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Mike Stone

Just so everybody is aware, there's been a bug in a recent version of Friendica (federated software compatible with Mastodon that exists in the Fediverse) that causes some replies to basically @ everyone in the thread. If you see this, please be courteous about it as the author of that post likely didn't intend to spam everybody.

8 May 2022 at 18:29 | Open on fosstodon.org
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Jonathan Lamothe

@mike That's been a long-standing thing. There is a way to fix this. I'd provide instructions, but I'm literally in the middle of changing the OS on my Friendica node, so I can't check it at the moment.

8 May 2022 at 18:38 | Open on fosstodon.org
Mike Stone

@jlamothe Ahh, I literally just heard about it today. I guess I need to pay closer attention to things. :)

8 May 2022 at 20:37 | Open on fosstodon.org
Normand C. :postmarketos:

@jlamothe @mike I've been interested in Friendica for my own single-user instance (which runs Pleroma at this time). Actually, the sheer number of seemingly very similar apps by the same author (Friendica, Zap and a few others) leaves me confused.

8 May 2022 at 21:40 | Open on fosstodon.org
Aaravchen :linux: :suspicious:

@normandc
Hubzilla is the other biggie there. He was part of the original Friendica team, but then went off to do his own thing that added muli-hosted identity and more granular permissions to sharing. After that he jumped to Zap, which has no details and didn't really seem to be public.
@jlamothe @mike

9 May 2022 at 6:16 | Open on fosstodon.org
Aaravchen :linux: :suspicious:

@normandc @jlamothe @mike
Having looked at it in the past, Hubzilla strikes me as a pseudo-private IndieWeb or Tumbler on top of heavily modified ActivityPub.
With a lot of work you can turn it into something usable, but initially it's a framework you can customize.

9 May 2022 at 6:21 | Open on fosstodon.org
LPS

@normandc I believe the original author is no longer involved in the project. IMHO it's better than #hubzilla, which is too complicated and more feature rich than #mastodon or #pleroma ... It's the best replacement for a more #facebook type experience

10 May 2022 at 18:18 | Open on masto.1146.nohost.me
Dirty Bit
Kermode

@mike that explains a post the other day. thanks!

9 May 2022 at 0:08 | Open on tilde.zone
Jonathan Lamothe
@mike Okay, now that I'm back up and running, I have the fix for that issue to pass along:
As a user of a node/instance:
Settings ➡️ Additional features ➡️ Post Composition Features
then check: "Explicit Mentions"
(this will resolve it for the individual user)
As a node/instance administrator:
Admin ➡️ Additional features ➡️ Post Composition Features
then check both: "Explicit Mentions" and "Lock Feature Explicit Mentions"
(this will solve it instance-wide)
@mike Okay, now that I'm back up and running, I have the fix for that issue to pass along:
As a user of a node/instance:
Settings ➡️ Additional features ➡️ Post Composition Features
9 May 2022 at 20:38 | Open on social.jlamothe.net
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@mike
Leave it in as an option. Hellthread mode!!!

10 May 2022 at 18:03 | Open on mastodon.ml
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