I remember learning to play pitch-and-putt (simplified golf) and when I finally got the swing right, there was a “thunk” sound twice or three times as my ball bounced from tree trunk to tree trunk. It was like some kind of nature-based pinball. I couldn’t believe it. When the disbelief passed later that day I couldn’t stop laughing.
Some very informative and leading articles pop up from that site. I learned a lot about indigenous issues (inflicted by settlers) there. Was really surprised given the associations I have with the brand.
It is. I’d love to see it without the text too.
Best skin I’ve seen on any social site. Nice job.
Just because it’s not tailored to your personal preferences doesn’t make it “shit”. For anyone who doesn’t want to manage code, Wordpress is worth considering.
Personally, I’d like to maintain Wordpress locally and offline. Then each update exported to the server as a static site. I just haven’t found a thorough enough tutorial online yet.
Thanks, I didn’t know about any of this before. I’m running services on the OS (Raspbian, on a Raspberry Pi 3B+).
Should I be looking into running the web server or the VPN from docker to get access to these features?
The only people arguing for it omit moral considerations, which is sad to see so widespread. There’s a certain price not worth paying for our toys.
I think it’s good for Firefox to get these alternatives using it as a base. Great news.
I’m not having a conversation that compares people signing up to their favourite social media channel with people who suffer systemic discrimination every day in their lives.
It’s not being mean to them. Calling them names or something would be mean.
And they are not oppressed. Oppressed people don’t have choices.
But you support/validate the service by interacting with your contacts.
If a Mastodon instance was run by someone who allowed a genocide to be fuelled by their platform, and earn money from the advertising, I think we’d defederate in a heart beat. It just doesn’t seem consistent to federate with them.
But they are inseparable.
Update: I got it working by manually downloading a newer binary. Thanks, this is great!
Outdated: One more question, when I choose to download a torrent, the downloads list is still at 0. There is no download activity, even for a very popular torrent. The log file simply says:
(N) 2023-12-18T20:57:30 - Downloading 'https://<redacted-text>.html', please wait...
So, no complaints about file permissions (I’m on linux). Any idea why this is? I can’t easily join the forum. It’s gmail/outlook only for registration.
Ah, than you so much! This makes life a lot easier :)
“spammy/toxic instances” - Meta are a toxic company. They literally have blood on their hands.
“too liberal with defederation” - we’re talking about one body specifically; Threads. Nothing else.
As to whether it should be done at an admin or individual level, I have no idea. But they’re an unethical company and people less privileged than you and I have died while they profit from it. That alone is enough reason for anyone with empathy IMO.
So if an instance federated with loads of other instances but not Threads, I’m not a social network anymore? That makes no sense to me.
Isn’t he also the SO creator? Anyway, I’m sure he understands the technology, yes. And maybe I misinterpreted him. But it sounded like he’s saying that if we don’t federate with Threads, then there’s no point in being on the fediverse, because we’re effectively isolationists”. That’s simply untrue.
He has some strange takes there, as if federating is mandatory. Servers do block instances and defederate. it’s not misuse of activitypub to do so.
I don’t know what’s the right choice. But some arguments are a bit off to me.
True, but the format is unique. The post format breaks up the flow of chatter into easily discernible units of conversation.
IRC, Discord and others have the continuous stream of thought with no beginning or end. On the other extreme, Instagram and TikTok require an image or video to post at all.
So I would say that FB groups have a distinct utility / identity separate from just other users being there.