#Tribalism #Fediverse #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Streams #friendica #lemmy #misty #sharkey #diaspora

Jupiter Rowland

2025-04-24 13:52:31

@utopiArte Tribalism and brand worship are key factors in all this, yes. While some Fediverse users choose the software they use by what suits them best, especially feature-wise, others behave more like fanbois and fangurls. They cling hard to what they use like someone who has been driving the same car brand for decades out of principle and out of being convinced that everything this brand makes is superior to all the competition.

This seems particularly wide-spread amongst Mastodon users. First, when they joined, they were eager to defend Mastodon against 𝕏 as much better. When they learned about Bluesky and Threads, they started defending Mastodon against these two as much better. But the more they learn what else exists in the Fediverse, like Misskey and its forks or Friendica and its family, they even feel compelled to defend Mastodon against these as well as much better.

In addition, there's instance tribalism. "My home instance is better than yours" or even "my instance is better than all the others!" Not the only reason why Mastodon users refuse to move to a better-suited instance, much less better-suited software, but one of them. That is, this seems more of an issue on Lemmy where users are being judged according to which instance they're on.

But there's also convenience. Moving instances is inconvenient. Always staying on the same instance is convenient. Also, having to configure your account is inconvenient. The default settings being perfect is convenient.

Why do Mastodon users demand all kinds of features be added to Mastodon although they're readily available elsewhere in the Fediverse? Not only because most of them don't know that these features are available in the Fediverse outside of Mastodon, but also because they want these features without going where the features are. They want the features to come where they are. They want the features on the instance that they're on right now.

And if these features are optional, they have to be activated by default on their home instance. Oh, and if they don't like a feature, Mastodon must not add it, or at the very least, it must be off by default on their home instance. Yes, even if it's mastodon.social that they refuse to move away from, home of over 20% of the Fediverse's population. See full-text search. See federation with Threads. See the Bluesky bridge. And so on.

From the point of view of a veteran of Mike's nomadic software, this has to look hilarious. Granted, there is some sticking to brands there, too, even on (streams) where the intentional lack of a brand has become a brand of its own, although (streams) users seem to constantly be ready to jump ships to Forte or back to Hubzilla, should (streams) go under. But there is no instance tribalism. For one, there are only so many instances. Besides, if you go nomadic, you're on multiple instances at the same time anyway.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #NomadicIdentity #Tribalism

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@howTo @Tutorial de @free open source
Como #deGooglear tu vida y pasarte a #fDroid.

Al menos que quieres transformarte en especialista IT, o tengas buenas razones, y ay un montón, la recomendación inicial no seria familiarizarse con #ADB. Aun así, aquí algunas informaciones, por ejemplo como tener el celular en la pantalla de la computadora usando ADB, #SCRCPY y #KDENlive:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
Dos enlaces con mas información al respecto en ingles:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

Pasos para acomodar un celular #android de manera sencilla:

• Guardar todos los datos personales aparte, por ejemplo con cable #USB o con KDEnlive en una computadora.
• Usar el celular una semana mas como si nada, para darse tiempo de acordarse de todo lo que se pueda complicar reseteando el celular y con ello tu vida digital a cero de fabrica. Una semana mas o menos no hace la diferencia, total la tia HermanoGrande ya sabe mas de ti que tu.

Datos y detalles importantes a tener en cuenta y a guardar:

• contraseñas, en particular del correo electrónico de gmail
• 2FA autentificación
  ay opciónes de software libre para esta funcion
• accesos a sitios y servicios
• accesos a servicios de pago, bancos, mercadoLibre y todos aquellos
  En particular para dichos servicios de relacion comercial y/o monetaria siempre se debería tener un planB, teniendo acceso desde un desktop, al menos con un pendrive #linux por ejemplo.

Pasoso para resetear el celular a valores de fabrica:

• Resetear el celular según instrucciones de fabricante o el internet.
• Reiniciar el celular, sin la #SIM ni accesso #wifi a internet.
• Responder todas las preguntas iniciales con NO!
  Hay una, quizas dos preguntas que se tienen que afirmar, si no el proceso de iniciar el celular "por primera ves" no funciona. Son las preguntas que aceptan las condiciones de uso del propio android y eventualmente del fabricante.

Ahora tenemos un celular arrancado lo mas limpio posible. Este proceder, ademas de dar tremenda tranquilidad, es mucho mas seguro y mas rápido que ir desinstalando APP's y elementos.

Siguiente paso muy importante es ir a:

• Ajustes
• #APP's

.. e ir revisando aplicación por aplicación de google y proveedores de mas, inclusive #chrome (!), y seleccionar en cada APP las opciones "parar" y "desactivar".

Eventualmente conviene dejar #googleMaps, la unica APP justificable debido al servicio que brinda. Por cierto, google maps puede ser reemplazado por #OSM -> open street map.
Importante tener siempre el GPS apagado y decirle a todas las APP's ¡que no significa NO! cuando mencionan #GPS. Las pocas veces que realmente se precisa, por ejemplo con googleMaps, se activa en el momento y se apaga en el momento.
Razón:
Los únicos datos seguros son los que no existen.

Pronto.
Bueno, no del todo.

Siguiente paso importante es instalar f-droid:
f-droid.org
Para ello ahora si se puede activar el WIFI y/o insertar la tarjeta SIM al celular.

F-Droid es el repositorio de #APP's comparable con el #playStore de #google pero del mundo del #softwareLibre.
Todos las APP's son gratuito.
Todas las APP's tienen un apartado que informa, si es que sea preciso:
"Advertencia, puede que partes de esta APP no te gusten".
Es importante leer estos detalles siempre, aunque bien despreocupado, ya que esto son advertencias de puritanos mormones del mundo del software libre, los que por suerte existen, los imprescindibles del mundo de la computación. Leer este apartado enseña los detalles importantes en las APP's que hacen la diferencia y que de a poco nos crean un sentido común al respecto.

Tu vida en tu celular nunca sera como antes.

Tenes prácticamente todas las APP's pero #KISS:
Keep It Simple Stupid! -> mantenlo sencillo, estupido!
.. ya que son gratis y hechas por idealistas.
Nada de propaganda.
Nada de venderte la mas nueva actualización que no aporta nada nuevo pero hace obsoleto la compatibilidad y genera ingreso a "ellos" sin brindar valor agregado real.
Lo que se encuentra en f-droid son simplemente aplicaciones pequeñas para que se pueda hacer lo que en realidad uno pretendía hacer.
En otras palabras, sin #enshittification, como diría @Cory Doctorow.

Ay una APP en el f-droid que se llama #auroraStore. Ella da accesso al playStore de google sin registrarse y se puede instalar prácticamente todas las APP's que se pretende. Cosa que no se recomienda en absoluto, ya que prácticamente todas las aplicaciones del playstore que no están también en f-droid tienen fines comerciales y venden los datos de sus usuarios.

Es común que APP's de soporte para hardware o de servicios solo se encuentran en el playstore, por lo que si es útil tener dicho acceso.

Otra opción para acceder a APP's del playstore es por ejemplo el sitio:
apkpure.com/
Este sitio permite bajar APP's que figuran en el playStore, ademas de la opción mas que interesante de acceder a versiones mas antiguas de una APP.

pronto, listo, ya ✓

ave fun con y en las #redesLibres!

utopiArte

2024-06-19 23:02:20

@free open source @howTo @Tutorial

#ADBtutorial #scrcpyTutorial

.. or #howTo get your cellphone onto your computer.

A thread about the tool adb to access your android cellphone and become able to do all the stuff of your hand held computer from your desktop. You don't have to root your phone to be able to use #ADB, but you do have to switch developers mode on. You can do that in settings, depending on your android version, somewhere in a settings subfolder by tapping like ten times on the serial number (or something like that) of your phone. Next you have to open the "developer options" section that has appeared at the bottom of the settings section and enable "debugging with USB".

ADB is also available on windows, perhaps MacOS, yet the info here is from the view point of a #linux #debian #desktop. Except a few details, things shouldn't be different for users of proprietary operating systems.

How to install ADB and connect your phone to your computer | click to open/close

To install ADB:
apt get install adb
Connect your phone with a USB cable to your desktop computer.
Open the console of your computer and type or copy/paste:
adb devices
ADB will list you the TCP port it opens for the USB connection and the device (or devices) connected that it recognizes.
The output will be something like this:

:~$ adb devices
List of devices attached
4xxxxxxxxxxxxd        device

Another necessary program for your desktop computer is scrcpy. This program allows you to project the screen of your cell phone onto your desktop screen if you have ADB installed.
To install #scrcpy:
apt get install scrcpy

Important note about the scrcpy versions and compatibility

This program is, from the coding point of view, in full development mode. To prevent to run into compatibility trouble with your installed ADB version, in particular when using ADB over WIFI, you should pull the scrcpy installation from the github page instead of installing the package of the debian package manager.
The github page has links to SNAP versions as well as pull instructions. A recent intent of using a SNAP version here on KubuntuStudio created an incompatibility of versions too, so the best you can do is run the github instructions to pull the latest code from github.
Here a copy of the actual (19-06-2024) instruction.

github code to pull latest scrcpy from github

github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/b…
for Debian/Ubuntu
First, you need to install the required packages:
sudo apt install ffmpeg libsdl2-2.0-0 adb wget gcc git pkg-config meson ninja-build libsdl2-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswresample-dev libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev
Than clone the repo and execute the installation script:

git clone https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
cd scrcpy
./install_release.sh

When a new release is out, update the repo and reinstall:

git pull
./install_release.sh

To uninstall:
sudo ninja -Cbuild-auto uninstall

Detailed Information about scrcpy commands:
github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/t…

To see and have access to your cell phone from your computer you have to first start adb and connect the cellphone and than type in the console:
scrcpy

.. voila ..

Do This Today: Call Senators

Indivisible reports that these Democratic senators in particular need to hear from their constituents right now to oppose HR22, a bill which would disinfranchise millions of people, mostly women, from voting.

In particular, urge these Senators in particular to reject the GOP’s voter suppression bill and protect our freedom to vote:

KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)

You can call directly, or you can use Indivisible’s tool to help you call if you prefer.

HR22 is intentionally a voter suppression bill, and it’s intentionally suppressing votes of married women in particular. You need a birth certificate in person or a passport in person to register, and if you’ve changed your name (by, say, getting married) and haven’t changed your birth certificate to match, and you don’t have a passport (as most people don’t), then last I heard you’re just kinda fucked. You have to get one or the other done, and then get registered to vote, a process which will take months.

This is not an accident. Also, it eliminates registering to vote by mail or online, which is something else they want in order to, again, make it harder to vote.

This lines up with what the far-right openly say that they want, which is either eliminating votes for women entirely or assigning one vote per household, which would be executed by a man (presumably where such exists).

Also, they know that men vote Republican far more than women do, and it’s about making sure they can’t ever lose another election. This is what they’ve done in state after state where they have power, and it’s what they want to do across the country.

This can’t pass. It absolutely cannot pass. Make sure your senators know. Today.

#fascism #politics #uspol #uspolitics