Tio

tio@social.trom.tf

A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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https://www.tiotrom.com/

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

Perfected a bit the friendica themes, but too tired now. Need to have a closer look tomorrow and then quickly make a few color variants. That's my mission tomorrow. Plus change/edit the text for friendica - like the about kinda sections. And tips for new users and such....in time to also improve the performance of Friendica. Hope to get some help with that from other friendica admins or dev :P.

- Lufi 100% done.
- Nextcloud 100% done.
- Etherpad 100% done.
- Friendica close to being done.
- Peertube needs a few theme adjustments + to deal with the text + look over the settings a bit one more time.
- LibreQR I need to fix a small, 1 min thing.
- Searx - I need to look more into theming....maybe I can do it in a more sustainable manner + a few theme fixes + to do the dark theme if possible.
- Bibliogram 100% done
- RSS Bridge 100% done
- Diagrams 100% done
- Framadate 100% done

So yah, basically Friendica, Peertube and Searx need a few more tweaks. Then I can make the trom.tf website. #tromlive

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

Done! I am done with customizing and theming all of our trade-free services. However I need to go through each one by one, fix a few things, make 2 or so more themes for Friendica (not a big deal, just some color replacements), and such. In total we will release 11 services: Peertube, Nextcloud, Friendica, Lufi, Etherpad,LibreQR, FramaDate, Searx, Bibliogram, RSS-Bridge, and Diagrams. These cover a lot. File sharing and hosting, video platform, social network, organizers, search engines, and more. We will release more such services in the near future, but we don't just want to release a lot, we want to release useful ones, and to config and maintain them properly.

So yah, stay tuned. We will release them officially very soon ;). #tromlive

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

Love seeing tromsite.com/ so fast. It has never been so fast :D - and all the other websites. Ok, so now I'll work on framadate to theme it a bit. Let's see ;) #tromlive

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

Ok. Lufi also done. I forgot I have to do Framadate too :D - eh...will do tomorrow. After that I am done. But I have to check everything one by one, and fix a few things here and there. But heh, we are getting there. Oh, and I expect for some that I know to troll us a bit and try to upload a lot of crap videos on our peertube and use our friendica for nonsense, and so on. I've already seen that happening and we didn't even officially release. We will keep these services as trade-free, so lets see how we can deal with such situations. Some people in this world area really fucked up. Should we let anyone to upload videos, photos, and whatever, to our platforms? What about flat earth videos, what about posts about killing other people? Well, since these platforms are trade-free, we need not to care about the content, only the service....but hm...it is tricky in today's fucked up world. So after all is set up and done, we will brainstorm about all of this. We certainly don't want to ban or restrict anyone...

Anyways. Just 1 more service to tweak. #tromlive

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LPS

in reply to Tio 5 years ago

why not keep your peertube instance themed/interest related (see tilvids)? I'm afraid if you leave it wide open it will dilute all the valuable content you've created ....there are many completely open instances out there for garbage.

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Tio

in reply to LPS 5 years ago

hm...because we want to provide some trade-free services, in the sense that you don't have to trade this, for that. Use our services ONLY if you do this or that. That's how youtube is and all of the other platforms. The moment you start moderating such platforms, you will become a little dictator that is always going to be biased. Like...where do I draw the line? Is a video about flat earth ok? What about videos telling people to buy stocks? Religion? And so on....

videos.trom.tf is a service, not content based. This is why it is a new project of ours and will be clearly explained on trom.tf, the main website, once I make it. Our videos will belong to our channel on videos.trom.tf at videos.trom.tf/video-channels/… . I totally understand that this society is full of retarded people, but we need some trade-free platforms online where anyone can express themselves, much like a telephone number or line. And if people are retarded, we have to deal with that, not with

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LPS

in reply to Tio 5 years ago

what I'm suggesting is curation not censorship and it benefits creators as much as viewers. Remember no instance is an island, it's federated so will connect with other "communities". It doesn't have to be the wild west. This is the same philosophy most mastodon or friendica instances use, a general theme and culture, that's all:)

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Tio

in reply to LPS 5 years ago

yah i understand :P - is just that where do you draw the line between curation and censorship. But in can't case, I do not want to curate for this...I curate enough at tromnews.com or videoneat.com, these tools should be tools, and the content is generated by people. So lets see how it plays out, is not like so many will flock to these tools, unfortunately...

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LPS

in reply to Tio 5 years ago

BTW I'm discovering some of your great podcasts, after the fact, thanks to them being on #peertube :)

Will you be possibly streaming through peertube in the future? I realize you're likely just outputting from OBS to multiple platforms currently but it might be a great stress test....it doesn't require an external service either ;)

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Tio

in reply to LPS 5 years ago

Oh yah ofc we will stream on peertube from now on! That's why we moved actually, because we got sick of ytb streaming. And we tested the streaming on our peertube instance and all great. Yes we use OBS. Actualyl as soon as we release this new project of ours, with these trade-free services like peertube, friendica, and the like, we will do a new TROMcast and we will stream on videos.trom.tf ;) - btw I will announce a few days before the cast when we will do it and anyone can join, as usual, so if you'd like you can also join ;) - we use Jitsi Meet for the call and OBS for streaming

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LPS

in reply to Tio 5 years ago

I can't wait! When you do, don't forget about this tool that is a work around for live chat in peertube although you may already have a better solution.

peerchat.benj.me/

The users just enter the address of the stream + a screen name to participate in the live chat

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Tio

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oh that seems interesting. so, where do comments go or the chat is visible at? we usually make use of our tromsite.com/chat (trom discussions chat) - nextcloud basically without registration (open chat). but would be cool to have a chat on peertube directly

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in reply to Tio 5 years ago

as far as I can tell it works like a portal to your stream making the chat and stream available on the same page. It's just more convenient for less tech savvy viewers. You could just leave a link to it under your stream with the address. It also makes it easier to watch and chat at the same time like YT.

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LPS

in reply to LPS 5 years ago

however your existing solution seems to work great as well, just another option:). If people are subscribed directly to your peertube it could be helpful to include below the stream as I mentioned above.

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Tio

in reply to LPS 5 years ago

yes I actually planned to make a special page for tromcast with both the streaming player and chat besides the player. we have the tools, so now we can tinker with them ;)

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Tio

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* the next tromcast will be about these tools. we will discuss them in details and so forth ;) - most of our tromcasts are open for anyone to join btw

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

I finished theming our libre qr instance. Also, our searx instance - here it is search.trom.tf - I think it looks much cleaner than any of the themes available in searx, especially for the images and videos section. I worked a bit on it. The downside is that if you change the to oscar dark in the preferences, that theme is not good :D - cause I modified the main oscar and idk how to do it for the dark theme....maybe i'll figure out and we will provide 2 themes, dark and light. But if I cannot....then so be it :D.

So basically I only have to config and theme Lufi. #tromlive

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

So all of our TROM videos are uploaded to our PeerTube instance at videos.trom.tf - the instance is kinda done, need to do a few more tweaks to the text and theme, but feel free to test it. We are accepting registrations with unlimited uploads but 2GB per day max, so we don't nuke our server. Feel free to test it ;). None of our services is right now officially released, but we are getting close to that! Oh, and we have over 250 videos, some are big like 2-4 hours long, and in total they take about 135GB. On peertube, with 4 types of conversions enabled - where needed - they take a bit over 170GB. Not bad at all, considering most of our videos are now available in at least 2 formats (HD and FullHD). I will move my personal videos there too + other videos from my blog posts, to tromjaro and such. So far it works super fast and all great. So let us know if you experience any issues wit it ;). #tromlive

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Your theme really stands out, I like it. My only complain is the lack of 480p encoding, but your previous instance also didn't had it so. And also your instance is much more faster 😉

BTW, I don't see the peertube hamburger menu on the top left corner (see pic). Is this a theming problem on your site ? 🤔

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Tio

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If we had a lot of storage space I would enable 480p. But we don't...also, 720p seems to be very much ok for today's internet speeds. Plus, internet speeds are getting faster and faster so should be ok I'd say. Sorry about that...

Happy that you like the theme ;). We themed all of our services so that they look and feel the same. However, no testing on mobile...never a priority for me tbh since there are no trade-free operating systems for mobile out there, that are ready for "prime-time". Also, my time is very limited. So it is very possible that the menu doesn't appear on mobile because of the customization I've done....if and when I'll have some free time I may try to adapt our websites for mobile too, but honestly I have a near 0 motivation to do so :D. I am sorry...

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

I fixed a few things with our tromsocial (social.trom.tf) in regards to our themes. I'll keep on using it to see if there are more things to fix. Then, I'll make a few more themes with different colors. But now I need to go back and do the lufi, searx, and framadate theming and setup. The last ones... #tromlive

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

Today we film a video with Sasha titled "Prison Earth". It is Dima and Sasha really doing it, but I may help here and there. Sasha made a great script for it. We will for sure share the video on TROM's "channels". A very interesting one. #tromlive

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

Today we kinda moved to our Friendica instance....kinda a lot of work...the contacts import and profiles didn't work that well, had to do much of it manually...but well, it works. Tomorrow I want to create a new theme, greenish like our tromsite.com. And to test more our friendica instance. RSS-Bridge is done btw. So libre qr, searx and lufi need some tweaks. That's all. I am TIRED :D. I dream about websites and servers and all that...I can't even sleep properly. But hey, in a few days I hope all is done. Let's say a week since I have to build a website for this new tromland. And we are still uploading our tromcasts to our peertube, takes some time. We will also replace other videos from tromjaro.com and such, with our peertube ones. More work to do, but the bulk of it is done. Backups work for both servers - daily backups. So that's good. Ok, enough for today. #tromlive

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Tio

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yup, once we officially release we will thanks!

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Tio

5 years ago

Tio
5 years ago

I have moved to our Friendica node :) - I'll give you more info about that. So far is good. :) #tromlive

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Tio

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For sure! I made a light and a dark theme. As soon as we release it officially, I'll make them available. They still need a few tweaks here and there ;)

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