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Learn more about the Fediverse?

That's the part many of us here inhabit - the Mastodon instances, and many other sites, serving different needs.

"Fediverse
is a portmanteau of two words “federation” and “universe”

It is a common name for federated social networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. Historically, this term has included only microblogging platforms supporting a set of protocols called OStatus. This didn't do justice to a large number of projects that federate, share same values and are reasonably popular. With the appearance and wide adoption of a new standard protocol called ActivityPub it makes no sense to further divide the federated world into “OStatus” and “non-OStatus” projects. This guide unites all interconnected federated networks under one term “Fediverse”. "

https://fediverse.party/

https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

"The Future?

At the moment, several projects in the space are working to adopt new supplementary protocols, with the intent of building better bridges between one another. The proposed development might end up looking like this:"

There's The Federation -- and The Fediverse.

"Many newcomers to the federated web may hear of a casual reference to the fediverse, and may be curious about what that term means. A simple explanation might be that it’s a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”, but it’s actually a little bit more complicated than that. Let’s dive into the nature of this beast, along with some of the history that comes with it.

At present, there are two supernetworks in the federated social communication space, and they run on different protocols. They are known as The Fediverse, and The Federation. While both supernetworks function in similar ways and even have similar aims, they each come from a different history of development, and by extension, a different stack. The overlapping series of networks can be referred to in macro as The Free Network."

From a nice page here! https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334

Ever wonder what is out there in The Federation?

"The Federation refers to a global social network composed of nodes that talk to each other. Each of them is an installation of software which supports one of the federated social web protocols. "

https://the-federation.info/

@Sphinx Yes, very true.

I find differences, fairly noticeable, even from North America compared with parts of Europe I have visited.

@kareny Hello Kareny, welcome to the new network. 😉

A lot of places, good people and interesting stuff to read and talk about.

So different from the stuffiness of the larger soc media sites.

Have fun!

@khird
It might be only paranoia on my side, Kyle, but that's what I decided when I saw the situation, and it seemed strange to me.

The real ones we should worry about, the surveillance apparatus, they will collect tons of things easily from all the public posts we do.

@Sphinx

@zevahs ah, and if you like SciFi, there's a new book club being started at Hackers.town.

https://hackers.town/@RadicalEdward/103167576390634214

@zevahs "A Discovery of Witches"

Bonus: "Cryptonomicon". 🍷

@Sphinx you are welcome. I haven't bought anything on ebay for soem time, the shipping tends to be a bit too high for me.

A good place to check for that would be companies reselling IT gear, returned from lease. Some excellent systems, Business grade, and with much lower prices after being used for 3 years or so.

This is one such reseller here in Canada. Was looking thru today, they have wonderful gear.

https://www.wintroniccomputers.com/471-0/refurbished

@Sphinx No, I don't think it's weird - it could be a cultural thing.

That for you, it seems people speaking in English here might be more relaxed and friendly than the Mandarin posting ones.

Formality does vary from culture to culture.

@Sphinx Let me Bing That for You... 😛

https://www.bing.com/search?q=eBay+have+black-Friday+discount

@Sphinx Just keep an eye for odd things, look at the user's profile - do they seem to be in a related field to me, similar interests in their description. Some interesting posts in their profile?

I follow back in that case.

If it's something clearly unethical, marketing, escort services, etc, I would not and would remove the account from my Followers list.

Many people have their accounts locked, and follow requests MUST be approved by them.

Usually people who are more security concerned have this enabled.

@Sphinx It's normal, I wouldn't worry.

Waht did worry me is what happened the other day -- a follow request, and when I looked at the user's profile...

About 600 accounts he was following. None were following him/her/they.

That 600 / 0 sounded suspect to me, and I blocked the account.

@adbenitez
@esperera_98 @Massick

@Sphinx And yes, I have that happen and did not mind or unfollow.

@Sphinx That is not uncommon.

I would say it's a courtesy to follow back someone who discovers you and connects, but not obligatory.

People who have accounts with many followers probably don't want to be innundated by too many posts in their Home feeds.

If the account content is important to you, just leave it like that. Maybe the person will notice you, or your comments in some of their posts, look at your profile and decide to Follow at that time.

Don't assume an automatic follow back, is what I am sayin'. 😉

@JarMustard Great work. TY.

The Contacts list in Friendica is where you can see all of your contacts. Two types, which are shown in separate places in mastodon, all together here.

* Mutual Friendship : we follow each other.

* You are a Fan of : I follow that user, he/she does not follow me yet.

From the small icons in the Right column (see highlight in green), we can directly send a DM (in mastodon, called PM in Friendica). Or :

- View contact's Network Activity (posts, etc)

- View their Profile pages directly.

- Unfollow them with one click. ("Drop Contact")