Unfortunately there are a lot of assholes in diaspora.
A lot of people with a closed mind,
which have blinkers, and this means that you cannot leave everyone free to comment.
People who live with blinders, and see only one type of direction, fail to accept things outside of their way of seeing things, but unfortunately, in diaspora we find fanatics with blinders, and this means that always they will be there ready to attack people, using more or less violent sharp comments. People who, according to my view, have nothing to do with trolls, not to be confused with trolls.
But even these types of people cannot be fed.
So we have to somehow not allow them to spit venom in our posts.
Unfortunately software like #mastodon or #diaspora does not allow blocking these people to comment in our public posts, while, for example, #hubzilla allows it.
Public means visible to all, but not commentable by everyone.
There are people ready to attack you as soon as you talk about something they don't expect and don't accept, regarding politics, religion or anything else, even if you say that linux does 200 things very well, but 2 things do wrong, and other systems do them better, those 2 things, you are called ignorant or incapable, even if the person doesn't really know you.
So, friends, we are now at a level that we are attacked for everything, even trivial things ...
In diaspora unfortunately is full of assholes, and this I have been repeating for years, full of assholes that have been 'censored' or blocked in other networks, and come to spit venom into free networks.
This is why we need tools like hubzilla offers.
Public means visible to all, but not commentable by everyone.

Ps: in theory (about people of diaspora and its protocol), for example, only the comments of my contacts will be distributed to the various pods, while the comments of the others will not be distributed, but limited to their pods, and therefore if you are not part of the list of contacts you are advised. This also applies to the aforementioned post. This also means that the comments of "strangers" (not in the list of my contacts) will never arrive in my hub (hz-hub = diaspora-pod), so they will not be distributed, and I clearly will have no way of reading it (unless someone from the same pod of the commentator that can tell me).

♲ Adam Gaskins - 2019-05-22 01:56:34 GMT

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Who to follow on #Mastodon? We are trying to give new users a better start and selected a couple of profiles for #privacy related topics:

@BurungHantu
@opennic
@jonah
@Mastodon
@torproject
@privacyint
@protonmail
@protonvpn
@Tutanota
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@Qwant
@libreoffice
@Purism
@matrix
@pixelfed
@prismo
@funkwhale
@cryptpad
@disroot
@yunohost
@switchingsocial
@danarel
@infosechandbook
@CCC
@freedomboxfndn
@freedombone
@eff
@Tusky
Fedilab" target="_blank">@Fedilab
@keybase
@debian
@Matomo
@Nitrokey
@privacylab

@The Linux Luser Group

LinuxLusers.com Friendica Network (profile)

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One of the fun things we often do with my older #daughter (8yo) after the younger ones are in bed is browse social media together.

No, hear me out :D It's actually a lot of fun together. Since she doesn't have any accounts (well, except #instagram, but it's a hidden account and she must ask parents for approval of followers and she doesn't post selfies or photos of other people yet), my #social media feeds are pretty fascinating for her and generate great conversation.

There is obviously the cute cat pictures and other cuddly things. But then a lot of #science posts, for example just now I explained to her how smart people with computers can calculate the paths of asteroids decades into the future only by knowing their speed, mass and direction (well, I think it's those), as there was a post of some mission to a future asteroid pass of Earth a decade into the future being planned.

Then we had good discussion on the #climatestrike movement and #Greta, and the importance of all those people on the streets. There is the occasional web comic post, some of which I am able to translate into her world, some of which are so related to for example programming my explanations probably fall through, but she still asks and tries to understand, because she likes #comics.

I think this is kind of an important step in learning social media skills with me together, seeing me use social media shows her how to consume it at least, and at the same time I can sneak in some information on what kind of dangers there are.

I've been considering letting her open for example a #Mastodon account - I think the "approve followers" works there in some form like Instagram? I think it would be one of the safest platforms to start practising on, certainly a lot less "predators" than on ig. Obviously she wants a #Socialhome account, because it's made by daddy, but unfortunately there is zero tools for moderation, blocking or accepting followers - plus no mobile apps, so not really usable for her.

As a parent, what kind of social media policy do you have, and do you teach your kids social media skills?

#parenting #kids

"Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes"" - Part 2 ;) or The miracle of rebrending! :)

[Librem Official]:

Why Rebranding?

A major goal with Librem One was to provide people with convenient and easy-to-use alternatives to big tech services that respected their privacy. The key to this was the combination of decentralized services with a centralized brand. With decentralized services that used open standards and ran on free software, users aren’t locked in to any one provider and can even host services themselves (more on that in a future blog post).

By putting services under a centralized brand, we make these decentralized services just as convenient to use as the big tech alternatives. That way an end-user doesn’t have to know what Matrix, ActivityPub, or even IMAP are or try to find all of the applications that work with those services on their particular platform. Instead, they just need to know that they want to chat, join social media, or send email.

For example:

Librem Chat = Riot,
Librem Social = Tusky,
Librem Mail = K-9,
Librem Tunnel = Ics-openvpn.

Server components:
Postfix + Dovecot for Librem Mail,
Matrix for Librem Chat,
Mastodon for Librem Social.

Wonderful work! :)

MORE: https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-works-upstream-and-gives-back/

#purism #chat #social #mail #privacy #librem #purism #pureos #news #tunnel #vpn #mastodon #tusky #riot #matrix #os #soft #software

Hello!

Είπα να δώσω πρόσφατα μια ευκαιρία στο ελεύθερο κοινωνικό δίκτυο Mastodon και οφείλω να πω ότι εντυπωσιάστηκα.

Οπότε, μπορείτε να με βρείτε πλέον κι εκεί, όσοι θέλετε! ;)

-> https://libretooth.gr/@koulaxizis

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#mastodon #toot #twitter #tweet #alternative #social #network #freedom #libretooth #libreops #federation #fediverse #greece