what a horrible thing, to be able to quote others' posts.

#socialMedia #internet #mastodon #hubzilla

Jupiter Rowland wrote the following post Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:36:10 +0100

How the quote-post debate demonstrates that many Mastodon users know nothing about the Fediverse

One of the worst aspects of Mastodon's plans to introduce quote-posts with a switch:

You keep having to tell Mastodon users that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon. That (insert a long list of Fediverse server applications here¹) have had quote-posts from the beginning. That they're all in the Fediverse. That they're all fully federated with Mastodon. That they can all quote-post any Mastodon toot they can possibly receive or import. And that they will be able to quote-post any Mastodon toot they can in the future, regardless of Mastodon account settings.

Up until this point, they were fully, firmly convinced that they're 100% safe from quote-posts on Mastodon. Either because they could not for the lives of them imagine that anything in the Fediverse has them. Or simply because they "knew" up until this point that the Fediverse is Mastodon. And if Mastodon introduces an opt-out or opt-in switch, this switch will mean absolute, 100% water-tight safety from quote-posts.

But for the Fediverse outside of Mastodon, the quote-post switch will be completely useless. Again: These lots of Fediverse server apps have had quote-posts before Mastodon introduced them. They had quote-posts before Mastodon invented the opt-in or opt-out switch. I mean, at least two of them have had quote-posts since before Mastodon even existed! So how are they supposed to support a proprietary, non-standard, Mastodon-specific switch which probably won't be documented anywhere before Mastodon rolls out quote-posts?

I'll tell you what'll happen.

Mastodon users will deactivate quote-posts for their accounts or not activate them in the first place. Non-Mastodon users, not knowing about the status of that switch, will quote-post them regardless with zero resistance. Upon which these Mastodon users will shit brix. And they'll call for either blocking that obviously rogue Mastodon user instance-wide, or blocking that user's instance, or Fediblocking that user's instance.

At this point, someone else who is not on Mastodon either will chime in and tell them: That particular user is, in fact, not on Mastodon. The Fediverse is not only Mastodon. That user is on Friendica. No, Friendica is not a rogue Mastodon instance. Friendica is not Mastodon at all. No, Friendica isn't a Mastodon fork either. Friendica has nothing to do with Mastodon. In fact, Friendica is older than Mastodon. On Friendica, quote-posts are perfectly normal. Friendica has had quote-posts for longer than Mastodon has even existed. And so forth.

Cue the Mastodon user shitting brix again, foaming with anger and calling for a Fediblock of all of Friendica.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that if Mastodon's quote-post feature and the rest of the Fediverse disregarding it leads to more awareness of the non-Mastodon Fediverse and its non-Mastodon features on Mastodon, it will also lead to demands for being able to completely block everything that isn't Mastodon, either on an account level (and then on by default, of course) or on an instance level or both.

Oh, by the way: The ability to completely lock out entire Fediverse projects already exists in the Fediverse right now, too. It's exclusive to two other Fediverse server apps that aren't Mastodon, both of which introduced this feature in September.

¹Here's a probably incomplete list of still-active Fediverse server apps with quote-posts which, yes, can quote-post Mastodon toots right now and will be able to quote-post Mastodon toots regardless of opt-in or opt-out:

- Pleroma
- Akkoma
- Misskey
- Firefish
- Sharkey
- Iceshrimp
- Iceshrimp.NET
- CherryPick
- Neko
- Catodon
- Meisskey
- Tanukey
- Metaskey
- Mitra
- Friendica
- Hubzilla
- (streams)
- Forte

And both Threads and the Bridgy Fed Bluesky bridge support quote-posts, too.

(Inb4 both Oliphant and The Bad Space trying hard to catch all instances of the server apps mentioned above to blocklist them all.)

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Calckey #Firefish #Sharkey #Iceshrimp #Iceshrimp.NET #CherryPick #Neko #Catodon #Meisskey #Tanukey #Metaskey #Mitra #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Threads #BridgyFed #Bluesky #QuotePost #QuotePosts #QuoteTweet #QuoteTweets #QuoteToot #QuoteToots #QuoteBoost #QuoteBoosts #QuotedShares #QuotePostDebate #QuoteTootDebate #FediblockMeta #Oliphant #TheBadSpace

since i'm not allowed to comment on this, i'll have to share it. i wonder, how i am supposed to know about the colors of the skins of the people involved here.

#fediverse #hubzilla #mastodon #domination #superiority

Jupiter Rowland wrote the following post Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:02:44 +0200

We're all racists, probably even more so if we aren't on Mastodon

So I've just learned the other day that curating your timeline/stream according to your personal interests and/or the topic of your account/channel is utterly racist. No matter how specialised your account/channel is.

Everyone in the Fediverse is basically required to follow a substantial amount of Black users, especially Black activists. If you're on Hubzilla or (streams), you must actually follow them, i.e. you must give them full permissions to send you anything and everything unhindered and unlimited. You must not use account/channel-wide or per-contact filters on them. Even if each one of them boosts 100 posts per day, you must not filter or disallow their boosts.

Also, if you're on Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams), all of which count and list unread messages, you must not simply mark what has come in from them as read. You must read it all and be interested in it all. This includes all comments on these posts. And yes, you must re-read everything whenever it tries to catch your attention again, e.g. if someone has liked/faved or boosted/reposted/renoted/repeated it.

But even if you receive thousands of comments along with those hundreds of extra posts, you must not comment on these comments. Not unless either a comment mentions you explicitly, or you're mutually connected to whoever wrote the comment. As you wouldn't even receive that comment on Mastodon, replying to it counts as reply-guying and mansplaining on Mastodon, completely regardless of how you comment. It's highly disrespectful, and if Black people are involved, it's racist.

It doesn't matter if this has allegedly been perfectly normal, the standard and part of the culture since five and a half years before Mastodon was launched. Mastodon rules supreme over the whole Fediverse, and only Mastodon's culture has any validity anywhere in the Fediverse. Any culture that differs from Mastodon's is toxic and evil and must be abolished.

Speaking of which, let's suppose you come across one of these many threads in which Black Mastodon users talk with other Black Mastodon users and Mastodon-using allies about how the Fediverse needs to be made safer. In this case, no matter how blatantly obvious it is that all people involved in this thread have no idea of the Fediverse outside Mastodon, you are not allowed to chime in and tell them about places which are safer due to their technological design and how they work.

First of all, it'd be mansplaining and reply-guying. Second, there's a tendency for Black Mastodon users to trust the rest of the Fediverse even less than Mastodon, what with e.g. Nazi instances on Pleroma. And third, your suggestion is likely to be taken for an attempt at nudging them into moving to one specific place, essentially trying to hoard them in a ghetto and segregate them from the rest of the Fediverse. In short, there's letting them wait for the Mastodon instances they're on to improve, and there's racism.

While we're at it: Even if you're on Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams), and you hate Mastodon with a burning passion for very good reasons, you must support Black-led Mastodon instances. Otherwise you're a racist.

Lastly, while I don't have proof for it, I'm pretty sure that everything that counts as racism towards Black users may also count as

- racist towards everyone else who isn't white
- sexist towards everyone who isn't cis-male
- homophobic towards everyone who isn't heterosexual
- transphobic towards trans people
- generally queerphobic towards everyone who isn't cisgender
- ableist towards disabled people, no matter what else you do to include them
- Islamophobic towards Muslims
- anti-Semitic/anti-Judaist towards Jews
- and generally hostile and xenophobic towards all marginalised minorities anywhere in the Fediverse.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #FediverseSafety #Mansplaining #ReplyGuy #ReplyGuys #Racist #Racism #Sexist #Sexism #Homophobic #Homophobia #Transphobic #Transphobia #Queerphobic #Queerphobia #Ableist #Ableism #Islamophobic #Islamophobia #AntiSemitic #AntiSemitism #Xenophobic #Xenophobia

#Module #Player #Test - #Amiga500 - #Hoffman

Test of a new #Amiga module player which #streams compressed #sample #data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbqFsjcYLPI
#music #musique #retrocomputer

Bachblick mit Baumblüte / Brook View with Tree Blossoms

am Aubruchskanal in Rumeln-Kaldenhausen, März 2024

Bäche

#Bäche #Niederrhein #RumelnKaldenhausen #Duisburg #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#nature #waters #streams

27.12

Streams of Rust

HIGH DAMAGE II

#streams #rust #cracks #drips
#night #selfportrait #mywork #photo

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=sX7ThFoaNyE

Neuhub Community Suite

Neuhub Community Suite

Une collection de thèmes, de widgets et de modèles pour #Hubzilla, #Streams et les distributions compatibles :- en action : https://neuhub.org/page/suite/home
- sources : https://github.com/WisTex/Neuhub

A marketplace of algorithms

mike wrote the following post Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:20:26 +0200

"A marketplace of algorithms"

Create and share your own. Here are a few of those that are available today. These are all free as in beer - and this graphic doesn't show those that were so useful that we installed them by default, such as Aspects/Circles and ethical Suggestions.

#fediverse #streams

I wrote Friendica (actually Mistpark) in 2010...

Mike Macgirvin wrote the following post Tue, 21 Mar 2023 22:02:29 +0200

I wrote Friendica (actually Mistpark) in 2010. I left the project around 2011-2012 as its original architecture didn't fit what I was trying to do with decentralisation, which is basically anything a centralised network can do plus nomadic identity, because Diaspora lost some really big instances and had no migration tools. Nomadic identity is migration on steroids. You clone your identity to multiple servers, and these are kept in sync so if one instance goes down, you just go to another and shrug it off.

I then created "Red" to do all of those things - nomadic identity, single sign-on, cloud storage, content management, shopping, etc. This later became Hubzilla. So it does nearly all the Friendica things plus more and better. Then about 2018, when ActivityPub and Mastodon first burst onto the scene, a lot of folks said Hubzilla was doing way to much - and it was. But it does all those things. So I cleaned it up and trimmed it down, keeping the best and jettisoning anything that didn't really belong in a social networking app. I also made ActivityPub do a lot of things which we once did in the Zot protocol. Not all of them, but enough to make a very straightforward and feature complete fediverse server. Like everything else, that started with a different name. Then I took the name away. This work resides in a repository called "streams". It's not a project or product or brand, but it's the best fediverse server you never heard of.

Why did I do these things? F*ck brand worship. That and this illusion that everything needs to grow exponentially forever are killing our planet. Anyway if you really want a full featured fediverse server, there are probably others but I've been in this game a very long time and it's pretty darn good and the best I've used. I've tried as many as will let me. Some people don't like the "look", but it's theme-able. You can make it look any way you want. Themes, addons, whatever. Intergated clout storage and permissions, single sign-on, nomadic identity, groups, private groups, moderated groups, circles, events, location services, (checkin, checkout, distance search), channel search which you control, hash tag following, yadda yadda, Post in html, markdown,bbcode or mix them up a bit. Inline SVGs. I could go on for hours, but we've kept it pretty simple. The documentation is a bit lagging, but most people can figure it out. It's more DIY software because we **want** people to make it their own and polish it up in ways we simply don't have time to do. But it's pretty decent out of the box. You don't actually need to do anything. It represents a completely different way of working with the web. Your social network is a different web where instances can be hyper-connected and people don't see the boundaries between instances. You can click on my profile, visit my photo albums and see private photos/vidoes that are only available to you and not get asked for a password or a "home instance".

It uses the ActivityPub API. Not the Mastodon API. We also have the Twitter/Statusnet V1 API and our own API. For apps, it's a PWA. Just visit the site and install it as an app. No play store involved. No missing features between the app and the website.

Our vision isn't large sites supporting thousands or millions or billions of people in their little separate worlds.

It's turning a "million points of light" into a single space with no borders and which is bigger than all of them. And where each individual exercise can exercise their own control over how and with whom they wish to interact and share.

I've rambled way too much. Cheers.

#Streams #Hubzilla #Fediverse

The #Naiads are #nymphs associated with #freshwater #springs, #streams, and #wells in Greek #mythology.

Or that same daintie lad, which was so deare
To great Alcides, that when as he dyde
He wailed womanlike with many a teare,
And every wood, and every valley wyde
He fild with Hylas name; the Nymphes eke "Hylas" cryde.

-- Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, book 3, Canto XII, Stanza 7

#artisticnude #photo

Reverend Elvis worldwide crew (de)

Ich hoffe sehr, dass wir dieses Jahr wieder auf Vinyl releasen können. Leider ist das im Moment so teuer, dass man Preise verlangen müsste, die dann irgendwie nicht mehr „underground“ sind. Mal sehen. So lang wird wohl Streaming eine Rolle spielen. Hat immerhin den Vorteil, dass das auch Menschen hören können, die sich so und so keine Vinylplatte aus Europa leisten könnten und wollten.

Ich freue mich besonders, dass 2022 auch in Afrika paar Zuhörer dazu gekommen sind. Sonst ist mit Abstand Deutschland und die USA unser Zentrum. Seit ein paar Jahren ist Kolumbien eigentlich fast gleichauf. Es muss da eine große Szene geben, zu der wir aber keinen Kontakt haben. Sonst sind alle Kontinente vertreten. Ein gutes Gefühl.

Sonst ist neu, dass in China offensichtlich vermehrt „westliche“ Streamingdienste benutzt. Wir sind da ohnehin bei den China internen Diensten vertreten.

Insgesamt ist es wie immer, wir haben nicht viele Fans dafür gute! Wir achten auf Qualität! 🙂

#musik #reverend-elvis #streams #weltweit

Originally posted at: https://word.undead-network.de/2023/01/02/reverend-elvis-worldwide-crew-de/

#health
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ONLjIIzDJECv/

#How do you keep your #body #ocean,#rivers and #streams #clean from #graphene, #parasites, #GMO #RNA & #DNA

Hay un río bastante extraño a unos 70 km de mi casa donde he pasado buenos momentos grabando el agua y las extrañas formas de las rocas.

#nature #naturaleza #water #salt #agua #streams #arroyos

Rain reflective pools, spill a gum-leave to the light showers

#impressionist #myphoto #photography #streams #pond

#WASSERKRAFT - #HYDROPOWER

Yet another long-term study found that: #Hydropower dams negatively impact the #Hydromorphology (water flows, course, banks) of #Rivers and #Streams => That is, both Hydropower construction and changes in #water levels: result in changes in the "riparian zones" of streams and rivers & were shown to significantly impact: food webs, shading & water temperature - which, in turn, impact and change invertebrates & fish populations. In other words, DON'T build #Dams - they damage the water flow, the banks, the aquatic animals and the humans that depend on them.
And this study was in #Sweden. Imagine the damage multiplied 1,000-fold in the tropics!
LINK: Untangling multiple pressure impacts in Swedish boreal streams

How New #Dams in #Amazon Put Entire #World at #Risk
Do you really know how important the intact Amazon is for the #rainforests, #humans (also for #indigenous people...) and #animals there? Do you know what the Amazon basin means to the world and its climate?
Wie neue #Dämme am #Amazonas die ganze #Welt in #Gefahr bringen
Weisst Du eigentlich, wie wichtig der intakte Amazonas für die #Regenwälder, #Menschen (auch für Indigene...) und #Tiere dort ist? Weisst Du, was das #Amazonsbecken für die Welt und ihr Klima bedeutet?
Find out how an increase in hydropower from a series of over 400 planned dams could harm the Amazon Rainforest.
LINK: How New Dams in Amazon Put Entire World at Risk

via International Rivers: "Dams and #mining go hand-in-hand in the #Amazon...and they will take this #vital #ecosystem down if we don't stop them."
LINK: Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon

Would more or other, even better efforts (as, for example, looking at the #MRC activities) "move something", help?
"[...] That’s why there’s growing academic desire for an increased awareness of not just #hydro_politics, but #hydro_diplomacy – that while #water presents obvious potential conflict, it could also accelerate #global #cooperation. [...]"
LINK: The most important resource of the century - why hydro politics will shape the 21st century