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I'm the admin of lemurs.space. I'm trying to import my contacts from my exported mastodon csv. I go to settings > Import contacts, then select the csv file, then save. A message saying "Importing Contacts done" appears on the top right, but contacts are not imported...
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In Wyoming, the legislature has decided, that you cannot require others to address you by your preferred pronouns — thinking that this will only hurt trans people, Trump wants to persecute.
So citizen Britt Boril calls in to a committee meeting and deliberately misgenders the male chairman as madam, which he takes offence to — because our rule about allowing disrespect was not meant to be used against us!
(And no, you should never misgenders others, but damn… this move was brilliant)
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)
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Balancing federation on lemurs.space
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Hi !Friendica Admins, I created lemurs.space on elestio with Friendica 'Interrupted Fern' 2024.12 - 1576. I upgraded to plan LARGE-4C-8G (4 VCPU s - 8 GB RAM - 80 GB storage), but my instance is still pretty slow. I enabled the following addons
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... and the following relays
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My instance is slow with federated content, the global feed is 2 weeks late, and lemurs.space/network is sometimes not found. I'm looking for a way to make lemurs happier with the UX, and see if the plan upgrade is really useful.
Before we left for preschool this morning, my 4-year-old stopped in front of the table where I left my #FOSDEM stickers. She perused them, picked one up and said "I'm giving this to M" (her best friend).
What did she pick?
"Make art, not billionaires".
You should have seen my smile.
Wishing you all a great day!
P.S.: off I go actually make art - aka a video - promoting the Fediverse and criticizing tech oligarchs
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Tutti gli sticker esagonali si trovavano dallo stand in fondo al corridoio del primo piano di K
@tommi confermo, anch'io non li avevo visti al primo passaggio perchè c'era una notevole calca al banchetto, poi ripassandoci davanti ho capito cos'era e sono rimasto 10 minuti a prendermi tutti quelli del fediverso :)
Se ci incontriamo al prox evento facciamo che ci scambiamo gli stickers: ce l'ho, ce l'ho, manca, manca 😁
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I'll be honest signal is a million times better in my humble opinion
@Andres Signal functions great as a direct messaging app similar to WhatsApp or iMessage, etc.
It's much easier to get people on for simple things like that.
Matrix is more of a replacement for Discord or something similar.
I use Matrix everyday and it's amazing for communities and public chatting, but for personal use? No.
1. It is a meta data disaster (it leaks huge amount of meta data)
2. It's not as straightforward as Signal.
3. Both of them is open source and not for-profit but Signal is battle tested.
For now, Signal is one of the best piece of software we can use, I really love using it!
It is not fair to put Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friedica, Peertube and Loops as analogous to Signal. Signal is centralized, Signal relies on closed source libraries, Signal is only distributed through PlayStore, Signal is not a federated platform.
If we want to have a messaging platform on that image, it should be XMPP.
In German there is one by @blog - do you know of other languages?
#GlobalSwitchDay
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Klimastreik in Köln
Die Ampel ist Geschichte — Wir die Zukunft! Am 14.02.25 ist bundesweiter Klimastreik! Bekanntes Datum!? Jep, das ist Valentinstag. Also perfekt für DEIN Date mit dem Klima. Wir klimastreiken bundesweit...\nKoelle ForFuture (Kölle For Future)
here’s brian klaas explaining it better than i do: forkingpaths.co/p/the-democrat…
also, i hear many here denouncing trump and co. and sharing what we should do instead, but on this platform is mostly preaching to the choir, so wouldn’t it be more useful to do it where those others with different thinking actually are?
The Democratization of Information Production is Killing Democracy
The way we receive information about our world is unlike any previous generations of humanity. Paradoxically, it's destroying democracy—and Trump's America is the main canary in the coal mine.Brian Klaas (The Garden of Forking Paths)
i really dont want to spoil the fun here. I appreciate the effort.
But although #signal is much more popular than #matrix their relationship is like #mastodon to #bluesky. Both bluesky and signal have a #proprietary backend. although their frontent is #OpenSource they technically have a single point of failure. server/cluster down == service down
Mastodon and matrix are actual fediverse services which are undestroyable since they are many federated, independent servers.
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Adding Alt-Text to the image would be much appreciated: perkins.org/resource/how-write…
How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired – Perkins School for the Blind
Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.Perkins School for the Blind
Please, do add #AltText to your image perkins.org/resource/how-write…
How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired – Perkins School for the Blind
Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.Perkins School for the Blind
Wir sind noch #neuHier auf #Mastodon. Unsere Accounts auf X, Facebook und Instagram haben wir gelöscht.
Wir sind unseres Wissens der erste #AnwaltVerein im #Fediverse, aber bestimmt nicht der letzte.
Wir würden uns freuen, wenn noch mehr #Rechtsanwälte den Weg hierher fänden. Sprecht Euren Lieblings-, Haus-, Familien- und Unternehmensanwalt einfach auf's #Fediversum an. Es gibt ja für jede große kommerzielle Plattform eine freie Alternative, siehe die grafische Übersicht oben.
I've been slowly converting family and friends over to Signal for years now. Here's how usually I do that these days. When a conversation gets into some rather intimate topic - say talk on emotions, or psychology, or other highly private details - then I set a boundary, saying "I'd be willing to discuss this topic further, but only in a more private app like Signal." So I leave them an "out": I'm willing to stay on, say, WhatsApp, *but the conversation has to stay more shallow*.
I also run an #XMPP server (Prosody), but I've had very limited success in getting people to join. Frankly, XMPP is *only* for intrepid geeks at this time, who are willing to put up with several papercuts in usability. Apps like WhatsApp and Signal have "raised the bar" *a lot*, and apps like #Conversations and #Gajim have their work cut out for them to try to catch up to people's sky-high expectations - they've been spoiled.
*A ton more testing and bug-fixing is still needed to iron out quirks that the different XMPP clients have, in talking to each other.*
I have a quick question... I applied to pixelfed.art a couple of days ago, but no answer yet. Shall I wait more or resend the application? Please let me know if there is anything wrong. My username in the application was "skamu". Thanks!!
. If you have to use them at work, wait till you get home to socialize online, or take your Fairphone on your pee break.
It's not just "kind of safe." It's a legitimate means of safe and private communication owned by a non-profit.
Open source code, vetted by the security industry.
You don't have to do hardly any digging to verify all its accolades.
Give their CEO, @Mer__edith , a follow if you're so inclined.
@kyleirl @Andres @spycrab @Mer__edith
I never knew the CEO was a woman :o
But signal is based, let's hope it stays like that till the sun explodes 🙏🏻🙏🏻
While Signal is very promising, and currently very secure, it is not federated services which leaves it vulnerable in case the business model changes, like if the intellectual property of the clients and/or servers would become subject to capitalisation. If so, it would be far from the first time that this happens in the history.
As I just shared in another post I highly recommend giving this a peek: securemessagingapps.com/
Secure Messaging Apps Comparison | Privacy Matters
This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Simplex, Google Messenger, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickrwww.securemessagingapps.com
@mortn @Andres @spycrab @shipwreckt @Mer__edith
I hear what you're saying but being alarmist about it is counterproductive to supporting a movement of safe messaging today, in this moment. Especially when there's nothing to be alarmist about other than "but in the future something may could potentially at some point happen!"
There's ('21 as well) movement towards safer and private communication with signal being at that forefront of options and purporting "kinda safe" is just wrong
@jupiter_rowland ngl, Mike Macgirvin is one of those generational forces that really changes things.
I know he doesn't like me, but I stan his eloquent ingenuity, devs like him are rare, and I hope we can work together one day!
@Andres That's a bit of a copout, you yourself said Matrix initially as well. You know exactly what I mean in context.
But even then, most Matrix implementations are more like Discord and less like iMessage. Fractal, Element, etc.
Nothing is perfect 🤷♂️
I just have a preference for the one I can move all my friends and family too without them having to do much on their end
@bigfishrunning @kyleirl @Andres @spycrab @shipwreckt @Mer__edith
This isn't entirely true; reproducible Android builds have been a thing since 2016: signal.org/blog/reproducible-a… - that verifies the client is safe.
And, considering the entire architecture is E2EE, the server potentially being compromised doesn't actually matter. Someone could be dumping every single network packet from the servers and still be left with unintelligible gibberish.
Reproducible Signal builds for Android
As of our latest Android release, Signal builds are reproducible. Reproducible builds help to verify that the source code in our GitHub repository is the exact source code used to build the compiled Signal APK being distributed through Google Play.Signal Messenger
@orbitalmayo @bigfishrunning @kyleirl @Andres @spycrab @Mer__edith
Thank you for looking it up 🙏🏻
I just wish for a world where things are private and companies cannot be sapinad to look at my junk 😔
But you are right man
meta-morphosis.nl/
@bigfishrunning @kyleirl @Andres @spycrab @Mer__edith
If you distrust it then compile it from source code then. There is a fdroid one you can get with the guardian project too.
Also the signal company gets asked by the government to give them information but signal can't actually do it because they cannot decrypt your messages. There is also the fact that the company makes barley any net profit from what I can see.
But if you don't wanna use signal its a free world
@peachfiend @orbitalmayo @bigfishrunning @kyleirl @Andres @spycrab @Mer__edith
I might switch to molly at some point but I don't want to loose all my messages 🙏🏻
@mortn @kyleirl @Andres @spycrab @shipwreckt @Mer__edith
Signal is a non profit, everything is open source, including the SERVER, so whatever happens, someone can deploy a Signal clone.
@RagingWolfBob @manchicken @Andres @spycrab
Our health care system, brother I have NHS its great stuff 👌🏻
Either way some day signal I'll go down, so will WhatsApp and all those other bits
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