Jupiter Rowland / is on Nostr

Mein "Geburtstag" ist natürlich nicht mein Geburtstag, sondern mein Rezztag. Seit dem Tag gibt es meinen ersten Avatar.

Meine "Homepage" ist mein Blog zum selben Thema wie dieser Kanal, #OpenSim und virtuelle Welten im allgemeinen. Es ist im #Fediverse und sollte föderieren mit #Mastodon, #Pleroma und #Friendica, hat aber auch einen Atom-Feed.

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2024-08-14 16:34:34

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@Martin Holland Confirmation for Hubzilla from the land of the Red Koala.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla

2024-08-02 11:41:31

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@wakest ⁂ If you can source the icon somewhere...

2024-02-14 12:00:12

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@Danie van der Merwe Well, either Bluesky had the same mindset as Diaspora* back then. Be decentralised internally, but a walled garden towards the outside world. Diaspora* would still be isolated without Friendica's tedious work back in the day, and Bluesky wants to be the same. Yes, with not even only a public API, but laying the whole protocol open.
Either that, or Bluesky just wanted to draw some attention to itself in the wake of the Mastodon hype and therefore announced decentralisation, albeit with its own protocol. And with features on top which they imply having invented, but which have been around since 2011 (Zot protocol). "Bluesky is Twitter without Musk, it'll be decentralised like Mastodon, and it'll have better decentralisation than Mastodon!" Only that they've now discovered that actually going all the way in decentralisation as announced is a) difficult and b) not worth it anyway, considering Bluesky's success without decentralisation. Unless, of course, this has all been a ruse to begin with, and Bluesky has never intended to go full decentral.
Also, it's obvious that, like Threads, Bluesky doesn't know anything about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. If they did, they would have also known: If they lay their protocol open, some third party will make use of it. And if Friendica can federate with something, it probably will, because that's part of what it stands for.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #Diaspora* #Bluesky

2024-01-08 09:52:44

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@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 I'm not a dev, I don't know what makes a website work for them.
Besides, the website will be utterly worthless for anyone who hasn't even heard the name Hubzilla or of Hubzilla's mere existence. How should such people even search for a term which they've never heard or read in their lives?

2024-01-08 09:22:58

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@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼
It would be much easier to code a HZ addon and work on a nice and fitting theme but DEVs do not get it and start a completely new project because they do not tread HZ as the one Unix operating system of their choice.
Why is that the case ?
Possible reason #1: They've never heard of Hubzilla. The most likely reason.
Possible reason #2: They've only ever heard the name, but they don't know what Hubzilla is and what could be done with it. Including expanding it with third-party apps.
Possible reason #3: "Not worth it, nobody uses Hubzilla anyway."

2023-12-01 15:42:09

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Found a bug already.
When you scroll up so the title picture becomes visible, the content below the top menu slips upward and partly covers the top menu.

2023-11-23 11:38:55

I'm tempted to add the following preamble to all my posts and comments. This would answer a lot of questions right away and maybe leave nothing unclear.
Preamble
IMPORTANT: I am not on Mastodon. I am on Hubzilla. Hubzilla is not a Mastodon instance. Hubzilla is a wholly different project in the Fediverse. The Fediverse is not only Mastodon. The Fediverse has never been only Mastodon. And Hubzilla is not a fork of Mastodon either.
Mastodon was not even here first. The first was StatusNet from 2008 which later became GNU social. Then came Friendica in 2010. And Hubzilla is from 2015 and based on a project from 2012. Mastodon was launched in 2016. It was immediately federated with all three because it spoke a language that these three spoke, too. Except for GNU social, all are still federated with one another to this day. And this is normal, legal and fully intentional.
We aren't the intruders. Technically speaking, Mastodon is the intruder.
Hubzilla has features that Mastodon doesn't have. Hubzilla has an unlimited character count where Mastodon has a limit of 500 characters. Hubzilla can create various ways of text formatting such as bold type, italics, code blocks, lists or headlines; Mastodon can display them now, but it can't create them. Hubzilla can embed hyperlinks; Mastodon toots only support URLs in plain sight. Hubzilla can do both quotes and "quote-tweets", and it doesn't have to resort to screenshots for either. And Hubzilla always mentions users by their full name, not by their short name like Mastodon.
When Mastodon was launched with its self-imposed restrictions, Hubzilla had had all these features for almost four years already. Friendica had had the same features for almost six years already. And many of these features, including longer posts and text formatting, have been available on all other Fediverse projects since they were created.
Thus, I will use features that are not available on Mastodon even though Mastodon users could read this. I will not refrain from writing over 500 characters in one post, and I will not refrain from using text formatting just because Mastodon users aren't used to that.
We were here first. And we won't limit ourselves just because you're limited by the software you're using. We will continue to make use of features that you don't have. Deal with it.
Unfortunately, the target audience of this, Mastodon users, won't read it because it's too long. Not to mention that it'd require a boatload of content warnings and filter-triggering hashtags; see below.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #500Characters #TextFormatting #Quotes #QuoteTweets #QuoteToots #Long #LongPost #LongPosts #CWLong #CWLongPost #Meta #CWMeta #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #Fedisplaining #CWFedisplaining

2023-11-22 09:36:54

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@Takako 🐀 @Bryan 🏳️‍🌈 Mastodon The primary topic of my channel is a very visual medium: 3-D virtual worlds. It shouldn't be interesting for blind or visually-impaired people at all. And as far as I know, I don't have a single connection (= follower) who is not sighted and still interested in that kind of stuff.
Nonetheless, I put a huge effort into writing image descriptions. Such a huge effort actually that I don't post pictures more than once or maybe twice a month, if at all.
I do that for people who may happen upon my posts on some federated timeline out there. Blind or visually-impaired users who, for some reason, may actually be curious about virtual worlds. Sighted users who are, but who understandably need a whole lot of description and explanation to get my pictures. Blind or visually-impaired users who may not be interested in virtual worlds per se, but who still want to know what my pictures look like and what the stuff in my pictures looks like. And lastly the self-appointed Fediverse police who, I guess, even complain about pictures with no or insufficient description when they find them on their federated timelines.
#AltText #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost

2023-09-10 06:31:42

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@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 But not in this particular case.
There is no editor for Hubzilla wikis anywhere on the default Mastodon Web UI.
There is no editor for Hubzilla wikis anywhere in the official Mastodon iOS or Android app.
There is no editor for Hubzilla wikis anywhere in any other Mastodon app or on any alternative Mastodon Web UI.
Mastodon users can't edit Hubzilla wikis, not because they can't be given the permissions, but because they don't have the tools.
Same for webpages. What should a Mastodon user possibly edit a Hubzilla webpage with? The same text box that they write their toots with?
Or CalDAV calendars. Even if you could give a Mastodon user permission to edit one of your CalDAV calendars, they won't be able to do that because Mastodon itself doesn't have a calendar at all. I mean, Mastodon probably doesn't even show events from public Hubzilla calendars on its timelines because it doesn't understand events.

2023-09-07 10:30:00

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@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 Either they've only just arrived. It'll take them two months to learn that the #Fediverse isn't only #MastodonSocial and five months to learn that #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse.
Or it was hard enough already to do the switch from Twitter to #Mastodon and learn all the differences. Learning "yet another app" would be too tedious.
Or it's too difficult, if not out-right impossible, to move to another project and take all your followers with you.

2023-09-07 08:44:20

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@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼
So you are saying all the talk and efforts about UX/UI brings us not closer to the essential points and is actually distracting us...
No, I'm saying that people come from #Mastodon straight to #Hubzilla in expectation of "Mastodon with #RichText and a 50,000-character limit". Just like they came from Twitter to Mastodon because they were promised "literally Twitter without Elon Musk".
Then they land flat on their faces. Hubzilla turns out to be nothing like Mastodon. It handles vastly differently. Nothing is where they'd expect it. No content warnings (because Hubzilla calls them summaries). No UI element for alt-text. It doesn't have an app. Mastodon apps don't work. And so forth. Hell, 95% of them even fail to connect to other Mastodon users because nobody tells them that they have to turn #Pubcrawl on first!
Verdict: Hubzilla sucks. And they're back to their cosy little Mastodon which was hard enough to get used to already. No ambitions to learn something wholly new yet again.
I still remember when #Friendica mimicked the UIs of Facebook and #Diaspora*. Maybe Hubzilla needs to adopt this again with UIs that mimic Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Threads and the most popular Mastodon Web interfaces. Not only in looks, but even in handling as far as that's possible.
just did some studies about the term #FederatedSocialWeb and will post it in a new thread
The #FederatedSocialWeb was:
Diaspora* for the clueless hipsters who had never heard of Friendica, and who were absolutely convinced that those four guys were the first to develop a decentralised social network
Friendica for the geeks, the cool kids and alternative left-wing activists who had to use something obscure so that the authorities wouldn't discover their posts too easily
the #RedMatrix for those few daredevils who a) knew about it, b) were willing to try it and c) actually had access to a Red Matrix instance

2023-09-06 21:25:00

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@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 Well, first they had a problem with #Mastodon not having the exact same UX as X. Then they had one with #Hubzilla not having the exact same UX as Mastodon.
Also, sure, today's #Fediverse is nothing like the old #FederatedSocialWeb.
10 years ago, the Federated Social Web was for geeks plus left-wing activists. #Friendica was the centre of the world. We didn't know whether we should pity or laugh at #Diaspora. And everyone was on desktop #Linux, and #Apple was evil incarnate.
Today, the Fediverse is for just about everyone. Mastodon is not only the centre of the world to the point that many spend up to half a year believing it is the Fediverse proper. People are pining for #Bluesky invites. And everyone's on an #iPhone and gushing over the #VisionPro.

2023-07-28 16:17:10

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@rabble @Fediverse Report Only halfway through it due to lack of time, but in that half, the only pre-#Mastodon, pre-#ActivityPub hint was a very brief mention of the #OStatus protocol and #StatusNet. And it doesn't sound like the other half would actually deal with anything between identi.ca and Mastodon.
Then again, #Bluesky tries to convince us that the concept of #NomadicIdentity is their original pioneering creation, so naturally, they'd never admit that it was actually invented along with the #Zot protocol in 2011 and has been in use since the creation of the #RedMatrix in 2012 from which eventually #Hubzilla emerged.
And the representatives of ActivityPub and #Nostr would never admit either that there are protocols and projects that are more powerful than theirs while also being older and having been in active use for longer.
Interestingly, not even #Diaspora was mentioned.
So basically, this isn't about the origins of the concept of open social media platforms and their largely unknown history prior to Mastodon. It's about the history of three specific platforms.
Or should I continue listening, and what I think is missing is yet to come?

2023-05-07 21:40:25

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@Chris Trottier @ch0ccyra1n :ins: :she_her: :vim: :trans: :lesb: :polyam: On Hubzilla, you can at least turn comments off for individual posts.

2023-03-13 20:39:47

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@Lucas Gonze Decentralised #Reddit = #Lemmy.
Decentralised #Medium = #Plume and #WriteFreely.
Group forming and topic-oriented communities, both can be covered with #Friendica which is as old as from 2010.
You want everything in one place and then some = #Hubzilla which started life in 2012 and got its first stable release one year before #Mastodon.
It already exists. And it's federated with the rest of the #Fediverse which isn't only Mastodon either. Just imagine what else already exists.
Instead of re-inventing the wheel, Fediverse promotion should be promoted and advertised beyond Mastodon, no matter if Mastodon is magnitudes bigger than everything else. Actually, because Mastodon is magnitudes bigger than everything else.
@Johannes Ernst @The Laughing Muse :mastodon: @Daniel @CautionWIP 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈