Gregory's Server
Had somehow I had missed this Annual Report that @Mastodon released in 2021, some interesting tidbits in here...
https://joinmastodon.org/reports/Mastodon%20Annual%20Report%202021.pdf
found via @erikkemp
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I am giving a 15 minute introduction to the fediverse tonight at a küfa dinner party at https://offline.place Trying to synopsize the fediverse in 15 minutes feels quite daunting. What have your techniques been for going over the most important bits with new people?
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 @liaizon I recently gave a presentation about the fediverse at the PublicSpaces conference. My slides are here: https://erikkemp.eu/presentations/publicspaces/fediverseverhalen.html Maybe it can be of some help :-) It took about 15/20 minutes for the full talk I prepared, I think. The shorter version (10 minutes) as part of another session on Wednesday is also recorded, but it is in Dutch: https://video.publicspaces.net/w/hCjzYXyLBsTPt8YEjrEiaB?start=34m24s 1. community run  @liaizon I'd say don't call them instances, call them servers, even though it's not technically correct, as an instance could be on more than one server. People have a way easier time conceptualizing it this way If you have notes in Evernote it might be a good time to make sure they are safely backed up! Evernote looks to have fired almost all its employees.
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@liaizon I ditched EN when they started to become more of a service than an application. #DevonThink was my saviour @liaizon I have looked into a few alternatives, but nothing complete enough for me yet. Obsidian and Jopin just don't fit right for me yet. @liaizon Thanks for the heads up. This is very bad news: I’ve used Evernote since its inception. I highly recommend @rra's response thread about Mastodon GmbH's response to the threat of Threads to the fediverse:  @liaizon button press onboarding from Instagram will do that. Also is a testament to how crappy Twitter is now. if Threads starts supporting nodeinfo they will start showing up in the fediverse instance trackers automatically unless we block it proactively: looking at you the-federation.info and fedidb.org  ok so we know the play book: the media is gonna start referring to Threads as "decentralized" and "open" and we need to start coming up with new solutions to push back against these falsehoods... for his second post on Threads, the Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseril:
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every profile on Threads already has the instance tag 'threads.net' after the username and when you click it "Soon, you'll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find people on Threads using full usernames, like @mosseri@threads.net."  hey @freeplay do you know if anyone managed to fix https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19454 in any of the mastodon forks? this seems like such an important fix now that there are so many other fediverse platforms that support more then 4 images. the term microblog is a small blog which comes from weblog which is short for world wide web log
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great meta thread about chat thread interfaces and open protocols by @dynamic: (it isnt at all about Threads by Instagram or Meta or a meta thread about Meta!) "(it isnt at all about Threads by Instagram or Meta or a meta thread about Meta!)" [laughs aloud] "the beehaw and world defederation meta" is a sentence I just casually read and understood. what has this world come to?  @liaizon these musings about names and terms have reminded me of the line "blog, blog, blog it all, blog it if it's big or small" from "Here Comes Another Bubble" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I from https://archive.org/details/colorforelectronic00whit/page/120/mode/2up which I just discovered via https://archives.design which in turn from @aparrish's new bookmark page https://bookmarks.decontextualize.com I absolutely hate the term 'fedizens' and will never use it. I have seen people using 'mastonauts' for Mastodon users but also feel equally cringed by it. I was checking in on Nostr and they are calling their users 'nostriches' which is also awful. Bluesky people keep using 'skeeters' as a term for users there. I see we have some innate need to come up with these terms but can we try to be a bit more creative or something?
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This post was not an opportunity to respond with more awful name suggestions ugh how about we just give up on language all together. If you want to come up with name suggestions in the replies atleast try a bit harder then just concatenating some words together.  @liaizon Mlmym is a new Lemmy app that replicates the old.reddit interface https://mlmym.org/lemmy.ml/c/fediverse [posted to @lemmy]
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@liaizon@social.wake.st @lemmy@lemmy.ml does anyone know if it has plans to expand to k.bin? this made me realize one of the things I like about the old design is how many posts you can see at a glance.  the word 'fediverse' being illustrated by a head on collision seems somehow very apt via https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/join-the-fediverse/ any idea what they were hoping would happen with this link? cause I have never seen the protocol snssdk1233:// before @liaizon Yes, its part of Tiktoks Bytedance. I did a check of their website and app around 2019 and they used it already for tracking and security measurements. They used also a server snssdk.com. Maybe just a CDN. A blind guess would be that they use it as a handler which later will be filled with different endpoints, depending of where the code finally is shipped: In the Toutiao app, Tiktok or Douyin. Maybe @mrtn3000 know more precisely what it is? Have any of the Mastodon client apps added support for adding new emojo yet? Or is that not in the api yet and thats whats holding it back? |
