Our Society is Retarded and Fucked Up.
Look at this stupid situation:
We (humans) waste like crazy and are causing a billion global problems for ourselves and other species on this planet. Climate change, pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and a ton more.
Why? Because of the way we (8 billion humans) organize ourselves.
How’s that? Well, to get almost anything we need or want- including our basic needs- we have to participate in a rat race. We have to sell something, someone, or ourselves. We have to convince others that they should buy more shit. Shit that they don’t need. Shit that doesn’t make them happy (though we’ll try to convince them that it would, though it won’t). Shit that will contribute to more waste, more pollution, further climate change, and more destruction.
That’s the only way to get our basic needs met in this society- through trading (trading resources, trading our own time and energy, etc.). Meanwhile we trash close to 50% of the food we produce, we throw away more clothes than everybody could wear, we have more empty houses than homeless people, etc.
Let me repeat: we, humans, waste like crazy, yet we force each other to sell more and more shit- just to get our basic needs met.
And we call ourselves “civilized.” Ha ha ha.
Now here’s my personal stupid situation:
I haven’t had a “job” in years. Instead, I’ve been busy working on a book, helping with some projects, going out in nature, things like that. I have NOT been consuming/buying anything except food/very few basic things.
In the past, I had savings. Now, I am completely out of money. Long story short, I need to make some money so I can contribute to things like food and rent (just the basic needs!).
So now I am ready to work! I am ready and willing to go back to the job game, however awful it may be.
And imagine this- I even have a few job offers. I am a certified divemaster, and a scuba diving shop offered me a full-time contract which would pay 1,400 euros a month for the next three months! -They want me to work there, they said I can start now, they can even make me a contract. Woo hoo!
And another place- a bar/restaurant- said they have work for me! They desperately need staff- and they’d love to hire someone like me who has years of bartending experience! They want to hire me now!
Oh but no… No no no. I am not “allowed” to work here in Europe. That’s what the authorities say. It doesn’t matter that this dive shop and this bar desperately need staff and they really really want to hire me, no that doesn’t matter- because I don’t have the right papers. You see, I was not born in Europe, therefore I cannot work here.
But wait! There’s a solution, right? Didn’t I “marry” Tio two years ago precisely for this reason? So we could live legally in one place together. Shouldn’t those “marriage documents” give me the right to live and work in Europe? I mean, if my “husband” is European, doesn’t that give me some rights here?!
Um, no, not if he’s poor, it turns out. If my “husband” doesn’t make at least 1,000 euros a month, then I have no rights. I cannot get residency just like that and I cannot legally get a job. Imagine that! If my “husband” doesn’t make enough money then I also cannot work! Who’s brilliant idea was this?!?!
And to put the icing on the cake- I also cannot leave Europe and go make money somewhere else- because now I am like an illegal immigrant with an “irregular” status, so the lawyer that we cannot afford to pay told us that we ought to sort out this paperwork or else the cops could stop me at the border and deport me or who knows…
So to sum it up:
- We live in a retarded society that wastes like crazy
- We force each other to trade even for our basic needs
- I am willing to play the trade game
- I am not allowed to play the trade game in my current location (EU)
- I should be allowed to play the trade game here because I am “married” to an EU citizen
- I am not allowed to play the trade game here because my “husband” doesn’t play it well enough himself
- I am not allowed to leave the place that I am not allowed to play the trade game in and where my “husband” doesn’t play it well enough- or else I could get in trouble.
And, btw, when we were going through that awful bullshit “marriage” procedure we didn’t know about any of this. We understood that after getting “married,” we just had to come back to Spain and register at the international police and then I could get the right to live with my “husband” and work here. But no, it turns out, not unless he’s rich.
What’s that about “equality” and “human rights” EU????? What? what??
Go suck a possum.
Tio
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in reply to Tio • • •I have a few questions, mainly due to my completely unfamiliarity with the Wordpress plugin :
- shouldn't the comments to this post appear as comments on the blog?
- shouldn't there be a link on the blog to interact from the fediverse?
- shouldn't there be a sign on the blog post that it is actually a friendica post? (like the arrow in the corner that we have on Friendica)
Tio
in reply to Liwott • •As far as I can see this Wordpress Friendica addon simply uses the POST api on Wordpress. Meaning, it simply tells wordpress: submit this blog post. And then that's it....So you don't need any plugin for wordpress for this to work.
But if you install the Activitypub Wordpress plugin it works the other way around: posts made on wordpress cna go to your friendica if you enable native reshares, and any comment on friendica for that post, will go to the wordpress post. Any edit to the wordpress post will update the Friendica post too. So works far better the other way around from what I can tell...
Liwott
in reply to Tio • • •2 different operations, I see !
Are they compatible with each other ? Of course the AP plugin won't magically notice that the post originates from Friendica, but is there anything that prevent you from doing the following ?
Tio
in reply to Liwott • •Hm so you mean to make a post on Friendica that's only visible for you, then this post goes to Wordpress. Now you setup native reshares from Wordpress to Friendica, and the same post comes back to your profile. But this time the post is more connected since any comment you get on the post, it goes to your WP too, and any edit you make to the AP post, will edit your Friendica post too. Tho idk if the latter is true.
Seems a bit too complicated to me and it means you make double posts....
Did I get you right?
Liwott
in reply to Tio • • •But AFAIU you will not be able to edit the WP post from Friendica, as from Friendica the AP post will only be a reshare.
That is a bit annoying indeed, but it will only appear as such to you.
A workaround may be to create a separate Friendica account for WP posting, and designate your main account as a delegate. Then the posting account can have "private to itself + WP" as default permission, so that simplifies the procedure after the initial setup. So all you need to do to post to WP is to post in the name of the posting account.
Note that I have never used a subaccount myself so I do not know how easy the latter is in practice.
Tio
in reply to Liwott • •If the WP post gets reshared on Friendica via ActivityPub, then if you edit the WP post, Friendica will fetch the newly updated one. IDK if this works with native reshares or just re-shares. Am a bit confused haha.
And I think if you go for 2 friendica accounts just to post on WP + Friendica....it is not worth the trouble. I'd might as well post on WP directly :D .
Liwott
in reply to Tio • • •TBH I am not that less confused. But I thought you meant you could edit directly on Friendica, which apparently you can't as you tried with your OP.
I said "delegate" but I think I meant "parent". From the wiki :
So I thought that you don't even need to identify twice but that you could just press a button to publish as the WP-posting account. I may misunderstand that, once again I have never done it myself.
Tio
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in reply to Tio • • •@Tio @Liwott There are two kinds of issues affecting the activitypub plugin for WordPress:
1) friendica is already able to follow a wordpress blog, through the rss / atom protocol and when you try to follow a federated Wordpress, frendica relentlessly follows it as an RSS feed ... I tried to figure out how to get around the problem, but it seems that friendica deems RSS "more native" than pub activity for WordPress blogs. And therefore it tends to give priority to RSS
2) The second problem concerns some technical limitations of the activitypub plugin for WordPress, among which the most worrying one is the fact of not managing the privacy of messages: in practice, if someone sends a private message to the blog user, this message becomes public .in addition, the activitypub plug-in for Wordpress cannot manage the deletion of messages, so if I send a message by mistake then I can no longer delete it
I talked about it here: informapirata.it/2022/03/27/qu… -this-post /
Tio
in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • •1) You have to follow users not the entire website. For example m website tiotrom.com/ - if you want to follow it natively via ActivityPub you have to follow a user from it like me
tio@www.tiotrom.com- that's how it works from my understanding. It is like you cannot follow my entire Freindica instance at social.trom.tf but you can follow me at tio@social.trom.tf.2) It is true there are limitations and concerns with the activitypub plugin. But it is still new. Report issues here github.com/pfefferle/wordpress…
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in reply to Tio • • •@Tio @Poliverso notizie dal fediverso @Liwott The first solution is indeed reasonable and I had not thought about it. Unfortunately it will not allow the new authors to be followed immediately, but it is a good compromise.
As for the reports, the problem of deleting messages and the privacy of DMs has been reported several times, but development has been stuck for a couple of years
Informa Pirata
in reply to Tio • • •@Tio @Poliverso notizie dal fediverso @Liwott Speaking of interaction between #Friendica and other federated publishing platforms, I take this opportunity to point out the very happy integration between Friendica and #Lemmy. In fact, from Friendica it is not only possible to follow Lemmy conversations, but it is even possible to publish a new post! In practice, by mentioning the community name (=! + Community name + @ + domain) and writing the title text in the subject field, you can publish new posts that will be followed and commented on by anyone who follows that community.
Below is an example:
poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e…
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Liwott
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Btw I've been having trouble recently with that. My posts and comments don't go through to lemmy unless I search for them manually.
I just tried posting and commenting in feddit.it's test community and have the same problem.
Both lemmy.ml and feddit.it are supposed to federate with nerdica.net
Are you still regularly posting and commenting to Lemmy from Friendica?
Informa Pirata
in reply to Liwott • • •@Liwott ho appena fatto un po' di prove da due account di tipo diverso e l'unico test fallito ha riguardato l'invio di un post recante un'immagine
feddit.it/c/test
Liwott
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in reply to Liwott • • •@Liwott ho provato a chiedere aiuto al vostro forum
poliverso.org/display/0477a01e…
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