Discovering the #fediverse gives me the same feelings #linux did years ago. The endless choice, excitement of discovery, clash of philosophies and a community.
I spent years #distrohopping from #ubuntu , #arch , #voidlinux , #nixos etc and then back to arch. Also spent a long time switching desktop environments and window managers like i3.
I started on #lemmy and #mastodon . What do I try next? #selfhost an #activitypub server? Which one?
Happy Boxing Day to all who celebrate!
And Happy Thorsday!
Hope is earned. And it's a byproduct of taking actions that are risky to you, personally.
Stop "looking for hope" and start earning it.
I’m even more annoyed by the “there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmastime” line. What, because people are poor?! There won’t be snow in Beverly Hills, either. Shall we gather and sing for that? Good grief.
There has been much ink spilled lately on the topic of what's preventing Mastodon/Fedi's wider adoption.
May I just say... I'm fine with the Fediverse being small. I'm fine with starting out here being an effort and not having been spoonfed 20 follows with my account.
I'm happy influencers don't care about this place.
I'm happy there's no quote tweets.
I think there could be more flexibility in terms of moderation, that's one thing folks have said I agree with.
The bigger Fedi gets the more impossible moderation will get. The filtering technology that exists to automate moderation is tissue paper stretched in front of the firehose of bots and trolls that popularity on the internet brings. Moderation does not scale in any kind of affordable way. Big platforms ALWAYS lose the moderation battle to the sheer number of bad actors and their infinite creativity at end-running technological and biological anti-spam and anti-abuse measures.
Only small communities can be effectively, affordably, moderated. I don't want the Fediverse to scale up. I want lots of small communities effectively policing bad behavior. Not 5-10 gigantic servers that are playing whack-a-mole with fascists. All it takes is one big server that lets the chuds in (which they will, once the community grows too large to effectively moderate) and the entire network might feel the knock-on effects. If my server blocks another, I don't want to lose 1000 good folks just to get rid of 100 white supremacists, ya dig? Keep servers small. Keep moderation aggressive. Don't cater to normies.
That's my little soapbox opinion piece. Like it or lump it. 
#soapbox #fedi
[1/7] Mit dem Standard-Web-UI von Mastodon hab ichs einfach nicht so, und nutze es üblicherweise über alternative Web-Clients. Auch den bekanntesten davon, #Elk, habe ich schon verwendet. Lange Zeit jedoch am ehesten den Web-Client von #Soapbox. Jetzt aber steige ich gerade auf #Phanpy um, das unter https://phanpy.social/ erreichbar ist.
Wie bei anderen alternativen Web-Clients für Mastodon muss man auch dort erst mal seine Heimatinstanz eingeben, also troet.cafe, social.tchncs.de oder wie eben heißt. Dann muss man noch die Erlaubnis erteilen, dass der Client die im Browser aktive Anmeldung bei der Heimatinstanz nutzen darf. Somit kann der Client die API der Heimatinstanz genauso nutzen wie der Web-Client der Heimatinstanz selber.
Obwohl sie auf die gleichen Daten via API zugreifen, können alternative Web-Clients diese Daten durchaus anders aufbereiten. Phanpy strengt sich dabei besonders an. Nachfolgend ein paar Beispiele:
A list of alternative webclients for various #fediverse software:
Notes:
* webclient: you use your own credential from your own instance
* Listed are: official webclient hosts; or an instance list.
* Optional: other instances.
* In alphabetical order.
For #Lemmy:
1: #Nemmy — https://nemmy.app
2: #Slemmy — https://slemmy.libdb.so
3: #Voyager — https://vger.app
For Mastodon and #Pleroma:
1: #Brutaldon — https://brutaldon.org — also works with text-based browsers like Lynx.
2: #Halcyon — https://www.halcyon.social/instances.php|| https://halcyon.mstdn.social — Twitter-look
3: #Phanpy — https://phanpy.social — also works as a PWA
4: #Soapbox — https://fe.soapbox.pub
For #Mastodon:
1: #Elk — https://elk.zone || https://elk.infosec.exchange — default in https://mozilla.social
2: #Pinafore — https://pinafore.social
3: #Semaphore — https://semaphore.social
4: #Trunks — https://trunks.social — with mobile clients
#frontend #webclient #ActivityPub
For more, see: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-clients
The #CIM family of #Fediverse services:
Theme: single-letter domain name.
1: https://c.im — a Mastodon software instance. (#microblogging)
2: https://c.wtf — a Rebased+Soapbox (fork of Pleroma with Soapbox frontend) software instance. (microblogging)
3: https://p.lu — a PeerTube software instance. (#video hosting)
4: https://r.nf — a Lemmy software instance. (#threadiverse)
#ActivityPub #Lemmy #Mastodon #PeerTube #Pleroma #Rebased #Soapbox
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Inspired by https://c.im/@jerry@infosec.exchange/110781964569113496
Ich betreibe eine #Pleroma Singleuserinstanz, bzw. zwei User, beide von mir.
Schon länger war ich immer mal wieder am überlegen, ob ich mir nicht noch ein paar Leute mit ins Boot hole. Ähnlich wie @Carlos mit moppels.bar.
Würde da Interesse bestehen?
Was ich bieten kann:
Was ich nicht bieten kann:
Sollte Interesse bestehen meldet euch einfach bei mir! :o)
Alles weitere können wir dann besprechen - Ich mach dann auch gerne einen Testaccount.
Whatever you do, do not use Soapbox for your #fediverse needs.
The creator and maintainer, Alex Gleason, of Soapbox (or Rebased as it was called) is anti-trans and was previously the head of engineering of the Trump-related social network (Truth Social).
He also worked on Poast, which was a social network for neo-nazis and a direct successor to Kiwi Farms.
Steer clear of it.
[ # ] :: #trans #fedi #soapbox #rebased #trump #transphobia #federation #mastodon
Ciao. Oltre mastodon ci sono istanze italofone su queste piattaforme:
Buon divertimento 
