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

@_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.

Wow! #Phanpy is more fantastic than I realized!

I just set up a #Friendica server (2 days ago), just because, and Phanpy works wonderfully with it for reading federated posts. I'm relieved that circles translate to lists.

That I can use Phanpy with my Friendica account has made my day!

Anyone who hasn't tried Phanpy should really try it.

@cheeaun