@Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB
Hier noch mal eine vereinfachtere Ansicht des Schemas über Profile und Plattformen im fediVerse des Internets und wie dezentrale Kommunikationsprotokolle ineinander greifen.

Wenn sie den Profilnamen in der Grafik mit @AwetTesfaiesus ersetzen, den domain Namen der castoPod Instanz mit podcast.gruene.de, den peerTube domain Namen mit tube.gruene-kassel.de, die mastodon Instanz URL mit gruene.social und den domain Namen des friendica node mit sozial.awet-tesfaiesus.de bekommen sie in ungefähr einen Eindruck was unsere dezentralen Strukturen bedeuten und ermöglichen.

Beispiel:
@AwetTesfaiesus@podcast.gruene.de veröffentlicht ein Gespräch mit Eunice Njoki das all jene die ihrem Podcast folgen auf ihrer Podcast APP angeboten bekommen und dann auf der Fahrt zum Parteitag im ÖPNV anhören können. Auf ihrem peerTube Kanal @AwetTesfaiesus@tube.gruene-kassel.de, der vom Regionalverband ihrer Partei unterhalten wird, posted sie dann vom Parteitag zusammen mit der ehemaligen Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien Claudia Roth einen kurzen Gruß als Livestream. Beide Veröffentlichungen boosted sie daraufhin von ihrem MdB Profil @AwetTesfaiesus@gruene.social aus. Und zu guter letzt favorisiert sie alle diese Beiträge mit ihrem ureigenen Profil @AwetTesfaiesus@sozial.awet-tesfaiesus.de, was u.a. dazu führt das sie Kopien von all diesem Material auf ihrer eigenen Instanz für sich privat abgespeichert hat.

Wenn sie dann, zum Beispiel am Jahresende ein kleines Grußwort zu Weihnachten von eben diesem persönlichen eigenen Profil in unseren sozialen Netzwerken mit im Text eingebetteten Links, die auf jene Mediendateien verweisen versendet, bekommen Kontakte von ihr überall auf der Welt, auf Instanzen in Kenia, Eritrea oder Australien, ebenso wie eventuell per Email oder RSS feed, ein Lebenszeichen ihres Kontaktes Awet in Deutschland. Eine Information die dezentral auf vielen unterschiedlichen Servern im Internet, praktisch 100% Zensurresistent abgespeichert wird.

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Schema das darstellt wie ein Pseudonym, in diesem Falle mit dem Namen "@bitpickup", im fediVerse auf verschiedenen Plattformen und mit Hilfe unterschiedlicher Serviceprovider eine Webpräsenz erstellen kann die auf einzigartige Weise ein resilientes und somit ziemlich unabhängiges Setup ermöglichen.

@utopiArte @Universität Kassel
#fediVerse #friendica #mastodon #castoPod #peerTube #diaspora #email #Politik #DieGruenen

The Internet is a shithole

What drained me of power over the past years is this constant fight of debullshitting the Internet experience for me and others.

You always have to use an AdBlocker, VPNs to circumvent all sort of censorship - and for that matter change the location often else you still get blocked; find proper news sources then find their RSS, add to an RSS reader, try to read locally if these websites allow you to....else go visit their bullshit websites.

Youtube is still by far the biggest, or the only in most cases, video platform. Now even with an adblocker the youtube experience sucks - they autoplay videos, insert shorts into your face, make you click things you don't want, and now insert AI generated video description for videos.. So you have to use an app for youtube that removes these piles of poop. But these apps are constantly blocked and won't work all of the time...

I don't even want to think about search which has become a pile of nonsense. Full of fake AI websites and now when pretty much all search engines introduced AI summaries...makes searching a painful experience.

Even Reddit, which can still feel like a "community" of people posting stuff from time to time, is a garbage. Full of fake posts and bots, and no way you can use RSS to follow subreddits. Login to see some content....endless scroll....all a bazaar.

I have to fight with "free" Wordpress plugins that insert ads into your dashboard, I have to block AI Summaries in searches, I have to keep Freetube up to date and often when videos do not work there, open in Youtube. I have to read my news in a semi-broken RSS reader since some cannot fetch all of the news, I have to install a custom OS on my phone then block ads there too, but now some banking apps do not work....a constant loop of poop, to protect yourself and your sanity, because everyone is there to fucking slice you open for a view, a click, a like...

Always always a fight against this destruction of the internet even tho all I fucking want is to read some reliable science news, watch some educational videos from time to time, and post some content or search for content. What the actual fuck....

I know why this is: TRADE. Same reason why the offline world is a shithole full of destruction, garbage, less nature, all about consuming and shops. This is what happens when humans have a primary goal of trading. Same online, these platforms are about trading, your attention, data, currency in return for a service. So it is a normal "enshitification" of the online too.

At least I have Friendica, Peertube, Nextcloud, Linux (TROMjaro) and the like, that allow me to still use the Internet in a sane way.

But man...such a shithole the Internet has become. I can't even imagine how "normal" people use it without adblockers, with relying on youtube, facebook, tiktok and such platforms....must be hell in the brain for these people.

I used to LOVE the Internet back in the days. It was like a park where you met interesting things and people. Now is like a metrostation full of ads and merchants, where everyone is in a rush to go somewhere else.

#enshitification #enshitiffication #internet #fedi #youtube #facebook #tiktok #reddit #alternatives #friendica #peertube

Did Youtube Shorts Destroy my Channel? 3 Pieces of advice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZxbO1NccyU

This is a very good educational channel, and yet is buried by the YBTs algorithms. Almost 150.000 subscribers yet less than 1.000 views per video. A perfect example of what these platforms are. Ad platforms who care about serving ads, making money. Trade. Attention and data trade.

I (Tio) gave up on this stupid game of using these platforms to "reach" people. I did so years ago. Yes we barely get any eyeballs now, but the ones we get are probably quality ones.

I would rather fail to reach people on the Fediverse than on Youtube and Facebook. Even worse, on Tiktok.

Yes pretty much no one gives a shit when you tell them to move from Youtube, Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, to Peertube, Friendica, Pixelfed, and so forth. They say no one is there. They prefer to be the online slaves of a few big companies.

Shallow values, little courage, a state of sleepiness. Unfortunately this society has transformed people into total zombies. Easy to control.

That being said, TROM will not only continue on these trade-free platforms like Peertube and Friendica, but will create new content. And if no one watches, fine. At least I will keep my sanity.

#peertube #friendica #youtube #fedi #fediverse

TROM in numbers

Some TROM numbers!

TROM.tf

Social (friendica): we have 1.100 users and this year it was a record of sane registrations. Still the majority of accounts are likely not active. Our database is around 50GB in size and we store 23GB of files.

Files (nextcloud): we have 100 users and 81 of them are active. We store a total of 370GB of files. We are still able to provide trade-free accounts with 10GB storage space for each.

Chat (matrix): around 500 users, 22GB of files stored and a 200GB database (too big, needs optimization). Unsure how many of these users are active but we are using this for our own TROM chats every single day.

Videos (peertube): 1.400 users, 2.800 videos stored with a total of 400.000 views and 1TB in size. Unfortunately only a few users are active and uploading but this is our main TROM hub for videos and we will do our best to keep it alive and grow it.

In total our TROM.tf provides 17 services and is around 2TB in size. We do daily backups of the system with Timeshift (some 1.2TB) plus daily backups of our files and services to Borg.

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TROMjaro : This year we have coded from ground up our own custom made Layout and Theme Switcher apps and made them better. We are still managing a library of over 600 curated trade-free apps and have released a new ISO almost every single month!

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TROMnews : This year we did a major upgrade to the website. We made it a lot better, more diverse, and relevant. Every month there are thousands of items that are posted to this website.

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VideoNeat : Since 2012 we kept this website relevant and updated. We have over 1.300 documentaries/courses available trade-free!

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Trade-Free Directory : We have over 750 entries in the directory, manually added and reviewed. A must have database of wonderful projects that we will use more in the future. We are trying to add more to the directory whenever we have time.

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TROMSite : Do not forget that we are still providing 2 huge documentaries, over 30 books, and many videos. All trade-free, all full of relevant information. The hope is that we will start to create new content soon!

Lastly, we are almost half way with the support we need to keep these projects alive and relevant! 94 out of 200 people are donating 5 Euros a month! https://tromsite.com/donate Thank you so much!

If we are not going to fight for a different kind of world, offline or online, and walk the talk, then nothing, for sure, will ever change. We are trying to change the online landscape bit by bit, by providing trade-free, saner services, and scientific content. We need this more than ever in today’s idiotic society.

#trom #tromsite #foss #opensource #peertube #nextcloud #friendica #xfce #linux #tromjaro #capitalism #society

#capitalism #foss #friendica #linux #nextcloud #opensource #peertube #society #tromjaro #tromsite #xfce

Some TROM numbers!

TROM.tf

Social (friendica): we have 1.100 users and this year it was a record of sane registrations. Still the majority of accounts are likely not active. Our database is around 50GB in size and we store 23GB of files.

Files (nextcloud): we have 100 users and 81 of them are active. We store a total of 370GB of files. We are still able to provide trade-free accounts with 10GB storage space for each.

Chat (matrix): around 500 users, 22GB of files stored and a 200GB database (too big, needs optimization). Unsure how many of these users are active but we are using this for our own TROM chats every single day.

Videos (peertube): 1.400 users, 2.800 videos stored with a total of 400.000 views and 1TB in size. Unfortunately only a few users are active and uploading but this is our main TROM hub for videos and we will do our best to keep it alive and grow it.

In total our TROM.tf provides 17 services and is around 2TB in size. We do daily backups of the system with Timeshift (some 1.2TB) plus daily backups of our files and services to Borg.

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TROMjaro : This year we have coded from ground up our own custom made Layout and Theme Switcher apps and made them better. We are still managing a library of over 600 curated trade-free apps and have released a new ISO almost every single month!

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TROMnews : This year we did a major upgrade to the website. We made it a lot better, more diverse, and relevant. Every month there are thousands of items that are posted to this website.

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VideoNeat : Since 2012 we kept this website relevant and updated. We have over 1.300 documentaries/courses available trade-free!

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Trade-Free Directory : We have over 750 entries in the directory, manually added and reviewed. A must have database of wonderful projects that we will use more in the future. We are trying to add more to the directory whenever we have time.

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TROMSite : Do not forget that we are still providing 2 huge documentaries, over 30 books, and many videos. All trade-free, all full of relevant information. The hope is that we will start to create new content soon!

Lastly, we are almost half way with the support we need to keep these projects alive and relevant! 94 out of 200 people are donating 5 Euros a month! https://tromsite.com/donate Thank you so much!

If we are not going to fight for a different kind of world, offline or online, and walk the talk, then nothing, for sure, will ever change. We are trying to change the online landscape bit by bit, by providing trade-free, saner services, and scientific content. We need this more than ever in today's idiotic society.

#trom #tromsite #foss #opensource #peertube #nextcloud #friendica #xfce #linux #tromjaro #capitalism #society