The Moon and Venus a few hours ago, with my phone:
You can see how the entire Moon is visible actually but a slice of it is directly lit by the Sun so it makes it appear in that particular way to our naked eyes. Super cool.
You can read the entire thing here - Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit But basically it seems that hundreds of AUR packages that were not maintained in a while got “updated” with a malicious code.
Raccoon 1.0 was finally released for Android in recent days, a rather innovative client originally created for #Friendica, but which has now become one of the most innovative apps for the user experience on #Mastodon. The app is available for Android (already on the Play Store and Izzidroid, and will soon be available on F-Droid), but a #Debian package has also been released. An iOS version remains to be seen for its success.
Raccoon 1.0 was finally released for Android in recent days, a rather innovative client originally created for #Friendica, but which has now become one of the most innovative apps for the user experience on #Mastodon. The app is available for Android (already on the Play Store and Izzidroid, and will soon be available on F-Droid), but a #Debian package has also been released. An iOS version remains to be seen for its success.
The app introduces some very important innovations to the federated app landscape.
1. Navigate the Fediverse from an app, even without creating an account
Raccoon is the only app that lets you browse the Fediverse even without an account. When you install it, you can select any Friendica or Mastodon instance and "leverage" its local public and federated timelines. This way, users can explore multiple instances before choosing which one to open an account on. Of course, even after adding an account (the app manages multiple accounts), you can browse the timelines of servers other than the one you signed up to.
2. "Browse through" messages: "swipe" navigation
Unlike all other social apps (both those for the Fediverse and those for commercial social networks), #RaccoonForFriendica lets you open a post in your timeline and continue browsing through previous and next posts by simply swiping left and right. This is a truly interesting ergonomic innovation.
3. Finally a formatting bar in social apps
Since the app was created for Friendica, it features a built-in formatting toolbar reminiscent of Lemmy clients (in fact, the developer @janTeko first experimented with app development with a Lemmy app). The formatting toolbar can also be used for Mastodon instances running the Glitch-soc fork, such as infosec.exchange, tech.lgbt, and my poliversity.it instance, which was the one the developer experimented with.
In addition to being more immediate, writing formatted posts is also made easier by a "preview" function that helps avoid errors in Markdown or BBCode coding.
4. Finally, Mastodon users will be able to enjoy Fediverse groups too.
As you may know, Mastodon doesn't support the display of group posts. Even if you select a group, you'll still see a single timeline where top posts alternate with replies. Searching for a thread on Mastodon is therefore very complicated, but the #Raccoon developer has found a way to enable "topic" viewing across all accounts that are "activitypub groups," be they #Lemmy, #NodeBB, Piefed, Mbin, Peertube, Wordpress, Mobilizon, Flipboard, etc. This idea also came about thanks to the fact that the developer had previously tried his hand at developing an app for Lemmy and was able to experiment with the formatting bars and display of Lemmy "communities," which are nothing other than "#activitypub groups."
The app features all the features found in most other Mastodon apps, except one: the correct handling of Mastodon posts that quote other posts. These are still displayed in a fairly primitive way. The developer is trying to decide whether to adapt to Mastodon specifications or reinterpret the feature in a more personalized way. It must be said that, unfortunately, the implementation of quoted messages (already present in Friendica for ages) was implemented by Mastodon very late, only in recent months, and in a very "personal" way that many other software developers did not appreciate.
7. Raccoon is an app that will benefit users who already use Mastodon but also those who have never "tried" the Fediverse
This app has been under development for almost two years, and the beta version is just over a year old. However, version 1.0 has resolved all previously encountered issues. Based on user feedback, the developer will evaluate whether to create an iOS version and even a Windows version. Anyone who wishes to allow reporting of application errors can enable anonymous crash reports.
The public's response will be important to enable the further development of this app. If you want to test it on Mastodon, I recommend using instances running the glitch-soc fork. Among these, I'd recommend the infosec.exchange instance, which is well managed by @jerry. And of course, but only if you communicate in Italian or Esperanto, I'd be happy to host you on my poliversity.it instance. Regarding Friendica, I recommend two instances: friendica.world, managed by @ruud and featuring a rather lively timeline, and, of course, social.trom.tf, excellently managed by @tio. If you communicate in Italian, I'd be happy to host you on my poliverso.org instance.
Greetings to all and let me know if you need further information, if you have tried the app and how you found it. Francesco You can also interact with me through the Mastodon account @informapirata and the Friendica account @notizie
@anriz I understand your concerns, because you're a Friendica user, and the Friendica web interface already provides an excellent way to view activitypub groups and group them by topic. But the Mastodon user doesn't have the same user experience as you: for him, groups are just normal users who share both initial posts and replies in the same timeline. It's a real mess! 🤣
Raccoon on the other hand keeps things tidy and presents a neat display
Fantastic! Awesome job. And I for sure will give it more of a try. I've already made a few friends use it and so far so good. And thank you for mentioning our instance!
Your instance is one of those shortlisted by Raccoon both because it's very well moderated and because it has a local timeline accessible even without logging in. I'm glad you'll recommend this app to your contacts. In that regard, although none of us are in love with Google (🤬), we must admit that the presence of the 1.0 release on the Play Store is essential to overcome the psychological barrier of all those users who do not want to go to alternative stores or download the .apk package.
The app itself is fantastic indeed. It's simply the Friendica client that was lacking, and now it seems it's a great app for the Fediverse overall. I think I've been using it for a year already.
Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
Posts about Fediverse interoperability are always a mess of different flavors of internet nerds who post in radically different formats clashing. It’s a glorious mess.
Personally I think micro blogging is an atrocious anti-discourse format but I also think anyone who writes the word “discourse” is automatically not worth listening to. So what do I know.
Insert 23 redundant hashtags about open source software here and tag eight accounts run by three people across six instances
(Mastodon friends I appreciate you but your posts are painful to look at through the Lemmy interface good god)
@OpenStars I'm both disappointed and amused by this inconvenience.
Unfortunate, because my intention was to highlight the app's qualities, not to annoy as many readers as possible.
But I'm also amused, because unfortunately, many Lemmy apps format titles poorly, transforming #/h1 tags into something like "format a gigantic title that takes up one screen for each syllable." 🤦♂️🤣
I am not sure that you would get this unless I add your user tag @macfranc@poliversity.it ?
It is not your fault. The entire Fediverse is still being built, and it only gets better over time. The fact that Lemmy + PieFed + mBin + nodeBB can intercommunicate at all is fantastic, even though yes there are some kinks remaining to be worked out:-).
My intention was to make light of the reasoning behind criticism of your post, while pointing out to Threadiverse users that once you get past that, the actual content is quite solid. So less "wall of text" than merely "odd-looking introduction". It's a good post!
And yeah the giant text looks weird, haha! 😂 Especially since at first it is a repeat of the title, but then goes into new territory after that. I do not know if there is anything that can be done about it though, except further code development on the side of all the myriad varieties of recipients of the message.
I am not sure that you would get this unless I add your user tag @macfranc ?
Yes, I'd still get it, even if you didn't mention me. The problem arises when you reply to someone who replied to me: in that case, I might not receive the notification. Unfortunately (as often happens), the fault lies with Mastodon, not Lemmy/Piefed.
It is not your fault. The entire Fediverse is still being built, and it only gets better over time. The fact that Lemmy + PieFed + mBin + nodeBB can intercommunicate at all is fantastic, even though yes there are some kinks remaining to be worked out:-).
I also believe this statement. Since I've been an instance administrator (Friendica, Lemmy, NodeBB, and Mastodon Glitch-soc), I'v
I am not sure that you would get this unless I add your user tag @macfranc ?
Yes, I'd still get it, even if you didn't mention me. The problem arises when you reply to someone who replied to me: in that case, I might not receive the notification. Unfortunately (as often happens), the fault lies with Mastodon, not Lemmy/Piefed.
It is not your fault. The entire Fediverse is still being built, and it only gets better over time. The fact that Lemmy + PieFed + mBin + nodeBB can intercommunicate at all is fantastic, even though yes there are some kinks remaining to be worked out:-).
I also believe this statement. Since I've been an instance administrator (Friendica, Lemmy, NodeBB, and Mastodon Glitch-soc), I've always been concerned with how the Fediverse software integrates with each other and with spreading knowledge of the various platforms
My intention was to make light of the reasoning behind criticism of your post, while pointing out to Threadiverse users that once you get past that, the actual content is quite solid. So less “wall of text” than merely “odd-looking introduction”. It’s a good post!
Thank you for your feedback. It's somewhere between a press release and an informational post about the Fediverse. I'm only surprised because, usually, the criticisms about length come from Mastodon users, not Lemmy users...
And yeah the giant text looks weird, haha! 😂
Usually, the problem is solved at the user interface level. BBCode and Markdown have a certain number of standard levels for titles, and it's up to the final interpreter (the interface) to manage their display based on the tool (desktop browser, mobile browser, mobile app, etc.).
Especially since at first it is a repeat of the title, but then goes into new territory after that. I do not know if there is anything that can be done about it though, except further code development on the side of all the myriad varieties of recipients of the message.
Repeating the title, on the other hand, is the best possible solution for integrating threads opened in the forumverse by microblogging users: Lemmy takes the first 200 characters of the first paragraph and converts them into a title, disabling formatting, links, and mentions. That data, however, is re-proposed at the beginning of the post text. I understand there are some issues, but I don't see any better solution than this.
I should add that, unfortunately, Mastodon's recent implementation of quoted posts has made it difficult for Lemmy to manage opening posts, because Mastodon formats posts that quote another post as:
Re: fedilinkhttps<br><br>Post text<br>
And therefore, the title of a Lemmy thread would become "Re: fedilinkhttps" 🤬
And yet I see them on my instance. I am not sure why, or if your tagging my username specifically helped cause that to happen for this instance but somehow no other instances.
The formatting if I ask to "view markdown source" is messed up - everything is on a single line, and some formatting indicators are missing - but the traditional, regular display mode of the message is perfect.
Interrelation between the different platforms still needs improvements, but it is encouraging to see it get better over time.
If I remember correctly, there was a problem in Lemmy that should be fixed with the upcoming 1.0 release and has already been fixed with the latest Piefed releases. This meant that third-level comments that didn't originate from Lemmy or Piefed weren't processed correctly by the platform.
If I remember correctly, there was a problem in Lemmy that should be fixed with the upcoming 1.0 release and has already been fixed with the latest Piefed releases. This meant that third-level comments that didn't originate from Lemmy or Piefed weren't processed correctly by the platform.
Raccoon 1.0 was finally released for Android in recent days, a rather innovative client originally created for #Friendica, but which has now become one of the most innovative apps for the user experience on #Mastodon. The app is available for Android (already on the Play Store and Izzidroid, and will soon be available on F-Droid), but a #Debian package has also been released. An iOS version remains to be seen for its success.
The app introduces some very important innovations to the federated app landscape.
1. Navigate the Fediverse from an app, even without creating an account
Raccoon is the only app that lets you browse the Fediverse even without an account. When you install it, you can select any Friendica or Mastodon instance and "leverage" its local public and federated timelines. This way, users can explore multiple instances before choosing which one to open an account on. Of course, even after adding an account (the app manages multiple accounts), you can browse the timelines of servers other than the one you signed up to.
2. "Browse through" messages: "swipe" navigation
Unlike all other social apps (both those for the Fediverse and those for commercial social networks), #RaccoonForFriendica lets you open a post in your timeline and continue browsing through previous and next posts by simply swiping left and right. This is a truly interesting ergonomic innovation.
3. Finally a formatting bar in social apps
Since the app was created for Friendica, it features a built-in formatting toolbar reminiscent of Lemmy clients (in fact, the developer @janTeko first experimented with app development with a Lemmy app). The formatting toolbar can also be used for Mastodon instances running the Glitch-soc fork, such as infosec.exchange, tech.lgbt, and my poliversity.it instance, which was the one the developer experimented with.
In addition to being more immediate, writing formatted posts is also made easier by a "preview" function that helps avoid errors in Markdown or BBCode coding.
4. Finally, Mastodon users will be able to enjoy Fediverse groups too.
As you may know, Mastodon doesn't support the display of group posts. Even if you select a group, you'll still see a single timeline where top posts alternate with replies. Searching for a thread on Mastodon is therefore very complicated, but the #Raccoon developer has found a way to enable "topic" viewing across all accounts that are "activitypub groups," be they #Lemmy, #NodeBB, Piefed, Mbin, Peertube, Wordpress, Mobilizon, Flipboard, etc. This idea also came about thanks to the fact that the developer had previously tried his hand at developing an app for Lemmy and was able to experiment with the formatting bars and display of Lemmy "communities," which are nothing other than "#activitypub groups."
The app features all the features found in most other Mastodon apps, except one: the correct handling of Mastodon posts that quote other posts. These are still displayed in a fairly primitive way. The developer is trying to decide whether to adapt to Mastodon specifications or reinterpret the feature in a more personalized way. It must be said that, unfortunately, the implementation of quoted messages (already present in Friendica for ages) was implemented by Mastodon very late, only in recent months, and in a very "personal" way that many other software developers did not appreciate.
7. Raccoon is an app that will benefit users who already use Mastodon but also those who have never "tried" the Fediverse
This app has been under development for almost two years, and the beta version is just over a year old. However, version 1.0 has resolved all previously encountered issues. Based on user feedback, the developer will evaluate whether to create an iOS version and even a Windows version. Anyone who wishes to allow reporting of application errors can enable anonymous crash reports.
The public's response will be important to enable the further development of this app. If you want to test it on Mastodon, I recommend using instances running the glitch-soc fork. Among these, I'd recommend the infosec.exchange instance, which is well managed by @jerry. And of course, but only if you communicate in Italian or Esperanto, I'd be happy to host you on my poliversity.it instance. Regarding Friendica, I recommend two instances: friendica.world, managed by @ruud and featuring a rather lively timeline, and, of course, social.trom.tf, excellently managed by @tio. If you communicate in Italian, I'd be happy to host you on my poliverso.org instance.
Greetings to all and let me know if you need further information, if you have tried the app and how you found it. Francesco You can also interact with me through the Mastodon account @informapirata and the Friendica account @notizie
PieFed is running circles around Lemmy, even with the highly irresponsible code vulnerability disclosures awhile back.
As you know better than I, Friendica struggles mightily with scalability, Mastodon is slow to add new features especially those asked for many years, and Lemmy and Mbin are likewise exceedingly slow, whereas PieFed adds new MAJOR features quarterly even.
My hopes for the future of the entire Threadiverse lies with PieFed.
From what I can see, that is not a back-end restructuring but as far as a new architectural design it will purely affect the front-end UI. Which will begin to look somewhat more similar to PieFed, yet without coming anywhere close to what PieFed offers today, as opposed to what PieFed offered like a year ago. e.g. there will be no ability to hold polls (or to share those custom-built feeds?).
More relevant is that Lemmy 1.0 may take a year or so to become fully deployed across the Threadiverse, if past experience is any judge. The devs say to explicitly expect major breaking bugs and perhaps to avoid deployment in prod as a result. And ofc apps are going to need to catch up as well. This one being a breaking change may lead most older apps unable to connect to an instance that uses the newer software (unless I am misreading that part about the older backwards compatible API).
Lemmy.world in particular, which holds ~50% of Threadiverse users and >90% of the most highly-active commu
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From what I can see, that is not a back-end restructuring but as far as a new architectural design it will purely affect the front-end UI. Which will begin to look somewhat more similar to PieFed, yet without coming anywhere close to what PieFed offers today, as opposed to what PieFed offered like a year ago. e.g. there will be no ability to hold polls (or to share those custom-built feeds?).
More relevant is that Lemmy 1.0 may take a year or so to become fully deployed across the Threadiverse, if past experience is any judge. The devs say to explicitly expect major breaking bugs and perhaps to avoid deployment in prod as a result. And ofc apps are going to need to catch up as well. This one being a breaking change may lead most older apps unable to connect to an instance that uses the newer software (unless I am misreading that part about the older backwards compatible API).
Lemmy.world in particular, which holds ~50% of Threadiverse users and >90% of the most highly-active communities (unfortunately for the aim of decentralization) is well-known for delaying deployment until the Lemmy code fixes such issues.
So a year from now Lemmy will begin to catch up to some of what PieFed had almost a year ago in the past already, and meanwhile I expect PieFed will not itself be standing still all that time... I am glad to see that Lemmy is still being actively worked on, truly I am, but also I find it hard to actually be excited about that pace, by comparison. Then again, any movement forward still counts, and improves the Fediverse as a whole, so by however much, it is still a good thing!
@ggtdbz There's something I don't understand: from the desktop and smartphone web interface (see image), it appears the display isn't that abnormal. Do you see it differently?
I also don't understand the reference to Mastodon: most Mastodon users write in plain text, while only users of certain forks can use formatted text. What's the problem that bothers you reading Mastodon users' comments?
It wasn’t “finally” as in “this is the last item in the list” it was “finally” as in “mastodon users can finally do this”
Exactly: what I meant by "Finally" was "It's about time!"
But as I explained previously, I don't know English, but I'm happy to do machine translation and reverse translation to check for minimum readability. I might be missing the connotation of some expressions or adverbs.
@givesomefucks I'm sorry, but you're making serious and false claims that do not honor either your reputation or your ability to recognize the synthetic origin of a text or code.
I wrote the post in Italian and first translated it into English (a language I don't know) using a machine translation system. I then did a back translation to make sure everything was at least comprehensible.
Regarding the app, if you had the necessary knowledge, you could take a look at the code to understand that the development wasn't done with vibe coding, but was done over the course of almost two years, integrating observations and addressing issues.
@fizzle Given that machine translation systems have nothing to do with LLMs, I see you understand perfectly well that it's perfectly fine not to know English, just as it's perfectly fine to use machine translation systems.
However, I can't be concerned about those who manage to turn what should be a legitimate and justified concern about the proliferation of AI-generated texts into a complete obsession.
Even your comment sounds like AI, it disagrees but then immediately acknowledged everything I said was correct.
Even your fucking chat or knows I'm right, you just told it to say I'm wrong.
Why would anyone download this fucking slop?
AHAHAH! You're a freak of nature! You're a curious mythological character, half paranoid obsessive, half troll. 🤣
But maybe you're just a jealous little person... In that case, you're just salty because you've probably never even been able to program a washing machine.
@givesomefucks The post was not even published by the developer of the app (me btw), how can you assume the way its code was written by just reading an article by someone else? If you want to help with development you're welcome! @macfranc
New account, was an hour old at the time I wrote the above, first thing they do is hop to this post to comment about downloading it.
There’s been a slew of posts recently about new apps, primarily on !selfhosted@lemmy.world that appear to be AI coded.
I did see you’ve got a number of people involved in this project so, maybe it’s unwarranted suspicion. My apologies if that’s the case. Just not a fan of AI.
@cannedtuna I have a Mastodon account as @informapirata with 8,000 followers, a Telegram channel with 2,000 users interested in open source software, and several Telegram and Matrix groups where I reported (spammed 🤣) my post. It's normal for some users who don't use their social media accounts often to comment on my post.
@cannedtuna I understand what you mean: you're referring to the post published by @Lorena Alsazia (here's Lemmy's post and here's the original on Friendica).
As you can see from the image, the user has been around for years (since August 8, 2021). friendica.world/profile/lorena… The date you find on Lemmy is because the user has likely never participated in a discussion on Lemmy.world. lemmy.world/u/lorenaal@friendi…
I therefore ask you to amend your comment in light of the arguments I've presented.
@cannedtuna I understand what you mean: you're referring to the post published by @Lorena Alsazia (here's Lemmy's post and here's the original on Friendica).
As you can see from the image, the user has been around for years (since August 8, 2021). friendica.world/profile/lorena… The date you find on Lemmy is because the user has likely never participated in a discussion on Lemmy.world. lemmy.world/u/lorenaal@friendi…
I therefore ask you to amend your comment in light of the arguments I've presented.
@Lorena Alsazia no, tranquilla 😅 non ti sei mai iscritta su lemmy.world. Quella è solo la pagina del tuo account Friendica che viene riportata su un'altra istanza. Si tratta di una cosa normale, perché oggi sei "entrata" in un Thread ospitato in una community di lemmy.world e quindi è stato creato un "profilo fantasma" che serve all'istanza lemmy.world per gestire i tuoi post e le tue interazioni
@p03locke interoperability makes all software equal; those that aren't, are each equal in their own way... 😅 Jokes aside, Mastodon is the elephant in the room of interoperability in the Fediverse.
Mastodon isn't the entirely of ActivityPub apps. Lemmy doesn't seem to work with any of the ActivityPub apps, and nobody is trying to fix that problem.
It's not a "Fediverse", if it's not federated everywhere.
@p03locke I understand your outburst, and personally, I think it's quite well-founded. However, I remind you that the problem lies in the fact that Mastodon has chosen to implement proprietary solutions that don't follow the Activitypub standard, and that almost the entire Fediverse wants to conform to this supposed de facto standard. The fact that Lemmy adopts solutions that are different from other software, but still more in line with Activitypub, shouldn't be considered a problem.
Mastodon isn’t the entirely of ActivityPub apps. There's also PeerTube, Pixelfed, Loops, Micro.blog, Flipboard (145M users), Misskey, and many many others.
Lemmy doesn't seem work with Flipboard (though, I have no idea what the community URL would be)
Ditto for Misskey
Is there any ActivityPub app that Lemmy is compatible with, or is it broken
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Mastodon isn’t the entirely of ActivityPub apps. There's also PeerTube, Pixelfed, Loops, Micro.blog, Flipboard (145M users), Misskey, and many many others.
Lemmy doesn't seem work with Flipboard (though, I have no idea what the community URL would be)
Ditto for Misskey
Is there any ActivityPub app that Lemmy is compatible with, or is it broken for all of them? Why pretend that it's part of a big Fediverse, when a vast majority of these instances are broken to us? (I'm not picking on discuss.tchncs.de, but you can plug in any Lemmy server you want and see the same kind of problems.)
The fact that Lemmy adopts solutions that are different from other software, but still more in line with Activitypub, shouldn’t be considered a problem.
You can have this stance, and be a purist about the RFCs and how the protocol is supposed to work. And you can push for these standards on your own platform for Lemmy.
But, at the end of the day, you still have to deal with the warts of other protocols and write the custom code it takes to bridge one app with another app. And then be thankful that you are not trying to bridge together an entirely different standard and are just trying to smooth over some structural differences in implementation.
I'm a fan of Lemmy, though I recognize that some limitations could be considered flaws (piefed.social/comment/11707767).
However, your perspective must take into account some design (and history) issues with the software you mentioned:
Lemmy barely works with PeerTube [discuss.tchncs.de]
It's important to understand a few concepts here: - Lemmy is based on Activitypub groups - A group works by "resharing" an initial post and all replies to that post - With some programs (Mastodon's "socialverse," Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica, or Pixelfed), you can "post inside a group" only by mentioning the "group user"; with others (Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/NodeBB's forumverse, but also Peertube, Mobilizon, or Flipboard), you simply assign a discussion to a group (you can do this easily from the interface
I'm a fan of Lemmy, though I recognize that some limitations could be considered flaws (piefed.social/comment/11707767).
However, your perspective must take into account some design (and history) issues with the software you mentioned:
Lemmy barely works with PeerTube [discuss.tchncs.de]
It's important to understand a few concepts here: - Lemmy is based on Activitypub groups - A group works by "resharing" an initial post and all replies to that post - With some programs (Mastodon's "socialverse," Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica, or Pixelfed), you can "post inside a group" only by mentioning the "group user"; with others (Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/NodeBB's forumverse, but also Peertube, Mobilizon, or Flipboard), you simply assign a discussion to a group (you can do this easily from the interface). This second mode doesn't yet have a syntax shared by all the software in the Fediverse. - Finally, a very important feature of Lemmy is that a post can only be published to one channel at a time. This might seem like a limitation (we'll discuss it later, when talking about Flipboard), but it's actually designed by the developers to prevent synchronous crossposting, which can dramatically increase spam.
Lemmy handles the display of Peertube content very well and correctly assigns it to the correct Peertube channel. What doesn't work well is the update system, which is why Lemmy can't act as a Peertube feed reader. This isn't Lemmy's fault, nor is it Peertube's, as each handles Activitypub groups differently.
Lemmy doesn't work with Pixelfed [discuss.tchncs.de]
That's not true. Lemmy handles Pixelfed very well. Pixelfed users can open threads on Lemmy or reply to Lemmy discussions. However, Pixelfed only shows users retweets made by Pixelfed, not those from other software. Therefore, Pixelfed users cannot access the groups. Regarding your user, I'd like to point out that feddit.it can see it: feddit.it/u/NotAHopeInHades@pi…
Lemmy doesn't work with Loops [discuss.tchncs.de]
Loops is still a very immature software, with very limited interoperability. I wouldn't consider it a valid test for certifying Lemmy's functionality. Regarding your user, I'd like to point out that feddit.it can see it: feddit.it/u/spaceotter@loops.v…
Lemmy doesn't work with Micro.blog [discuss.tchncs.de]
I'm not familiar with Microblog, but (regarding your user) I'd like to point out that feddit.it can see it: feddit.it/u/akshay@social.lear…
Lemmy doesn't seem to work with Flipboard
Flipboard uses groups to manage the "magazines" of the "main accounts." Magazines are the thematic sections of the main account. Basically, the main account (for example, @NationalGeographic@flipboard.com) publishes a news item, and depending on the topic, it can be published in the "Science" Activitypub group (@science-NationalGeographic@flipboard.com) or the "Environment" Activitypub group (@environment-NationalGeographic@flipboard.com), OR both. This design, intended to maximize visibility on the Mastodon audience, is incompatible with Lemmy's logic. Lemmy, in fact, as I mentioned before, doesn't allow synchronous crossposting of the same content across multiple groups.
The same goes for Misskey.
Lemmy handles Misskey very well. And Misskey handles Lemmy very well. I don't understand the problem.
From what I can see, that is not a back-end restructuring but as far as a new architectural design it will purely affect the front-end UI. Which will begin to look somewhat more similar to PieFed, yet without coming anywhere close to what PieFed offers today, as opposed to what PieFed offered like a year ago. e.g. there will be no ability to hold polls (or to share those custom-built feeds?).
More relevant is that Lemmy 1.0 may take a year or so to become fully deployed across the Threadiverse, if past experience is any judge. The devs say to explicitly expect major breaking bugs and perhaps to avoid deployment in prod as a result. And ofc apps are going to need to catch up as well. This one being a breaking change may lead most older apps unable to connect to an instance that uses the newer software (unless I am misreading that part about the older backwards compatible API).
Lemmy.world in particular, which holds ~50% of Threadiverse users and >90% of the most highly-active communities (unfortunately for the aim of decentralization) is well-known for delaying deployment until the Lemmy code fixes such issues.
So a year from now Lemmy will begin to catch up to some of what PieFed had almost a year ago in the past already, and meanwhile I expect PieFed will not itself be standing still all that time... I am glad to see that Lemmy is still being actively worked on, truly I am, but also I find it hard to actually be excited about that pace, by comparison. Then again, any movement forward still counts, and improves the Fediverse as a whole, so by however much, it is still a good thing!
@Phantaloons The idea would be very interesting. Could you explain it better? In fact, at first glance, it would seem simpler to run Orbot directly before launching the application. Perhaps rather than adding Orbot to the application, it would be better to create a RaccoOnion fork 😅
@Phantaloons Laughing out loud for orbot! Who's orbot? A blind AI agent? Allucinating every time? ("orbo" is a term in my dialect meaning "blind" and I'm blind myself) If I ever consider experimenting agent development, orbot is taken! 🧑🦯 🙈
@elettrona Orbot è un'applicazione fantastica che si può installare sui telefoni Android anche senza diritti di amministrazione e che in strada tutto il traffico su Rete Onion, la stessa di TOR Project
Working hard to release our new TROM Project: TROM Articles. New content. More easily accessible than the books. A huge article is already done and some 80% designed. Hopefully we will release soon! ;)
I hitchhiked from the info center at Þingvellir National Park to Geyser and the waterfall Gullfoss. Gullfoss runs down two faults through an incredible canyon, and geyser is the one that gave the name "geyser" to all geysers ☺️ (though its neighbor Strokkur is the one erupting more often these days). Both are very touristy but incredible sights; definitely worth seeing. I didn't wait long to catch a lift and I met some interesting people on my way, including a British geologist who gave me some fascinating insight. I'll explain it all later in my peertube videos 😉
I arrived at Þingvellir National Park after 6pm. I set up my tent at the campsite (since wild camping is illegal in the national parks of Iceland), cooked, relaxed, then went for a walk on the main touristy paths of Thingvellir at around 10pm. It was still light out, yet there was nobody around. Amazing. I stood there, in the fault between North America and Eurasia, and admired the striking walls around me. Those walls move away from each other by about 2cm each year; this is an active rift. These walls are part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Iceland is one of few places where you can see the ridge above the surface of the ocean. And what an incredible sight it is, especially when you have it all to yourself.
How cool!! 😎 And the fact that they are moving apart 2cm a year is such a direct evidence of how plate tectonics are a thing, because it is such a recent discovery. Nuts!
Today, north of Spain, coastline. Inside the motorhome 38.5C. A record!
The AC would not make a difference to be honest. Unless you were to stay closed in the top bed and let it run nonstop there. Luckily I went to my sister's apartment for the day.
Else I usually use the AC like this, but today it would not cope:
To blow cold air towards me and my laptop, or we both could die.
From Glymur falls, I followed a 20km trail called Leggjabrjótur into Þingvellir National Park. This trail was a lot less muddy than the previous one, and just spectacular all around. I camped by Sandvatn Lake. It was below freezing at night, but my sleeping bag kept me warm and cozy 😊
It's been a few months since we installed this BougeRV Aircon in our motorhome. It consumes around 500W of power. So can it cool down the motorhome and also not destroy our batteries?
What better way to test it than Spain, 33C degrees inside the motorhome.
We put an Air Conditioner unit in our Motorhome. Does it work?
It's been a few months since we installed this BoueRV Aircon in our motorhome. It consumes around 500W of power. So can it cool down the motorhome and also not destroy our batteries?
What better way to test it than Spain, 33C degrees inside the motorhome.
Seems easy to solve, but since our database is massive, around 80GB, it took around 20 hours to restore....
I understand that it totally sucks for a Social Network to be down for almost a day. People may be put off and not want to use Friendica anymore. Or our instance at least. But our instance has been very reliable for the past years and I always email people to tell them about updating it, so they are aware such things can happen.
Also, our budget for TROM.tf is around €0, compared to the billions floating around Facebook and the like. So please understand that.
Today we will give the update another try, and it is likely to work. If it doesn't at least thanks to @YunoHost a backup will be automatically restored.
No worries, some of us enjoy Friendica and TROM.tf for reasons that a day's worth of downtime couldn't sway. And I'd like to think there's more folk around here than just me who very much appreciate the hard work you and your team put in on our behalf. Plus, there's only one thing that could ever drag me away from this instance, and we all know I just can't be trusted to do the upkeep on one of my own.
@Tio @YunoHost Thanks for all you do. I hope the issue gets resolved soon, but fortunately, Friendica 2026.01 is already working wonderfully, and yours is one of the best instances out there, and certainly the most well-maintained English-language Friendica instance.
Regarding that upgrade failure - I ran this: sudo apt-get update --fix-missing with that key errors: Err:6 dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 62D54FD4003F6525 Err:7 packages.sury.org/php bookworm InRelease The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG B188E2B695BD4743 DEB.SURY.ORG Automatic Signing Key <deb@sury.org>
This is Glymur Falls, Iceland. Amazing hike and waterfall not too far from Reykjavik. You have to cross a river to get to the lookout, but it's pretty shallow and the hike is quite easy (and well worth it!).
I set off on my first 4-day hike at 7pm, when the family dropped me off at the trailhead of a route called Síldarmannagötur, around Lake Skorradalsvatn. Since sunset isn't until 11pm these days and it doesn't reeally get that dark in general, I wasn't concerned about starting a 15km trek at 7pm ☺️ After about 3 hours of walking I found camp in a spectacular place overlooking the Hvalfjörður, just north of Reykjavik. . . #Iceland #travel #hiking #camping
Our #peertube instance - videos.trom.tf - is not currently working. A failed upgrade and failed restore from backup. We need to figure what is the issue...stay tuned.
This is a disaster. Updating from 8.1.5 ynh2 to 8.1.6 ynh1. Log here https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/icomahipej 2026-05-23 11:52:54,574: DEBUG - + pushd /var/www/peertube 2026-05-23 11:52:54,574: DE...
We have learned that the SQL injection vulnerability fixed in v8.1.6 has been exploited at scale since at least May 18, 2026 and so before the v8.1.6 release.
We released a new version that remove all user token access gained before v8.1.6. We also explain the attack in the changelog and the countermeasures taken by this release.
IMPORTANT NOTES
We have learned that the SQL injection vulnerability fixed in v8.1.6 has been exploited at scale since at least May 18, 2026 and so before the v8.1.6 release.
According to our inves...
Describe the problem When trying to start Peertube 8.1.0 or newer on a system with an older CPU (any CPU, that doesn't support x86-64-v2), it fails with the following error message: Error: Could no...
@th3rdsergeevich You can perform the mitigation steps if you can't upgrade for now (see the « If you cannot upgrade to v8.1.8 » section in the provided link).
I decided to ease into my hiking in Iceland adventure by doing a Workaway for the first month. I'm staying in a beautiful town called Akranes with a lovely Icelandic family. I'm working part time in exchange for accommodation and food, and I'm able to test my camping/hiking equipment on my days off. So far only my jacket and sleeping pad are a big failure 😁 The Hubba Hubba tent and phantom sleeping bag have held up in below freezing conditions, so that's a relief 😅 Here are some photos from my first week in Iceland.
@12thRITS when I first started going to Iceland, the reforestation programs were very young, as were the very few trees. They would tell this joke: “What do you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest?” A: “Stand up!”
These days there are actual forests with really big trees (for the Arctic anyway)!
@Dima oh nice! What are you gonna do in Iceland? Unfortunately I'll have to leave at the end of June. Btw if you stay until August 12 you'll be able to see the total solar eclipse here. It would be pretty cool :D
hmm, then maybe I should be there on 12th August. I will join anti-whaling mission, they are planning to kill Fin whales this year in Iceland. So I will go for 2 weeks to volunteer, not sure when exactly yet.
Yeah, last two years they didn't but this summer they got permission again to kill 100+ Fin Whales, which are 2nd biggest mammals on planet . It's kind of with Sea Shepherd, the founder made his own organization "Paul Watson Foundation" so I will go with them
It is astonishing to think that I can take a full shower with less water than it takes to flush a toilet.
I consume around 4-5L of water for the shower, and to flush it takes 6-8L. One pee, one flush, and you consume more water than it takes me to have a 20 minutes shower.
In Spain, where I am, people use 128L of water per day, per person. As much as I use in almost 3 weeks.
It is astonishing to think that I can take a full shower with less water than it takes to flush a toilet.
I consume around 4-5L of water for the shower, and to flush it takes 6-8L. One pee, one flush, and you consume more water than it takes me to have a 20 minutes shower.
In Spain, where I am, people use 128L of water per day, per person. As much as I use in almost 3 weeks.
It is astonishing to think that I can take a full shower with less water than it takes to flush a toilet.
I consume around 4-5L of water for the shower, and to flush it takes 6-8L. One pee, one flush, and you consume more water than it takes me to have a 20 minutes shower.
In Spain, where I am, people use 128L of water per day, per person. As much as I use in almost 3 weeks.
Google is an Ad Company. So their incentive will always be to serve you ads, collect data. You are their customer. They do not simply make these tools to help you, and make it easier and more reliable to search for stuff. Ask yourself how will Google, and others, make money off of these "AI" tools now? It will be even more deceiving and sneaky.
In a sane society (not trade-based) these tools would be tested a lot. For accuracy, for what the outcome can be if billions of people use them, etc.. Did Google do that? I doubt.
If Google removes the search results and replaces it all with "AI" summaries and explanations, two things happen: Complete reliance on the biggest Ad Company for answering your search queries. And second, people will further drift apart from understanding that trust was a key factor in knowing if a source is valid or not. Like where is the info coming from. Now it will simply come from the AI God. Blackhole.
In theory to have access to a faster and more reliable way of finding informati
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Ok. Here are the issues:
Google is an Ad Company. So their incentive will always be to serve you ads, collect data. You are their customer. They do not simply make these tools to help you, and make it easier and more reliable to search for stuff. Ask yourself how will Google, and others, make money off of these "AI" tools now? It will be even more deceiving and sneaky.
In a sane society (not trade-based) these tools would be tested a lot. For accuracy, for what the outcome can be if billions of people use them, etc.. Did Google do that? I doubt.
If Google removes the search results and replaces it all with "AI" summaries and explanations, two things happen: Complete reliance on the biggest Ad Company for answering your search queries. And second, people will further drift apart from understanding that trust was a key factor in knowing if a source is valid or not. Like where is the info coming from. Now it will simply come from the AI God. Blackhole.
In theory to have access to a faster and more reliable way of finding information is a must in a world that is saturated with information. BUT the way it is done now it will make rich people richer, and the consumers more "consuming".
It is simply a normal evolution of a trade-based society. As it is in the offline, it is in the online too.
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
BTW, I don't think Google is going to completely ditch their search results page, because the TechCrunch article said it like this:
> Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times.
I don't think "at times" at the end here was an accident. It is still very bad that Google is doing this, but I feel like if they removed the search results page entirely then there would be a big backlash.
What Google is trying to do now is to slowly get people accustomed to the "AI-powered interactive experience" and perhaps sometime in the future they would make it the default, reminds me of the boiling frog.....
They may not do it now, but may do it eventually. Plus if they push that interactive summary then most people will use that, just as today they use those simple summaries. So in a sense making the search results irrelevant.
What Google is trying to do now is to slowly get people accustomed to the "AI-powered interactive experience" and perhaps sometime in the future they would make it the default, reminds me of the boiling frog.....
The fact that Lemmy + PieFed + mBin + nodeBB can intercommunicate at all is fantastic, even though yes there are some kinks remaining to be worked out:-).
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