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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?
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
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 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.
@#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.
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.
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?
