Zuck is a POS, but he’s pulled a blinder. His ridiculous metaverse fell through, but literally just cloning Twitter and feasting on its carcass.
Threads will likely kill Twitter and Bluesky, and then when it starts federating, the fediverse will schism into instances that tolerate the worst people in the world federating with it and the ones that won’t.
!Transcontinental Ragnarok @Zoë O'Connell I solved the federation problem.
@Sylvia Knight I have created a group for Transcontinental Ragnarok. You can join by following it.
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@Roy Greenhilt Hmm, that’s annoying.
But private forums don’t seem to work with activitypub
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So i take the friendica thing is basically acting like a forwarder - Post to it, it boosts to the followers.
Close! Is a group actually private? IE, do boosts to the followers only show up to the people it boosts to? That would be helpful.
The 'group' tag helps to note this is a forwarder, but would love more information on who it is, what it is, how it is, and how do I get on or off it?
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@Roy Greenhilt It was initially a private group, but it seems they only propagate to Friendica.
Groups are still kinda Facebook’s killer app, and the fediverse kinda sucks at them.
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!Friendica Support Hi all. I created a forum user (closed signup) to try the feature out. It seems to work fine directly via Friendica, but stuff posted to it isn't federating to the couple of Mastodon accounts I used to sign up to it with. It's happy to accept posts from those accounts, and responses federate back to Mastodon, but the Mastodon accounts aren't seeing other posts sent to the forum.
Viewing the profile for the forum on mastodon.social shows no activity.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?
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@Rachel Lawson Maybe they wanted something definitive, but are pissed off because this is now likely to go higher?
They have the establishment on their side. If I were them, I'd be taking the win, but whatevs.
Fedi: I preblocked threads before it was popular!
Bsky: See me throot! Throot throot throot!
Twitter: 404
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Though I agree that WTTJ isn't their best song, it probably is the best opening track to an album ever written, which understandably confuses people.
But the song from them that goes round my head the most is Dust and Bones.
The "payment reference field" for my Portuguese bank does not allow accented characters.
Oh ... kay
fiche.
I was is an Expat in Setúbal in the early 80s. At the time you could only take about $100 out of the country.
I took a suitcase full of 1,000 Escudos bills to Heathrow for exchange to dollars on the trip back to America for Christmas vacation in 81.
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The world is going to burn from climate change while Nazis run amok trashing what's left of our dying civilisation not because there's nothing we can do to stop it, but because the people who are in a position to be able to stop either are all too fucking thick to do so.
I need a fucking drink.
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Sorry, that's just the flavor of all the posts I'm seeing. They feel less like "see what information those poor Meta users are giving up" and more like "look what Meta will take from you if we allow federation".
That's probably just projection on my part.
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I think I understand his advertising strategy. Create a site full of techno libertarian fanboys who are not anywhere near as clever as they think they are, but who are demonstrably willing to throw money at any old crap if they think Ayn Rand would have approved, and then present it to unscrupulous con artists, wanting to sell scams like NFTs or bitcoin or whatever, as a captive audience of gullible losers who will buy any old crap as long as it “owns the libs”.
He may not be doing this on purpose, but scammers will absolutely see the value in an audience of a few million gullible right wing arseholes who won’t complain about terrible service and who have money to burn.
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@Sebastian :verified: He’s very good at business! He must be worth backing to the hilt!
I’m sure we’ve seen this before somewhere, but I can’t quite place it …
Is he tho....?! Or did he make enough money with selling PayPal to employ people who are good at business related things? I don't really know the answer to that, but his Tesla track record, especially with "Full-Self-Driving" isn't really that of a savvy business man.
Or maybe I'd just like to think he's a babbling potato, because I really don't like him... 🤷♂️
@Sebastian :verified: No, he's not, and neither was the other one.
He got lucky with SpaceX and hired the right people.
Apparently the “basic biology” nut jobs on Twitter, when they’re able to post, are going on about how it’s biologically impossible for trans women to lactate.
Meanwhile, I’ve literally had tea made with my own milk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
There’s a new alternative to Twitter that I’ve developed and am accepting signups. The best bit is that you can run your own instance on a laptop, or even your phone! And it’s free!
Here’s how it works: open your notes application. Write out up to 280 characters. Repeat using new notes if you want a “thread”.
Then delete the whole lot.
Given nobody can actually read anything you post on Twitter, this is functionally equivalent to actually tweeting, except with far more uptime and no Nazis yelling at you to buy bitcoin for your grandma.
You’re welcome.
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@Sarah Brown you had me in the 1st half, not gonna lie.
I'll start a new business then: 100$ and I'll yell at you to buy bitcoins
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@Friendica Support A problem I’m noticing with my instance is, especially with the Twitter migration picking up, the deferred queue is just growing and growing as people experiment then abandon accounts or even entire servers.
I assume it will sort itself out eventually, but is there any way to reduce the timeout? I’ve got stuff that’s days old sitting in there that is probably never going to get actioned because the servers have just gone away.
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Amazon: Hi Sarah! Ever wondered if your …
Me: No *swipes left in iOS mail with extreme prejudice*
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I woke up and @Zoë O'Connell told me she wanted to stab me and wouldn’t go away until I let her.
And she says she wants to stab me again when I’m tired and hungry.
Should probably have left her where I found her (outside Cambridge police station, hitting her car with a hammer, in 2005).
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Apparently weird incel types think oestrogen is responsible for women’s sex drive.
I suspect it would blow their minds if they ever found out that the hormone most involved in making women horny is actually testosterone.
They act like we’re a different species or something. We all have the same set of receptors, more or less, guys. That’s why medical transition is even possible.
Doesn't it usually blow South? My guess is they'll irradiate Crimea, the Black Sea, everything down to Sochi. Erdogan should be up in Putin's grille.
Hearing that a couple of people opened fire on participants at Bristol Trans Pride with BB guns today. Thankfully nobody seriously hurt.
Those MPs (mostly, but not exclusively Tory) and “journalists” sticking your culture war bullshit; you did this.
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Earlier today. I utterly loathe the M25 (technically A282, but same difference)
This ain’t no upwardly mobile freeway. Oh no, this is the road to hell.
(Turns out that hell is actually in Thurrock. Who knew?)
Happiness, or possibly smugness, is an empty worker queue.
Although hitting “submit” will instantly shove a few hundred entries on it.
Just rubbernecked at r/Twitter. There are still a whole bunch of people frantically sat there hitting “reload”.
At what point does it start being Stockholm Syndrome?
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Just spotted my Friendica database was corrupt. 5 minutes downtime and I fixed it.
Methinks that's one-nil to me, Elon.
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@tricia @Alexandra Lanes The bit I hate most is how you get cramp in your arms from trying to undo a rusted bolt above your head while your legs go numb from sitting in the harness.
I am not scared of heights (used to be, cured myself), and my mast climbing technique is solid, but I just find working up there unpleasant and uncomfortable.
@tricia @Alexandra Lanes I'm a climber too, although I can't do it much any more because I have Dupuytrens.
Climbing the mast is easy. Friction knot with a mooring line round the mast, make a foot loop, main halyard tied to belay loop, have someone on the winch. You lift yourself up, they take in the slack. Repeat.
The issue is that you're not standing on anything, so even in the comfiest of harnesses, I find my legs go unpleasantly numb quite quickly. If you were hanging on a rock face, unless it was severely overhanging, you can usually take SOME weight on your legs, but try with the mast and you'll just pirouette around it.
The swaying you get used to. Worst bit is when some prick in a gas guzzler does a close pass and kicks up a load of wake. Then it gets interesting.
Just kidding. I so agree to what you said about the average yacht owner the other day. And which these complacent idiots being happy about orcas attacking sailing yaczts just don't want to see.
Keep it up!
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And the message queue is empty! Check out that little Mac Mini there, taking friendica-cron in its stride!
(Ok, I have the contact directory discovery thingie turned off because that is a destroyer of worlds, and disk space, and doesn’t actually seem all that useful for a small instance, but still)
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