New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 21: Fediverse, my Beloved

https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-21-fediverse-my-beloved.html

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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn @golemwire

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #fediverse #TheFediverse #Fedi

#Poll ✏️

I sent a #ThoughtProvoker contrasting Opt-in vs. Opt-out for services that developers launch on our #fediverse.

Thought was that on a #Prosocial web people are fully in control of the services they want to use by opting in, thus providing #consent.

Opt-out is where in many cases de-facto a developer becomes the decider how your content and data is used. To fedizens its often unclear what services interact with their online presence, and in what way. Plus they have to discover the opt-out mechanisms themselves.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117285470634849684

My post got an angry reaction from a #fedi developer, who misinterpreted what I said. The devs I know act with the best intentions! Yet some are exasperated with "We can't have nice things with only opt-in".

Recently a discovery service was launched with opt-out based on Indexable flag and Bio tags.

❓ What should be the default for fediverse apps and services ❓

And while you're at it, vote on my other related poll:

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117291127690930513

I'm going to preface this with that I have no intention of doing this at all, this is just a hypothetical that has been nagging me.

Let's say I were to delete this instance tomorrow, or maybe the domain expires and I never renew it... Does the cache of my posts and info and such eventually disappear from other fediverse instances? Do posts have a TTL that gets refreshed with the originating server or anything like that? I am sure that it is different across different implementations, so I'm really just looking for a general answer...

#fediadmin #fedi #activitypub

I remember some folks on #fedi talking about #Tailscale recently.

Can anyone clue me on on why Tailscale might be undesirable now, and what the alternatives are?

Danke.

@dheepsinque

How this is implemented is crucial for the future of the #fediverse. An app having app-specific integrations to some - indeed ethical - payment systems, is one thing. But for instance offering native #monetization features on #ActivityPub protocol level, and not thinking *very hard* about the implementation and impact of that, can totally enshittify the #fedi in no time in how it attracts the wrong type of people with dollar signs in their eyes.

The current app-centric fediverse is the playground of devs and "users" that have to swallow what they create and drop onto the wire. #FOSS culture is a poor model for the evolution of the fediverse, where the latter is an existing social space where people, the online residents, have their home. It is much more than a pure technosphere and playground for app devs.

Fedi isn't ready to be growth-hacked. If successful it'll undoubtedly see corporate capture with Corporate Fedi the outcome, same as the web.

https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web/

Which #fedi instances have a hard-line stance against #genAI to the point where they are exceptionally careful about the state of the OS the instance is running on?

How much do you #fedi? A poll - pick which answer best describes you most of the time.
I read at least one #fediverse social media post #poll

#Fediverse today consists of apps and app platforms. It is entirely app-centric.

Since fediverse (luckily) didn't attract much corporate attention yet, it is dominated by #FOSS culture, where people on the #SocialWeb are all "users" that are dependent on FOSS developers to serve their needs. Every dev focuses on their app features first and #interoperability second, leading to a patchwork of poorly integrated apps, and a janky overall experience. The app delivery model is not much different than Web 2.0.

A paradigm shift is possible, to a #SocialNetwork of apps and services, a service-oriented #fedi. The efforts around the #ActivityPub API can be the enabler of this shift.

In this new paradigm devs introduce solutions to a unified #SocialNetworking space, delivering new services to participants on the network. On top of a robust Protocol Layer they model social use cases in the Data Layer, integrating with services and building blocks already available.

https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web

Hmm, seems that @tut is no longer able to load notifications in #Pixelfed.

That's a bummer.

I'm sad that it's no longer under development, as it's my absolute favorite #Fedi #TUI.

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A screenshot of the tut TUI fedi client showing my pixelfed account. There are many toots on the top left pane, but the notification pane is completely empty. :/

Does anyone have any interesting Fedi mobile client recommendations?

I'm currently on Moshidon, but I am curious what is out there these days.

I have not kept up with recent developments; last I checked, Tusky was still a thing, so I'm feeling old.

My preferences:

• Android.
• Free and open source.
• Will work with my GoToSocial instance without making me feel like a second class citizen to Mastodon users.
• No LLM-generated nonsense.

Unique recommendations welcome! I wonder if there's some truly novel UX out there that I'm unaware of.

#fedi #fediverse #askFedi #moshidon #fediClients #fediClient #tusky #goToSocial #fediDev #activityPub

I genuinely need someone to help me with LinkedIn. I am trying to send a message to someone who worked on an old Amiga software, but the messanger won't let me send it. LinkedIn is being stupid with its accessibility overlay and I don't know what to do. Can someone help?
#help #Amiga #amiga #Fedi

for projects that have a presence here in the fediverse quite often people think it is a good idea to mention them when wanting to refer to them instead of using their hastag, ex. mentioning @arcanechat instead of using #ArcaneChat hastag to refer to the app

this makes it very hard for people interested in following the topic, since appealing to common sense is too much to ask from the masses it would be nice if #mastodon allowed to follow also mentions, that is, besides following #hastags to also be able to follow any post containing a certain mention

#fediverse #masto #development #dev #fedi #fedihelp

#TIL there's a Lwaxana Troi account on #fedi, and she's utterly marvelous.

@LwaxanaTroi

@bennihtm

Lol don't you dare, why do you think I'm on #Fedi but to enjoy fringe techy projects and hear really bad jokes?!? XD

@hollie

The incredibly innocent #hashtags I see on #fedi give me hope for humanity. :)

#lispyGopherClimate Sunday-morning-in-Europe #live #technology #lisp #podcast every week since 2022. #ARCHIVED

https://toobnix.org/w/pxKfPQut7XZVpuPP3pGujH

Floating point numbers in ANSI CL very lightly and what people are talking about on irc.

@cwebber 's vibrating bobsled #ai article, #emacs and a Canadian sociologist falling for her "research ai boyfriend"
https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/whats-it-like-having-an-ai-boyfriend-2-waterloo-researchers-decided-to-find-out-9.7281399

Talking about the state of #zine issue 0 (released tuesday-in-america no-matter-what) #peertube #fedi

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A very spooky green lisp alien lispy gopher show banner, with the gopher looking on from behind.

People crapping all over #Mozilla for having an X account now, yet I see #fedipeeps with X account links on their bios, #FOSS projects with X links on their homepages...

I despise X and Musk, but maybe be a little more consistent.

And I have publicly rebuked FOSS projects on #fedi for having X account links on their homepages, asking them just what Musk would have to do to get them to delete it.

If you're gonna go scorched earth, be consistent with it, otherwise it's just sparkling douchebaggery.

Like, if the Linux distro you use has an X or Meta account (and many of them do), but you haven't said anything about that... BRUH.
#kthxbai

@fedops

Of course you'd ask, and GtS' search function is potatotastic. Lemme try searching from an alt...

Ugh. Now of course I can't find it. Ugh. Oh sweet #fedi. XD

Three hours to live #discussion with #FSF #gopher @bandali on #lispyGopherClimate !
https://toobnix.org/w/wQJ63Utsw2SN16Bhh5f2iT

0UTC Wednesday (Tuesday night in the Americas)

I am not accepting to treat bandali as a stallman effigy.

We *will* talk about human #emacs (anti #ai faction).

We are promoting awareness of bandali's new personal #snac #fedi instance (thanks @grunfink ), if you could follow / boost to that avail.

Bandali:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-june-gnu-spotlight
gopher://kelar.org/1/~bandali

@screwtape_channel

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#fedi #askfedi
Is the #ActivityPub protocol any closer to having data portability?
And how about single ID usable in different apps?
And how about E2EE?

Thank you!

The year is 2025. Social is entirely occupied by Enshittified Corporate Goons. Well, not entirely. One small decentralized platform of indomitable nerds still holds out against the invaders....

#fedi #BlueSky #enshittification #asterix #fediverse

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The opening page from ASTERIX comic books. A map of ancient Gaul, with a magnifier over north-west France - showing the Gaulish village surrounded by Roman camps. Here the village is crossed out and says The Fedi.

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the cover from ASTERIX and the Great Crossing - a small ship is in heavy seas with Asterix peering over the bow, a defiant Obelix with arms crossed, and tiny Dogmatix (a dog) at the side of Asterix. Here the ship has the fediverse logo on the hull.

Is it just me/the instance I'm on, or does #Loops not properly federate with #GoToSocial at all?

I can see and share my Loops videos from #GtS, but replies and follows from GtS aren't seen on Loops.

When you write #fedi software, please, please test with more than just Mastodon.

Update: Already implemented on #Mastodon, partially implemented on #GtS: https://chaos.social/@nordern/116857153076615091

There seriously needs to be a way to say "Show me my toots from 2026-05-02" or whatever on #fedi.

Paging down through pages and pages of results feels silly, and is an unwarranted tax on the server.

@82mhz @steeph @daj @stefano

#Glitch does have that, and many other great features (like Markdown support), but there's a reason why it's called Glitch ;)

I will add the criticism that #Mastodon by and large gets to unilaterally decide what #fedi looks like by fiat. No discussion, and not a whole lot of caring about the AP spec itself, from what I'm hearing.

@nathanu

> P.S. Lord does it suck to share links on #Mastodon. Markdown syntax support when?

On vanilla Mastodon, probably never. But there are plenty of other great options that support longer toots and full Markdown:

• Gitch Social (Mastodon fork)
• GoToSocial (somewhat minimalist #fedi server, which the instance I'm on is running)
• snac (very minimalist fedi server, see https://snac.bsd.cafe)

I don't have any Glitch instance recommendations offhand, unfortunately. I can dig through my files for one if you'd like, or you can try looking online.

@dillyd

The fact that "thick trunk" is a totally innocent meme on #Fedi is reason number $RANDOM why I absolutely adore this place.

@N3VEM

Folks sharing pics of their little ones on #fedi makes my heart swell with hope.

@jmeowmeow

Feel free to follow me for inane chatter and the spiciest of takes 😆

You can also check out my blog (RSS enabled!) -- https://rldane.space/

Any major announcements will definitely be found there.

I'm wanting to build something for #fedi folk to be able to share knowledge in a fun and informal way, so hopefully I'll have something to announce in a month or so. :)

@jmeowmeow @cobweb

Thanks for this!

I've put the project on the backburner for now, as my daily #Junited posts are taking up most of my free time, but I'm thinking about maybe using an existing forum if someone wants to host it, or just keeping it purely on #Fedi.

https://tuba.geopjr.dev/

#Fediverse #Fedi #Software #Linux #Windows

For the people that think #Mastodon and other social web sites are “ healthier” would love to know your thoughts on this https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/problem-mastodon-fediverse/ #fediverse #fedi #opensocialweb

Fediverse is peppered with #cringy, delusional, self-hating twitposting. Some people's feeds read like a suicide letter demanding everyone else to commit suicide with them. Some twitfeeds exude the vibes of an assassin's hit list. Some twitfeeds smell like authoritarian extermination orders. Their toxic feeds should come with a Mister Yuk sticker.

Twitposter feeds run devoid of brotherly love and full of animosity towards things they don't understand. These twitposters seek to blame and punish innocent people for their perceived slights or suffering rather than helping others through their own suffering.

Twitposters try to classify and demonize others instead of viewing others as individual humans with their own individual destinies.

With this collectivist hateview of others, they concoct a delusional view of reality that justifies any oppression or atrocity toward the 'enemy' they have concocted, and often that enemy is the self.

#Fedi #Fediverse #cringe #twitposers #twitposting #twitfeeds #gag #MisterYuk

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe @psychology@a.gup.pe

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A green Mister Yuk sticker with a circular black border. In the border are the words, 'POISON HELP' and a toll-free number for a poison hotline.