Notices by dynamic (dynamic@social.coop)

@BeAware @danie10

Ah, perhaps I misunderstood. I had taken a "Personal Data Server" to be analogous to an instance. Given that I've gotten that wrong, I'm guessing that that's really just for one's own data?

Assuming I've gotten that right, does it contain the posts you read, or only the posts you make?

@danie10

Drawing crowds of new users does not surprise me at all. I don't *understand* it, but it feels like it's literally always the way these things go : (

@danie10

Regarding multiple instances, @BeAware seems to indicate that there may actually *be* many instances, but we just can't tell because they are all under the same domain. Not sure how much of a problem that presents, but there's definitely a creepiness to it.

https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/113101470288348371

I've been reading up on #Bluesky, and it isn't what I thought. As far as I can tell (please correct me if you know otherwise), it an open source federated social media platform.

It runs on a protocol called #ATProtocol, as opposed to #ActivityPub (#Mastodon and friends).

Other Fedi protocols include #Diaspora, DFRN (#Friendica), Zot (#Hubzilla), or Nomad (#Streams).

However, bridge services are needed for Bluesky/Mastodon federation, and there's mostly just one big Bluesky instance.

@mattly

Interesting stuff. Do you have links to material that delves more into the differences in how O'Keeffe and Pollack were promoted? The JSTOR article makes it sound like both were promoted by the U.S. as anti-Soviet propaganda, but in O'Keeffe's case before the formation of the CIA.

Was her work intentionally suppressed by the CIA, or was this a luck-of-the draw timing issue?

(I assume "sexism" is in there somewhere, but I'm hoping for more clarity on what the CIA specifically did.)

I'm pretty sure I've asked about this before, but I don't remember anything turning up: has anyone published a comparison of system requirements for servers running different #Fediverse software?

@evan @fraying @kissane

I've also been wondering about how cultural norms around RSS interact with support for RSS on various Fedi platforms. Normally RSS is for public blogs, so no big deal, right? But I know I used to use a desktop RSS client to view locked Livejournal posts so where does it leave us if someone takes an RSS feed from a nominally non-federated platform, perhaps with authentication, and views it on a Fedi server?

Yesterday I did a quick test drive of a #Hubzilla instance. It was a somewhat mindtwisting experience for me as a Mastodon user, in a similar way to how Mastodon/Twitter was mind-twisting for me coming from a Livejournal/Dreamwidth/Facebook background.

But it has some really nice features and might be exactly the thing that some folks are looking for.

🧵 1/?

Unlike Mastodon, Hubzilla doesn't come with all functinality pre-loaded. Hubzilla comes with some core functionality, but depending on what you want to do with it, you---as a user, mind, not an admin---may need to install feature sets.

I *think* these feature sets are the equivalent of extensions or plug-ins but are called "Apps", which confused me slightly.

I'd been under the impression that Hubzilla runs on ActivityPub, but evidently that isn't quite correct. As I understand it, Hubzilla runs on a protocol called Zot.

If you want to federate with accounts on ActivityPub, you need to install the ActivityPub app on your Hubzilla account.

This was fairly straightforward to do, but realizing that this was necessary was not straightforward.

Internet search challenge:
EDIT: Found! See below!

At some point, circa the year 2000, someone posted a photo sequence of set of really nice LEGO dioramas illustrating the major scenes from the _Lord of the Rings_ books.

There were no LOTR kits at the time, so this was all out of someone's head. One detail I remember clearly is that they used Darth Vader LEGO figures as Nazgul.

If anyone can dig this up, or any specific information on it... well, that'd be really cool. And I'd be impressed.

UPDATE: Brilliant sleuthing by @meeowth, @cwicseolfor, and @iaintshootinmis has successfully unearthed the ancient LOTR LEGO vignettes that I described above.

The photo series is mirrored here:
http://www.classic-castle.com/bricktales/lotrstory112.html

(Boosts welcome!)

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111879280768265719

@pluralistic writes:
"I've been mulling this over for a month now, and one thing has really been eating at me: the way that #AI is going to make this kind of problem *much* worse.

Not because AI is going to commit fraud, though.

One of the truest things I know about AI is: "we're nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we're certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that *fails* at doing your job""

@derek

Well, I spent a significant amount of time trying to figure out what on earth you were talking about, imagining you must have been playing black (which was confusing because the board was upside down for that).

And then I clicked through to the larger version of your image and realized that Mastodon's image metadata indicators had betrayed me.

I'm especially interested in hearing arguments for #ActivityPub platforms that are specifically designed to cultivate particular behavior and interaction patterns in users.

Not a lot of responses to my question about the best non-Mastodon ActivityPub platforms.

To elaborate a bit, I'm specifically interested in information about the best-designed alternatives to Mastodon.

Mastodon, being Twitter-like, was always rather clunky, but I'm not getting good vibes from the newest features, and I'm wondering if there are better ActivityPub platforms that are developed with a coherent design philosophy.

@jrp

What do you like about Hubzilla?

What are the best non-Mastodon Activity Pub platforms, and why?

(boosts welcome)

@evan @fraying

Sorry for being unclear. I meant that doing ctrl-F on your thread wasn't turning up anything about Friendica. Was wondering if you could provide links to any toots about AP implementations with better author control over replies.

@evan @fraying

I don't know if this is just Mastodon's bizarre way of organizing comment threads, or what, but I'm really not seeing anything about better ActivityPub implementations in this thread, and keyword search for "Friendica" isn't turning anything up.

I saw some stuff about Cohost and Post, but I don't know if those are AP?

Any chance you could link to the relevant portions of the thread?