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@ Jerry @feddit.online

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Just a techie guy running feddit.online to allow people to communicate, make friends and acquaintances. Odd coming from a happy introvert, right? (https://jerry.hear-me.blog/about)

I also own these publicly available applications:Mastodon: https://hear-me.social/Alternative Mastodon UI: https://phanpy.hear-me.social/Peertube: https://my-sunshine.video/Friendica: https://my-place.social/Matrix: https://element.secure-channel.net/XMPP/Jabber: https://between-us.online/Bluesky PDS: https://blue-ocean.social/ (jerry.blue-ocean.social) Mobilizon (Facebook Events Alt): https://my-group.events/and more...

  • Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak?

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  • I tried translating something before posting it to the same language (Thai) and apparently nobody understood what I was talking about. But enough people understood English, so at least some people would have understood me if I just posted it in English. The others could try translating.

    Responding in English, if this is your language, is not Anglo domination. A lot of people learn English as a second language, so many know it. If you translate to Japanese and post it, then when people translate it to English, or Spanish, whatever, it will make no sense whatsoever.

    When I traveled to France, a Middle Eastern family came into the restaurant and asked for the English menu. They couldn't read the French menu. But they knew enough English. That's when I realized that restaurants in France offered English menus, not for Westerners, but because more people in the world were likely to understand it rather than French.

    I post in English. Translating from English to Spanish is better than English to Japanese to Spanish.

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  • Well said

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  • I see no legitimate reason for not using a User Agent string, like all the other crawlers use, other than the desire to hide the crawler and make it difficult to block.

    I don't accept his explanation. I see it as gaslighting.

  • Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases

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  • You can go to https://hear-me.social/ and click on the register button. This puts up a Cloudflare managed challenge screen which endlessly loops when using Pale Moon. It would be interesting to see if Waterfox has the same issue.

  • Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases

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  • I just duplicated this. I downloaded Pale Moon and went to https://hear-me.social/ and clicked on "Register". It puts up a Cloudflare "managed challenge" which loops endlessly when using Pale Moon, but not the other browsers I've tried it with, including Zen, another Firefox fork.

    It's a problem, for sure.

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    Mastodon bold text in Firefox

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  • I use Firefox. I don't have this issue. FWIW.

  • Short video that show what Friendica can do

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  • Short video that show what Friendica can do

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  • I'm not trying to sell it. It is what it is. I'm just providing information about Friendica for those interested. I know I was always curious about it.

  • Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed!

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  • You've ascended! You're now part of the real world!

  • Small instance has to shut down - Sunsetting Waveform.social

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  • As one Admin to another, I'm sad to hear that we're losing a good instance. And, I'm sorry that people ruined your fun.

    Thanks for all you've done. All the best to you.

  • Mastodon is useless (to me.)

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  • The key word here is "connected" instances. You don't find hashtag-related posts from all the servers, just the servers that your server is connected to and also only posts that your server has seen from other servers.

    This is why, on my instance, I relay with over 300 other instances, some of them are the larger ones. All the posts they see on their server are duplicated onto my smaller server. The impact is that while my server is small, it has the same messages as one of the large servers which makes for a better experience. Note that Mastodon.social does not relay with any other instance. Not that most instances could possibly hold all their posts and accounts anyway.

    When I search for hashtags on my instance, I do get a lot of hits.

    Many smaller servers do not relay as much as I do, or at all, because it requires disk space to store all the posts, images, and accounts that are streaming in constantly from all these other servers. I don't have these concerns because I have unlimited capacity. So, the experience will vary depending on which server your account is on.

  • Mastodon is useless (to me.)

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  • You have to use hashtags on Mastodon if you want your messages to be seen because there is no AI to fill timelines. People follow hashtags and search for them. Then you'll get likes and boosts.

    And, you control your own timeline by following hashtags, following people, and searching for hashtags. This way, unlike Twitter, your timeline only has posts that you are interested in. Once you get this set up, it's quite nice to only see posts that you like reading, without advertising and without posts meant to enrage you.

    Also you can use https://fedi.directory to find great people to follow.

  • Why we need to move on from kbin.social

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  • I agree with all that you've said