srijit, to random I strongly suggest that only stable builds be considered for usage in this flagship instance.
In case of Firefish, making the flagship instance a sandbox was not a good decision. Also, the major database update did not live up to the expectations as timelines still continue to feel buggier.
Though not dead, since Firefish is not fast enough in fixing issues that affect real users and real admins, I see that some Firefish instances are migrating to Sharkey or Iceshrimp.
Otherwise, for the most part, usage of Firefish has been a nice experience.
From a user perspective, both Sharkey and Iceshrimp have good prospects.
dansup, to random Pixelfed Collections [v3]
remove (only-public) and (only-self) constraints - allow items to be anything, even a url
make collections followable (w/ #activityPub)
add "Collect" button to add items to one of your collections
public "collections directory" w/ search
The refreshed Collections feature will be quite similar to #pinterest 😉
liztai, to random Most folks on the #Fediverse will go - I told you so! But #Substack's design and content choices is fostering a social "class" system of elites, followers and outsiders.
To read this post you'd need to subscribe. It's a sensitive one.http://elizabethtai.com/2023/12/03/now-on-substack-elitism-condescension-and-dogpiles/
Mrfunkedude, to random For those who don't know, I have a PeerTube Playlist of over 133 short form videos that are geared towards mental health tips and encouragement.
I made them for two reasons. Because I wanted to help others, and to leave something of myself for my daughter should anything ever happen to me.
If you're ever feeling down, pick a video at random. I hope it picks you up.
#PeerTube #MentalHealth
flatearth, to science Flat earth real life testimony 7/7
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcn6e1dPtm0
You can visit and watch the whole 7.
Joyful Christmas in advance!
🎂 Celebrate the birthday of Christ so that your own birthday will be celebrated.
flatearth, to fediverse Flat earth real life testimony 6/7
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-2dvjjVCY
You can visit and watch the whole 7.
Joyful Christmas in advance! 😀
Joyful Mysteries... 😇
SayJess, Is this a joke?
ernest, This series will never get old ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdfNuwMhMg4 [english subtitles]
osma, to random A case of spec ambiguity, maybe? I can't find a mention in WebFinger or ActivityPub specs of usernames being case insensitive. Are @osma and @osma referring to the same actor? Is that up to implementation? How does a remote server determine which is correct?
Edit: I wrote above (at)Osma@mas.to and (at)osma@mas.to, but some part of the stack converted both to a lowercase mention during posting. I don't know which part, and what specs describes that.
mikedev, To my knowledge there are no specifications for this. It's left completely to the implementation. Some projects have case-sensitive usernames and some do not. Some provide case-insensitive search and some do not. As a general rule, you'll often avoid issues if you use whatever form was used by the source of the information that you got it from.
osma, @mikedev
Yep. I only ran into this when my server received messages with mixed conventions... Didn't have a unique lowercase index on the actors, so ended up having two records for the "same" one -- for informal understandings of sameness.
fediverseobserver, to random Found 17 new servers found and 18 servers de-listed since 13 hours ago. Check out the Monthly and Daily Stats by software or server or the entire fediverse.
24,632 servers checked. 13,046,546 Total Users, 1,719,080 Monthly Active Users today vs 1,719,715 yesterday for the entire fediverse.
New #fediverse servers found:
firefish.nospy.net a #firefish server from Germany
underlap.org a #writefreely server from Germany
spokane1.peertube.support a #peertube server from United States
ms.dosuto.net a #mastodon server from Private
projectyo.network a #mastodon server from Russia
pleroma.altesq.net a #pleroma server from Canada
urban-ride.ch a #pixelfed server from Germany
community.ballhaus.dk a #friendica server from France
mastodon.sandbox.skygrid-test.com a #mastodon server from Japan
social.c-zert.nl a #mastodon server from France
02.owncast.net a #owncast server from Private
write.krafterdev.xyz a #writefreely server from Private
mastodon.wananavuoutfitters.com a #mastodon server from United States
shonk.social a #sharkey server from Private
mastodon.cross-solution.de a #mastodon server from United Kingdom
x.coralbay.top a #misskey server from Hong Kong
daring.lemmy.fan a #lemmy server from PrivateDe-Listed servers: lemmy.mywire.xyz
www.paxasteriae.co.uk
charli.info
ak.genderpiracy.org
striking-boa.jurassic.ninja
misskey.afy.jp
cast.posm.gay
cplus.app
secular-humanism.eu
opendmz.social
fr.60chequersavenue.net
lemmy.grenicmars.xyz
mastodon.jackalopes.xyz
mikumiku3.masto.host
110010.win
hub.gerontopilot.de
zepa.org
social.kwan.oneHelp others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer
box464, to random #Misskey and #Firefish Advent Calendars - learn something new about these platforms each day of December! It feels very indieweb / geocities and I love it.
My fellow english speakers - it will require the use of a translation service, but those are in about every browser nowadays, so no excuses.
Side note: What word keeps being translated as "mackeral" - is it "platform" or "instance"? 😆
hrefna, to random I don't know who needs to hear this, but the #fediverse does not need a dating app. Please please please do not create a dating app here at least until we fix some fairly substantive issues around trust and safety.
Duncan, @hrefna
"until we fix some fairly substantive issues around trust and safety"
Given the number of people using dating apps, and the impact these can have on people's lives. I would like to see this happen one day. Commercial dating apps have a conflict of interest - if you find the love of your life they lose a customer. I don't use dating apps but if there was one with community ownership I might
sgf, @hrefna That is a mind-bendingly bad idea. I almost want to see it happen just to watch the train-wreck, and then I feel bad for thinking that, because it would be actually just plain bad.
The FOSS user-empathy-free design.
The complete misapplication of cryptography.
Some dodgy dude running a server and reading the DMs.
Trust and safety being planned for v2.
A careful design being hard, so the only implementation is someone YOLOing.
I'm deliberately not even scratching the surface.
Ugh.
box464, to random So many #fediverse announcements, making my head spin. :pensive_party_blob:
kbin collections, grouping magazines privately or as shared collections
Peertube v6 chapters, scrubbing and password protected videos
Pixelfed official apps in stores by end of year.
Sup, a federated messaging app, initial release by end of year.
Sharkey post imports from a wide array of social sites (and replies to posts for Masto and X)!
MarsEdit includes Mastodon support
Funkwhale groundwork for caching
box464, Kbin
https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/668494PeerTube
https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss/111491982044289947Pixelfed and Sup
https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/111493877300463003Sharkey
https://shonk.social/notes/9mpdftxunohh00k8MarsEdit
https://redsweater.com/blog/4036/marsedit-5-1-mastodon-support-is-hereFunkwhale
https://social.funkwhale.audio/@funkwhale/111489941518483072
benpate, to random I should take a break from whining about #ActivityPub to crow about my big breakthrough. Today, I successfully sent my first messages and replies between #Emissary and #Mastodon. And all it required was a complete overhaul the custom ActivityPub outbox.
It’s a small step forward, but a huge milestone for me. Hopefully, it will translate to big wins for other devs who can use my #Golang libraries in the future.
hankg, 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
ChrisMayLA6, to random I see #ElonMusk is saying that if X (formally Twitter) goes to the wall, it will be the 'advertisers [that] bankrupted the company'... once again he seems unable to see that is a symptom not the cause of X's problems; which of course lies with him.
I guess we'll be seeing another flow of folk into the #fediverse if the advertisers 'strike' continues (s many think it will).
Its an extraordinary example of billionaire hubris!
Snowshadow, to random Last Week in Fediverse – ep 45
*Mastodon and reply guy culture
*Flipboard takes the next steps into the social web
*Nivenly organisation update
*In other news