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So, I've posted on this topic on my Wafrn and I think on my personal blog here, but really I think its an admin topic, after all it goes directly to what kind of software I'm looking to host. Also it was set off when thinking about recording a video for #Loops , the video will fit fine, but the length limit has been a challenge at times.
Sure, @Daniel Supernault has said Loops will allow longer in the future, but I think we need a service that slots in between Loops and #peertube . And this complaint mirrors a complaint about the #Fediverse I have in general about all the new stuff coming out, and that there's nothing really new or different coming out.
No, really, think about it, go back to the older stuff, #diaspora , #Mastodon , #pleroma and #misskey , all micro blog services, but all distinctly different, no? But what do we get now? #gotosocial , nice, I like it, but once you get beyond the lack of a front end, something that I'm sure makes it confusing for newbies, what does it offer? Smaller, lighter, easier to install? In the hip and cool new language? To a user, those don't matter, it offers nothing new to a user, which isn't necessarily bad, but kinda disappointing to me, new should expand or improve the Fediverse in my not so humble opinion. Bring something new, add features, be differnt… Or at least steal from #friendica . No, really, Friendica is kinda crazy, what with a feed reader, Diaspora compatibility, and scheduling available from the web interface. And/or offer a queue functionality, something that's a really useful moderation tool.
And now we get back to video…
Remember I mentioned Loops? Its not the only Fedi #tiktok alternative, its just the one that's done the best at marketing, in fact there was one that shut down in a snit over the lack of adoption. Here we run into the same kind of problem, with everyone doing basically the same thing. Why not stand out? Offer multiple timelines, one for videos, maybe one for text? Allow microblogging like Mastodon as a secondary feature, prolly less capable than Mastodon, but for someone who mostly does videos but occasionally wants to say something, this'd be perfect. Or maybe offer that longer but not long video service I mentioned, maybe a ten minute limit? Longer than TikTok, but still on the short side, enough for a casual discussion of a topic, or an 'in depth' piece on a topic that really doesn't have much depth.
Meh, I prolly sound like an old man shouting at kids to get off of his lawn, don't I?
Not a huge problem, but something weird going on with my timelines, this happens both on my Network timeline sorted by Latest Posts, as well as my global timeline, most posts are in order, but you get the occasional random post out of place like in this pic.
Out of curiosity, why can't A/V files be uploaded to Friendica? Seeing how images are handled, it seems like it should be able to do it.
@Michael 🇺🇦 Friendica 'Interrupted Fern' 2024.12 - 1576 and the user is using an early Bookface , from back when it was a modifier for Frio
Yes, its an old system, my host seems to have died/is dying, anyone know of anyone other than Elastio offering hosted Friendica instances?
I guess it has been added after that version.
Concerning hosted systems, we recently received an email from Hostinger that they added Friendica:
hostinger.com/applications/fri…
I can't tell you anything about them, other than I heard the name "Hostinger" before, so I can't tell you more.
@Michael 🇺🇦 Chuckles, "No wonder I didn't know it existed. Thanks. Hmmm, bit heavy on the AI over there for me."
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Forgot to mention on the hosting, if'n anyone wants to host me (I'm dangerously smart, I know just enough to really mess things up), lets talk.
What's specifically bad about it is that there is no way to manage the files. If you accidentally upload the wrong video you can't delete it if you're a regular user. You'd have to ask the server admin to delete it for you. There's no way to set permissions on the files. It also has a tendency to fail on upload with larger files, even when they're under the file limit set by the server admin.
I spent a while digging through the code trying to add a button to the file browser so at least users could delete a file, and while I think the code to do that exists on the backend, I could never figure out how to access it and gave up.
What is it?
Well, that's a good question, prolly a change in hosts, but we are remaining with #friendica . We had considered switching to #hubzilla , the successor to Friendica, but it has some weird issues. For one, this instance will not talk to it, dunno why. Also it automagically subscribes me to every thread that I boost or comment on, and there doesn't seem to be a way to change that. And then there's the Diaspora connection, which oddly is more limited than the one here, no idea how that is possible.
So, we're looking at Elastio, their website has improved, or at least they're hiding the requirement of picking your server now, which frankly I don't see why I have to do that, after all, I pay you to take care of setting up a server for me, and all that, I just admin and mod it. But, I do have to contact them about whether they'll allow me to add custom themes, add ons, and such. With me taking a long trip next week, that'll have to wait until I get back.
The other thing to decide is on the domain name, keep the current sub domain, or simply use the main one? Or use my new other domain, I bought it with an eye on a new project, something I don't think I'm going to do, though if'n someone is interested in creating a project for the #Fediverse , I'll be happy to support it, I do have something I'd like to do, Friendica Mk II as it were. That said, I was going to offer @Daniel Supernault the domain if'n he wanted it for a suggested Hubzilla inspired idea for his apps that I offered. If not, I'll keep it as I love the domain, and I might use it for my blog instead. Especially as I might do a invite only friends and family instance instead of the current personal instance.
If any one is wondering, the current name came from my husband having a cattaur OC and me having a centaur OC. With him passing, and my AWD OC becoming my personal OC as it feels more right for me at least right now. Also I did an early renewal on the domain as the price is going up on .haus domains. Domain and email don't cost too much, but add in instance hosting, and it starts to add up, so yet another increase, and I might ditch it. Then again, the new ones (yes, ones), aren't cheap either, so… Eh, dunno what we're doing on that front.
So, seeing as how it looks like @GoFedi is dead or at least dying, looks like we need a new home, but finding Friendica hosting is near impossible.
With that in mind, anyone recommend one?
I know of Elastio I think it is, but that requires me to choose my server package rather than merely hiring them and leaving all the under the hood stuff to them, so I'm not a big fan, I want something similar to MastoHost.
Funny thing, I've been playing with Hubzilla, and its easier to find hosting for that.
Perhaps someone that's already self-hosting their own instance might be interested in making some money hosting mine? I don't mind paying more than cost and labor, a little extra to keep your instance up is fine by me. I'm in the US, but frankly I don't care where my instance is hosted, heck, offshore is prolly best.
#friendica #friendicahelp #Fediverse-Hosting #Fediverse #hosting
Did you know that to be available on Google, I had to:
- Remove donation links
- Hard-coded censorship
- Create a dedicated account so they can log into it
I am really upset by this difference in strictness, where I am stuck.
This cost a lot of energy because they made everything simple for the end user but not for the devs.
All these actions are not for protecting you, it's for controlling you.
Choose #FDroid
@GoFedi Should I be worried about the email I got about us running out of disk space?
Oh, and could we get an update? Seems we're rather out of date running on a 2024 version. friendi.ca/2026/05/21/friendic…
Figure I'll try this before DMing you to make sure we have a connection. Plus, I'm not looking for an exclusive project but a typical Fedi project although I'm willing to donate more than 20 to 50$/mo if needed, plus others might want to help.
For anyone interested, the project idea is essentially a fork of Holos.social or a similar project, obviously a fork would prolly be easier, that is focused on a fixed location Android server with multiple accounts, obviously dependent on device capability, with a set up utility.
hey .. sorry slow reply .> I was having a lazy afternoon at the beach (sorry for the humble brag) but I was just shattered and couldn't even read stuff on my phone yesterday. No worries with DMs.
I think I get what you are talking about functionally/technically. Just to take a step back from the technical approach do you think you could walk me through the problem or need that a potential user might have that this would satisfy. This helps clarify what the value of the solution is.
I'm a BA so I'm going to go to use case statements like "As a I .. I want to be able to .. so that I can .. " kind of stuff.
I can have a go .. and please I appropriate feedback and clarification.
I think what you might be saying is:.
As a person with little more than a home Internet connection and an old Android phone and little technical skill I, and the people that I live with, want to be able to use and engage with the Fediverse without me having to spend money on additional hardware or learn a heap of technical skills.
Is that broadly what you are thinking of?
Prolly should rework this to say I'm willing to fund a Fediverse project and an Android project here if'n anyone is interested, @Fedilab Apps , or anyone else?
So, I did make a post a bit ago about being willing to pay to get software that I want, one Fediverse project, and one Android project. I did get a reply from Damn Good Tech, but I thought I'd do a new thread that goes into more detail of what I'm looking for using three replies to create threads for the different projects, and I'm looking to hire for two of the three, as I remembered an alternative Fediverse software I'd want instead, if'n I can afford it, though I'll admit I have no idea what that'll cost nor whether I can afford it, but lets find out, no?#Fediverse #FediHire #WantToHire #Android
Ok, I think I've reached the point where I'm willing to consider hiring someone to create software for me, depending on what that'll cost me.
I have two projects in mind, a simple forms app for Android that isn't tied to Google.
A new Fediverse project borrowing heavily from Friendica (a fork maybe?), but fixing what I see as its short comings.
Ok, resurrected my gofer.social account to give GoToSocial a real try, since I can't find any Wafrn hosting, and its good over all, but I am having a bit of a problem, YouTube links don't get a thumbnail, and web links don't get any kind of summary, is this normal for GoToSocial, or is gofer having issues?
Loops will now automatically close registrations if an admin account hasn't been active within the past week.
Safety isn't a feature, it's an expectation.
github.com/joinloops/loops-ser…
The federated short video sharing platform. Contribute to joinloops/loops-server development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
@Fedilab Apps Hey, crazy question, but since Holos is up and running, would it be possible to make something more traditional?
I was rolling around the idea of running Wafrn server from a spare phone, and then it occurred to me how useful that'd be, I mean lots of people have a spare phone, and older phones, even older premium phones can be had cheaply, right? So what if we could install a front end-less server on one? Leave it at home on WiFi, and connect to it via FediLab or another Mastodon compatible client.
You prolly don't need another project, but I figured I'd toss that out there as it seems like its got some similarities to #holos
Seem to be having a small problem here, tried to create a new account, and wound up with a 504 gateway error, ditto for password recovery.
GoFedi pricing update.
SpaceHost is shutting down, so to keep things simple, we’re matching their prices out of the gate.
Fully-managed hosting starts at USD $12/month for Mastodon and Sharkey, and USD $6/month for Akkoma with Mangane.
This keeps migrations predictable while we work on adding more value and keeping Fediverse hosting affordable.
More soon.
I suppose I should ask about hosting costs, since SpaceHost hadn't been billing me for a while due to whatever was going on behind the scenes.
Hey, we want to do this right.
First, we’re making sure whoever can be migrated has the opportunity to migrate—ensure their communities continue.
Then we’re going to reveal pricing and invite more people over in a way that’s sustainable to continued service.
What I can say confidently is that pricing will not rise, nor will you be back-billed. Stay tuned!
Musicians are boycotting Spotify over CEO Daniel Ek's ties to military AI and ICE ads.Christianna Silva (Mashable)
I can see why one would want to leave Spotify, but Apple Music is the ultimate in ICE supporting scum one can find?
Hasn't rotten fruit not designated #ICE agents a protected minority? Which suggests that #Apple is living completely in #Trump's alternate reality.
The minority hunting bullies are the endangered minority.
Ok, I'm being a bit silly, but not entirely. I use Friendica because it has three features I consider necessary:
1• Quote posts, now done by Mastodon
2• RSS/Atom feed reader, you can follow feeds just like any of your friends on the Fediverse and they show up in your timelines just like them.
3•Diaspora compatibility, its just nice having access to the entire Fediverse.
Yeah, that's it, the thing is that I don't really like Friendica's interface, I much prefer the one Diaspora has, so maybe Diaspora with added AP connectivity and a feed reader? I seem to remember more than once someone saying they wanted to create something for the Fediverse, plus there's a couple young projects, GoToSocial and SocialHome that almost offer this, they just lack the feed reader.
Isn't #friendica 's components available for use in other projects? I seem to remember that its creator made a suite of components available for building Fedi projects
I set my personal blog up so it approves all followers automagically (Soapbox), because I'm fine with anyone following me what wants to, and I don't want to be bothered with new followers in my alerts. However I'd like to know who my new followers are because there's a chance I might want to reciprocate, so is there a way to check this, maybe friends, group: followers... Sort by date added maybe?
That's how mine's set, anyone can follow me, but I have to manually choose to follow them back.
I posted asking for help on this a bit ago, and while I didn't get any solutions, it did get my brain thinking outside of the box, and I found the solution, its easy, but proof that the UI, especially the settings layout really needs some work around here.
For whatever reason, the necessary setting isn't under the timeline settings, but Social Networks
The key setting here is Followed Content Scope, default is 'Conversations my follows started or commented on', but if'n you change it to 'Only conversations my follows started' if will only show original posts and boosts.
Hopefully this'll help others, I mentioned in a comment on my original post, but that could easily be missed, so here we go. Oh, and if'n you've any tag suggestions, send them my way, and I'll prolly add them.
Is there any way to set up my timeline so it only shows posts and boosts from people I follow? Right now my timeline is becoming rather unmanageable as its also showing everything they like or comment on.
@#SpaceHost Help was nice enough to install the Bookface theme for my instance, and I gotta say its really nice looking:
That's the light theme, and I'm not often a fan of light themes, at least not over dark themes, usually I don't have a preference, but the dark I don't think is quite as good:
Seriously, I think this is much better than the stock theme, and should always be included.
@#SpaceHost Help @🌴 Seph 💭 👾 Yeah, Friendica seems the easiest route, so long as you can live with losing audio and video files, something it doesn't handle, but you do get RSS feeds and Diaspora access which is almost unique to it.
As to the others, neither feels quite like Tumblr, Wafrn feels the least original, can't put my finger on what it reminds me of, but it almost feels like something we already have but zoomed in. Loforo definitely feels unique, prolly more like Tumblr, though that right sidebar really needs to float.
Ok, I'm sure other Fediverse #admin have gotten reports like this:
Yes, obviously we haven't been checking our reports regularly, with only 3 active users, and only one that's truly active, its easy to monitor this place, so reports aren't hugely important.
That said, gotta love this one, I mean expecting someone to be punished not for violating rules here, but maybe, possibly doing something bad somewhere on the internet.
Umm, unless they break the rules here, we don't really have grounds to ban them, I mean sure, I can do anything I want, but it doesn't reflect well on me for banning people for no reason.
Second and more important, is the lack of proof, its not like user names are unique, the ones I use elsewhere on the web, I know of multiple other users using the same or similar names (minor spelling variations, number substitutes, etc), even if I were inclined to ban someone for something they do somewhere else, I'd need proof of the behavior and proof that its them.
Seriously, if you're going to report a user, feel free, but don't bother us with unsubstantiated claims that have nothing to do with our instance, sadly we don't control the entire internet.
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It’s been longer than we originally anticipated. In hindsight, our mistake was relying on just one processor rather than having multiple options in place.
Right now, the matter is in the hands of our legal representative, who’s working directly with Stripe to resolve the outstanding requirements.
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We're still working on resolving the billing issue with our payment gateway, but it's nearing completion. We’re in the final stretch, and things should be fully back to normal soon.
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So it's been going on for a little bit. Over 2+ weeks since the final stretch. Is this going to be solved in the next couple of days?
This is defo something that I can't have hundreds come out of my bank due to the hosting service not collecting what I owe you for hosting the previous months. Can you please keep everyone upto date with whats going on.
@sam
Yes, it started a couple of weeks ago and we did send out email notifying customers about the issue.
Not to worry, it will be resolved in a way that won't impact you, and a concession will be given since this is all our fault.
Once again, apologies for the inconvenience.
Hey all y'all, just thought I'd toss a note out about the accounts I have here.
Yes, 'I'
This account is the admin account, any questions, comments or issues you have should be directed here.
@recall@taursnd.haus where I share any news articles on recalls I hear about no matter how small, and we also boost recalls when we find them on the Fediverse.
@taurnation@taursnd.haus is where I share all the taurs, lamias and naga art I find online, link sharing only unless it's a commission of mine. Currently it's a #friendica community, but I'm thinking of changing it to a standard account in hopes that it
@vextaur@taursnd.haus is my personal account, where you'll find everything from unboxing to music, random thoughts to memes and much much more
What's with the domain name?
Me and my husband ( @Vik-Thor / Lirleni Hankeshe ) both have taur OC's, a cattaur for him, and a centaur for me, so a taur themed domain seemed fitting.
@#SpaceHost Help Well that was stupid, I messaged you about a billing question on my Mastodon instance just before it was shutting down, whoops.
Any how, as I asked over there, my payment bounced, apparently my bank didn't like you, and your system is rather hyperactive about re-trying which really pissed them off. I believe it's sorted now, and I updated the card to the same one, but haven't seen a new attempt. Kinda wish y'all took PayPal, that always works.
This is something that has not happened before. The issue with payment was most likely with the bank.
However, thank you for the feedback. We have noted your suggestion
A question for the #friendica admins out there.
My instance seems to be missing a user feature, as you can see from the pics, on my old venera.social account (the striped one), there's a 'network widgets' section in additional features, which is missing from my new hosted instance.
Is that an old feature, or is that missing from my instance?
Is it something I as the admin need to activate, or do I need to ask my host to do that?
Thanks
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Forgot to mention, we're running Friendica 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518
That's rather old, isn't it?
And so it begins...
It was the dawn of the first age of taurs...
Ok, silliness over, this is a test post of my new instance, prolly no one will see it
