@maj https://fedihost.co is a managed #mastodon and #peertube provider from #quebec that is very affordable and comes with 10gb of storage:) @fedihost@mstdn.social @fedihost@video.fedihost.co

i dont "expect" you cater to the desires of everyone ever. i expect you to cater to me and my needs if you also want to interact with me, and i expect a kind of baseline respect towards all people who exist everywhere;

"You don't have to cater to everyone's needs 100%. But you have to cater to my needs 100%. And I mean 100%, not just 99.99%."

And then someone else is like, "And to mine."

And then someone else is like, "And to mine."

And then someone else is like, "And to mine."

And then someone else is like, "And to mine."

And then someone else is like, "And to mine."

And then 10,000,000 other Fediverse users are like, "And to mine."

And then comes @Der Skeptiker (on Mastodon; character limit = 500) and demands nobody on the Fediverse post more than 500 characters because it disturbs him.

And then comes @Matthias (on Friendica; character limit = over 16 million) and demands nobody cut longer posts up into small chunks because it disturbs him, lest he block them on the spot.

And then comes @crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts (on Calckey) who does not want anyone to ever confuse the Fediverse with only Mastodon because it disturbs him.

And then come thousands upon thousands of Mastodon users who don't ever want to be told just that.

And all of a sudden, we've got contradictions. What one users demands you to do, another user explicitly demands you not to do.

And then come people who don't want anything CW'd as long as it isn't porn or gore because that's annoying, and it has to stop.

And then come Friendica and Hubzilla and (streams) and Forte users who don't want Mastodon users to misuse the abstract/summary field for CWs.

And then come those who say that Mastodon's way of CW'ing is stupid anyway because the CW will trigger many people just the same as the content behind the CW, in addition to these CWs forced upon everyone all the same being a nuisance.

And then you come again with your demands that clearly contradict the last three.

and i think your way of hubzilla cw's is really inaccessible for if you actually have serious trauma related issues,

If you don't like it: @Michael 🇺🇦 and @Tobias are the maintainers of Friendica. @Mario Vavti and @Harald Eilertsen are the maintainers of Hubzilla. @Mike Macgirvin ?️ is the creator of Friendica and Hubzilla and still the maintainer of (streams) and Forte. They all do CWs the same.

If you don't like it, go ask them to make Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte more like Mastodon by turning Friendica's abstract field and Hubzilla's, (streams)' and Forte's summary field into a CW field and removing the NSFW filter feature altogether.

At best, they'll ignore you. Otherwise, they'll mansplain you.

Oh, and no, they will not pamper and mollycoddle you by making their software more like Mastodon without you asking, just by reading your mind.

my complaints arent about it being a summary field or whatever that honesrly just sounds like a silly hack

You're so fucking wrong! What Mastodon does is the silly hack.

Now let me give you a history lesson:

2008
@Evan Prodromou launched Identi.ca.
It had the summary field as a summary field.
And he published the software as StatusNet which became the first software in what'd later be known as the Fediverse.
StatusNet no longer exists; it became GNU social.

2010
@Mike Macgirvin ?️ launched Mistpark, later Friendica.
It immediately connected to StatusNet and a whole lot of other things.
It has the summary field as a summary field (only that Friendica calls it "abstract").
Friendica still exists.

2012
@Mike Macgirvin ?️ launched Red, later the Red Matrix, as a fork of a fork of Friendica.
It immediately connects to StatusNet and Friendica and most of what Friendica connects to.
It has the summary field as a summary field.
The Red Matrix became Hubzilla in 2015.
Hubzilla still exists.

2016
Gargron (whom I'm so not going to tag) launched Mastodon.

• almost 8 years after StatusNet
• 5,5 years after Friendica
• almost 4 years after the Red Matrix
• 10 months after Hubzilla

2017
A Mastodon user submits a code change that takes StatusNet's summary field and uses it as a content warning field.

• ca. 9 years after StatusNet introduced the summary field as a summary field
• ca. 7 years after Friendica introduced the summary field as a summary field
• ca. 5 years after the Red Matrix introduced the summary field as a summary field
• ca. 2 years after Hubzilla introduced the summary field as a summary field

So, we were here first. And we had the summary field first, and we had it as a summary field.

It's Mastodon that's a "silly hack".

Mastodon has introduced Friendica's NSFW feature as part of its filters in October, 2022, when Mastodon 4.0 was rolled out. It could have done that right away in January, 2016, when Friendica has already had that feature for five and a half years.

Also, Friendica already had its own culture, perfectly geared towards Friendica's features, as early as 2010 when Gargron was still in school. So no-one, not even you, can come and force Friendica to throw away its 15-year-old culture that's perfectly geared towards its own features and replace it with Mastodon's culture as defined in 2022 that doesn't even work with Friendica's features.

Just because there's Mastodon now, the rest of the Fediverse does not have to turn into Mastodon, too.

Just because Mastodon makes up between 60 and 70% of the Fediverse, the rest does not have to turn into Mastodon, too.

Especially not what was there before Mastodon.

I always say that many Mastodon users act like the European settles in the New World who forced the natives to fully abandon their own "primitive" cultures and adopt the settlers' European culture and convert to Catholic Christianity or else.

Only that, unlike most Mastodon users, the European settlers did not think that they were here first, and that the natives arrived after them.

CC: @azalea 🌸

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Identi.ca #StatusNet #GNUsocial #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta

this is…. not the way “fedi meta” is usually used.
its a long and kind of messy story [it actually originates from the FediblockMeta hashtag]
but any time i see it, its used to refer to… basically drama really, and its usually CW’d because a lot of entities are really fucked up by said drama

See, the thing is that 99% of all new Mastodon users thought that the Fediverse was only Mastodon after joining. And they loved the Fedierse for just that.

Half of them, when they learned the hard way that there's stuff in the Fediverse that sends content to Mastodon, but that's very much not Mastodon, shat brix in sheer terror. To this day, they wish for the Fediverse to be only Mastodon again (which, by the way, the Fediverse has never been).

Whenever they're reminded of the Fediverse not only being Mastodon, they're triggered. Genuinely triggered. But almost whenever I talk about the Fediverse, I talk about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon.

So the hashtags #FediMeta and #FediverseMeta help these people get rid of that content coming from me. And to be honest, I'm pretty sure that "that content" already starts when I only as little as name-drop Mastodon.

Also, there are people in the Fediverse who do not want to read tech talk. Probably especially not about the Fediverse. I've actually witnessed someone say that they wanted a CW for that kind of content.

Another reason to use these hashtags.

either way my thought is-
honestly u gotta stop looking for perfection and just Exist

Not if, for example, @Li ~ Crystal System expects me to fulfill all the wishes and desires of absolutely everyone all across the Fediverse. And a whole lot of other Mastodon users do so, too. And then there are those who say, "You don't have to perfectly fulfill everyone's wishes!" But I still have to perfectly fulfill their wishes. And if everyone says that...

I mean, I could cut down on filter-triggering hashtags. But someone somewhere out there may actually have a filter for one or multiple of my hashtags, and they may rely on me keeping on using these hashtags. Especially #LongPost, #CWLong and #CWLongPost which may have become a substitute for the official Mastodon app's missing long post folding feature for some users.

even if it gets normie mastodon twitter-hivemind users mad at you [theyre shit anyway tbh]

It's actually those normies that I'm speaking to half of the time. Most people who started following me did so because I was talking about how the Fediverse is not only Mastodon which isn't even the main topic of this channel.

I need a lot of reach to tell the people out there on Mastodon how much the Fediverse is not Mastodon.

I need a lot of reach to try to try to ask the general Fediverse public how to best describe images about an extremely obscure yet potentially curiosity-inducing topic like my main topic. And to vent my frustration about how hard it is to do as I suppose I'm expected to do.

And I need a lot of reach to talk about my main topic: certain 3-D virtual worlds. I want the people out there to see that there's more in terms of virtual worlds than Meta Horizon Worlds (a.k.a. "The Metaverse" a.k.a. "Facebook's Metaverse"; seriously, the place where I am has been casually using the term "metaverse" since at least 13 years before Zuck has first used it, and I've got proof) and crypto scams. I want to show people what virtual worlds can be like, and what they actually are like. (The latter would be easier if it wasn't so tedious to describe my in-world renderings.)

Tell you what: When you have a new Hubzilla channel, and you turn ActivityPub on, and your channel starts being able to federate with Mastodon, the Fediverse becomes a minefield. There are Hubzilla and (streams) channels that have ActivityPub intentionally off for this very reason, regardless of collateral damage.

using cws because “youre Supposed To use them” is bait and a completely incoherent concept, using cws because “someone might get actually hurt by seeing this, like trauma flashbacks kind of hurt, and i care about them and want to help them” is not.

I use them because I want to give people an alternative to muting and blocking me altogether. And that's filtering out the content that makes them uncomfortable.

And yes, this happens. I know for a fact that at least one other Hubzilla user is filtering out all my content with at least one of my typical virtual worlds hashtags in it. We've got individual filters per contact here on Hubzilla, you know.

CC: @Luzzy :verified_trans:

#Long #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Hubzilla #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta

Headsup Apo-Peeps - there's a new round of Moderation scam popping up today. If you see a message that looks something like this, please don't click on any links. DO report the account and then block.

Your account would never be reviewed in this way, and we would never ask you to verify by clicking on a random link.

Keep safe out there! 💜

#Mastodon #SupportScam

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#qoto #fediverse #fosstodon #mastodon #pleroma #peertube #pixelfed #misskey #lemmy #librem5 #pinephone #signal #matrix #element #xmpp #foss #opensource #freesoftware #linux #archlinux #debian #ubuntu #fedora #nixos #gentoo #gnome #kde #wayland #sway #htop #vim #emacs #neovim #bash #python #rust #go #haskell #javascript #typescript #react #vue #svelte #css #html #accessibility #a11y #privacy #security #fossjobs #fedijobs #coop #socialcoop #solarpunk #anarchism #communism #socialism #antifa #acab #blm #pride #trans #transrights #queer #nonbinary #bian #pan #ace #bisexual #disability #neurodiversity #adhd #autism #vegan #climate #solarpower #bicycle #cozy #florida #mexico #japan #europe #sysadmin #homelab #raspberrypi #arduino #libreboot #openhardware #stem #gamedev #webdev #uiux #algorave #glitch #solarpunk #cryptids

i found out yesterday that you can put #XMPP protocol links in #Mastodon profile fields!

set a field value to xmpp:your_username@example.org to have the field start a chat with you when clicked!

see my profile for example

Please report any account that tells you that you need to verify your #Mastodon account to continue using it through a private message. It is a scam. We do not require identity verification. Real staff accounts either have a special role badge on their profile or are verified through the joinmastodon.org domain and will typically never reach out through private messages.

Hi #Mastodon. My husband and I have a 6 year old son and we pulled him out of public school because we were worried about the curriculum they were teaching(we're in a communist state you see). I had to cut off ties with my parents because theyre christians and were trying to push their abrahamic agenda onto him. I'm teaching him to be proud of his asatru heritage. He's completely unvaxxed and his diet consists of protein shakes, pork, and eggs. Anyways we've started trying to raise him as the ultimate "gigachud". we only let him watch vril compilations, ongezellig, and soytube kids. He just cant get enough of christchurch! we took away most of his toys to because they had too much feminine energy, he plays with nerf guns. we're looking to get him a bb gun soon so he can have proper fun with the squirrels.

but hes started to have some problems recently. hes began to have episodes where he becomes unresponsive and distant. one day he told me he didnt want to be alive and it broke my heart. im worried hes becoming depressive, but i have no idea why that might be. or is this autism? any advice is appreciated. please boost for reach

#mastomom #parenting

When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software. Once this is widely deployed on the network, 4.5 will bring the long awaited ability to quote posts.

@eris #lots of #hate and #fake #news on the #mastodon #network

@yassie_j because #AntiIntellectualism doesn't have a place on #Mastodon. Go back to #Bluesky if that's what you're after!

#mastodon update:
+ truncated all remote posts to 500 characters
+ added dedicated 500 post thread button
+ removed markdown on remote posts sorry you all just liked it too much
+ the background color is now #000001 darker
+ changing mascot to bird to be more accessible to those coming from twitter
- do not call them toots anymore guys i will cry
- removed gay sex features

#mastodon #advice #gargron #real #true

#mastodon #advice #gargron #real #true

hello #everybody i am gargron i am the developer of #mastodon and admin of mastodon.social
my credit card number is VISA, 4929531721607913, 11/2028, 412 and my favorite color is brown
i am the god of the #mastodon #network
everyone must bow before me
im like 30-60% cooler than twitter jack
thank you for using my website godbless

hello #everybody i am gargron i am the developer of #mastodon and admin of mastodon.social
my credit card number is VISA, 4929531721607913, 11/2028, 412 and my favorite color is brown
i am the god of the #mastodon #network
everyone must bow before me
im like 30-60% cooler than twitter jack
thank you for using my website godbless

hello #everybody i am gargron i am the developer of #mastodon and admin of mastodon.social
my credit card number is VISA, 4929531721607913, 11/2028, 412 and my favorite color is brown
i am the god of the #mastodon #network
everyone must bow before me
im like 30-60% cooler than twitter jack
thank you for using my website godbless

hello #everybody i am gargron i am the developer of #mastodon and admin of mastodon.social
my credit card number is VISA, 4929531721607913, 11/2028, 412 and my favorite color is brown
i am the god of the #mastodon #network
everyone must bow before me
im like 30-60% cooler than twitter jack
thank you for using my website godbless

#gargron #mastodon #real #notfake

#gargron #mastodon #real #notfake

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