linuxusers.in is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Hi, I see that it's customary to make an #introduction post here. I go by jqubed, as in j cubed. I'm not exactly new to the fediverse but this is my start with a federated microblogging service. I've been active on #lemmy for a little over a year and would occasionally see blog posts by @_elena@mastodon.social about the #fediverse and it was her post about Sharkey that pushed me to sign-up on a #sharkey instance. I'm a husband and stepdad, I like playing games (electronic and physical) and watching sports but don't have us much time for either as I'd like, and I'm hoping to start doing some #selfhosting this year. Last year, at age 40, I found out that I have #adhd and am still trying to find a medication that helps (the first did but I built a tolerance to it) so that probably makes that time question more challenging.
Just published a guide on setting up Snac on an Ubuntu VM using NGINX Proxy Manager. Snac is an incredibly lightweight #ActivityPub server. A true nom nom among fediverse platforms.
If you're curious about minimal fediverse instances, check it out:
Looks like my #Mastodon instance connection was severed with many other servers from the #fediverse, especially #GoToSocial.
Could you please give this post a boost, so I can see where it reaches and where it cannot be seen?
Thanks in advance. 🙏🏻
Need a list of welcoming #fediverse #servers that are not based on US soil. If anyone has that. Thinking it might be important moving forward.
There we go. #Snac2 up and running with the preferred installation process. Added custom styling to boot. One confusion point with styling is that it does NOT affect the root page (greeting.html) only the profile pages. So I thought I had done something wrong, but finally figured it out.
The Fediverse is more than just Mastodon!
PeerTube is the Fediverse's video platform, sort of an alternative to YouTube. You can follow and interact with PeerTube accounts from Mastodon etc and when a PeerTube account publishes a video it appears in your Mastodon timeline. If you reply to a PeerTube video it appears as a comment, favourites become likes, follows are subscriptions etc.
You can find out lots more about PeerTube at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosting-on-the-fediverse
I was never an avid #Twitter user, so "switching" to #Mastodon during the #eXit movement was quite easy (my last tweet was from mid 2020, and there where only 12 answers to other posts form 2020 till my switch to here in 2022).
However, getting rid of the #Meta services feels more difficult. Non the less, I made that cut now, as well, and am quite proud of myself for it.
On the way, I found a service that is not part of the #fediverse but as a #opensource product with #selfhosting capability at least in the close vincinity;
@linkstack is a replacement for the proprietary and profit-oriented LinkTree. You can run a #selfhosted instance of it, or choose from one of the nearly 20 different public instances listed at their website. I'm loving it, so far - and especially now, while switching away from all my proprietary social networks it is a great help to poiting people with one single link, to where they can find you in future.
Plus - as many other (proprietary) services do not yet support links to mastodon, pixelfed, and others ( #LinkStack btw *does*!), but all of them usually have a homepage field, this is the one URL that will help you out in these instances.
Here's mine https://linksta.cc/@pygospa
Would you awesome people send me your lists of preferred #fediverse users please? I am a #STEM, #Arts and #music girlie; please send me any favorites you have.
Also, is #BlackMastodon a thing? #BlackFediverse might be better. Let’s go and see.
Sometimes, I don't get Mastodon. I follow Linus Torvalds since a long time now, but I don't see any recent posts since about a year. But I know he's been posting. Why would that be? It's stuff like that which makes me really wonder about this platform sometimes....
Ich war dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal auf der #FOSDEM, hauptsächlich weil @evan und @andypiper (im Dunstkreis der Social Web Foundation) mehrere Fediverse-(Sub-)Events organisiert haben:
Es war überwältigend, so viele Menschen zu treffen, die sich mit dem gleichen Thema beschäftigen. Ich habe nicht oft die Gelegenheit, mit Gleichgesinnten zu fachsimpeln, und habe die kurze Zeit daher umso mehr genossen!
Weil die meisten Fediverse-Events hauptsächlich in den USA stattfinden, konnte ich viele, deren Wirken im Open Web ich schon lange online verfolge, zum ersten Mal persönlich treffen!
Die meiste Zeit hab ich mich gefühlt wie ein kleiner Junge, der das erste Mal mit den großen und coolen Kids spielen darf 😍!
Balsam für meine Nerd-Seele!
Ich werde mich hüten, hier jetzt Namen aufzuzählen – aus Angst, jemanden zu vergessen.
Danke an @_elena fürs knipsen!
Ich glaube nicht, dass die FOSDEM selbst die richtige Konferenz für mich ist, aber mit den (Sub-)Events rund um das Fediverse, würde ich das nächste Jahr definitiv wieder kommen!
(Die Folien meiner Präsentation findet ihr übrigens hier)
Heads-up: I updated my #Fediverse stock photo, adding #Friendica (since there have been so many discussions about it as an alternative to Facebook). Here we go: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Fediverse_smartphone_apps_%28photo_by_Elena_Rossini%29.jpg
A routine reminder that this is to illustrate articles about the Fediverse and it shows popular software as alternatives to Big Tech platforms.
special thanks to:
@matt who touched up my screenshot to improve the appearance of Friendica & Lemmy
@nacly who told me that Wikimedia Commons supports versioning
Absolutely loving my Social Media life these days.
As I say to many, your mileage may differ. I think it all comes down to who you chose to engage with, and the topics you reply to.
We all have the choice to be on certain services and not on others. We should all abide and respect the choices others make in this regard.
My main Social Media area these days is the Fediverse, particularly through a GoToSocial ActivityPub instance named Polymaths.social. Wonderful software, instance, admin, and neighbours!
Since 2009 I was on a Mastodon instance named LinuxRocks.online. It started off really well with good chats on the local timeline. However, over the past year certain people and their followers came in, the local chats got strained, and quite painful at times, and I knew I needed to move on. I was friendly with the owner, and moderators, but the time had come.
To access Polymaths.social I use Phanpy on a browser, and Tusky on my Android Phone.
For browser access I did use Semaphore for a while. Very clean and effective, but Phanpy is like KDE vs Mate. To me this is a good thing. I do use Semaphore at times to check on Follow Requests and to currently "Delete and Redraft" as needed.
Telegram is a large part of my life. I use it to talk with many friends, including Arianna and my Sister Catriona, podcrawl and Linux groups, as well as my own Christian group.
I'm still on Facebook, and yes I question that daily.
For now I am there.
As I said at the start, this is my choice, and I am there for really good friends, family, and groups.
A few weeks ago I activated my Instagram account, which had been set up for no follows and privates, just so I could view content as needed.
I was getting so many requests from good friends if I was on there, and ok... "caved in", but my involvement is relatively minimal. Mostly posting my own photos and commenting on those of friends.
Well, that's my online life, and it is good.
Feel free to reply back with questions, and DM as needed.
#SocialMedia #Fediverse #GoToSocial #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Phanpy #Tusky #Semaphore #Telegram #Facebook #Instagram
Question: do I update my #Fediverse stock photo with this screenshot (it has the shortcut to #Friendica too)?
Disclaimer: Friendica & #Lemmy do not have official apps, so these are iOS shortcuts to URLs (of instances).
A reminder that this stock photo is for articles about the Fediverse, so it’s the most vanilla, KISS (Keep It Simple) version imaginable for people not familiar with the Fediverse. My *real* Fediverse folder has Ivory, Mona, Phanpy, Surf and Voyager.
Let me know your thoughts!
Yesterday’s painting~ 💜🩵
Gouache and coloured pencil in my wonderful custom sketchbook by @syystuuli
My patrons already have access to the process pictures (all paid tiers), and next week Apprentices and above will get the full process video with commentary! ✨
You can sign up right here: http://patreon.com/lindenshieldarts
#mastoart #traditionalart #originalart #sketchbook #fantasy #fantasyart #forest #ForestArt #gouache #mixedmedia #magic #purple #pixelfed #fediverse
The #Fediverse is free, free of censorship, federated and full of great content!
Also the Fediverse - instance admins randomly blocking whole instances just because a single user feels offended of a post by a single instance user. Blocking whole instances is just a finger snip away, censoring unwanted content and parenting users of instances. Defederating just because of… ok no clue :) Using content warner for any possible content just to annoy or aeemmm make it more interesting to other users. Thanks, I’m old enough :) Seeing all the spam because it’s just a thing of 5 minutes automation to create randomly new instances on different domains (or subdomains from dynamic-ip hosters) and to fill the network with automated content.
Sometimes, pros can easily switch into cons… luckily more and more single user instances are raising up for exactly this reasons and can still easily federate by using relays…
#networking #activitypub #mastodon #fediverse #gotosocial #snac #snac2 #opensource #community #socialmedia #relay #abuse #moderation
New: Fediverse Report #102
This week's news:
- a large crowd for the #fediverse at #fosdem
- some controversies around data scraping on the fediverse
- @openvibe gets 800k in funding to further work on the multi-protocol client
#EleFediVideos update 🎬
Yesterday I had a eureka moment and realized that, for my Fediverse video to be impactful, it needs to have a real person on screen carrying the message. Who? Me - I guess 😱
I've been making videos for AGES and I always happily avoided appearing on screen. I LOVE my privacy. I shudder at the thought of having to sit down, look at my face on screen & hear my recorded voice over and over.
But #Fediverse I love you and I'm willing to take one for the team.
Let's go 🙈
And it’s a wrap for my first #FOSDEM - which was glorious.
It was incredibly inspiring and energizing to hang out and exchange ideas with so many Fediverse champions.
I’m also super grateful for the words of encouragement and nice feedback re: my series #TheFutureIsFederated.
This community is amazing ❤️
Onwards and upwards #Fediverse! 🚀
Good morning, friends of #BSDCafe and the entire #Fediverse.
Sunday begins wrapped in the silence of the mist, a prelude to a bright day.
And it’s a wrap for my first (EPIC) day at #FOSDEM.
It’s hard to put into words how incredible - and energizing - it feels to be around the creators of the #ActivityPub protocol, founders of #Fediverse software, admins of popular instances and developers of tools I use every day.
I took the opportunity to thank them in person for their incredible work 😊
It’s also been amazing to finally meet IRL lots of cool people I had been corresponding with for months on the Fediverse.
The best day 💛
@AasaMariaHedberg oh in that case you NEED to look at the #fediverse enabled #castopod :) It works like any other podcast service but allows you to connect to here via #activitypub protocol, which is how things like #pixelfed and #mastodon can follow each other:)
Tomorrow the #opensource #FOSDEM #conference starts in #Brussels, #Belgium!
Let’s see if we can attract more people to #BSD based systems by providing free #vps running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD or even #illumos as an #opensolaris solution.
@gyptazy will be onsite to provide you more information or even stickers ;)
Some loose Ghibli studies with acrylic markers (and a hint of coloured pencil) in my wonderful custom sketchbook by @syystuuli ~ 🌿
Can you guess the movies? 🙃
#traditionalart #AcrylicMarkers #ghibli #sketchbook #fediverse #pixelfed
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/supporting-the-fediverse-one-small-act-at-a-time/
with shout-outs to: @elduvelle @nacly @nclm @thek3nger @docpop @angie_marie2 @frank @dansup
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog