Jerry
@Jerry@feddit.online
Admin/owner of this KBIN instance, https://feddit.online
I'm a liberal who also follows conservatives who use facts to form opinions & are good people. I want my beliefs challenged. I hate when people agendize everything. I play around a lot with Linux. My day job is IT for a bank.
Mastodon: https://hear-me.social
Calckey: https://bostonsocial.online
Peertube: https://my-sunshine.video
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- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 2 weeks ago:
Just curious. Have you had trouble loading my-place.social?
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 2 weeks ago:
They never explained well how to use Friendica, so it's all guessing. But, I believe, to get a Facebook-like experience, you mark people as "Friends" who you want in a Facebook-like environment. This maps to "Friends" on Facebook. Then you click on the "Friends" circle, and you only see posts and conversations from your friends.
You can also set up groups that federate to other instances, and you can control access to the groups. I've never used it, so I don't completely understand how to do this.
But, I think these are the 2 closest Friendica features for Facebook emulation.
https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/groups-and-privacy#groups_and_privacy
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 2 weeks ago:
The stalls are because the database queries are suboptimal. There is one that occasionally runs that, on my instance (I have 337 active users), can sometimes run for 15 minutes and will lock tables. Everything stalls and backs up.
This query was discussed, and I believe in the next release (but unsure) it will be replaced. Instead of using a ton of "not in" clauses, it does a left join now. In testing, someone mentioned it went from multi minutes to multi seconds to run. But there are a lot more such queries.
I think what Friendica needs desperately is a MariaDB/MySql expert to clean up the queries.
Because Friendica supports groups, you can connect to Lemmy communities. This is what kills Freindica. It just cannot handle the hundreds of thousands of daily connections that come in just from lemmy.world alone. Basically, it then becomes a Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN instance plus a Mastodon instance. The database grows by leaps and bounces, queues back up, and it stalls. CPU pegs without relief.
On mine, I finally had to block the Lemmy User Agent at the Cloudflare firewall. I calculated I would have had to spend another $500/month to allow the server to handle the Lemmy traffic comfortably, excluding the continuing cost for DB space. So far, I haven't blocked Piefed and MBIN, but this could change.
Friendica groups were designed for small private groups or specialized groups. Not public forums. I don't think they ever anticipated someone connecting to Lemmy.world communities and that such groups would become so active. I've told people on my instance that if they want to connect to these groups, they should do them using Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin, not Friendica.
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 2 weeks ago:
I haven't looked at the code, but it's standard PHP so probably not terribly hard for PHP developers to get involved.
The developers still work on it, are active in the support groups, and answer questions, but they just can't put in the time they used to. I'm sure they'd be happy if someone wanted to get involved. But, I don't think it would need to be taken over, just helped.
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 2 weeks ago:
It's an acquired taste. Now that I've been using it for months, I prefer it. I like that I have my Bluesky and Tumblr posts completely integrated into my timeline. I can reply to Bluesky posts. When I post something, it automatically gets posted to Bluesky, and Tumblr, if I like. I never go onto Bluesky any longer. Likes and replies from Bluesky are right in with my Mastodon posts and RSS feed posts too. Yes, RSS integrates in as well (obviously you can't reply to them though).
On Mastodon, if someone posts something interesting and I want to see replies and discussions, I can't, unless I remember to go back to the post and look. In Friendica I can click that I want to follow the thread, and it will notify me of the updates, and take me right to the new comment when I click it, it takes me directly to the notification. I love this! If I interact with a post (like it), same thing. It will track it for me. And it does a better job of pulling in replies and responses from all over.
Yeah. Not all good.
I run one of the Friendica servers and it's a problem child. The database grows rapidly and struggles. The database queries urgently need work. Sine are super slow. It stalls a lot. The UI is confusing. The developers are not all that active any longer, but still active. The UI is, well, dated.
More info about it here: https://news.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/
- Comment on We have launched a PieFed instance! 2 weeks ago:
This is fantastic news!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yep, it's enabled now on https://feddit.online
- Comment on Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards 1 month ago:
It's amazing that a company can get public officials to sign an agreement making it illegal for them to give any information to their electorate about a project that would have a huge impact on them in every possible way. No elected official should ever sign such an agreement. Why would they? But, they did. Corruption is the only reason I can think of.
And why is there no law against elected officials agreeing to become agents of a corporation against the interest of the electorate? Same answer, probably.
But all these people were elected by the ones they are hurting. And the electorate most likely elected their leaders based on some emotional non-existent issues instead of picking leaders based on commitment, honesty, and a desire to help people. From what I see from the rest of the country, and we are talking about Alabama here, they may have gotten the government and outcome that they deserve and are actually responsible for their own problem. I think American voters are bringing all of this personal damage upon themselves.
I'm a disillusioned American, by the way.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 months ago:
Well said
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 months ago:
I see no legitimate reason for not using a User Agent string, like all the other crawlers use, other than the desire to hide the crawler and make it difficult to block.
I don't accept his explanation. I see it as gaslighting.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 3 months ago:
You can go to https://hear-me.social and click on the register button. This puts up a Cloudflare managed challenge screen which endlessly loops when using Pale Moon. It would be interesting to see if Waterfox has the same issue.
- Comment on Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad? 4 months ago:
Yes!
- Comment on Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad? 4 months ago:
I have a Peertube server, and I've requested to follow tilvids, and they denied my request, and they also do not follow my Peertube server. I think one issue with tilvids may be that they essentially choose not to federate, and therefore you won't find much because of this.
I just searched for "Gaming" on my Peertube server and I seem to get a non-ending list of servers. Unfortunately, one column wide, but a lot. When I search for King's Quest, I am also getting a seemingly unending stream of videos.
I follow every Peertube server I can that is clearly not fascist, primarily NSFW, NSFL, etc.
Maybe you just need to find a server that is more federated with other Peertube servers.
- Comment on Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed! 7 months ago:
You've ascended! You're now part of the real world!
- Comment on [Question for admins] How do you feel about your users requesting content or account removal from other servers. 8 months ago:
I have a Mastodon, Friendica, Peertube, and a PieFed instance. I'm an Admin.
Let me make sure I understand. You are asking whether I would care if you were using my server, and you asked a different server Admin to remove your data from their server (and probably ban you on that server)?
If this is what you are asking, I personally wouldn't give it any thought. It's your data. If you don't want it on some other server, then you certainly have that right. I frankly don't think any Admin would have a problem with this. Even the opposite would be fine. If someone asked me to remove their data that came in remotely.
I might even be impressed that you are enforcing and thinking about your rights to privacy and your right to control your own data.
