@bender@twtxt.net Both Gopher and Mastodon are a way for me to “babble”. 😅 I basically shut down Gopher in favor of Mastodon/Fedi last year. But the Fediverse doesn’t really work for me. It’s too focused on people (I prefer topics) and I dislike the addictive nature of likes and boosts (I’m not disciplined enough to ignore them). Self-hosting some Fedi thing is also out of the question (the minimalistic daemons don’t really support following hashtags, which is a must-have for me).

I’ll probably keep reading Fedi stuff, I just won’t post that much, I think.

Did you know about @panoramax@panoramax , “a federation offering geolocated street-level pictures”?

Pictures are offered through a decentralized architecture, with a set of free and open-source tools. In other words, it is “like a self-hosted Street View” that does not impose its own app and gives you the right to fork the server.

#fediverse #osm

Confession:

I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.

The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).

I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.

Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.

On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️

LWN’s Mastodon migration
The LWN.net fediverse (Mastodon) feed has moved; we are now known as @LWN@lwn.net. The migration magic has
shifted many of our followers over automatically but, if you follow that
stream, you might want to make sure that you have shifted to the new
source. ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I use it. It’s not the feature I use the most in the fediverse, but I communicate this way with several friends. For example, it’s the main way I talk to the original creator of the twtxt-el repository, the way people greet me for the first time or the way they notify me of some bugs in the software I maintain. I can even tell you that it’s the main way I talk to some maintainers of the Emacs community. If there are any of you reading my words, speak up!
Why not have the same? There are things I want to say to @prologic@twtxt.net in private, why should I have to send him an email or private IRC? Or an public twt.
Of course, here’s a topic we’ve already talked about: what is twtxt for you? For me it will always be a social network, in microblogging format, but an asynchronous way of communicating. And having a tool to control visibility is basic 😄
I look forward to hearing from you @eapl.me@eapl.me !

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev how often do you send a private message on the Fediverse? How often do you send PGP/SMIME encrypted emails? Are there other tools that are more suitable for the task? If implementing direct/private messages on twtxt scratches an itch (you know, that hobbyist itch we all get from time to time), then don’t give up so easily. Worse comes to worse, and your feed becomes too noisy, people can simply unfollow/mute.

I really don’t care about direct messages here, but I might be on that bottom 1%!

I am not interested at all. If I want to interact/socialise/whatever on the Fediverse (which I do), I simply use it. I would like to keep twtxt separate.

** leibovitz **
Folks what that haunt me (positive) on the Fediverse may have seen me sharing progress shots from this, but here I am, and I have made another camera application for the web. Leibovitz combines a lot that I learned making my other camera applications into one, hopefully less clunky package.

With leibovitz you can either take new photos, or upload any image file and apply filters to it. The UX to toggle between the two modes is … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net In all seriousness: Don’t worry, I’m not going to host some Fediverse thingy at the moment, probably never will. 😅

But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️

@prologic@twtxt.net Gemini has an answer for you:

This is a conversation thread from a twtxt network, detailing a user’s (movq) frustration with the Mastodon “export data” feature and their consideration of self-hosting a fediverse alternative. Here’s a summary:

• movq’s initial issue:
  
  • movq is concerned about the volatility of their data on their current Mastodon instance due to a broken “export data” feature.
    
  • They contacted the admins, but the issue remains unresolved.
    
  • This led them to contemplate self-hosting.
    
• Alternative fediverse software suggestions:
  
  • kat suggests gotosocial as a lightweight alternative to Mastodon.
    
  • movq agrees, and also mentions snac as a potential option.
    
• movq’s change of heart:
  
  • movq ultimately decides that self-hosting any fediverse software, besides twtxt, is too much effort.
    
• Resolution and compromise:
  
  • The Mastodon admins attribute the export failure to the size of movq’s account.
    
  • movq decides to set their Mastodon account to auto-delete posts after approximately 180 days to manage data size.
    
  • Movq also mentions that they use auto-expiring links on twtxt to reduce data storage.

Blogtastisch: 2. Blogs und das Fediverse ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/Ekj

If we don’t keep insisting on simplify and “The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One.”, then people should just use ActivityPub-based software like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc. which are getting a lot of attention and uses migrating to the fediverse from meta/x here in Denmark over the last couple of months.

@prologic@twtxt.net IMHO: Most people like it the easy way: “Don’t make me think!”. If you do not pay money for a service, your data/content is the price to pay. Some handy mobile apps for the fediverse and the ongoing debate on social media services may get the people and their content out of the walled gardens of the 21st century.

I like the cleaness and indiewebness of using just domains for handles/shorthands similar to blusky, but the situations with more users on the same domain and that people in the fediverse (threads too?) are already familiar with the syntax speaks for webfinger. And since we already got support for webfinger in both yarnd and timeline it makes sense to stick with it.

The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor … ⌘ Read more

The Fediverse Files ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/9L7

A Share-Icon for the Fediverse ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/p/9BW

hello fediverse

Meine Fediverse Trading Card ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/p/6vN

Decided to block the threads.net domain on Mastodon. I am happy with reaching the people that are part of the current Fediverse. I have no need to add more celebrities and brands and whatever to the Mastodon instance I have been enjoying.

Happy Birthday Fediverse! ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/6Gg

On my blog: Why Federate? https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/23/federation.html #rant #socialmedia #fediverse

I’ve been exploring the Fediverse, ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, etc.

created an account for the fediverse: compudanzas@post.lurk.org | https://compudanzas.net/contact.html

Fediverse : Trump’s “new” social media platform “suspected” as disguised fork of href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23Mastodon”>#Mastodon** ⌘ Read more

Redditors Launch A ‘Rescue Mission’ For Embattled Sci-Hub, With The Ultimate Aim Of Building A Decentralized Version | isn’t that a great challenge for the fediverse? ⌘ Read more…

is there a twtxt mention crawler/indexer? just noticed I’ve been missing messages at me on here. hit me up on the fediverse: jb55 at bitcoinhackers dot org, or my email: jb55 at jb55 dot com

I need a twitter/twtxt/fediverse crossposter…

Osada - Welcome to the Fediverse ⌘ https://zotlabs.com/osada

watchlist for activitypub apps · Wiki · Feneas / Fediverse Party · GitLab ⌘ https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-for-activitypub-apps

Awesome Fediverse ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/5BT

Hello, Marhabaan, Hallo, Salut, Merhaba, שלום, qavan, Hola, 你好, Ciao, Alô, Hej, ハロー, Ej, Alla, Grüzi & Namaste Fediverse! (Das Bild ist eine abgewandelte Version von switching.social) ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/p/58d

The Independant Federated Fediverse http://tilde.town/~petegozz/

So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.

Bad idea of the day: A fediverse node that only federates over packet radio via moon bounce

Privacy and Tracking on the Fediverse | Lainblog https://blog.soykaf.com/post/privacy-and-tracking-on-the-fediverse/