Notices by petrescatraian (petrescatraian@libranet.de)

@gamingonlinux I'm also following a few communities on Lemmy: @gaming @games @linuxgaming @lowendgaming @progressbar95 (this one is very specific, don't know how it made its way here) @flashpointarchive

In addition, there are some accounts that sadly have gone inactive as of late: @itchio @Valheim

I made this post so I can pin it. I'll perhaps add it to my profile view if I need to pin other posts and no longer have room for anything else.

1. Why is your profile restricted? Why are you using restricted profile(s)?
I restricted it myself. As you might have noticed from the page you've arrived at, I am not on Mastodon. I am on a different social platform called Friendica, which looks more like Facebook, but is able to communicate with Mastodon as well (hence why you can still see my content and reach me). Friendica has a special setting that restricts anonymous viewers (that are not logged on any Friendica server) to see your content. Don't worry about this, you can still see my content if I make it public.

2. Okay, I saw your post, but I cannot access it, the link you put is still showing as restricted
That is, perhaps, because I added a title to it - it's a thing that Friendica allows you to do. Whenever I do this, any post can be seen on Mastodon only as a link to the post on my server and with the title as the post caption/description. If you're curious why, a possible, more technical, explanation for this behavior, could be this (I'm not an IT person myself, so I can't really tell if this is the one or not, but it seems plausible). Tl; dr. of this: Mastodon thinks I posted an article, even though all I did was to create a regular post with a title. If this is the case, let me know through a comment under the said post, and if I set it as public in the 1st place (or if you're part of the desired audience), I'll copy & paste the content in a reply. Bear in mind that my profile is intended to be only semi-public. I'm not a public person, I'm not doing anything special for the society, I'm only a random guy from Romania laying my thoughts on the web for people to see.

3. Alright, but why are you creating titled posts in the first place if no one on the Fediverse/Mastodon can read it?
I only do it if I'm posting to a Lemmy community or a Kbin/Mbin magazine. There, titles are kinda mandatory (especially on the latter which treats threads - i.e. titled posts - and microblog - i.e. non-titled posts, standard posts from Mastodon - differently) - bear in mind, if you're not already aware, that the Fediverse is more than Mastodon. It's a collection of decentralized projects that anyone can set up for others or themselves. Mastodon, Friendica, Kbin, Mbin and Lemmy are only some of these. If I'm intending to have my posts visible on microblogging platforms (including Mastodon), I'll just not use titles for them, generally (as I did with this post). Otherwise, my general rule of thumb is to only add a title when I want to synthesize the idea/the topic I'm about to share. Again, I'm not doing it so often, only did it a couple of times since I got here so far.

Thanks for attending my TED Talk, the public questions session is now open. 🙂

@notjustbikes Meanwhile, the only themed train in our country is this:

Out of curiosity, do you plan to visit the Balkans as well, since you're in Europe? There's plenty to say about trains in these countries, and plenty to criticize, so you can surely get a lot to create content about. 😁

@0x815 If there's a protest I don't like, it must absolutely be a coup (attempt)

@PolandIsAStateOfMind

@hazelnot you give consent when you publicly post something online. In fact, guess what, I can see your profile and whatever you publicly post without even logging in to your instance. How? I use a web browser.

Did you also give your consent to an obscure 3rd party app to display your content inside it? No. Let's just ban them all then, just like Xitter and Reddshit did, or like Meta/Faceshit did in the 1st place.

Oh, it's so great when we have stuff to help us reach content, from friends, from people we follow, but God forbid someone else reaches our content from other parts of the internet. Those that want that are just techbros.

@jsit It seems photomatt@mastodon.social has added Mastodon under the websites section. For Gravatar to verify you, you need to add it under the verified accounts section (see my example)

@tchambers

@thanius oh, okay. Well, it still counts as their account though if it's controled by them, right? 😁

@FediFollows @euronews

@jupiter_rowland Plot twist: the whole fediverse will log through the Mastodon Web UI

@kristian

@fu social media was somehow engineered to be addicting. That's how they can shove you so many ads on you and get access to as much of your activity as possible.

Here on Friendica you can probably overcome this a bit with editing your theme and/or notifications settings.

@hypolite I mostly keep the tabs open for a bunch of articles that I'm going to eventually read "right away" (despite the fact I also have Pocket). I usually read these articles after a few months or so. Everything else is almost immediately closed after using (although I keep Friendica open sometimes).

Same on desktop, except for Friendica or any other social network.

It basically goes like that:

1. I open a bunch of articles
2. They stay open in the 1st 3 tabs or so for later reading the next day because I lack time.
3. The next day I just lack motivation to read these right away and close these tabs for good, so I waste my time staying on Friendica, in my RSS feed, on YouTube etc.
4. I might finish what I open in that day, but I have no time reading what I opened the day before, so I leave them for tomorrow.
5. In case I have no other article open from the previous day, in the third day I do the same as on 3. or hastly read/watch what I opened at 3. if I leave anything open. In rare cases, I read something that I opened at 1. so the number of open tabs is finally reduced.

@clacke

#Facebook will no longer send #encrypted #emails
You used to be able to use your #PGP key in order to have your emails sent by Facebook encrypted. This is one of the features I liked the most about this platform. Now it's turning into another nail in its coffin.

@feditips@mstdn.social wrote:

I have quite some tons of them, so brace yourself 😁

Right, but it seems people are aware of this, which is why the biggest server and the most interesting content seems to be somewhere else (e.g. lemmy.world is the largest Lemmy server out there, which is not owned by any of the Lemmy devs. There is also @piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com which is really active and is created by one of r/piracy's former admins).

There are basically people that had no prior link with none of the main devs, nor they do support their views, yet they just wanted to find a better, more reliable refuge after the whole u/spez saga, and Lemmy happened to be the most reliable for them.

Again, I respect your opinion, but if you'll want to reconsider your choice in the future, that would be much appreciated as well. 😁

@feditips I have two questions:

1. Is there a way I can suggest a few groups to the list? I've come to a point where I'm following groups all across the Fediverse 😁
2. I understood your stance on Lemmy, and I share the same opinion about the Lemmy devs and their 2 servers, having 1st hand experience with one of them. However, currently, Lemmy is the second platform in the Fediverse in number of active users after Mastodon.