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@f00fc7c8@kind.social
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same.

Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Joined November 14, 2022
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any (use your spiciest ones)
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Debian GNU/Linux 11 Bullseye
Age:
a real scalar value greater than 18
pfp/banner desc:
Kraftwerk's album Computerwelt, but with a foxgirl
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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But this influx has brought new challenges as well - slowdowns and moderation issues on many instances as they have difficulty absorbing the increased traffic, a further increase in the zealous use of instance suspensions threatening to fragment the network and create centralized silos, and many new users having difficulty understanding how the network functions. (Thanks for making it to the end of this thread! I hope I didn't make any egregious errors.)
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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Blocklists of instances with problematic content were widely shared, effectively shutting those instances out of the network; most successful was the #FediBlock hashtag, started by Black users such as artist Marcia X. For a time, this was highly effective in protecting some users, and even led to the fediverse becoming a haven for queer, leftist, and neurodivergent communities. Unfortunately, racism on the Fediverse persists to this day, even on some otherwise well-moderated instances.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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Mastodon saw significant expansion in 2017, with #DeleteFacebook and similar pushes against proprietary social networks, and a few larger companies supporting the platform. This was also the first time many instances began suspending, or "defederating from", entire other servers in the Fediverse.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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Around the same time, Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol was being built upon by a number of experts to form the W3C standard ActivityPub. Mastodon, Friendica, and Pleroma were eager to adopt the new standard, even before it was formally published, and eventually Mastodon and Pleroma would drop their support for OStatus. The Fediverse would continue to expand and new platforms were developed - PeerTube for video sharing, Pixelfed for image sharing, BookWyrm for book reviewing, etc.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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As a result, many fledgling social networks, as well as established networks with better reputations, absorbed massive influxes of Twitter users. The Fediverse was among the more established networks; it saw activity rise into the millions of users, and that's where things stand now. Amidst chaos on the large instances, the usefulness of the Fediverse in finding communities has increased greatly.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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In October of 2022, billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter, the platform that the largest Fediverse platforms had always aimed to compete with. Under his leadership, in just a month, most of the company's staff was fired, several features of the website became broken, right-wing content was massively promoted, and fears rapidly rose about the website dying or becoming the exclusive territory of the far-right.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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A couple additional notes:

  • There were plenty of federated communication platforms before Identi.ca. Usenet, FIDOnet (federated BBSes), IRC networks, and of course, e-mail are examples. The lineage to Mastodon is less direct, but it's there.
  • The Diaspora social network, founded and crowdfunded in 2010 by four NYU students and inspired by the ideas of Eben Moglen, is another large federated microblogging platform, but uses its own protocol and is separate from the others.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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  • The maintainers of GNU social also worked on the federated music community GNU FM, of which the most prominent instance was Libre.fm (which I also used around the same time I used GNU social). As @mattl@xoxo.zone describes it, GNU social was his effort to redirect use of GNU FM as a social network, to something better suited for social networking. Both projects started around 2009.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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Made some edits to the thread. @clacke tells me that the term Fediverse has been in use since 2011-12, and I can believe that. @jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de confirmed my suggestion that instance suspensions didn't exist in the fediverse during the GNU social era - at the very least, Friendica did not have such a feature.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 36mo ago

Institutions designed to help disabled people really don't seem to understand that sometimes, disabilities (especially forms of neurodivergence) make it HARD to do things, but not necessarily impossible.

If keeping up with expectations is so difficult it traumatizes me, but I just barely manage to do it most of the time, nobody cares. Unless something is physically preventing me from doing a thing, the response is just "here's some resources to help you with time management".

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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More edits: comments by @mattl@social.mat.tl indicate that the GNU social project existed long before StatusNet merged with it, which is confirmed by this FSF blog: . I've updated my wording to reflect that.
fsf.org

FSF to host GNU social architecture meeting — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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Friendica also has long had support for federation with Diaspora, and both the OStatus and ActivityPub protocols, plus extensions to read many other social networking and link aggregation services.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 26mo ago

woem.space appears to be down right now, so i am here. how's everyone doing?

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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Another note (updated thanks to detailed explanations in a reply by @clacke): I previously left out Diaspora from this thread because it doesn't directly federate with the social networks I mentioned, but it does, partially. Thanks to common elements in Diaspora and StatusNet software stacks, users of Identi.ca, and StatusNet and GNU social instances, can see posts from Diaspora users. However, the differences mean that Diaspora users can't see their posts, and replies do not work.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 46mo ago
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new followers and reply people: this is not my cat, it's a viral image, and I don't usually post cats
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 45mo ago
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one month later and people are still boosting this and replying as though the image is of my cat. i guess that's what i get for letting people boost whenever they feel like it.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 46mo ago
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oh wow! a hit toot! check out my soundcloud jk I don't use soundcloud check out my PeerTube! @f00fc7c8_videos also I hope this isn't getting more popular than the posts I based it on
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 46mo ago
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@CaffeineSam@mstdn.party automation is not the problem or the solution to the problem; the problem is capitalism exploiting literally everything to help wealth hoarders hoard more wealth
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@erazlogo@assemblag.es @prem_k@mastodon.social By archive I mean the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine, so expect some difficulties, but here: https://web.archive.org/web/20131206162815/http://status.net/blogs/evan
web.archive.org

Evan Prodromou's blog | StatusNet

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@KansasGrant@techhub.social I'm not old enough, but I know a lot of important Internet history happened on Usenet, in the 80s and 90s. We had a federated social network early on, and it fell apart to spam, unmoderatability, and the availability of more convenient centralized networks. Quite sad.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 35mo ago

Inspired by the recent 20th Anniversary LRRcast, I did some archive.org digging for old LoadingReadyRun videos. Here's a treasure trove of pixelly 2000s Internet comedy.

https://archive.org/details/lrr-loadingreadyrun.com/

archive.org
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 36mo ago

@pathfinder@cutie.city exactly, i have tried every time management or planning strategy people throw at me, and i'm pretty sure the reason for my "time management issues" is a disability, not that i haven't heard the right advice yet

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 46mo ago
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@Texan_Reverend@kind.social the datacenter that hosts kind.social is overrun by cats, chewing on and unplugging random wires, jumping around the racks, sleeping on servers, getting hair in USB ports, reading files to stdout
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 46mo ago
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@grissallia@aus.social hey. be careful.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@teal@chaos.social @evan@prodromou.pub yep, I follow him! he and the other activitypub coauthors have some great insights into the dynamics of Mastodon and how to improve it
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@prem_k@mastodon.social I wasn't around for those, so I hope my summary (mostly pulled from Wikipedia and archives of the StatusNet blog) was accurate!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 46mo ago
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@CaffeineSam@mstdn.party sorry, I was not disagreeing, that was intended as a "yes-and"
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 46mo ago
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@mauimom@mastodon.social Ultimately if you know how to use Mastodon and understand that there are different servers, you're fine. No need to perfectly understand its history or internals, though it helps. This thread was my attempt to place Mastodon in context, so the simple version is - there's a long history to this social network we're on - the fediverse - and Mastodon is just one part of it.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@KLB@glasgow.social Write.as offers a subscription for hosting a federated blog, and if you can pay for hosting for WordPress or Drupal (I doubt wordpress.com would work but it might in the future) those have ActivityPub extensions too. Otherwise, it seems that Friendica, a more Facebook-like platform on the fediverse, is suitable for this. Keep in mind that, AFAIK, blog posts on these sites will show up to Mastodon followers as the title and the link.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 36mo ago

@PlayAllTheThings@linernotes.club sadly, you cannot stop the restless march of time... but you can have a happy birthday!

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 36mo ago

so, how are y'all doing?

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 43mo ago
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@mo@kind.social as far as I know they aren't functional, they just work as links to tags that their content often relates to. there is one service that reads the tags in your bio to put you in a directory once you've opted in, but i forgot where to find it
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 43mo ago
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@mo@kind.social hihiii! welcome to kind.social (and the fediverse)!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 45mo ago
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@stonehenge@toot.community kraftwerk is the best!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 45mo ago
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@Trex@masto.es I know, it's not my cat, it's a viral image I copied. My family's cat doesn't carry one and is happier for it.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 46mo ago
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@transitory@hachyderm.io siamese cats are heatmaps of themselves
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@KLB@glasgow.social Also, if you want a Friendica instance, I am currently on libranet.de
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@frd@mastodon.social Feels good to be validated that my thread is well-written by people who were around for much more of the history I'm trying to piece together
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@clacke @jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de thanks for the sources there!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@nestor@mastorol.es I need to look more into Hubzilla. Seems like Friendica's ex-maintainer took Friendica (which already has like, every feature) and made it even more versatile and technical.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@schock@mastodon.lol thanks for reading it!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 35mo ago
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@rachel@transitory.social yes I know! heatmaps of themselves, as the meme said
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@notclacke@misskey.de @clacke thanks for the detailed technical explanation!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@KarenCaffrey@mas.to My name's not Heather and I don't think I know you. But hi!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@mattl@social.mat.tl I got a bunch of those bulletins with FSF merch I bought some time ago. Neat stuff.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@mattl@social.mat.tl Thanks for clarifying the timeline and for all the feedback, yeah, I seemed to have a few things confused regarding the GNU social/GNU FM/StatusNet connection
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 46mo ago
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@davidr@hachyderm.io I'm not saying Identi.ca was the first federated communication platform, just that it's roughly where the fediverse as we know it began. It federated with GNU social, which federated with Mastodon, and it led to the development of both of the protocols Mastodon has used to communicate between servers. I mention email and Usenet in a note at the end of the thread.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de @clacke According to that w3c page: "The Federated Social Web concept was started in summer 2010 at the first Federated Social Web Summit in Portland" and "This XG started on 15 December 2010 and transitioned on 12 January 2012 to Federated Social Web Community Group." So around the same time, apparently.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social
· 47mo ago
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@clacke Thanks for the info - I tried to find where Fediverse was coined, but after a while I gave up looking and assumed it was around 2016-17 because I couldn't find an earlier use, and that's both when the Wikipedia article was created and when I first remember picking it up.
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