@Friendica Support hello, i would like some help please to understand how to solve my confusion about the "right" way to follow #hashtags, using #Channels ... or otherwise some better way.

i follow a large number of hashtags [as a glance at my profile would attest]. afaict / afaik, fediverse posts bearing these tags appear [or are supposed to] in my "Network" timeline [with "Everybody" Circle & "Latest posts" Channel selected].

of my many tags, possibly my most "important" ones are #AusPol, #FOSS, & #Linux. in order to be able to efficiently locate all posts with these tags each day, rather than have to meticulously scroll down the full "Network" timeline [which is dissipated via also having all the other tags, & all my Followed accounts' posts], in Settings i created three dedicated Channels [one for each of those tags, ofc]. then i added each of those custom Channels to my Timelines, in Display Settings.

however, the result is just hopeless; really disappointing & frustrating. over recent years i have had several Friendica accounts, ie, at several instances, & doing the above has never worked properly in any of them, not only my current instance.

using the AusPol Channel for example, as it is the worst by far, every time i check it, its most recent post is several hours old, & often as bad as 12 - 18 hours old, with numerous other posts entirely missing.

i say "missing" because otoh, reviewing my Saved Search for #AusPol shows all these other posts, which therefore also appear, buried, in my full "Network" timeline.

over the months & years in exasperation, i have revisited the dedicated Channels in Settings, & for the Circle/Channel field have tried each of Latest posts, Latest Creation, Global community, & Latest activity, but none of them has solved the problem [indeed, a few make it even worse!].

please, what am i doing wrong? what aspect of Friendica's Settings have i been consistently misunderstanding / misusing, that causes this disappointment?

The revolution beginns

A specter is haunting the world. The specter of open source.

It's incredible how the open source scene and the federated internet have developed over the past five years. Linux and the entire ecosystem surrounding it have long since evolved from a hobbyist's playground for nerds into the most modern, sexiest, and adaptable operating system around. Apple and Microsoft are now just dinosaurs from a bygone era.

One of the best examples is KDE and the Plasma desktop. KDE, a hardcore community project, was only usable by masochists and idealists for all the many years it has been around, and now it is the most modern and sophisticated desktop environment imaginable. Not to mention the many projects that come from the KDE environment. With KDE (and Arch), you feel like you've assimilated the Borg collective. It's fascinating.

Both KDE and Valve are working on seamless integration of (Android) mobile apps. Thanks to KDE Connect, I can no longer imagine thinking of my cell phone and desktop as separate entities. Valve has proven with Proton that they can do this. The year of the Linux phone is just around the corner. ;)

It will also be very exciting to see how the Steam Machine develops. If it is a success, a whole new generation of Linux users will emerge. All in all, this is an incredibly positive development.

Even the most reactionary people will eventually realize that DeepSeek is a democratized LLM with an open license, or they will simply go under. Which wouldn't be so bad.

All in all, an edifying development. Important for success is a solid structure that has been able to grow peacefully over decades, and Mastodon has also strongly fueled this idea as “propaganda of the deed,” and I would also like to believe that my essay “Radical Enlightenment – A World of Open Sources” also played a part in this. Let the revolution begin!

https://word.undead-network.de/2025/12/16/the-revolution-begins/
#deepseek #FOSS #KDE #linux #OpenCulture #opensource #oss #revolution #steam #valve

Windowsumsteiger im Norden aufgepasst, der Pinguin erwartet euch in Hamburg 🐧

Hol dir kostenlose #Hilfe beim Umstieg auf #Linux und höre dir spannende #Vorträge an in #Hamburg / #Bramfeld

Linux Installations #Party am Samstag | 24.01.2026 | 15:00 Uhr im #Brakula.

mehr Informationen hier: brakula.de/veranstaltungen/164…

Vorträge:
16:00 Uhr – Linux-Grundlagen und #Installation. Nach welchen Kriterien wählt man eine Linux-Distribution aus?
17:00 Uhr – #Firefox mit Add-Ons weiter absichern. Wie erhöht man die #Cybersecurity in Firefox beim# Surfen?
18:00 Uhr – Anonym surfen über TOR. Wie hilft mir Linux und #TOR dabei, #anonym im #Internet zu bleiben?

mehr Informationen zu #EndOf10 hier: endof10.org

#Microsoft #Windows #win10 #windows10 #Update #Upgrade #sicherheit #Freiheit #foss #floss #Pinguin #Tux #mitmachen #weitersagen #Termin #Laptop #Computer #notebook #Netbook #desktop #Unterstützung #Veranstaltung #Privatsphäre #datenschutz #os #software #Neuigkeiten #Vortrag #gratis #Anonymität #Darknet #Browser
Linux Installations Party

We all build our own prison ...

First, they gave us a window. It wasn't perfect, but it made life easier. This window was then improved and made more convenient. This quality, but also mafia-like practices, allowed them to create a #monopoly. Ultimately, this led to a decline in quality and customers being forced to accept #surveillance, subscriptions, #AI, and #cloud services. In the end, the window was barred and made smaller.

But for those who didn't get too comfortable behind the window, a penguin named TUX has a #jailbreak ready. Floss is a jailbreak that allows you to always get free updates and continue to use old hardware. This helps the environment and your wallet. But #BigTech doesn't want you to know about it and wants to keep you in #prison and locked in dependency.

Ultimately, everyone must decide for themselves whether #freedom is more important to them than finding reasons to remain in prison of their own free will.

#linux #meme #foss #floss #endof10 #win10 #windows10 #windows #microsoft #os #software #privacy #license #opensource #tux #penguin #update #upgrade #jail #walledgarden #goldencage #society #future #economy #policy #capitalism

We were able to finally move our entire TROM.tf to a new server. Some 2-3TB of data.

Old server: i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 8 cores, 32GB RAM, 2 x 1.8TB SSD. 46 Euros a month.
New one, same CPU but 1 x 1TB SSD + 2 x4TB HDD. 54 Euros a month.

We are using the HDDs as one, around 7.5TB of storage in total, for storing the data for Peertube and Nextcloud. This allows us to expand the storage for these ones 2-3 times more than on the previous server. Retrieving data from HDDs in this case is totally fine and we see no slow down of these services.

Thanks to that we enabled one more resolution, 480p, for our Peertube instance. 3 in total now. Will only be available for the newly uploaded videos.

We also have a new IP so emails can reach Gmail from our server, finally...but we have disabled "import with URL" for our Peertube to protect this IP from getting banned.

Overall it was a very difficult process to move to the new server and our TROM Git still cannot be restored....we need to fix that. We need to also keep an eye on the other services and make sure all works well.

We were able to move to a new server thanks to the donations we got recently. Thank you!

We are paying some 8 Euros more a month now for the new one, but it is worth it.

Anyway, enjoy trom.tf and stay tuned because we will offer more storage space for our Nextcloud soon! 😀 For anyone who wants ;)

#trom #linux #server #fediverse #sysadmin