Notices by tallship (tallship@public.mitra.social)

First, Mostr, the #Fediverse bridge between #ActivityFed and #Nostr.

Next, Bridgy Fed, the Fedivese bridge between ActivityPub and #Bluesky.

#w00t :)

So Ryan, thank you for this most valuable tool to bring people around the globe together in #DeSoc - creating (and curating, as you have) ***Bridgy_Fed is one of the very best things that the Fediverse has to offer people on both sides of the protocol divide, and I really don't think that there are enough Thank you's to go around for all of the selfless effort you've put into this service.

So as meek and perhaps insignificant as it may sound, THANK YOU!

#tallship #bridge #interprotocol_communication #FOSS #Thank_You

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RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/2024-05-20_53092

@snarfed.org

@silverpill @julian

Silverpill wrote:
> Could you provide an example of such post?

Here you go bro: Socialhome post w/inline images.

I'll try to give it a boost from my #Mitra, #Hubzilla, and #Friendica accounts too (if I haven't already) so you can study/compare the various treatment cases :)

Sadly, I have not yet launched streams yet for study. I know, I'm a lame-O. I'll get to it shortly, prolly just spin up a local VM on Proxmox for that here, I really am anxious to give it a go :)

#tallship #inline_media

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@silverpill @jupiter_rowland @renchap @mikedev @julian

Socialhome supports inline images in posts. Are those as:Note or as:Article?

Synchronet BBS as an #onion node makes #telnet over #Tor a secure protocol because your exit node is the #BBS itself...

Brilliant!

- Synchronet over Tor on an rPi - Marvelous!

But what about those #MS_Windows users out there? How about a gzipped tarball, all nicely packaged up so you can distribute around, of a custom built #PuTTY client that will securely connect people to your #Synchronet_BBS over telnet?

Brilliant!

- Create a custom PuTTY package to distribute for your BBS over Tor - Magnificent!

What was that again? Oh yeah, ... Brilliant!

Enjoy!

#tallship #FOSS #Synchronet #rPi h/t to @dheadshot

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After several years of warning after warning after advisory after advisory and calls to repeatedly update or remove and NOT USE CHROME by the Department of Homeland Security, it should be inconceivable that anyone does - but they do.

Sometimes these are patched with automatic updates before horrific and catastrophic results occur, sometimes not. To be frank, part of the problem stems from the fact that Chrome is the largest attack surface out there where browsers are concerned, but notwithstanding it being the fav target are also serious privacy concerns that aren't shared by other chromium based browsers.

To be fair, many exploits are indeed shared by other chromium based browsers, but not most, while some are related to other browser capabilities, like WebRTC, but it's still best to just ditch Chrome and never look back.

Here's more coverage on vulnerabilities issued less than a month ago. It took 3 seconds to bring this up, and no, not using Google, which didn't reveal this when I tried that search engine in a subsequent search, lolz. Why would they return SERPs that poo poo their own product?

This one did come up in a google search

There's truly only one way to ensure safety - unplug. But there's a lot of simple things you can do to exact a reasonable level of security, so why not observe some of those best practices? It's not like it will cramp your style.

Anyway, that's my two cents. h/t to @darnell for raising awareness of this latest brokewell. Make sure you take the time to visit the link he's provided for you too.

There are plenty of #Browsers that run on #Android (to name a few, alphabetized):

- Brave Browser
- Chromium
- DuckDuckGo
- Firefox
- Kiwi
- Vivaldi

IMO, No one should be running Chrome - Desktop or otherwise. It's a privacy nightmare even when there aren't CERT warnings circulating.

#tallship #brokewell #zero_day #CISA #CERT #DHS

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RE: https://one.darnell.one/users/darnell/statuses/112371221294882180

@darnell

This comes as no surprise to anyone who's actually been paying attention over the past couple of years:

https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-hard-fork/

All I can really say is, "OH Happy Day!"

Let the games begin, I'll bring the popcorn :p

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #fork #masto @thenexusofprivacy

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@coffeegeek

That very specific facility was covered a couple of weeks back in the Fediverse City matrix room. I can't remember the URL or specific name (Kinda like the old "Add to Any" plugin for Drupal and WordPress), but just scroll back a bit as there was some discussion over it.

I do remember that it was kinda disregarded because it didn't work on most Fediverse platforms - only mastodon when tested, IIRC, so its worth is minimal.

I hope that helps!

#tallship #FOSS #Share_Buttons

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@pfefferle @silverpill @darnell @tallship @darnelltv

Okay this looks like the latest post in the thread :)

I just made another post, but it may take a few minutes to show up in the blog or the area where you release spam/approve posts/etc. Here's the link to that post here from this account of mine on a Mitra server:
https://public.mitra.social/objects/018ee220-adbf-5f0f-823d-26d3914f23d3

After reading your post Darnell, that you had up'ed your subscription and installed an additional plugin, and then (presumably) re-installed ActivityPub plugin, I went and checked the state of the follow I affected.

It was still stuck in pending. So I cancelled it, then waited a few minutes, and attempted a follow again. It's sitting there waiting - here's the screenie:

Well folks, I hope this helps :)

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Yes I wanted to wait a couple of days so some stuff could be sorted out and then I circled back last night to follow up and take your advice below.

So I followed one of your (WordPress) accounts, but it's still in limbo (as evidenced by the attached screenie) 8'ish hours later.

I hope that helps :)

RE: https://one.darnell.one/users/darnell/statuses/112239584379027926

@darnell

@silverpill

Not sure if you would have noticed the boost so I've pinged you on the QuotePost.

RE: https://socialhome.network/content/c94bb475-e75d-4a23-87b7-90d5d544d378/

@tallship

@silverpill @tallship @darnell

Okay maybe someone can/will open an issue in that Codeberg issue tracker above for Mitra and loop @pfefferle in too because I've got the distinct gut feeling that this problem is going to require an bug report at his #ActivityPub plugin's repo too, considering it appears that Mitra AND Socialhome aren't capable of responding to an #ActivityPub_Plugin powered #WordPress site with a reply to an article, and I've a sneaking suspicion this bug extends even further - probably into the space of #Hubzilla, #Friendica, perhaps #Takahe and the Pleroma/Misskey families of forks too - sad.

So just checked a couple of other platforms - This is not good - replies show up on the platforms and notifications go out to all of those cc'd but.... Poof! the replies just go into hyperspace never to be seen again - They're NOT showing up as replies / comments to the WordPress articles!!! - I'm sure more than a few #Fedizens have already discovered this the hard and most frustrating way. Yeah I don't think that plugin appears anywhere near that of a release candidate now. I'm sorry I hyped it up so much, taking the word of others without putting my fingers in the Jesus holes myself.

I'm not saying that it's not worth using at all if it only supports masto, but it's certainly not of Fediverse grade (ActivityPub) worthiness to mention if it doesn't work with most #ActivityPub powered #Fediverse servers.

I'm going to just let the powers that be attend to this matter. People get paid for this and I thought it was a well matured WordPress plugin by a salaried crew. I don't get paid for this and I do have paying work to do right now.

I guess I let my enthusiasm get ahead of me before bothering to actually thoroughly test it this time. I know for me, I won't be installing it on WordPress servers or advising people to do so until it actually works withthe majority of the plethora of #ActivityPub_Compliant #Fediverse, and not just masto, servers.

My work is done here - I really was enthusiastic about this, but that was apparently premature.

@darnelltv

Bravo - if all goes well this post from my Mitra account should serve to be the second reply to celebrate the, um... ActivityPub'ing of your long existing Wordpress site there :)

#tallship #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FOSS #DeSoc

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@darnell

Darnell,

I see Jet Pack installed, but not the ActivityPub plugin (yet)?

Hm.... brb...

Okay, my bad! Guess what my friend? I'm your first (and soon to be second follower). Two plugins failed on me. Wappalyzer has always kinda sucked, but the other one dedicated to resolving WordPress plugins is usually pretty good at its job.

I'm quite excited that you're deploying a long-form Fediverse account on WordPress itself :)

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #darnell_everywhere #WordPress #ActivityPub
@darnell@darnellclayton.com

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@darnell @gabek

And it seems after a few discussions with Mike, that he's earnestly seeking to make Flipboard's ActivityPub integration consistent with being a "Good Fedizen" in mind. I can't say the same for Threads, it's more of a Veni Vidi Vici kinda feel.

Automatic..... indeed.

RE: [[https://mastodon.social/users/jv/statuses/111993293351402800]]

@jv@mastodon.social

I'm going to offer an honorable mention here, but the fact that anyone can get a free NextCloud account with the same document feature sets and sharing capabilities as Google demands that I consider this a missed opportunity, if not a misguided community gesture by not taking the opportunity to dogfood on our own FOSS instead of a privacy disrespecting, deprecated, monolithic industrial mining silo.

I think leveraging Google Docs to gather input on how to:

> ...make open source open protocol social media easier.

and...

> We're trying to make it better.

are statements belied by the fact that we're not dogfooding by actually using #FOSS like we should be to make the point that we want to make #FOSS better, by showing just how easy it is to obviate large swaths of ABC/Google properties by simply not using them:

https://nextcloud.com/sign-up/

In this day and age, I find it somewhat antithetical and at cross purposes to our overlying mission along with the whole set of philosophies behind building and advocating for adoption of the Fediverse in the first place, if we're going to ask people to go back to the #dark_side and visit Google docs

#FOSS #Fediverse #Dogfooding #Walk_the_Walk - not just talk the talk.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/users/rabble/statuses/112006149076679316

@rabble

@J12t @fediversenews @fedidevs @activitypubblueskybridge @snarfed.org

Johannes, There isn't one - they're talking out of their ass.

They're just making noise and emotionally distressed to discover that this is how the #Fediverse currently works, and always has worked - and it's not just the #ActivityPub portions of the Fediverse, or even the Fediverse - it's the entire #Internet...

"If you affect a public post, you have no expectation of privacy".

For those who still feel some sense of having been offended, I welcome them to unplug their computers and toss their iPhones and Androids into the trash. That's really their only option, and they'll come to that realization some day, maybe, and it is of no consequence for anyone else in the world if they don't.

#tallship #FOSS #networking #privacy #ignorance

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@atomicpoet @pixelpusher220 @fediversenews @noxypaws @baralheia

Yes indeed, Thanks for making that clarification for all of the clueless people posting here who hitherto believed otherwise, as if they ever had it that way.

They'll complain and threaten to go somewhere else, and of course, they're welcome to that option as well, but in the end...

"“Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #bridges #innovation #fools

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@snarfed.org

Ryan,

How refreshing!

Another bridging mechanism to extend the reach and interoperability with other Fediverse protocols in the #DeSoc space is most welcome, and from the limited analysis I've been able to perform so far this is a novel approach to what some point in the future will find other Fediverse platforms incorporating in their network stacks.

So far, we've got seamless nostr interoperability to add to the other fine protocols such as Diaspora, ZOT, Nomad, OStatus, ActivityPub, and others in the mix. You might also wish to take a look at the repo for Minds to see how they've made seamless integration between the ActivityPub and nostr portions of the #Fediverse as well, and oh, pay no mind to the infantile and disparaging remarks that some small minded folks in this thread have exhibited - they are free to *defederate themselves from the Fediverse at any time.

We've been following withe some enthusiasm your project in the Fediverse-City community and it would be a pleasure to have you participate there. Your insight into the open and public aspects of Fediverse traffic in the #DeSoc world is a testament to the innovation and evolution that is possible in obviating the proprietary, privacy disrespecting, deprecated monolothic silo networks that have sowed so much acrimony and subjugation over the very people whom they seek to quantify as their business products.

You're performing a great service here, feel free to block any miscreants in this thread who don't understand the definition of public.

Also, might I suggest that instead of offering a `#nobridge keyword index, you think about offering a solution as a FEP here?:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/

There are a lot of Fediverse platform developers I'm sure that you'll find welcoming, encouraging, and willing to offer assistance in formulating solutions to silence the adolescent juvenile mindsets that have been berating you in this thread for your selfless commitment to the well being of us all.

In the future, the Fediverse that we perceive and interact within will become its own heterogeneous superset of networking protocols to facilitate effortless communications between individual parties regardless of which portions of the Fediverse and their associated protocols implemented. Just like #OStatus has been largely supplanted by ActivityPub, and #ZOT has been superseded by #Nomad, the ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse will also eventually be deprecated and replaced by other stacks that will emerge from the ether of creativity. In the meantime, we'll be bridging between the various protocol stacks, and Bridgy-fed is one of those tools that serves to make that a reality :)

Thank you again, for your selfless contribution to #DeSoc and the Fediverse. it's a fantastic achievement that will serve to benefit many in both the #ATP and #ActivityPub portions of the Fediverse!

#tallship #bridgy #FOSS #Fediverse #DeSoc #innovation

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@mastodonmigration @tchambers @mho

Collating reams of journalist accounts is a good thing.

The problem I have with most of the folks on that list is that it's almost misleading, in some respects. The old Twitter mentality is persistent with the perceptions of these journalists (that's our fault), and as a result, we get a tease and a link, and depending on the particular Fediverse platform or client we're using, we may or may not get a link preview.

The volume of journalist published information is minimal, much akin to what things like Lemmy and Kbin, HackerNews, or Reddit might afford us - and it's unnecessary. A list of external, 3rd party news resources is great, but I am here. Right here - In the Fediverse, with my Fediverse client (That's my reader), and a shitload of journalists who themselves have already migrated over. I have RSS, ActivityPub Follow and alert capabilities, and can appreciate journalists actually publishing their articles here, in the Fediverse, much more than elsewhere that I have to travel to, so to speak... and maybe hit a God damned paywall.

I think part of the problem here is that many of the journalists flowing into the Fediverse are indoctrinated with the old mastodon/twitter decrepit shortcomings that left them with little capability other than to publish elsewhere and link to it from here. I don't want to have to go somewhere else to read the things that interest me - and there's no need. All the tools are here. In the Fediverse. Now.

Most Fediverse platforms don't constrain the users and publishers like the old mastopub way of doing things. i.e., lack of #Markdown or other #Rich_Text capabilities and the inclusion of inline graphics or other multimedia file types in articles, or that persistent, cringy, paltry, 500 character limit that the draconian mastodon interfaces are constrained with, along with their inability to Quote-post. This is why the so-called #mastoforks have been so successful, overcoming many, if not most of those barriers, although they're still almost indistinguishable from the typical #mastopub interface.

We're building critical mass amongst journalists, and this is remarkable, yet we need to encourage greater awareness initiatives on just what the Fediverse platforms have to offer nowadays (and it's only getting better).

Those journalists that I've had the pleasure of admiring here have for the most part, leveraged things like one of the Misskey family of platforms with multiple link previews per post, and quite the rich formatting of their text to make their articles pop with life and entice the reader to visit.

Another issue? Many of these journalists and commentators publish their articles and provide links, but they resolve to paywall sites. I think we need to rethink our ability to, at the instance level for each and every individual user, block shit that links to paywalls. We already have several good browser plugins that do so.

The sooner we sufficiently inform the lions share of these journalists to the opportunities they have on Fediverse platforms that are more contemporary and capable than mastodon, the sooner they can get down to the business of focusing on the monetization of their repertoire here in the Fediverse (and keep ALL the money earned); in turn, we (the rest of us) get quality, original, unique content here, compelling even more folks from the world of the proprietary, privacy disrespecting, deprecated monolithic silos to come and co-exist here with us as fellow Fedizens.

Already, several Fediverse platforms enable the full immersion into the ecosystem here with facilities for monetization - either native to the platform or as a plugin. For example, one of the quickest ways for a journalist to take advantage of a "Substack", "Medium" or other popular monetized platform in the Fediverse is to merely create an account on one that provides these utilities - Like WordPress or Mitra or WriteFreely - create an account, plugin your donation/subscription payment info, and start publishing interesting, informative, original content :)

***One thing we as consumers of the news can do right now, is take the time to individually contact each person we can on this list of journalists and let them know these things. Point them to this article with a link, or to the actual resources that they can experiment with and deploy their unbridled and untapped resources to reach out and in turn themselves be reached.

I'll leave links below, to a couple of the Fediverse platforms I've referenced above. If you're viewing this post on a platform that is one of the Misskey family of forks, then you'll see the graphic below as well as all of those link previews for all of those resources.

Enjoy, and I hope that helps!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

https://mitra.fediverse.observer/list

https://writefreely.org/

#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #news_aggregation #journalism #journalists #publishing

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