https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27628

1 of 3 GitHub Continuous Integration checks has passed (which is a good sign the other two will pass as well).

I'm still avoiding commit access, so it's up to someone else to merge it.

Thanks to you, inz, lxo and anyone else I may have missed for the continued iterated improvements!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces #FediVerse

Mastodon has an active fundraising campaign for a new Trust and Safety team member!

Consider contributing to help make the fediverse and its largest platform more safer.

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#mastodon #fediverse #trustAndSafety

@acallegaro

Why #automatedPostDeletion on #socialMedia, such as #Mastodon?

Easy: In a fortnight from now, I just don't want to be confronted with the utter bullshit I'm going to post today.

For #privacy, post deletion does not help much, because the bad actors can archive everything. And surely do it since long.

I am considering whether to activate the option for the automated post deletion. To those who already do it: why do you do it? What are the reasons? #privacy ?

#mastodon #feditips #fediquestion #automatedpostdeletion #postdeletion

We techies really are nerds living in our own little bubble. Every time I talk to friends outside of IT, they just laugh at the things we take for granted. In our world, it’s completely normal to assume that everyone has their own domain, self-hosts everything, avoids anything proprietary like it’s the plague, and probably has a dozen side projects running on some self-built server in their closet.

But then there’s my friend, a mechanic, who finds this absolutely hilarious. To him, it’s like expecting every car mechanic to not only have their own repair garage at home but also to manufacture their own tools and, while they’re at it, maybe even start their own car brand. It sounds ridiculous when you put it that way - but to us, that’s just how things should be!

#nerds #geek #geeky #hackers #opensource #sysadmin #devops #cloud #socialmedia #mastodon #fedi #homelab #selfhosted #server #ipv6 #domain #blog #tech #niche #linux #runbsd #bsd

@ulrichkelber

Möglicherweise werden wir in der nächsten #Zeit auch einen #Ansturm auf europäische #Cloudservice-#Dienstleister erleben, da die #Amerikaner ihren eigenen #BigTech-#Firmen nicht mehr über den #Weg trauen und datensichere #Alternativen in #Europa suchen. Die europäischen #Anbieter sollten gerüstet sein und auch für #Investoren in europäische #Datensicherheitslösungen wird das sehr interessant werden. Auch hier auf #Mastodon gab es schon #Anfragen dazu.

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27571

GitHub Continuous Integration checks are running, hopefully without issues? If so, then it will be up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Thanks for your (and inz's) continued improvements to snac!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces #snacizens

Thought I'll play a bit around with Bridgy Fed https://fed.brid.gy/ . Would love to hear about your experiences in the #Fediverse by posting messages from #Mastodon to #bluesky .

Global Switch Day. February 1st 2025.

Spread the word.

#mastodon #pixelfed #signal #friendica #peertube #loops

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A grid of six promotional panels for 'Global Switch Day' on February 1st, 2025, each showing a transition between social media platforms: X (formerly Twitter) to Mastodon Instagram to Pixelfed WhatsApp to Signal Facebook to Friendica YouTube to PeerTube TikTok to Loops.video Each panel uses distinctive brand colors and includes platform logos connected by arrows, suggesting a migration from mainstream to alternative social media platforms.

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.70 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27556

1 of 3 GitHub Continuous Integration checks has passed (which is a good sign the other two will as well, eventually).

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces #snacizens

@debian sad but correct decision use #mastodon or try to get a #pixelfed account?

#HowTo install & run #snac on #FreeBSD - run your own #ActivityPub instance in the #Fediverse!

In the last days I often got asked about #snac / #snac2 as an alternative to #Mastodon and I can highly recommend it! I few months ago, I already wrote a HowTo about setting snac up on a FreeBSD instance - might be worth to share again :) if you’re using snac, you might also want to use my relay service at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to make your posts more visible in the Fediworld.

#opensource #fediverse #fediworld #alternatives #community #FreeBSD #RUNBSD #BoxyBSD #activitypub #mastodon #relay #community #federated

https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/

Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the #Fediverse and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!

But what makes me even really happy is to see, that my service [2] also gets linked in the release notes of #snac [1] / #snac2 - and I can recommend the usage of relay services (it doesn't matter which one!) to everyone. It provides more content from connected instances to you, but also brings your posts - from your local instance - up to other ones within the federated network where it can get much easier distributed around other instances.

#snac is the perfect way to host an own fediverse instance. Using the #ActivityPub protocol allows you to connect to all other instances. With the integrated #Mastodon API, you can also use most of your usual clients or web clients. Snac is light, fast, does not require any database and follows the KISS way - which the most of us BSD people are living. With relay services, it's the perfect match for singe-user instances and @grunfink is always open for ideas and to help! It does not always need to be #Mastodon, #GoToSocial etc!

And if you're using any other software, you may still benefit by using relay services. And if you're still looking for a guide, howto setup snac2 on #FreeBSD, my howto [3] might help you out.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
[2]: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com
[3]: https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/

#community #opensource #development #coding #c #clang #homelab #hosting #BSD #RUNBSD #Howto

@thomas Ich hab das schon hunderte Male hier bei #Mastodon gesehen und jetzt macht es "klick"... sehr fein 🙂

#CrazyFediverseAnalogies

In einer Welt, die von rechtspopulistischen Figuren und Tech-Giganten beherrscht wird, stellt das #Fediverse (#Mastodon) eine essentielle Alternative dar. Es bietet einen Raum für dezentrale Kommunikation, der frei von kommerziellen Interessen und der Manipulation durch zentrale Plattformen ist, und fördert eine digitale Kultur, die Unabhängigkeit, Vielfalt und respektvollen Austausch anstelle von Hass und Desinformation in den Mittelpunkt stellt. ✊

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Aktualisierte Version des Fediverse-Schaubilds, das eine grafische Übersicht der verschiedenen dezentralen sozialen Netzwerke und Plattformen im Fediverse zeigt.

Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für die Allgemeinheit 🕵️‍♂️

#DSGVO #TDDDG #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #BigBrotherAwards #Massenűberwachung #Sicherheitspaket
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Appel #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #Informatik #Shiftphone  #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #Murena  #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #Medienkompetenz      

auch als PDF zum Download:

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/P92-iU64AcechHShABjDnDxN/p/

Passwort: D8F5tUm\NJik+a5&@

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Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für die Allgemeinheit

One of the most important things I consider when choosing a social media platform is whether people can read what I post without being nagged or forced to create an account. For many of my friends who don’t really care about #Mastodon, https://gultsch.social is just a website they can drop by occasionally to see what I’m up to.

For English speakers who do not speak French:

I wanted to let you know about this awesome movement started in France to encourage people to quit X (Twitter) on January 20.

You can follow it here with the hashtag #HelloQuitX and use Mastodon's translation feature to read the posts (if your server has it). You can read more about this movement on this website (in English): https://www.helloquitx.com/

You can support this movement by following it on Mastodon, and sharing widely: @helloQuitX

#QuitX #DeleteTwitter #Mastodon

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.68 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27332

GitHub Continuous Integration checks are running (two out of three completed successfully, which is a good sign, here's hoping the last one has no issues as well).

As usual, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27188

Two of three GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks passed, which is a good sign; hopefully the others will pass without issues.

As usual, it's up to others with commit access to merge it!

Thanks again for your and others' continued improvements to snac! Specifically I noticed shout outs to nowster and Shamar in the RELEASE_NOTES.md and I seem to recall watching the discourse about the PID locking suggested and discussed rather collaboratively too!

(My apologies for the delay. The Makefile was slightly modified, which in turn broke the $files/Makefile.patch applied by MacPorts so I needed to rework that which took me a bit longer than usual given other work obligations I have had today.

Though not a concern for upstream, for MacPorts users I also noticed the following warning when running % port test:

"Warning: violation by /opt/local/man
Warning: snac violates the layout of the ports-filesystems!
Warning: Please fix or indicate this misbehavior (if it is intended), it will be an error in future releases!"

Though, it appears as if the man pages are where I think they should be for MacPorts? I have never seen that Warning before, so my guess is something about MacPorts intended prescriptive behavior has been changed but I am not exactly certain what the expected behavior is supposed to be now? I will look into it further, but hopefully it isn't a concern for users at the moment; just thought I would mention it for the sake of being thorough!

However, it's entirely possible I messed something up too; so if others with greater wisdom than I see that Warning and know what to do to correct it, or if they encounter any other issues with MacPorts' snac, others are more than welcome to submit Pull Requests with improvements! Or feel free to open up an issue on MacPorts Trac instance at https://trac.macports.org and I'll look into it.)

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither#NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

Doing Mastodon #research 🚀

For my master thesis I'm dividing instances into small (<100 users) and large (100+ users). Why? Because after some trial and error my computational results change noticeably at this threshold! Have you observed something similar? Or how would you define small vs large instances? 💜

#mastodon #university #fediverse