Now that it has come up in two recent conversations, I have to ask: what's the simplest social bookmarking application that gets closest to what Delicious* used to be? Ideally free and open source...

And is anyone working on a federated ActivityPub equivalent? Because that would be cool!

*Info for those that don't know/have forgotten: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)

#AskFedi #ActivityPub #SocialBookmarking #Weblinks

Is there a nsfw-friendly payment provider?

#nsfw #kofi #sexwork #sw #askfedi

I have a Logitech ("Logicool" here in Japan) trackball I like very much. I've used it with the receiver dongle since I got it.

A while ago I connected it with Bluetooth by mistake. And now it won't use the dongle.

* Is there a way to reset the unit so it reverts back to the dongle?

* If not, and I have to use the app to do it, can I run the app under Wine? Or under Proton/Steam? Or do I need Windows to fix this?

#Logitech #Linux #AskFedi

Okay #AskFedi what's this #HashtagNonsense in Mastodon?

I have seen, over the years, quite a few posts encouraging users to use #CamelCase in #Hashtags to encourage #accessibility.

However, when I click ANY hashtag to post about this, either in my browser or Moshidon app, they are presented as lowercase. Also, starting a hashtag only presents them lowercase. This isn't really #UserFriendly towards users with #dyslexia

Is this a dice.camp setting? Is this #Mastodon wide? Can we fix this?

🍫

#poll #AskFedi

My manager is going to open a team discussion about #AI / #LLM use for software development. Much of the company uses #GitHubCopilot or #Claude and #ClaudeCode, while AFAIK I am the only one refusing to use these tools.

What are some recent studies I can reference about the harms of LLM use? I know there's stuff about deskilling, environmental harms, and code quality, but I won't have a chance to research specific studies until the end of my work day.

#askFedi #NoAI #pleaseBoost

DuckDuckFedi: was habt ihr so für Tastaturen an euren Computern und könnt ihr sie empfehlen?

Bei mir ändert sich in den nächsten Tagen maßgeblich mein Setup. Ich bin Studierender, Bürohengst und rudimentärer Gamer.
Muss also nichts weltbewegendes sein und vor allem auch nicht unglaublich teuer. Ich selbst bin an den Lenovo ThinkPad Tastaturen konditioniert und mag sie sehr.

#FediHelp #askfedi #linux #windows

Hey, Fedi. Can anyone recommend some good trans charities/organizations to donate to, preferably in the United States? I've seen some names floating around, but I can't quite remember what they were or where I saw them. Much appreciated! #AskFedi #AskFediverse

I'm thinking about trying to find work doing music for film or games; anyone have any experience getting started in the scoring world? #AskFedi #FediHired #Musician #Scoring

Ok Fedi, I'm starting the process of researching solar panels for my barn. I'm a DIY person, so not looking for install recommendations, more interested in what I need to learn in order to do this wisely. Hardware, unexpected gotchas, other things DIY people need to know.

I can build and I am comfortable with electrical work.

#askfedi #solar

Has anyone hear heard of Cape.co? Who's cellular network are they on top of? Are they profitable or still VC funded?

It looks like they support GrapheneOS devices out of the box, which is good.

#privacy #askfedi #grapheneos

Hey fedi, help me find a dark minimal wallpaper for my phone, it's slop everywhere.
#AskFedi

I’m getting very fed up with the fact that every time there is a powercut, my router reassigns IPs, especially to the Pi is use for pi-hole. It is a Fastgate router, supplied by my ISP, Fastweb, and although I have looked everywhere, I cannot see how to assign IPs permanently. Is there a way? Would some extra equipment help?

#askfedi_it #askfedi

I've been hosting more of my own stuff over time, but keeping up with the maintenance manually has been proving to be too much. I remember 100 years ago as a sysadmin setting up an Ubuntu management server to manage the fleet of Ubuntu servers at work in the style of the Red Hat stuff that did the same. Now I run a variety of instances, and I don't know what kind of orchestration machine I would need to spin up to keep things like OPNsense, remote *nix hosts, etc. up to date. Any recommendations?

My goal is to use only FOSS whenever possible (leaning towards things on Starlight's NO AI list so I can avoid slopcode running in my network wherever possible.

#selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #askfedi #sysadmin #linuxadmin

speaking of askfedi, I need recommendations for FOSS XMPP mobile apps for Android. I've been wanting to try it out but am unsure what apps have the best security and privacy controls after all this time. I know XMPP as a protocol has been hacked and screwed with a lot over time

#askfedi #xmpp #android

#help #askfedi #aide
Demain je dois discuter avec des parents syriens qui ne parlent pas du tout français, j'aimerais bien éviter d'utiliser google translate et l'appli sayhi que j'avais n'a plus l'air de fonctionner... Vous connaissez une autre appli de traduction instantanée gratuite?

Dear Fedi friends,
You know how grateful I am for your help and expertise. I have a burning question and I know some of you may have the correct answer.

Long story short, I had been doing a deep dive into #WSocial. My exposé published on Friday got 830 retweets!

I am working on a follow-up piece and there's something I don't understand.

The homepage of W Social is now redirecting - from wsocial.eu to wsocial.news

If I put wsocial.news in WHOIS databases, I'm finding very little information about when it was registered. And there's some odd stuff, like showing an IP address in Washington DC - but they are very adamant of being hosted in Europe... and they use bunny.net (Slovenia). What gives?

#AskFedi #DNS #WhoIs

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a screenshot of DomainTools showing the WHOis record for WSocial.news - it says name servers are from bunny.net but the IP location and ASN are from Datacamp in the US

I'm looking for recommendations for inexpensive but reliable ARM / fanless small server at the lowest cost possible. The software on it will be debian/ Yunohost (a git forge, nextcloud, some internal docomentation, etc).

Min-specs: 4-8GB RAM.
Budget: Hopefully under $250, or something I can find in the used market.
I was told rasberry pi's are not as reliable, is there better?

#askfedi #yunohost #selhosting

#askfedi . I just downloaded #moshidon , a #mastodon client app for #android but I don't see the likes/boost count. I looked at the app behavior setting and see that both options to show boosts and replies (but no likes) have been enabled. Is there a setting on how to display likes/boost count?

EDIT: I ALREADY FOUND IT. It is "post interaction counts" on the display setting, not on behavior setting. Why it is disabled by default is something I do not understand.

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Show boosts and show replies setting on Moshidon app setting. Both settings have been enabled.

Looking for book recommendations.

Been on a long nonfiction run. I'm tired of learning about stuff. Just need some fiction. Something creative, something neat, maybe adventure, maybe dystopia, maybe gangster with a heart of gold, maybe breaking the psyche, world traveller, bicycle mechanic, just about anything.

Anyone reading anything great these days?

#bookstodon #books #fedibooks #askfedi #fiction

Do you know of any projects, groups or communities that care about digital sustainability, keeping older computers working, maintaining legacy software, getting off the merry-go-round of continually needing to have the latest or just wanting to support the GNU fundamental freedom of being able to study and change a program in source code form? If so, please share links or info.
#AskFedi #RightToRepair #retrocomputing #permacomputing #FreeSoftware #FOSS #sustainabililty #IndieWeb

Asking a wider audience:

With a goal of an in-house media library, I've always envisioned copying Blu-ray being far more painful and failure-prone than copying DVDs, so I haven't ever gotten any Blu-rays. What's your experience of this?

(Narrowing this very slightly, I only consider free software operating systems and tools.)

#askfedi

In the global community that is the Fediverse, have we developed our own unique dialect? This takes into account both speakers of languages as well as auto translation.

#AskFedi #Language #Dialect #Fediverse

My study of my fedi reach continues.

What's your key value:
#poll
#askfedi

Une question de vocabulaire #Maths (voire #Statistiques ?) me trotte dans la tête depuis quelques jours. Si une valeur passe de disons 70200 à 70300, on peut dire qu’elle a augmenté d’un quoi ? C’est pas un pourcent, ni un point, mais… une unité de deux ordres de grandeur sous la valeur ? #AskFedi il y a un nom pour ça ?

Do any British pub experts know anything about a Race Horse Inn that was once in, or relatively close to, Ulverston in Cumbria, UK?

I have a photo of it that I can't share, but it's front door was elevated from street level with symmetrical staircases (of around seven steps) left and right to access it.

Its landlady was once Agnes E. Brocklebank, and at some point it appears to have been tied to Bass, but my usual searches have yielded no results.

#AskFedi #Pubs #Inns #Ulverston #Cumbria

Hey German men, I have a question.
Do you wear wedding bands on the right hand?

I'm watching a German show (Dark) and all the men seem to be wearing their wedding band on the right hand, meanwhile here (Canadaland), wear them on the left.

#AskFedi

Which are good organizations to work at for women in tech? 👀

#AskFedi #WomenInTech

#askfedi

hey i am making a movie w screenlife elements where my characters chat a lot thru messengers or apps and i am panicking trying to figure out how to animate and make fake discord/telegram/whatsapp conversations that look good and have animations and typing and all that. and also ui elements. does anyone know anything please let me know. i use davinci resolve but can also use AE

boosts okay

#editing #filmmaking #davinciresolve #davinci #aftereffects

Any suggestions on a sub $500 printer that reliably self-levels its bed and has an enclosure? I have cats.

I had an Ender 3 several years ago. I couldn't get it to level. Zero successful prints. I don't want a repeat.

#3dprinter #askfedi

Those of you using end-to-end encryption on your emails, how did you persuade non-techy people you correspond with to do things on their end? And how did you teach them how?

I really would like to do more E2E, but I'm stumped by this. I'd not only have to teach myself, but all the folks I email with... #AskFedi

Someone asked me what my favourite word is in the various languages I speak. What a delightful question!

So I'm turning it over to you: What is one of your favourite words in the languages you speak?

#Language #Languages #AskFedi

Asking for a friend: do you remember the fantastic https://w-social.eu website that explained to people what the Fediverse is and why it's a much better alternative to #WSocial?

Sadly it appears to be offline / with an expired SSL cert. Do you know who is behind it? Any chances of reviving it?

The folks behind W Social are launching the site this Saturday... they already got TV coverage in Germany last night 😒​

#AskFedi

We're on a mission to squash as many bugs as possible before the next release.

⚠️ We need your help ‼️

Please reply with your biggest complaints about Pixelfed and how we can improve existing features and federation support.

We're not looking for feature requests, only bug reports, so we can make Pixelfed more stable and fun.

Feel free to boost for awareness ❤️

#Pixelfed #AskFedi #BugHunt

I have done some research but I keep finding mixed reviews on SyncThing — particularly regarding my second use case below. I would appreciate advice before I dedicate time this weekend to set it up.

Use cases:
(0) keep 2-way synchronization for my pictures, notes, & short voice recordings in QuillPad¹ on Android with my laptop.

(1) synchronize of photos & videos from my spouse's & my Android devices and our laptops (e.g., what most ppl do with, say, Google Drive).

#lazyweb #AskFedi #SyncThing

What kind of moderation features, that don't already exist here, would you like to see on the Fediverse; or which do exist that you'd like to see improve?

#Fediverse #AskFedi #FediAdmin #Moderation #FOSS

Hey fedi hive mind, do you remember an article, it was either about Mastodon specifically, or fediverse in general.

It talked about how we're a small community of mostly happy people, and, rhetorically, asked something like: How do you monetize happy people? Or people who are not miserable.

EDIT: Thank you @petes_bread_eqn_xls!

https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@petes_bread_eqn_xls/116484208814261730

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/

#AskFedi #fediverse

Possible answer found: the articles partner had found were (somehow) *all* editorials. We are silly.

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Academic research question for anyone who knows:

If a whole journal seems to just not use DOI, what's going on there?

Occasionally I can't find a *working* DOI for a single article, but this is a full journal that seems to very rarely use them (NZMJ). My research partner found it (he is focusing on NZ, me on Fiji) and it would be useful, but we can't use anything without a DOi for this assessment.

Possibility: he and I are just not looking properly and it's really obvious. If so, let me know? I'm new to this.

#research #askFedi

#Debian or #Trisquel #GNU / #Linux users, do you use the #Emacs package of your distribution, or do you build Emacs from source?

#AskFedi

Right, question for Linux users - I'm getting some surprise money and I'm thinking I'll invest in a colour printer so that I can make my own art prints at home.

I had an Epson Eco-Tank in South Africa but was having a hell of a time calibrating the colours.

I would like it to take up to 300gm paper.

Suggestions for printers that work well on Linux (I know Brother are good), that are good for colour art prints?

#AskFedi #Linux

SOLUTION: @gumnos came up with the idea of piggy-backing :nohl onto control-l for refresh:

nmap <C-L> :nohl<CR><C-L
imap <C-L> <Esc>:nohl<CR><C-L>a

Hey #vim wizards,

The number one reason I don't use search more freely when editing is that all the highlights triggers my #CDO a little bit, and :nohl is a little clumsy to type in a hurry.

I wanted to map :nohl to an easy-to-press keybind, like ctrl-/, but I can't seem to get it to work.

Any ideas?

" map Ctrl-/ to :nohl
nmap <c-Slash> :nohl<CR>
imap <c-Slash> <Esc>:nohl<CR>a

#vi #vim #nvi #nvim #VimWizards #AskFedi #HiveMind

Does anyone know any good input tablets for drawing and artwork that work well with Debian 13?

#askfedi

Je suis en train de remater funky cops, et j'adore toujours autant (surtout la seconde saison) et je voulais savoir si quelqu'un a sous la main l'ost de la seconde saison ?
J'ai celle de la première, mais il semble que des musiques ont été ajoutées (notamment le thème de fly)
Merci :)

Édit : en regardant le générique, il semble que les nouveaux morceaux aient été fait par kraked unit
Je trouve des traces du groupe, mais pas des thèmes ><
#askfedi

Should Loops create a policy against generative-ai contributions across our server and expo app projects?

Context: https://snug.moe/notes/ali11jr8swwc8w8d

Please boost if you can, the majority vote will decide this important policy.

#Loops #AskFedi

Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:

1. Federates
2. Allows to collect donations
3. Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service

#AskFedi #Blog #Blogging #OpenSource #Fediverse

anyone happen to know the magic setting to make #postfix not allow sha-1 for key exchange? #askfedi

Hey my @1password plan is up for renewal.

Can you good folks remind me of your preferred alternatives?

Ideally:

- Mac and iOS integration
- “family” sharing of items
- Not hosted on AWS, Azure…
- Established security (eg, not some random FOSS project that only one person has ever tested)

(I asked this question a couple months ago but somehow lost my bookmarks and tabs… 🤦‍♂️ I promise to take notes this time!)

#AskFedi #privacy #passwords

What are the signs that your life (as in, the life that **you** are living right now) is a TV show?

#askFedi

#AskFedi #DuckDuckFedi looking to get some batteries (AA and AAA) and was wondering what the most performant brand was. anyone know?

Salut, pour un collectif antivalidiste basé sur Rennes, vous conseilleriez quoi comme instance ? On a pensé à kolektiva.social mais on ne s'y connaît pas trop.

Merci d'avance !

#askfedi #feditips #instance

#AskFedi Soliciting the wisdom of people who are more seasoned in Fediversing. I may have a bunch of friends and loved ones who would be willing to join Mastodon if they didn't have to think too hard about which server to join. Many, but not all of them, are queer. Any recs what server makes a good default for my polycule partners and straight progressive friends?

EDIT: My parents are also progressive and theoretically straight.

How do you feel about video creators who use text-to-speech for narration?

Specifically, a creator who:
1. discloses they're using text-to-speech, and why,
2. wrote the script themselves by hand without genAI, and
3. iterated on the input and output until it sounds good

(This will determine whether I'm able to go back to making videos or whether I abandon the project and do something else with my free time)

Please boost so this escapes my bubble

#AskFedi #FediPoll #TextToSpeech

Covid cautious folks: what are you wearing to exercise? I am debating re-joining a gym after stopping when Covid started, but the idea of being extra hot and out of breath in a mask is a huge deterrent. #covid #MaskUp #AskFedi

Do you know of any black, indigenous, and/or woman-owned businesses selling #candles

I'm looking to get some votive candle holders, and probably will be getting some candles in the nearish future.

I'd probably prefer companies relatively near me (I'm in coastal Georgia) but I'm open to suggestions. I've found a few but they're mostly West Coast.

#askFedi #Indigenous #women #black

question please for anyone with a sun allergy / autoimmune disease / mast cell disease:

do you get a rash after sun exposure even on areas not exposed to the sun??

thank you ⛅

#askFedi

@reiver

The only thing that I would bring in regarding emoji use in display names is #a11y issues if there are a lot of them. I'd say recommended practice should be to have 1 and max. 2 emoji in the name, so #screenreaders don't have read a long shebang you sometimes see on 'funny' display names.

But perhaps someone better versed in #accessibility issues for the visually impaired can chime in on this #ActivityPub #FEP (and perhaps other FEP's too), if this is a real issue. A "fediverse accessibility best-practices" may exist as well (somewhere).

#SX #SocialCoding #AskFedi

Welche lokalen Übersetzungsprogramme (vor allem für Englisch) will man heutzutage unter #Linux als Alternative zu Diensten wie DeepL verwenden?

#AskFedi

EDIT: Okay, solved it! 🥳 It turns out that the solution was:

Tools > Preferences > Input > Hardware acceleration to "off", then restart VLC

The graphics card was somehow messing up VLC's playback it seems, so switching it off in VLC made it work.

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Any VLC experts here?

I have VLC on a Linux Mint PC and it won't play WEBM video files properly, there's sound but a blank screen.

The same files on the same PC play totally fine in Celluloid, but not in VLC. Any ideas why VLC is having problems?

#AskFedi #VLC #Webm

👋 les spécialistes des #champignons !
On a plein de cette chose dans la mare et Seek nous dit que ce serait "Lentinus tigrinus", qui est comestible...
Alors je veux bien mais comme je tiens à la vie, j'aimerais bien avoir confirmation 😬

#askfedi #fungi

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Des amas de champignons blancs sur un souche qui trempe dans l'eau

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Les mêmes champis vus de plus loin

🥵🥶 SOOOOoooooo I am pretty sure I am hitting perimenopause. I’m looking for ways to make this livable. Open to recommendations for:

1. Plus size legging-style breathable pants that are cooling. Linen is too wrinkly for me.
2. I get too warm at night, but it’s hard to sleep without the weight of a blanket.
3. Hoodies or other top layers for dealing with being too hot/cold back and forth.
4. Any other recommendations that I won’t be able to live without.

#perimenopause #askFedi

Asking the Linux-Community:

There is this great Android tool on fdroid " Privacy Friendly Tape Measure" (in German: Maßband) which allows to measure stuff in photos by knowing the size of known reference objects (e.g an A4 page or an 2 Euro coin).

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.secuso.privacyfriendlytapemeasure/

Do you know of something similar for Linux - be it a single program or a plugin for a Linux software?

(Background: I have to renovate and done a lot of pictures of different stuff to do, would prefer to do some "measurements" on a "real screen" and not the small touchy mobile phone screen. Yes, I know that this is no replacement for "real" measurements, but sizing some standard fittings such as flush-mounted sockets or kitchen sinks is possible with such tool.)

#Linux #AskFedi #ImageMeasurement #Maßband #TapeMeasure

Thinking about setting up a home #borg server on an unused #RaspberyPi 4.

Questions for the #HiveMind:

• How much RAM does a borg server need to manage about 3TB of backups?
• How big of a USB disk do I need for the / partition for RasbperryPi OS with no GUI?
• Does borg deduplicate files between users' backups, or only within a single user's backups?

#BorgBackup #AskFedi

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#fediverse is at an inflection point.

Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.

Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.

#AskFedi do you dare to dream?

This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.

Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.

I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

Passing along a question from a friend who was recently fired and is on the job market again. I would prefer *not* to receive "I ran a web search for you" replies instead of direct knowledge, thanks. Boosts welcome.

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Are you familiar with any professional organizations catering to LGBTQ+ and (in particular) trans #software engineers?

#AskFedi

Question: I'm going to flash a linux distro on an old Dell I have lying around, and I want to have something kids friendly (as in: something a non-tech parent can easily control so their kids don't do silly stuff on the laptop and the interwebs).

I wanted to start with a Linux Mint, but if there's some tips and tricks I need to know for setting it up, please tell me. (apart from "teach the kid", bcs we know. But they're kids, remember?)

#askFedi #linux #linuxMint

Would you pay for a web browser?

#web #technology #programming #askfedi #chrome #firefox #brave #sysadmin #windows #linux #apple #browser #privacy

What's the most niche topic that you can confidently talk about for 5 minutes?

#askFedi

Hey Fedi!

What's your favourite way of transporting a tube of (33") arrows on a bike?

#cycling #archery #CarryShitOlympics #AskFedi

#chenilles #papillons #askfedi
Quelqu'un peut me rassurer ( ou pas) sur ces petites chenilles qui colonisent mes orties ?

Edit: sans doute des chenilles du papillon "petite tortue"

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Un groupe de chenilles noires et jaunes sur des orties

@khleedril @mavnn

But finally.. here we are. My #ThoughtProvoker article, and it became a whopping 53 min. read 🤯. Publishing such long reflective texts is not common. So I added a #poll to #AskFedi how they parse and consume such #fediverse posted content..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

My follow-up appeal for reflection is also fascinating as it relates to #Emergence which is one the key drivers for #Evolution in #SX and being involved in #SocialCoding..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116384803540561801

🗳

🫧 socialcoding.. boosted

🫧 socialcoding.. » 🤖 🌐 2026-04-10
@smallcircles@social.coop

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#fediverse is at an inflection point.

Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.

Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.

#AskFedi do you dare to dream?

This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.

Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.

I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

In the end I more or less read the whole article:	36
I read the article summary, skimmed for highlights:	10
I passed the problem section, read the tech ideas:	2
Meh, skip. Too technical. Too social fluffy. Other:	9

Closed

Is there a selfhosted #autodiscover solution out there?
I just want #sogo activesync to work with autodiscover

#askfediverse #askfedi #mail

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#fediverse is at an inflection point.

Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.

Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.

#AskFedi do you dare to dream?

This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.

Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.

I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

Does anyone know of a hopefully simple way to get an RSS feed from a website that does not provide one? Preferably without having to self-host elaborate applications or paying some SaaS provider.

#askfedi #askingForAFriend #rssfeed

Update: It has something to do with flatpak not picking up font rendering settings. I gave up and went back to #LibreWolf (installed via debian extrepo)

Ok, that has to be some of the most garish #font #rendering I've ever seen.

I've tried turning on full font #hinting in #KDE settings and restarting #Waterfox, to no avail.

Any ideas, #HiveMind? XD

#AskFedi

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the word "machinery" as rendered in Waterfox on KDE Plasma on Debian Trixie, where the "i" looks more like a short "l" or "I"

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The same image, scaled up 16x (nearest-neighbor) to make the individual pixels clear when viewing on a device/platform/client that likes to scale up small images.

#AskFedi anyone seen files like this?
[screenreader users, this post is probably unfriendly]

I was handed what should be an ISO file.

00ff ffff ffff ffff ffff ff00 0002 0001 is tickling my brain like the start bytes are doubled?

I can't find CD001 in here so maybe it's not ISO9660 at all?

#DataPreservation #Archival

People with ADHD and lots of projects, how do you keep track of your to-dos across your devices and projects and actually use that to-do list, as opposed to letting them languish forever?

#askFedi #adhd

😂 A friend of mine (who's been consulting for way longer than me) got hit with a holy-trinity of demands from a potential client this week.

1. They approached her for a website for their business.
2. They won't do down-payments (start for free).
3. They want complete copyright ownership of code from day one and she works on their org's github pushing code (IP ownership before payment).
4. They quoted her last year's currency conversion rates when she said USD.
5. They won't allow her to showcase the final public facing website on her portfolio.
6. No deemed acceptance clause.

That's got to be a record right? 😭

#consultants #softwareengineering #freelance #sysadmin #askfedi #technology #commission #programming #linux #academia #capitalism

Personnellement je n'ai pas cherché d'usage (j'ai essayé de lui faire écrire une PSSI un soir de désespoir... ca n'a pas été concluant)

#askfedi

#askFedi quelqu'un sait comment je peux facilement configurer Samba sur Linux pour qu'il ne demande pas de mot de passe ?

Je compte partager un dossier de mon ordi en lecture seule.

#LuxOnLinux

Does anyone have any suggestions for sources of photography from Spain in the 1940s and 1950s?

I'm especially interested in images showing signs from those decades and, more specifically, hand-painted signs, so suspect images from bigger cities will be most fruitful.

Thanks in advance for any leads, and please boost to reach others that may be able to help.

#AskFedi #Spain #SpanishHistory #Signs #1940s #1950s #Boost

Working software developers of the Fedi, what's your relationship with AI coding (like Claude Code)?

#poll #askFedi #software

Does anyone know if there are any #eInk-based phones with unlocked bootloaders you could install something like #LineageOS on?

That would be a crazy cool device to have, but I wouldn't be willing to put up with the typical #Android shenanigans.

#AskFedi #FOSS #HiveMind

Putting an ask out for a friend. She's hoping someone might have some of these Mars Lumograph 100 EE pencils tucked away somewhere that they don't want. They're unavailable now and there's nothing quite like them out there. If you have any let me know and I'll put you in contact.

Please boost!

#AskFedi

Alt...

A hand holding up a Mars Lumograph 100EE pencil. It has a blue barrell and the lead is thick and dark.

#AskFedi: is there a script / way to automate the restart of dnsmasq every 24 hours… on a VPS that runs on Debian 12?

(Funny how this would have sounded like a foreign language to me a mere year ago) 😆

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Is there a list of games that don't use AI?
#NoAI #Games #AskFedi

Dear fediverse, I need a recommendation. I've got a PC that I need to be able to turn on/off remotely. I know about WOL packets since I was 12 (I'm 40 now), but setting them up seems ridiculous. I do wonder if in all THESE MANY years has nothing simpler been created?

All it needs to do is to turn on/off my PC.

If nothing exists to do this in a simple manner, I might use my free laptop just to send the WOL packet internally through Zerotier. But keeping an additional computer on just to wake up another seems like defeating the purpose of what I'm trying to do.

(unless I get a pi-zero and do it with that one)

#askfedi #simplicity

Hey Fedi, bit of printer advice please....

I'm looking for replacement label printers - we used to use Dymo 450 but they were EOL'd a while back and the new software's a bin-fire. Any subsequent Dymos have DRM'd consumables so we can't use non-Dymo labels, cos Dymo are bastards.

Ideally we want something with a wired LAN interface, or that I can hook into CUPS on a Pi to network-print given a PDF. Must be able to take 1" and 1.5" label rolls.

Anyone, please?

#fedihelp #askfedi #printers

🤔 What are the best open source mail clients for Android these days? Sadly I can't in good faith keep using Thunderbird as long as it stays affiliated with increasingly-shady AI boosters at Mozilla.

ETA: Sadly it seems FairEmail have also embraced billionaire sycophancy through LLMs.

#LazyFed #AskFedi #Android #Thunderbird #Mozilla #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS

#AskFedi — Looking for a platform recommendation!

I help lead a small nonprofit supporting #neurodivergent #students and #parents. We are 100% volunteer, and we produce a few different series of events throughout the year.

We need better ways to communicate with (paid) members and (unpaid) “friends”.

What platform/tools could I use to, for example, let someone RSVP or express interest in an event series, check the box to get auto reminders and text notifications re: all events in that series. For example: “event is tomorrow at 9am. See you there!” or “it’s raining! We’re meeting at x instead.”

Ideally this platform could also do email. One-off campaigns/blasts with simple segmentation (members and/or friends) and maybe some automations (like a welcome flow for new members).

We can pay a reasonable amount; doesn’t have to be FOSS/self-hosted/linux/etc. 😜

(I’ve asked a similar question here before, but I think we have made progress clarifying our specific needs.)

Any thoughts on #CreditKarma or alternatives out there?

I used to like using it, but now that it's owned by Intuit (a company I despise), I'd rather look for alternatives, or just do without. XD

#HiveMind / #AskFedi

@Tusky is there a way to export settings so they can be imported into a new installation?

#askFedi
#tusky

Now when cooking beans in the microwave, do you take the paper label off the can or leave it on?

Don't want to mess up the microwave, you know.

#AskFedi

Alright fedi, I have another one for you.

What's your favorite Linux tablet (or tablet that I can install Linux on) that you draw on? I'm specifically looking for something I can run Krita on and use for that purpose, but I would also use it for reading ebooks/comics.

It has to be fully independent, so no computer required. It has to have to have an HD screen. It has to run Linux, preferably Debian, as that's my favorite. It can't just be an android tablet unless it's possible to install Linux on it.

For context, I'm going to give up my ipad with apple pencil and want to replace that experience.

Bonus points if it comes with a stylus, but if not, please recommend one.

#linux #drawingtablet #tablet #debian #art #drawing #foss #askfedi #duckduckfedi

Hey #HiveMind / #AskFedi,

Following up to an earlier question, can anyone tell me if they've gotten visual voicemail reliably working on any #FOSS #Android dialer program (or dedicated FOSS vVM program, if such a thing exists)?

It doesn't have to be your OS'es stock dialer, but it has to be a FOSS one. Not "Google Dialer" or "${cellular_carrier} Visual Voicemail."

It would work like 10% of the time when I was with AT&T, but now not at all with Mint Mobile (T-Mobile #MVNO).

Maybe I should make it into a #Poll to get more interest ;)

J'ai toujours pas eu de réponse à la question que j'avais posée y'a environ un mois :
Qu'est-ce qu'il y a comme bonne musique libre ?
(tous genres, mais de préférence relativement accessible au grand public)

#AskFedi

Hey #AskFedi / #HiveMind,

Anyone got any pointers for setting up #VisualVoicemail on #Android #AOSP or #LineageOS-derived dialers with #MintMobile, or #TMobile or other T-mobile #MVNOs?

I called the number, set up my PIN and greeting, but I just keep getting "Can't activate visual voicemail" in the dialer, even after going to Voicemail in the settings, turning off Visual voicemail, and turning it on again.

When I was on AT&T, it would occasionally be able to fetch the VMs, but often fail. I'm hoping it might work better with Mint/Tmo. XD

I'm on #IodéOS (based on Lineage).

Is there anybody who still has the #SUSE Linux Enterprise 8 and 9 x86_64 ISOs? Only can find some outdated and corrupted i386 files..

Asking for a fun project

#AskFedi #Linux #SLES #RetroComputing

Thinking of setting up a mail server.

I really want to avoid ending up blacklisted, does anyone have any advice about running their own mail server?

please boost.

#askfedi #selfhost #selfhosting

I'm really disappointed to see #bitwarden falling into the slop hole. Can anyone recommend a #passwordmanager , ideally #selfhosted , that doesn't use LLM slop in its core product, OR in its contributing commits?
#askfedi

Any #Aristotelian #scholars on #fedi?

Can anyone recommend a good translation of the #Nicomachean #Ethics?

William David Ross' #translation is 99ç on #Kobo.

#AskFedi #HiveMind #Philosophy

Completionists of Fedi, what is the most ridiculous thing you've ever achieved to satisfy your inner completionist?

#askfedi

Anyone has recommendations for road trip albums/playlists? 🏞️🚗💨🎵 #roadtrip #askfedi

Boosts welcome!

Alright, I need fedis help here

My OpenWRT for my servers router decided to die, which made me realize that I really need to fix something that is redudant.

Preferably something rack-mounted, something that can run OPNsense - and not something that costs to much.

Ideas?

#askfedi #opnsense #firewall

Need help from Lisp wizards — looks like I'm missing something simple and obvious (but not so obvious for beginner). I'm trying to build (with ECL) the simple program, which uses ql:quickload to load parse-number, then prints "Hello world". It builds without errors, but resulting binary could not be executed — it prints error message about unknown "ql:quickload" function.

QuickLisp was installed like described in the official documentation. It works in SBCL, it works in ECL REPL and it has the necessary lines in the ~/.eclrc:

;;; The following lines added by ql:add-to-init-file:
#-quicklisp
(let ((quicklisp-init (merge-pathnames "quicklisp/setup.lisp"
(user-homedir-pathname))))
(when (probe-file quicklisp-init)
(load quicklisp-init)))
(ql:quickload '(:slite) :silent t)

The program, itself, runs successfully if I just evaluate the next code in the REPL:

(ql:quickload '(:parse-number) :silent t)

(defpackage :test
(:use :cl))

(in-package :test)

(defun toplevel ()
(print "Hello world"))

(progn
(toplevel)
(ext:quit))

And it compiles:

ecl --eval '(progn (compile-file "test.lisp" :system-p t) (c:build-program "test" :lisp-files '"'"'("test.o")) (quit))'
;;; Loading #P"/home/drag0n/quicklisp/setup.lisp"
;;; Loading #P"/usr/local/lib/ecl-24.5.10/asdf.fas"
;;;
;;; Compiling test.lisp.
;;; OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=0, Speed=3, Debug=0
;;;
;;; Finished compiling test.lisp.
;;;

But doesn't print "Hello world":

./test

Condition of type: UNDEFINED-FUNCTION
The function QUICKLISP-CLIENT::QUICKLOAD is undefined.
No restarts available.

Top level in: #<process TOP-LEVEL 0x8295a3f80>.
>

#AskFedi #CommonLisp #ECL #QuickLisp

Alt...

~/g/dotfiles/bin/.cl-bin:master*? λ cat test.lisp (ql:quickload '(:parse-number) :silent t) (defpackage :test (:use :cl)) (in-package :test) (defun toplevel () (print "Hello world")) (progn (toplevel) (ext:quit)) ~/g/dotfiles/bin/.cl-bin:master*? λ ecl --eval '(progn (compile-file "test.lisp" :system-p t) (c:build-program "test" :lisp-files '"'"'("test.o")) (quit))' ;;; Loading #P"/home/drag0n/quicklisp/setup.lisp" ;;; Loading #P"/usr/local/lib/ecl-24.5.10/asdf.fas" ;;; ;;; Compiling test.lisp. ;;; OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=0, Speed=3, Debug=0 ;;; ;;; Finished compiling test.lisp. ;;; ~/g/dotfiles/bin/.cl-bin:master*? λ ./test Condition of type: UNDEFINED-FUNCTION The function QUICKLISP-CLIENT::QUICKLOAD is undefined. No restarts available. Top level in: #<process TOP-LEVEL 0x8295a3f80>. >

Moni » 🌐 2026-03-14
@Moni@fnordon.de

Habe Ubuntu just über'n Bootstick laufen + hier auch Zurgiff auf WLAN.
Heute gab's wohl 1 Update im Hintergrund, k.A., + das Symbol für "Neustart erforderlich" leuchtete auf. Etwas später umgesetzt.
-> kein Ton (kenn ich schon) - kam auch nicht mit Aus-+Anschalten wd
(läuft hier aber über'n Bootstick!)
-> KEINE Wlanoptionen, irgendwie kein Netzwerkadapter verfügbar
-> scheint am Update/Ubuntu zu liegen,
denn mein Internet ist da!

#Ubuntu #System #Neustart #Update #help

Complete this sentence:

"I experience #fediverse as a .."

#Poll #AskFedi #Microblogging #Mastodon #ActivityPub

I see the #fedi announcement by a commercial marketing agency of a venture capital based app store joining the fediverse.

Is the #fediverse we have capable of avoiding #enshittification as it grows and attracts an increasing number of corporations, who make it their market?

Is our #ActivityPub landscape resistant to corporate capture and eventual takeover and domination? Just like the Corporate Web, also decentralized.

There are nice niches on the web, like a bloggosphere, bulletin boards, and news readers, that all still exist. But web as a whole is predominantly corporate, arguably not commons based, for the people by the people.

Social experience design defines "commons based" as "where people are in control of their future on a path of healthy evolution and natural growth". A core principle is being sustainable at all times, and timely acknowledge and mitigate risks.

Is fediverse commons based? Did we cocreate the Future of Social networking?

#SX #SocialCoding #poll #AskFedi

A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.

She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?

#Bookstodon #BookRecommendations #ScienceFiction #AskFedi

Dear Fedi friends,

The normalization of "vibe coding" in certain environments is pushing me in the exact opposite direction.

I, a normie (ok maybe a semi-technical person), would like to learn some basic computer programming.

I need some advice about where to start because I'm a little clueless in this regard. Maybe it will help to share my goals, so that you can tailor your advice:

1) I'd like to become much more proficient using CLI... so that one day for example I could migrate a #YunoHost app to a new server without breaking anything

2) I'd like to be able to confidently run remote backups with rsync

3) Security: I need to learn how to turn my VPS or Raspi into a fortress

4) Eventually I'd like to learn #FreeBSD

Where does one even start?

I'm based in Paris, France, speak French, English and Italian, but remote learning is preferable because my child is in school only 4 days a week and has 2-week holidays every 6 weeks of school (thanks to the French educational system, don't ask me).

I'm super motivated to learn all these things, I just don't know where to start.

#AskFedi #MySoCalledSudoLife #NoAI

There's a ladybug following me everywhere since yesterday.

She roamed near me as I did a video call from my child's room yesterday morning.

Today she flew on my computer monitor and wandered around for a bit. Then I went to shower and she followed me to the bathroom, planting itself on the window. She's very cute.

Do you have any ladybug care tips? How can I help her with food and water?

(My mom says it's still too cold to bring her outside... my 5-year-old is smitten too) 🐞

#AskFedi

My eldest teen is giving me presentations and sending memos on why they should have TikTok

Should I let them have TikTok?

Boost Ok

#askFedi

Salut, peuple de gauche ! 😝

Qu'est-ce que vous connaissez comme journaux pour enfants, genre Mon Quotidien / Mon Petit Quotidien ?
En papier et/ou numérique.

Si vous avez des suggestions de magazines divers, je prends aussi. J'avais entendu parlé de Tchika mais il ne semble plus être sorti de numéro depuis un certain temps.

#jeCherche #fediQuestion #askFedi #question #enfant #enfants #jeunesse #presseJeunesse #journaux #monQuotidien #Tchika

Complete this sentence:

"I experience #fediverse as a .."

#Poll #AskFedi #Microblogging #Mastodon #ActivityPub

holy smokes, I completely forgot about #tox . What does Fedi say? #AskFedi

https://tox.chat/

What domain would you prefer? for a #fediverse linktree, I want to buy a domain

#askfedi

Backlinks to quote posts.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/132

#AskFedi #FediIdea #fediverse #ActivityPub

Dear #Frontend people, I do apologise for this question in advance because I am profoundly ignorant in this matter:

If a developer opts for writing a Node.js app with Electron, would they *in principle* have the option of repackaging it as a server-based app instead?

Or is an Electron app so far removed from a "normal" web app running in a browser that that's crazytalk, as such a thing would amount to a complete rewrite?

(Boosts & comments appreciated.)

#AskFedi

Just curious: can anyone who has used both kindle e-readers and the kindle store and kobo e-readers and the kobo/rakuten store compare them for me?

I'm thinking along these lines:

• selection of books
• price of books
• evilness of the company ;)
• physical properties/features of the e-readers themselves

Any ideas? @joel?

#AskFedi #HiveMind #eBooks #eReaders

i am once again asking if there is one (1) single solitary GUI static site generator aside from Publii

as in, you can install the program and end up with, like, a folder of static HTML, without ever having to type something into a terminal

(web-based is ok too)

#AskFedi #GUI #SSG

#DeltaChat experimentations and questions

I attempted to install Delta Chat on my Pixel 9 running GrapheneOS and I couldn't get the QR code pairing to work.

So I attempted the "restore from backup" method and it worked seamlessly and instantaneously.

Since Delta Chat doesn't require a phone number or an email address, I wonder what are the best practices to ensure you don't lose access to your account? (In case you lose your main phone)?

I have it set up on my iPhone, on my second phone running GrapheneOS, on two Macs in Paris and now on a MacMini in Italy... so 5 devices in total.

How often do you run backups? Shall I do them every week? Any other advice to share?

#AskFedi #MySoCalledSudoLife

Y’all. I want to explore Netlify alternatives. I don’t deploy apps there, only websites. I love being able to push to GIT repos and have them publish to my server, so I want wanna give that up.

Any solid recommendations?

#Development #Websites #Hosting #Netlify #AskFedi

Please recommend me a #Linux desktop for my daughter’s laptop. #Ubuntu just refused to boot yesterday. Also all that #snap shenanigans… Looks like I need something more stable, but less harsh than #Debian. #Mint maybe?

#UbuntuDesktop #LinuxDesktop #LinuxDistribution #AskFedi

Do you think Loops will pass TikToks Portability API rules?

#AskFedi #Loops

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Who can apply? Our Data Portability API is available to qualified applicants globally, but currently only covers data for TikTok users in the EEA and UK. Applicants must fulfill the following criteria to qualify for access: • Have a well-defined use case that requires access to one or more of the listed scopes • Serve TikTok users in the EEA or UK and be able to distinguish them (the API will not return data for users outside the EEA or UK) • Provide high-fidelity UX mockups and pass a privacy and security review to ensure user safety

[RÉSOLU] J’ai besoin d’aide s’il vous plaît, j’ai découvert un traçeur GPS dans mon véhicule avec l’appli AirGuard sur F-Droid

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.seemoo.at_tracking_detection

Je n’arrive pas à trouver le tag dans ma voiture avec la fonction localiser à 97%

Il change d’adresse mac régulièrement (pour ne pas être repéré probablement)

j’envisage de demander à un mécanicien de regarder, connaissez-vous une astuce pour localiser précisément un tag bluetooth ?

#cyber #aide #askmastodon #askfedi #fdroid #osint #airtag

Alt...

résultat du scan AirGuard, carte masquée pour des raisons de confidentialité. il est écrit : Exporter les données de l'app... Informations : Type de traceur: GOOGLE_FIND_MY_NETWORK Adresse MAC : 5D:D6:9E:66:56:4C Vu pour la première fois : 19 févr. 2026, 00:43:07 Vu pour la dernière fois : 19 févr. 2026, 00:43:07 Détections:1 Emplacements uniques :1 Carte: Créer le document Tableau de bord Scan Paramètres

actually i'm curious now… i know elementaryOS is unapologetically anti-fascist. are there any other established or well-known linux projects that take that sort of stance?

#askfedi