The best place to start is https://joinjabber.org/ (Jabber is another name for XMPP).

The apps for Android are free on F-Droid.

A fediverse instance obviously.

You can use the same containers with Podman, but docker-compose is not recommended with Podman and you rather use Quadlets which integrate nicely with Systemd.

Because it is missing an “and”?

Heh, that reminds me of trying to miniaturize origami folds when I was a kid. Yeah, don’t ask 😸

I think Vernissage even added a migration option from Pixelfed lately.

I am also interested in some feedback on hosting it. I tried hosting Pixelfed a while ago, and while I got it to run, it was honestly quite annoying with lots of papercuts, so I retired it again shortly after.

But that has nothing to do with the size of an instance of community. Rather the opposite is the case: an instance admin might decide to silence an community or instance because it is too big/busy and drowns out all the posts from smaller instances.

Or a very practical example: those Reddit and RSS repost instances. We had to defederate them because they were drowning out all organic posts and discussions. I would have rather liked to silence them though as people might want to stay subscribed to them without bothering other people on the same instance by having them pollute the federated feed.

On Mastodon it is also commonly used to temporarily silence an instance that is being abused for spam. This is much better than to defederate, as it still allows people to continue communicating with legitimate users on that instance.

which cannibalizes smaller instances as their posters are incentivized to post in the communities of the bigger instance and not their home instance since less people will see it.

Why would that be the case? Either you or me totally misunderstand that feature 😅

I doubt unbound hydrogen would exist long enough in the presence of atmospheric oxygen to cause much problems.

Otherwise, yeah some issues with it exist, but that it is at least partially possible to reuse the huge amount of fossile fuel infrastructure that already exists is a big theoretical advantage.

And it would be hugely beneficial for nitrogen fertilizer production.

This is quite interesting. Maybe the breakthrough that the “green hydrogen” ideas needed, because so far they have been pretty much dead in the water.

Ugh, this is a long solved issue with inverters immediatly shutting off when they lose grid connection.

Sounds more like a union captured by corporate interests of their employers, which is sadly a common thing these days.

@hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net is the author of that. We discussed it before on our !infrapolitics@slrpnk.net community.

Anyways, very good insights into the potential of well organized disaster response mutual aid.

I especially like this sentence:

A sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness and response program is indistinguishable from a revolutionary counter-power.

There are easy to move and fold up solar-panels for camping that can charge USB devices (like phones or power-banks) and I think larger ones can also charge laptops etc. They are a bit expensive usually, but a nice start and good to have for emergencies as well.

Nice, enjoy the free electricity during the day. Have you already started adjusting your habits like putting the washing machine on a timer to run it when there is a lot of sun?

There is also white wood-filler. For small scratches it might be good enough to hide the damage.

The noqanon list and the OP warning sign are two different things.

The first is a default url blocklist that gets pulled on first start of a Piefed instance and which contains extreme right-wing and mis-information outlets.

The domain warning sign mentioned in OP is a separate list only manually added to the piefed.social flagship instance.

Lenovo Daydream VR camera. Worked ok at first, but was soon after abandoned by Google and Android dropped support for it as well. These days an expensive brick. Oh and the battery became a spicy pillow as well 🤦

You should be able to change the bot marker in your profile settings.

Seems like a nice upgrade 👍

I was referring to a different but similar case where someone intentionally spread mis-information about supposedly hardcoded things that turned out to be a complete nothingburger as all of it was behind an admin toggle. The same seems to be now true for this old issue you specifically pointed out here.

It is true that there is some experimental stuff in Piefed, which is part of the relatively rapid iteration of features, but looking at the code and also the explanations given by the Piefed development team I can really not see any malice in those settings. It is perfectly normal that things get overlooked or implemented partially and when someone reports a bug (like a missing admin configuration setting) it usually gets fixed quite quickly, and at least in my experience without much discussions.