Good morning Fedi friends,
I have been feeling a rising anxiety over the state of the open web and the fediverse - after seeing efforts by politicians all over the world (in Europe too!) to introduce age verification laws for social media.
My way of coping?
Teaching people how to self-host their own Fediverse profile (using the superb #GoToSocial) via #YunoHost.
Chapter 1 in this series is available here:
🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie…
#resist #blog #ActivityPub #selfhosting
A newbie's guide to self-hosting: GoToSocial part 1 (installation and set-up)
A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocialElena Rossini
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Peet Tetteroo
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe.
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •This is a very precious post. I'm not the selfhosting kind but this tutorial is tempting...
I may be running ahead but do you know if it's possible to import existing contacts to GoToSocial? (A friend also uses it and is very happy with it.)
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. • • •Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe.
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •I'm going to find a way to play with it, if only just for the experience.
Your blog posts are valuable for this (bookmark, bookmark, bookmark, folder full of bookmarks!).
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. • • •Sebastian
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Jörgi (chaos.social)
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •this helps for the individual - but not for the once running an instance for others....
I really hope this social media ban, like in France now, is only "for the big ones".
In theory: the Fediverse is a big one too:
- 13.8M Accounts in total
- but only 1,141,317 active Acounts.
(source: @fedidb)
If the numbers are for each server, most of us don't have to suffer anything. If it's the (complete) Fediverse, and it makes sense to see it that way, we are doomed too.
Alex W.
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Elena Rossini 🌈
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in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •AAA365
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •If I tap on @elena my mastodon app gives an error
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜 • • •Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •I am just trying to Asses if I set up gotosocial, what functionality it will and wont have in practice interacting with mastodonten users. Theres little documentation I could find on that.
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜 • • •Home
docs.gotosocial.orgpatpro
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •This good practice extend to almost everything computer/internet related (don’t use an admin account to work on your computer, etc.)
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to patpro • • •seedsignal
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •It's sad that nowhere in this world are there free self-hosting pods for humans that struggle with access to technology.
I wish that universities and libraries had a policy of dedicating server space for VPS instances that could allow such self-hosting to scaffold into more.
I was hopeful for a time that peer to peer and mesh would find one another, but no, people got addicted to their own chemistry hacking (ragebait/doomscroll) and, well, here we are -- uphill battles all around. 🖖
seedsignal
in reply to seedsignal • • •I am thankful for humans like you doing this work to help people know their options.
I just wish there were more options that thought about where humans are in relation to technology. (Ignorant by and large, in need of slow walk skill up, et al.)
🖖
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to seedsignal • • •Michel Patrice
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Je partage les mêmes inquiétudes et je crois aussi beaucoup à l'auto-hébergement.
La législation devrait s'appliquer aux réseaux centralisés et dirigés par des algorithmes et exempter les réseaux décentralisés comme Mastodon.
J'ai un réseau d'amis dont les noms, les adresses et le no de tel. sont listés dans un calepin. Je communique librement avec eux par téléphone, courriel, par la poste si ça me change, sans l'intervention d'un multimilliardaire. (...)
Michel Patrice
in reply to Michel Patrice • • •La vérification d'âge serait ici absurde.
Mastodon s'apparente davantage à mon réseau informel d'amis qu'à X ou Facebook.
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Michel Patrice • • •@MichelPatrice I read that allegedly in France you can prove your age with a selfie. I'm reminded of teenagers in Australia who drew a mustache on their face and that allowed them to "prove" they were over 18.
I also read that using a VPN could work in avoiding the age verification process.
Bref, when you put technically illiterate people in charge, this is what you get
Michel Patrice
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