The new Trump administration have begun their book banning, and Julianne Moore's children's book "Freckleface Strawberry" has been banned, because it teaches children not to be sad that they are different, because everyone is different in some way — and that is just too inclusive to the hate administration.
this is unbeliavable. A general question: Are you organizing yourselves to fight back? We're wondering that in many places around the world. The media outlets don't show any manifestations.
one comment (Evans) puts it perfectly: „… literally a children’s book that is banned for telling children that it’s okay to be different. It is now state policy that it is not okay to be different, not even with freckles …“
This is the main defining sign of fascism. Divide between people like you and everyone different and declare those as evil „Volksfeinde“. Thus forcing you to oust everyone different because you mustn't be friends with Volkfeinde or you're an evil Volksverräter.
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yeah because according to them people should be separated and white people are superior only of course they don’t have any disability if they have any mental or body disability they as worthless as everyone that isn’t white
és una situació força lamentable. L'extrema dreta és el que té. Són enemics del coneixement, dels llibres, de la diversitat i del pensar diferent. Han agafat un camí radical que serà difícil revertir.
Right, so that's Black people, transgender people, Latino people, women people, gay people, and now they're trying to disappear gingers? Is no-one safe? Reader, we already know the answer to that.
This is a very dangerous cultural shift they are trying to push, where difference and diversity is not seen as natural and positive but as something negative (and we all know where this leads), it's not just in the US this is spreading throughout the world. We are at a crossroads in Europe, or we go the route of a more united Europe and reinforce our shared values or crumble and all bets are off at that point, but it's not good.
The tipping point may be the next German elections if AfD gains strength we are all fucked, I don't know how the US sees them, but these people are Putin's puppets and let's not beat around the bush are fucking Nazis.
Off course, it's Trump's goal to divide Europe, AfD is the perfect party for that and shares a lot of this administration goals, especially in relation to Russia, they've said recently that if they win no more weapons will be sent to Ukraine and will resume commercial relations with Russia, but their anti EU stance, their reactionary ideas (this one is strange since their leader is a Lesbian married to an immigrant and they both have 2 adopted children, but they want to close the boarders, expel all illegal immigrants and are against same sex marriage and adoption, amongst other individual rights regression) are also important and no less dangerous.
They are therefore the perfect partner for this administration, they will not win, but the pols are giving them 2nd place so they will have a lot of power and forming a functioning and stable government in Germany will not be an easy task.
We already have Hungary on Putin's side and turning into an autocracy, if Germany follows suit and then France with Le Pen, the EU, and the world, is in serious trouble, but let's keep optimistic and fight to change people's minds showing them the lies of these parties while we still live in democracy, because it is at risk
It’s only a matter of time before the public book burnings begin. It’s all so sadly predictable, brutish and stupid. As if truth, knowledge and reality can be denied through forced ignorance.
@Saket wasn't that long ago (even in my living memory) Americans were burning disco records in sportsball stadiums as that music scene was considered "too diverse" and encouraged folk from different races to party together...
Everything is too inclusive for an administration whose unofficial president is mocking blind people on his social platform and whose official president made fun of a disabled journalist.
Unless you're bullying people, you are too inclusive for them.
this is why Amazon are about to change the way you read their digital books IMHO. Soon you won't be able to stop them removing them from you, I imagine that soon they will start doing the same with the streaming content which is another reason I hat how US based streaming content is overwhelming local TV services and everyone seems fine with that, or already addicted, I've had a few blocks happen when I complained about people amplifying apple content for example.
Is this what #Vance called "freedom of speech"? 🙈 He criticized Europe of banning freedom of speech as they don't want the presence of the far-right everywhere. 🙈
I'd have thought an overweight, old, bald man with a very long candly floss comb-forward-up-around-and-back-down on his head, has a vagina on his neck, and wears orange clown makeup, while spouting the most moronic shit anyone has ever heard would love a book about how being different isn't something to mock, but perhaps he enjoys being mocked, ridiculed and bullied. 🤷🏼♀️
yes, I wasn't there myself but I love my music enough to remember that in the mid-sixties, it was #America that was burning #Beatles records for being 'bigger than Jesus' (Lennon quip taking out of context, as he said 'right now we are bigger than Jesus', which was a fact). So the puritan KKK nazi strand and love of burning things and people was always there, it was just given way more oxygen this year.
yes, it's a scandal - amoung so many - and a stepping stone to a fascist state ("gleichschaltung" like the nazis called bringing everything in line). not to forget the hypocrisy talking about "the states" and making top-down policy, talking about "free speech" and doing everything to suppress it.
and clearly saying in their world being different is dangerous.
but could we find a more exact wording? they are banning it from schools and school libraries, not (yet) to be sold.
Había oído por opiniones como la de Vicente Garrido que la actitud y forma de ser (además de las estrategias) de Trump coincidían con las de un psicópata. Y lo que siempre se dice y es bien sabido, es que nunca sale rentable trabajar con alguien así. Y he aquí la prueba, yo creo... Pero eh, "make America great again" y esas cosas 🙃
They sure look ridiculous, don't they? First, they okay bullying and violence against "different," then they tell the "different" people they SHOULD feel bad for their effrontery of difference.
As a European person, I have no idea how many schools are operated by the Department of Defense and which people visit such schools? This would help me put this a little bit more into perspective. Thank you in advance. (PS.: my fear/hope is that this would not harm that much people as only the ones already favouring Trump would be affected?)
The U.S. Department of Education dismissed 11 complaints related to book bans, saying it was ending “Biden’s book ban hoax.” PEN America counted nearly 16,000 book bans in the past several years. It's no hoax.
* When the German nazis deported politicians, I didn't bother, I wasn't a politician. * When they deported jews, I didn't bother, I wasn't a jew. * When they deported artists, I didn't bother, I wasn't an artist. * When they deported writers, I didn't bother, I wasn't a writer… ... * When they deported me, because of my freckles, who was there left to bother?
As a German, I really bother what the TrumpMuskGOPfascism is doing, and how they could be stopped before more people get killed?
can’t indoctrinate the next iteration of the Waffen SS if they are constantly relating to the people they are oppressing. I guess Freckles and red hair aren’t ‘normal’ enough. When do they start mumbling on about Aryans?
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
@ingalls I'd rather pay TurboTax $100 than pay a CPA $600. There's no way any free service can handle the complexity of my tax returns. And that's not a problem with TurboTax; it's a problem with the US tax code. Sadly, it's not likely to be one that this administration fixes.
I started the process last Friday, but the second I mentioned HSA, it said, sorry, you have to upgrade to one of our premium plans. Sorry, I just closed out. I will go do it at my local library for free. #tax #Turbotax
A lot of Trump voters are getting to the "find out" phase of FAFO. For those with legit mea culpas and wanting to fix all this mess, I'm here for you and will show sympathy. Welcome to the fight and let's make sure this doesn't happen again in our lifetimes. For those that just want their particular "find out" problem fixed while holding on to whatever combination of anti-immigrant, anti-minority, pro-Christian Nationalism crap that made you vote for or love Trump/MAGA in the first place, you all can go pound sand. You'll get as much sympathy from me as you give all those groups you love seeing MAGA fuck with: zero point zero. #uspoli #rant #maga
"Food Bank Limits Market Match Assistance Without Warning A federal funding freeze has affected a low-income food assistance program in New Hampshire. This week, the New Hampshire Food Bank imposed a $5 limit on the Granite State Match program, which previously covered half the cost of fruit and vegetable purchases for SNAP[1] users without a cap."
[1] Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - provides food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.
We may laugh about this but don’t forget Trump does NOT take back his words. So the new reality is that Trump has found fraud in the Social security system and he will act accordingly. The Trumpers will echo what he says and believe it because they do not understand COBOL or anything else. When does Trump get removed ? #uspol
COBOL is still used everwhere in financial systems. Do a bank transfer or use a credit card a COBOL application probably processed it in the background.
fuckin called it. 19-25 year old web devs and crypto idiots going into the American federal government? They're going to meet cobol and fortran and perl codebases originally written in the fifties running on hardware maintained since the... Also fifties, and even the smallest component of how it hangs together and what it does will be incomprehensible.
It's a good thing that it would be totally unrealistic that they'd just delete those persons' data to be able to push a "We saved THIS much money" statement ...
A screenshot of two tweets on a white background. The first tweet is by Toshi [@]toshiHQ, with a profile picture of a person in a yellow hat and sunglasses. The tweet states, "It looks like Elon's genius coders don't know how COBOL works. Social security runs on COBOL, which does not use a date or time type. So the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard. The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875) - aka the metre standard. So if you don't know the date of something, it will be a 0 value, which in COBOL will default to 1875 - 150 years ago." The second tweet is by Donald Trump Jr. [@]DonaldJTrumpJr, with a profile picture of Donald Trump Jr. The tweet, dated Feb 11, states, "OMG!!! It's so bad what's been happening to our country and your money! Breaking: Musk says there's people over 150-years-old collecting Social Security...Show more."
@stux Which is fine. The rest of us can clarify that, as Disney continues the breadth and depth of its bullshittery, circumstances may require alternative methods of acquiring certain titles and types of content.
Requiring advertisers to use Musk's platforms is partly why he's suing advertisers & advertising brokers; to force them to use his services & content and require users to view it.
This wasn’t just a toddler owning Trump. This was Musk letting it happen. No 4-year-old comes up with those lines on their own. He’s an innocent child. thegodpodcast.com/p/hot-mic-ca…
Brandon Russell formed the Atomwaffen Division (ADM) in Central Florida in 2015 and even recruited on the campus of the University of Central Florida (UCF), according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit dedicated to confronting rac…
A Donald Trump-voting cattle farmer in Missouri was blasted on social media for complaining about possibly losing his land after he "didn't have time to research" the presidential candidates ahead of the election.
It's not this one farmer who has voted for the trump that bothers me but a very large minority of the electorate in Western democracies that consistently vote against their best interests that bothers me. It's like you & all your friends book a plane to Spain for your holidays only to find your drunk friend is the pilot while, at least, 25% of the passengers are cheering him on.
@Kruku This is what happens when news outlets are under zero obligation to tell the truth. Bring the fairness doctrine back. MAGA get their news from entertainment sources. At the same time, Trump has billions of dollars of lawsuits against viable news outlets who report reality. No wonder people are deeply confused.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is no more.
It was created by Congress, not the executive. It is funded by the Fed, not the Treasury. By law, the president cannot shut it down. But Elon Musk has shut it down.
Absolutely wild. The US financial services regulator has had their website suddenly deleted this weekend and according to the NY Times they’ve been told to stop all supervisory activity (ie regulation).
It’s supposed to be protected by an act of Congress but President Musk has decided to ignore that.
The CFPB still exists in statute and in authorized funding. Whether it can operate right now is a separate issue. I am wary of pronouncements that give the current regime the ability to define reality.
To be historically fair, God pointed Abraham from Ur to go to Canaan (modern day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon) and said Abraham needed to take all of that as 'promised land'.
Completely ignoring the People already living there.
So even when a white person is clearly at fault, the real fault lies with people who aren't white.
Convenient! And really fucking racist!
Brandon Friedman:
#JDVance uses DEI to cover for a potentially white male pilot being at fault: "When you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means, on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there."
Musk to rehire Doge aide who resigned over racist posts
The account connected to Mr Elez - first reported by the Wall Street Journal - posted a variety of inflammatory comments that were verified by the BBC as authentic.
"Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," read one post from the pseudonymous account in July.
Another post, in September, said: "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
The Trump administration is rescinding protections for Venezuelan refugees that have been in the country under protected status to prevent them from being de...
Proud Boys can no longer legally use their own name and logo and are barred from selling any merch with either its name or its symbols without the consent of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Black church in Washington that Proud Boys targeted and vandalized.
Enrique Tarrio and several other Proud Boys attacked the church in December of 2020. The church won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys and their former leader. After they failed to turn over any money, lawyers for the church sought to satisfy the judgment by seizing control of the trademarked name and by enjoining the group from “selling, transferring, disposing of or licensing any merchandise using the words “Proud Boys” or any of the organization’s symbols.
this is EPIC - love this. Play stupid games win stupid prizes as my partner always says😆 VERY satisfying to see even some petty comeuppance hit these bastards
Trump's little trick with the tariffs was probably just to distract from the fact that a South African immigrant is raiding (and making changes to) the software systems and databases that keep the US government running.
However, it has provided fodder to make fun of Trump's non-existent negotiating skills.
@alice There was a Montana Congressman that tried to hang with the proud boys, apparently people found out where he lived and his family got some threats so he decided to quit... When these people become afraid... they go back to where they belong and keep their mouths shut.
I can't believe that I am saying this, but I think they should be doxxed. These kids now have at their fingertips my highly personal information and the personal information of every American. I think it's my right to know who they are.
@2600. "Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen"
I think their mommies and daddies should be politely contacted and asked what they thing of their children’s behavior. Not being sarcastic about being polite.
"I found myself upon a lonely path, with only the truth in hand. A barren and desolate trail devoid of food, water, shelter, and company lay before me. Yet I continued my journey, filling my voice with the only song I knew, the truth I beheld.
Soon, a fellow traveler appeared exclaiming 'You look thirsty, let me give you drink'. So I drank, and we talked of the truth. And then another appeared exclaiming 'You look hungry, let us share this bread'. So we ate, and talked of the truth. And yet another appeared exclaiming 'You are drenched and chilled, let me offer you shelter'. So together we huddled in new comfort, and talked of the truth.
And so it was that from hour to hour, and day to day, the truth was passed from soul to soul, until its denial was wholly forfeit." SearingTruth
Has anyone called their parents & asked how they feel about their kids boogering up social security, medicare, & sharing their personla data with the world?
I wonder if the Musk/Trump grift is 1) get rid of inspectors general and defang the detectives at FBI, 2) take over the government payment system, then 3) steal the people's funds.
These young engineers may not fully understand what they've gotten themselves into.
Although I am sure Musk only picked his true believers to carry out these tasks.
Trump has immunity. He can give illegal orders.
It does not mean future POTUS cannot prosecute the breach.
Musk has the money to hire the best lawyers to protect himself. Will he spend money on these enginneers? Very likely not. Just take a look how he treated his employeers in the past.
I realize they're all technically adults, but I doubt they really get what they're doing. If Musk succeeds, they all benefit - but if not, if there ever are consequences, odds are they take the brunt of them because they're the ones with hands on keyboards.
@mwguy nah. I am all for it but my wife said “meh”. I joined this month and it’s… fine. But no one I know in real life is on it, there is no mobile app, and the setup can be a little off-putting. The fedi platforms have an incredible opportunity right now to take in a lot of social media refugees, but the ones without apps (friendica, loops, etc) are going to struggle to get traction with a population that is accustomed to convenience.
It is not fair to put Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friedica, Peertube and Loops as analogous to Signal. Signal is centralized, Signal relies on closed source libraries, Signal is only distributed through PlayStore, Signal is not a federated platform.
If we want to have a messaging platform on that image, it should be XMPP.
@brawnybunkbedbuddy With Friendica you can also communicate with Diaspora users (+ and with Bluesky, Tumblr, ...). With Diaspora you are only in contact with other #Diaspora users and with Friendica and Hubzilla, but not with the rest of the Fediverse. @Daniel Supernault
it would be good if first of all pixelfed don't delay accepting new accounts, losing the momentum it is getting. also there is the usual bug where scrolling the home sometimes it freezes. it would be good to have a smooth pixelfed before of improving loops. but, instead of this, a third app is being developed. wish you all the best tackling things in a triune way.
For people to really make the switch, it would be helpful to give them an article explaining what to do exactly. In German there is one by @blog - do you know of other languages? #GlobalSwitchDay koelle4future.de/?p=35767
Du kämpfst täglich für Klimagerechtigkeit? Und bist noch auf Plattformen, bei dem Klimaleugnung, Frauenverachtung und die Verfolgung von queeren Menschen offen zum Geschäftsmodel gehört? Das muss nicht sein!
Komm dahin, wo Menschen soziale Medien aktiv und dezentral gestalten. Komm ins Fediverse, hier ist die bessere Party. Mach mit beim global switch day am 1. Februar 2025 und bring Deine Freund*innen mit. Empfohlen u.a. von @janboehm
So einfach geht das – probiere mal eins davon aus:
Finde ein Pendant zum jeweiligen antisozialen Medium
Kurznachrichtendienste mit Zeichenlimit und bis zu vier BildernTwitter (heute: niX mehr) –> Mastodon
Besuche social.cologne, das ist eine Mastodon-Plattform und erstelle Deinen Account. Eine detaillierte bebilderte Anleitung und Deine ersten Schritte haben wir Anfang des Jahres vorbereitet.
Teile ein bis 10 Bilder pro Beitrag und schreib dazu einen Begleittext. Instagram –> Pixelfed
Die Liste ist unvollständig, um Dir den Einstieg zu erleichtern haben wir pro Dienst nur eine von vielen dezentralen Servern angegeben. Weiteres findest Du z.B. im Beitrag Das Fediverse : Unendliche Weiten.
Am 23. Februar 2025 ist Bundestagswahl Klimaschutz ist Menschenschutz Gehe wählen! Wähle demokratisch! Wähle Klimaschutz! Die Termine unserer Kundgebungen (jeweils 11-14 Uhr (*)) 18.01.2025 Breite Straße/Richmodstraße, Altstadt-Nord 25.01.
I don’t think all those other apps are gonna replace anything (including this app and I don’t think rednote is gonna replace TikTok either) but they might be worth giving them a shot
@dausacker olha que legal essa imagem. (Pessoalmente não gosto tanto da ideia de uma plataforma de vídeos verticais federada... Mas a imagem não deixa de ser legal, não.)
@caos @Daniel Supernault @ericbuijs1 @anubis2814 @Elena Rossini ⁂ @FOSDEM @Sanne Bjerg I actually spent an entire afternoon myself compiling this comprehensive post about Friendica. It was initially designed to be a megathread with resources, but I decided to also add an FAQ and, as a bonus, the list of all human-readable color names that are supported when formatting your text to be colored (because yes, you can format your text in whichever way you want).
Feel free to Ctrl+F anything in your browser to quickly jump to what you need, check the links as well if I did not cover it, and also ask on the forum (@helpers@forum.friendi.ca) if you still don't find what you need. Or you can ask here. I'm all ears :)
Hello, everyone! As we know what Zuck's place is going through, I decided to create a post with all the resources I found online all these years I've been on this place, in a bid to help more people board. Here we go:
no less important, The Friendica Wiki also available under the help section of your instance (click on your pic and name on the top-right where you're logged in -> help)
The @Friendica Support group for any questions or issues (yes, I intended to post this here).
All of these should be more comprehensive than this guide.
Short Q&A with the most common problems
How do I post stuff? Easy, on your profile, click the button in the top right that looks like this:
A pop-up window will open, and you can type anything. Make sure to set the appropriate permissions by clicking the tab at the top. If you want your post to be public then choose public, if you don't, select limited/private and add the exceptions or add who can see it. Make sure you properly select these permissions, because you cannot change them later. If you format your post (see below), you can also check the preview pane to see how your post will look. This also applies for comments.
How to format my text?
Friendica uses BBCodes for text formatting like bold text, italic text, underlined text and many others. You can find more example on the usage of it in the Wiki or under https://your-instance-address/help/bbcode. You don't have to style your text, but you can do some nice stuff with it. You can also get suggestions for formatting by typing [ and selecting an option from the drop-down menu, or typing out your option to narrow your search. But do check the wiki, though. Generally, BBCode looks like [option]your-text-here[/option].
If there is any text where you don't want to add any tags on by accident, slide it between these tags: [noparse][/noparse].
How to upload an image (and how to add alt-text to it) Just drag&drop it into the composing page. Simple. Easy. No frills.
Also, to note is that you can also re-use an image you previously uploaded if you go to the Browser tab in the compose window.
Finally, you can link to any image you find online, without downloading&reuploading it in the 1st place. Right-click an image, click "copy image link", then go to your post and type [img]paste-your image-link-here[/img] (of course, you paste your image link instead, between the img tags). This is generally how images are displayed via BBCode.
I personally use an external site to host my media and link it this way, whenever there is something I want on the internet for as long as possible in order to save some space on my instance. I mostly use postimages.org, but I also used
Meta and now also Reddit like to change the URL string to the media posted on their platforms, so don't rely on these if you want your post to still stay relevant after a few days.
You can also add Alt-Text to your image if, instead, you type [img=your_image_url]Your Alt-Text here[/img]. Alt-Text is generally an image description that is displayed when the image fails to load/before loading, and is useful to visually impaired people using screen reading software which can read this out loud. The latter is the reason why it is highly recommended by many people all across the Fediverse (not just on Friendica).
How to upload a video or other media Just like you do with an image. However, the video will be posted under Browser, and then the "Files" icon:
Select your file, and it will be posted with an tag.
However, there's currently no user facing way to delete these as yet, so feel free to upload them on any other external service and share the direct link to the audio/video if you care about this.
You can use the tags [audio]your-link-to-the-audio[/audio] and [video]your-link-to-the-video[/video] for that.
How do I make a poll/vote at polls Polls are currently supported by a few Fediverse platforms, but not by Friendica fully, right now (you can see them, but you cannot vote on them and create them).
You can again use an external service for creating polls, such as poll-maker or Strawpoll.
How to post to a group
Groups on Friendica, as well as any other ActivityPub platform, are generally just some special accounts that automatically boost/reshare whatever post you added while tagging them. Therefore, just create a regular post and tag them with the ! or @ signs (one of these tags should suffice). The former one creates a post that is visible on the group but unlisted wherever else (i.e. in a public feed). The latter takes account of your permission settings. You will see how you can find groups somewhere below.
How to find various people
There are multiple ways; One is to use any of the established lists:
You can also go to Settings>Profile>Miscellaneous and scroll all the way down to add some tags to the profile. Then, you can also go to Contacts and choose "similar interests" in the left pane, get friend suggestions or a random profile.
Finally, you can also add yourself into the aforementioned Friendica Directory or to your server's one by going to Settings>Account>Security and Privacy Settings and check any of these two options:
This way anyone can find you according to your interests.
Finally, you can also follow hashtags to get posts from people that also share your interests directly in your feed, and then follow them from there.
If you want to have more privacy, you can check the following box below:
This limits the visibility of your content to only instances that are made aware of it, and people that have access to it based on your privacy settings. Unlogged users will not be allowed to find you.
How do I find groups?
Same as with regular people. There are multiple lists:
Check out the servers of other Fediverse software like Mbin or Piefed. These are more forum-like platforms, centered around communities. Generally, each of these communities has a Fediverse address. Copy that, paste it in the search bar, and you should be able to find it. If it doesn't work the 1st time, try a few more times. If it still doesn't work, look whether the server is not on the banned list by accessing your-server-address/friendica, and/or contact your admin for clarification.
How do I use the search? Is it any useful beyond just searching for people and groups and other accounts?
Yes there are. From my personal experience, Raccoon for Friendica gave me the best results. Relatica is also a great option, as well as Fedilab (the latter is more of a Mastodon client, but you can disable the display of reply in the feeds and enable BBCode - fiddle out in the settings). There are other apps for various platforms as well. If you don't find any of them fitting, you can just access your Friendica server in your browser (e.g. friendica.world, nerdica.net etc.). It's very responsive and easy to use.
I hope this Q&A covers the most common aspects of using Friendica
Bonus: Text colorsOne aspect that hasn't really been touched on in the wiki is the colors. You can have text in any color if you type the text like this [color=color_name_or_value]your text here[/color]. Hex values are accepted, however there are also some human readable names that can be used (based on this thread): Antiquewhite Aqua Aquamarine Azure Beige Bisque Blanchedalmond Blue Blueviolet Brown Burlywood Cadetblue Chartreuse Chocolate Coral Cornflowerblue Cornsilk Crimson Cyan Darkblue Darkcyan Darkgoldenrod Darkgray Darkgreen Darkkhaki Darkmagenta Darkolivegreen Darkorange Darkorchid Darkred Darksalmon Darkseagreen Darkslateblue Darkslategray Darkturquoise Darkviolet Deeppink Deepskyblue Dimgray Dodgerblue Firebrick Floralwhite Forestgreen Fuchsia Gainsboro Ghostwhite Gold Goldenrod Gray Green Greenyellow Honeydew Hotpink Indianred Indigo Ivory Khaki Lavender Lavenderblush Lawngreen Lemonchiffon Lightblue Lightcoral Lightcyan Lightgoldenrodyellow Lightgreen Lightgrey Lightpink Lightsalmon Lightseagreen Lightskyblue Lightslategray Lightsteelblue Linen Magenta Maroon Mediumaquamarine Mediumblue Mediumorchid Mediumpurple Mediumseagreen Mediumslateblue Mediumspringgreen Mediumturquoise Mediumvioletred Midnightblue Mintcream Mistyrose Moccasin Navajowhite Navy Oldlace Olive Olivedrab Orange Orangered Orchid Palegoldenrod Palegreen Paleturquoise Palevioletred Papayawhip Peachpuff Peru Pink Plum Powderblue Purple Red Rosybrown Royalblue Saddlebrown Salmon Sandybrown Seagreen Seashell Sienna Silver Skyblue Slateblue Slategray Snow Springgreen Steelblue Tan Teal Thistle Tomato Turquoise Violet Wheat White Whitesmoke Yellow Yellowgreen
i really dont want to spoil the fun here. I appreciate the effort.
But although #signal is much more popular than #matrix their relationship is like #mastodon to #bluesky. Both bluesky and signal have a #proprietary backend. although their frontent is #OpenSource they technically have a single point of failure. server/cluster down == service down
Mastodon and matrix are actual fediverse services which are undestroyable since they are many federated, independent servers.
I pulled up YouTube for the first time (I was signed out of google too) on my work computer to watch one funny video at work, and this is what autoplayed immediately afterwards. I’m fully switching to peertube now. It’s turning into a hate platform like meta and Twitter.
Wir sind noch #neuHier auf #Mastodon. Unsere Accounts auf X, Facebook und Instagram haben wir gelöscht.
Wir sind unseres Wissens der erste #AnwaltVerein im #Fediverse, aber bestimmt nicht der letzte.
Wir würden uns freuen, wenn noch mehr #Rechtsanwälte den Weg hierher fänden. Sprecht Euren Lieblings-, Haus-, Familien- und Unternehmensanwalt einfach auf's #Fediversum an. Es gibt ja für jede große kommerzielle Plattform eine freie Alternative, siehe die grafische Übersicht oben.
Dunno how well this is going to go - decentralized kinda misses the point of social networks, one of these requires you to run your own servers, and one is closed to new signups
The Fediverse needs better branding. Don't use 'Tube', it was already outdated when YouTube launched. Pixelfed sounds like it's a federal agency. Friendica? What? And don't get me started on 'Mastodon' which I think would have way more users if it wasn't called 'Mastodon'
I've been slowly converting family and friends over to #Signal for years now. Here's how usually I do that these days. When a conversation gets into some rather intimate topic - say talk on emotions, or psychology, or other highly private details - then I set a boundary, saying "I'd be willing to discuss this topic further, but only in a more private app like Signal." So I leave them an "out": I'm willing to stay on, say, WhatsApp, *but the conversation has to stay more shallow*.
I also run an #XMPP server (Prosody), but I've had very limited success in getting people to join. Frankly, XMPP is *only* for intrepid geeks at this time, who are willing to put up with several papercuts in usability. Apps like WhatsApp and Signal have "raised the bar" *a lot*, and apps like #Conversations and #Gajim have their work cut out for them to try to catch up to people's sky-high expectations - they've been spoiled.
*A ton more testing and bug-fixing is still needed to iron out quirks that the different XMPP clients have, in talking to each other.* This goes especially for #iOS or #iPadOS offerings for XMPP.
Hi Dansup, first of all, you are a ⭐ thanks for everything you do! I have a quick question... I applied to pixelfed.art a couple of days ago, but no answer yet. Shall I wait more or resend the application? Please let me know if there is anything wrong. My username in the application was "skamu". Thanks!!
Never was on Xitter, but I'm here. Never been on "insta," or What'sApp, or TikTok. Debating leaving FB and not switching to anything. YT with ad blockers and a VPN for now.
Long interesting discussion! Another idea, while we’re at it, might be to buy a Fairphone with /e/os and resist the temptation of installing the ‘wrong apps’. They also sell tablets. Reasonably locked down Linux on your computer and you’re set. Am I the only one who sees the irony of choosing ‘safe’ apps but still using the machines and os’ of the beast? . If you have to use them at work, wait till you get home to socialize online, or take your Fairphone on your pee break.
Mike Macgirvin, the creator of Friendica and Hubzilla, has made a whole tree of at least (...counts...) nine forks after Hubzilla, eight of which were nomadic. Two of them still exist.
One is intentionally nameless, intentionally brandless, intentionally not a project and intentionally released into the public domain. Since the community needed to address to it by something, they took the name of the code repository (which needed a name), put parentheses around it and called it (streams).
It's a fork (2021) of a fork (Roadhouse; 2021) of three forks (Osada, Mistpark 2020 a.k.a. Misty, Redmatrix 2020; 2020) of a fork (Zap; 2018) of maybe another fork (Osada; non-nomadic; 2018; if Zap was forked from Osada rather than directly from Hubzilla;) of Hubzilla.
(streams) is reduced in features and connectivity in comparison with Hubzilla, but so were the first Osada and Zap. However, in terms of permission control and nomadicity, it's at least up-to-par with Hubzilla. In fact, it isn't quite as difficult to use as Hubzilla because permission handling has been adapted what the Fediverse of the 2020s actually requires as opposed to what a hypothetical Fediverse of the mid-2010s centred around the Red Matrix would require.
I've made a series of tables that compare Mastodon, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams). You can find them here.
The other still existing fork is Forte from August, 2024. Forte is a direct fork of (streams). It's highly experimental because all support for the Nomad protocol was removed, and it has to rely on ActivityPub for nomadic identity. Thus, it is not officially released yet, it does not have public instances, and it is not recommended as a stable, reliable daily driver yet.
Lemmy is the most usable one and the only I frequent daily out of the whole fediverse, even with the lower numbers in comparison, its consistent with it's growth and way more constructive than reddit
I have to say that I just really paid attention to the logos for Loops and Peertube and I think they’re brilliant. I have no idea if you intended for Loops to reference/riff Peertube’s design language, but it’s very good either way (Peertube evoking federation through the “play” triangle pointing in multiple directions while also itself being a “play” triangle; almost the same sized triangle in the negative space with the looping graphics for Loops).
"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."
Related: Also see the End of Term Web Archive, which routinely scrapes and preserves US govt web pages before new presidents take office. Launched in 2008 and still going strong. To supplement its archive, it welcomes URL nominations of sites to save. eotarchive.org/
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.
"In the first few days of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s #Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (#CEJST, for short) disappeared from government websites. It was an interactive map of U.S. Census tracts that are “marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution,” as the pre-Trump federal government put it—something researchers and the public could use to quickly locate and zoom in on specific communities and analyze the problems they face. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine stored a copy of the webpage, but even there, the map was gone. However, thanks to a team of researchers from multiple universities and other organizations, a new working version was posted online Friday."
Related: "The #Trump administration is scrubbing the #CDC’s website of documents on #ReproductiveRights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. We’re saving them. 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺 will publish and host these vital documents for as long as necessary. To share deleted documents with 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺, email tips@abortioneveryday.com. " jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-bir…
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
Related. "Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites" journalistsresource.org/home/r…
"Tips for preserving websites: * To find the missing websites, go to Wayback Machine and type in the website’s URL in the search bar. * If you’re concerned that certain websites or web pages may be removed, you can suggest federal websites and content that end in .gov, .mil and .com to the End of Term Web Archive. * You can suggest federal climate and environmental databases to Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. * You can suggest databases to The Data Liberation Project, which is run by MuckRock and Big Local News. * Tell science journalist Maggie Koerth what CDC data you've downloaded and whether you've made them publicly available...."
Journalists have long relied on federal health data for their reporting. We include several tips that they can use to help researchers preserve the data.
Surveying a range of initiatives with good clarity on the obstacles.
"There are questions about whether scraping the data will really be enough. Restoring websites and complex data sets is often not a simple process.…'The repairs and attempts to recover are sometimes insurmountable where we need continuous readings of data.' 'All of this data archiving work is a temporary Band-Aid,' says Gosnell. 'If data sets are removed and are no longer updated, our archived data will become increasingly stale and thus ineffective at informing decisions over time.' "
Amid takedowns of various government sites and databases, several organizations are working to preserve vital climate, health, and scientific data before it’s gone for good.
Update. "The Public Environmental Data Partners [#PEDP] are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them." screening-tools.com/
Update. "This is Version 2 of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, released by the Council on Environmental Quality [#CEQ] in December 2024. Although the tool remains unchanged, public access through the White House was discontinued on January 22, 2025. We re-created Version 2 and made it publicly accessible." screening-tools.com/climate-ec…
Update. "Today we [Harvard Law School @harvard_law Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil] released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use." lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
I honest to god, even in my most fevered worries about the future, (and as someone trained in bioethics, I had plenty of them), dreamed that one day we would be playing whack a mole with the American Stasi to keep science data safe.
My goodness, it's going to be ironic if Piratbyrån is what saves science.
I was just thinking, with all of the badly worded edicts that King Don has been firehosing us with, if I were a sysadmin I would engage i malicious compliance just to wake people up and not sugarcoat the awfulness. Let the whole website return errors, take the whole thing down rather than hide info. Make people mad.
"FAFO season continues as MAGA, thinking DEI just meant Black people getting jobs, now face the reality their mothers, sisters, uncles and cousins all benefitted from it."
FAFO season continues as MAGA, thinking DEI just meant Black people getting jobs, now face the reality their mothers, sisters, uncles and cousins all benefit...
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. If you have to use them at work, wait till you get home to socialize online, or take your Fairphone on your pee break.
Darth Tiktaalik
in reply to Hemant Mehta • • •It's easier to get from the bible to flat earth than it is to get from the bible to the creationist baraminology of Answers in Genesis.
They their religiously motivated pseudoscientific conspiracy theories backwards.