That's the least of its "faults". Both Friendica instances I'm on go offline at the worst possible time, and that's when 9'O'Clock Hashtag Games commence then ramp up to peak. Since Monsterdon begins at that same time on Sundays, same problem. I'll have to schedule that time to be on Mastodon somewhere instead.
Friendica still lacks a proper moderation system unfortunately:github.com/friendica/friendica…
If they can implement this, I would be promoting Friendica a lot more as it's really cool 🙂
Feature Request: implement Moderation system · Issue #8724 · friendica/friendica
I think it would be good to have a moderation system similar to Mastodon where you can report problematic content, an admin will be notified and decide what to do with that reported post: warn the ...GitHub
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in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •@Radio Free Trumpistan
When they get a full fledged moderation system then it would be nice if administrators used it to moderate. The issue is gong to be that you have a lot of kids playing around with their instances that only use moderation as a way to help their friends and punish their enemies. I have noticed this on other Fediverse Instances. Not to say this means we should not strive for a better moderation system as there are those that need and will use it. Though I am concerned that it will go largely unused and greatly abused.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •Excellent point, that.
I signed up for a Mastodon instance that I only later discovered was heavily moderated by many other instances because of the conduct of the admin. He's caused no issues for me and as long as that's the case, we live/let live, but propagation is a major problem over there. We who register often have no prior knowledge of any given instance's global reputation. OR how widely in the Fediverse it's been blocked.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • • •kids can moderate all they like on their instances, makes no difference to anyone. All moderation does, is local to that instance.
Larger instances however would benefit from a good moderation system, as it’s also more about moderating your own userbase and content going in and out of your instance. Not moderating ends your instance unfederated from other servers. Also if your membership is open, you want to prevent illegal content, as you are responsible.
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in reply to Samuel Lison • •@Samuel Lison
It is not like Friendica has zero moderation. It has the ability to report abuse and for the administrator to take action. If you look at the OP it is criticizing Friendica for not having a Mastodon level of moderation, not none at all.
There is no problem with eliminating illegal content, passing it on the LEA and removing the abusive user.
I am well aware that the kids abuse only effects their own Instance. Until they get blocked by enough Instances that their Instance has near zero propagation.
I was not belittling moderation I was stating that I suspect it will not be widely or wisely used based on what I see on other types of Instances that already have more sophisticated moderation in place. That goes unused or abused.
Sorry you misunderstood me.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • • •oh all good, my apologies. I should have read the full conversation and not just reply direct to yours post (it’s all I saw in my timeline!). I agree, most moderation is not used widely, or wisely. I’ve not used Friendica as yet either.
Even for mid sized servers, the weakness of decentralized servers is most are run by regular you and I’s who aren’t professional moderators and don’t run social media as a business. Hobby servers with limited funds.
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in reply to Samuel Lison • •@Samuel Lison
No worries, I disagree with Fediverse deciding it is a good idea to share comments without the context of the post. It just creates confusion.
I consider it design flaw, they tell me it's a feature 😉
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •I wouldn't go that far, though. If a Mastodon instance displays a Mastadon-generated post, then comments, they DO provide a link to the Thread as such. That's something else that doesn't propagate to non-Mastadon instances. Neither Friendica or Diaspora even offer that sort of feature.
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in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •yeah, I am replying and reading through micro.blog and there is a link to “conversation” which I can click and see the whole conversation and should have done that initially before responding. I am new to this #fediverse thing 😁
Maybe replies shouldn’t automatically show up in all your followers feeds by default as they are not really part of that specific conversation.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • • •same boat here. Annoying that all I see in my timeline is a response to someone’s post. Because I follow you and not the OP. I either have to click directly on your response or click on “conversation” (in micro.blog) to open the full thread, or at least, what’s loaded on this instance.
Confusing, if you ask me.
It’s like listening in to your conversations and not actually being a part of it - then jumping in!
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in reply to Samuel Lison • •@Samuel Lison @Unus Nemo
Actually, jumping in on a conversation is one of the delights of the Fediverse. Last year, I think, during MastodonMigration's influx of Twitter refugees, somebody posted a poll about which key did you click first: Home or Federated. I daresay I was in a tiny minority of people who responded "Federated", but then again, Mastodon posts both postings and replies individually but provide a link to a thread.
Friendica displays posts and their subsequent comments together, but your Settings determine how those are displayed, so you have a choice in the matter.
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in reply to Samuel Lison • •@Samuel Lison
You are welcome to make a user on my Instance if you want to check Friendica out.
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in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •@Radio Free Trumpistan
Can you tell me what time, your time, that the server was down. When I got up today it was down. I believe I have figured out the issue but it still may need some fine tuning.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •Roughly 8pm central--that's when I found it down, and it was down this morning too. I suspect it went down earlier than that. Strangely enough, it's the same time Friendica My Portal frequently goes offline, though it doesn't do that consistently. Just mostly.
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in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •@Radio Free Trumpistan
I went through my logs and found that fpm-php was having issues. I have made some adjustments and I hope they are fine though I will not have time to further research and adjust until next Monday.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •Understood, and kudos to you to at least keeping your users posted on what's going on when you find it. The one major issue that caused me to move off of Friendica My Portal is that it was taken down by the admin and the admin didn't announce the fact other than to render the messaging editor unfunctional. I understand the need for periodic maintenance of any given site, but making a site look usable when it isn't, and not announce what you're fixin' to do in advance of the fact....or, better, a "This site is not available at this time, check back later"...is just outright rude and abusive.
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in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •@Radio Free Trumpistan
I do my experimental work on a test server not this production server. I will have to take it down from time to time for updates though that will not be too often and I will announce ahead of time. At the moment I have not time to do any updates, not even ones that are needed 😉. Though this version appears fairly stable so I am not pressed to go cutting edge at the moment.
After I get past a lot of changes in my personal life I will have more time to work on the site. Though as it is just a hobby really I do not have the time to commit to keeping it cutting edge.
I decided to make my instance OPEN so that others can benefit from its existence. No need to be greedy. Though ultimately this is not a for profit endeavor so I can only commit so much time to it as I need to make a living elsewhere.
I appreciate you letting me know when things go wrong. My email is in the site
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I do my experimental work on a test server not this production server. I will have to take it down from time to time for updates though that will not be too often and I will announce ahead of time. At the moment I have not time to do any updates, not even ones that are needed 😉. Though this version appears fairly stable so I am not pressed to go cutting edge at the moment.
After I get past a lot of changes in my personal life I will have more time to work on the site. Though as it is just a hobby really I do not have the time to commit to keeping it cutting edge.
I decided to make my instance OPEN so that others can benefit from its existence. No need to be greedy. Though ultimately this is not a for profit endeavor so I can only commit so much time to it as I need to make a living elsewhere.
I appreciate you letting me know when things go wrong. My email is in the site Information tab so if something goes wrong and I have not attended to it try to email as well. During work cycles I may go days without logging in. Be sure to put Something like Friendica Site Down in the subject line. The first time you email it may go to junk though I will fix that as soon as you email once.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •Wonderful! That right there makes your instance head & shoulders above all the rest, IMHO!
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