Mudança de instância - Instance move

Dentro de um dou dois dias irei, finalmente, mudar para a minha instância definitiva.

Ao contrário do que tinha pensado, não optei pela plataforma #Hubzilla. Continuo a achar que é a melhor dentro do #Fediverse, mas tem muitas funcionalidades que não me fazem falta.

Considerei o #Mastodon, mas desisti da ideia. É muito pesado e limitado! 500 caracteres é ridículo! E, para além disso, não se liga à #diaspora.

Ainda pensei na Pleroma, que não tem o limite ridículo dos 500 caracteres, mas também não liga à #diaspora.

Resultado, decidi voltar a uma velha e fiel amiga, a #Friendica. É leve, simples mas potente, não tem limites parvos de escrita e fala com todos!

Por isso, já sabem, se daqui a um par de dias receberem um convite dum tal joao@social.pinheirodeabrantes.pt, sou eu!

E agora terei de publicar este texto usando a minha antiga conta da plataforma Friendica por causa do tal limite parvo, só porque ele tem 1993 caracteres!

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In a couple of days I will finally move to my own instance.

Contrary to what I had thought, I didn't choose the #Hubzilla platform. I still think it is the best within the #Fediverse, but it has many features that I don't need.

I considered #Mastodon, but gave up on the idea. It's too heavy and limited! 500 characters is ridiculous! And on top of that, it doesn't connect to #diaspora.

I still thought about Pleroma, which doesn't have the ridiculous 500 character limit, but it also doesn't link to #diaspora.

As a result, I decided to go back to an old and faithful friend, #Friendica. It's light, simple yet powerful, has no silly writing limits and talks to everyone!

So, now you know, if in a couple of days you receive an invitation from joao@social.pinheirodeabrantes.pt, that's me!

And now I will have to publish this text using my old Friendica platform account because of that silly limit, just because it has 1993 characters!

@hackbyte (friendica) Those are fights I know nothing about. I know nothing about Roland Hader and I'm not going to waste my time searching for any info on him.

"still find it somewhat hard to believe, that there never was any explanation whatsoever. I'm sure, if you would have tried to communicate with them, you would at least get that for sure.... mhh.." You can find it however you want! It's the truth. It's all there and there was nothing else. I don't know why they didn't give me any warning. As I said, they couldn't have done it. There was no reason for it. And, when I sent them an email asking respectfully for an explanation, for concrete reasons for the blocking, I received none! No reply whatsoever! I don't know what I wrote that lead to that decision! My values are christian, human and I respect every single line of the Human rights Chart.

"So ... while i believe you getting blocked by them, i don't believe it was just happening with no apparent reason.. mh (As you can see, i'm living somewhere else on the #fediverse... ;))" So, that makes me a liar! And, since I haven't questioned one single time your integrity as human being and I've been respectfully replying to your not so respectful comments to my publication, I'm going to stop replying to you, unless you start treating me with the respect I deserve and that I've shown you. I won't be wasting my time trying to convince you of anything, nor do I need that! There's no room for that in my life, which is dedicated to be a better husband, father, citizen and teacher, every single day. That's where I'm going to apply my energy.

All the best to you.

A Crazy impromptu

Why not creating something like a “World #Fediverse Forum” in #Sanremo during the next edition of @scambi in August #2023?

It could be a great unprecedented opportunity to finally create an event that is not for nerds only, not it is an event about tech, but at the same time it addresses social problems of today’s #internet from a #social and #political perspective.

Also, #Italy is a difficult country in terms of ethical tech awareness, #FreeSoftware, and actually in any term, recently: it would be quite significant.

We are already in touch with @internetarchive and @wikimediaitalia… I believe it is a great start to build something important, but especially necessary.

I know there is #DWebCamp already, but it is an event for technologists. We do not want this to be a techies’ fight, but rather a social one! We would mobilize Italian community centers, too.

What do you think @filippodb@boz@smallcircles@kenobit@gubi@aral@eticadigitale@macfranc@Dio@Gargron@cwebber@evangreer@evan ?

We definitely do not have at all enough funds (yet) to reimburse all of your trip expenses, but consider yourselves officially invited! Would you come? (Look at some pictures from last year or the documentary, and you could not say no!)

@Friendica Support@Friendica Developers

Let me start with a concrete, question: Are there any efforts / plans to support the upload of videos?

And now, since I might have your attention, allow me to broaden the question to:

What is your opinion regarding "what #Friendica is / should be"?

My view / vision is heading slightly in the direction that nowadays image and video content is quite central in social networks and thus a #Fediverse application like friendica should support the multimedia aspect a bit more, if it wants to be attractive for the broad public in terms of being an alternative to commercial social networks.

Most of you might tell: "Yeah, if one prefers media centric Fediverse, then check out #pixelfed ". But I think, pixelfed is yet too much of an Instagram clone, only providing the image / video focus (which bothered me at Instagram from the very beginning not being able to have good commenting / discussion options there).

In my view, Friendica has great potential becoming a great "one fits all" application for the majority of people who like social media and the concept of the Fediverse. It has way more cool functions than #mastodon / pixelfed (which are in my opinion too close copies of Instagram and Twitter, respectively) but much simpler and convenient than Hubzilla (which I think is really great, for a computer science person, but not for the broad non-technical focussed public)

Wrapping it up: I would love to see a Friendica development towards an easier multimedia support. What are your thoughts?

Cheers

Marek