Our invidious instance ytb.trom.tf is not working currently. It was blocked (possibly by youtube) and we tried to force an upgrade or a fresh install, and both failed because it depends on an old package that is not available anymore. The big is reported. As soon as the developers fix it we will try to install it again. For now we redirect it to ytb.alexio.tf - a test server made by @Alexio #tromlive
We updated Invidious ytb.trom.tf/ and this time we won't do many of the visual changes, so that Invidious works well on small screens too. Plus, invidious is like nitter or bibliogram, a way to access these big companies without trading to them. We put more effort into Peertube, Friendica, Nextcloud and the like that are alternative tools to these big companies, rather than a skin. #tromlive
OneZoom Tree of Life- An interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things. Discover your favorites, see which species are under threat, and be amazed by the diversity of life on earth.
I used to make websites since early 2000 and yah I noticed this change. Websites nowadays are a piece of shit. Full of ads, full of click here, see this, infinite scroll, and all that. Our trade-based society changes websites, products, services, wishes, and minds altogether. There is no escape... #tromlive
I for sure use these and more... but for some websites the RSS is not provided in full, and for some the Firefox reader mode may not work very well. Still, very useful tools!
Someone new to the project asked me what is TROM about, and I tried to explain it as such (is a bit long, but maybe worth sharing here):
This is a project started in 2011. We have more info here tromsite.com but it grew a lot in terms of materials for the past several years. So we have many books, videos, and all kinds of tools.
If I were to describe the project in a few paragraphs (sorry this is a bit long), I'd say that the project is about showcasing how our world-wide society is, at its core, a trade-based society (from China to US, from Cuba to Europe, from socialism, communism, or other isms that were ever implement); And this trade-based society gives rise to most of the problems we see in the world today: climate change, waste, slavery, bad products, corruption, and so on.
What are the world's biggest problems? Climate change, corruption, destruction of the environment, waste, pollution, slavery, and so on. What creates these problems? Humans. What makes humans do these bad t
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Someone new to the project asked me what is TROM about, and I tried to explain it as such (is a bit long, but maybe worth sharing here):
This is a project started in 2011. We have more info here tromsite.com but it grew a lot in terms of materials for the past several years. So we have many books, videos, and all kinds of tools.
If I were to describe the project in a few paragraphs (sorry this is a bit long), I'd say that the project is about showcasing how our world-wide society is, at its core, a trade-based society (from China to US, from Cuba to Europe, from socialism, communism, or other isms that were ever implement); And this trade-based society gives rise to most of the problems we see in the world today: climate change, waste, slavery, bad products, corruption, and so on.
What are the world's biggest problems? Climate change, corruption, destruction of the environment, waste, pollution, slavery, and so on. What creates these problems? Humans. What makes humans do these bad things? The environment. What part of this environment? Mostly the trade-based society we all live under.
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Humans wake up in the morning to go to some places and do something there (we call those "jobs"), in order to receive something else in return (food, a shelter, access to goods and services, etc.). They do that for most of their lives. Basically they trade their energy, time, skills and so on, to get food, shelter, internet, healthcare, etc. We use money to represent these trades, but that's arbitrary. Could be bictoin, tokens, gold coins or whatever.
Now, if you look at pretty much everything humans do, it revolves around trades. Jobs take some 8h or more a day, 5 days a week. So, most of people's lives. The internet is a place where humans also trade their data, currency, and attention to websites that mine their data, put ads into their faces, or hide features or content behind paywalls.
In other words, if I am a human on this planet, I wake up every morning, go to my job for 8h, and do that for 5 days a week. I traded 8h of my life to get access to my needs and wants, out of 24h (with 8h sleeping). I have 8h as my free time. In between and after I am done with my job, I use my computer/smartphone to read the news, "socialize", talk to others, watch stuff, listen to stuff (movies, podcasts, articles, websites, netflix, facebook, youtube and the like). All of this time I am giving them my data, attention and at times currency to be able to access these. So, 8h at a job, 8h sleep, and a bunch of other hours online trading for entertainment, information, services. Plus spending time in traffic and dealing with bills and stuff, all because of the trade-based society's rules.
Job + Internet + societal duties = most of my day I trade.
Yes, I also enjoy those videos, talking to friends at work, learn and so forth, but they are all like flowers growing from the soil of trade. Meaning: when I use Facebook, since this is a platform I trade with, the contents I see, the people I follow, are driven by Facebook's algorithm and all they want is me spending more time there watching those ads, producing data that they collect, or buying the stuff they promote. It's like a supermarket that pretends to be a library.
So basically pretty much all that I (human on this planet) consume and do, is directed by trades and people I am trading with. Like a movie director directing my life. Therefore my wishes, my dreams, what excites me or triggers me, are all emerged from this trade-based society that I fed my brain with on a daily basis.
And the same way that we see Facebook's practices as bad, trapping people into an endless stream of nonsense content for the purpose of mining their data/currency/attention, pretty much all business practices are as bad, since they always want something from you and that makes them lie, exaggerate, deceive in order to make you their customer and keep you their customer.
Airline companies, taxi companies, pharmaceutical companies, food producing companies, you name it; all probably are corrupt and as good as "facebook", and if some are not, they will probably become.
So, we are showcasing how in the end this trade-based society makes human beings behave really bad and how it consumes them, and how it creates most of the problems we see in the world today. And our approach is to provide trade-free goods/services as much as possible, so that we remove this environment form people's life, little by little.
Sorry that was long. But this is a big project. I recommend you this book of ours, where we explain all of this in detail tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-d…
I think maybe this is better? "Trom is about showing\educating that our trade based society is damaging humanity in many ways, and solving this by presenting trade-free goods\services to glide over time into a trade-free society."
Our latest TROMCast about deplatforming can be watched here videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/38… or here tromsite.com/videos/ . It got suddenly interrupted at 1:30 , we do not know why, maybe my (Tio) internet connection dropped for a second. We recorded a second part and merged them all in one single video. Enjoy! #tromlive
To explain it a bit: we want to create a trade-free alternative to Unsplash and eventually Video blocks and the like. We want users to upload original photos and eventually videos of all kinds. Like nature, objects, places, etc.. The platform we use makes is so easy to rename each item, add to folders and create folders, or tag each item.
So, create folders, drag and drop photos to them. Make each folder Public please, and enable "original" and "downloadable". Disable the rest. See these options in the folder's visibility (the eye icon top right corner).
To make this work, we need to properly name and tag each item, so we make them easy to find and categorize. So please do that as much as you can. You can select multiple items by click-and-hold + drag. And can edit multiple at once. You can also use the keyboard to navigate through the photos, press R to rename, T to tag.
To explain it a bit: we want to create a trade-free alternative to Unsplash and eventually Video blocks and the like. We want users to upload original photos and eventually videos of all kinds. Like nature, objects, places, etc.. The platform we use makes is so easy to rename each item, add to folders and create folders, or tag each item.
So, create folders, drag and drop photos to them. Make each folder Public please, and enable "original" and "downloadable". Disable the rest. See these options in the folder's visibility (the eye icon top right corner).
To make this work, we need to properly name and tag each item, so we make them easy to find and categorize. So please do that as much as you can. You can select multiple items by click-and-hold + drag. And can edit multiple at once. You can also use the keyboard to navigate through the photos, press R to rename, T to tag.
That's pretty much it.
A reminder, all content from media.trom.tf will be trade-free, meaning purely free. Anyone is free to use it as they wish. There are no licenses because that means restrictions. In other words, anyone can use these materials without trading (giving back) anything to us. We don't want their currency, attention, recognition, or whatever.
For now, if you want to upload videos, please limit them to under 200-300MB. We are still in testing mode.
If anyone wants to help, please let me know and we will create an account for you ;). #tromlive
We want to release a trade-free alternative to Unsplash, videoblocks and the like. A huge gallery of free to use videos and photos. We have tested it and so far so great, but for now it will be invitation-only so if there is any of you out there who is passionate about taking photos or making videos, please tell us so we can give you access. All that we will upload there will be free to use for any purposes: trade-free in other words. So, there is your chance to make things just a little better in this world, by taking interesting photos and adding them to our Trade-Free Media directory ;). #tromlive
Ladies and gents, we are releasing yet another service for our trom.tf! A real and quite complete trade-free alternative to Google Docs office.trom.tf/ - read more about it here trom.tf/office/ . Create documents in seconds + kaban + polls + whiteboards. You don't even need an account, unless you want to save your work for more than 3 months. Everything is fully encrypted. Share, comment, work collaboratively. Take advantage of it! #tromlive #tromimg
OK, fair enough, but proof by loading a TXT record, or a specific file on the server the user wants to test should be enough.
Also I'm sure that at least some of the requests can be done without requiring proof, but I can't be sure as I don't know which requests the service supports. :D
Our FInteresting category on TROMnews is back! tromnews.com/finteresting/ - it is a mix of very interesting SubReddits, such as Showerthoughts, Data Is Beautiful, Ask Science, Today I Learned or Explain Like Im Five. The great part is that we use teddit for the job, a trade-free reddit browser. So when users click any of the cards in FInteresting, they can read the post and comments in a trade-free way. Awesome! If Teddit will become a @yunohost package we will implement it on our trom.tf ;). We would like to do the same for our curated videos and pull them from our Invidious instance. We could do that, but out plugin does not support pulling feeds from Atom, only from RSS and Invidious only offers Atom feeds. If you know any other very interesting SubReddits let us know. #tromlive
They do not provide an RSS feed github.com/spikecodes/libreddi… - and teddit's RSS is very robust it seems. We need that to pull the items to our newsfeed.
Great documentary! Highly recommend it! 8 hours of fun-history about how money pretty much influences everything. Ideas like communism, socialism, capitalism, whatever ism, and theories about left, right, democracy and so on, are useless. Money drives the world. Or, if you are clever, replace "money" with "trade" so you encompass all of the trades: cryptocurrencies, direct trades, laws and social credits, data collection or the attention economy, and so forth. Yah so Curtis talks about what we are voicing for years now. But the explanation with trade makes a lot more sense and is easier to understand and do something about. I recommend this documentary! #tromlive
Watch it trade-free at videoneat.com/documentaries/21… Steve Irwin's impact far exceeded his hit series The Crocodile Hunter. Chronicling his childhood to his time as a global icon, those who knew him best reflect on the remarkable life of the man, father, husband and wildlife conservationist.
Go to your Contacts (1) and copy-paste a website's url (link):
That should be enough and social.trom.tf should detect the RSS feed. If not, find the RSS feed of the website, usually adding "rss" or "feed" after the url as such: www.website.com/feed.
Fediverse:
You can follow and interact with pretty much any federated network: Peertube, Mastodon, Friendica, Diaspora, Pixelfed, etc. Same as above, copy the url of a profile and paste it into the contacts (2). For example to follow our TROM Peertube channel copy our Peertube channel ID from here:
Go to your Contacts (1) and copy-paste a website's url (link):
That should be enough and social.trom.tf should detect the RSS feed. If not, find the RSS feed of the website, usually adding "rss" or "feed" after the url as such: www.website.com/feed.
Fediverse:
You can follow and interact with pretty much any federated network: Peertube, Mastodon, Friendica, Diaspora, Pixelfed, etc. Same as above, copy the url of a profile and paste it into the contacts (2). For example to follow our TROM Peertube channel copy our Peertube channel ID from here:
It will look something like this trom@videos.trom.tf. Now copy it into the same contacts form (2).
Facebook:
You can follow public pages/profiles/groups. To do that, we need to grab the RSS of those. Use our rss.trom.tf/ tool for the job. Here's step by step:
Go to the Facebook page/profile/group you want to follow. Copy the ID (name). For example for our TROM Facebook page (that we don't really use) the url is: facebook.com/tromproject/ so the page name is "tromproject". Make sure you copy it exactly as it is in the url (with capital letters if there are any).
Go to rss.trom.tf/ and search for Facebook. You should see this (select Main Site):
Click "show more" and you'll have this simple block that is self explanatory:
Paste the Facebook ID into the proper form, and click HTML. Now you will see a new page with the RSS feed of that Facebook ID, as such:
Lastly, right click the MRSS button, then "Copy link location" (so you can copy the link of that button), and then paste it again into your contacts (2) as you did for any other contact.
All of this is a very fast and simple process in fact: grab a Facebook page/profile/group ID (name), create an RSS feed using our rss.trom.tf, and copy the MRSS link into your contacts. Done!
It is the same exact process for Twitter, Youtube, and pretty much any website that is not friendly enough to easily provide an RSS feed.
Therefore, using social.trom.tf/ + rss.trom.tf/ you can interact and follow pretty much anyone online, without having an account on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, or even Peertube and the like. Take advantage of it!
Hello!, do you know how to publish something that stays only in local community? I don't see my settings working right with my RSS sources and they appear in Global too.
Hi. I am not sure I understand. If you want to add an RSS source as your contact then you can also hide it from anyone. If you want to make a profile not display in Global, then in your settings - Account you can choose that. I think it is in Privacy...
When you make a News page that auto posts from an RSS source, the way Friendica works is by pulling a bunch of the latest posts form the RSS, and jamming that into the newsfeed :D - I know is not pleasant but is just for the first time you add it. Then it will calm down and only display the new posts.
@Xavier Dole So the video works to be previewed peertube.stream/w/ii8znyGMrtro… if you create a post with it. By preview I mean it extracts the thumbnail and title and description but you'll have to click and watch it on peertube.
If you added the channels as a contact and the output is just text then I can investigate further.
@Xavier Dole I see there is an issue with Peertube + Friendica. You reported it here too I see github.com/friendica/friendica… - I'll add my 2c to the issue. Hopefully they will improve it.
Quality super crisp. Streaming super fast. Conversion really fast. Only downside is the the 1080p file is some 5.4GB :D. Maybe I should tweak my OBS Studio settings a bit so we don't get that monster. On Youtube the same video in 1080p is 5 times less the size. Anyone knows why? How is Youtube so good at compressing video files?
Anyways all worked great. I am so happy! #tromlive
Hey people of the great Fediverse :) - We are releasing a new project that you might find interesting (we worked a lot on) - trom.tf/
In essence we provide free alternatives to Youtube, Facebook, Google Search and the like. And we release today. We even have a live about it in a few hours - tromsite.com/live/
Here's the list o what we provide:
Friendica with open registrations and we plan to keep it open forever
Nextcloud with 3GB storage + ability to add external storage; together with Only Office and a few other tools
Peertube with unlimited uploads (restricted to 2GB a day so we don't blow up the server) + Live + video conversion + a few plugins
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Hey people of the great Fediverse :) - We are releasing a new project that you might find interesting (we worked a lot on) - trom.tf/
In essence we provide free alternatives to Youtube, Facebook, Google Search and the like. And we release today. We even have a live about it in a few hours - tromsite.com/live/
Here's the list o what we provide:
Friendica with open registrations and we plan to keep it open forever
Nextcloud with 3GB storage + ability to add external storage; together with Only Office and a few other tools
Peertube with unlimited uploads (restricted to 2GB a day so we don't blow up the server) + Live + video conversion + a few plugins
SearX that we fine tuned to be as relevant as we could make it
Lufi to send files up to 3GB and 7 days storage
Etherpad with open access
Diagrams
RSS Bridge
Framadate
Libre QR
Invidious and Bibliogram
Our own Music player/services as a desktop alternative to Spotify
There are no ads, no data collection, no premium accounts. Purely free.
Would be great if you can share it - it is after all for everyone ;)
We hope not...but we will see. Thing is if we start banning where do we draw the line? On top of this, people have tools to stay away from these "bad" things. But lets see how it evolved. We really want no bans and I'd rather combat the nonsense on the platform, with some sense. Like I'd flood them with science haha.
Thanks! We do not have a single sign-on. If possible we will add one but is something we did not test. Click any service and create an account on each.
About the services itself, they're all really nice open source tools. And your customized interface looks very well. My only request here would be to make these customizations more optimized for mobile. I know that you're not a big fan of mobiles, so its fine if you don't prioritize it. Just do it when you have the time/motivation to do so 😁. Also all your other sites are well optimized for mobile, so I hope this'll reach there with time.
Thanks! And yes I will optimize them for mobile too, but for the next weeks I'll be busy with a lot of other stuff. But is on my list. I understand! ;)
XMPP is what I have to deeply look into. Heard about it a lot but never had the time/motivation to dig deep into. But for sure we will! We have just started ;)
Yes ynh, but am not sure xmpp is configured properly with any domain. I don't even understand xmpp that well tbh. I know is a communication protocol like email but a lot more complex.
I think is best for now at least, to keep our "files" as files without chats. To be geared for files rather than chats. But please add it to our Deck ;) - we can keep track of these over there for sure! I also love movim.eu/ and I plan to test it more, alongside Hubzilla.
@Tio @Ingo Jürgensmann there is usually no config needed, just set the needed DNS records as YunoHost suggests for at least only domain. Preferably for trom.tf, it does not need to have the A or AAAA record pointing to the server, but it is easier if that is the case.
@Ingo Jürgensmann YunoHost comes with Metronome, it is usually fully interegrated with the other services, so same login if the services utilize the single signon. But Yujoahost also has Synapse and Element as optional services, 5 mimutes and they are up and runing. @Tio @Alexio
@Ingo Jürgensmann @Tio @Alexio any YunoHost user can use XMPP with its credentials, same credentials as for email or Matrix (Synapse) or NextCloud. In the usual setup.
We do. We get help through donations since 2013 for our main tromsite.com project. We also have a Liberapay account and would encourage people to support if they can liberapay.com/TROM/ - we need more support.
I have contemplated adding ejabberd to my own Friendica instance but haven't so far because I don't know how much resources it would consume. What is your experience on resource usage/requirement for ejabberd?
@Ingo Jürgensmann Ah cool. Yeah, my Friendica instance only has one user (me) so that would probably not add too much overhead. For me it is more about being possible to contact me via "any" protocol. Sounds great, I have been tweaking my Friendica server (nginx/mysql tuning, NVMe SSD's etc) quite a bit over the last week, and now it feels even faster/snappier than Facebook/Twitter whilst also lowering resource usage, so figured I could probably put some more things on that server without breaking it. 2 vCPU/2GB ram.
I think calling is not supported on #Metronome in #Yunohost and even using xmpp without fail2ban for large user base is dangerous. Keep it simple and use apps without LDAP for now.
@Ingo Jürgensmann ah yes, I already do have a "regular" (@anonym.im) account. I have only used it for testing single e2ee communication though, I actually didn't know that XMPP had support for groups. Now I have to work out where those groups are, hehe.
It should be noted I'm doing all of these set-ups and tweaking etc because I'm interested in how it all works etc. It would probably be simpler to just "join" things at different places, but hey, where's the fun in that? :D
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