Did a bit'a readin and thought #OrcaSlicer looked like it had a few nice improvements to #SuperSlicer. Their GitHub releases page had a file called OrcaSlicer_V1.6.4-beta2_Linux.zip so I figured I give it a try. I was a bit concerned when I opened that zip and found it contained a file called OrcaSlicer_ubu64.AppImage, but hey, it's an AppImage right, should be fine...nope. First run from cli just to see what it spits out and what'a'ye know, error while loading shared libraries: libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37. A quick sifting through the AppImage contents and guess how many .so files it had in it; yup, not'a one.
What's the point of making an #AppImage / #Flatpak / #Snap if you're not gonna include the required libraries to run it?
Orca Slicer Is The New Game In Town
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posted by pod_feeder_v2Orca Slicer Is The New Game In Town
Slicers are the neat little tools that take your 3D models and turn them into G-code that your 3D printer can actually understand. They control the printing process down to the finest detail, and d…Hackaday
Enhance Your Enclosures With a Shadow Line
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Some design techniques and concepts from the injection molding world apply very nicely to 3D printing, despite them being fundamentally different processes. [Teaching Tech] demonstrates designing s…Hackaday
Tensioning 3D Prints For Lightweight, Strong Parts
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ClockworkPi - Creators of DevTerm and GameShell, Open Source Portable Hardware for Every Dev.ClockworkPi
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The Linux systemd Controversy: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding the Debate
In the world of Linux, few debates have stirred as much controversy as the battle between the traditional System V init system, often known as SysVinit, and the newer systemd.
systemd is a system and service manager, first introduced in 2010 to replace the traditional System V init system. It was designed to improve boot-up speeds and manage system services more efficiently. Today, systemd is the default init system for many popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Despite the name, systemd is not a daemon. Instead, it’s a software suite that provides a number of system components for Linux. Its goal: to standardize service configuration and behavior across Linux distributions.
Personally, I have no preference at all. It’s there, and I use it sometimes when I need to change or troubleshoot something. My take on it really is that Linux has many options and therefore there will always be differences of opinion, just like we also have for all the “best” Linux distros. When do you ever hear Windows users passionately debating for or against the Yellow and Blue version of Windows? You don’t, because they don’t have those options. And for macOS, of course, Steve knows best…
I think most newer Linux users have not really experienced the pre-systemd era, and also probably don’t delve much into where systemd is actually changed much. With modern Linux there is less and less reason to delve down into systemd unless you are in the habit of experimenting, learning, pulling things apart. But sometimes the topic flares up, so it is interesting to hear a bit about what and why.
See itsfoss.com/systemd-init/
#Blog, #linux, #systemd, #technology
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That Ultra-White Paint That Helps Cool Surfaces? Make your Own!
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posted by pod_feeder_v2That Ultra-White Paint That Helps Cool Surfaces? Make Your Own!
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DIY All-Flash NAS Vs. Commercial Hardware
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So, you know how every time folks shift from Twitter to Mastodon, there’s always a bunch of grumpy peeps?
They’re all like, “Mastodon doesn’t have all the fancy-schmancy features Twitter has!”
Well, here’s the deal, my friend: you’re here in the Fediverse because of one particular dude (Elon, we’re looking at you) who went ahead and bought Twitter.
But guess what? The Fediverse ain’t up for sale, my friend. Nope, not happening. It’s a fortress of decentralization that can’t be conquered by cash.
So, while we admit that the Fediverse may not be the smoothest ride right now, let’s get some perspective, shall we?
The beauty of this place is that it’s immune to all the craptastic ways Elon messed up Twitter. He can’t lay a finger on the Fediverse—ever!
So, kick back, relax, and enjoy this wild and untamed oasis of online freedom. Elon-proof, forever!
Friendica timelines are compelling
There's something about the method that Friendica uses to generate timelines that I find really compelling, and that doesn't seem to be talked about much.
Friendica's timelines are "post" centred, with replies appearing as a tree attached to that post, in a similar way to Facebook. It's distinct from the more Twitter like method common on most of the #microfedi platforms, in which there is no real difference between a post and a reply.
The reason that I find this framework so compelling is that it means you always have context and full conversations in view. If someone you follow replies to someone else you follow, the whole post and all of the replies appear in your timeline again, with full context at a glance.
Similarly, when you're reading your timeline, everything is grouped together. Everyone in your timeline that replied to a post is there on that post with full context. And if you're not interested, it's trivial to just scroll past.
Compare this to Mastodon, Misskey etc and their forks, where you tend to only see one branch of a conversation, and often have the same conversation showing up in your timeline multiple times depending on who is involved.
It's an option for interacting with timelines that I'd love to see implemented in other FediVerse platforms!
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Link to source button(?) on each post that Friendica has would be quite welcome in any of the other interfaces. But maybe one that links to the full thread or at least shows the original post.like this
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@eshep What I really crave is for it all to be available without having to click on anything, without relying on the back button or popups.
I mean, those features would be nice too, but I don't think they'd reshape the timeline browsing experience in quite the same way
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I had a Twitter-Account for years... never used, because i always missed the context...
That's why i used facebook before the fediverse... because i need context and space to make short or even very long ansers... in one posting.
That's also, why i use friendica.... looooooong answers... and images inside the text.
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@m@thias.hellqui.st @Ada I can relate to your last paragraph.
For the vast majority of #Mastodon users, Mastodon and #TheFediverse are one and the same. It was hard enough for them to comprehend that Mastodon isn't one website for everyone and everything, a monolithic service like the #birbsite. And they won't get #Pixelfed or #PeerTube into their heads until their timeline is being bombarded with posts from these; probably not even then.
It gets even worse with other microblogging or macroblogging services which, unlike #Plume or #WriteFreely, don't mimic classic blog platforms. It's too easy for the average Mastodon user to take them for Mastodon as well.
I'm on #Hubzilla. Something which, I guess, even the majority of #Friendica users has never heard of, even though it's the direct successor to Friendica, and both had the same creator. For typical Mastodon users, especially those who came in from #BirbSocial, it's just as incomprehensible as Friendica.
Generic example of a dialogue between a typical Mastodon user and me (look at my original post for more text formatting):
"Oh wow, how can you write such long toots?"
"I'm on Hubzilla."
"Oh cool, so their admins must have raised the limit."
"I'm not on Mastodon, I'm on Hubzilla."
"Still cool to have such a liberal instance."
"Listen. I'm not on Mastodon. I'm on #Hubzilla. An entirely different project than Mastodon which is also four years older than Mastodon. You can read my posts on Mastodon, but I am not on Mastodon."
"Buh... but... how..."
"The magic of the #Fediverse. It doesn't only connect Mastodon instances with one another, it also includes wholly different projects."
The same people may have had posts from #Pleroma, #Akkoma or #MissKey in their timelines without noticing, at least not if these posts were short enough.
Hubzilla | Hubzilla - hubzilla@hubzilla.org
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.hubzilla.org
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@defcon42/Mirko I think it is also a matter of taste as well as habit. I myself also find the microblogging view very confusing because the context is missing and the text tidbits all get jumbled up.
But for those who like it, Mastodon or other microblogging software is certainly a good choice.
It's just a pity that many of the services are not made known to the outside world outside the Fediverse. There are also many people who use or have used Facebook, Google+ and the like. But it is hardly known that there are alternatives in the Fediverse that go in this direction and have more or different functions..
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@defcon42/Mirko @m@thias.hellqui.st I think you might be misinterpreting the goals in posts like this.
I came to the Fediverse on Mastodon. I'm an admin on a Calckey, Friendica and Lemmy instance and maintain accounts on them all. I still have my original Mastodon account too, though I don't use it much anymore.
The reason I make posts like this is because it's the diversity that excites, it's the fediverse that excites me. It's the fact that it's open and expanding and people can find whatever experience they're looking for.
I want people to share my excitement about the future of the Fediverse, whether they're on Mastodon or another platform!
@Ada @defcon42/Mirko @m@thias.hellqui.st To me, it sounds more like some #Mastodon users, especially those who came in through the #TwitterMigration, actually can't stand there being something else in the #Fediverse than their beloved Mastodon. When they caught their first glimpse of the Fediverse beyond Mastodon, they reacted much like the people of Krikkit when they caught their first glimpse of the universe beyond Krikkit: "It has to go!"
They make themselves and each other believe that Mastodon is superior to any other Fediverse project in just about any regard imaginable while apparently completely refusing to learn about those other projects. They're supported in their belief by mass media only ever writing about Mastodon and the number of Mastodon users.
However, mass media only write about Mastodon because they simply don't know a thing about the rest of the Fediverse, and they didn't know a thing about Mastodon until the #TwitterTakeover had actually happened, and the second wave of former #birbsite users had come flooding into Mastodon in such numbers that it was impossible to ignore even for those who act as if #FLOSS doesn't exist.
As for the numbers of Mastodon users, they're so high because I guess more than 90% of all Mastodon users still don't know that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon, because they have never heard of anything else in the Fediverse. Mastodon was pretty much the only Fediverse project advertised on #BirbSocial when this was still possible.
There are various reasons why Mastodon users don't spread across the Fediverse in masses. None of it is because Mastodon is superior to everything else because, truth be told, it isn't. I'll come to this later. One reason is, again, that the vast majority of them still don't know anything else. Another one is because it was hard enough to get used to Mastodon after years of using #Twitter, and they don't want to get used to yet another platform. And another one is that it's hard to move from Mastodon to something else and take your account or at least your connections with you.
Another reason may be because people don't need anything beyond microblogging, and that's what Mastodon does. Now, sorry for all those of you who fight tooth and claw to defend Mastodon against the competition, but #Akkoma does microblogging, too. With extra features beyond Mastodon, some of which Mastodon users have been pestering Eugen Rochko to include in Mastodon for ages (e.g. "quote retweet"). All while being more lightweight and requiring fewer server resources than Mastodon. Oh, and it federates with Mastodon.
Other Fediverse projects aren't even competition for Mastodon because they specialise in something else. @Pixelfed specialises in posting pictures, much like #Instagram. @PeerTube specialises in video upload and streaming, not too dissimilarly from #YouTube. #Plume and #WriteFreely specialise in distraction-free traditional blogging, much like #Medium. #Lemmy specialises in groups and posting and discussing news, much like #Reddit or #HackerNews. You can't claim that Mastodon is better at each of these things than these platforms.
And then there are the jacks-of-all-trades which are usually filed under either "macroblogging" or "like #Facebook ". They weren't launched to have something that goes beyond Mastodon because their history reaches far back before Mastodon. Mastodon was launched in 2016 (and not 2022 like many believe). #Friendica was launched in early 2010, even before the crowdfunding campaign for the development of #Diaspora started. And in that early stage, Friendica, then still named #Mistpark, was vastly more powerful than Diaspora* ever got and also vastly more powerful than Mastodon 13 years later.
#Hubzilla, created by the same man as Friendica, is the most extreme one of them all. For starters, it eliminates the need for multiple accounts by having multiple independent channels with separate identities on the same account. Each channel can have multiple profiles like on Friendica so you can present your channel differently to individual contacts or groups of them and differently again to the general public.
It can do micro- and macroblogging with 50,000 or more characters and just about everything that can be done with #BBcode (italics, bold type, underline, lists with bullet points or numbers, quotes, code blocks), and you can embed as many pictures as you want in your posts where you want them instead of them automatically being attached to the end of the post.
Group handling in Hubzilla is much easier than list handling in Mastodon. You never have to type the name of a contact to find them. You can edit contacts and add them to groups or remove them, and you can edit groups and add or remove contacts, all with a few mouse clicks. And while Mastodon shows a maximum of four lists on the main page, Hubzilla will give you easy access to all your groups.
On top of that, you can have
- very fine-grained access rights control with pre-definable contact roles
- forums (just like Friendica, Hubzilla has #Guppe built in)
- more elegant macroblogging with articles which, in addition to BBcode, support #Markdown
- simple webpages (or not so simple if you're the admin of a hub, and you can expand it further)
- wikis (I'm not even kidding)
- a public calendar
- a virtually unlimited number of private calendars with #CalDAV connection
- a virtually unlimited number of address books with #CardDAV connection
- a file server with #WebDAV connection with its own access rights management which also ties in with the Photos and optional Gallery app (Mastodon drops your pictures somewhere, Hubzilla lets you upload them to your personal cloud space where you can access them whenever you want)
All with one run-of-the-mill Hubzilla account. And once per channel, separately.
And as if that wasn't enough, Hubzilla introduced the #Zot protocol and with it a concept named #NomadicIdentity.
Mastodon and Friendica let you have multiple accounts, even on separate instances. They also support migration from one account to another, and unlike Mastodon, Friendica lets you take all your content with you. Hubzilla (and #Streams, the successor of its slimmed-down successor, still created by the same guy) goes even further: Not only can you easily move from one hub to another, you can have channels on multiple hubs and automatically keep them fully in sync! If one hub goes down, it doesn't matter because you've got everything on all your other accounts.
Last but not least, both Friendica and Hubzilla federate with almost everything that moves, even far beyond the #ActivityPub Fediverse. This could be Diaspora*, this could be #GNUsocial, this could be #Wordpress blogs with or without the ActivityPub add-on, this could be RSS feeds (and they both generate feeds themselves, so this is bidirectional, too), this could even be Twitter until the API is shuttered. Friendica even used to federate with Facebook until Facebook put rocks in the way; this is the only connector that Hubzilla didn't take over.
The obvious downside is that for someone who just came in from the #birdcage, all this is utter overkill. In fact, people who are used to Mastodon may find Friendica borderline unusuable due to its many features. And Hubzilla is so infamous for its own clumsy UI capitulating before its sheer power that even Friendica users find it hard to use, fresh converts from Twitter to Mastodon even more so.
Some design decisions may be hard to understand for outsiders. Converts from other Fediverse projects to Hubzilla regularly fail at something as seemingly similar as connecting to users on other ActivityPub-based projects until you tell them that ActivityPub is an optional app on Hubzilla that has to be activated first because Hubzilla concentrates on Zot with its Nomadic Identity.
Also, just because these projects offer so much power, that doesn't mean that everyone needs it. If you do, it can be convenient to have it all under one login. But if all you're looking for is a bit of microblogging and online socialising, you don't need to drag a CMS and a full-blown cloud server with all bells and whistles along with you that just clutter up the UI. In that case, projects like Mastodon and Akkoma win because they're more approachable.
And while Friendica, Hubzilla & Co. can do threaded discussions and even have something like forums, Lemmy can do this more elegantly because it specialises in it. While you can use Hubzilla's private calendar feature for event planning, it's easier to do the same with #Mobilizon which, again, specialises in it. Or you can host podcasts on Friendica, Hubzilla & Co, but you can host them better on #Funkwhale and even better on #Castopod.
Wanting the Fediverse to be only Mastodon hinders development, namely the development of new projects within the Fediverse that may be able to do all-new things that we haven't seen in the Fediverse yet. Things that, sorry to say again, you'll never be able to do with Mastodon.
P.S.: For extra kicks, don't just read this on Mastodon. Open my original post; there you can see what Hubzilla is capable of, and what Mastodon strips away.
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@Jupiter Rowland For those who don't know #Hubzilla: This article (in german) by @𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 gives a very detailed and very descriptive insight:
gnulinux.ch/serie-fediverse-di…
The other articles in the series introduce other #Fediverse software like #Pixelfed #Misskey #Friendica #Peertube ....
@PeerTube @Pixelfed @m@thias.hellqui.st @defcon42/Mirko @Ada
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Thanks guys.Having joined essentially as part of the #TwitterMigration in early Nov, I do want to say cut us some slack 🙂 and that some of us *do* grasp the potential of the #Fediverse and take to it like a "duck to water" 🦆 ... but still it takes time to expand one's social network worldview from a very locked-down Twitter micro-blogging/chat view, to a whole new #Fediverse dynamic? It's a journey, and #Tumblr moving onto the #Activitypub may be a huge sign of things to come
Keep promoting the opportunitites e.g.
@ada has got me interested in moving onto CalcKey in future, and I'm looking for an additional platform for an occasional longer piece. Perhaps Medium (with add-ins) or perhaps #Friendlica or ... or ... choices?😎
Mass/mainstream media struggle to even conceive of a non-commercial/non-advertising revenue driven platform *at all* so tbh even #Mastodon sends their minds in a headspin eg. this kind of article?
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Keep up the good work!
Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?
The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionateWilfred Chan (The Guardian)
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@Natasha Jay Longer piece, hm...
If you can live without comments, you may take a look at #WriteFreely. Or if you can live with on-and-off developer activity and the recurring feeling that the project will be abandoned, try #Plume which does have comments and a built-in image hoster for your convenience. Both use Markdown, by the way.
Essentially, anything that's labelled something with *blogging and that isn't Mastodon can do longer pieces. #Hubzilla even has an "articles" app just for that which comes with the side-effect that mobile Mastodon apps will always open links to articles in a Web browser and show them like they're supposed to look. But you always have some distraction around the text whereas WriteFreely and Plume are at least as plain and clean as Medium.
@jupiter_rowland Thanks, I had #WriteFreely on my list to look at for this ... will look at the other options too 👍
Even Calckey seems to have a hundred additional options vs Mastodon and it's taken me 5 months to uncover in Mastodon I can follow a group of hashtags in a column eg (Cats + Caturday+ CatsofMastodon), but only if I use the Advanced Web Interface ...
I mean there's a LOT to unpack "here" in the 
as it's totally (totally) not a Twitter replacement despite the MSM calling it such, which is just plain wrong
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But for months now there are calls from (new?) Mastodon users complaining and wining about what Mastodon can't do and demanding that the developers should finally implement it immediately (quoted posts, groups, chats, more poll options, more list functions, etc.).
All the functions, which are then so painfully missed, are possible with almost all other text-oriented #Fediverse softwares, partly even with Mastodon-Forks or even with another instance, which e.g. increases the character limit (there are also public ones).
Who points out that there are already some alternatives and that they can try them, often gets aggressive reactions (not from you @defcon42 (Mirko) :fediverse: : Who is satisfied with Mastodon, that's good. But from those who explicitly want something else, but don't want to hear that (exactly) that already exists)?
What exactly the background of these reactions is, I do not know. Possibly it plays a role that through the media coverage the expectation was created that people here may join a Twitter only without Musk, that they can consume passively? And that then overload occurs when it is seen that there are many more possibilities? That the Fediverse is not equal to Mastodon, but that it is much much more
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Got to say, the #watchy is *very* fiddly to assemble. Nerves of steel and a steady hand are required.
I love the æsthetic - but the case has no water resistance and doesn't have *any* protection for the fragile eInk screen.
Turns out, the only Micro USB cable I have left is from… a BlackBerry!
Mmmm! Low processor power, monochrome screen, clacky buttons. Perfect!
Connecting the #Watchy to WiFi was pretty easy. Didn't have to use the buttons to type in an SSID & password. It broadcasts its own AP, so I could set it up in a browser.
NTP worked, but the timezone is 4 hours out.
Oh well! Lots to play with.
Here's a video showing the #Watchy in action.
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First impressions of the SQFMI Watchy
I've built a Watchy - from watchy.sqfmi.com/ - it's a bit fiddly to set up. Here are my first impressions.
🐧 I wrote a new blog entry listing all the changes I made to turn the Lenovo Yoga 370 into my mobile GNU/Linux digital painting device. It's long because it contains detailed instructions for beginners. I hope it is helpful.
→ davidrevoy.com/article976/leno…
Ps: not sponsored or an adv: the machine is from 2019.
#linux #krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpensource #Fedora #KDE #thinkpad
Lenovo Yoga 370 on GNU/Linux: technical companion article
Website of David Revoy (aka Deevad), artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.David Revoy
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"In this respect, the Debian and Kubuntu packages were really old"
Yeah, #Debian is nice and stable, but I usually prefer it to be more cutting edge too.
"The Wayland session is still a no-go for artists"
Yep, same. #Wayland feels like the better idea, but is still incomplete. I hope that will change soon.
I do not have this hardware
I do not have ANY artistic parts in my soul
I do really like this article ... just as a nerd that like to tinker with stuff
Very good DIY tutorial :D
it is sick...
Since my comment i have read it (your post) second time, then i realised that it doesnt matter that i would NOT use it in your - artistic - way, but it would be great tool to make notes in my homeoffice.
Now these laptops used can be found for about 250€ so - for me - it is better option then (for example) reMarkable - for ONLY homeOffice use. AND without any other subscriptions and closed software shit.
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yes. I have ordered one used Lenovo...
Thank you!
I hope yours is a model that will have a good support!
#linux #update #foss #youtube #google #invidious #dev #legal #threat
YouTube legal team contacted us · Issue #3872 · iv-org/invidious
They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. What now? Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. Assume ...GitHub
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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 ↓:
Link to the Hubzilla website which runs on Hubzilla itself.
Bold type.
Italics.
Bold and italics.
Underline.
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]
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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."
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↓ 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.
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- 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.
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Embedded YouTube video through Invidious:
Same video on PeerTube (which is part of the Fediverse, too):
Hardlimit: Overview of the decentralised Hubzilla Social Network (GadgeteerZA)
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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]
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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
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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Article version of my "Demo post from Hubzilla"
Hubzilla refers to this as a "summary" and not a "CW"hub.netzgemeinde.eu
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(1/2) Attaching screenshots how it looks like from Mastodon's end, for quick reference.
@Den Hårfagre I don't know. Hubzilla doesn't have a usable mobile app.
I've written the post and my comments on Hubzilla's Web interface through Mozilla Firefox on a desktop PC running Debian GNU/Linux. Nothing mobile involved here.
I think the most important take away (at least for me) is the limited attachments Mastodon shows to their users. Content is being dropped without the user's knowledge.
#Hubzilla, #Friendica, #Misskey, #Calckey, and of course #Pixelfed, to mention a few, can attach more than four (4) images. But once it shows up in a Mastodon-powered instance, attachments 5 and up are discarded to the void.
Sadly, I can't test how it looks like in Pleroma and forks. I tried it in two Soapbox instances, the first one unfortunately is too slow (not sure what happened to that instance), and in the second instance, your post is not showing up even if searched via URL.
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this is how it looks on Akkoma (fork of Pleroma, this shouldn't matter here) with #Mangane front-end 🖼️
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this is how it looks on Akkoma (fork of Pleroma, this shouldn't matter here) with #Mangane front-end 🖼️
cc @fediversenews
It's much better! Images are intact and positioned where the original author meant it.
@Lapineige Not too shabby. I'm not sure which of the limitations have to be contributed to Akkoma itself, to Mangane or to the mobile platform.
Okay, Akkoma seems to interpret the UTF-8 in the summary as ASCII, or it doesn't expect punctuation.
Mentions and hashtags look like on Hubzilla. The title is recognised and converted; I guess it contains a link to the original, and if that's the case, that's nice.
Horizontal lines work, bold type works, italics don't, underline does, strikethrough doesn't. Typefaces don't, but I didn't really expect this to work easily everywhere, especially not on mobile devices. Text sizes and headlines don't work either.
Both types of code block work, and they're shown differently. I would have loved to demo code highlighting, but I had no reference code at hand.
Text colours and highlighting colours don't work.
The digits are surprisingly huge, they should be 40x60 or so. But they are where I've put them, only that I didn't centre them.
Quotes work including names and nesting. Spoilers are recognised, but open by default.
Again, I didn't expect tables to work, but I'm surprised to see the same huge gap on top as on Hubzilla.
All lists are converted to bullet points, but lists work.
Video embedding doesn't, but it gives you the URLs.
If the Hubzilla trickery had worked, I would have been very surprised.
On a sidenote, I am actually surprised to see your pictures in the correct order, even though they're all put above the text again. Above posts from Mastodon and MissKey, they come in reverse order. I guess another bug report is due.
for your information this is a desktop screenshot, not mobile.
I can try later with Akkoma/Pleroma default front-end.
Try the reverse should be interesting. I'm not sure Hubzilla interprets markdown formatted content from Pleroma/Akkoma/Misskey/Calckey with 100% compatibility.
out of curiosity, can you see that my previous reply is edited ? I don't know if Hubzilla supports it.
edit : ok others can see it.
If you edit a post that someone has already #boosted, they will receive a notification informing them.
I actually like it. It stops people from posting something, has it boosted, and then changes the content.
Other users can only see an "edited" tag. They can't easily see what the original content was, but you will be able to do it with the #Mastodon #API, I think.
Here I had also tried to illustrate with a few screenshots how posts from #Peertube, #WriteFreely, #Mobilizon etc. look from the perspective of Mastodon, Hubzilla, Friendica and Calckey: metalhead.club/@caos/109779354… @youronlyone@hashi.icu @jupiter_rowland @fediversenews
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Thank you for sharing!
Hmm… we need to put the images together somewhere. I'll submit it to webarchives, too.
The start post as it first appears on Hubzilla. The yellow button belongs to an automatic content warning hider which was triggered by "NSFW" in the text.
Hubzilla will show this comment itself hidden behind a content warning.
Also, notice the title. You can't see anything like this on Mastodon.
This and the following screenshots were taken in Firefox on Debian GNU/Linux on a desktop computer.
The start post as it appears on Hubzilla after clicking the yellow button and thereby getting past the content warning.
What is shown additionally now is what is known as a content warning or CW on Mastodon. On Hubzilla, this very same feature has been a summary for very long posts since before Mastodon was launched.
The blue label below has to be clicked to get past the summary and see the post itself.
![The start post of this thread after clicking the yellow content warning button, now revealing the writing 'Hubzilla refers to this as a "summary" and not a "CW"' displayed by Mastodon as a content warning and a blue label below.](https://social.trom.tf/photo/link/160239 "The start post of this thread after clicking the yellow content warning button, now revealing the writing 'Hubzilla refers to this as a "summary" and not a "CW"' displayed by Mastodon as a content warning and a blue label below.")
The start post after getting past both the content warning (not what would be a content warning on Mastodon, but the yellow button above) and the summary (which Mastodon understands as a content warning).
I've manually stitched this together in GIMP from about ten screenshots.
Way down, you'll discover a closed spoiler. The next picture will show it after having been opened.
![A cropped screenshot of the part of the start post which shows the spoiler. The spoiler tag has been clicked, the spoiler has been opened, and it reveals the text, "Now the spoiler is open."](https://social.trom.tf/photo/link/160241 "A cropped screenshot of the part of the start post which shows the spoiler. The spoiler tag has been clicked, the spoiler has been opened, and it reveals the text, "Now the spoiler is open."")
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This is #fedilab , works well enough for me. Anyways I'd use my browser for complicated renderings.
The quotes work also.
@fediversenews
May be a "ChatBotHubzilla" (a'la ChatGPT) trained with this and other valuable articles by Jupiter Rowland can spread the benefits of Hubzilla much more efficiently than posts that streak the Fediverse night sky like meteors and often just disappear without being noticed?
#ChatBotHubzilla #ChatGPT #ChatGPTDiary #Fediverse #Fediverse #HubzillaPromotion #JupiterRowland #JupiterRowland #Meteor
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What a good display of the differences of the Fediverse services and programs. Hubzilla seems neat. I am tempted even more to switch to it.
You should try. It can even quote you.
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Hubzilla refers to this as a "summary" and not a "CW"
Your comment (not quoted here for reference) is hilarious. There's no end to any possible development in open source social media.
You are talking about two commercial products, with ad budgets & profit interest involved. And no say whatsoever for customers using these products.
All measured just in money.
Federated social media doesn't work like this. Luckily. Here you can have impact, if you act. Take that chance and use it.
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@_jayrope @benny Also, keep in mind a few more things:
Video2000 was incompatible with VHS. If you wanted to use both standards, you needed recorders and tapes for both.
#Hubzilla is compatible with #Mastodon as our posts prove. You can connect to just about everyone on Mastodon while still keeping using Hubzilla.
Besides, Hubzilla isn't just fancier Mastodon. Hubzilla isn't just microblogging. If you switched from Hubzilla to Mastodon, you'd lose more than text formatting. You'd lose boatloads of features which Mastodon can't realistically hope to replace, from multiple channels on one login to articles and wikis to full and proven #NomadicIdentity.
Mastodon can't and won't displace Hubzilla.
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Mastodon can't and won't displace Hubzilla.
You're so nice (to me being a HZ user/admin).
BUT: Let's be fair. All of those different ideas of most probably a similar concept
should coexist and interact at their best, not fight.
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Now I went to a new server and use yunohost for my online stuff, but I haven't yet figured out how to migrate my old install to the yunohost instance
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"Hubzilla seems neat. I am tempted even more to switch to it."
You don't have to switch. You can use both.
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@Zach777 That's my server space provider's business. The last outage took 18 hrs (water in the data center, oops) Data was fine afterwards. Got to mention, that it was the first of such outages in 20 years, though.
Hoster is hostforweb.com, account type is Business Pro, you'll have no root access, but terminal for HZ and a Cpanel to assist. Has a git.
Sympahic Russians in upstate NY.
I'm good with them.
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in reply to Danie • • •the major problem with systemd is that it was pushed by lennart pottering when he was working at red hat, and little by little it is phagocyting (extending and embracing) the entire system. He'd already made a name for himself when he built an overlay to alsa that created more problems than it solved. so red hat has a stranglehold on mass distribution, and surprisingly ibm buys red hat and closes down red hat enterprise's sources.
if you add the attack launched by windows with WSL and the FSF's , the "woke" attack on free software (free as speach), linus and stallman. it stinks.
that's what needs to be explained, not that it's easier to have a unified system that allows a single person (or company) to produce for all systems. if you're looking for a unified system, go to windows or apple. don't try to make linux the next windows or apple.
from my point of view, to send a signal to ibm, you need to eject pulsaudio and systemd from distributions. It's not about being simple, it's about being free AND independent.
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in reply to Danie • • •Greg A. Woods (another old account)
in reply to Danie • • •As the old saying went: Friends don't let their friends run Windows, or Systemd. 🙂🙃
I find it both hilarious and sad that so many people confuse the 'init' process and what it really needs to do with all the other things that modern systems must run to provide all the fancy features we expect of them today.
As is that article seems, at least to a Linux outsider such as myself, to present a rather narrow, limited, and system-centric view of the greater problem.
NetBSD all the way for me, at least anywhere where I have to or want to work on the code!
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in reply to Danie • • •there is a gap between what companies and geeks think about fancy features expected and what is really expected. there is a bunch of people that want look and feels but they have macos or windows. Let's keep linux safe of those craps to keep linux users happy instead of trying to convert those who do not care about privacy or freedom yo import their feelings in our systems.
is it interesting that people thinking about how to import windows users or companies (lennart with pulseaudio and systemd OR de icaza with mono) BOTH work at microsoft now? are/were they friends or ennemies ?
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in reply to Danie • • •Stallman on systemd
"I know it's free software, so ethically speaking, it's not an issue – it's just a convenience question." - Richard Stallman (2015)
It should be noted that Stallman uses Trisquel which has used systemd since 2014.
Stallman joins the Internet, talks net neutrality, patents and more
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in reply to Danie • • •W.r.t. "fancy features", I don't think the vast majority of the past couple of iterations, nor the current iteration, of software developers have any capacity whatsoever to implement those features in an elegant, efficient, and well structured way.
For example Linux has (primarily, in most distributions) ended up with GNOME, which is arguably a bigger horror show on the inside than anything Microsoft has ever produced.
If Gates and Jobs had paid more attention to the innards of the Xerox Star then maybe we'd be in a slightly better place today, and maybe the likes of systemd would be entirely unthinkable to the vast majority of developers, but that's blue-sky dreaming.
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stallman on red hat's... could be
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in reply to Danie • • •Check the ref, Stallman was talking about using systemd. As noted he uses it everyday.
I have been using it too, for eight years now, with no issues and quick boot times.
It's free software, you can download and read the source code, use it, modify it or fork it if you like. You are also free to use something else if you prefer.
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