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Die Ereignisse in den USA machen eines immer deutlicher: wir sollten uns nicht auf zentralisierte Dienste verlassen. Föderalisierte Dienste wie die des #Fediverse (#Pixelfed, #Mastodon, #Friendica, uvm) sind die Zukunft, um resiliente Infrastrukturen und (sichere) soziale Netzwerke zu schaffen.

Unter anderem deshalb habe ich über den Jahreswechsel eine eigene Mastodon-Instanz unter ciclista.social gestartet - schaut gerne vorbei =)

Mastodon hosted on ciclista.socialciclista.sociala mastodon instance from cycling-enthusiasts for cycling-enthusiasts
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I wish we had something like "communities" here on mastodon.

We do have this in the #fedi, no need specifically for #mastodon to have it @futurebird.

To begin with, have a look at this profile and you'll see that we have role play profiles.

Also #friendica does offer #communityPages for the fedi, you can join them and you can post onto their walls so the post's get redistributed to all the followers of that page.

If you have an idea or need for a specific community #rolePlay page, just send a request to this profile or @admin, this server is specifically dedicated to community pages/profiles.
If you want an entire role play server, we can talk about that too.
Actually the "Stammtisch" is around since 2019.12 and right now in refurbishing mode.

Just like two days ago we discussed this in spanisch with @mina, and got stuck, or are still awaiting the decision, for the name of the page, considering that it should be language specific. The names considered were teleteatro -> @fediTeatro, telenovella -> @fediNovella, @fediBochinche.
We actually do have even audioserver (podcast) too, so we could create much more once the texts are established. And of course mastodon profiles can post audio snippets up to a certain size.

Always remember, the #fediVerse is a #doOcracy not a #cheerOcracy, a #claimOcracy or a #envyOcracy.

btw
It is utterly wrong to expect one platform, in this case mastodon, to do everything and offer everything. That's the centralized wallet garden setup and thinking we were taught. The strength of the fediverse and the #activityPub idea is decentralization, not only in instances but also in platforms and what each and every on brings to the table so we can feast together ..
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With the update to #Pixelfed 0.12.5, I was finally able to export all my statuses. Before that, there was a hard limit of 500. Even though I only had about 170 posts of my own, all shares and likes and stuff counted into that balance, hence no download for me. Yet.

Now that I got a nice .json file, I used Excel to convert this into a usable table. Yeah, I know, Excel! But LibreCalc doesn’t understand .json and I have to use Microsoft shit at work anyhow. So why not take advantage of that?

The Pixelfed export contains not only texts, but also the URLs for all images. Copy that column of URLs to a text file, push it through WGET et voilà, a directory full of joy.

All I have to do is write a short macro which takes the available info from the spreadsheet and creates separate .md files for use in #Hugo or whatever platform I want to show the images on.

Since I don’t need any Pixelfed-specific functions, I can now close down my two instances. Future images will go to #Friendica and – via another script yet to be written – also to my blog.

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 104 (pride edition) 👷‍♀️

Good morning Fedi friends!

Aw pride is a powerful thing.

I'd like to think that I'm pretty zen and detached and successfully suppressing my ego... but when it comes to things I'm passionate about (read: tech, self-hosting) I cannot let things go.

I had a very very sweet shout-out on a Fediverse podcast last week... but said shout-out mentioned my self-hosting issues and that maybe self-hosting isn't for everyone. I felt that I had to correct the record (even if the mention came with the nicest intention)... because I have ZERO issues self-hosting #GoToSocial, #Friendica and #Pixelfed (thanks to the magic of #YunoHost). All my troubles had to do with #Ghost. (And Ghost is wonderful, it's not related to it, just external circumstances).

So, determined to defend my honor (ha!) on Friday I achieved the impossible: all by myself, following guides I found online, I managed to install #Apache and #Varnish on my VPS and connected Varnish to Ghost. My site was already fast, now it's BLAZING fast.

So I'm giving it another go, moving from Ghost (Pro) to my self-hosted Ghost installation. I turned off subscriptions on https://blog.elenarossini.com... next step is disconnecting the subdomain DNS (a CNAME record) from Ghost... and redirecting traffic to my new blog (https://news.elenarossini.com).

I know how to code things in NGINX for the redirect to work (I think, via guides I found online).

My big question is: how do I tweak my old DNS records for https://blog.elenarossini.com so that NGINX on my self-hosted site https://news.elenarossini.com will correctly pick up the traffic requests? Do I need to set up A and AAAA records for the subdomain blog to point to my VPS with the self-hosted Ghost blog? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

Oh and I learned my lesson and - unlike last time - I am making big changes on a Monday morning, when I have the whole workweek ahead of me (instead of a Friday afternoon 1 hour before picking up my child from nursery school). You live and learn! 😅

#MySoCalledSudoLife

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#Fediverse-Plattform #Friendica

#Friendica (ehemals #Friendika, ursprünglich #mistpark, erschienen 2010) ist eine freie #Software für ein verteiltes soziales Netzwerk. Der Fokus liegt auf wirkungsvollen Datenschutzeinstellungen und leichter Installation auf eigenen Servern, welche insgesamt unabhängig operierend das dezentrale Netzwerk des #Fediverse formen. Wie auch #Mastodon versteht Friendica das Protokoll #ActivityPub.

https://friendi.ca/

@oldie

Wenn das nicht zu lang ist, findest du dort genug Material und Links zum Zusammenfassen.
gnulinux.ch/serie-fediverse-di

Wenn man nicht nur RSS feed wie bei twitter absetzen will, ist mitgliederbindung durch Kommunikation wie bei facebook mit Friendica die bessere Wahl. Mit Friendica kann man dennoch nicht nur Kurznachrichten absetzen.

GNU/Linux.chSerie – Fediverse-Dienste: Friendica: Funktionsreich und doch verständlichDas soziale Netzwerk Friendica ist eine der vielseitigsten Plattformen im Fediverse, die sich angesichts ihrer nützliche Funktionen nicht vor Mastodon verstecken muss.
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@abominabledrh Over the past few years i've had various #Friendica instances [various servers (i do not self host)]. Some have been better than others, but all of them drove me bonkers with their latency. It was commonplace that posts i'd send could take minuteS to finish sending [vs instant in every Masto instance i've used], new posts arriving would often be minuteS behind in Masto [& for the worst instances, frequently several hours out of date!!!]. Also, two of the instances eventually failed with corrupted databases & so the instances permanently closed, another recently went offline for many days with a corrupted database & eventually could only be restored from an old backup [thus losing all recent data], another two instances were chronically unreliable for hours or several days at a time. All these PITA issues sucked the pleasure away for me, & were a major reason i eventually returned to Masto, despite the many advantages that Friendica does have. It's a pity.