Yay! My #Mastodon trifecta is now complete! My blue & orange (is it orange‽) #Plushtodon came in last night, & I opened it yesterday, but I was too tired to post about it as I just got off work.

But yes, I am excited that the two smaller Plushes arrived! Thanks @Mastodon for creating these!

Also…we need more #ActivityPub apps to create real world wearables or plushies, as they are great conversation starters for folks who are not familiar with the #Fediverse.

RE: https://bonn.social/@ulrichkelber/115677876092292416

Habe seit 2019 sukzessive #Facebook , #Instagram & dann auch #X aufgegeben, weil vor lauter #Hate & Freund-Feind- #Dualismus sachliche Dialoge z.B. über #Demografie oder #Religionen immer seltener wurden.

Hier auf #Mastodon wird #Dialog gefördert, nicht algorithmisches #Neurohacking bis hin zur #Empörungssucht. Es erhöht die #Lebenszufriedenheit sowie den #Sinn.

Mein Dank gilt allen, die sich ebenfalls im & für das #Fediversum engagieren! 🙏🤔💡 https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/empoerungssucht-nach-dem-x-odus-trolle-scheitern-an-den-mastodon-instanzen/

Yay! My #Mastodon trifecta is now complete! My blue & orange (is it orange‽) #Plushtodon came in last night, & I opened it yesterday, but I was too tired to post about it as I just got off work.

But yes, I am excited that the two smaller Plushes arrived! Thanks @Mastodon for creating these!

Also…we need more #ActivityPub apps to create real world wearables or plushies, as they are great conversation starters for folks who are not familiar with the #Fediverse.

RE: https://bonn.social/@ulrichkelber/115677876092292416

Habe seit 2019 sukzessive #Facebook , #Instagram & dann auch #X aufgegeben, weil vor lauter #Hate & Freund-Feind- #Dualismus sachliche Dialoge z.B. über #Demografie oder #Religionen immer seltener wurden.

Hier auf #Mastodon wird #Dialog gefördert, nicht algorithmisches #Neurohacking bis hin zur #Empörungssucht. Es erhöht die #Lebenszufriedenheit sowie den #Sinn.

Mein Dank gilt allen, die sich ebenfalls im & für das #Fediversum engagieren! 🙏🤔💡 https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/empoerungssucht-nach-dem-x-odus-trolle-scheitern-an-den-mastodon-instanzen/

wrote for Mainstream on how UK Labour gov't is falling behind on combating far-right & state propaganda by relying constantly on Xitter/Meta platforms – even though some figures within call for diverging from them – and why it's imperative to offer an alternative on a gov't level, as well as grassroots level

(while target audience for this post is people outside of Fedi, I think it's fair to demand similar things from other gov'ts)

https://www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/labour-has-to-offer-alternative-vision-for-social-media

#Labour #Fediverse #Mastodon

Höre von #X - ern, dass der #Hate gegen demokratisch #Aktive - vor allem gegen #Frauen - & gegen das Miteinander der #Religionen dort inzwischen völlig eskaliert sei, nachdem #Musk zahlreiche wegen Hassrede Gesperrte wieder zugelassen habe.

Erinnere mich, dass es damals schon übel war…

Möchte daher auch als #Solarpunk allen ehrenamtlichen #Admins im #Fediversum danken, die auch ihre #Blogs & #Mastodon - Instanzen zu besseren Orten mit echtem #Dialog machen. 🙏🌱🙌 https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/empoerungssucht-nach-dem-x-odus-trolle-scheitern-an-den-mastodon-instanzen/

Bonus #Joke
Q: What’s another name for an artificial Christmas tree?
A: Faux fir.

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #DadJoke #DadJokes #Christmas #ChristmasTrees

@Mastodon You need to convince the politicians that #Mastodon is not a “rage bait” social network, as some states in the United States 🇺🇸 will require ALL public social networks to place a warning label on their content if the site has residents who use the platform.

𝕏 is fighting this pending bill in New York 🗽, but California has already enacted this as law: https://x.com/darnell/status/1996692368028839983

Bonus #Joke
Q: What’s another name for an artificial Christmas tree?
A: Faux fir.

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #DadJoke #DadJokes #Christmas #ChristmasTrees

Höre von #X - ern, dass der #Hate gegen demokratisch #Aktive - vor allem gegen #Frauen - & gegen das Miteinander der #Religionen dort inzwischen völlig eskaliert sei, nachdem #Musk zahlreiche wegen Hassrede Gesperrte wieder zugelassen habe.

Erinnere mich, dass es damals schon übel war…

Möchte daher auch als #Solarpunk allen ehrenamtlichen #Admins im #Fediversum danken, die auch ihre #Blogs & #Mastodon - Instanzen zu besseren Orten mit echtem #Dialog machen. 🙏🌱🙌 https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/empoerungssucht-nach-dem-x-odus-trolle-scheitern-an-den-mastodon-instanzen/

wrote for Mainstream on how UK Labour gov't is falling behind on combating far-right & state propaganda by relying constantly on Xitter/Meta platforms – even though some figures within call for diverging from them – and why it's imperative to offer an alternative on a gov't level, as well as grassroots level

(while target audience for this post is people outside of Fedi, I think it's fair to demand similar things from other gov'ts)

https://www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/labour-has-to-offer-alternative-vision-for-social-media

#Labour #Fediverse #Mastodon

@ Ben Pate 🤘🏻 Well, I'm used to having not only full native data portability, but even live, hot, bidirectional, real-time updates of entire Fediverse identities that contain stuff which 99% of the Fediverse doesn't support. Natively without an external application. Available for longer than Mastodon itself. Between any number of independent servers. So I'm not easily impressed.

I would be kind of impressed if LOLA managed to move a Mastodon account into a brand-new, virgin Hubzilla channel

• automatically activating all necessary apps from PubCrawl to Privacy Groups to Superblock to NSFW if the Mastodon account has at least one hiding filter
• activating all features that are either hard-coded or switched on on the Mastodon source account, but off by default on new Hubzilla channels
• (optionally) setting the channel role to Custom and configuring it in such a way that Hubzilla behaves as closely to Mastodon as possible, permissions-wise
• translating all followers and followed into Hubzilla's system of Facebook-style mutual-by-default contacts
• reconnecting all followers and followed on their end
• translating each Mastodon list into a Hubzilla privacy group, all members included while keeping the default "Friends" privacy group and adding all contacts to it
• converting followed hashtags into FediBuzz contacts (Hubzilla cannot follow hashtags, but we want the Hubzilla destination channel to be as close to the Mastodon source account as possible)
• translating not only the entire timeline of the Mastodon source account into a Hubzilla stream, but also importing entire threads behind and around each post in the timeline (this is absolutely necessary for the Mastodon user to keep their replies to other people's posts because a Hubzilla comment cannot exist without the start post and the entire branch of the conversation that led to it; also, it's a Hubzilla killer feature over Mastodon that you always see entire conversations instead of single-message piecemeal)
• transferring all posts, replies and DMs with all media in them
• converting Mastodon's loosely-tied threads, no matter who has started them, into Hubzilla-style enclosed conversations as per FEP-171b Conversation Containers with unified permissions for all messages within a conversation
• translating mentions and links into Hubzilla-specific markup
• translating faves into thumbs up
• translating Mastodon 4.6-style quotes into Hubzilla-style shares, automatically recognising which Hubzilla version the destination channel is running on and deciding which Hubzilla share format to use
• translating CWs in comments into [summary][/summary] tags (this would require Hubzilla to actually fully support summaries in comments which it currently doesn't because that doesn't make sense from a Facebook/blogging POV)
• translating Mastodon's post visibility settings into Hubzilla's permission system as far as that's possible (only for start posts, that is, because comments always inherit their permissions from the start post; also, this will have to be done after taking care of all contacts because "followers only" Mastodon toots will have to be converted into non-public posts which grant permission to see them only to the "Friends" privacy group, and likewise, DMs will have to have the contact(s) to whom they were originally sent assigned as those who are permitted to see them)
• importing all images, videos and other attached files into the Hubzilla channel's file space, including appropriate permission settings and, ideally, sorting them into Hubzilla-style "year-month" folders
• converting all media attachments into embedded links to the locations of the respective media files in the file space, including adding alt-texts to the embedding code
• importing the block list on the Mastodon source account into Superblock (that is, Hubzilla cannot block entire servers, but maybe this could automatically be translated into filter lines)
• converting blocking filters into channel-wide filter lines, converting bare keywords into regular expressions if the whole word option is set for these keywords on Mastodon
• adding the keywords of hiding filters to NSFW, converting bare keywords into regular expressions if the whole word option is set for these keywords on Mastodon
• translating the selected languages on the Mastodon source account into channel-wide filters on Hubzilla (even though this probably won't work exactly identical because Hubzilla neither sets nor knows per-message language settings)
• recognising the contents of Mastodon's free-text profile fields and moving them into the appropriate ones of Hubzilla's several dozen purpose-bound profile fields
• populating Hubzilla's keyword field with all hashtags found in the profile text of the Mastodon source account
• setting your channel language according to the language that most of your posts are in
• bonus points for entering Mastodon's colours into the Redbasic colour settings and changing the PDL layout settings so that the look of the Hubzilla destination channel is closer to that of the Mastodon source account than by default

@ Ben Pate 🤘🏻 Is this limited to moving to Bandwagon? Or from and to Bandwagon?

Or is the plan to ultimately support moving from anywhere in the Fediverse to anywhere in the Fediverse, including e.g. from ActivityPub-based Mastodon to Nomad-based but ActivityPub-enabled (streams) that works drastically different from Mastodon?

# FediMeta # FediverseMeta # CWFediMeta # CWFediverseMeta # Fediverse # Bandwagon # Mastodon # Streams # (streams) # Emissary