Yes, but there seem to be less and less users on diaspora with less and less interactions (also a diaspora user is missing content due to lack of interconnectivity). Probably the majority is moving to Mastodon or friendica.
i don't think so The little group of diaspora dev. have decided a long time ago to not working to integrate activity pub protocol they have a lot of work to do with diaspora already. But if someone want to help them to make a "bridge" , it will be nice.
@Salinger 3 Yes, that's nice that development continues. I was wondering more in general regarding userbase. There is much more buzz on Mastodon (which I don't like personally), but it attracts people. And from a pure practical POV: There are advantages of being on a friendica pod (for example, or on Hubzilla). This is why it seems to me that moving to somewhere else is a logical choice for many users.
What I recently noticed as striking is that there are tons of abandoned profiles which were active for a while. I guess those users are still active but probably somewhere else.
@gunnar : i have opened an account on Mastodon to follow news. I don't write anything. Pixelfeed is nice also. I am not using Friendica or Hubzilla because i don't understand the UX but it could be interesting to be there, like this it's possible to be connected with the Fediverse and Diaspora. Do you think there is more active people who are posting on Friendica or Hubzilla. We should see them on Diaspora if we are connected with their instance/pod.
Yes, that's what I meant! If I'm not mistaken, users on a friendica pod can follow Mastodon users/see Mastodon posts (whatever name they have there), but we here only see one, if someone on friendica re-shares. Actually if there is a friendica bot that automatically re-shares a Mastodon user's posts, I could follow it by putting that friendica bot to the contacts here (so all the Mastodon posts would appear in the stream as re-shares). This is kind of odd. Hubzilla has really cool features, but it's somewhat complex first. On the other hand I still like it here. It's less noise, simple and there are always interesting posts to read.
For me, if I had to migrate elsewhere it'd be to Kbin, because of its better confidentiality and lack of a (killable) server. I don't know how it links to others OTOH, and would appreciate any advice...
Never tried kbin, but I read it's part of threadiverse like lemmy (using threads). It was pointed out in a post here that if you comment on a Lemmy or kbin post from friendica, it lets you see who up/down voted you.
Diaspora's strength is in the simple and intuitive user interface. I had a lot of trouble figuring out Friendica, and Hubzilla was a maze of confusion. Both friendica and hubzilla have a zillion features most people don't care about or use. Diaspora is waaaaay simpler and easier to use with an easy learning curve.
Ha. Yeah, at the high level that's clearly the requirement. To code this in an hdl we need to translate that into a low level list of features to implement. Can it be done without an os? Without a tcp stack?
@poleguy The scale of the ask, really. Sure, you can theoretically fake the output without an OS or network stack or processor, but you'd need to implement something that can produce the same final output as if it had all of the above.
@Tathar It's not clear to me what the scale of the ask is. Sometimes you can produce a minimum implementation that technically works, but can ignore all/most of the difficult logic. For example we have an FPGA implementation to drive gigabit ethernet with 'fake' udp, and it requires no os or processor. Just a state machine to stuff data we want in there. It's higher bw than real udp would be. Mastodon server would be more than that of course, but how much more? I don't have a clear picture.
@poleguy I think the most-limiting factor would be storage, honestly. An FPGA wouldn't have the on-chip resources to serve anything like Mastodon, regardless of cost.
If we were talking a bare-bones web server hosting logic-generated content, maybe it could be done by someone with a strong understanding of everything that goes into a web server. That wouldn't be me; I fully abandoned web design by the time CSS got popular.
@poleguy The thing with doing this on an FPGA is that all of the things you don't see and don't need to worry about with a conventional web server are suddenly problems that only you can solve.
bsd.network runs mastodon on OpenBSD and I used to run pleroma on OpenBSD some time ago too. Some if not most honk servers probably run on OpenBSD as well.
@angel Hi, the #snac instance is running fine. I just haven't declared it as an "official" service as I'm still considering it as experimental. Maybe it's time to announce it and make it official 🙂
It's pretty wild that the #Fediverse basically replaced Twitter and Facebook for as many people as it has. Sure, it's nothing Earth-shattering, but it's come a long way since I joined in 2010 or so.
I think the biggest sign for me was that I stopped logging into Facebook/Twitter/Instagram once a day/week/month to explain how everyone should leave. I think I still do it like once a quarter though.
"the internet now is just 5 websites posting screenshots of the other 4," as someone said. Why not Mastodon as a 6th site posting screenshots, with no ads!?!?
Big Tech, who controls the narrative, definitely wouldn't want to let that happen. That's precisely why all of the news was "Mastodon is dead" a while back.
Hot business tip and/or dystopian prediction: when you try to take a screenshot, you get an ad-style pop up saying "looks like you're trying to steal our content via screenshot. We only allow that for our content partners. Would you agree to be our brand ambassador?"
I honestly don't remember. When the Diaspora instances I was on went down, I went with Friendica because it can communicate with all sorts of servers including Diaspora.
In the beginning, there was Laconica, which later became known as StatusNet. A massive amount of the work that went into this is due to Evan Prodromou ( @Evan Prodromou ) , who is now spearheading an effort to standardize work on a communication protocol with the W3C Social Working Group.
As a networking project, it was the first public implementation of the communication protocol known as OpenMicroBlogging, which later evolved into the OStatus protocol. These technologies provided a significant building block for future federated networking projects to study and reference.
In terms of how StatusNet was used, it resembled an early version of Twitter, with the added benefit of group functionality. What made it unique is that users on one Laconica server could communicate with users on completely different servers.
Aside from an error complaining that vendor/autoload.php is missing, I was getting this logging constantly when running `docker compose up`:
gnu-social-worker-1 | Fatal error: Uncaught LogicException: You need to add "symfony/framework-bundle" as a Composer dependency. in /var/www/social/bin/console:18
gnu-social-worker-1 | Stack trace:
gnu-social-worker-1 | #0 {main}
gnu-social-worker-1 | thrown in /var/www/social/bin/console on line 18
Hmm, you didn't make any changes after running bin/configure? Nothing looks immediately off, was "symfony/framework-bundle" already in composer.json or did you add it?
It's definitely doable, but I think I need something a bit more practical to preserve my sanity.
Either that, or I need to do a better job of finding good back roads. 🤔 Australian highways have low speed limits and few people speed, but the Grom still ends up holding up traffic if people can't safely overtake.
I’m planning cross Canada from Ottawa to Tuktoyaktuk in the Summer on my Zero DSR/X. Will be Spotwalla-ing if you want to join in on the odd day biggest problem is charging up there, but I got my solar panels ready and tested… electric #motorcycle touring is different (sort of slower) but a very fine way to see places.
I honestly don't care about #Cohost or #Nostr. If the Twitter emigrants flock over to those instead of the #Fediverse, it really doesn't change anything for me.
I managed to grab a spot in the @ivory TestFlight and I've really been enjoying it. It has a high degree of customization, supports drafts, and makes it easy to switch between Home, Local, and Federated.
Search doesn't work for some reason, nor does it let you create hashtag-related feeds like you can with the Mastodon advanced web client, but maybe those will come with time.
I believe Ivory is being prepared to launch on the App Store. Looks like pricing might be $2.49/mo or $15/yr. I'm wondering if I enjoy Mastodon enough to invest in a client like Ivory, but if I find I do then I'd probably subscribe to it.
There's also @mammoth that I've heard great things about, but the TestFlight has remained full so I've yet to actually use it.
I think in terms of polish these two have some of the strongest pedigrees, being developed by teams with track records of making polished apps.
I'm honestly enjoying the #Friendica UX a whole lot more than the "birdsite" knockoff UX of a lot of other #Fediverse implementations. (Screenshotted post)
well if then it would be openapi to Java which is straight forward; however I discovered there is already at least 1 ActivityPub-compatible Java implementations out there (https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/)
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See https://github.com/jediverse/coruscant which I just created. The models are there. No page is served yet, must be a config issue. http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/ works
You might need something like this to handle polymorphism via the type field documented here. My code is under the BSD license, so it can be used elsewhere. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have a separate library since the other ones I've seen are very outdated.
I can handle the polymorphism, but I still won't have time until the weekend.
We should build this!
biggest problem is charging up there, but I got my solar panels ready and tested… electric #motorcycle touring is different (sort of slower) but a very fine way to see places.
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