Notices by Kinetix (kinetix@humanwords.cc)

@HistoPol@mastodon.social @Crispius@infosec.exchange Reading! Thank you, I don't recall having read this before, probably a good time to do so even if I had tripped across it previously.

@HistoPol@mastodon.social I think if you're coming from of those countries you describe, I think you're probably right. Those of us outside of those sorts of countries should have a better go of being able to stay more anonymized if we were to work at it.

That said then - if you're in that position, are you really looking to host your own Fediverse instance then? I think I'd rather just VPN in to someone else's box.

Oh, and the fediverse, as yet, isn't a terrible secure or private place. It just hasn't been part of it's design, so any sensitive activity probably shouldn't be handled on the fediverse yet anyway.

@Crispius@infosec.exchange It's pretty maddening that we all of a sudden seem to be way behind on laws relating to people's ignorance, hate and shitty behaviour. The bar for forming an actual provincial party is way too low. The inability of municipal government to deal with actively destructive individuals is bizarre. Signs in government services offices, doctors offices and elsewhere telling people not to be abusive is bizarre.

But those hatemongering chuds being allowed to suck at the provincial funding teat? Sickening.

I do agree that it would be hilarious if it weren't so awful.

@Crispius@infosec.exchange Rather than numbers these days, I think it would be better to have a personality and knowledge test requirement so that psychopaths and those who want to lead based on ignorance are disqualified early on.

@HistoPol@mastodon.social The suggestion you gave is a great reason to self host. I understand where you're coming from, but being afraid isn't a great reason to not self host.

Kicking things off, I thought it would be worth highlighting some bits of the new user onboarding experience with Sharkey.

The onboarding process really seeks to help introduce people new to our fedi platforms, and is also happy to skip the hand-holding if you're already familiar with things.

Initially once you've created your account, Sharkey asks you to go through a few basic steps with setting up your profile, including allowing you to upload your profile picture/avatar/icon, goes over a couple of quick privacy settings that you can set, it brings up recommended and popular users you may wish to follow, and then asks to enable push notifications.

Once that bit is done, there's a small tutorial that it will guide you through, explaining what a note (post) is, explaining what the icons mean. It show you how to put a reaction on to a note, explains the various timelines, how to post a note, and how to mark an image as sensitive (also, Sharkey defaults to reminding users about adding alt text on photos as part of normal operations).

Basically, if one follows through these items, they should be in a not bad beginning position for getting going and getting something useful out of the fediverse.

@_elena@mastodon.social wrote an excellent blog post about Sharkey here, including the onboarding process: https://blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/

I actually hope to keep these posts about Sharkey pretty short and covering single and specific topics. The next one will be shorter.

I hope this is useful and enjoyable! Come check Sharkey out here at https://humanwords.cc or have a look at other instances via https://sharkey.fediverse.observer/list

#Sharkey #misskey #Fediverse #Instances #Onboarding

@m@thias.hellqui.st @ellyxir@humanwords.cc @feld@friedcheese.us That's .. limiting. Is there no way to improve on that (without using a chatmail account) on IOS?

@m@thias.hellqui.st @ellyxir@humanwords.cc @feld@friedcheese.us You can get pretty quick notifications even on normal mail setups (some? many? most?) by turning on the use and force background connections notification settings.

Works well in my setup.

@feld@friedcheese.us @m@thias.hellqui.st @tk@outerheaven.club I've been running a personal mail server for 20 years at least and I'm sure I'll have that issue worked through any day now. 🤣

@m@thias.hellqui.st @feld@friedcheese.us I've found this bit really amazing. Delta Chat requires nothing of anyone and is nicely secure. Everyone already has a DC account but it's completely ignored at this point.

Meanwhile, Signal could disappear at a moment's notice.

Nobody can take my email infrastructure away from me. And/or I could move it/replicate it anywhere I needed to pretty easily.

@delta@chaos.social I find it a little disconcerting that you're now actively trying to push people away from the one thing that made Delta an intriguing proposition in the first place - it's ability to do IM over existing email accounts. For self hosters like myself, this was a great selling point for not having yet-another-thing-I-need-to-maintain.

But now you're actively messaging that people should poo-pooh the idea after already making one's own secure email infrastructure a second class citizen in the app.

It sounds like you're heading down the road of making it impossible to use standard email servers at all (why support 'em if you have reasons to demote them and poo-pooh them?), and then what's the advantage of Delta over signal, matrix or xmpp?

This seems really short sighted, even though you're obviously very excited about what you've done with chatmail.

@bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org @ascentale@sfba.social @atmospheric_cyclist@mountains.social @epu@mstdn.social There is!

You can publish your location to a Nextcloud instance and view it on a map in it's web UI, or there's the PhoneTrack app that can be used for that. There's some annoying bugs for the tracking/logging in PhoneTrack itself, so I've played around with GPSLogger on my android phone, and it works great.

I have not tried OSMAnd for it, yet, but I believe it will also publish to Nextcloud.

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