https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed-rn/issues/79

Apparently the official app has a few dependencies that themselves depend on Google Play services, hence being blocked for F-droid inclusion.

I was talking about Podman Pods. Sorry for not being clear.

Yeah, inside of Pods you can just use the container name and thus avoid hard-coding any IPs.

Oh, yeah. I am happy my effort to convince them worked out.

Not sure why you would need a seperate platform for such kind of videos though. You can use Mastodon etc. perfectly fine for this kind of stuff.

But I think that is not why the majority use TikTok. Tiktok is more like those TV channels that show an endless number of funny bloopers and cooking shows, and those need semi-professional makers and curators that want to be paid for their work.

I am not a Tiktok user, but everytime someone shares a video with me it is clearly made by someone that did it because they want to build a following and monetize their channel. I mean, why else spend a lot of effort to make such short form videos?

On TikTok? I doubt that. Do you have any examples?

Most of the content on TikTok is created by people because they want to earn money with it. But most of it isn’t content which would make it possible to build up a supporter base through Patreon, OnlyFans etc. So where is the money going to come from to attract such content creators to a potential Fediverse TikTok alternative?

That is all they claim to store for later retrival*, which is not the same as what they would be able to capture in real-time and hand over to law-enforcement if forced to by a court (and they wouldn’t be able to tell you about it because of a gag-order).

*However this claim is contradicted by the source-code of their server (which they sometimes publish) which seems to store significantly more and of course this is assuming the code is indeed the same as the one they run on their servers, which is unclear.

Edit: and their servers run on AWS, so even if Signal itself doesn’t store the IP addresses, Amazon certainly could.

You seem to be highly misinformed what metadata is. A server for example will always have access to unencrypted IP addresses from the clients connecting to it, this is impossible to avoid unless you use a service like Tor that relays internet traffic, but that has very little to do with “encryption”.

Except that most of the metadata isn’t encrypted anywhere and usually also can’t be encrypted as otherwise the service wouldn’t be able to function.

This is false. There is still plenty of metadata that centralized providers can capture and turn over and that is usually sufficient for law-enforcement to get the information they want.

It’s a long thoughtful article about how large corporate social networks are structurally incapable of serving the needs of their users and even well meant attempts to reform them are going to fail because of these structural deficiencies.

Friendica is federating with Mastodon etc. and also Lemmy etc.

Last time I talked to the main Friendica developer they were looking for a frontend dev because their expertise is only backend stuff. I am sure they would be happy to have someone help out.

Work in progress: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt

Yeah, beginners are probably better served with Yunohost.

They posted on the admin chat that their hosting provider had a hardware failure and is working on providing a replacement server.

Well usually the opposite happens. People make many releases and outsource the testing to unsuspecting users.

This is IMHO fine if you clearly mark these releases as release candidates or such, so that people can make their own risk judgement. But usually that isn’t the case and one minor version looks like any other unless you have a closer look at the actual changes in the code.