Notices by jerry (jerry@my-place.social)

@BeAware Bluesky is not decentralized. Some people can't look at something and see what it is. They get stuck on technicalities. Whether it could arguably become decentralized is beside the point. It works and operates the same as a centralized application. Therefore, it is a centralized application.

A duck shares DNA with bananas. Those who want to argue that Bluesky is decentralized are the same people who can be easily convinced, and made to argue with others like you, that ducks are fruits because of this.

Scammers set up domains with instructions to ignore email security failures on their emails via a DMARC record and Google et al. deliver their obvious dangerous spam to you. I thought, "how stupid" to create a security system so easily disabled.

But, I realize it was NEVER designed to protect YOU from spam. It has ONE purpose. Protect corporations from being spoofed. Period. They set their DMARC to reject or quarantine emails from their domains that fail security. It works perfectly for this and ONLY this. They are protected. You, not so much, but you are not their concern.

It could have been easily expanded to kill spam by not allowing the checks to be ignored, but why should they? They are protected. Common attitude today by too many people.

Am I wrong?
#CyberSecurity #EmailSecurity

@alfred OMG. Your DB is huge! How many active users do you have? I have 183 active monthly users. My DB, the size of which was concerning to me, is tiny compared to yours.

I had a big jump between March 12th and 13th, but not much change after that.

Do you use relays?

@BeAware I know you didn't create this, so this isn't directed to you. I'm just putting it out there, for information and education, that WhatsApp -> Signal is misleading and, I believe, incorrect information.

Signal, while the good guys, currently, is still under control of a single entity running on a single cluster of servers that they own and control, and this is NOT what the Fediverse is about. This is hardly "Fediverse".

I would have preferred Discord -> Matrix, and WhatsApp -> Jabber/XMPP.

@_elena I'll always provide help if I know the answer. No judgement.

I've stood up so many servers and have posted, and still do, many newbie questions. I know the feeling.

That you are self-hosting earns you a badge of grand respect, actually! I feel a kinship.

@BeAware Nope. I totally missed this excitement. Today was a busy day.

I didn't notice anything in my feeds, and I didn't see any reports opened. I kind of feel left out. 🙂

@BeAware My new firm policy is to ignore posts with the #Fediblock tag or messages telling me to investigate someone or some instance. I now only respond to reports (not messages) that include the allegedly terrible posts that prove, beyond a doubt, that a person or instance is inherently evil.

I close any report (vast majority of reports I get) where there is bickering and where people can just do their own blocks and mutes. I'm really tired of these.

I no longer respond to people who send me links to instances and archives and expect me to go read a bunch of stuff, watch YouTube videos, or want to pull me into their highly agendized interpretations of what people write, filled with name-calling and finger pointing.

Yeah, FediBlock has become of little value.

@kaia I cheat. I find one on the Internet and then copy/paste it.

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@BeAware @ Sorry. I've been off social media, working on the server.

Fedia.io is MBIN. I don't think Jerry Bell has any Friendica servers. But, the problem is that I can't follow anyone on Fedia.io from Friendica, but I can follow people on kbin.melroy.org, which is also mbin. So I must have been making the point that Friendica can follow people on MBIN. The problem I'm having is specific to Fedia.io.

@BeAware

A bit of Friendica background:

Friendica's "Facebook-type" capabilities are its core features – things like sharing posts, photos, and connecting with friends. These features exist independently of any integration with other platforms (read Activitypub, Diasporia, and Bluesky). This is what this URL is for. Letting my server have a Facebook-type relationship with the other, and only the other Friendica servers. Mastodon is not invited to this party. So, if anyone wants to share their Facebook-type timelines and calendars with my server, I need to get into dir.friendica.social. If anyone on my server hopes to have a Facebook-like relationship with someone on another Friendica server, then that server has to be in dir.Friendica.social.

Or, if people wish to have their own isolated community of servers, anyone can set up a private equivalent of dir.friendica.social. The directory code is open source, and apparently people have indeed set up closed Facebook-like communities. Then the URL might point to a private community of Friendica servers that specialize in, perhaps, archeology enthusiasts, that won't include other Friendica servers.

Friendica's ActivityPub integration is an additional and independent layer that allows it to communicate with other platforms in the Fediverse, like Mastodon. It has nothing to do with it's Facebook-type feature.

So, you could use Friendica just for its "Facebook-type" features without ever interacting with the Fediverse. Or, you could use its ActivityPub integration to mainly interact with people on Mastodon. Or use both. I am currently only using the Activitypub integration and will play later with the Bluesky integration.

Think of it like a house with a phone line. The house itself is functional on its own (Friendica Facebook-like server), but the phone line adds the ability to connect with the outside world (via Activitypub, Diasporia, and Bluesky).

The URL tin question is a pointer to dir.friendica.social to get all the other Friendica servers for playing in the Facebook-like feature. It isn't for getting me into the directory.