I've written a bit of an extensive guide on navigating ActivityPub and its many apps, and instances, along with some initial questions new users might have, and links to mobile apps.
But I'm a freedom of speech homie so I wouldn't complain about it too much; if the speech offends you, you should be able to block or mute him yourself on your end.
Really sad that #Pleroma does not have good photo support, I really would love to just swipe through photos sometimes or have a timeline that just contains posts with photos.
There is only #Pixelfed that comes close to what I wait for since 2015 to happen in the #Fediverse, but not really close. It seems to be very easy idea, but probably impossible to program or implement. 😔😢
Dammit voilà que mon #Pleroma est tout cassé, je n'ai rien touché mais il n'accède plus aux notifications et aux interactions parce qu'un serveur dans la liste ne répond pas on dirait, ça vous est déjà arrivé ? 🤔
Fediverse-Serie: Pleroma & Akkoma: Einfache Kommunikation im Fediverse - GNU/Linux.ch
Pleroma und Akkoma gehören wegen ihrer Einfachheit zu den beliebtesten Diensten im Fediverse. Gegenüber Mastodon bieten sie default 5000 Zeichen und einige weitere Funktionen.
Herkunft und Einbindung ins Fediverse
Pleroma und dessen Fork Akkoma gehören einerseits neben Mastodon, Calckey/Firefish, Misskey, Foundkey und GoToSocial nicht nur wegen des Aussehens und Handlings zu der Sparte der twitterähnlichnen Microbloggingdienste im Fediverse. Es unterscheidet sich andererseits recht deutlich insbesondere von Mastodon, wobei das klassische Aussehen doch recht ähnlich ist - aber davon später mehr.
Wenn Du gerne eine Art Mastodon mit richtigen Microblogging-Möglichkeiten haben willst, dann würde ich tatsächlich stark zu Pleroma oder Akkoma raten!
Pleroma/Akkoma ist ähnlich wie Mastodon, aber übersichtlicher und mit mehr Funktionen: Es kann zusätzlich längere Posts (default bis 5000 Zeichen Länge) und Textformatierungen wie Markdown, "schöne Links", Zitate, Aufzählungslisten u.v.m. (was allerdings wie alle Textformatierungen nicht von Mastodon, aber von allen anderen Diensten dargestellt wird)....
Ückück und das Fediverse - meine neue Kolumne bei @gnulinux
Ein neues Projekt steht an und ich freue mich sehr. Ab diesem Monat werde ich regelmäßig für GNU/Linux.ch über das Fediverse schreiben, mal spezielle Projekte vorstellen, mal von Veranstaltungen berichten, mal einen Blick auf die Meta-Ebene vagen - es gibt jedenfalls genug zu berichten, dass ich eine Weile beschäftigt bin :D
Google provides a tool called PageSpeed Insights which gives a website some metrics to assess how well it is put together and how fast it loads. There are a lot of technical details but in general green scores are good, orange not great and red is bad.
I tried to ensure the tests were similar for each platform by choosing a page that shows a list of posts, like https://mastodon.social/explore.
The rest don’t seem to have prioritized performance or chose a software architecture that cannot be made to perform well on these metrics. It will be very interesting to see how that affects the cost of running large instances and the longevity of the platforms. Time will tell.
Just upgraded #Pleroma, which I’d been putting off for a while.
I had been using the packaged, “OTP”, version of Pleroma, but it turned out the package is ancient, and it required an older cryptography library. Because I’d upgraded to a newer version of #Ubuntu, the older crypto library had been removed and replaced with a newer version.
The whole process took maybe half an hour, and no more than 10 or so commands. Basically:
Stop Pleroma (so it’s not running while trying to backup/update): sudo systemctl stop pleroma.
Backup my instance.
First make a place to store the backup: mkdir -p ~/backup/pleroma. I made it (temporarily!) world-writable to make things easier: chmod 777 ~/backup/pleroma.
Backup the configuration: sudo cp /etc/pleroma/config.exs /home/saria/backup/pleroma.
Delete the Pleroma installation (actually, just put it to one side for now, just in case): sudo mv /opt/pleroma /home/saria/backup/pleroma/old-installation and sudo mv /etc/pleroma /home/saria/backup/pleroma/old-configuration.
Adjust stuff that differs between the OTP installation and the source installation.
Update the pleroma user’s home directory: sudo usermod -d /var/lib/pleroma pleroma (Here I got an error that the pleroma user was still running process 758. No problem, just sudo kill 758, then retry.)
Make the “new” locations: sudo mkdir - /opt/pleroma /var/lib/pleroma. (I think /var/lib/pleroma already existed, and was storing images and uploads, which was fine.)
Make the pleroma user the owner of those locations: sudo chown -R pleroma: /opt/pleroma /var/lib/pleroma.
Edit the configuration file config/prod.secret.exs, copying all the important stuff (passwords, salts, personal settings) from the old file at /home/saria/backup/pleroma/old-configuration/config.exs.
Run the database migration: sudo -Hu pleroma MIX_ENV=prod mix ecto.migrate.
Restart Pleroma: sudo systemctl start pleroma. I discovered (using sudo systemctl status pleroma) that Pleroma would not start. I realised that was because the systemd service file was still trying to start the old, OTP version. So I replaced the service file with the one from the source installation (sudo cp -f /opt/pleroma/installation/pleroma.service /etc/systemd/system/pleroma.service) and tried again. Now I got an error from systemd because the service file had changed, telling me I had to do systemd daemon-reload. So I did sudo systemd daemon-reload, and tried to start Pleroma again. Success! 🦸🏾♀️
As you can see, I ran into some hiccups, but the documentation and error messages were clear enough that I was able to fix stuff and move on.
Now, I am no expert on any of this stuff! I know literally nothing about Erlang or Elixir (the languages/tools/whatever that Pleroma is made with). But as you can see, if you take the time to carefully read the documentation, and understand what each step is actually doing, it’s really not that hard! 💪🏾
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