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reiver

@[email protected]

I make things for the #Fediverse & #smallNet

Also talk about #FediverseUX #P2P #Privacy #SpreadFediverse

I post #SciFiArt

My work includes — #AllYourBases #FediverseAcademy #FediverseCity #FingerProtocol #GreatApe #PostFreely #SpaceHost #StarSeed

I life-cast at https://firefish.lol/@reiver , collect at https://playset.social/reiver , threadiverse at https://flamewar.social/u/reiver

Once upon a time, was a mathematician, computer scientist, data scientist, software engineer, industrial researcher 🌞

The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞

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reiver, to random
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with @atomicpoet & @reiver

Should search on the Fediverse be opt-in or opt-out?

Google doesn't care if you want search to be opt-in.

The difference between 'privacy' and 'obscurity'.

ATOMICPOET: "[some] people believe their posts [on the Fediverse] aren't discoverable because when you do a search for them on Mastodon you can't find them." "But — here's the problem. Google still indexes those posts. And people really only discover that — really after the fact, right? I've had a number of people talk to me and they've said to me — "hey can you remove stuff from your server because Google is indexing that stuff", right?" "And — this is a problem with the Fediverse. The Fediverse exists It exists because — well, federation means you're copying stuff from one server to another server, right?" "And if you've opted to — there's different levels of visibility on the Fediverse, right? So there's obviously "direct", in which you send a message and only one person — the person you tag — actually only the people you tag see those messages. Those are, those are direct visibility. The next one is "followers only" — So only people who follow you can see your posts, right?Okay. And then there is "unlisted" where you don't have to be a follower to see a post, but it does not show up in public timelines. Okay. " Now, so far so good — the final rung of visibility is "public", right? I've had a lot of people send public posts on the Fediverse and they believe that they're not being indexed. But unfortunately they are. And you know, it's hard to explain to these people, to a lot of people how, you know — simply how privacy works because — I get the sense quite ..."

reiver, to random
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@IrkedAngua @atomicpoet

Regarding:

"Firstly I would recommend you have transcripts available for the Hearing Impaired."

Our plan is indeed to have text transcripts.

We haven't tested out our system for it yet. But plan to later this week.

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reiver, to random
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Be the content you want to see on the Fediverse.

reiver, to random
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What topics about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech are you most curious about?

What questions about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech do you hav?

(The Fediverse includes all the Fediverse software.)

Reply with your topics and questions.

reiver, to test
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This is a test

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@test

reiver, (edited )
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@test

It worked.

I was able to put the group's Fediverse ID at the bottom of the post (from Mastodon).

Related:
https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110483509521476095

Also, where it shows up on the Threadiverse:

https://lemmy.ml/post/6229064

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reiver,
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@Track_Shovel @original_reader

LOL 😂

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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Just wanted to share some exciting news with you all.

My colleague, the talented @reiver, is currently hard at work on an awesome project called #PostFreely. It's actually a fork of the popular #WriteFreely blogging platform.

Together with other brilliant developers, they're brainstorming a bunch of potential new features for PostFreely. I don't know about you, but I'm really looking forward to seeing how our beloved Fediverse blogging platforms keep evolving. Pretty awesome, right?

@fediversenews

reiver,
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews

Just to make sure he gets credit, too —

I am not the only one working on

@mathew and I are working on together.

We were both there from the beginning. And is an effort by the two of us.

Although @whylamb should also get some credit. As he was the one that encouraged us to create the fork.

reiver,
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@liaizon @atomicpoet

Matt Baer and WriteFreely are credited in the PostFreely README.md file. Near the top of it.

reiver,
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@liaizon @atomicpoet

I haven't been sure how tagging Matt Baer and the WriteFreely hash-tag would be interpreted.

Would it be welcomed.

Would it be seen as antagonizing.

...

I eventually thought it might be seen as the latter, so I tried to do what I thought was the polite thing.

reiver,
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@paul @liaizon @atomicpoet

I wanted to get some new features in before sharing any URLs.

So far myself and @mathew have just been doing clean up, in preparation for new features.

But —

We have a GitHub repo —

https://github.com/postfreely/postfreely

Later, we will have a website up, too.

And also a server instance running PostFreely that people can join.

reiver,
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@matt @liaizon @atomicpoet

Excellent. We will do that.

Thanks Matt.

reiver,
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@thelsim

Some people call me by my username ("reiver") when they meet me in person.

To me, it is as much my name as my given-names are.

...

When I consider signing up for a new platform — if my preferred username isn't available, I often won't join.

...

Which never used to be a problem — as it is an obscure English word using its archaic spelling —

But, there are a lot more people on the Internet now, than there were two or more decades ago. So sometimes it gets taken by someone else.

reiver, to random
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I have a new KBin server.

I am going to document my experience as a new KBin user and sysop.

Note that I already have experience as a Lemmy user & sysop. Some of that experience may be applicable here, too — but will see.

🧵

reiver,
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Logging into Kbin for the first time takes me here (shown in the screen shot).

The "/all" page.

reiver,
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You can get to the Kbin "Admin panel" from the menu that is shown when you hover your mouse over (or touch) your username in the top-right of the screen.

The Admin panel starts off by showing you a dashboard. But there are several other pages that make up the Admin panel:

• dashboard
• settings
• users
• pages
• federation

image/png

reiver,
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I don't see a way to turn-off or restricting registrations in the KBin admin panel.

I wonder if that is a feature that is planned — it seems pretty common with Fediverse software. Lemmy has it, for example.

reiver,
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Kbin seems to support something called:

Mercure
https://mercure.rocks/
https://mercure.rocks/spec

I don't think I have ever heard of Mercure before, but —

There is a setting to turn it on or off in the Admin Panel (at "/admin/settings").

It was already on — so on by default it seems.

reiver,
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@RatzChatsubo @angrystego

DNA sometimes moves from mitochondria to the cellular nucleus.

This can lead to speciation.

reiver, to random
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"Twitter and Reddit may have only lost a few million users to Mastodon and Lemmy so far, but these are nation-sized numbers, comparable to what Scandinavia is to the United States of America. The incumbents have allowed the fediverse to reach critical mass. It's only gonna get bigger"

⸺ Erlend Sogge Heggen ( @erlend )

https://blog.erlend.sh/transitioning-r-rust-to-the-threadiverse

reiver,
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@original_ish_name

I'll just replace "girlfriend" with "wife" since I am married —

Nothing happens. My wife knows me well. There isn't anything I think would surprise her.

reiver,
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@HughJanus @Lazycog

Do you recall which Firefish servers you tried (that were having stability problems)?

reiver,
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@cygnus_velum

Yes.

There isn't much that could make me not want to have kids.

...

I actually already have children. It is one of the best things I have ever done in my life.

reiver, to random
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If you are writing software —

Please expose the administration of a server instance through an API.

It makes things easier for sysops & sysadmins.

By enabling them to automate things.

Curious, how many users here actually use ActivityPub's capabilities to see other social media sites?

I’ve always wondered how many people actually decide to use something like mastodon to see Lemmy posts. I mean I know how inadequate it can be with a lack of a proper UI but I’m just wondering. Especially, with the infinite possibilities this can have.

reiver,
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@interolivary @whiskeypickle

Hello from Mastodon.

reiver, to random
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is now giving money to the developers on a monthly basis.

If someone hosts a instance with — will give a portion of the net revenue to the Lemmy developers on an ongoing basis.

As more people host Lemmy servers with , the amount we will be able to give to the Lemmy developers will increase.

( will do the same for every other open-source Fediverse software we host, too.)

https://spacehost.one/

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reiver,
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@nivenkos @Ransom

Ha! 🙂 — I did that too back in the day.

But only to friends, as a joke.

This was back before e-mail spam was a thing.

reiver, to random
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by Paul Alexander

reiver,
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@hitmyspot @hot_milky

That is what happens on Mastodon now when someone moves their account from one server to another — you get a notification of them following you from the other server.

reiver,
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@hitmyspot

It is all automatic.

You maintain the same relationship after the move.

If you just followed them, but they didn't follow you — that continues after the move.

If they just followed you, but you didn't follow them — that continues after the move.

If you followed each other — that continues after the move.

It is all automatic.

...

As a user, if someone who follows you moves their account, you see that as a new follow in your notifications.

danielquinn, to random
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With the , I've been looking around for a way to self host my own or instance, and just like with , the instructions and requirements are prohibitive.

  • There's no Docker container, official or otherwise
  • No Docker compose file, let alone a helm chart
  • There are instead long, painful instructions on how to self-host on a bare metal instance you have to maintain manually, like it's 2003.
reiver,
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@awilbert @danielquinn

We are going to be making them available very soon.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/110690637679927761

First Lemmy (since we already have it ready).

And then kbin later one (once we finish adding it).

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