Trying out Ebou. A cross-platform Mastodon client, written in Rust, that groups timelines by poster rather than post, somewhat like a chat client. Not sure if it'll become my daily driver, but still an interesting concept to investigate.
Today was the first day of a three-day off period I took from work as a late birthday … thing, for myself. But, the first thing I did when I woke up, was I jumped onto my PC and started writing a guide to ActivityPub. Why did I do this? Well …
There are a lot of misconceptions about AP, and Mastodon in-general. I see people saying things like, “It’s too hard,” or, “I don’t want one account for everything!” The latter is a misunderstanding, and the former is only a matter of having the information you need right in front of you.
ActivityPub software, be it Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed–they all have “join” pages, but there isn’t much in the way of connecting them all together onto one page, so someone can find them all and look at them, and read them, and maybe even learn a few things about AP and all the software that revolves around it.
So, I solved that problem … a little bit, today. And I hope it helps someone relieve their fear about jumping in, and getting at least somewhat away from the corporate slog of having ads constantly shoved in their faces while everything they write and create is scraped for soulless bots.
On the topic of ActivityPub, though, I received the unfortunate news that the Peertube instance I’ve been using for a few years are voluntarily winding down their instance due to, and in their own words, “capitalism and climate change.” I’m not entirely sure what they mean by that, but fair game.
In an attempt to keep my presence and my hundred-some videos on the Peertube network, I copied everything to infosec.exchange, and you can follow that account there! (If you want to.)
And, finally, the reason I decided to write that whole guide in order to help people get away from corpo-social-media, is because Meta is in testing on Instagram with unskippable ads. Not specifically on Reels, but just … on the timeline. While you’re scrolling. Like some cheap smartphone app trying to make revenue for its sole developer.
But what this is, is just another display of complete lack of care for the users who populate a piece of software in favor of the already fat wallets of investors, and advertisers. After a long six months of hearing and reading that generative AI is all about investors, I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m sick and tired of whoever these investors and advertisers are, thinking they can just destroy all of the internet as we know it … for a couple bucks.
And that’s why it’s time to leave that behind. Maybe not all at once. Maybe in baby steps. But, the most important first step, is to try.
Try to take back some of your identity, and ownership of your own data. If you can’t vote with your wallet, vote with your presence, and leave these apps, and developers, to destroy their software in peace. Since most of these corporations seem hell-bent on burning down the internet … for no reason.
One thing that's definitely in the top 3 most annoying things on #Mastodon for me is that I see a post on https://mastodon.social now on the #bluesky feed, I want to reply to it, and there's literally no way to do it… nothing works, I don't know why, no error messages, who the hell thought this is good UX 😖
I wish more people would look into starting their own Fediverse instance.
Having even a few HUGE instances is bad for decentralization.
Fedi is starting to become a place where you can be "silenced" pretty easily if you don't "be a good boy/girl" and go against the grain.
If you host your own instance, nobody can really silence you in that way.
I'm fairly "boring" in the fact that I don't typically talk about politics and such, but I still feel a massive sense of freedom with hosting my instance.
For folks that aren't knowledgeable in Linux, there's sites like masto.host and toot.io that offer "managed" hosting for a bit of an upcharge. But if you're able to get the very basics of Linux down, running a Mastodon instance is fairly straightforward and requires fairly low maintenance if it's just 1 user.
Decentralization is our super power. Don't let it be lost because of the few big companies like Mastodon Gmbh or Meta!
#Mastodon instance #vivaldi deleted all my followers and who I was following.
I was following 4k
Same amount of followers.
Please boost.
I have memory problems and can't find my friends. #longcovid
I am deeply wounded.
Also, turn this off in mastodon setting because if someone has a personal grudge against you, they can go in and delete anything or add anything they want.
#Iceland is a small town. I chose a local instance. They deleted everything, locked me out, and will not respond.
I'm currently trying to migrate a #mastodon server from masto.host to self-hosted and having problems (I already shut down the server, so I'm posting from an old account).
Does somebody know which files in the backup are which in the mastodon migration guide?
I'm also having trouble with restoring the PostgreSQL backup ('pg_restore: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "mastodon"').
Thanks for any help!
(It would be nice if someone could boost this, because given that this is an old account, I don't think many people would see this post otherwise.)
Is there a free #Mastodon / #Akkoma / #gotosocial host that would let me create accounts in bulk and run some automated feeds through them without considering it abuse?
A big congratulations to @ausgeo for reaching 1 MILLION followers on TikTok! 🥳
They share incredible content on the very best of Australia's wildlife, culture, people and places. You can also find them on the Fediverse, championing the social web. We love their content - be sure to give them a follow!
Das neue #Threads Design der Web App könnte für mich ein Gamechanger sein. Man kann sich einfach so seine Tweetdeck Ansicht bauen. So sehr ich #Mastodon auch mag, ohne Filter und Listen im erweiterten Web-Interface wäre es hier für mich leider ziemlich langweilig.
it would be very nice if you would make sure your posts and boosts have CWs if they contain any references to hate and discrimination in any form. I don't want to consume those because they get stuck in my head forever. I internalize very quickly. Also, consider not sharing the original discrimination at all - I don't think we need to enter a loop every time some random dumb bitch lost it. 🎤 that's all, thank you for listening 💞 #mastodon
does anyone know how to disable this "next/prev post" behavior on #mastodon web frontend when a post is hilited? i want my browser to handle the scrolling, and not have random unexpected jumps in the timeline... the worst is, when i scroll down using scrollwheel, and then for some reason tap cursor up/down and suddenly i scroll back to somewhere i have been long ago... very very annoying.
Doing A Thing and I'm wondering what queer sex-positive spaces I know on mastodon (other than woof.group).
1 - any advice gratefully received, but mainly
2 - OMG I love the federated system. It was so befuddling at first and now here I am thinking of all the different hamlets on #Mastodon, from the giant cities like .social, the communities like kinky.business, the little commune I currently live in. For all the mess and the drama, it's adorable, it's human scale. I love it. I love you, Mastoo
There is a bug with the advanced web view of Mastodon for a few months now. I have one column which is a list, and the other 4 columns are standard. If, in my timeline, I click on a post text to show the post thread in the far right pane, the mouse tracking of things like favorites, boosting, and even profile names is shifted way over. In order to temporarily fix this, I have to click on a profile name link and then it fixes itself until I expand another post thread. I am on tech.lgbt, if that matters.
I would have reported this sooner, but I wasn't sure what the appropriate hashtag is. Hoping I picked the right one now.