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Left-wing scientist

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Exploring a Potential Universal Connector for Non-ActivityPub Platforms in the Fediverse
  • Ryan started A New Social https://www.anew.social/ that seems to aim at exactly this. So, maybe you could reach out and see if you could help there?

  • Seamantic: A Semantic-Web-Bridging Mastodon Client
  • Interesting. I've just read about https://se-bridge.org/ the other day. Maybe you can join forces or collab or just learn from each other.

  • Boosting that CV
  • It is clearly a tweet. It even says twitter web client on there.

  • Who from history would you bring back to make them punished for the wrongs that they brought onto the world?
  • Not a single person in this thread who says Hitler? Kind of disturbing tbh.

  • Boosting that CV
  • Why is the OP's handle blurred out in the screenshot.

  • Is this for real? (Please see text)
  • It denotes all genders not only male and female by using the asterisk as a wildcard for everything that could be in between the ends of the spectrum from male (Kassierer) to female (Kassiererin).

  • Ik ik but control yourselfs
  • Please use their full name Dickie MacDickface.

  • What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
  • Not sure if it counts as technology but it was a Ford Focus.

  • Should I join "free speech" alternatives?
  • I think it is generally a bad idea to support sites that promote hatred and fascist ideas by providing them traffic and content.

  • Image share Web vs PWA
  • That's odd. Both options open the share menu for me and then paste the image right into the app I've chosen to share with (say WhatsApp)... so, yeah, seems to be a Firefox thing indeed.

  • Image share Web vs PWA
  • You can also use the 3-dots-menu by the post to get that option.

  • Image share Web vs PWA
  • I'm using the PWA on android (with Vivaldi browser) and I just long-press the image and get the share image option... so, I don't know why it doesn't work for you.

  • Firefish has been abandoned.
  • I'd like to add from a user's point of view. Firefish.social was advertised as the flagship instance and in the beginning everything was fine and nice on there but then they started to implement new stuff and this broke something leading to the flagship instance being down or unusable for most of the time. Days turned into weeks with the server not running or at least not without problems (only talking about timelines, not to mention other features like antennae or lists which wouldn't work at all) without any communication from the admins and no replies to direct inquiries. I eventually moved to another instance running a stable firefish version. But our admin also complains about being ignored by the dev team, so they decided we will be moving to Sharkey. And we all know that Kainoa is young, started uni last year and a new job - that's all fine and understandable but maybe not compatible with running such a big project. Which again is fine but also means that -for now- the project is not being worked on while in a broken state. I think this is valuable information for users and admins and it was good to hear this from someone in the core team.

  • Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default
  • Thanks, enlightening text. I think, the biggest problems w/ blocklists are "guilt by association" (you lose all your connections because someone on your server was being problematic - I feel oftentimes account-based blocking should be the first choice) and these lists being created and maintained by a small group of people who are all more or less friends. On the other hand - as you pointed out - for now, they seem the most feasible option to provide at least some kind of protection. Not sure, if there will ever be a solution that fits all. Probably not.

  • Post from non-subscribed communities in Home

    Hey... I've updated Voyager to the newest version (1.18.0 on android) but now I have masses of posts in my Home tab from communities I don't subscribe to. How is that even possible? Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix?

    EDIT: Okay, thx everyone! Then this might again be a problem with discuss.online.

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  • I have the same issue with Voyager on Android. Starts normally, briefly shows the UI but then everything disappears and I am left with a white screen.

    Also already re-installed. Doesn't change anything.

  • Recovery of British Museum artefacts under way, says George Osborne
  • It is also extra ironic, because one of the arguments for not giving artifacts back to their home countries is "They can't handle and store them properly."

  • Rubiales refuses to resign as Spanish FA president
  • Why is the BBC still using this disgusting photo for thumbnails? Could've just used a photo of Rubiales alone.

  • Pet owners with talkative pets, what will they talk about?
  • It is mostly complaining about the hardships of life as a creature without any responsibilities whatsoever.