Amanda CAARSON

@Bruce G_NS Okay, let me explain it to you with a fictional dialogue between me and a Fediverse News subscriber who’s convinced that all of the Fediverse is Mastodon.

Them: >implying that Mastodon is the Fediverse

Me: #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse.

Them: What do you mean?

Me: You’re literally using something that isn’t Mastodon, but in the Fediverse. Fediverse News is on Friendica.

Them: But Friendica is a Mastodon server.

Me: No, it isn’t.

Them: But it has to be. How else can I possibly use it if it isn’t on Mastodon?

Me: Because Mastodon and Friendica speak a common language, ActivityPub. Still, Friendica is an absolutely unrelated project. Face it, there’s more in the Fediverse than just Mastodon.

Them: WTF? Then Friendica is a group add-on for Mastodon?

Me: No, Friendica has got literally nothing to do with Mastodon. It’s wholly independent. Actually, it can do everything that Mastodon can do.

Them: So it’s some shoddy Mastodon knock-off that can do forums?

Me: No. Friendica can do all that Mastodon can do without Mastodon, it can do it better than Mastodon, and it can do even more on top that Mastodon can’t do.

Them: Lies. Why are you fucking lying to me?

Me: Oh, and Friendica is older than Mastodon. Mastodon is from 2016, Friendica is from 2010. When Mastodon was launched, Friendica had been around for a whopping six years already.

Them: Like. What. The. Ever-loving. FUCK?!?!?! Stop bullshitting me! Friendica is nothing but a fucking Mastodon clone, and all that’s good about it is the forums, and I don’t want anything else than that!

Me: I’m not bullshitting you. If I am, then so is Wikipedia. Release date: July 1st, 2010. That’s a fact. Deal with it.

Them: So… there’s… like two Mastodons, and they’re both in the Fediverse? WTF?

Me: There are many projects in the Fediverse that are like Mastodon but with more features. Pleroma, Akkoma, MissKey, CalcKey, FoundKey… There are many other projects that aren’t like Mastodon. Friendica is more like Facebook. I’m on Hubzilla which is even more powerful than Friendica and still older than Mastodon. And they can all communicate with Mastodon.

Them: What… WTF… NOOOOO I DON’T WANT ANY OF THAT I WANT MY FEDIVERSE TO BE ONLY MASTODON AND NICE AND COZY AND CUDDLY AND I DON’T WANT NOTHING ELSE IN MY BELOVED FEDIVERSE MAKE IT GO AWAY I WANT MY MASTODON-ONLY FEDIVERSE BACK NOOOOOOOO THIS IS TOO MUCH SOMEONE PLEASE FEDIBLOCK EVERYTHING THAT ISN’T MASTODON

End of demonstration.

I’m not even kidding, I’ve read a story about someone from the “Fediverse = Mastodon” crowd who actually blocked a Friendica user for telling them that the Fediverse is not just Mastodon and for allegedly “intruding” into their timeline with some black hacking magic or something.

Some people don’t want there to be anything else in the Fediverse than Mastodon.

—@jupiter_rowland

When the MTA announced discontinuing their live subway alerts due to Twitter’s new excessive pricing policy, I took it as an opportunity to set up @mtaupdates.

And here’s how I made it.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/turn-an-email-subscription-into-a-mastodon-bot-with-pipedream-com/

#tutorial #bots #MastodonAPI #python #pipedream

—@stefan

I see many people still don’t understand this. When legislation calls for children to get permission from parents for social media use and/or be under restricted hours, this requires that *ALL* users of social media, children, parents, people with no children, etc. be identified by government IDs (in the case of young children, via their parents’ IDs). Again, even if you don’t have kids, YOU WILL BE REQUIRED to use government ID for access, otherwise you cannot prove you are NOT a child. Think about it.

—@lauren

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—@thepracticaldev

It’s OK that our conversations are intense here. It means we care a lot.

These conversations are how things get made and how things change.

—@evan

Sigh. LLMs don’t hallucinate. They assemble words. They know nothing, understand nothing. They are being misused by tech platforms and misrepresented by media.
When A.I. Chatbots Hallucinate https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/ai-chatbots-hallucinatation.html?smid=tw-share

—@jeffjarvis

I’m looking for a good seuda shleshit bencher. I do have one with nusach sphard (I presume ) but a lot of the text is in Aramaic, presumably from the Zohar, and I would need Hebrew to get the most out of it. Alternatively if there is a sidur from any community or time somewhere that has a seuda shleshit “service” what would that be and where could I find it?

#jewish #prayer #davening #Shabbat

—@oregonmiles

GOOD MORNING and welcome to the only good month.

I am your host, Matt May. The mayor of May. Now get out there and make my month a good one.

—@mattmay

Easy to miss in Mastodon’s latest update, but the most-requested features are indeed coming “soon:”

“…quote posts, improved content and profile search, and groups. We’re also continuously working on improving content and profile discovery, onboarding, and of course our extensive set of moderation tools, as well as removing friction from decentralized features. Keep a lookout for these updates soon.”

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/

@spreadmastodon @fediversenews

—@davidslifka

New post: 43% of the Web Can No Longer (Easily) Auto-Share to Twitter – https://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2023/05/43-of-the-web-can-no-longer-easily-auto-share-to-twitter.html

… wherein I write about how Twitter’s decision to impose huge prices on API access has caused Automattic to discontinue auto-sharing from their hosted #WordPress .com site and also through the #Jetpack plugin used by people (like me) who host their own WP sites.

The good news is that Automattic says they’ll soon enable auto-sharing to #Mastodon , which will be a great help!

—@danyork