Found this TUI for Mastodon called tut, which is a great improvement in configuration and documentation over Toot, although seemingly not udpated in about one year. Really like everything about it, but can't find a way to open a given post in the browser. I can open its links, media attachments, yank its URL, but apparently you can't just open the toot URL itself on the browser?
25 years ago today, Google was founded.
On the same day, I wiped Windows 98 off my computer, believing that Debian Linux (which I had been using for a while but still kept Windows on another partition) could do everything I had been doing with Windows until then.
Since that day, many installations of Linux, *BSD, MacOS have graced my computers, but Windows has remained, on a few occasions, only an occasional (unwelcome) guest.
In the spirit of a typical support group phrase, I can joyfully say:
'Hello, I'm Stefano, and I haven't been using Windows as my primary operating system for 25 years.'
Please boost and share your experience!
#Linux #OpenSource #OperatingSystems #TechJourney #GoogleAnniversary #Debian #MacOS #BSD #WindowsJourney #Mastodon #TechLife #GeekLife #Google #Windows
Can I do an "or" search on #mastodon ? For example for any post which has "rust" or "bsd"?
👋🏻 notice me. hug back please 🥺🙏🏻
#Mastodon #Fediverse #kindnessmatters #toot #today #Boost #bekind
Am I the only one who has made tons and tons of #filters to make the home and public time-line contain only things that are likely to be of interest? The effect is amazing! I was half wanting to stop using social media due to overload but #filters on #Mastodon are truly amazing tools. 🚨 some terms block stuff you want to see e.g. EU is in lots of web addresses that appear in posts that you do not want to have hidden as they are not about the EU... 😆
@grunfink I submitted a PR to update MacPorts' snac to 2.52 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23859
GitHub Actions CI are queued, but hopefully they will complete OK?
Regardless, I don't have commit access so it will be up to someone else to merge it.
Thank you for your continued improvements and to others submitting bug fixes too!
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
Ok I’m considering replacing nginx/haproxy loadbalancers on linux with openbsd+relayd. This to serve/proxy/tls terminate mastodon and nextcloud on linux boxes
Is there prior art that I can remix?
When the social media conceptualized in the late 2000s, new services started to pop up every other week. Some of them were even popular. I remember being registered to over 160 different social media services. Jaiku, Qaiku, Bebo, Ello, Tsu, Path, PicPlz etc… there were so many. Then they died one by one after Facebook and Instagram took over.
Some people who remember this are saying the same is happening to Mastodon, Pixelfed and Loops. But they clearly do not understand the concept or interoperability and the social web, Fediverse, that is. They think of these platforms as a singlular, centralized services and they are using the commercial mindset.
The Fediverse will last. It will prosper. And it has already. That is what I sincerely believe. Since 2022 nothing has proven otherwise. I like the direction this is heading to.
Since the beginning of the BSD Cafe's Mastodon journey, I've not been approving links or trending posts, mainly out of laziness. I did use some hashtags though.
Recently, I noticed that those sections of the site were sadly empty, so I've started to approve some content a few days ago. I check it about once a day, but trending content doesn't come up very often, so I'll continue this way for now.
#homelab success: This post is served from here! #mastodon #selfhosted
@jadi @stefano Just browsing the wiki, I'm
a) surprised there are more services than "just" #mastodon 🤩 (wow!)
b) as a die-hard #IRC fan (nothing beats #irssi in #xterm!!!), a bit disappointed the chat stuff is only available via #matrix 😁
Hehe ... also reminds me to one day revisit my "#libircbot" (designed to write IRC bots in pure #C, actually used for a bot, but far from finished)
Moving from one #Mastodon instance to the other is super simple:
1. On the new instance, go to the settings and add the old one as an Alias
2. On the old instance Move your account toward the new one
and your followers will be added to the new one and the old page will show "moved" button.
Why I moved from mastodon.social? To support and encourage the federative nature of mastodon and promote people to distribute in smaller communities.
Thanks https://wiki.bsd.cafe/ & @stefano for the opportunity and being this welcoming.
So.. now I'm @jadi
Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!
We need to talk about this problem. Should Mastodon step up?
So, Mastodon is a nice escape from the big tech social media platforms. […]
🦣 https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/
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#link #twitter #socialmedia #x #internet #problem #mastodon #fediverse #share
These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:
- NASA: @nasa 71K followers
- ESA: @esa 1.4 followers
There's an unfulfilled demand for public institutions to communicate on open and independent platforms.
Just realized… why is it that new content on #Mastodon timeline appear above… Why don’t applications add new toots beneath current position so that we scroll from top to bottom, like any natural reading material…
🎸 🏳️🌈 ⏚#Mastodon 
: l’entreprise allemande d’Eugen Rochko devient à but lucratif
https://next.ink/brief_article/mastodon-lentreprise-allemande-deugen-rochko-devient-a-but-lucratif/
Dear #Fediverse friends I am here to announce that we entered phase 3 of #ActivityPub and Fediverse #enshitiffication! 🤫
Just a small recap:
- Phase 1: reaching the critical mass ✅
- Phase 2: nasty corps enter the fediverse ✅
- Phase 3: the machine propaganda! ✅
And here we are:
wedistribute.org/2024/03/exten…
It is now to extend the protocol because doesn't please the #TechBros...
Let's see some interesting points:
The proper way to handle this, is by addressing the followers collection of the OP, and let OP forward the Activity to its followers.
#Diaspora and #Friendica work this way.
Bluesky offers a stackable moderation system that allows people to subscribe to labeling services and help each other curate and filter the network.
Moderation is a concern only if your goal is to build a giant pool of users, which is the opposite scope of a decentralized network which aims for many servers with limited active people.
While a little more on the cryptocurrency side of things, Nostr incorporates direct payments into the network, allowing creators to compensate each other.
Poor creators, is that even a job?
Clearly the fact that Mastodon dominated the scene has, once again, that where you want freedom and diversity a sole player or a mono-culture attitude is a problem, using #Mastodon as a testing benchmark is a flaw.
Yes, go ahead and do your stuff, meanwhile I remind you that other protocols already resolved many of those concerns, that belong to AP, a protocol that is managed, or it was, by the W3C, thus watchout...
Perhaps it is time you rediscover Diaspora...
The web client https://phanpy.social has really changed my experience with #Mastodon (it's sensational), especially the beta features of the tool!
I've just learned to not use the "title" on #Friendica otherwise #Mastodon folks get a link rather than a post...
p.s. this is not confirmed yet! 🤫
Shameless Sunday evening plug:
We would like to make #MastodonAfrica the warm and welcoming go-to social media instance for Mastodon users from South Africa and also #Africa in general, the instance for South Africa that also is actually hosted and run in #SouthAfrica.
This includes all those that feel connected to the country or continent for whatever reason.
More active users here would make the local timeline more interesting for new users. We still lack the critical mass of a diverse crowd with different areas of interest and we would like this to change.
We think that #Mastodon has a lot to offer to South African social media users over the usual commercial offerings of large social media companies from America or China that don't care about local users more than just to extract their data.
So if you think about migrating, it is easy: https://mastodon.africa/@GrahamDowns/111460155208935839
#MastodonAfrica is physically hosted in #CapeTown.
We do this with a long term vision, so we won't close even if we remain an active and small community but we still wouldn't be sad if growth was faster. 😊
If you do have any question about migrating or #MastodonAfrica, tag me and I will try to help.
What is the most widely used and actively maintained tool to feed #RSS into #Mastodon accounts?
I currently use @mastofeed which is really great when it works, but if it doesn't it is somewhat of a black box, so I would prefer to self-host something simple that can create similar toots.
I know there is https://github.com/aserper/masto-rss by @0xamit - do you actively maintain it?
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I understood how to reproduce the weird behavior that drives me crazy all the time on Mastodon.
I am not sure if this is a general #Mastodon #bug or it does belong to our server.
But this how it works on my end:
If I disable to show the boosts on my home I only get posts from the current section, and when I click on "load more" nothing happens.
If I enable to show the boosts I get tons of hidden posts and when I start to scroll down it loads older boosts besides older original posts.
If I disable again the boosts after a while it stops to load more content even if I click on "load more".
The steps to reproduce the issue are:
- disable boost on Home
- reload the page
- Click on "load more"
I am pretty sure it will happen the same on your end!
Thanks 
It can get lonely on a small instance. Relays to the rescue!
I decided to take a deeper look into what they are, how they work, and how to install one - the Fedi Buzz Relay.
#LibreWolf folks are you aware about some compatibility issue with #Mastodon on #aarch64?
The worker sw.js refuses to be loaded and therefore I can't get the anything posted before the current session.
Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who participated in this experiment, along with everyone who offered comments and helped boost it! I feel it now fitting for me to post a "debriefing" of sorts, but I'm not going to individually reply to everyone; I just had too many replies. And that's a good thing. ;-)
I'll use all the hashtags I used for the original poll -- and I'm obviously replying to the original poll -- so hopefully that means anyone who's interested will get to see this.
To all the people saying some form of "Ha ha! You lose!" or "How does it feel to have failed?" or something like that, I will say that I did not lose, nor fail, nor was I "wrong". Remember that I offered no opinion myself on how many votes this poll would get, and I didn't vote on it myself. I was squarely on the fence, but I was curious to find out a) what the rest of the Fediverse thought, and b) how far this would go.
In fact, if I were pressed, I wouldn't have predicted a million votes either. An opinion that was re-enforced when people started pointing out that there are only about a million monthly active users on Mastodon in the first place (many of whom probably don't like polls. Or don't post in English. Or only sign in once every two weeks or so and hence wouldn't see my poll no matter how many times it got boosted).
To be fair, I was talking about the entire Fediverse, though, and that extends beyond just Mastodon... but I also didn't realise that so many people on non-Mastodon platforms would see my poll but not be able to vote in it. So that's something else I learnt.
Having said that, I was expecting more votes than I got. Maybe 50k or 100k. Not to sound unappreciative, of course. I've over-the-moon happy with the results. I've had some posts on Twitter years back that I would consider "viral" at the time, but even the most controversial of those never reached the engagement of this little post on Mastodon... and I had a lot more followers on Twitter than I now have on the Fediverse.
So what this has taught me is that it IS possible to go viral on the Fediverse. But also that it's easier to go viral on the Fediverse with a post *about* the Fediverse. And that's kinda sad, and ties in with some of the other conversations I've had this past week, about how people think that the Fediverse is too serious, too stale, not really a place for just hanging around and chatting about fun stuff. Most people on X and Threads don't spend 90% of their time talking *about* X and Threads. They just take the platform for granted and use it to chat about the stuff they want to chat about. We really need to stop talking about ourselves so much. :-P
I got a few other responses pointing out that it would never happen because it had a lot more voters than boosters, meaning many people voted but didn't boost. That's also an interesting phenomenon. Even on my other polls, I've noticed that if I don't *ask* for boosts, I don't get them. But generally speaking, if *I* vote in a poll, I'll boost it by default because I want my followers to see it too, and I want the person who posted it to get more votes. Because it's nice to get votes in your polls. :)
To the people who replied saying they hope this poll doesn't get anywhere near a million votes, or replied after the fact saying they're glad it didn't, because they don't want things going viral on Mastodon or because Mastodon is explicitly designed for things *not* to go viral, and they don't care about reach or engagement... I know some people feel that way, but I just can't wrap my head around it. I'm a writer, and like all writers, I write to be read. So the idea of writing a public post on social media and not wanting it to be seen by as many people as possible is... almost incomprehensible to me.
Ultimately, I hope that most people on the Fediverse feel the same way I do, because if they don't, then in my opinion, quite frankly the problems I mentioned above will never be resolved.
Sorry to end on a downer. Thank you very very very much again to everyone who supported me by voting, boosting, favouriting, and replying! I learnt a lot about how the Fediverse works.
#gratitude #positivity #community
The same thanks, belatedly, from me, to the friends of #BSDCafe –@stefano in particular.
There'll be others for me to thank, on Tuesdays, from 9th April onwards.
@grunfink I submitted a PR to update MacPorts' snac to 2.51 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23357
CI checks are queued. Hopefully they'll go smoothly?
Assuming they do, it will still be up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
Thank you for your continued improvements! On my mental ToDo list I keep on meaning to create a snac Port for OpenBSD, and it looks as if the unveil and pledge support continues to be refined, cool!
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
#MastoHelp about #Mastodon #Filters
I understood what is causing a lot of headache about my Home...
This filters string:
\W(youtube|youtu.be|twitter|infosec|threads.net|telegram|)\W
Is hiding everything, it used to work, what's now with it?
I want to launch a hashtag where, every Tuesday, I'll post a message and it would be great if it became a habit for many.
In a world full of conflicts, selfishness, and egocentrism, it would be nice to focus on the good that others do, what makes our lives better thanks to the contribution of others.
My first #ThankYouTuesday to the friends of #BSDCafe - both within the community servers and beyond - who have undoubtedly contributed to making my life better, more stimulating, and richer. So, I extend this gratitude to all those who, here in the fediverse or elsewhere, are present and positive, giving me inspiration and motivation.
Truly, thank you!
#ThankYouTuesday #gratitude #positivity #community #fediverse #mastodon
Huge shout out and a moment of gratitude for the admins of this #Mastodon instance.
Thank you for providing this service!
Welcome back bsd.network missed you. #mastodon
I hope that the friends from bsd.network are fine - their instance has been down for more than one day and I'm a bit worried.
If you just recently joined #Mastodon, you're not sure where to go from here, and you have an #Android phone, here are some tips:
1. Install the Tusky for Mastodon app on your phone. It's a better experience than the "official" Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky
2. Once signed in to Tusky, go to Account Preferences -> Tabs, and add the Local, Federated, Trending Posts, and Trending Hashtags tabs
3. Explore those tabs to find cool people to follow
Bonus tip: use a computer to visit https://<your.instance.url>/invites/ and generate a code that you can send to all your friends who aren't yet on Mastodon. Be sure to tick the box that says "Invite to follow your account" before you generate the code. That way, when your friends join, they'll be asked if they want to follow you automatically.
@grunfink I submitted a PR to update MacPorts' snac to 2.50 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23182
CI checks passed OK!
It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
Thank you for your continued enhancements, bug fixes and contributions!
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
Considering that I post #Linux content on here, on occasion, I am seriously considering closing my #LinuxRocks account and merging it into this one. 🤔
I'm on far too many instances and it's about time I started to consolidate them!
15 million users in the Fediverse, now.
No ad-blocker needed.
Zero ads.
My data stays on my server.
Interactions are genuine, driven by people's desire, not an algorithm pushing for conflict to boost engagement (and ad sales).
Nobody's here just because it's trendy. If you're here, you want to be here.
The best social media experience I've had in years.
Thank you to all of you, among these 15 million accounts, who have helped make this a wonderful place to be.
#Fediverse #Privacy #NoAds #GenuineInteractions #Decentralized #ThankYou #Mastodon
Wat is de #voetafdruk van acht miljoen mensen 24\7 op #Mastodon eigenlijk.
Is dat nog wel groen?
🆕 blog! “How updates work in ActivityPub / Mastodon”
I didn't realise this, so I'm documenting it to stop other people making the same silly mistake that I did. Messages in ActivityPub have two distinct ID strings. Here's a (truncated) view of what happens when I send a new message on Mastodon: "id": "https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/1234567890/activity", "ty…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/how-updates-work-in-activitypub-mastodon/
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#ActivityPub #mastodon
The Boost and the Favorite (2001)
2 Boost 2 Favorite (2003)
The Boost and the Favorite: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Boost & Favorite (2009)
Boost Five (2011)
Boost & Favorite 6 (2013)
Favorite 7 (2015)
The Fate of the Favorite (2017)
F9: The Boost Saga (2021)
Boost X (2023)
#mastodon #fediverse #FastAndFurious
As the number of people who see your joke on Mastodon increases, the likelihood of someone offering advice on how to solve the “problem” described in the joke approaches infinity.
#Mastodon #ReplyGuys #SocialMedia
I really don't like #mastodon...
Mastodon is not a platform capable to promote any group discussion.
It is based on that ugly paradigm publisher > followers, but at least without nasty algorithms.
For those thinking about migrating their account to the friendly and welcoming #MastodonAfrica instance hosted in #CapeTown, #SouthAfrica, here the reminder that this is very easy to do: https://mastodon.africa/@GrahamDowns/111460098023242426
If you do have any questions about #MastodonAfrica or migrating, don’t hesitate to ask.
I'm reading that Meta's social networks are experiencing accessibility issues across Europe.
The Fediverse is open for (not) business, as usual.
Long live decentralization!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Decentralization #OSS #OwnYourData #SocialNetworks
@grunfink I submitted a PR to update MacPorts' snac to 2.49 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/22899
CI checks passed OK! It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit
I have now set up an #OPSEC friendly Mastodon account here: https://mastodon.social/@shawnwebbopsec
This account is used behind my #Tor network.
So if #Mastodon is your preferred communication method, you can reach me there.
This is in addition to my Tor-ified #Signal account: +1 (303) 901-1600 / shawn_webb_opsec.50
Appreciation toot for everyone on #Mastodon following, interacting, and being awesome on this platform and helping grow the federated community.
You get one wool heart each.
BSD Cafe Mastodon instance has just been upgraded to 4.2.8.
Enjoy!
@stefano
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeUpdates #Mastodon
Just compare #Mastodon vs #snac - and do we really need to run so many instances… many different point of views, I guess. That can be adapted to so many things.
Friends of the #BSDCafe and the entire #Fediverse, Mastodon 4.2.8 has just been released, featuring some bug fixes but primarily changing registrations to be closed by default.
Since its launch, the BSD Cafe instance has required manual approval of accounts (and even so, some well-disguised spam accounts have still managed to sneak in), so I won't proceed with an immediate update but rather as soon as possible, without haste.
Ehrlich gesagt, ich selber habe die Option @firefish im #Fediverse noch nicht ausprobiert aber der @mho hat darüber berichtet und der @crossgolf_rebel eine ausführliche Anleitung dafür geschrieben. Für mich ein sehr guter #Input und erweitert mein #Wissen über das #Mastodon weiter hinaus.
📰 https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Mehr-als-nur-Twitter-Kopie-Calckey-im-Fediverse-denkt-Social-Media-weiter-9205667.html
✏️ https://gnulinux.ch/fediverse-serie-calckey-firefish-kommunikation-im-fediverse-auf-einem-neuen-level%C2%A0
⬆️ …der @derpepe hat meiner Meinung nach ganz gut artikuliert, weshalb #Mastodon als Fediverse Beispiel und zum #SocialMedia Vergleich, einfach alleine nicht reicht und weshalb die #Tools im #Fediverse so weit so viel mehr sind:
»Nicht Maulen... Alternative suchen!«
✒️ https://pepecyb.hu/nicht-maulen-alternative-suchen/
🧵 …klar gibt es einiges mehr an #Fediverse #Service & #Software als oben erwähnt. Die unten erwähnten sind dem #Mastodon ähnlich und es lässt sich ua auch sein Konto übertragen wenn mensch wechselt. Was führ wem geeigneter ist muss jede Person selbst herausfinden. Die #Vielfalt ist für mich nicht verworrend, sondern zeigt #Moglichkeiten zum #Kommunizieren.
✏️ @Sharkey
✏️ @firefish 
https://chaos.social/@kubikpixel/111391056352380309
Die ursprünglichen #Forum'e im #Internet gelten schon länger als #veraltet und die scheinbare alternative Lösung #Reddit hat nun #KI integriert und schnuppern die #User aus. Die wahre #Alternative finden wir wieder im Fediverse und sind ua #kbin / #Mbin so wie #Lemmy. Ja das #Fediverse ist viel mehr als nur #Mastodon und Co und kommuniziert nicht nur auf einem Server, sondern in der #Community (ihr kennt es evt schon)
💬 https://kbin.pub
💬 https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin
🐭 https://join-lemmy.org
»Was ist #Bluesky, und wie verwendet man es?«
Ich persönlich empfinde es als mysteriös, dass es bei Bluesky so lange dauert, bis es "fertig" ist. Für mich bleibt das offene Fediverse, das viel größer als nur Mastodon ist, die einzige öffentliche Kommunikation Lösung. Das erst bereit sein für angemeldete FrühuserInnen ist plumpes Marketing, da anscheinend nur Priviligierte Zugang erhalten.
🤔 https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000189452/blue-sky
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#thread #fediverse #mastodon #twitter #x #socialmedia #internet #privilege
👆 …die @kathakatze führt die #SocialMedia Funktionen von #X / #Twitter, Mastodon und andere populäre nebeneinander auf. Das zeigt nicht eine #Unvolständig'keit, sondern eine pure nicht Funktion von #Bluesky auf. Für mich passt #Mastodon vom Umfang her total aus und ist funktionskonzentriert.
«Spamwelle im Fediverse – Discord unternimmt nichts, Mastodon bekommt einen Schutz:
Eine #Spam'welle gegen besonders große User auf #Mastodon hat Schwächen des #Fediverse offengelegt. Organisiert wurde sie auf Discord, wo nichts unternommen wird.»
Ich meide Discord schon eine längere Zeit und nutze stattdessen @matrix für die Chat Kommunikation. Anderseits kann #Discord damit indirekt ihrer #Konkurenz entgegen wirken, was es aber keinesfalls seriös macht.