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Tout le monde pense reconnaître un site d'hameçonnage. Personne ne le peut vraiment.Les copies sont parfaites : même logo, même formulaire, même interface.WIGGWIGG vous montre trois indicateurs que seul vous connaissez. Un clone ne peut pas les reproduire.https://wiggwigg.ca/fr/securite/anti-hameconnage/#AntiPhishing #InfoSec #PrivacyMatters #Fediverse

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never wrestled a swan it came up that she has never been beaten at poker by a Sichuan snub-nosed monkey. Like, not even once during childhood.Another colleague admitted they also have never been beaten at poker by a Sichuan snub-nosed monkey.My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life beaten a Sichuan snub-nosed monkey at poker.Have you ever been beaten at poker by a Sichuan snub-nosed monkey?Please boost for scientific accuracy.

@sudelsurium Es steht allen frei, meine Vorlagen weiter zu bearbeiten. Ich bin kein Designer, und es würde freuen, wenn Leute mit mehr Fachkompetenz diesem Thema annehmen.

@voltinthepress @VoltEuropa Welcome!

@crossgolf_rebel Hm, das Video lässt sich für mich weder in der App noch im browser abspielen.

@Iloo Listened to that episode as well (and every other, as I love Sean's voice). It's sooo funny! @WeirdWriter

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never , it came up that she has never . Like, not even once during childhood.Another colleague admitted they also have never .My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life .‌ ‌ ‌ Have you ever ?Please boost for scientific accuracy

@MaeMele here u go !!

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on by a cat.‍ Have you ever been sat on by a cat?Please boost for scientific accuracy.

@crossgolf_rebel Let's be real.The fediverse is essentially Mastodon with a lot of minority contributions from about 200 - 400 other software companies at the moment. With the majority of these existing from Lemmy, Pleroma, PeerTube, Pixelft and countless more.Current max potential estimates give us a general ballpark of users ranging across all instances between 10 - 20M in total. Most automatic statistics will say the number is more conservative at 10M or slightly above this.Compare that to a centralized platform and the statistical risk of being absolutely discovered by say, 200M people, potentially, drops significantly.Now obviously this doesn't take into account Threads massive user base. Or BlueSky's entire federated list of people. I know for a fact that people on these platforms do tend to peak into the fediverse, and that's statistically true for literally anyone with a search engine and some time on their hands.But, honestly, your at most naturallly federated by say 20 - 50 relays even at max user base, that doesn't go deeper, will likely only see a fraction of these users at any one time let alone their posts, and search results. Honestly, it's quite small, when taking into consideration that the fediverse as a whole in practice, is still a young platform, and contains a very limited scope of data at the moment to work with. But it is what it is.Case in point, my own instance that does federate with 60+ relays, only brought in 100K users and about 2M potential posts maximum, that gets further broken down into partial replies, conversations and so on as time goes on. And, search results tend to decrease the older a post is, if newer time based data becomes available. So, no matter what you're working with, it's a data island.But, and this is the big caveat here. It's one with a public, indexable in traditional search engine, database that honestly doesn't get a lot of queries connected to it anyways, because the posts aren't long articles...but if you do site:instance_domain you'll figure out that users who opt in to wanting that and server admins who let that happen, can go public if they wish.Now, we're getting into why I made that huge list of descripters for Mastodon, specifically. Bare with me.Not Mastodon specifically, but Mastodon inclusively, has the widest client support for interacting with any instance of all the fediverse related apps. This is true both at the user level, and the administration level for compatibility with various server admin portals like Yunohost and other cloud deployments, to barebones do it yourself tutorials from scratch. So if you're not someone who needs a mobile app to do anything, chances are fairly decent that if you interact with a part of the fediverse that doesn't obtain one using another protocol, potentially or different API structure, your ability to interact with anyone else is statistically about the same if not lower than someone operating a Drupal, Joomla! or other site with a CMS attached.Now, why is Mastodon safer? Because of the popularity of its user base making the most developmental sense by how many sites actively stilll use it and rely on one git hub main branch for updates, if individual server instances care to use it. Then there's app specific level updates, which are almost very active by comparison, because again, the demand for familiarity is there. Even across all of the compatible forks, this is true. It also takes up 3 quarters of the fediverse that isn't threads. And you need to interact with FB infrastructure via Instagram just to use that which makes Instagram more or less a cloud implementation, and I don't consider it to be the same thing entirely. The same is true for Blue Sky. If those instances went down, their user base follows. And you can't import or export your X or TruthSocial account into new instances of that kind of software, the way you can Mastodon. Although I may be mistaken on that as bridge services exist out there to attempt data export customizations. Not the point.My point, is that users own their data. Because Mastodon at its minimal core, requires this to be true. So, if you feel uncomfortable about a particular instance and want to go somewhere else with it, your data isn't trapped on a server which encourages but never mandates that you must leave. And, you're always in control of why you stay somewhere, as opposed to why you have to make somewhere home because you're not always able to switch as easily if the platform locks you into it where you've put more investment into making it work, than effort trying not to.So with the decreased risk of a safety violation when you still own your data, your email address for instance exploited by some hacker targeting a specific mastodon instance theoretically for the purposes of data harvesting there, won't be the same email address if you move instances and keep your follower count the same to another instance anywhere else. You don't have to start from 0 to continue where you left off, if you felt like you were at risk of whatever the descripter is. Ads, spyware, scams, spam, bad server mods, shadow banning, algorithms, etc.And the best part, is that the client you use to reconnect to your new online home, remains the same. You can't do that with email as easily. You certainly can't do that unless you own your own WordPress instance very easily, especially if you lose your domain and now people have to rediscover you all over again.That's why Mastodon gets special attention here. Anything that can interact with Mastodon posts on its own, or even with specialized help through a bridge, by extension, also counts here if those bridges follow trustworthy industry practices. Even if they don't, you as a user, are in full control over what you allow a server to set as a default, and what you set as yours on top of that. So even though it's a data island, it's yours the best it can be if you need it to act as one.NOSTR, BlueSky, Matrix and other implementations of protocols have their own issues. Matrix in particular is bottlenecked by its own clients, that can't agree on what interface to use. I don't find them user friendly at all. And they're not part of the publicly available fediverse pipeline, if you didn't want them to be. The only thing they have in common with it, is their implementation of a separate protocol. Other than that, it's not the same and has more faults in its implementation for my personal taste. And so, honestly, having options is the key. But not ones so overwhelming to you, that don't make sense for the user base that takes full advantage of them at a client only level. But at a protocol level, and at a software expectation level with enough popularity to justify it, absolutely.

@admin if you watched the talk, you know that following a hashtag in Mastodon is kind of random. You see tagged posts from people you follow and from people who others on your server follow. If someone on a server your server has no connection to posts on that same hashtag, you'll never see it. tags.pub is to help connect with those posts, too.

@Pepijn What about "I am not sure"?@dabeaz

@crw I can't say the fediverse is fool proof, but it's a great deal less volatile than other platforms. NOSTR has its down sides more so than its up, because the communication style only works if you are even more of a tech centered person with easy ways to write down hard to remember things like user IDs and encryption keys, things like that. You can still do that with the fediverse, without much of a hastle depending on what platform you connect to it with. It's just like email, accept you can also subscribe to posts which by default, are like lists. The only thing I wish fediverse platforms had, would be a way to regulate hashtags. Because anyone can just post to them without requiring approval to post. But this is again where client side filters come into play, which not a lot of other platforms actually have. Let alone server platforms, as well.

探索篝火中，但是测试实例还没有开启联邦功能令我惊讶的是功能非常的多，但是仍然有一些小不便我在bonfre测试实例的账户：https://campground.bonfire.cafe/@k8u目前发现有趣的是：支持markdown，而且是所见即所得i18n非常不错，支持简体繁体中文支持自定义字体，而且页面配色非常非常多（我这里只用了亮色）支持用户自行添加自定义表情包发帖不像发帖而像聊天（发帖会在右下角打开一个“聊天框”？）有功能：圈子（但是人太少了也没开启联邦，不好测试，（官方说是圈子是lists of people（例如，“本地朋友”、“团队”、“互助团队”）。每个圈子都有自己的动态，包含成员的帖子。）不便：Add an external account这里好像有bug？我输入@admin@mstdn.feddit.social @admin@moe.pub https://moe.pub/@admin 都显示无效右上角按钮竟然不是返回首页而是返回上一个页面？有点反人类了（我是不是人啊？我是不是人啊？）这里是托管方式：https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/deploy.html有兴趣的可以注册实例，开放注册：https://campground.bonfire.cafe官方网站：https://bonfirenetworks.org版本：1.0.2，还算是个半成品，未来可期更多截图在评论#bonfirenetworks #bonfire #fediverse #circle #selfhosted #bonfirenetworks

@appsAm I correct in my understanding that this requires one to reveal their IRL location in a public toot?I am sorry, but I am not comfortable with that, unfortunately. I can, and will, however consider setting up another account just for this purpose. Especially since I'm using a certain fediverse app that just happens to handle multiple accounts very nicely @PawFed

Following recent world events, unlawful governments, lack of consequences, you might feel hopeless. It won't fix everything, but at SFSCon last year, Michael and Saskia presented an exploration of the Social Web as the solution for resistance. A network of social platforms which let us learn from one another again. Not from the algorithm.Check out the presentation below https://www.sfscon.it/talks/growing-the-open-social-web-case-studies-from-newsmast/#SocialWeb #Resistance #Hope #Fediverse

I'm drowning in #fediverse bookmarks. What's your favorite way to organize and archive them for later reading or reference?

@angel thank you. I miss this landscape, I miss this place. I hope to reach it soon, even if I'm not sure I will.

A discussion with a friend got me wondering something...What color is the Dreamcast swirl logo to you? Some say it is red and some say it’s deep orange but I feel it is a perception thing, or the fact the Dreamcast was almost always played on CRT TVs back in the day with stock composite cables for most folks, meaning it added color warmth, gamma shifts and slight hue variations#Dreamcast #Sega #RetroGaming #SegaDreamcast #Fediverse

@ulrichkelber @ebinger Hier im Post ist ein ganz klarer, vorgeschriebener Weg dargelegt, bei dem erstmal abseits von der Realität und ohne Federation geübt wird und ich sehe da auch keinen Ansatz, wie die SuS da (sinnvoll begleitet) ausbrechen sollen.Probier dich gerne aus, aber: Schade dabei bitte nicht dem Image offener sozialer Plattformen und spiel dabei bitte auch nicht Politikern und ihren Social-Media-Verboten in die Hände.