yet, I get well over 100 unread activities per day that I have to catch up with.
In fact, Hubzilla and (streams) will suck even more content onto your stream than Mastodon. That's because they support threaded conversations. They don't show you single posts. They show you whole threads, including comments by people whom you don't follow and who didn't mention you.
I don't know if you follow Eugen Rochko. But if you do, imagine he posts something. 200 people reply. On Mastodon, you get Rochko's post. On Hubzilla and (streams), you get Rochko's post and 200 replies flooding onto your stream by and by.
Seriously, if you really want to move to Hubzilla (or (streams)), start over from scratch. And go slowly instead of following shit-tons of people right off the bat to have your stream abuzz like on Twitter or Facebook.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)Les pcheries de Pornic.
Fisheries from Pornic - France
-exposure I've basically moved my alt to the Wolf Territories myself. I've actually followed my home and my two shops because they're all on Nautilus sims, and Chad Deischer has relocated the whole Nautilus archipelago to the Wolf Territories several weeks ago, my furnished home, the stuff in my shops and all. So I had to follow suit to reclaim my home and my shops.
I just hope the Wolf Territories will find a way to have that nasty bug with creating folders and outfits fixed, then it'll be much more fun.
As for OSgrid, I'm not sure what to do with the avatar I have there. Maybe keep him as another spare. I'm not even sure if I'll find him a new home. But I won't delete him, seeing as he's the creator of a few items.
My main remains in Dorenas World.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSgrid #WolfTerritories #WolfTerritoriesGrid #WTGrid #WolfGrid #DorenasWorld
Well, as long it's only a few minutes...
For comparison: I've spent two full days, morning to evening, describing the image in in a bit over 1,400 characters of short description in the alt-text and over 60,000 characters of long description (+ explanations + verbatim transcripts of all pieces of text within the borders of the image) in the post itself.
I've figured that . And it's a rule that all text within an image must be transcribed verbatim, but it's a rule that doesn't explicitly cover or exclude unreadable text. I'm just playing by rules.
The reason why I always have two descriptions, one in the post, one in the alt-text, is because every image in the Fediverse must have an alt-text that actually describes the image accurately and at a certain minimum level of detail. Again, I'm just playing by the rules. But at the same time, I can't fit my full descriptions into the 1,500 characters that Mastodon, Misskey and their forks let through.
Anyway, don't worry about peanuts.
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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta Die Hashtags mssen sein. Zum Teil sind sie zum Filtern bzw. zum automatischen Generieren leserseitiger CWs, was auf Mastodon seit Oktober 2022 und auf () seit 2012 mglich ist.
Die volle Content Warning im Mastodon-Stil fr diesen Kommentar wrde lauten: "CW: langer Post (fast 4.000 Zeichen), Fediverse-Meta, Fediverse-ber-Mastodon-hinaus-Meta".
Ich wrde so eine Content Warning auch ber diesen Kommentar setzen. Das ist hier aber technisch nicht mglich.
Zum einen: Das CW-Feld ist nicht fr Mastodon ganz neu erfunden worden. Statt dessen hat Mastodon 2017 das Zusammenfassungsfeld, das StatusNet schon 2008 eingefhrt hat, als CW-Feld zweckentfremdet. Denn fr maximal 500 Zeichen braucht man keine Zusammenfassungen.
Hier auf Hubzilla ist es aber immer noch ein Zusammenfassungsfeld. Hubzilla ist 2012 entstanden, und zwar als Fork von Friendica von 2010 von Friendicas eigenem Erfinder. Auch auf Friendica ist es ein Zusammenfassungsfeld. Das war alles noch lange vor Mastodon.
Warum Hubzilla sich Mastodon nicht angepat und das Zusammenfassungsfeld in ein CW-Feld umgewandelt hat Erstens, weil Hubzilla nicht jeden Mist von Mastodon mitmacht.
Zweitens, weil Hubzilla kein Zeichenlimit hat. Oder wenn doch, drfte es in den Millionen liegen. Da ergibt ein Zusammenfassungsfeld Sinn.
Drittens, weil Inhaltswarnungen auf Hubzilla vollautomatisch leserseitig fr jeden Leser individuell generiert werden. Jeder Hubzilla-Veteran wird dir Stein und Bein schwren, da das tausendmal besser ist als Mastodons posterseitige CWs, die jedem gleichermaen aufgezwungen werden.
So, und warum kann ich hier keine Mastodon-CW einsetzen
Hier kommt der nchste groe Unterschied zwischen Mastodon und Hubzilla: Im Gegensatz zu Mastodon hat Hubzilla in sich geschlossene Konversationen. Genau wie ein Blog, genau wie Facebook, genau wie Tumblr usw. Noch einmal: Hubzilla ist ein Fork von Friendica, das 2010 als Facebook-Alternative an den Start ging, die auch als Blogging-Engine taugen sollte.
Aus Hubzilla-Sicht hat ein Thread genau einen Post, den Startpost. Antworten sind hier auf Hubzilla keine Posts. Es sind Kommentare. Wie Facebook-Kommentare. Wie Blog-Kommentare.
Mastodon hat auch eine Eingabemaske fr alles. Hubzilla hat eine fr Posts und Privatnachrichten. Und eine separate fr Kommentare fr jeden separaten Thread. Und die Eingabemasken fr Kommentare sind speziell auf das ausgelegt, was Kommentare brauchen. Genau wie auf Facebook. Genau wie auf Blogs.
Und welchen Sinn wrde ein Zusammenfassungsfeld fr Kommentare ergeben Wo gibt es das Hat Facebook das Welches Blog hat das
Und genau deshalb gibt's das auch auf Hubzilla nicht.
Last but not least: Wenn es anders ist als Mastodon, ist es weder kaputt noch falsch. Mastodon ist nicht der Standard, an den sich alles zu halten hat.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Hubzilla Machen Mastodon-Nutzer doch auch oft genug nicht, wenn sie ber Mastodon schreiben.
Und genau darauf spielt an: auf die Mastodon-Normativitt, die gerade unter Mastodon-Nutzern weit verbreitet ist. Mastodon ist der "Standard", und standardmig ist alles Mastodon, auer es wird explizit dazugesagt, da es nicht Mastodon ist. Aber wenn es nicht Mastodon ist, dann mu das dazugesagt werden.
Es ist ja auch vllig normal fr Mastodon-Nutzer, "Mastodon" zu sagen, wenn man das ganze Fediverse meint, oder "Fediverse" zu sagen, wenn man nur die Serversoftware Mastodon meint. Und auf gar keinen Fall darf man sie dafr kritisieren. Wenn man selbst nicht auf Mastodon ist, schon mal erst recht nicht, weil man dann maximal ein Fediverse-Nutzer zweiter Klasse ist.
Das erklrt (mit), warum Crossgolf sich so verhlt, wie er es tut. Z. B. seine Posts den Leuten im "FoundKey-Netzwerk" zu widmen und nicht etwa im Fediverse.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NichtNurMastodon #MastodonZentrizitt #MastodonNormativitt
The asset server is in such a bad state now that each crash and restart caused more assets to break. Yesterday, OSgrid reached a state in which it was no longer even possible to save inventories as IARs as they all ended up corrupt. So instead of closing the grid on March 21st to , they had to pull the plug immediately.
One could say this means that lots of OSgrid users who wanted to wait until the last moment to save their stuff have lost lots of content. I say they've probably lost it already before the grid closure because chances are it was already broken at that point.
Seriously, the last time I've logged my OSgrid alt in, and that was last week, almost none of his attachments worked. No body. No hair. No glasses. Etc. I had to unpack replacements for some of the items from boxes which happened to still be intact, but for adjusted or modified items, I had to send in another "me" to deliver replacements right into OSgrid.
Now the OSgrid staff say they want to "completely rebuild the assets in a new format". At first glance, this reads like they no longer want to wipe the asset server and fix the assets themselves instead. But seriously, they've tried that for years. To less than no avail as we can see now. More assets are geb0rkt than not.
I myself rather think they've already started wiping it, and they simply want to change the way the assets are stored. And that's although OSgrid has switched to Avination-coined fsasset after the RAID failure in 2014 and the eight-month data rescue timeout until 2015. But that was almost a decade ago, and you can only change so much on an asset server in a running grid with assets on it.
Basically, instead of just resetting the asset server, they're going to tear it down and rebuild it. After all, they're still hoping for most residents (those who were active recently anyway) to return and bring their stuff back (what parts of it aren't broken anyway).
Most other grids would have called it quits at this point. And seriously, OSgrid was the first public OpenSim grid, it's the oldest grid (launched in 2007), and it's one of only two remaining grids from the 2000s (the other one is AnSky from 2008). It's probably a question of honour for OSgrid to carry on against all odds.
On a more positive note on decentralised stuff, seems to work again.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSgridCrossroad
Starting a new "mini-" series if you will here. This one was done in February 12th, as I had a night walk to the nearby traffic light (carrying my tripod and camera), planning to do some long exposures. Generally speaking, the results weren't up to my expectations, but I managed to salvage some shots.
For this shoot, I've used Voigtlnder 20mm, coupled with a variable ND filter (yes, ND, at night, for long exposure), and "Starry Night" filter from Kenko. This filter is supposedly used to reduce the light pollution, and seems awkward to use it in such situations, but I just wanted to try, since I've never used this one before even though I got it months ago. This filter also has a bluish tint, and I had to set the white balance properly (using WB correction tool) and despite all of that, processing the images in terms of colors was a bit of a task, especially in terms of the color halos (or bleeding), which eventually, I had to make peace with! The exposure for this one was about 7 minutes. What's strange though, cars didn't pass by much when I shoot such long exposures, but only after I finish them!
There's in ZetaWorlds which starts in a bit over an hour and a half.
There's the in the Wolf Territories.
There's an unlisted St. David's Day Dance on the Welsh sim in Speculoos Grid.
Not to mention a whole lot of more or less regular events.
Maybe we'll do some event hopping today.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Hypergrid #VirtualEvent #ZetaWorlds #WolfTerritories #WolfTerritoriesGrid #WolfGrid #WTGrid #Speculoos #OpenSimWorldsFair #StDavidsDay #DyddGwylDewiHapus #ZeroDiscriminationDayToday is one of those days on which simply too much happens in the Hypergrid at the same time.
There's in ZetaWorlds which starts in a bit over an hour and a half.
There's the in the Wolf Territories.
There's an unlisted St. David's Day Dance on the Welsh sim in Speculoos Grid.
Not to mention a whole lot of more or less regular events.
Maybe we'll do some event hopping today.
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Das tun wir ja nicht mit denselben Leuten.
"Bier trinken" tun wir mit Leuten, die offen fr das ganze Fediverse sind, wie und , die ja selbst nicht nur auf Mastodon sind, sondern unter Doris und Steffen auch auf Hubzilla. Und Hubzilla ist technologisch wie auch kulturell das diametrale Gegenteil von Mastodon.
"Streiten" tun wir mit denen, die darauf beharren, da das Fediverse nur Mastodon ist. Da Mastodon ein in sich geschlossenes Netzwerk ist und alle, die das bestreiten, in aller ffentlichkeiti als ahnungslose Idioten beschimpfen (was so tatschlich mit einem Tech-Journalisten passiert ist).
Mit Leuten, die Mastodon als Goldstandard im ganzen Fediverse ansehen und alles, was von Mastodon abweicht, als entweder kaputt oder konzeptionell falsch.
Mit Leuten, die mit aller Gewalt Mastodons Kultur (die erst Mitte 2022 von frischen Twitter-Flchtlingen auf Basis von Mastodon 3.x definiert wurde) im ganzen Fediverse durchdrcken wollen und damit andere Serveranwendungen ihrer eigenen, eigens auf sie zugeschnittenen und oftmals sogar lteren Kultur berauben wollen. Damit geht dann einher, da sie Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzern verbieten wollen, Features der von ihnen genutzten Software zu nutzen, nur weil Mastodon sie (standardmig) nicht hat.
Siehe wieder (Calckey, einige tausend Zeichen zur Verfgung), den ein Mastodon-Nutzer angeschnauzt hat, er soll geflligst entweder lange Posts (alles ber 500 Zeichen) in Schnipsel von maximal 500 Zeichen zerschneiden oder sich aus dem Fediverse verpissen. Doch, das ist ganz genau so passiert.
Man stt ja schon auf vehemente Widerstnde, wenn Leute, die nur Mastodon kennen und das ganze Fediverse nur durch die Mastodon-Brille sehen, der felsenfesten Ansicht sind, sie htten einen absolut objektiven und ungetrbten Blick auf das Fediverse. Die allermeisten Mastodon-Nutzer beharren darauf, da Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer im Fediverse nicht diskriminiert oder ausgegrenzt werden, whrend sie selbst fleiig Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer diskriminieren. Es ist fr sie ganz einfach komplett unvorstellbar, da das Fediverse fr jemanden, der z. B. Anfang, Mitte der 2010er nach Friendica kam, irgendwie anders aussieht als fr jemanden, der irgendwann von 2022 bis 2024 nach Mastodon kam und nur Mastodon kennt.
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One is , a fork of Friendica from 2012. The other one is called by the community, and it's a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork) of Hubzilla from 2021.
I've made that compare Mastodon, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) in a number of categories.
Hubzilla and (streams) give you the following possible target audiences for new posts:
The permissions systems of Hubzilla and (streams) are compatible to one another, i.e. one understands the permissions defined by the other. I'm not sure how well they and Friendica play with each other, though.
As for Mastodon: Any post that isn't public is understood by Mastodon as a DM and treated as such. Your contacts can't boost it, for example. The downside is that this kills any chances of meaningful discussions for Mastodon users.
So Hubzilla and (streams) have this advanced permissions system, and they understand threaded conversations and treat each one of these as an enclosed object with exactly one post and any number of comments. A thread always has and enforces consistent permissions all over, including all comments.
If you're on Hubzilla, and you send a post to Alice on Hubzilla and Bob on (streams), not only do both see your post, but both also automatically receive each other's comments, and they can comment on each other's comments.
Mastodon understands your post with restricted permissions as a DM. But Mastodon DMs only ever happen between two actors. This means: If Alice and Bob are on Mastodon, then both receive your post as a DM, but neither receives any comment from the other, and they can't comment on each other's comments either.
Also, fair warning ahead:
Neither of them is "Mastodon with some extra features". They're all very different from Mastodon. They all have steeper learning curves than Mastodon. Friendica's learning curve is significantly steeper than Mastodon's. (streams)' learning curve is quite another bit steeper than Friendica's because the permissions system is not optional, and not everything is public by default. Hubzilla has an even steeper learning curve.
Also, none of the three has a full set of dedicated native mobile apps. For Friendica, there are basically only Android apps. In the Apple App Store, there's nothing. Friendica can also be used with some Mastodon apps, but they only cover maybe 20% of Friendica's features, namely those that Mastodon has, too, so you'll be very, very limited. In fact, they do not cover any permission settings.
For Hubzilla and (streams), there are no phone apps at all. They don't support Mastodon apps either, and they never will. It simply wouldn't make sense because a Mastodon app would not cover important key features.
So if you're on an iPhone or iPad, or if you want to try Hubzilla or (streams), your only option is the Web interface, either in a browser or as a Progressive Web App. At least, all three have Web interfaces that adapt to mobile devices.
Lastly, you won't find (streams) on FediDB or Fediverse Observer. It's intentionally kept away from there, and it intentionally does not submit any stats. There are currently only two public, open-registration instances anyway, , with a German admin who also speaks English.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Facebook #FacebookAlternative Typischerweise versuchen Mastodon-Nutzer entweder, jemanden out-of-the-blue zu erwhnen, oder, jemandem out-of-the-blue eine DM zu schicken.
Und genau das geht beides nicht mit Friendica-Nutzern. Wenn du sie einfach so erwhnst, dann merken sie das in aller Regel nicht. Und eine DM kann man nur schicken an volle Verbindungen. Also:
Alternative: sich gleich an eine der Gruppen wenden, also entweder oder .
Das geht dann von Mastodon aus so:
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica
Alt-text must never include exclusive information that is neither in the post text nor in the image itself. Such information must always go into the post itself. If you don't have room in the post, add it to a reply or multiple.
That's because not everybody can access alt-text. Certain physical disabilities can make accessing alt-text impossible, for example, if someone can't use their hands. Money quote from way down :
I have a disability that prevents me from seeing alt text, because on almost all platforms, seeing the alt requires having a screenreader or working hands. If you post a picture, is there info that you want somebody who CAN see the picture but DOESNT have working hands to know Write that in visible text. If you put that in the alt, you are explicitly excluding people like me.
But you dont have to overthink it. The description of the image itself is a simple concept.
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Mostly, just imagine youre telling your friend over the phone about image youre looking at and what they would need to know.
Let's just say I'm a bit critical about that because, in my opinion, it doesn't work in the Fediverse.
You can't describe images in Fediverse posts like over the phone
Allegedly, a "good" advice for image descriptions is always to describe images like you'd describe them to someone on a landline phone.Sorry, but that's non-sense. At least for anything that goes significantly beyond a real-life cat photo.
If you describe an image through a phone, you describe it to one person. Usually a person whom you know, so you've at least got a rough idea on what they need described. Even more importantly, you can ask that person what they want to know about the image if you don't know. And you get a reply.
If you describe an image for a public Fediverse post, you describe it to millions of Fediverse users and billions of Web users. You can't know what they all want, nor can you generalise what they all want. And you can't even ask one of them what they need described before or while describing, much less all of them. In fact, you can't ask at all. And yet, you have to cater to everyone's needs the same and throw no-one under a bus.
If I see a realistic chance that someone might be interested in some detail in one of my images, I will describe it. It won't be in the shorter description in the alt-text instead, it will be in the long description which I've always put directly into the post so far, but whose placement I'm currently reconsidering. If something is unfamiliar enough to enough people that it requires an explanation, I will explain it in the long description.
Right now, only meme posts are an exception. They don't need as much of a visual description as long as I stick to the template, and a poll has revealed that people do prefer externally linked third-party explanations over my own ones blowing the character count of the post out of proportion. This is the one time that I can safely assume that I actually know what most people want.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Inclusion #A11y #Accessibility
CC:
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #QuotePost #QuoteTweet #QuoteToot #QuoteBoost One thing you could do is AltText hashtag which many put on their posts with alt-text. Also, AltTextHallOfFame hashtag and follow .
However, I'm not sure if that will lead to the desired outcome. Checking Mastodon users' alt-texts and the reactions upon these was part of what . In fact, I ended up describing all my original images twice, including with a long image description in the post itself. And I'm constantly upping my game, improving my style and declaring old image descriptions obsolete because I keep learning new things and trying new things.
Granted, you may not be inspired to go as far as I did, seeing as you've got 500 characters in posts whereas I have hundreds of thousands or even millions. But still, chances are that analysing other people's alt-texts may have you overthink image descriptions even more rather than less.
For reference, here are my latest original image posts in reverse chronological order (the older, the more obsolete):
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta If you have a lot to describe, and/or if you need to explain your image, the best you can do is to give two descriptions for the same image.
A "short", purely visual description in the alt-text, also to satisfy the alt-text police and the Mastodon HOA who demand there be an alt-text for all images, no matter what.
And a long, detailed description that includes all explanations, and that goes into the post.
Yes, it will exceed 500 characters. But if you regularly have to describe that much, it's best to move someplace with a much higher character limit. Spreading a long description across multiple Mastodon toots can only be a short-term kluge.
Misskey offers you hard-coded 3,000 characters. All its forks have configurable character limits which tend to be higher. Akkoma offers you at least 5,000 characters. Friendica offers you 200,000 characters, but adding alt-text isn't as straight-forward as on Mastodon.
The limit I have here on Hubzilla is even higher I don't know how high it is, but it doesn't really matter because AFAIK Mastodon rejects all posts from outside with over 100,000 characters.
But I don't post images here anymore because Hubzilla cannot make Mastodon blank out sensitive images. I have two channels for images on (streams) now which can make Mastodon hide images, Jupiter Rowland's (streams) outlet and Jupiter's Fedi-Memes on (streams). (streams) has a fixed character limit of over 24,000,000 that's defined by database field size.
That is, I rarely post images nowadays. Explaining my Fediverse memes is tedious enough already. But properly describing and explaining my original virtual world images so that everyone gets them takes up so much time and energy (one image post always takes up several hours, and I touch-type on a hardware keyboard) that there are practically always months between two image posts.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Akkoma #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta*jayrope Von KI fr Bildbeschreibungen fr meine Bilder halte ich gar nichts. Meine Bilder sind ber ein extremes Nischenthema, und um sie zu beschreiben und zu erklren, braucht es extremes Nischenwissen.
Ich hab's demonstrativ zweimal mit LLaVA versucht. habe ich selbst in acht Stunden und ber 25.000 Zeichen beschrieben. LLaVA hat in vielleicht einer halben Minute etwas ber 550 Zeichen rausgetan. .
Fazit:
- Ich konnte haarklein erklren, wo das Bild gemacht wurde, und zwar so, da es auch ein Laie versteht. Der Ort, die Sim, das Grid, die Software darunter, was es mit der Software auf sich hat, was ein Grid ist, was eine Sim ist usw. usf. etc. pp. Das ist es, was die Leute wissen mssen. LLaVA konnte nur grob spekulieren.
- Ich habe den Avatar recht detailliert beschrieben, LLaVA berhaupt nicht und ihn als "Charakter" bezeichnet.
- LLaVA hat darber halluziniert, wohin der Avatar guckt. Ich wute es, obwohl es von hinten gar nicht sichtbar ist. Ich konnte auch sagen, warum der Avatar von hinten zu sehen ist.
- LLaVA hat Text in dem Bild nicht mal gefunden. Ich habe fast alles an Text, was fr mich irgendwie lesbar war. wortwrtlich transkribiert. Ich glaube, ich habe nur ein Nummernschild ber einer Tr auf einem Bild in diesem Bild vergessen.
- Ich habe von dem Ort den popkulturellen Bogen zu Edgar Wallace und zum Frhstyxradio schlagen knnen. LLaVA nicht.
- LLaVA hat nicht mal geschrieben, da das Bild schwarzwei ist. Ich habe korrekt geschrieben, da in Wahrheit alles in-world von der Szenerie bis hin zum Avatar schwarzwei ist.
- Dieses ominse Gebilde rechts im Bild LLaVA hat es nicht mal wahrgenommen. Ich habe es in 3000 Zeichen beschrieben und in weiteren 2500 Zeichen erklrt.
- Bei der Tageszeit hat LLaVA sich total verhauen, weil es weder wute, in welche Richtung die Kamera zeigt, noch, wie hoch die Bume eigentlich sind, die die Schatten werfen.
- LLaVA hat auch keinen der Bume als Bergkiefer identifizieren knnen.
Das wird der Altbot nicht signifikant besser knnen.
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Hubzilla funktioniert eben fundamental anders als Mastodon und viele andere Sachen im Fediverse. Und ja, es hat eine heftige Lernkurve, bei der einem kaum geholfen wird. Die eingebaute Hilfe ist (noch) unvollstndig, hoffnungslos veraltet und fehlerhaft. Der Pepe (Hubzilla) hat sie , das ist aber noch nicht offiziell eingebaut. Pepe hat brigens auch die , die ber die Hilfe hinausgeht.Dazu kommt, da man Hubzilla nicht einfach so mit Standardeinstellungen nutzen kann. Da gibt's eigentlich irre viel, was erst eingestellt werden mu, damit Hubzilla vor allem im heutigen Fediverse vernnftig funktioniert. Hubzilla ist von seinen Standardeinstellungen her darauf ausgelegt, wie man sich 2012 vorstellte, wie das Fediverse 2015 mal aussehen soll.
Um dich z. B. mit Mastodon verbinden zu knnen, mut du erst ActivityPub als "App" "installieren".
Du wirst dich mit dem Berechtigungssystem auseinandersetzen und dir mindestens zwei, drei verschiedene Contact Roles anlegen mssen. Nur auf dem Wege kannst du nmlich die Berechtigungen deiner Kontakte steuern.
Wenn du Privacy Groups "installierst", um sowas wie Mastodons Listen (auf Koks und Steroiden) zu haben, wirst du bei der standardmigen Privacy Group abschalten mssen, da normalerweise alle deine Posts dahin gehen, weil du sonst nicht ffentlich posten wirst, wenn du nicht aufpat.
Es lohnt sich generell, mal in Augenschein zu nehmen. Da gibt's auch .
Auf jeden Fall lohnt es sich, dem Hubzilla Support Forum beizutreten und zustzlich Pepes Hubzilla-Sprechstunde.
Falls dich Hubzilla zu sehr erschlgt: Vielleicht brauchst du keine Verbindung zu diaspora*. Oder Artikel, Planungskarten, Wikis oder Webpages. Vielleicht mut du auch nicht unbedingt RSS- oder Atom-Feeds abonnieren. Vielleicht kannst du leben ohne so schicke neue Themes wie Neuhub Tab oder die Utsukta-Themes und ohne die Mglichkeit, so ziemlich alle Farben im "guten alten" Redbasic einstellen zu knnen. Vielleicht brauchst du auch keine mehreren Profile pro Kanal.
Vielleicht kommst du frs erste auch ohne nomadische Identitt aus, weil es ganz einfach noch kaum Instanzen gibt, auf die man klonen knnte.
Dann kannst du dir mal die zwei jngsten "Nachfolger" von Hubzilla angucken, falls du von denen noch nicht gehrt hast.
Zum einen ist da von Oktober 2021 . Inoffiziell wird es nach dem Code-Repository "(streams)" genannt, also immer in Klammern, weil es eigentlich nicht der Name ist. (streams) ist ein Fork von einem Fork von drei Forks von einem Fork (von einem Fork) von Hubzilla von Hubzillas eigenem Schpfer Mike Macgirvin.
Ein paar Vorteile:
- ActivityPub ist fest in den Kern eingebaut und auch in neuen Kanlen standardmig aktiviert.
- Hubzillas Verzeichnis listet nur Kanle, die auf dem Nomad-Protokoll basieren, also Hubzilla- und (streams)-Kanle. Es kann nicht auf PubCrawl oder diaspora* zurckgreifen. Weil auf (streams) ActivityPub im Kern ist, listet (streams) im Verzeichnis auch alle mglichen ActivityPub-Akteure.
Wenn man "Groups only" whlt, listet (streams) nicht nur Hubzilla-Foren und (streams)-Gruppen, sondern auch Guppe Groups, Friendica-Gruppen, Lemmy-Communities, /kbin- und Mbin-Magazine, PieFed-Communities usw., soweit die Instanz sie kennt. - (streams) ist aktuell die einzige Fediverse-Software, die nomadische Akteure sowohl auf Nomad als auch auf ActivityPub (siehe unten) als nomadisch erkennt.
- Die Einstellungen sind alle an einer Stelle zusammengefat. Den Zirkus mit /settings/features und den Zahnrdern oben links gibt's nicht mehr.
- Kanalweite Berechtigungen knnen sehr viel einfacher eingestellt werden. Man hat nicht mehr alles in undurchsichtige Presets verpackt oder eine Custom-Kanalrolle, wo einem vorm Einstellen gewarnt wird und deren Einstellungen nicht da sind, wo sie ausgewhlt wird. Die Kanaltypen decken nur noch einige sehr wenige Einstellungen ab, alles andere ist immer einzeln einstellbar.
- Berechtigungen pro Kontakt knnen direkt am Kontakt eingestellt werden. Berechtigungsrollen (Contact Roles auf Hubzilla) sind jetzt im Prinzip nur noch Presets zur Bequemlichkeit und daher optional.
- Posts knnen auer mit BBcode auch mit Markdown oder HTML formatiert werden. Gleichzeitig, weil manche Features nur mit BBcode gehen.
- Zusammenfassungen (die Mastodon als CWs versteht) mssen jetzt mit Tags gesetzt werden, dafr gibt es wie auf Friendica kein Eingabefeld mehr. Dafr funktionieren sie zuverlssig auch bei Kommentaren.
- Beim Hochladen von Bildern kann man gleich einen Alt-Text angeben. Bei schon hochgeladenen Bildern kann man einen nachreichen. Wenn man sie dann in einen Post einbettet, wird der Alt-Text gleich in den Einbettungscode eingebaut. Bei Hubzilla ist das noch Handarbeit direkt am Code, die offiziell (noch) nirgendwo dokumentiert ist.
- Wenn du einen Bildpost mit dem Hashtag
#nsfwoder#sensitiveversiehst, wird das Bild/werden die Bilder so markiert, da Mastodon sie ausblendet. Das ist aber auch eine der ganz wenigen Konzessionen an Mastodon. - Antwortenkontrolle geht (optional) noch weiter als auf Hubzilla: Du kannst bestimmen, da nur Mitglieder einer bestimmten Access List auf einen Post antworten drfen. Du kannst bestimmen, bis zu welchem Zeitpunkt auf einen bestimmten Post geantwortet werden darf. Und du kannst einstellen, wie lange generell auf deine (neuen) Posts geantwortet werden darf.
Da betreibt Der Pepe (nomd) brigens auch . Support gibt's hier: Streams.
Falls es dich interessiert: .
Und dann ist da etwas, was Mike Macgirvin selbst Mitte August 2024 von (streams) geforkt hat (er entwickelt immer noch beides weiter), was aber offiziell erst vor vier Tagen, am 12. Mrz, erstmals releaset wurde: . Im Prinzip funktioniert Forte wie (streams). Aber whrend (streams) auf der neuesten Version des Nomad-Protokolls basiert und ActivityPub immer noch optional ist, basiert Forte komplett auf ActivityPub und erledigt als erstes Fediverse-Projekt auch nomadische Identitt komplett ber ActivityPub.
Einen Tag nach Release hat die wohl auch wieder aktuell gestartet, wobei ich nicht wei, ob da Registrieren mglich ist. Und er hat als Supportforum gestartet.
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The entire "Metaverse = blockchain + crypto + NFTs" cryptobro scene seems blissfully unaware of the existence of (tagging them so they can have a laugh for the weekend if they notice). In fact, apparently, so does almost everyone who started a virtual world since the mid-2010s, especially since Meta's Horizon announcement. A few virtual world makers may be fully convinced that Second Life is dead and gone since 2008 or 2009, just like so many others. Most of them, however, seem to never even have heard that name ever before.The only exception seems to be Horizon itself, but only because it was spearheaded by a former Linden. And even then, Horizon failed because Zuckerberg had too much control and, at the same time, no idea whatsoever how virtual worlds work.
It's especially the cryptobros who put raking in money above and before anything else. Sure, a commercial virtual world needs a business model and a steady source of income to stay afloat. But the "business model" of many crypto-based virtual worlds is, "First I'll sell land to celebrities and megacorporations for cryptocurrency worth millions of real-life dollars a patch. Then I'll rake in even more money when the cryptocurrency rises in value as people start speculating with it. And then, well, yeah, I guess I'll take care of the world." Lots of "metaverses" tanked because they sold NFT deeds to virtual land that they never actually managed to create.
Decentraland actually exists, you have to give them that.
Still, the makers of Decentraland had and still have to if they refuse to look at other worlds and .
This includes in-world building. Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it's convenient. And virtual worlds based on game engines like Unity3D or the Unreal Engine don't make it convenient. If you want a city in-world, you have to build the entire city in an external game scene editor as one block, all small details included, script it there, export it, convert it, and then you can import it. You can't actually build anything in-world. You can't change anything in-world. If you have a few more visitors at home, and you want to add a chair or two, you have to fire up the editor, edit the whole scene, add the chairs there, export it again, convert it again and throw everyone out of your home because you have to delete and re-import the entire scene.
Second Life lets you add a chair right there, right then. Second Life lets you build furniture on the spot if you're skilled enough. Or entire buildings. At "worst", the external tools you use are Blender for 3-D meshes and Photoshop or GIMP for textures so the single objects you make look better. And still, you piece your part of the world together from big and small objects in-world. Say about Second Life's graphics engine what you want, but it facilitates world-building greatly because it doesn't require in-world places to be static, monolithic scenes like in video games.
Speaking of which, Second Life is often criticised for its learning curve and bad on-boarding. Decentraland seems to manage to be even worse.
Oh, and if the makers of Decentraland had actually done their homework and some more research, they wouldn't use that stupid "first decentralised metaverse ever" claim. It's stupid because it's wrong.
The "first decentralised metaverse" came to exist in 2007 already with , a free and open-source server-side re-implementation of Second Life's technology. The term "metaverse" has actually been used around OpenSim since 2007, including by (now offline for extended maintenance) , the first public OpenSim grid, the oldest still existing OpenSim grid and one of the two biggest OpenSim grids.
Decentraland is "decentralised" in the crypto sense: It uses its own cryptocurrency rather than relying on one of the big ones like Bitcoin, Etherium or Dogecoin. But as a virtual world, it's still one big monolithic walled garden.
OpenSimulator is decentralised by being the technology underneath well over 3,000 big and small individual virtual worlds. Now it comes: Almost all of them are connected to one another via the so-called Hypergrid which was created in 2008. You can have an avatar on one grid and visit another grid with that avatar, even taking your inventory with you. You can have friends on other grids. You can join groups on other grids (although group functionality across grid borders can be hit-and-miss).
Lastly, virtual land NFTs being cash cows only works because people don't know about Second Life or think it's dead, and because they've never heard of OpenSim. There are more than enough stories of people or companies shelling out eight-digit US dollar sums for patches of land in new virtual worlds.
AFAIK, Second Life charges you some $250 of monthly rent for a 256x256m standard region with an island on it, surrounded by ocean, and $300 per month for the same size of land on the mainland. Granted, only if you can get that land in the first place.
's has , depending on land size and capacity. The default is a bit over $25 a month for 1,024x1,024m and 20,000 prims. And the Wolf Territories, being a commercial grid, are actually considered expensive because the "standard" has been $10/month for 256x256m and 15,000 prims, and some grids go as low as $5/month for 256x256m. You're likely to get what you pay for, but still.
This is also possible because, unlike Second Life, unlike Decentraland, unlike Horizon, unlike almost all other virtual worlds, land is not scarce in OpenSim. Anyone can literally make their own land in OpenSim. You can run OpenSim on a Web server or on a machine at home. You can host your own land as a stand-alone and attach it to an existing grid, although only few grids allow this. Or you can even host your own entire grid and open it to the Hypergrid if you so desire. The vast majority of grids is home-hosted.
In fact, all those who are working on building the "open Metaverse" should take quite a few more closer looks at OpenSim. Otherwise they're bound to make some very painful mistakes.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #Decentraland #Blockchain #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Cryptocurrencies #NFTs #MetaPlatforms #MetaHorizon #Horizon #HorizonWorlds #SecondLife #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Hypergrid #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Decentralised #Decentralized It may not be very active because explaining my memes has proven to be very tedious, even if people let me get away with linking to external explanations. But you may try my "" channel. It's on which is part of the Fediverse and one of its Facebook alternatives. You can follow it from Mastodon.
fedimemesonstreamsstreams.elsmussols.netJust beware: If I get going again, chances are I'll lampoon Mastodon. A lot. In ways that those who think Mastodon is the bee's knees, the best there is, may not like.
Also, there is where I post my memes as well. It's on , one Fediverse alternative to Reddit. But, again, you can follow it from Mastodon.
fedimemesfeddit.ukThis time, however, you're most likely dealing with people who didn't come from Twitter to Mastodon to Lemmy, but rather with people who came from Reddit directly to Lemmy without ever having been on Twitter or Mastodon. They may not know much about the Fediverse outside of Lemmy, so most memes are only about Lemmy without saying so.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Streams #(streams) #Lemmy #Memes #FediMemes
if you look at what employers are being ask to pay towards employer contributions for staff this year, they may be paying of staff... so what chance does government have in getting term sick and folks with into employment... it is just another **K
IMO...one of the main failings in this concept across all party's who have historically tried to get folks who have a or have been on term sick back into employment is a basic truth... will not them, including, government NHS and Local authorities...
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Move to Friendica.
Refollow everyone on Friendica whom you follow on Mastodon.
Integrate your Bluesky account directly into Friendica. Your Bluesky contacts will become Friendica contacts. No Bridgy Fed bridge needed.
Then you have one unified
Better yet: You can send one and the same post to the Fediverse and to Bluesky and to diaspora* etc. all at once and receive comments from all these places under the same post.
Even better yet: A Friendica post can be as long as 400 Mastodon toots. And it can contain just about every kind of text formatting that's possible with HTML, up to and including a virtually unlimited number of images embedded in-line (instead of a maximum of four images always only dangling under the post as file attachments). And it can have a title.
Only two caveats: You'll probably need an account on a Friendica node in the USA to be able to federate with Threads. Even then you're at Meta's mercy because it's up to them whether that node is allowed to connect to Threads or not, and Friendica nodes are very likely to not be allowed to connect because Friendica's culture may collide with Threads' federation requirements.
Also, Friendica can't do polls.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads #diaspora* #Tumblr #Friendica
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I hope thats one of those cocks that bends as it passes your second hole. One of the best feelings ever.
Short answer: no.To my best knowledge, Hubzilla cannot import anything from Mastodon. No posts, no followed, especially no followers.
(streams) can import CSV-formatted follow lists I don't know if Mastodon can export them, or if Mastodon has its own proprietary follow list format. But (streams) cannot make your followers on Mastodon your followers on (streams) because it cannot make people follow you. Also, (streams) cannot import posts from Mastodon.
Mass-importing 5,000+ connections from Mastodon to Hubzilla or (streams) would be a stupid idea anyway. You'd have to go through all of them and configure them. Yes, whereas Mastodon only has "I follow you" and "I don't follow you", Hubzilla and (streams) have extensive configuration options for connection. And you will need them.
You'd have to edit 5,000+ connections, one by one, and
- assign them the appropriate contact role (Hubzilla)/permission role ((streams)) so that they have the right permissions (on Hubzilla and (streams), everything is permissions, and permissions are everything)
- add them to one or multiple privacy groups (Hubzilla)/access lists ((streams)) (think Mastodon lists, but on lots of coke and 'roids optional on Hubzilla, but highly recommended)
- maybe also adjust the (optional) affinity (Hubzilla)/friend zoom ((streams)) slider
- maybe even add lines to the (optional, but recommended) per-contact filter lists (you'll need to do this on Hubzilla to keep contacts from spamming you with boosts)
Neither Hubzilla nor (streams) is something that you can join and use away on 100% bone-stock default settings just like that.
And truth be told: If you give 5,000+ Fediverse actors full permissions to send you all their stuff, your unread activities counter (this exists, yes) will be up to "99+" every few minutes. I myself don't even have 100 active connections that are allowed to send me anything. On some of them, I filter boosts out. And yet, I get well over 100 unread activities per day that I have to catch up with.
In fact, Hubzilla and (streams) will suck even more content onto your stream than Mastodon. That's because they support threaded conversations. They don't show you single posts. They show you whole threads, including comments by people whom you don't follow and who didn't mention you.
I don't know if you follow Eugen Rochko. But if you do, imagine he posts something. 200 people reply. On Mastodon, you get Rochko's post. On Hubzilla and (streams), you get Rochko's post and 200 replies flooding onto your stream by and by.
Seriously, if you really want to move to Hubzilla (or (streams)), start over from scratch. And go slowly instead of following shit-tons of people right off the bat to have your stream abuzz like on Twitter or Facebook.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)Les pcheries de Pornic.
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-exposure I've basically moved my alt to the Wolf Territories myself. I've actually followed my home and my two shops because they're all on Nautilus sims, and Chad Deischer has relocated the whole Nautilus archipelago to the Wolf Territories several weeks ago, my furnished home, the stuff in my shops and all. So I had to follow suit to reclaim my home and my shops.
I just hope the Wolf Territories will find a way to have that nasty bug with creating folders and outfits fixed, then it'll be much more fun.
As for OSgrid, I'm not sure what to do with the avatar I have there. Maybe keep him as another spare. I'm not even sure if I'll find him a new home. But I won't delete him, seeing as he's the creator of a few items.
My main remains in Dorenas World.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSgrid #WolfTerritories #WolfTerritoriesGrid #WTGrid #WolfGrid #DorenasWorld
i just figure, hey, sometimes i like to sit there and pick out every detail in a pic for a few minutes, maybe someone using a screen reader would too
Well, as long it's only a few minutes...
For comparison: I've spent two full days, morning to evening, describing the image in in a bit over 1,400 characters of short description in the alt-text and over 60,000 characters of long description (+ explanations + verbatim transcripts of all pieces of text within the borders of the image) in the post itself.
I've figured that . And it's a rule that all text within an image must be transcribed verbatim, but it's a rule that doesn't explicitly cover or exclude unreadable text. I'm just playing by rules.
The reason why I always have two descriptions, one in the post, one in the alt-text, is because every image in the Fediverse must have an alt-text that actually describes the image accurately and at a certain minimum level of detail. Again, I'm just playing by the rules. But at the same time, I can't fit my full descriptions into the 1,500 characters that Mastodon, Misskey and their forks let through.
Anyway, don't worry about peanuts.
CC:
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta Die Hashtags mssen sein. Zum Teil sind sie zum Filtern bzw. zum automatischen Generieren leserseitiger CWs, was auf Mastodon seit Oktober 2022 und auf () seit 2012 mglich ist.
- #Long
#LongPost: fr diejenigen Mastodon-Nutzer, die sich an Posts mit ber 500 Zeichen stren. Wenn sie dieses Hashtag filtern, sehen sie meine berlangen Posts und Kommentare (ber 500 Zeichen) nicht mehr. - #CWLong
#CWLongPost: dasselbe, aber von vornherein als Content Warning ersichtlich gemacht. Entspricht: "CW: long post (almost 4,000 characters)". - #LangerPost: wie #LongPost, aber fr deutsche Nutzer, die des Englischen nicht mglich sind, damit sie verstehen, was die Hashtags sollen.
- #CWLangerPost: wie #CWLongPost, aber fr deutsche Nutzer, die des Englischen nicht mglich sind, damit sie verstehen, was die Hashtags sollen. Gleichbedeutend mit "CW: langer Post (fast 4.000 Zeichen)".
- #FediMeta
#FediverseMeta: fr Leute, die sich daran stren, wenn jemand ber das Fediverse postet. Wenn sie eines oder beide dieser Hashtags filtern, sehen sie meine Fediverse-Posts und -Kommentare nicht mehr. - #CWFediMeta
#CWFediverseMeta: dasselbe, aber von vornherein als Content Warning ersichtlich gemacht. Entspricht: "CW: Fediverse meta".
Die volle Content Warning im Mastodon-Stil fr diesen Kommentar wrde lauten: "CW: langer Post (fast 4.000 Zeichen), Fediverse-Meta, Fediverse-ber-Mastodon-hinaus-Meta".
Ich wrde so eine Content Warning auch ber diesen Kommentar setzen. Das ist hier aber technisch nicht mglich.
Zum einen: Das CW-Feld ist nicht fr Mastodon ganz neu erfunden worden. Statt dessen hat Mastodon 2017 das Zusammenfassungsfeld, das StatusNet schon 2008 eingefhrt hat, als CW-Feld zweckentfremdet. Denn fr maximal 500 Zeichen braucht man keine Zusammenfassungen.
Hier auf Hubzilla ist es aber immer noch ein Zusammenfassungsfeld. Hubzilla ist 2012 entstanden, und zwar als Fork von Friendica von 2010 von Friendicas eigenem Erfinder. Auch auf Friendica ist es ein Zusammenfassungsfeld. Das war alles noch lange vor Mastodon.
Warum Hubzilla sich Mastodon nicht angepat und das Zusammenfassungsfeld in ein CW-Feld umgewandelt hat Erstens, weil Hubzilla nicht jeden Mist von Mastodon mitmacht.
Zweitens, weil Hubzilla kein Zeichenlimit hat. Oder wenn doch, drfte es in den Millionen liegen. Da ergibt ein Zusammenfassungsfeld Sinn.
Drittens, weil Inhaltswarnungen auf Hubzilla vollautomatisch leserseitig fr jeden Leser individuell generiert werden. Jeder Hubzilla-Veteran wird dir Stein und Bein schwren, da das tausendmal besser ist als Mastodons posterseitige CWs, die jedem gleichermaen aufgezwungen werden.
So, und warum kann ich hier keine Mastodon-CW einsetzen
Hier kommt der nchste groe Unterschied zwischen Mastodon und Hubzilla: Im Gegensatz zu Mastodon hat Hubzilla in sich geschlossene Konversationen. Genau wie ein Blog, genau wie Facebook, genau wie Tumblr usw. Noch einmal: Hubzilla ist ein Fork von Friendica, das 2010 als Facebook-Alternative an den Start ging, die auch als Blogging-Engine taugen sollte.
Aus Hubzilla-Sicht hat ein Thread genau einen Post, den Startpost. Antworten sind hier auf Hubzilla keine Posts. Es sind Kommentare. Wie Facebook-Kommentare. Wie Blog-Kommentare.
Mastodon hat auch eine Eingabemaske fr alles. Hubzilla hat eine fr Posts und Privatnachrichten. Und eine separate fr Kommentare fr jeden separaten Thread. Und die Eingabemasken fr Kommentare sind speziell auf das ausgelegt, was Kommentare brauchen. Genau wie auf Facebook. Genau wie auf Blogs.
Und welchen Sinn wrde ein Zusammenfassungsfeld fr Kommentare ergeben Wo gibt es das Hat Facebook das Welches Blog hat das
Und genau deshalb gibt's das auch auf Hubzilla nicht.
Last but not least: Wenn es anders ist als Mastodon, ist es weder kaputt noch falsch. Mastodon ist nicht der Standard, an den sich alles zu halten hat.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Hubzilla Machen Mastodon-Nutzer doch auch oft genug nicht, wenn sie ber Mastodon schreiben.
Und genau darauf spielt an: auf die Mastodon-Normativitt, die gerade unter Mastodon-Nutzern weit verbreitet ist. Mastodon ist der "Standard", und standardmig ist alles Mastodon, auer es wird explizit dazugesagt, da es nicht Mastodon ist. Aber wenn es nicht Mastodon ist, dann mu das dazugesagt werden.
Es ist ja auch vllig normal fr Mastodon-Nutzer, "Mastodon" zu sagen, wenn man das ganze Fediverse meint, oder "Fediverse" zu sagen, wenn man nur die Serversoftware Mastodon meint. Und auf gar keinen Fall darf man sie dafr kritisieren. Wenn man selbst nicht auf Mastodon ist, schon mal erst recht nicht, weil man dann maximal ein Fediverse-Nutzer zweiter Klasse ist.
Das erklrt (mit), warum Crossgolf sich so verhlt, wie er es tut. Z. B. seine Posts den Leuten im "FoundKey-Netzwerk" zu widmen und nicht etwa im Fediverse.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NichtNurMastodon #MastodonZentrizitt #MastodonNormativitt
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Heart of Fire by Elizabeth Gadd
is offline again. Not for a few hours or so like just about everyday for quite a while now. This time, .The asset server is in such a bad state now that each crash and restart caused more assets to break. Yesterday, OSgrid reached a state in which it was no longer even possible to save inventories as IARs as they all ended up corrupt. So instead of closing the grid on March 21st to , they had to pull the plug immediately.
One could say this means that lots of OSgrid users who wanted to wait until the last moment to save their stuff have lost lots of content. I say they've probably lost it already before the grid closure because chances are it was already broken at that point.
Seriously, the last time I've logged my OSgrid alt in, and that was last week, almost none of his attachments worked. No body. No hair. No glasses. Etc. I had to unpack replacements for some of the items from boxes which happened to still be intact, but for adjusted or modified items, I had to send in another "me" to deliver replacements right into OSgrid.
Now the OSgrid staff say they want to "completely rebuild the assets in a new format". At first glance, this reads like they no longer want to wipe the asset server and fix the assets themselves instead. But seriously, they've tried that for years. To less than no avail as we can see now. More assets are geb0rkt than not.
I myself rather think they've already started wiping it, and they simply want to change the way the assets are stored. And that's although OSgrid has switched to Avination-coined fsasset after the RAID failure in 2014 and the eight-month data rescue timeout until 2015. But that was almost a decade ago, and you can only change so much on an asset server in a running grid with assets on it.
Basically, instead of just resetting the asset server, they're going to tear it down and rebuild it. After all, they're still hoping for most residents (those who were active recently anyway) to return and bring their stuff back (what parts of it aren't broken anyway).
Most other grids would have called it quits at this point. And seriously, OSgrid was the first public OpenSim grid, it's the oldest grid (launched in 2007), and it's one of only two remaining grids from the 2000s (the other one is AnSky from 2008). It's probably a question of honour for OSgrid to carry on against all odds.
On a more positive note on decentralised stuff, seems to work again.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSgridCrossroad
Starting a new "mini-" series if you will here. This one was done in February 12th, as I had a night walk to the nearby traffic light (carrying my tripod and camera), planning to do some long exposures. Generally speaking, the results weren't up to my expectations, but I managed to salvage some shots.
For this shoot, I've used Voigtlnder 20mm, coupled with a variable ND filter (yes, ND, at night, for long exposure), and "Starry Night" filter from Kenko. This filter is supposedly used to reduce the light pollution, and seems awkward to use it in such situations, but I just wanted to try, since I've never used this one before even though I got it months ago. This filter also has a bluish tint, and I had to set the white balance properly (using WB correction tool) and despite all of that, processing the images in terms of colors was a bit of a task, especially in terms of the color halos (or bleeding), which eventually, I had to make peace with! The exposure for this one was about 7 minutes. What's strange though, cars didn't pass by much when I shoot such long exposures, but only after I finish them!
New COVID study, of dozens of countries, from before COVID to now, shows life expectancies dropped and have not recovered.
I you for the to incentivize form content on the network. One I have is... how is that Are we comparing the total count of the post to the total character count of the hashtags Are we counting how many words are normal and how many are
Today is one of those days on which simply too much happens in the Hypergrid at the same time.There's in ZetaWorlds which starts in a bit over an hour and a half.
There's the in the Wolf Territories.
There's an unlisted St. David's Day Dance on the Welsh sim in Speculoos Grid.
Not to mention a whole lot of more or less regular events.
Maybe we'll do some event hopping today.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Hypergrid #VirtualEvent #ZetaWorlds #WolfTerritories #WolfTerritoriesGrid #WolfGrid #WTGrid #Speculoos #OpenSimWorldsFair #StDavidsDay #DyddGwylDewiHapus #ZeroDiscriminationDayToday is one of those days on which simply too much happens in the Hypergrid at the same time.
There's in ZetaWorlds which starts in a bit over an hour and a half.
There's the in the Wolf Territories.
There's an unlisted St. David's Day Dance on the Welsh sim in Speculoos Grid.
Not to mention a whole lot of more or less regular events.
Maybe we'll do some event hopping today.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Hypergrid #VirtualEvent #ZetaWorlds #WolfTerritories #WolfTerritoriesGrid #WolfGrid #WTGrid #Speculoos #OpenSimWorldsFair #StDavidsDay #DyddGwylDewiHapus #ZeroDiscriminationDay
Wie schn, dass ihr streiten und trotzdem hinterher Bier trinken knnt und verschiedene Sichtweisen nebeneinander existieren drfen.
Das tun wir ja nicht mit denselben Leuten.
"Bier trinken" tun wir mit Leuten, die offen fr das ganze Fediverse sind, wie und , die ja selbst nicht nur auf Mastodon sind, sondern unter Doris und Steffen auch auf Hubzilla. Und Hubzilla ist technologisch wie auch kulturell das diametrale Gegenteil von Mastodon.
"Streiten" tun wir mit denen, die darauf beharren, da das Fediverse nur Mastodon ist. Da Mastodon ein in sich geschlossenes Netzwerk ist und alle, die das bestreiten, in aller ffentlichkeiti als ahnungslose Idioten beschimpfen (was so tatschlich mit einem Tech-Journalisten passiert ist).
Mit Leuten, die Mastodon als Goldstandard im ganzen Fediverse ansehen und alles, was von Mastodon abweicht, als entweder kaputt oder konzeptionell falsch.
Mit Leuten, die mit aller Gewalt Mastodons Kultur (die erst Mitte 2022 von frischen Twitter-Flchtlingen auf Basis von Mastodon 3.x definiert wurde) im ganzen Fediverse durchdrcken wollen und damit andere Serveranwendungen ihrer eigenen, eigens auf sie zugeschnittenen und oftmals sogar lteren Kultur berauben wollen. Damit geht dann einher, da sie Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzern verbieten wollen, Features der von ihnen genutzten Software zu nutzen, nur weil Mastodon sie (standardmig) nicht hat.
Siehe wieder (Calckey, einige tausend Zeichen zur Verfgung), den ein Mastodon-Nutzer angeschnauzt hat, er soll geflligst entweder lange Posts (alles ber 500 Zeichen) in Schnipsel von maximal 500 Zeichen zerschneiden oder sich aus dem Fediverse verpissen. Doch, das ist ganz genau so passiert.
Man stt ja schon auf vehemente Widerstnde, wenn Leute, die nur Mastodon kennen und das ganze Fediverse nur durch die Mastodon-Brille sehen, der felsenfesten Ansicht sind, sie htten einen absolut objektiven und ungetrbten Blick auf das Fediverse. Die allermeisten Mastodon-Nutzer beharren darauf, da Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer im Fediverse nicht diskriminiert oder ausgegrenzt werden, whrend sie selbst fleiig Nicht-Mastodon-Nutzer diskriminieren. Es ist fr sie ganz einfach komplett unvorstellbar, da das Fediverse fr jemanden, der z. B. Anfang, Mitte der 2010er nach Friendica kam, irgendwie anders aussieht als fr jemanden, der irgendwann von 2022 bis 2024 nach Mastodon kam und nur Mastodon kennt.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NichtNurMastodon #MastodonKultur #MastodonNormativitt
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There are also the "descendants" of Friendica, created as forks by Friendica's own creator over more than a dozen years now, which have even more advanced permissions systems.One is , a fork of Friendica from 2012. The other one is called by the community, and it's a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork) of Hubzilla from 2021.
I've made that compare Mastodon, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) in a number of categories.
Hubzilla and (streams) give you the following possible target audiences for new posts:
- everyone on the Internet (Hubzilla, (streams))
- all your connections ((streams) only on Hubzilla, you can emulate this with a privacy group containing all your connections)
- only the members of one particular privacy group (Hubzilla)/access list ((streams)) (think "Mastodon's lists on coke and 'roids")
- only those to whom you've assigned a specific custom profile of your channel (Hubzilla like Friendica, it actually allows you to have multiple profiles and show them to specific connections so that they see different sides of you)
- only one specific group/forum (Hubzilla, (streams))
- only an impromptu selection of connections of yours (Hubzilla, (streams))
- only you yourself (Hubzilla, (streams))
The permissions systems of Hubzilla and (streams) are compatible to one another, i.e. one understands the permissions defined by the other. I'm not sure how well they and Friendica play with each other, though.
As for Mastodon: Any post that isn't public is understood by Mastodon as a DM and treated as such. Your contacts can't boost it, for example. The downside is that this kills any chances of meaningful discussions for Mastodon users.
So Hubzilla and (streams) have this advanced permissions system, and they understand threaded conversations and treat each one of these as an enclosed object with exactly one post and any number of comments. A thread always has and enforces consistent permissions all over, including all comments.
If you're on Hubzilla, and you send a post to Alice on Hubzilla and Bob on (streams), not only do both see your post, but both also automatically receive each other's comments, and they can comment on each other's comments.
Mastodon understands your post with restricted permissions as a DM. But Mastodon DMs only ever happen between two actors. This means: If Alice and Bob are on Mastodon, then both receive your post as a DM, but neither receives any comment from the other, and they can't comment on each other's comments either.
Also, fair warning ahead:
Neither of them is "Mastodon with some extra features". They're all very different from Mastodon. They all have steeper learning curves than Mastodon. Friendica's learning curve is significantly steeper than Mastodon's. (streams)' learning curve is quite another bit steeper than Friendica's because the permissions system is not optional, and not everything is public by default. Hubzilla has an even steeper learning curve.
Also, none of the three has a full set of dedicated native mobile apps. For Friendica, there are basically only Android apps. In the Apple App Store, there's nothing. Friendica can also be used with some Mastodon apps, but they only cover maybe 20% of Friendica's features, namely those that Mastodon has, too, so you'll be very, very limited. In fact, they do not cover any permission settings.
For Hubzilla and (streams), there are no phone apps at all. They don't support Mastodon apps either, and they never will. It simply wouldn't make sense because a Mastodon app would not cover important key features.
So if you're on an iPhone or iPad, or if you want to try Hubzilla or (streams), your only option is the Web interface, either in a browser or as a Progressive Web App. At least, all three have Web interfaces that adapt to mobile devices.
Lastly, you won't find (streams) on FediDB or Fediverse Observer. It's intentionally kept away from there, and it intentionally does not submit any stats. There are currently only two public, open-registration instances anyway, , with a German admin who also speaks English.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Facebook #FacebookAlternative Typischerweise versuchen Mastodon-Nutzer entweder, jemanden out-of-the-blue zu erwhnen, oder, jemandem out-of-the-blue eine DM zu schicken.
Und genau das geht beides nicht mit Friendica-Nutzern. Wenn du sie einfach so erwhnst, dann merken sie das in aller Regel nicht. Und eine DM kann man nur schicken an volle Verbindungen. Also:
- folgen.
- Warten, bis das Konto einem zurckfolgt.
- Zurckfolgen zulassen. Damit stellt Friendica die standardmige bidirektionale Verbindung her.
- Dann erst eine DM schicken.
Alternative: sich gleich an eine der Gruppen wenden, also entweder oder .
Das geht dann von Mastodon aus so:
- Gruppe folgen.
- Warten, bis die Gruppe einem zurckfolgt.
- Zurckfolgen zulassen.
- Gruppe anschreiben in diesem Format:
Threadtitel
helpersforum.friendi.ca
Post-Text
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica
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