♲ @rra@post.lurk.org: Next week during #transmediale @liaizon @lidia_p @320x200 and me are hosting a few workshops to introduce people to the fediverse.
"Welcome to the Federation" is a workshop and Q&A session for people new to or already part of the #Fediverse. We will cover concepts such as the server-client model; on-line federation; discussions of different servers and communities; and last but not least allow those new to the idea to sign up on the Fediverse. The workshops also deal with how to run or join a Fediverse community, the challenges of federated social networking, and the wider impact the Fediverse has on free software production and its culture. The workshops are meant to be informal and semi-structured to allow for different levels of engagement and experience from the participants, but will nonetheless offer a high level of understanding."
♲ @forgefed@floss.social: NLNet @NGIZero has approved funding for #ForgeFed !
There are many potential tasks and related projects that haven't been taken by anyone yet. This is an amazing chance to get funded for working on an awesome free software and decentralized internet project!
♲ @hq@pod.diaspora.software: Ohai there, friends! Sorry for the bit of silence in the last couple of months, we don't like that either, so we figured it's time to make some noise! A few moments ago, we merged the API branch into develop, which means that starting now, all pods on the develop branch support the new, fancy API!
Note that this is not a stable release yet. Until diaspora* 0.8.0.0 is officially released, this API is not considered stable, and we might change things at any time without notice to improve usability and stability. We plan on reaching a stable point once we push 0.8.0.0 into release, but we will communicate as soon as we consider the API stable. Consider it experimental until then. :)
Please do check out the API documentation https://diaspora.github.io/api-documentation/ if you want to know what you can do with the API, and how to use it. We're looking forward to your ideas, and we're curious what you will build with it.
If you had plans for an application using the API, now is a great time to start working on that. We know that we said the API is not stable yet, and that's true, but your feedback will help to improve the API and polishing it for a stable release. If you do find bugs where diaspora* does not behave like you'd expect from reading the API documentation, please file a bug on diaspora* so we can iron that out https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/new. If you have an idea for an improvement or you think we should change something within the API, please open a bug on the API documentation https://github.com/diaspora/api-documentation/issues/new. For all other kinds of questions and input regarding the API, we created a new category on Discourse https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/c/development/api, so please join us there! :)
I just wanted to mention that the friendica is gaining speed every time a new version is released. I'm watching that since several years now and I am very happy about that. I know this has several reasons, like the restructuring of the database, the code cleanup and the philosophy you are working on how the code will be structured now and in the future.
So, thank you for all the work you have done and all the smart decisions you made, that brought us to this Friendica version we are now. 🌻 This is a really great platform and community. 🎊🎉🚀
♲ @mario@hub.somaton.com: Hubzilla 4.6 is the last major release of the version 4 series and brings some new features, many improvements and bugfixes. Here is an overview of the most notable changes:
Core: improved opengraph support for channels and articles
Core: due to security reasons PDFs will not be embedded by default anymore - admins can enable this feature if desired
Core: new translation: japanese
Core: limited inline SVG support via BBcode
Core: improved support for CDN/Infrastructure caching
Core: add connect button for non-zot networks which are not connected in current location
Core: add selected text as quote if replying via comment button
Core: add CardDAV/CalDAV autodiscovery
Pubcrawl: Improved compatibility with pixelfed
Cart: update paypal button to API v2
Workflow: new addon which provides basic issue tracker capability
Are you already looking forward to Hubzilla 5.0? Hubzilla 5.0, which will probably be released in the first quarter of 2020 (depending on developer resources), will bring another batch of interesting changes. One of them is the rewrite of the notifications system to use server sent events instead of polling (this landed in development branch about two weeks ago). There is work being done to bring pinned posts to Hubzilla (this literally landed in development branch some hours ago). We are planing to switch to the zot6 protocol as the primary communication protocol for version 5.0 - there are still some issues to be resolved before we can make this step though.
As always we would like to say Thank You! to everybody who is contributing to this project in one way or the other.
Upgrade info In case you attended the RC testing, remember to git checkout master your repositories prior to the upgrade.
1. Execute util/udall from the web root (this will execute git pull for all repositories). 2. Install the upgrade info addon if you have not done so yet (optional). This will show info about the upgrade to your community members.
We're going to have monthly community review rounds yay! They'll happen on the 1st Friday of each month. If you can't make it on Friday that's fine (let's try to focus the effort on the week following the Friday).
This Friday, 2 days from now, will be the first community review round! Mark the date :)
Mobile apps are of growing interest to the fediverse. While users have asked for apps since the very early days of the fediverse, the presence of stable APIs and capable developers has turned those requests into reality.
PeerTube's own APIs are starting to reach maturity, and developers are working to incorporate them into new apps that people can use on the go. One such app is called Thorium https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android, which is currently in Beta and is "currently missing a lot of features" according to the lead developer.
The overview. Most tabs will be styled like this, with channel details and large thumbnails for the videos
The individual video view
As far as watching videos is concerned, the app works pretty well. The client ships with a simple video player by default, but an experimental WebTorrent player is also available in the settings. Unfortunately, that particular player isn't terribly stable, and introduces longer wait times just to get the video to play.
Although Thorium allows users to log into their PeerTube accounts, the features are a little bare at the moment. You can't really do much with your account other than like or dislike videos, and the client won't be able to supporting commenting until a future release supports it. Additionally, you can't upload any videos with the client yet.
Still, it's a nice freshman effort, and hopefully the app will get updated to account for all of the new improvements that have come into PeerTube since its 2.0.0 release.
♲ @psychmesu@pluspora.com: Facebook and Google surveillance is an ‘assault on privacy,’ says Amnesty International - The Vergewww.theverge.com/2019/11/20/20…
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