#streams

manuel-jf@hub.volse.no

A marketplace of algorithms

Image/photomike 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.

Screenshot from 2023-04-19 07-07-24.png

#fediverse #streams

manuel-jf@zotum.net

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

Image/photoMike 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

reverendelvis@spora.undeadnetwork.de

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/

chris_1968@pod.geraspora.de

#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