You say this as if there weren’t like fifty twitter-style microblogging fediverse software

I agree with everyone saying it should be used for things relating to Beehaw.

The plans to move to other platform are still ongoing, aren’t they? I guess that would take time and resources…

Also, I know it’s much work, but having another server in a different type of software wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Or whatever you feel that would be useful, but the money donated for Beehaw should be used on Beehaw related things.

I would prefer if Beehaw remained federated, but, as it is, I understand that the options of software for a platform like Beehaw on the fediverse are lacking on many aspect and started something new requires time,knowledge, and money.

Last year hasn’t been a good year for me, to be fair. I’ve been having some health problems (luckily I’m on medical treatment and it’s nothing serious)

I don’t expect much from this year, but I hope to be able to do more things (and be once again active in the fediverse) now that my health issues are more controlled.

New year celebrations were alright. I expend it with the family.

Aren’t there ways to automatically scan the content of posts to detect csam and other disturbed content?

Because completely disallowing images isn’t the solution. For once, people can still share those things through links. And secondly, there are people who need images and the like to communicate.

Meanwhile the fediverse microblogging alternatives have either three or four timelines, none of them algorithm-driven

I know they are ActiVItyPub based. I’m talking about the diversity of platforms, not which protocol they use.

that it’s federated (which is not necessary to be a federated service).

What do you mean by this?

Those are still Matrix (platform) style servers.

You don’t have something like Mastodon vs Pixelfed vs Lemmy in terms of diversity of products.

Yes ,and no.

It depends on how you define both terms. If decentralised = federated, matrix is federated. But if federation is defined as a model of social network in which different servers based on different platforms interact through the use of the same protocol(S) (decentralisation + interoperability), being isolated, Matrix doesn’t fit the definition.

Because Matrix doesn’t accept other platforms to enter its protocol, nor plans on adding it’s commonly not considered to be truly federated

It’s decentralised and open-source, but not federated, as it works on its own isolated protocol (similar to Matrix)

This pact isn’t legally binding, but more of a moral “I stand against Meta” thing

Good. There’s no place for corporations on the fediverse. Specially not for a corporation like Meta that has shown time after time how dangerous they are.

Do you really think Meta wants to be “one of us”, that they plan to be on equal ground as the rest of the already existing instances managed by individuals and not by corporations? Are you that naive?

it’s based mostly on old Instagram which was way more photography-focused than it currently is.

It’s also basically used as a image hosting place for artist on other platforms on the fediverse as many servers on the microblogging federated platforms do not allow or severely limit multimedia uploads. (same thing happens with PeerTube and Funkwhale and videos and audio respectively)

Copyright should protect the artist, not corporations. But it’s become a business, with companies made only for the sole purpose of (sometimes falsely) claim copyright of works.

We can see this with videos being copyright strike when they were making clear use of “fair use”, or when some years ago there was an issue with channels about Classical Music having their videos taken down for copyright claim coming from a company that alleged to have the rights over different pieces (not the performances, that are protected by copyright), but the piece itself, from different eras/centuries (20th and 21th century compositions are protected by copyright, 19th, 18th, 17th, 16th and 15th century compositions are not)

There also have been cases of an artist/author losing the right to reproduce their own work after getting out of a contract because the publishing house/music company got full right on their work. Sometimes getting to the point that the artist couldn’t perform because the music company had the right to the image of the artist.

So, how can copyright be shaped in a way that upholds the right of the artist, but doesn’t allow for any kind of corporative abuse to exist?

I’ve written a microblog post explaining how to describe images on my kbin account for those who aren’t sure/don´t know how to write image descriptions.

Be free to ask any question you may have.

Apart from adding alt text (which someone in another comment has already explained how), I want to add other ways to help Blind and visually impaired people and other people that require the use of screen readers and text to speech apps (like myself)

• When using tags with more than one word, always write the first letter of each word in uppercase so the screen readers and text-to-speech apps can read them as separate words

#/LikeThis and not #/likethis

• Avoid special fonts as they cannot be detected by screen readers and TTS software. Most of the time the letters are actually phonetic or mathematical symbols and the software interpret them as such.

A veteran there, so it’s not much of a replacement for me, but many Redditors seem to have migrated to Tumblr.

Most of the subreddits I was subscribed to were about Classical music, there’s no much on that topic on the fediverse, but I’ve found a forum and I’m planning on registering on it.

The white text on yellow background is hard to read.

I would suggest to change the yellow parts of the light theme to another colour, like brown or dark gold/mustard

Well the fediverse works. The fediverse is what internet was meant to be, before corporations sized it and made it the nightmare that centralised social media is. The “metaverse” is just Zuckerberg’s desperation to maintain his decadent model of social media afloat.