Posts by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
(DIR) Post #APuAEcf8S9JJCmWBP6 by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-23T19:23:46.978212Z
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@flaky @cleanycloth Oh right, I forgot they block half the fedi including both instances I use (but not my single user one, which is down rn) 😂
(DIR) Post #APuATpRFEbVtAmGuAq by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-23T19:26:32.921793Z
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@flaky @cleanycloth Oh yeah, and the thing is a lot of instances are "hate speech" because one to two users were being crazy. Which is why I have kept this instance up, because running single user instances is the easiest way to get past the Great Firewall of Mastodon.
(DIR) Post #APuBMWaN1wgad3cZge by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-23T19:36:25.751571Z
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I feel the biggest problem with the fediverse is how block happy instances are.Mastodon.social blocking half the fedi is proof of this.
(DIR) Post #APuDdZuc7E0LmFLiqm by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-23T20:01:55.515071Z
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@officialfoxdickfarms never forget the nose incident
(DIR) Post #APwDcC4pdZjTsdO9HE by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-24T19:11:03.425190Z
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@flaky @cleanycloth I've got the WSUS offline thing and I used that to grab updates for Itanium Windows.
(DIR) Post #APwJujlDjxa3HmROSG by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-24T20:21:39.928113Z
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@freemo It's a fork of a tool that was originally written by worse people than KF (a nonce instance which was whining about being blocked). I have no idea if Mint actually uses the farms themselves other than the Git and possibly the fedi instance. But I have a strong feeling they're using that to discredit anyone complaining about being blocked. These kinds of people just created another blocklist to block all the Pleroma and Soapbox instances, and I mean a 1200+ domain list. https://ligma.pro/@r000t/109396033621130514They're the same types on Twitter who'd run "blockchain" scripts on peoples accounts.
(DIR) Post #APwKlQY3txFV32PW1A by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-24T20:31:11.248957Z
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@freemo Mostly in smaller instances IMO, as in ones that restrict registration to keep out people who would definitely look to fighting half the internet and fediverse. The problem with a blanket Pleroma blocklist because "bad people" use it, is there are a lot of left-wing instances and hobby based instances that run it. Sure many of them moved to Akkoma, but a lot run vanilla Pleroma and the thing is, the developers of Pleroma are definitely not Nazis (see the Alex Gleason feud). I know for a fact most of the devs are LGBT and at least one former Pleroma dev was transgender. The same goes with soapbox, I know a trans person runs ap.maladaptive.art and it's blocked for being problematic just because of running Soapbox. The admin doesn't agree with Alexes views, but likes the UI of Soapbox and feels that it overcomes a barrier to fedi adoption. Put it this way, this instance of mine that I don't use that often on a SPARC box (for a month long challenge of using old hardware) is now on that list because they just scraped all Pleroma instances.
(DIR) Post #APwPMDNGFH5cii9i5Y by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-24T21:22:40.334774Z
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lol
(DIR) Post #APwkLRHj8cvkby2S6C by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-25T01:17:49.283409Z
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@Kye So here's something interesting too, Wordpress not only has ActivityPub plugins, but also I've had a similar idea with art sites being decentralized. Personally I prefer the dA style of community and content discovery over Tumblr's social media feed, especially as you could find related art by different/the same artists easily or "groups" where different artists could post stuff with a common theme. The nice part about making Tumblr-likes or art sites decentralized is it takes care of the inevitable moderation issues with running an art site, as art sites are very prone to have people argue "stop liking what I don't like". Of course the problem is, how many people are going to do what is done to Mastodon.Social and just block it for being "too big" like what already happens in some corners?
(DIR) Post #APwmHbLXzGe6ZD7hNA by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-25T01:39:32.296453Z
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@Kye I feel the other issue with federation as well with if a site were to take off is the amount of times it uses the blocklist. The other day I found out about an extremely excessive blocklist that literally blanket blocks all known Pleroma instances because some infamous instances run it. It's stuff like that which splits the fediverse into two sides like it already is right now.
(DIR) Post #APxDzIA7NB9oZVppY0 by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-25T06:49:57.491930Z
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@Kye I don't think they're fake users. They're genuinely all real people who got banned from every other social media site online.And it comes down to the fact that Pleroma will run on literal garbage hardware from an ewaste center dump. Keep in mind, the developers of Pleroma don't condone behavior even "remotely" tied to it, they just don't make it as obvious. The fact they're on good terms with the Akkoma devs as opposed to Rebased sums it up more than words and PR releases can.
(DIR) Post #AQ2FBdeaMikcRhKwWe by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-27T16:56:57.721644Z
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@PaterSnape @crschmidt @jefftk it's defederation as many instances block others and don't even tell you. Click the view external link button if Eugen still let's you (it was in the timestamp).
(DIR) Post #AQ6ZRaOX1ccAgfY6oC by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-29T19:02:47.492976Z
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@vidar @catvalente @vitruvianmeeple Eugen doesn't care about you, or making a software people can enjoy using.You can always run an instance with Pleroma, I'm running this instance on an old Sun workstation from 2006.https://docs.pleroma.social have fun.
(DIR) Post #AQ6ZZ8ILNpk5r0Fm8e by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-29T19:04:07.395492Z
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@vidar @mastodonmigration @catvalente @vitruvianmeeple There's an interesting Mastodon/Pleroma frontend called Soapbox that has those.https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox
(DIR) Post #AQ6aZNemMtdfS5QgN6 by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-29T19:15:23.108864Z
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@vidar @vitruvianmeeple @catvalente @mastodonmigration Yep and just like how there's mastodon forks like glitch-social or hometown, you can easily make a soapbox fork. There's some soapbox fork for example for some guy's instance to allow it to work better with Akkoma (a Pleroma fork) and with modifications for his own site. Rebased is also another Pleroma fork as well. There's also at least two Misskey forks such as FoundKey and Calckey. This is the cool part about the AGPL license used on the fedi. Nobody "owns" the software. Even if you hate the developer, you can fork it and fix features the developer removed for example or add in ones he won't add. While Soapbox did have a stigma due to the people who initially ran instances with it, I know a friend who is running a pro LGBT furry instance with it for example and I know someone else who is trans trying to run an art instance with it. As long as you make sure to specify in your rules exactly what your views are, you'll be fine running one with it blocklist wise. The other thing with Pleroma and it's forks and other fedi software, is they are a lot less resource heavy than Mastodon is IMO.https://gist.github.com/Gargron/aa9341a49dc91d5a721019d9e0c9fd11Recently there was a semi viral post as well about how a Mastodon instance was having to spend 800 Euro a month to be hosted for a 15k user instance, and then SDF needed excessive high-end hardware to run a 50k user instance. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aras/109375786255688867
(DIR) Post #AQ6anqHkizCYIQYSW0 by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-29T19:18:00.744169Z
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@vidar @catvalente @mastodonmigration @vitruvianmeeple The other thing I'd mention is to change the user agent if you run a Pleroma instance. You can do this easily in settings, and this is because some instances run by sysadmins new to the fedi automatically began to block Pleroma instances in the nginx config because of some harassing instances running it. My friend running the furry server had this issue as well. His fix was to change the user agent to what he called his fork and suddenly he found himself able to federate with instances that had issues federating with Pleroma.
(DIR) Post #AQ6cFe8jZgOagr9sUS by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-11-29T19:34:15.562899Z
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@kino @mastodonmigration @catvalente @vidar @vitruvianmeeple >looks at poast and masto socialYep, running a centralized fediverse instance is truly a bad idea.
(DIR) Post #AQMDq0B1jJoN8XpQUS by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-12-07T08:16:04.183192Z
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@r000t @p danger to the trans community 😂
(DIR) Post #AR8uBZ9aPCatigcZRw by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2022-12-30T19:56:38.485281Z
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@Ash @Sterophonick Vintage computers are not as bad as video games IMO. With vintage computers, the issue is usually unmaintained emulators because one or two guys will be programming an emulator for a computer they used back in the day, or it'll be good enough and something obscure won't run. Aside from Japan for obvious reasons (thanks copyright laws) there's also a lot less of a "I'm not sharing this" mindset. They also have a very different demographic downloading the emulators, and a higher barrier of entry. Or if gamers are downloading the emulator, they're not the main target. They're also writing them for a specific purpose in many cases even.Here's an example of what I'm talking about; this FM Towns emulator was written by a guy who was trying to preserve the library and he needed a debugger...but the emulators out there couldn't debug right. So he wrote a FM Towns emulator for the debugger. http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/towns/Tsugaru/e.htmlWhen you look into his site it's more interesting; the same guy became known for writing a flight sim that gained a cult following and just got released as BSD licensed.
(DIR) Post #ARD9Jv05L6eTjnSQeO by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
2023-01-01T21:05:06.233780Z
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@robpike try pleroma or the rebased fork tbh if you're running your own or find someone running these.https://pleroma.socialhttps://soapbox.pub