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MediaGoblin
7 years ago
is having its kick-off call in a little less than three hours! (Friday, May 5th of 2017 at 4PM GMT!) Let's talk the future of the federated social web! Hope to see you there!

SocialCG - W3C Wiki

Sadly that problem exists in all federated social networks I know, except Hubzilla: there you can login on any pod.
Autumn Fox
7 years ago
Though, I guess this will not work on pods that haven’t received this posting yet, will it?

Correct. I have link "/posts/42e20870e4b90134d8e90242ac110007" correctly translated to my pod though there is no such post since I do not follow Dr. Roy Schestowitz and his post was not federated through public tags relay system, so I have 404 Not found here.
MediaGoblin
7 years ago
Greetings, all! So we're working on wrapping up work in the Social Working Group (and working hard at ActivityPub getting out there... implementors, now is a great time to get hacking!). We're also starting up the Social Web Incubator Group and I (talking as Christopher Allan Webber here) am co-chair of the group. It's open to everyone, but especially implementors of federated systems.

So, kind of a loose straw poll: we're thinking of holding a rough getting-the-group-going meeting over Mumble, etc in the next week or so. Is that something people are interested in?

Social Web Incubator Community Group

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Dispersión



diaspora* es una red federada y descentralizada con más de 170 pods (servidores) activos. A modo de experimento, veamos hasta dónde puede llegar este post y cuántos pods podemos alcanzar.

Si lo estás viendo, por favor comparte este post para generar la mayor dispersión posible. Para medir esa dispersión utilizaremos Diaspora ReShare Graph, una herramienta para seguir las publicaciones compartidas.

http://rsv.diapod.net

Gracias!

Dispersion



diaspora* is a federated and decentralized social network with more than 170 active pods. As an experiment, let's see how far this post can go and how many pods we can reach.

If you are viewing it, please reshare this post to generate as much dispersion as possible. To measure this dispersion we will use Diaspora ReShare Graph, a tool to follow the reshared publications.

http://rsv.diapod.net

Thank you!
#diaspora #hola #newhere #español #english #federated #federación #redeslibres #redsocial #socialnetwork #social #network #softwarelibre #freesoftware #pods #reshare #experimento #experiment
Guido Arnold
7 years ago
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Dispersión



diaspora* es una red federada y descentralizada con más de 170 pods (servidores) activos. A modo de experimento, veamos hasta dónde puede llegar este post y cuántos pods podemos alcanzar.

Si lo estás viendo, por favor comparte este post para generar la mayor dispersión posible. Para medir esa dispersión utilizaremos Diaspora ReShare Graph, una herramienta para seguir las publicaciones compartidas.

http://rsv.diapod.net

Gracias!

Dispersion



diaspora* is a federated and decentralized social network with more than 170 active pods. As an experiment, let's see how far this post can go and how many pods we can reach.

If you are viewing it, please reshare this post to generate as much dispersion as possible. To measure this dispersion we will use Diaspora ReShare Graph, a tool to follow the reshared publications.

http://rsv.diapod.net

Thank you!
#diaspora #hola #newhere #español #english #federated #federación #redeslibres #redsocial #socialnetwork #social #network #softwarelibre #freesoftware #pods #reshare #experimento #experiment
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Dispersión



diaspora* es una red federada y descentralizada con más de 170 pods (servidores) activos. A modo de experimento, veamos hasta dónde puede llegar este post y cuántos pods podemos alcanzar.

Si lo estás viendo, por favor comparte este post para generar la mayor dispersión posible. Para medir esa dispersión utilizaremos Diaspora ReShare Graph, una herramienta para seguir las publicaciones compartidas.

http://rsv.diapod.net

Gracias!

Dispersion



diaspora* is a federated and decentralized social network with more than 170 active pods. As an experiment, let's see how far this post can go and how many pods we can reach.

If you are viewing it, please reshare this post to generate as much dispersion as possible. To measure this dispersion we will use Diaspora ReShare Graph, a tool to follow the reshared publications.

http://rsv.diapod.net

Thank you!
#diaspora #hola #newhere #español #english #federated #federación #redeslibres #redsocial #socialnetwork #social #network #softwarelibre #freesoftware #pods #reshare #experimento #experiment
Carol Chen
7 years ago

Socialhome HQ



#django #python #decentralization #thefederation #diaspora

https://socialhome.network/
"Socialhome is a #federated home page builder application with social network features."

My little project has reached the phase where I've set up a public demo server. Feel free to play around if you like - feedback would be highly appreciated! Just do realize it's a bit alpha still.

Socialhome HQ

Jason Robinson
7 years ago

Socialhome HQ



#django #python #decentralization #thefederation #diaspora

https://socialhome.network/
"Socialhome is a #federated home page builder application with social network features."

My little project has reached the phase where I've set up a public demo server. Feel free to play around if you like - feedback would be highly appreciated! Just do realize it's a bit alpha still.

Socialhome HQ

Sean Tilley
8 years ago from hubzilla

Meeting Free Software Federated Folk in Meatspace




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Meeting people in person for the first time is always kind of awkward - especially if you've never seen them before, and you also happen to really respect their work. You can find yourself walking down a long road with growing anticipation of things getting real. You've never been to this Mexican restaurant before, you've never met this person, who knows what could happen?

I got to meet Chris Webber from @MediaGoblin while I was visiting San Francisco. I usually feel sort of antsy when I meet people in person for the first time., but really that all evaporated as soon as we shook hands and said hello.

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Chris has a great personality. It was wonderful talking about our different points of view on federation, and the schools of thought that have come up surrounding different implementations. We talked for three hours about Free Software, desktop environments, project philosophies, federation concepts, and our grand hopes and dreams for things we wanted to see succeed. He even told me a good Richard Stallman story!

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There's actually a lot of really interesting things going on in the Free Software space as of recently. Of note, GNU GUIX is under a lot of promising development, and could provide a better way forward for deploying packaged web applications, and rolling them forward or back from upgrades. To some effect, such an effort could make non-PHP open source web applications easier to package, install, and use with relatively little setup required on the user's part.

Chris invited me to an SF Free Software Users meetup called Beowulf Cluster. We all crowded into a pie shop and many different kinds of conversations came up about what we did for a living and what we were interested in. Some guys talked about QA, others discussed semantics of their favorite tools and projects.


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I got to meet Asheesh Laroia from the Sandstorm team. Sandstorm is extremely interesting to me, because it is a Free stack that effectively allows you to host and launch apps like a containerized Heroku - you can also host all of it on your own hardware independently. It feels a bit like Google apps, but with a much wider selection, and everything is sandboxed. The concept of an easy turn-key service for hosting a #Diaspora pod is extremely appealing to me.

We talked a bit about packaging Diaspora for that platform - at some point, someone from their community had tried to package it. Some questions remain about how Diaspora's components work in terms of in-bound and out-bound connections, and Sandstorm is a sandboxed environment for apps that can share data with each other from inside of a host. I hope to answer their outstanding questions sometime soon to get a better idea of what would need to happen.

All in all, these moments were the highlights of my trip this time. I was super glad to have met Chris and see a real Free Software hacker in the flesh.

Sean Tilley - sean@deadsuperhero.com

Jason Robinson
8 years ago from Diaspora

Welcome to The Federation - The Federation Lists



#thefederation #socialweb

https://lists.the-federation.info/archives/list/the-federation@lists.the-federation.info/thread/JGG3UDJ3S27P3NHS4FQ6TI2ILZUOCK46/

So, finally got a planned mailing list up and running. Basically the idea is to provide a place for discussion regarding the federated social web. Mailing lists are the most neutral way to do this since most of the federated social web doesn't federate between different platforms, with the exception of #diaspora*, #Friendica and #Hubzilla.

I'd like to not only provide a place for discussion, but also provide a place for information - for example a wiki with information regarding various projects, their team, protocols - and so on. This all would be around the hopefully-not-too-far-to-be-renewed https://the-federation.info site.

Let's see where this goes. If you are interested, check out my mailing list intro email from the archives and talk to you on the list!
Jason Robinson
8 years ago from Diaspora
So who are the #federated and #decentralized #socialweb people coming to #FOSDEM? Would love to meet! Also dinner/drinks?

#diaspora #friendica #hubzilla #gnusocial #xmpp #salut-a-toi #movim #pumpio #thefederation #mediagoblin #owncloud #indieweb

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We Distribute
9 years ago from redmatrix

Diaspora merges Social Relay feature



Two years of discussion revolving around public post federation hit a new milestone yesterday, as a Pull Request by @Jason Robinson got merged into the main #Diaspora repository. The Social Relay feature will allow hosted relay servers to help the main network with sharing public contents across all pods.

A few concepts have been put together regarding how the relays work:
  • Social-Federation is a Python library that aims to abstract multiple federated social networking protocols under it. Currently it only supports the Diaspora protocol and only relevant parts of it. Fully implemented is parsing a status_message message which covers public posts.
  • Social-Relay is a Python Flask application that will aim to cover this proposal, using the social-federation library. It handles public post receiving and storing to Redis. It is currently receiving all public posts from the pod iliketoast.net.
  • Change to Diaspora deferred_dispatch worker to make public posts be sent out to a relay


Public post federation

The lack of public post federation in Diaspora is IMHO a make or break feature. The whole network is a little broken as small pods are cut of most of the posts on the network due to the way current federation works.

Here is my proposal for solving this issue, please see [wiki post here](https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Relay_servers_for_public_posts).

It is not a comprehensive solution that can just be implemented now. It is a high level suggestion for going forward with talking about such a feature.
Jason Robinson
9 years ago from Diaspora
W3C SocialWG updated Activity Streams 2 candidate working drafts - https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-socialweb/2015Jun/0041.html -

New improved candidate working drafts for the Activity Streams 2 spec that aims to provide a common way for social web applications to talk to each other. If you don't know what this means in practice - it is a huge thing for federated social networks. The real future for federated social web is using a common language, and that is what this work is about.

Really looking forward to this, already very good looking, work mature and API libraries to surface.

#w3c #socialwg #activitystreams #federation

Updated Candidate Working Drafts from James M Snell on 2015-06-23 (public-socialweb@w3.org from June 2015)

Klaus Weidenbach
10 years ago
federated XOVILICHTER in friendica
Mal sehen wie sich ~friendica ~friendica so als dezentrale, federated SEO (Marketing #SPAM ) Schleuder eignet. :-D Hatte bisher den Eindruck, dass meine friendica Seiten erschreckend weit oben immer auftauchten.

Dann mal viel Spass ihr #XOVILICHTER.
Categories: XOVILICHTER [remove] , SEO [remove]
Klaus Weidenbach
11 years ago
GNU social merges with StatusNet
Was there any big difference between these ever? Thought they are all StatusNet anyway.

Gnu: gnu.org

On June 8th, 2013 the developers of GNU social are pleased to announce a merger with both the Free Social project and the StatusNet project. Free Social developer and founder, Mikael Nordfeldth and GNU social founder, Matt Lee will co-manage the project. StatusNet founder and Federated Web pioneer Evan Prodromou, will remain active on the project a...
Funny logo of GNU social, btw.
Klaus Weidenbach
11 years ago
Interesting manual on how to set up an #XMPP server.

Raymii: Set up a federated XMPP Chat Network with ejabberd, your own Google Talk/Hangouts alternative - Raymii.org

This tutorial shows you how to set up your own federated chat network using ejabberd. It covers a basic single node ejabberd server and also the setup of an ejabberd cluster, including errors and DNS SRV record examples. Last but not least federation is also covered. You can use an Inception Hosting VPS to set up your own XMPP server, I use them an...
Klaus Weidenbach
12 years ago
♲ Commander Zot

You still need your own website - O'Reilly Radar



Brett Slatkin's hope for a federated social web hasn't worked out as expected, so he's shifting perspective from infrastructure to user behavior. Here he explains why you shouldn't abandon your website for third-party platforms.

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Klaus Weidenbach
12 years ago
New Libravatar addon
Just updated and finished the Libravatar addon for ~friendica ~friendica. #Libravatar is a free and #federated avatar hosting service and can replace the Gravatar addon.
The Libravatar addon is based on the MIT licensed Services Libravatar PHP-library by Melissa Draper.
Please test and give feedback if somthing is wrong or not working correctly. Unfortunately I did not get libravatar running on my CentOS server to test the lookup on other instances than the central on. Had some problems to solve dependencies, but for Debian there are complete install instructions to set up your own Libravatar instance.

Pull Request #67: Libravatar addon by dawnbreak · friendica/fri

This pull request adds a new avatar addon for Libravatar. It can be used instead of gravatar to look up avatar images. Libravatar is a free and open replacement for gravatar. You can also host it on your own server if you like.
It also includes a che...
Klaus Weidenbach
12 years ago
Shibboleth
I have read an interesting article in the german IX 05/12 magazine about the federated #SSO solution #Shibboleth. The structure sounds good, wondering why it is not more widely used.

Shibboleth - Home

Shibboleth is an open-source project that provides Single Sign-On capabilities and allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner....
Klaus Weidenbach
12 years ago
Adding Libravatar support
@Friendica Support @Mike

I would like to add Libravatar lookup as an optional replacement for Gravatar in ~friendica ~friendica. But I have some questions how it would be done best:

#Libravatar is a #federated #avatar hosting service. There is a central service comparable to #Gravatar, but you could also run your own instance of it. Unfortunately it is not so easy to set the hosting service up on your own server, but I would like to add support to query Libravatar. There exists a PHP class to query Libravatar that I would need to use. It is MIT licensed so that should be no problem to include. It requires PHP5.3 would that be a problem?

There is a config option to enable Gravatar support right now. So I thought if it would make sense to implement Gravatar support and then also Libravatar support as plugins?

I just looked shortly into the code and it seems that there is only 1 function I would need to hook into and this function is only used in 2 places. I have thought to rename the function gravatar_img($email) in include/network.php to a more generic avatar_img($email) and placing the hook inside that function that the plugin would use then.
I would also like to add options to the Gravatar plugin then to select the image-rating and default-image. Right now friendica's Gravatar implementation allows pg-rated images hardcoded. Libravatar only allows g-rated images and also only looks these up as a fallback at Gravatar. So no pg-rated images would be possible with the Libravatar plugin anymore as a downside. And a maybe bit slower lookup to find the right hosting service trough DNS or if it needs to fall back to Gravatar. But I don't think that should be a problem and the admin could anyway switch back to Gravatar-only lookup with the Gravatar plugin.

In include/Scrape.php the function gravatar_img() is also called once, but there is no check if $use_gravatar is enabled at all. Was there a special reason for that? Would it break if no avatar is returned?

How would a migration work? Friendica core and the addons would need to be updated at the same time and then there should be an update function that checks if $use_gravatar was enabled before and then enable the Gravatar plugin? Would that work somehow automatically? What if someone forgets to update the addons at the same time?
What would be the right way to check that only one of these two plugins is loaded at any time?

Would like to hear your comments about how this should be implemented in a correct way.

Thank you very much!
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Klaus Weidenbach
12 years ago
♲ JC John Sese Cuneta (謝施洗)
I wonder how many more #Friendica instances are out there who haven't made their presence known, not because they are not federating (ie. in private mode), rather because they chose not to list themselves in the global-public directory.

If no user choose to get listed in the global-public directory, no one will know they exist until someone reshare one of their post by well-connected federated users or their friends (of friends), or they post in a public group with federated members.

The media <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">should</span> must understand that concept before they assume Friendica (or any other #DDFON ) only have few users and/or few instances/nodes/pods. Because in the #decentralized, #distributed, #federated, #open, #social network world, it is not about numbers, it is about #freedom, #ownership, and #privacy.

#socnet
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