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hankg, 8 months ago to random

Thanks to that Mike Masnick @mmasnick link I just shared on the #fediverse (sorry Bluesky people it won't propagate over the #friendica bridge but this will) I learned that Hamish McKenzie, Substack co-founder, was integral to lining people up to sign the "anti-Substackers-Against-Nazis" letter. As Mike stated so well, "McKenzie literally organized the 'we support Substack supporting Nazis' letter signing campaign. Which, again, he’s totally allowed to do, but it calls into question his claimed neutrality in all of this. He’s not setting up a 'neutral' site to host speech. He’s created a site that hosts some speech and doesn’t host other speech. It promotes some speech, and doesn’t promote other speech. Those are all choices, and they have nothing to do with supporting free speech."
Substack Realizes Maybe It Doesn’t Want To Help Literal Nazis Make Money After All (But Only Literal Nazis)

hankg, 8 months ago to random

Musk capriciously bans left leaning and centrist people for no reason, like literally none. They don't even have emails telling them which posts or why. It's his platform to do what he wants with, why I'm on the fediverse not there. Just everyone in MSM stop buying his "I'm doing this for free speech principles" whenever he platforms the most odious right wing people, literal Nazis, and serial disinformation people like Alex Jones. This isn't the first time the mask is off, but still people give him far too much deference on these matters. Enough is enough. Also, get off the platform while you can and preferrably not by jumping to a platform owned by the same set of billionaires that own/created Twitter/Facebook/etc. (e.g. Mastodon, Friendica, PixelFed, the fediverse, not Bluesky, Threads, Post, etc). #ElonMusk #MuskIsADick #BillionairesShouldNotExist #fediverse
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation

hankg, 8 months ago to random

OK Enough playing with the new Friendica...back to the tasks I am supposed to be doing. The Bluesky bridge, the thing I've been looking forward to the most seems to be working very well. Posts from Friendica shows up there, with proper segmentation if longer than their paltry 300 character limit. Following an account from the Friendica side propagates over to the Bluesky Account. Reshares/likes/comments on Bluesky posts done in Friendica are properly reflected there. Reshares/likes/comments on fediverse posts do not show up over there, as expected. The Bluesky content is not federated to other fediverse servers, as expected. I can't even get it to come up with a direct link search. So all thumbs up! The only hiccup I've found so far is posts that are reflected from Friendica to Bluesky seem to show up in Relatica as from my Bluesky user when they are split up. Still overall excellent work to everyone that worked on it, especially @heluecht
#friendica #fediverse #BlueSky

hankg, 9 months ago to random

I just found this list of the current top 10,000 most followed users on the Mastodon part of the fediverse. It's interesting to see what the fediverse looks like from that perspective. I do wish we had something like this fediverse wide but appreciate the work that has gone into compiling this list specifically for Mastodon. #fediverse #mastodon most-followed-masotodon-accoun…

hankg, 9 months ago to random

The latest beta of the Relatica mobile and desktop Friendica client, version 0.9.0, has just been released. Along with a slew of small bug fixes and tweaks this release now has a mechanism for viewing, filtering, and exporting the log events generated by the software. This will help users interact with developers (well me right now) in diagnosing problems on their system. This release also has the long requested feature of opening up tag searches on the user's home server not the remote server when they are clicked on. This is available for Apple and Google stores for those in the test program (ping me if you want access) and should have approval in the next 24 hours. Direct downloads for Android, Linux, and Windows are available from the install page. #relatica #friendica #fediverse
My Social Portal / Relatica · GitLab

hankg, 10 months ago to random

Just a heads up. The latest Friendica is going to have some nomenclature changes for Groups (now called Circles) and a reordering of action buttons on posts/comments to align with the order other sites use. Along with some other bug fixes and tweaks, I'm updating Relatica to reflect that as well. #relatica #friendica #fediverse