kristoff

Hi, Correct. For you info. I co-manage a activity-pub relay for fediverse instances oriented towards hamradio. If you are interested in peering, feel free to send me a ping)

Hi Kux,

The problem I see here, is that you then also need to explain why following a remote instance might be interesting, . which means that you need to explain how the fediverse has led to the existance of specialised instances. (which means that you also need explain that the fediverse is more community driven).

"even though you can be on one instance (as you really like the community overthere, and it the posts have a good signal-over-noise ratio), the ability to follow remote instances does still allow you to follow other instances (read: other communities) .. after all .. most people do are interested in several things, no? "

The question is .. do we care about THAT 80 % of the people. I would be more then happy if we can have that 20 % of more technical-oriented audience :-)

I use fedilabs. Works very well. Allows hashtag-following following the public feed of a remote instance multi-account with cross-account actions

interesting article.

I understand the fact that you do not want to make it to.complicated, but there qte soms other things you might try to squeze in:

• other microblogging software besides mastodon (miskey, pleroma, gotosocial. ) who are also the fediverse I understand that you are mainly addressing people who come from twitter/X. A lot of people equate micro blogging with twitter .. and twitter with microblogging. It is interesting to note that micro blogging is just a service, and twitter and mastodon are just two examples (be it the biggest ones). But there is other microblogging software out there! And, due to the fediverse, you are free to use anyone you like.

You can mention that these othersoftwarei offer other perspectives to the same service. Eg. a service like hubzilla has a more privacy-oriented approach.

• You mention mastodon pixelfed and Lemmy as the fediverse replacement for X, Instagram and reddit (services people know). You canalsoo mention services like friendica (which has a more FB like interface), or peertube, librecast, (videos and videostreaming) , funkwhale (audio),/ WordPress (for macroblogging) .. or less know services that do not have 'big name' tech behind it (eg bookwyrm for books, agenda-sharing services, .. or even activitypub based chess).

I understand that listing all of this would be to much. It is however interesting to make people understand that social media is a lot more then 'the big three names they know', both in the variety in the types of services social media offers and the choice of software inside each segment)

Kr.

most people probably just watch some YouTube videos if they want an introduction to mastodon 😀

hi,

The problem with hash tag-following is that it some on the messages that enter the instance in some way (either local or from the federation). This works great on big Instances and on specialised instances. However, on smaller less-special instances (like personal instances or -say-an instance for a mid-sized city with 50 members) ... it works much less.

But that is then where grup.pe and following public instances of remote instances comes in.

Kr.

Hi all. Thanks for the feedback. Very much appreciated 👍. ... I will set it up in docker.

or a one-way trip from a window on the 10th storey of a building all the way down to the ground.

HI Simon,

Hum. Spamming? It's only 2 tags, so I think I am quite modest in my use of tags :-)

I look at this from the fediverse perspective. As I see it, hashtags and guppe groups are the non-threaded-fediverse equivalent to lemmy communities/kbin magazines: a grouping of posts per topic.

As to many people on mastodon still only know mastodon and do not know of the other services on the fediverse. So I think a small cross-post from time to time from lemmy towards mastodon/fediverse might not be a bad thing to create a little bit of awareness about the service.

Hi, Perhaps a stupid question, but what exactly is required to port an OS to a different architecture? OK, there is the boot-process, and low-level language compilers, ... but what else?

How much code has actually to be rewriten, and how much just needs "make" to be recompiled?

Kr.

Hi,I I agree there is truth in these statements, but -as said- the tone is way more menacing then the reality.

I wonder why anybody is spending all this time and effort (and hence money) to produce this kind of content.

what is the goal? Scare people? Create uncertainty and fear?

What does strike me it that is talks about US companies, but does not say anything about companies from the rest of the world or state-driven projects.

So, hence also my question, is this a new fenomina (with the rise of ChatGPT?) or has this existed for long?

Kr.