Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

An avatar roaming the decentralised and federated 3-D virtual worlds based on OpenSimulator, a free and open-source server-side re-implementation of Second Life. Mostly talking about OpenSim, sometimes about other virtual worlds, occasionally about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. No, the Fediverse is not only Mastodon.

Even if you see me on Mastodon, I'm not on Mastodon myself. I'm on Hubzilla which is neither a Mastodon instance nor a Mastodon fork. In fact, it's older and much more powerful than Mastodon. And it has always been connected to Mastodon.

I regularly write posts with way more than 500 characters. If that disturbs you, block me now, but don't complain. I'm not on Mastodon, I don't have a character limit here.

I rather give too many content warnings than too few. But I have absolutely no means of blanking out pictures for Mastodon users.

I always describe my images, no matter how long it takes. My posts with image descriptions tend to be my longest. Don't go looking for my image descriptions in the alt-text; they're always in the post text which is always hidden behind a content warning due to being over 500 characters long.

If you follow me, and I "follow" you back, I don't actually follow you and receive your posts. Unless you've got something to say that's interesting to me within the scope of this channel, or I know you from OpenSim, I'll most likely deny you the permission to send me your posts. I only "follow" you back because Hubzilla requires me to do that to allow you to follow me. But I do let you send me your comments and direct messages. If you boost a lot of uninteresting stuff, I'll block you boosts.

My "birthday" isn't my actual birthday but my rezday. My first avatar has been around since that day.

If you happen to know German, maybe my "homepage" is something for you, a blog which, much like this channel, is about OpenSim and generally virtual worlds.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #VirtualWorlds #Metaverse #SocialVR #fedi22

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Jupiter Rowland

1 year ago • •

Jupiter Rowland
1 year ago • •

Demo post from Hubzilla

@Fediverse News This is another post to demonstrate what is possible in #Hubzilla posts and how much of it, if anything, arrives on instances of other projects. It also demos the functionality of Hubzilla's NSFW app; if you've installed it, it should give you a content warning.

For those who don't know yet: Hubzilla is a fork of #Friendica, created by Friendica's own creator, Mike Macgirvin. Friendica, then named Mistpark, was launched in summer 2010, six years before #Mastodon, already as a free-as-in-free-license, open-source, decentralised, distributed, federated alternative to Facebook. Basically what Mastodon was to Twitter six years later.

Friendica was geared right away towards macroblogging with forum functionality on top. Its capabilities were chosen accordingly, including no character limit, image embedding (with included manageable file space to upload images to) and text formatting through BBcode.

Hubzilla, then named Red, was forked off Friendica in 2012, four years before Mastodon. It was converted to a whole new protocol which Mike had conceived in 2011 with capabilities previously unseen on the #FederatedSocialWeb, now known as the #Fediverse, especially #NomadicIdentity. Otherwise, most of the features were kept the same, and even many more came on top. Hubzilla turned from a distributed social network into a nomadic social content management system.

While neither Friendica nor Hubzilla uses #ActivityPub internally as their protocol, both have built-in "translators" that enable them to connect to Mastodon and other ActivityPub-based Fediverse projects.

The main intention behind this post is to show Mastodon users in particular what Fediverse projects that aren't Mastodon are capable of. It shall also demonstrate how Mastodon cripples posts coming in from non-Mastodon instances.

Again, when Mastodon was launched, Hubzilla already had these features, and it had had them for four years already.

The Mastodon users amongst you will only see the crippled form of this post and probably wonder what I'm talking about. If you're using Mastodon through a Web browser, click on the date/the age of the post, and it'll take you to the original (as opposed to the mangled Mastodon output). For your convenience, especially that of those of you on mobile apps, I will also stitch together screenshots of this post and additionally publish it as an article.

Five images should be embedded in this post. All are stored on the file space built into my Hubzilla channel.

The #demonstration starts right below ↓ this horizontal line ↓:

Centred text.

Link to the Hubzilla website which runs on Hubzilla itself.
Bold type.
Italics.
Bold and italics.
Underline.
~~Strikethrough.~~

Text in a generic sans-serif typeface.
Text in a generic serif typeface.
Text in a generic monospace typeface.
Text in Courier.
Text in Arial (if that's installed on your device).
Text in Helvetica (if that's installed on your device).
Text in Free Sans (if that's installed on your device).
Text in Arial with Helvetica and Free Sans as fallbacks.

Very large text.
Extra large text.
Large text.
Small text.
Extra small text.
Very small text.
Size 12 text.
Size 20 text.

Headline 1.

Headline 2.

Headline 3.

Headline 4.

Headline 5.

Headline 6.

An in-line code block.

Multiple-line
code block.

Code blocks can also highlight 20 different languages.

Red text.
Blue text.
Dark blue text.
Teal text.
Fuchsia text.
Olive text.
]Text coloured in #005387 (RAL 5005 signal blue).
]Text coloured in #[url=https://social.trom.tf/search?tag=789922]789922 (like >greentext on 4chan).

[hl=yellow]Text highlighted in yellow.[/hl]
[hl=#008351]Floral white text highlighted in #008351 (RAL 6024 traffic green).[/hl]

↓ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 1. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 1."
[url=https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/photos/jupiter_rowland/image/acec8c7b-2d3c-4f83-83e6-a5d1da7c717e]
↑ Here goes the picture.

Jupiter Rowland wrote:
This is a self-quote.

This is a quote, too.

This is a quote, three.

This is a spoiler:

Now the spoiler is open.

↓ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 2. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 2."

↑ Here goes the picture.

↓ Here goes a table.

First table header	Second table header
Table content	More table content
Even more table content	Still more table content

↑ Here goes a table.

↓ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 3. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 3."

↑ Here goes the picture.

Bullet-point list.
More bullet-point list.
Even more bullet-point list.

Numbered list.
More numbered list.
Even more numbered list.

Roman numbered list.
More Roman numbered list.
Even more Roman numbered list.

Minuscule Roman numbered list.
More minuscule Roman numbered list.
Even more minuscule Roman numbered list.

List with letters.
More list with letters.
Even more list with letters.

List with capital letters.
More list with capital letters.
Even more list with capital letters.

↓ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 4. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 4."

↑ Here goes the picture.

Embedded YouTube video through Invidious:

Select instance - Invidious

Same video on PeerTube (which is part of the Fediverse, too):

Hardlimit: Overview of the decentralised Hubzilla Social Network (GadgeteerZA)

↓ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 5. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 5."

↑ Here goes the picture.

Special features of Hubzilla and (streams):
Your name: [observer.name]
Your short name: [observer.webname]
Your hub: [observer.baseurl]
Your profile picture, automatically embedded:
[observer.photo]

Your channel, automatically embedded and clickable: [observer.url]

For the record: This post has 7,750 characters.

Overview of the decentralised Hubzilla Social Network

Watch an overview of the user features as well as admin features for the decentralised and federated Hubzilla social network.

^{Danie van der Merwe | Invidious}

Danie van der Merwe

2022-02-05 08:54:11

Overview of the decentralised Hubzilla Social Network

Watch an overview of the user features as well as admin features for the decentralised and federated Hubzilla social network. Hubzilla can be considered a worthy alternative to Facebook, and it has a unique feature for cloning its channel elsewhere to act as a live backup in case the primary hub is no longer available. It has posts, photos, events, calenders, chats, wikis, webpages, and plenty of 3rd party add-ons.
Intro: 00:00
Multiple Channels/Profiles 03:55
Privacy from Admin 05:55
Forums/Groups 06:23
Redundancy / Nomadic Identity 06:52
Main Feed Stream 10:22
Post Reactions 12:24
Profiles 15:43
Privacy Groups 17:40
Channel Management 18:40
User Settings 19:19
Hub Admin Settings 21:48
Security / Federating 25:23
Feature Settings 27:01
Add-Ons 29:19
Twitter API 33:04
Local User Directory 35:39
Friend Suggestions 36:04
Edit Friend Permissions / Filtering 36:52
Booking Events 38:40
User Apps 42:30
Photo Albums 45:25
Chat Rooms 47:10
Guest Access 48:35
Notes 49:35
Web pages 49:54
Wikis 51:51
Creating a Post (Encryption/To Twitter) 53:00
Wrap Up 58:05
#hubzilla #alternativeto #federated #fediverse #socialnetwork #socialmedia #altmedia #deletefacebook #FOSS #opensource #selfhosting

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