In December 2021 I set myself a goal: Add a year-in-review feature to #Mastodon before the next December. It's December 2024 and it's finally, slowly rolling out. It's not all that it was meant to be, because we couldn't prioritize it over all the other things we work on, but I didn't want to miss another year.
Does Lemmy need to implement this? You might be able to pull most of this data from the API. I might try and build something like this myself at some point, but likely won’t have time until next year.
The graph doesn't give enough context, nor does the article IMO. China is a third party in this, as well as the Ukraine War, etc. And Trump seems unlikely to be good for the economy in his time in office so next year might be up, but there are many more factors.
With Donald Trump preparing to cut taxes and increase tariffs, US inflation is forecast to stay above 2 per cent throughout the whole of 2025, according to predictions compiled by Consensus Economics. Eurozone inflation is on the other hand forecast to drop below the ECB’s target of 2 per cent as soon as February.
“We expect a divergence to open up between the loosening cycles of the Fed and the ECB as mounting inflation risks cause the former to take a fairly cautious approach, while the latter responds forcefully to economic weakness,” said Jennifer McKeown, chief global economist at Capital Economics.
This is a combination of Neocon colonial handlers promising to please Trump through every imaginable increase in warmongering submission to keep war ongoing, and deeply misplaced optimism that Trump's pro US oligarchy/monopoly profits will help economic growth instead of just the stock market.
Technically, high cost of living increases from tariffs and deportations can be "nominal economic growth". Insurance costs will keep skyrocketing from high replacement costs of homes and autos, and pessimism over global warming. If US massively increases government spending, the growth forecast is possible, but then so is collapse and debt default.
The growth forecasts will be accurate if colonial subjugation increases even more, but EU leaders during Trump45 had more backbone as a result of his disrespect. Everything is extremely uncertain, but there is more likely to be a US led global recession than anything else.
UNRWA announced Monday that it is halting aid shipments through the Karam Abu Salem crossing into Gaza citing “hurdles from Israeli authorities” as a reason for a “breakdown in law and order.”
Well if they ain't paying their share of taxes, what else do you want them to spend money on? Another yacht? Hospitals? Schools? Why try to make the world a better place.
When viewing different instances, whether to copy a community link to make another instance aware of it & subscribe to it or otherwise, it would be nice to have a switch along the top bar to switch between admin-set light/dark mode themes.
That way you aren't either forced into being blinded by light mode or having to let your eyes adjust to dark mode. Admins could choose the variant of light or dark theme to have the switch toggle between, so in the case of more customized instances they could retain their distinct style.
For reference, see almost any site with a light/dark toggle, but for a closer example, see Piefed's approach.
lemmy-ui's default is to use the browser light/dark-mode setting. So you are likely looking at servers that have a custom theme without light/dark modes, or some hacked-on css.
It is reliable, reasonably light weight, and has connectors for a number of protocols. I've been running one for a couple of years now. Very low maintenance compared to other social media software I am running. Feel free to check it out, hubzilla.eskimo.com/
I really like it, though the UI is a bit "old facebook". I would have loved to use it for a club I'm in, but it doesn't seem to have the organisational capabilities I'd need, like user roles and default channels to follow, and stuff like that.
That said, as a single user instance, I don't have any issues. It is easy to install and keep up to date. And the connectors to other protocols seems to work fine
I interpreted TheLugal as considering the old Facebook vibes as a bad thing - but each to their own!
As you're using Friendica - Is the old school Facebook aesthetic part of what makes Friendica appeal to you? Did you move there directly from Facebook back in the day?
And if you have been around for a while, what has the recent growth of ActivityPub felt like from your corner of the Internet?
Friendica has been around since 2010 - it is very cool to me that the content we post here might reach users of a platform that was created almost a decade before ActivityPub was specified.
@aasatru @ALostInquirer @TheLugal I got kicked off of Farcebook three years ago for not going along with the Covid-19 Vax agenda. I started a friendica at that time because of all the fediverse software available at the time, it looked the most like facebook. My intent was to provide an alternative platform where you were free to say what you wanted.
Since that time I've also put up a Misskey, a Hubzilla, and a Mastodon. I personally don't like the micro-blogging format, thus I don't use Misskey or Mastodon much, just enough to make sure they are working. I prefer long format macroblogging because they make actual intelligent discussions possible (even if it is a capability people rarely use), where as microblogging isn't good for much beyond an occasional snarky remark.
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@aasatru @ALostInquirer @TheLugal I got kicked off of Farcebook three years ago for not going along with the Covid-19 Vax agenda. I started a friendica at that time because of all the fediverse software available at the time, it looked the most like facebook. My intent was to provide an alternative platform where you were free to say what you wanted.
Since that time I've also put up a Misskey, a Hubzilla, and a Mastodon. I personally don't like the micro-blogging format, thus I don't use Misskey or Mastodon much, just enough to make sure they are working. I prefer long format macroblogging because they make actual intelligent discussions possible (even if it is a capability people rarely use), where as microblogging isn't good for much beyond an occasional snarky remark.
Of the two macroblogging applications, friendica and hubzilla, I prefer friendica because it displays full photos by default and it also makes better use of a wide display (I have a 2560 x 1440 monitor) so I find it more readable.
I also like it's support for bbcode, which while not 100% complete is still better than most other platforms. The only downside to Friendica is that it is relatively resource intensive. Originally I had it on a six core 3.6 Ghz i7-3850 with 128GB of RAM, but it had a hard time keeping up and responsiveness wasn't great. Now it is running on a 4.4 Ghz 18 core 36 thread i9-10980xe (the machine will run at 4.8Ghz but not 100% stable) with 256GB of RAM.
Friendica is not that hard on the database however, averaging around 300 tps, and I've tested MariaDB and found it, on this hardware, to be capable of almost 14,000 tps, so not straining. Seems the PHP code is just not particularly efficient.
Hubzilla, in spite of supporting more protocols, is quite a bit less resource intensive, and Mastodon and Misskey are very resource light.
Thanks - it's interesting to hear what brings people to different platforms.
It sounds like there's a lot of potential in Hubzilla for front-end developers seeking to make it a friendlier experience - from what everyone here is saying the back-end seems pretty solid.
Hubzilla is my main daily driver in the Fediverse and has been since before the big Twitter migration of 2022. In fact, I've never used Twitter.
A few attributes that could describe Hubzilla are "powerful", "complex", but also "unusual".
Hubzilla is basically Facebook on coke and 'roids (without what sucks on Facebook) meets a full-blown blogging engine meets Google Cloud or iCloud services meets Dropbox with a small Web hoster on top, a simple wiki engine etc. etc. plus federation into all kinds of directions (Twitter if your hub admin has the money, diaspora*, WordPress cross-poster etc.), and that still isn't all that Hubzilla can do.
If Friendica is the Swiss army knife of the Fediverse, then Hubzilla is a full-blown Leatherman.
There's little that you couldn't possibly do with Hubzilla. You can use it for Facebook-style social networking, actually even better than Mastodon. You can run moderated forum/discussion groups on it. You can use it as a blog with all the shebang (except it send
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You mean as an end user or as a hub admin?
Hubzilla is my main daily driver in the Fediverse and has been since before the big Twitter migration of 2022. In fact, I've never used Twitter.
A few attributes that could describe Hubzilla are "powerful", "complex", but also "unusual".
Hubzilla is basically Facebook on coke and 'roids (without what sucks on Facebook) meets a full-blown blogging engine meets Google Cloud or iCloud services meets Dropbox with a small Web hoster on top, a simple wiki engine etc. etc. plus federation into all kinds of directions (Twitter if your hub admin has the money, diaspora*, WordPress cross-poster etc.), and that still isn't all that Hubzilla can do.
If Friendica is the Swiss army knife of the Fediverse, then Hubzilla is a full-blown Leatherman.
There's little that you couldn't possibly do with Hubzilla. You can use it for Facebook-style social networking, actually even better than Mastodon. You can run moderated forum/discussion groups on it. You can use it as a blog with all the shebang (except it sends Note-type objects rather than Article-type objects over ActivityPub, and text formatting is done in BBcode), and you don't even have to worry about where to upload your images because Hubzilla has a built-in file space, complete with subdirectory support and file managers. You can use it as your personal WebDAV/CalDAV/CardDAV server. You can run simple websites on it (hubzilla.org, the official Hubzilla website, is built on a Hubzilla channel itself).
Friendica, which Hubzilla was forked from back in 2012 (although it didn't become Hubzilla before 2015), already has multiple profiles per account. You can assign profiles to contacts so that different people can see different sides of you. You can have a public profile with only basic informations. One profile for work and colleagues. One LinkedIn-style career profile. One profile for your family. One profile for your booze buddies or nerd friends or whatever. All with different information about you.
Hubzilla goes even further: Your identity is not tied to your account anymore. Your identity is containerised in what Hubzilla calls a "channel". And you can have multiple channels on one account. Each channel is like a separate account mostly everywhere else, a fully separate Fediverse identity, but all on the same login. And each channel can have multiple profiles.
For example, you can run one channel as your personal daily-driver channel. Three channels as forums/discussion groups (think Lemmy communities/subreddits) for different topics. One channel with a webpage on it. Whatever. And nobody can tell that these channels are on the same account, save maybe for the hub admin if they're eager to do some SQL-fu in the database. (Or everyone if all these channels are on a private, single-user hub.)
Or what if you need another Fediverse identity for special purposes? On Lemmy or Mastodon, you need another account. On Hubzilla, you create a new channel on your existing account. You don't even have to log off and on again to switch between channels.
The channels system was basically introduced to make one of Hubzilla's killer features possible: nomadic identity. What most Fediverse users consider utter science-fiction was actually already introduced in 2012. Granted, this is only possible because Hubzilla is based on its own protocol rather than ActivityPub, but still.
Nomadic identity makes it possible to have a channel, one and the same channel, on multiple hubs at the same time. Not with dumb copies, but with real-time, live, hot, bidirectional backups of just about everything. You can have as many clones as you want to/as you can find appropriate hubs to clone to.
Your channel always has one main instance which also defines its ID (at least from the POV of software that understands nomadic identity as used by Hubzilla) and one or several clones (which, from the POV of software that understands nomadic identity as used by Hubzilla, all have the same ID as the main instance). Whatever happens on your main instance is copied to the clones within seconds. You can also log onto your clones and use them. E.g. when the hub with your main instance is offline, you lose nothing. Whatever happens on one of the clones is copied to the other clones and to your main instance.
Oh, and if the hub with your main instance goes down for good, or if you want to move, you can define one of your clones your main instance, and your old main instance is demoted to clone. This means that if your channel is nomadic, one server going down won't take your channel with it. You'll still have the self-same channel elsewhere. Your home server gives up the ghost, you lose nothing.
But don't expect Hubzilla to be easy to get into. It's nothing like Reddit, it's nothing like Twitter has ever been, and it's nothing like most of the rest of the Fediverse. The closest would be (streams), a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork)? of Hubzilla itself, and everything in this chain is/was by the same creator. Followed by Friendica and Forte, still by the same creator, and Forte's only instance is currently the private instance of said creator. But everything else in the Fediverse is nothing like Hubzilla.
First newbie obstacle: You can't follow anyone on Mastodon. Or almost anywhere else in the Fediverse. That's because ActivityPub is optional, and it's off by default so that your new channel only supports that one nomadic protocol at first. Non-nomadic protocols kind of disturb nomadic identity, mostly because you have to re-connect non-nomadic contacts manually, one by one. And back when Hubzilla was made, it was actually a tempting idea to run a purely nomadic channel.
To add to the difficulty, there is no ActivityPub switch in the settings. ActivityPub is an "app" that needs to be "installed". Hubzilla is very modular, and so are its channels where not all its features are enabled by default.
And then there's the permissions system. Something like this exists nowhere in the Fediverse that isn't made by the Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte creator Mike Macgirvin. Not even Friendica has it to such an extent. It's extensive, it's fine-grained, and it's powerful.
But unlike everything in the Fediverse not created by Mike, it does not default to "everything is allowed to everyone unless muted or blocked". Its default settings are still geared towards 2012 when it was still named Red (from spanish la red = the network), when the Federation, the precursor of the Fediverse, was still small, and four years before Mastodon was launched. In those days, the idea of a purely Red/Red Matrix/Hubzilla network that offers a maximum of privacy, safety and security was not too far-fetched.
And so, by default, certain things are disallowed unless explicitly allowed to certain contacts by means of contact role. By default, your posts all only go to a privacy group (think Mastodon lists on more coke and even more 'roids) instead of to everyone. Before you can really get going, you'll have to install multiple apps of which you don't know what they do and adjust things of which you don't know that they exist, much less what they're for. It takes months to become a halfway routined user, and it takes years to be come a power user who realises that setting everything to public is actually stupid, and who knows how to tone down the settings again while not keeping your existing contacts out.
Yeah, the UI/UX is far from top notch. But keep in mind that Hubzilla is a fork of Friendica. Which is from 2010. In 2010, social networks and social media were still mostly geared towards the desktop, and phone apps were gimmicks rather than bare necessities. Both Friendica and Hubzilla were created by only one person. And he's a protocol designer and not a full-stack Web developer. Mike can make UIs work, but he can't make them as pretty as what Apple whips up.
Hubzilla is very themeable, but it currently has only got one official theme. Its name "Redbasic" indicates its origin: Red. As in Hubzilla, three years before it was Hubzilla. 2012. It hasn't changed much since then, except it became more configurable with Hubzilla 9 this year.
There used to be more themes, but even after the community took over from Mike in 2018, Hubzilla never had more than two core developers. And, again, it's an utter monster. The devs invested most of their time into the vast backend, consisting of the core and the more essential apps. Over time, not only several apps fell to the wayside (including a chess game which was dropped in 2020 because of a big protocol upgrade), but so did all themes except Redbasic. The devs only had time to upgrade one theme to new or changed features, and so the other themes became incompatible and were eventually dropped.
Brand-new third-party themes are in the making, and a few will soon be rolled out. But I wouldn't count on them being included into every new Hubzilla installation, much less all existing hubs.
Speaking of apps: There's no official Hubzilla app, neither for iOS nor for Android. There's one app for Android named Nomad. It's only available on F-Droid. And it hasn't been updated in a whopping five years. On more recent devices, it doesn't even work anymore. And, in fact, it's a Web app. It integrates Hubzilla's Web interface instead of having everything on a dedicated, native mobile UI. In other words, there aren't that many advantages of using Nomad over using a browser.
There's also a very, very, very bare-bone Android app, I think it was made by Hubzilla's main dev, that can only post to Hubzilla and nothing else. You can't even use it to read anything. It isn't available in any app store.
The best you can do if you want to use Hubzilla on a phone is install it as a Progressive Web App.
Thanks for the detailed reply! The potential complexity (depending on how much you want to do with it) is a major part of why I was asking, both in terms of use and administration.
Despite the challenges that poses and absence of mobile apps, it still sounds great, but definitely something to go in with an idea of what you do and don't want to do with it.
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 1700 to 1800 UTC. You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held on 5 December 2024.
We will be continuing onwards with:
FEP convergence (re: conversational contexts) and a proposal re: baseline usage of as:context as a grouping mechanism
updates by WG members re: non-as:Note support in Mastodon
As always — time permitting — if you'd like to speak or inquire about a certain topic, comment in the agenda or reply here, the floor is open!
This guy's dad is the former VP of a multibillion dollar Turkish conglomerate, as well as the secretary of a government department. Mom and Dad were able to fly to their other home in NJ to give birth so he'd get US citizenship. His uncle is the founder and owner of TYT Media and gave him his media career. He went to Rutgers. He lives in a multimillion dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills. This is by definition not the kind of person who can be a voice of the People. Saying "I recognize my privilege" over and over, while living his lifestyle, doesn't negate his privilege and complete lack of real-life experience outside of the curated garden of the wealthy. He gets paid obscene amounts of cash to sit in his bedroom and word-vomit for 9 hours a day. Why are his unending opinions taken so seriously? He gives me strong controlled opposition vibes.
Also, class is not defined by wealth, but by relation to labor. He is doing the work he is getting paid for, regardless of whether someone thinks its too much. He's not exploiting others to make that money as far as I know.
Poilievre is the only party leader in Parliament who still refuses to obtain the necessary security clearance to access classified documents on foreign governments' political interference activities in Canada.
President Donald Trump reiterated a promise Monday to punish Hamas and its sponsors severely if it does not release the 101 Israeli hostages, including several Americans, by the time he is inaugurated on January 20, 2025.
President Donald Trump reiterated a promise Monday to punish Hamas and its sponsors severely if it does not release the 101 Israeli hostages, including several Americans, by the time he is inaugurated on January 20, 2025.
Take issue with her views on Putin's assault on Ukraine and Bashar al-Assad's rule in Syria, not her motives in accepting Trump's nomination, writes Eli Lake.
China will give all the least developed countries with which it has diplomatic relations zero-tariff treatment for 100 percent tariff lines starting from December 1, becoming the first large developing country and major economy to announce such a pol…
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