Auch wenn ich das Argument "zentral = besser moderiert" nicht uneingeschränkt gelten lassen würde (siehe Twitter...), so hat das Fediverse bisher doch recht wenig Antworten auf Desinformation und Hass. Bis auf "das kannst du / dein Admin blocken" gibt's da eigentlich nichts. Und dezentral sind Lösungen natürlich deutlich schwieriger.

Glücklicherweise: Die Kultur gerade auf der Text-basierten Microblogging-Seite des Fediverse (Mastodon, Friendica & co) ist idR eine andere und ist bis dato eher wenig toxisch, relativ differenziert und meist sehr nett.

Videos (z.B. auf peertube) hingegen hatte ich bisher selbst oft als eher abgedreht und unterlaufen von Verschwörungsideologien wahrgenommen (natürlich nicht pauschal, kommt auf den Server an usw...). Monitoring durch wenige Admins ist fast unmöglich. Deplattforming ist quasi ausgeschlossen.

Was sind eure Erfahrungen / Meinungen?

Kontext:
1. https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/peertube-107.html
2. https://isdgermany.org/die-hydra-im-netz/

The New Year's Eve dinner arrived ✌️🌱

Super happy that I took some time yesterday to scroll through #bandcamp to find this gem of an album from #Polaris 🤘

I've been using #selfoss for a few months now as my #selfhosted #news/#rss aggregator and stumble upon many quirks in the web and android client every other time. Might be time to return to #ttrss? I do like the simplicity of hosting selfoss over ttrss though. Have you tried other solutions?

Maybe it's timet to spin up my Twitter Unliker Script to clean up my old account before closing it for good 🤔

Who would have thought that encrypting your /boot would be such a mess with GRUB's detrimental decryption performance on every boot or waking up from hibernate...

Should have stuck with unencrypted /boot... #linux

I have a hard time finding spots in my schedule to read #books, but lots of time to listen to podcasts etc while commuting via public transport.

Thought that might also be a good occasion for #audiobooks, but would highly prefer #DRM free ones over, let's say audible. Any recommendations on where to buy (or "rent") those?

I am thinking bandcamp, but for audiobooks.

I'm quite happy with my current setup of self hosted services on my VPS, including the fediverse server #ktistec, the RSS aggregator #selfoss and a bunch of tiny self written services & scripts (+ Websites).

All of which are as simple and low footprint as possible to make them easily maintainable. E.g. websites are completely static content, created with #hugo.

Feels like small islands that are isolated from outside factors, yet let me interact with others out there. That's probably how the internet must have felt like pre Web 2.0, when many people still had their own blogs, rather than using centralized, monopolistic platforms.

I am thinking about co-hosting more complex software together with others (and sharing costs...) like invidious. So if you are interested, send me an e-mail (contact + PGP avail. on my website)

Some observations about my #ktistec (1.0.0) trial:

• The setup was super easy and blazingly quick. Barely any load on my server hardware
• The UI is very smooth, simple and fast
• Rich message-composer, which however feels like it is constantly fighting me (on mobile)
• Posts can be edited any time!
• Visibility of posts cannot be set. Everything is "global"
• Media upload works fine. "Captions" are not the same as "alttext" in Mastodon.
• Searching for tags would be a nice feature
• No option for filtering my timeline, except for following and blocking accounts
• Posts of accounts appear from the moment onwards you interacted with them for the first time
• Above two observations make threads really awkward, because there is missing context
• The "metrics" feature is really, really nice!
• Obviously no limitation on post length(?)
• No API that I am aware of. makes cross posting, archiving, etc somewhat hard to achieve(?)
• The web-frontend embeds content from jquery, cloudflare and another random domain, which I feel like shouldn't be necessary (see screenshot)

All in all, there are many rough edges, but nothing that appears like it couldn't be overcome. Feels quicker nice, actually and I hope I have the skill set to actually contribute to this in the future!

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