MIRLO 🐦 une alternative à Bandcamp libre et collective 🎶

Mirlo: a free and collective alternative to Bandcamp

https://mirlo.space/

🇫🇷 Un magasin de musique en ligne libre et collectif fait son apparition ! ✊🎶 Leur objectif: proposer un outil simple, efficace et adapté aux artistes qui veulent vendre leur musique en ligne. Le site fonctionne déjà et les futures mises à jour risquent de vous plaire: 🤝 fédération, 👕 vente de merch et CD, 💸 rémunération récurrente ou ponctuelle, 👔 gestion d'artistes et labels... le tout porté par des valeurs anticapitaliste et anarchistes ! Ses 3 fondateurs, vétérans dans ce domaine (Ampled, FunMusicPlace) sont actuellement à la recherche de financements *pour l'année 2024... *Donnez-leur un coup de main !
⏩ Partagez ce post, faites un tour sur leur site et sur leur kickstarter, et voyez par vous-même ;)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

🇺🇸 An opensource and collective music storefront appears ! ✊🎶 Their objective: build a simple efficient and adapted tool for the artists selling their music online. The website is already up and running but future updates might interest you even more: 🤝 federation, 👕 disc & merch store, 💸 recurring patronage or one-off payments, 👔 artists and label management... all brought together by anticapitalistic and anarchistic values ! Its 3 veteran founders (Ampled, FunMusicPlace) are currently seeking infrastructure funding for the rest of 2024... Help them out !
⏩ Share this post, have a look around on their website and kickstarter page, and see for yourself ;)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

#mirlo #bandcamp #layoff #layoffs #musician #musicien #collective #collectif #music #musique #musica #distribution #distributionplatform #corporate #startup #jeunepousse #bigtech #share #support #kickstarter #crowdfunding #crowdfunder #financementparticipatif #opensource #libre #anarchist #anarchiste #anarchy #anarchie #anticapitaliste #anticapitalisme #anticapitalist #queer #lgbt #lgbtqia+ #lgbtqiap+ #lgbtqiap #lgbtq #lgbtqia #community #communauté #network #label #e2c #exit2community #exittocommunity #solidarity #solidarité #economy #economie #économie #ampled #new-york #newyork #funding #label #musiclabel #productivity #partage #entraide #social #internet #online #travail #work #cooperation #collaboration #ethique #ethics #culture #storefront #magasin #federated #fédéré #federation #2024 #patronage #mécénat #remuneration #funmusicplace

Nur mal so, weil das nicht allen immer so klar ist.

Es gibt verschiedene freie Protokolle, um miteinander Kommunizieren zu können.
- ActivityPup, DFRN, Diaspora, OStatus, Pumpio, Zot, Stream, um nur einige zu nennen

Projekte integrieren eines oder mehrere dieser Protokolle in ihre Angebote

Diese Projekte bilden einen Verbund aus Protokollen und Servern (Nodes/Instanzen)
- das #Fediverse/die #Federation (New Social Web)

Ihr kommuniziert, über die integrierten Protokollen eures Projekts, immer nur mit einen Teil dieses Verbunds. Es kann also sein, dass ihr Teile des Fediverse nicht sehen könnt, weil euer Projekt nicht mit diesen Teil des Fediverse sprechen kann.

What a difference a platform made. Left free - right commercial. #federation #sex #sieben #girls #beautiful

Falls ihr einen WordPress Blog habt
If you have a WordPress blog

Aktiviert doch das Activity Pub Plugin von Herrn Pfefferle! Das ist kinderleicht und eure Seite ist sofort föderiert! Schickt mir gern den Link, ich abonniere euch.

Activate the Activity Pub plugin from Mr. Pfefferle! It's child's play and your site is instantly federated! Send me the link and I'll subscribe you.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

https://word.undead-network.de/2024/01/10/falls-ihr-einen-wordpress-blog-habt-if-you-have-a-wordpress-blog/
#activitypub #federation #Fderation #wordpress #wp

#curious ... regarding how #diaspora works...
... is this a #federation issue? or #censorship?
on https://nerdpol.ch/posts/6df24a0069eb013c332d28a1592b385a i do not see my original comments (... i did think it weird that such comment evoked no response, hence checking from another instance of diaspora).
on https://iviv.hu/posts/6df24a0069eb013c332d28a1592b385a it shows for me.
has the diaspora software adapted how it handles ignore? various instances handling it differently? some instances censoring entire other instances?

(if i do this correctly) here's a proper diaspora link there, so you can easier see on whatever instant you're currently on, the extent of the censorship of this you suffer: https://dnext.societas.online/posts/6df24a0069eb013c332d28a1592b385a (or ... https://dnext.societas.online/posts/6df24a0069eb013c332d28a1592b385a ) ... do let me know if (either of those) fail.

#agnotology #technology

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incase it too disapears, i'll preserve it here

Digit - 6 minutes ago
interesting… my comments here (from my iviv.hu account), dont show up on this other pod. federation issue? gets me wondering what a controlled narrative censorship bubble some people are living in.

quite disturbing that some are being denied the benefit of encountering different perspectives to learn from. … frightening for how much this bolsters groupthink, and the dangerous over-certainty from a dangerously little bit of information.

at risk of evoking wrathful reflexes from those in groupthink, or suffering further censorship, the comments were:

Digit - 2 days ago
yep.

be very afraid.

keep doing what they say, even if it is the opposite of prior established best practicies.
trust the corporation sponsored by those profiting from this highly lucrative venture of a captive audience.
and pay no attention to things like codex alimentarius, or operation lockstep. if it was important, the corporate media would have told us about it.

Digit
Digit - 2 days ago
and be sure to cancel/ignore anyone who offers you any idea outside the official narrative that we know is true because they told us, and there’s ubiquitous consensus.

I switched my band website to wordpress with ActivityPub. feels a bit beta but you can subscribe here @Reverend@reverendelvis.de (if you want). Then I realized that WP also works with matrix.synapse. I like the protocol very much and think this will be much more important and powerful than ActivityPub in the long run. Community creation is almost not possible with AP and you can use matrix e.g. also very well as cloud, it goes all real-time things: streaming, video chat, chat etc... Both has its justification and are good. Both can be integrated into WP... how nice.

https://reverendelvis.de

https://word.undead-network.de/2023/10/17/11312/
#activitypub #aissolution #federation #matrix #matrixsynapse #reverendelvis #synapse #wordpress

So, ich glaube ich habe jetzt die richtigen Einstellungen für den #Friendica -> #Bluesky Konnektor gefunden. Um zu vermeiden dass eigene Beiträge doppelt in der Friendica Timeline auftauchen, sollte man die Einstellung "Importiere die entfernte Timeline " nicht aktivieren.

• Beiträge neben dem #Fediverse (inklusive #Diaspora) auch auf Bluesky, #Tumblr zu veröffentlichen funktioniert erstaunlich gut.
• Kommentare und Likes von Bluesky werden auch korrekt in Friendica angezeigt.
• Bei Tumblr werden die Likes und Kommentare leider nicht in Friendica angezeigt
• Man kann aber von Friendica aus Konten von Bluesky und Tumblr folgen und mit ihnen interagieren.
• Wenn man in der Tumbler Konnektor Einstellung "Importiere die entfernte Timeline" aktiviert kann man auch #Hashtags von Tumbler folgen.
• Bei der Gelegenheit habe ich mal wieder festgestellt das #Pixelfed große Probleme mit der #Federation hat. Die meisten meiner auf Friendica erstellten Beiträge (mit Bildern) kommen nicht bei Pixelfed an ...

Und wenig überraschend ist das Internet ein großer Zeitfresser und eine ganz hervorragende Hilfe beim prokrastinieren. ;-)

On MeWe's launching into "the social web", ostensibly in keeping with the notion of "decentralization" and now claiming it will become the world's largest decentralized social platform. [Insert sighs and face-slaps here]

There are a few problems with both #truth and practical realities of 'federation' or decentralizing, for a big walled garden like MeWe.

Disclosure: I have several good friends and some photographers/artists I 'follow' via my small (now) "followers" (nee contacts).
I've written at length about MeWe vs. pora* vs. "other" since the time my beloved #GooglePlus was decimated by #EvilGoogle.
So some of my long-time 'circles' of Google+ refugees divided up, some "here", many to MeWe &/or Facebook. #IIWII

This is what I posted just to my own small MeWe 'followers'/friends group, sharing here for those also watching or 'being there'.

As we know, MeWe has been touting changes, and has imposed a bunch on everyone, ready or not, like it or not.

Article (PR release) about the premise:

Universal Web3 Handles Now Available for New MeWe Users

And MeWe's own press release ("liked" by about 50%) summarizes fuzzily (wonder if Elon Musk wrote this!)

"The Social Web is a collection of apps made by developers that believe in empowering individuals to control their digital experience. Unlike the current web, where big platforms control our data and digital lives, the Social Web puts people first. It provides a transparent technology infrastructure that places people and human connection at the forefront, making it possible for people to take control of how their digital world works. "

[Link: https://support.mewe.com/hc/en-us/articles/14542689640983-What-is-the-Social-Web- ]

I most notice the change to "followers" as opposed to contacts/friends/aspects etc. But their big promotional push is on "social web" with at least two deceptions here:

1) There has never been - since the first explanations/promises - a way to "publicly" post beyond the walled garden, individual posts. And since the forced changes, some are losing some contacts &/or access to groups, or other anomalies. Just know, the 'goal' is fluff.

2) Being part of the larger, "decentralized" social graph.
Again, not happening in the way others on the Web have gone to decentralized (e.g., "Federated") sites. The MeWe version, according to their statement:

The Social Web is a collection of apps made by developers that believe in empowering individuals to control their digital experience. Unlike the current web, where big platforms control our data and digital lives, the Social Web puts people first. It provides a transparent technology infrastructure that places people and human connection at the forefront, making it possible for people to take control of how their digital world works.

Apps? I don't and will never center my online experience around "apps". Just the user interface and the 'app'/software/web page to interact with others, groups, etc. is fine. IF they were to put all the groups onto separate public-facing servers (which may be the plan), that might be good for exposure to the public, photos, art, work, etc....

BUT.. there is now way this blithe bit of promotion "puts people first" is anything but (should be) embarrassing. What does MeWe put first now in the user experience? Antelope? Bots?

Anyway, I've not opted in, as there is no "there there", for me, anyway. I'll believe it when I see it that the "walled garden" has become public-facing with proper privacy/choice controls. I'd welcome any stories/reports about the new world of "apps for everyone" as the MeWe brand of 'open web'.

Meanwhile, I stay "here" for my usual - friends/acquaintances, interesting people and content.
I do like the groups for photography and other interests though I've slacked off in my contributions (time & space).

So... this is for anyone who cares &/or is curious about "what's going on" with all the changes to interface, notices, etc. Cheers!

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #MeWe #Federation #Decentralization

Why Diaspora is the Best!

#newhere #diaspora #fediverse #federation #facebook #social-media #meta

Blog Moving to Diaspora!

#wordpress #meta #facebook #social-media #diaspora #fediverse #federation

If you can't defeat your enemy, take him over. It seems that the #Federation is in for a tough fight with #BigTech from SV.
#Meta is openly planning to become one of the big players in the #Fedi universe. Whatever decentralization means for #Facebook, it is certainly not good and not what the word means. The first #Google employees are also speaking out and have found out that #ActivityPub is racist. Yeah yeah you didn't know that? But don't worry, they will help us to change it. Can't wait.

Da eigentlich jede #PeerTube Instanz die mir in die Timeline gespült wird voll von #FakeNews, #Coronaleugnern und sonstigen Schwurblern ist, bin ich am überlegen ob es eine einfache Möglichkeit gibt Peertube komplett zu blocken. Vielleicht überlege ich mir auch ein Skript, um die Instanzliste von the-federation in meine Blockliste zu integrieren.

Werden Peertube Instanzen überhaupt nicht moderiert oder werden die alle von Schwurblern betrieben?

#rant #Fediverse #federation

Meanwhile...

#Twitter v. #Musk

Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay

BTW, only "here" is it so easy to format - font, images, links, etc. Quirks and all. But Federated cousin (Twitter-like) #Mastodon, doing very well - and coping with the influx well. #media #SocialMedia #Twitter #Musk #Federation

Radical Enlightenment A World of Open Sources by A.E. Freier

As many have now noticed, the federation is not an alternative to Twitter, but part of the path to an entirely new society. Those who are interested in the political, historical or philosophical classification can read about it here, among other places.

Complete edition of the first book in six languages — READ

english – deutsch – español – русский – français – 中文的

#aefreier #book #federation #history #open-source #philosophy #politics #society

Originally posted at: https://word.undead-network.de/2022/11/17/radical-enlightenment-a-world-of-open-sources-by-a-e-freier/

Meanwhile, in the #SocialMedia world, lots of stories today about and from #Twitter, and its blue-check + advertising 'issues'.
PBS NewsHour had on a social media expert talking about the blue and grey check-mark debacle. All fun for some. Horror for others.

Checking Mastodon just now, still without followers, faves, etc. but just taking in the platform's features and new arrivals...

Just saw my first sign that a large former-twitterbug is settling in, and easily fitting into to the "microblog" format after years in the 280 character Twitter. Wonder how this will display using their "share" button. If it displays as I see it, it's a decent example of Mastodon, here displaying a post from a different instance within that Fediverse. (It's not diaspora* network or protocol, but they speak of Federation and it's the same sort of "sharing between pods", but different. ;) Big selling point &/or new idea to ponder, federation.

And it does seem true "public" if you can see this.

Someone managed to wipe $16 billion off of Eli Lilly's valuation by paying $8 to verify a parody account

#SocialMedia #media #twitter #Mastodon #federation

Dear #Diaspora friends I have a small poll for you!
If you are using #Friendica or #Hubzilla this poll doesn't involve you.

Let's see what happen!

Thanks!

#poll #newhere #federation #fediverse #activityPub #Diaspora*

Being on a single user instance is fun. When your federation has ended up running 15 hours behind. Stuck in history. And all the posts I post are like sending a paper letter.

#selfhosting #federation #fun

Russian Federation ~ Minister for Foreign Affairs Addresses UN General Debate

https://www.sott.net/article/472484-Lavrov-at-77th-UN-General-Assembly-Anglo-Saxons-Have-Completely-Subjugated-Europe-EU-Sliding-Into-Dictatorship

Lavrov's press conference after his speech

#russian #federation #sergeylavrov #ministerforforeignaffairs #77th #unitednations #unga #speech

The-Federation.info has a new maintainer 🥳

Starting in November 2013 as pods.jasonrobinson.me, later settling on https://the-federation.info, there have been many stages to this site over time. Initially a rather simple #NodeJS app, the frontend was completely overhauled by @{https://mastodon.social/@fla} into the style it is currently. Some years later a complete rewrite was done by myself to the current #Django / #VueJS stack.

After a few years of dropping into lack of maintenance due to lack of time from my part to contribute, the site has now finally found a new maintainer, @{https://chaos.social/@6543}, who is also active in the #Gitea project (which you may or may not know is also working on ActivityPub federation \o/).

The-federation.info is a rather dear project to me, and it makes me happy that it may still have a future with a new maintainer, instead of going into even worse disrepair and eventually shutting down. There is a rewrite planned to fix the horrible scalability issues the site has been suffering from (ever since adding ActivityPub protocol nodes into the mix), if you're interested see this issue.

For those who want to help, there is also the Matrix chat room: #thefederation:federator.dev..

I would also like to thank the various people who have helped maintain data over the years, hopefully you'll stick around to help the site grow in the future too! 💚

#thefederation #federation #fediverse #activitypub #diaspora #matrix

Socialhome.Network as a searchable federation archive

The Socialhome node https://socialhome.network/ is both widely federated AND searchable by non-members. It displays both posts AND profile pages even to non-members, which is NOT the case for Diaspora* pods.

If you're looking for specific content from a now-defunct pod, Socialhome may be able to turn that up for you.

You can search for a specific profile by the its handle, e.g., dredmorbius@diaspora.glasswings.com or dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com, for my present and now-defunct Joindiaspora profiles, using the site's Search feature.

My (now-offline at origin) Joindiaspora profile appears as:

https://socialhome.network/p/702b2f0c-0f8f-4e17-b308-24a43f9ebed9/

Note that the profile GUID is NOT the same as it would be for my Joindiaspora profle itself (d8210c0de509264f`). The Diaspora* GUID can be used to construct a URL visible from the Diaspora* Pod you have an account on and are logged in to, but not as a globally-viewable third-party-accessible URL. Socialhome solves this problem.

That is, if you are on Glasswings, this URL links to my Joindiaspora profile:

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/people/d8210c0de509264f

But if you're not, it won't. Glasswings users might try a different pod such as Diasp.org:

https://diasp.org/people/d8210c0de509264f

Instead, third-party visitors are presented with a log-in / registration page. Socialhome solves this problem specifically.

There may be additional features / API apparent at the Socialhome GitLab repo: https://git.feneas.org/socialhome/socialhome

Noting that that is a FENEAS URL, also likely to go offline in the near future, GitHub:

https://github.com/jaywink/socialhome

Limitations

The downsides to Socialhome seem to be that:

• References to content and profiles does not follow Diaspora*-assigned GUIDs. That is, there's no automated way to refernece a specific post or profile.
• I'm not seeing an obvious way of exposing a JSON abstract of posts or profiles --- the Diaspora* trick of appending .json to the end of a URL does not work, and I'm not seeing a JSON abstract in the raw HTML. There may still be an API.

Photos are displayed but appear to be served from the original host, not separately federated. Once the origin host goes offline, photo links / embeds will be broken.

It's not clear how widely or deeply content is federated, though some should be better than none.

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This option was brought to my attention by @Isaac Kuo in comments here.

#Diaspora #DataArchival #Federation #SocialHome #Pluspora #Joindiaspora #DataMigration #Archives #Plexodus #GooglePlus #GPlus #FENEAS