An avatar roaming the decentralised and federated 3-D virtual worlds based on OpenSimulator, a free and open-source server-side re-implementation of Second Life. Mostly talking about OpenSim, sometimes about other virtual worlds, occasionally about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. No, the Fediverse is not only Mastodon.
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Last Notes npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland I'm pretty sure that posting this will turn out completely futile. But I'll try anyway. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland I've noticed that Hubzilla 11.4 handles mentions and hashtags (closer to) the Twitter way instead of the Identi.ca way now. The @ and the # became part of the link (@Jupiter's Fedi-Memes on (streams), #Hashtag, for example). npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Mitch Conner @silverpill Exactly this exists on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. With even more options, actually. Hubzilla calls them "privacy groups", (streams) and Forte call them "access lists". npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Yeah, I get it. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland So there's a new attack vector for Mastodon users against non-Mastodon users in the making. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Eye contact is not limited to full facial portraits of people looking directly into the camera. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland When you see it, you'll shit brix: The Hubzilla timeline. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland I've learned something about alt-texts and image descriptions in the Fediverse again today: You must never talk about alt-texts and image descriptions. Ever. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @HarkMahlberg That's because Hubzilla has a feature called nomadic identity (https://joinfediverse.wiki/Nomadic_identity).[email protected] , and as being one thing, only that this thing exists in two places simultaneously. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Just discovered that Misskey actually doesn't truncate alt-texts with over 512 characters, but it silently discards them entirely. If your alt-text is longer than 512 characters, this gives the impression that you're too lazy to write alt-texts altogether. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @HarkMahlberg @:petthex_javasparrow:しゅいろ:petthex_javasparrow:(本物) Well, I wonder whether removing inbound character limits or raising them a lot would be against Misskey's microblogging philosophy. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Just the other day, I found something out. Something very inconvenient about Misskey and maybe also the Forkeys. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland You know things really take a turn for the weird when one partygoer falls asleep with voice on. And you can hear him snoring over voice. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland You haven't partied in the Hypergrid until you've celebrated Cornflakes Week among dinkies. While wearing a plunger that one of the dinkies gave you on top of a top hat. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland It has finally happened. I was a guest at Inworld Review and interviewed by Thirza Ember and James Atlloud of @HG Safari fame as well as Petlove Petshop today. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Looks like Maria Korolov of Hypergrid Business is hoping for the above to come true, now that Google has made a 3D-world-generating AI. Like, one extensive prompt, and you'll get all this within three seconds. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Dereos will celebrate its 11th grid anniversary on Saturday, January 31st, with a beach party at Ko Suai. Music will be supplied by the local DJs. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland So there's that nasty bug on Sharkey that mangles hashtags in messages from Hubzilla and probably also Friendica, (streams) and Forte. They always look like this: npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Dorenas World, the oldest German-speaking grid and the third-oldest of all grids, is going to celebrate its 16th anniversary this week. Due to real-life influences, the schedule is somewhat cut short. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Good news from the Fediverse: npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland I'm experimenting with filters on Hubzilla again. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland In other news: npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Now I'm wondering whether Tootik is a Moomin reference of sorts. Something which I think we could use in the Fediverse. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @*_jayrope Easier? Maybe, although that's unlikely without dumbing it down. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @「 Jürgen 」:fedi_mastodon: Fifth class. All of them. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland We have a five-class Fediverse nowadays. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @julian Many of the hashtags that I use are not for discovery or not only. They are also or exclusively there to trigger filters. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @🌴 Seph 💭 👾 Fun fact: Hubzilla (which my post and this comment come from) has a feed reader, too. But Hubzilla is the most powerful and feature-rich Fediverse server software out there. So if Friendica is overkill for you already... npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Whenever someone announces to "bring" something "to the Fediverse", chances are that Friendica has actually had it since 2010, for five and a half years longer than Mastodon has been around. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland How unfinished is Iceshrimp.NET? This unfinished: npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland It says a lot about Luna that there's an 11-hour memorial festival on-going inside the Great Pyramid on her sim Luxor now. 51 avatars inside a building covered in PBR with decoration glistening and gleaming with PBR, and even some of the avatars are wearing PBR. So it's also a challenge for everyone's graphics hardware. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Holocluck Henly Forgot to mention: Our common rezday is April 30th. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland It isn't that easy anymore to impress me in OpenSim. I've seen just about everything by now. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Interesting to see how popular this post of mine has become today, what with how many Mastodon users are faving and boosting it. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Seriously, never before have I seen as many condolence posts and comments and actions on OpenSimWorld as for @Luna Lunaria. And never before have I seen two independent memorial events being scheduled for one member of the community. (Unfortunately, one will be in the middle of the night for me.) npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland You want me to describe my images? Properly? So that you will never have to ask me about details? npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland You want the Fediverse to have alt-texts of the best quality possible? npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Orb 2069 No, I haven't, and it doesn't really look interesting to me. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland There's a lot of talk about male-defaultism these days. You know what else is totally male-default? Avatars in 3-D virtual worlds. At least if they can be modified in-world instead of being monoliths like from places like Ready Player Me. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Jupiter Rowland Here's the official website, by the way: npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Juno Rowland and I are at an art event for a change, but one that only happens every two years: The Wrong Biennale. Not in real life, of course, but at one of the virtual locations, the Kitely Expo Center. This virtual expo is named Synthetic Dreams, and it is explained as "a collaboration between artist and algorithm in the age of AI". npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Good news: It was fixed already yesterday. Guess the hotfix will be rolled out soon. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Just because it works under your very limited and controlled lab conditions, doesn't mean it will work just as well under real-life conditions. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland So I've picked up an image description project again that I've started about a year ago. I wanted to publish a series of avatar portrait pictures, each with three or four portraits of my OpenSim avatar on them, always in the same pose, always in front of a neutral background that won't take me days to describe, but in slightly different outfits. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland The third annual Bunker Party has started about half an hour ago, and it's our first visit there. (@Juno Rowland is with me again.) The musical motto, as usual, is that the unusual is usual. It's happening inside LyAvain Swansong's private bunker in Dereos. Maybe you know Ly from Star Citizen. And right now she is playing music from Star Citizen. This is probably the most harmless part of the evening. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Kris If you have any questions about (streams), don't try the Mastodon way and "shout into the ether" with a hashtag or two. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Current status of my image description/alt-text wiki here on Hubzilla: 17 pages with another 20 planned, backed by almost 50 webpages and blog posts with alt-text and image description guidelines. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland I guess my multi-tasking abilities will be put to the test tomorrow evening. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @deutrino npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland So Amazon Web Services was offline for a few hours, taking a lot of other services with itself, including Second Life. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland When I describe my images, I do so under a few assumptions. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland So OpenSimFest 2025 has started. But there hasn't been any announcement whatsoever, at least not recently. Even the official OpenSimFest website is dead as OpenSimFest is ongoing. OpenSimFest will span 16 days, but you only learn that in-world, too. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Doris :fediverse:🦉🇪🇺 Wie schon beim letzten Mal gesagt, genau an dem Tag kann ich leider nicht. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Okay, everyone, sit down. I'll tell you a few things about Mastodon's quote-post feature that you know nothing about. Definitely not if all you know is Mastodon. Oh, and by the way, in case you don't know yet in spite of following me: The Fediverse is not only Mastodon. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @FreeSchool=Co-op🔁Friendship? npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Want to know why Hubzilla has lazy loading now? npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Looks like OpenSim users are getting increasingly anxious that e.g. Mississippi and UK law enforcement will shut down every last OpenSim grid on the grounds of their age verification laws, what with none of them having verified the real-life age of all their users. Even if a grid runs in Kazakhstan under a Russian domain with a Kazakh and Russian admin team. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @wolf aliceif I don't even intend to join the ATmosphere. I wouldn't even if there was something in the ATmosphere that's on par in features with Hubzilla (which I'm writing from right now) or even only (streams) (which I use to post pictures). npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland As long as Mississippi can block 99.99% of the ATmosphere by blocking bsky.social... npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland By the way: Thirza Ember of @HG Safari has interviewed me for and featured me and @Juno Rowland in her blog post about the "What Are You Looking For?" group on OpenSimWorld. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Now let's see if I've finally managed to fix the keyword regexes in my experimental per-contact filters. Most of these contacts have fallen silent entirely, a few seem to be unfiltered. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @????? Another case of "Fediverse = Mastodon". npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland I've dropped a post on OSW, even spent gold coins so that everyone can read it on the frontpage. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland When you use OpenSimWorld or one of its beacons to teleport to the sim with the most avatars present in expectations of some party... npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Shiri Bailem That may be it. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Matthias Okay, then it isn't so much of an improvement. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Shiri Bailem You've got two modes on Friendica. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Shiri Bailem You've got two modes on Friendica. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Okay, while this is not optimal, I'd say it comes close enough to an improvement to be of importance. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @silverpill The dataset doesn't include some other popular platforms like Friendica, but I am sure they also display long form content just fine. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Chris Another good question is what the Fediverse (Mastodon specifically) expects in an alt-text for a video. A summary which should probably go outside the video? Or a visual description of what's shown in the video, just like an alt-text for an image, but for moving and constantly changing visuals and maybe even time-coded? npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland In the cases of some Mastodon users, I actually wonder if it's worth telling them a) that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon, b) that I'm on something that's very very much not Mastodon and c) the implications of all this. Especially if they give the impression of wanting the Fediverse to be only Mastodon oh so very much. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland If you talk about non-Mastodon Fediverse server software, always mention that it's part of the Fediverse. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland I'm very certain that there are people on Mastodon who npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 At least you probably already knew that the Fediverse is more than just Mastodon. I mean, I see you follow not only Bluesky users via Bridgy Fed, but also a few Pixelfed accounts. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 The Mastodon devs are talking as if either the Fediverse is only Mastodon, or the Fediverse as a whole doesn't have quote-posts. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Week in Fediverse :fediverse_light: Also, the 25.5.14 "15th anniversary" releases of the streams repository and Forte. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Theory: npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Joaquim Homrighausen @Kevin Beaumont To be fair, full data portability via ActivityPub has only been available in a stable release of anything for two weeks. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Joseph Meyer When you read exceptional alt text, do you ever compliment its author? What is the epitome of alt text, either in general terms or using a specific example? npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @vhs Karlsruhe Die Hashtags müssen sein. Zum Teil sind sie zum Filtern bzw. zum automatischen Generieren leserseitiger CWs, was auf Mastodon seit Oktober 2022 und hier auf Hubzilla (offizielle Website) seit 2012 möglich ist. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @vhs Karlsruhe Machen Mastodon-Nutzer doch auch oft genug nicht, wenn sie über Mastodon schreiben. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland My definition of "living under a rock": npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Alison Wilder Because if you want full-blown user rights and all the same features as a local user on all over 30,000 Fediverse instances, you need a local user account on each one of them. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Here's another thing that you may not know about Hubzilla and (streams) yet: Not only do they have quote-posts, but they also have pretty effective anti-quote-post defences. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland The Fediverse seems to be going crazy now. Or it's just me and the hashtag search RSS feeds on mastodon.social that I've recently subscribed to. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Mike McCue Does this feed include anything concerning the guy who is the technological edge of the Fediverse personified, @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️? npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @cy The solution for this problem is being worked on right now: nomadic identity via ActivityPub. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland I guess this is many OpenSim users' wet dream: npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Martin Holland Confirmation for Hubzilla from the land of the Red Koala. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland This is interesting to watch. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @wakest @Johannes Ernst URLs are usually the safest bet. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Danie van der Merwe Well, either Bluesky had the same mindset as Diaspora* back then. Be decentralised internally, but a walled garden towards the outside world. Diaspora* would still be isolated without Friendica's tedious work back in the day, and Bluesky wants to be the same. Yes, with not even only a public API, but laying the whole protocol open. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 I'm not a dev, I don't know what makes a website work for them. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Johannes Ernst npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland Mastodon might introduce a "proprietary", home-brew "No quote-toots allowed" flag outside the ActivityPub standard that probably won't be documented anywhere. Just like their "sensitive image" flag, but even more critical. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Shoq Well, @Johannes Ernst mentioned that there have only so few developers joined the Fediverse when it started to grow so quickly. And I've explained why. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland tl;dr: Hubzilla has had at least some of this for over a decade now. And it won't replace any of it with a new standard tailor-made for Mastodon. npub198jy9z7jydzryezatw4ceesw6kv022c26he7npunvap2xnl3v0nsn2d3fm Jupiter Rowland @Shoq @Johannes Ernst I think hopes were high last year that the Twitter Migration would lure more tech-savvy geeks into the Fediverse, seeing as they were its initial target audience.
