#diaspora #pollFeatures

#diasporaPoll about polling.

#poll feature test, related to a #friendica post about vote by name polling.
If I get this right, D*'s poll feature can have a max of four questions and multiple choice is not available.

Also notable, in comparison with #mastodon poll's, there is no time limit for the poll.
As mastodon allows editing post's, the poll count is reset if the post text is edited, but not the time span of the poll.
Time span is from 5 minutes up to 7 seven days.

To begin with @Hypolite Petovan, the original idea is to offer for example to projects like @YunoHost :neopossum_box: or @Castopod :podcasting2: a profile on forum.friendi.ca, the same way our very @Friendica Support works.
Most #fediVerse platforms have profiles on their own platform and/or a #mastodon profile, because that's the kinda standard thought and behavior. But actually to me it looks like the #friendica #communityForum page capabilities exceed by far what mastodon or others have to offer. Well, I haven't digged into the fedi clone of reddit to see if that would be an even better option. What is true tho is that forum.friendi.ca is already long standing and our community has gone a long way, so there is in general terms "no single point of failure" like in other projects that depend on one main figure and that's it.

I consider our helpers community experience here, with all the followers of our helpers page getting resend the help requests posted to the forum, chiming in to help out and solve issues, very positive. So this is a proven setup and could help lot's of other projects out here too. Actually I do think that if implemented and adopted, it even could have a positive feed back loop for friendica itself, but that's like something on another page.

So having forum.friendi.ca already up and running, why not support the fediVerse community opening our doors to those who fulfill certain basic community standards?

This server here (tupambae.org) as well is only mend to be a forum server, and of course it's doors are open for any #fediPlatform that likes to have an own forum page over here, yet somehow to me it look's like forum.friendi.ca is the first natural and ideal candidate for something like that.

Of course same goes for a #fediAdmin, #activityPub or #APIdeveloppers community support forum, if that is desired or useful.

Right now in general terms the fedi lives on using some tags or maybe some a.gup.pe addresses, but it's actually us who hold and develop that option for more than a decade now inside the federation itself.

Was that more clarifying @hypolite?

Let's try it again: This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more. That's #Sharkey, #Pixelfed (hence the pic), #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma... How far can it go?

#SocialMedia

Edit: The results are in 👇

Mastodon Advanced Search Guide and Operators

With version 4.2.0 Mastodon added full text search. People asked for a better guide, so I am trying to create one. If I missed something or there is a mistake, please let me know in the comments. You can write a comment by replying to this post in the Fediverse, simply copy the URL, search for it in your Fediverse-client and reply to it.

Limitations of Mastodon search

Because the Fediverse is distributed, there is no way to search through all posts. You can only search through posts that are known to the instance that you are using. That are posts from accounts on the same instance, the posts reposted by accounts on your instance and posts from accounts that are followed by at least one account of your instance.

While there is the saying that elephants don’t forget anything, Mastodon software is intentionally forgetful. By default it forgets (removes from it’s database) posts from other servers that are older than 7 days. That means that you can probably only find posts from other instances from within the last 7 days. Correction: The Mastodon setting for removing posts from other instances is turned off by default. It depends on the setting of your instance how far back you can find posts from other instances.

Finally, you can find only posts that are public and from an account that set their posts to be searchable. The default of the default setting is set for posts to not be searchable. Admins can change the default for the default and users can override it either way.

Exception: You can always search through your own posts, posts that mention you and posts you faved.

Mastodon Search Operators

Post content
wordA wordB By default Mastodon will look for all words that you entered (separated by a space) in any order anywhere in the post.
“wordA wordB” With quotation marks, you will only get results that contain those words in that order without any words between them. They may be separated by multiple spaces, line breaks or even special characters.

User
from:username shows you posts from the user with the username username. For people from other instances, you have to use the full username. Eg: from:luca@social.luca.run
from:me yields posts from yourself.

Time
before:2024-04-25 shows posts that were before 25th of April 2024. Without posts posted on 2024-04-25.
after:2024-04-25 shows posts that were posted after 25th of April 2024. With posts posted on 2024-04-25.
during:2024-04-25 shows posts that were posted on 25th of April 2024. Short form for after:2024-04-25 before:2024-04-26

All three operators use your local timezone not UTC like it was on Twitter. I am not aware of an option to narrow search down to hours or minutes.

Language
language:en finds posts in English. language:de German posts. You can use all ISO-639-1 language codes and a few ISO-639-3 ones.

Type
is:reply to only get replies.
is:sensitive to only get posts with a content notice.

Features
has:media for posts with attached images or videos.
has:image for posts with attached images.
has:video for posts with attached videos.
has:link for posts with URLs.
has:poll for posts with polls.
has:embed for posts with embeds. Not previews, actual embeds like a video that you can watch without leaving your client.

Index
in:library Your own posts, posts that mention you and your favs.
in:public Public, searchable posts known to your server.
in:all Combines both options and is the default. You don’t need to use this explicitly.

Exclude
You can exclude a searchterm -wordA or any of the other operators -is:reply. There is + as well, but because the default behaviour is to combine the operators, you don’t need that.

Source: Testing and Mastodon source code.

Combining operators/filters

You can combine multiple operators to narrow down your results. Mastodon will only show posts that match all operators. I am not aware of an option to search for posts that match either one operator or another one.

Funfacts/quirks

is: and has: are treated the same way. As a result you can either search for has:image or is:image and get the same results. In the case of replies, this is misleading. has:reply does not find posts that have replies, but posts that are replies.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

@helpers I write from my mastodon profile because from my account tness@venera.social all the messages not leave and not happen. Only the RSS that work. My question is :

on #mastodon my timeline is clean I can release the publications of the lists that I want to look at the same time. on #Friendan I ordered my circles and my channels correctly. Is there a way to block or authorize a circle to display publication on the Timeline.

1/2

@helpers
Einige infos findest du hier im Artikel
https://gnulinux.ch/serie-fediverse-dienste-friendica-funktionsreich-und-doch-verstaendlich

Evtl. weiß @fabianschaar@anonsys.net auch konkret zu helfen.

#Friendica #Mastodon

!Friendica Support
@Alex

Guten Abend zusammen,
ich habe eine Frage zur Darstellung von Postings in #Friendica und #Mastodon

Bilder kann man mit einem nsfw Tag versehen und das Bild wird entweder verpixelt oder "eingeklappt" dargestellt. Soll heißen, dass das Bild erst sichtbar wird nach klicken auf einen Button.
Kann man so etwas auch für Text erreichen? Also, dass ein Text in Friendica UND Mastodon erst nach einer erneuten Bestätigung erscheint, bzw. sichtbar wird?

Im Vorfeld danke für eure Antworten.

@helpers

#Mastodon nutzt "Question" als Objekt... siehe:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#Question

Mit #Mammuthus habe ich das soweit kompatibel umgesetzt, vgl. z.B. @tagesfrage

Wie sieht das bei #Friendica aus?

!Friendica Support
ich merke immer wieder dass mein #Mastodon Account auf #sueden.social mehr Beiträge anhand von #Hashtags findet, als mein #Friendica Account auf #anonsys.net.
Wenn ich auf Friendica den Beitrag von Mastodon dann manuell über die Suche aufrufe, dann wird er als Empfangen angezeigt.
Gibts hier irgendwelche Tricks? Wird wohl auch an der Größe der Instanz liegen.
Ich hatte mal testweise Mastodon Instanzen per RSS abonniert. Genauer Hashtags als #RSS. Das hat dann mehr Beiträge nach Friendica gespült. Irgendwann waren diese aber dann doppelt und dreifach, weshalb ich das Experiment wieder aufgegeben habe.

Warum bekomme ich maximal die Beiträge der letzten beiden Tage angezeigt?

Wenn ich unter Friendica den Account von @Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung rnz.de aufrufe, so sind die ältesten Beiträge dort rund zwei Tage alt. Rufe ich jedoch direkt die Mastodon Seite auf, sehe ich das es da viel mehr und ältere Beiträge gibt. Woran kann das liegen?

#Frage #Friendica #Beiträge #Mastodon #Alte-Beiträge #Sascha #2024-04-25 !Friendica Support

!Friendica Support
Hallo zusammen!
Ich bin ja immer noch #neuhier und werde das wohl auch noch ne ganze Zeit sein, daher habe ich eine neue Verständnisfrage:
Wie kommt es, dass Kommentare, bzw. Antworten von mir auf anderen Instanzen von #Mastodon nicht sichtbar sind?

@heluecht

Gibt es eine offizielle Beschreibung, wie #Pleroma und #Misskey das handhaben? Oder Reverse Engineering? ActivityPub scheint mir dies nämlich nicht vorzusehen.

Und bzgl. Umfragen... da interpretiert #Mastodon auch etwas anders. Mit #Mammuthus habe ich auch das auch so umgesetzt. #Friendica bei eingehenden Umfragen auch im Mastodon-Stil? Oder anders?

@bullerich @skeptiker

@heluecht

Umfragen im #Mastodon-Stil?

https://mastodonium.de/@tagestipp/1562

Und wie planst Du, #Emoji-Reaktionen zu föderieren? Oder wäre das ein #Friendica-only-Feature?

@bullerich @skeptiker

Wie schon gesagt, das "Informationssystem" von #Friendica ist doch um Welten besser, als das von #Mastodon.
Allerdings muss ich sagen, ist Friendica doc recht schwer zu bedienen. Aber da muss man halt durch. Ich denke, es lohnt sich.

!Friendica Support
Wenn ich Hashtags bei #Friendica folge, dann erhalte ich ja nur Beiträge. Ist es möglich auch Antworten zu abonnieren, oder bekomme ich die nur zu sehen, wenn ich danach suche?
Auf #Mastodon z.B. bekomme ich Antworten ja auch in meinen Feed gespült.

!Friendica Support
Hat hier schon mal die Kommunikation zwischen #Gotosocial und #Friendica getestet?
Ich habe hier von Gotosocial Nutzern die Info erhalten, das er/sie mein Profil bzw. mein Profilbild nicht angezeigt bekommt.
Wenn er dann aber mit #Mastodon oder #Calckey einen Kontakt hat - dann wäre das gar kein Problem.
Da ich das jetzt nicht nachvollziehen kann in Ermangelung einer Gotosocial Instanz

Ist hier etwas bekannt?

Frage | Friendica: Fehlende Bezüge

Ich hatte eben unten stehenden Austausch und frage mich da natürlich ob mir irgendwelche Informationen fehlen bzw. ob es bei Mastodon Bezüge gibt die ich so nicht sehe.



Wäre schon interessant zu erfahren ob man da mit Mastdon mehr sieht.

Tags: #Frage #Friendica #Mastodon #Bezüge #Fediverse #Sascha #2024-01-12 !Friendica Support

I have noticed some strange behavior and would like to confirm it here if anyone experienced it too.

When you create post, that waits for federating to servers and edit it before it reaches #Mastodon server (not sure if it happens to other #Fediverse instances too), then the post never reaches target instance (or target instance rejects it?)

Is it just me, or it's some kind of bug (or expected behavior)?
!Friendica Support

#fediTips
@tutorial

Summing up tests "activating" and "deactivating" @[Mentioned people only] on #mastodon. Apparently there have been some changes.
(from v3 to v4?)

You can't add more people into already existing posts. They won't be able to display it nore get notifications.
(if that ever existed)

You can deactivate/delete mentions, the profile won't get notifications of updates but still can see or search those toots.
note:
still awaiting confirmation of behaviour on #friendica

@helpers

@heluecht @one @sascha

Bei #Pleroma sind mir neulich schon Unterschiede in der Implementation im Vergleich zu #Mastodon aufgefallen (an anderer Stelle).

Wenn #Pleroma #ActivityPub "erweitert", würde es die Kompatibilität zum Standard brechen...!?!

Das ist ein reines #Mastodon Problem. #Firefish implementiert das ohnehin so, dass man bei einem langen Text nur die ersten paar Zeilen sieht.

Wer hat schon Lust alles so zu posten, dass es auf jeder Platform korrekt dargestellt wird.

Frage | Friendica: Gibt es einen Filter für Plattformen?

Ich würde so gerne mal Mastodon ausfiltern um mal wieder zumindest annähernd zu erleben wie das Fediverse vor Mastodon und all den Rotz der darüber her gekommen ist war. </ironie>

#Frage #Friendica #Filter #Plattform #Mastodon #Nostalgie #2023-11-10 @Friendica Support

@OldKid

Danke. Allerdings ist das, wenn man z.B. nur mal eben einen Videoschnipsel vom Smartphone teilen will... nun ja ... reichlich umständlich und suboptimal.

Das macht #Mastodon deutlich besser.

Also muss ich wohl vorerst doch mal noch beides nutzen 😞

Ah, okay, the app doesn't register itself...

Usually a #Mastodon app registers itself as an app on the instance and then obtain a token through a user login.

Then the question would be, does #Friendica allow to create manually an app and then an user token...

As i just set up a #Friendica instance last year for testing, i can't answer this from my mind...

@helpers

Regarding the #Mastodon #Client #API, a good start is here:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/intro/

Regarding #Friendica #APIs, maybe this helps:
https://friendi.ca/resources/mobile-clients/

And then it would be up to your specific app...

@helpers

@helpers

#Friendica should support a more or less #Mastodon compatible #Client #API!?!

!Friendica Support General question: What's the state and priority of Friendica supporting #Mastodon API mobile client apps? Currently, there's quite a load of those, even just looking at it through my Android or desktop / web perspective, but few of them work well with Friendica. Looking at what I tested recently: @Kaiteki - got a slight step ahead with the lastest build but fails to even connect to Friendica instances (https://github.com/Kaiteki-Fedi/Kaiteki/issues/448). @trunks.social fails to connect, both on mobile and in the web (https://github.com/trunks-social/trunks-public/issues/156 , check https://alpha.trunks.social/login in example trying to connect to loma.ml). https://github.com/elk-zone/elk somehow manages to connect but fails to fetch timelines with Friendica 2023.09 RC and/or compose posts.
At the moment, this is not all too bad as for my personal experience, Frio on mobile web is quite okay, but it surely feels like falling back behind Mastodon, Firefish, ... that are supported / targeted by most of these clients out of the box; usually (see the latest Kaiteki issues) problems with Friendica are immediately closed because Friendica is deemed "unsupported". This would boil down to writing issues for these for Friendica to improve support for Mastodon client API, but ... I somehow wonder whether that's worth the effort. Currently, it seems there's no shortage of open issues in the Friendica tracker, and I don't know whether anyone would consider this important enough to work on so if not, maybe best is to really consider these clients "not for Friendica" and give up on even trying to support these?
Thoughts anyone?

@Friendica Support Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, vom #Friendica -Webinterface aus eine Antwort als sichtbar für "nur erwähnte Profile" zu definieren?
Das entspricht der privatesten Option bei Antworten in #Firefish bzw. bei #Mastodon (das ja keinen Chat hat).
In #Tusky #Fedilab u.a. Apps ist das beim Antworten mit Friendica-Account möglich, aber im Webinterface gelten für Antworten die Einstellungen des Ausgangspost, oder?
Gibt es da eine Möglichkeit auch im Webinterface (das ja vermutlich die meisten Friendica-User aufgrund der ansonsten erweiterten Funktionen bevorzugt nutzen), diese Option zu aktivieren?







Hintergrund der Frage ist die Föderation von Friendica mit #Flohmarkt , das auf die Optionen von Mastodon ausgerichtet ist.
/cc @grindhold @Tealk

Ich habe heute mal etwas von #Bandcamp geteilt. Dabei ist mir aufgefallen, dass auf #Friendica nur ein Link zur Bandcamp Seite erstellt wird, auf #Diaspora und #Mastodon aber ein Player eingebettet ist. D.h. auf Diaspora und Mastodon kann ich das Stück direkt abspielen, auf Friendica nicht. Kann ich das Verhalten in den Konfigurationseinstellungen irgendwie ändern?

#Friendica #Bandcamp
!Friendica Support

@Friendica Support

I just ran on #mastodon into the fact that #webP has issues to be uploaded.
There was a general problem giving 500 errors that apparently was fixed recently, even tho not all servers have updated this problem.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23781

Actually I wanted to upload animated webP and that still doesn't work. The software extracts the first pic and serves it as webP.

So I tried to publish via #friendica into the fediverse the animated webP but at least the squeet.me friendica version (2023.09-dev) extracts the first pic and serves it as jpg image. 2021.01 and 2019.12 doesn't accept webP at all.

I guess this is known?

Any changes on this to expect?

I'm kinda astonished as I created the webP with GIMP and can display it in firefox, all free source software and animated webP is definitely higher quality than gif and way smaler size.

@Friendica Support @Michael Vogel Werden #geteilteBeiträge und #nativgeteilteBeiträge ausschließlich mit meinen Kontakten auf #Friendica geteilt oder auch mit meinen #Kontakten auf #Mastodon?
Hintergrund meiner #Frage: Ich überlege derzeit, ob ich mir auch auf Mastodon ein Konto einrichte.

!Friendica Support Just learnt about another ... interesting feature in federating across different systems: Apparently, recent versions of #pixelfed support posting with comments disabled, which results in users being unable to comment on these posts within pixelfed. Unfortunately, coming from whichever other federated platform it seems this setting is unknown or ignored, so my bet now is that I can merrily comment on those posts from, say, #Mastodon or #Friendica without ever receiving responses because most likely the original poster will never ever see these comments (while they might be visible to other users seeing this post on other platforms). This is weird. And now I wonder where to file an issue for that: Friendica? Pixelfed? ...?

@Juan Manuel

I'd also like to know how to use #Friendica as my "main network", so that when I post on #Friendica, the post is also done automatically on #Mastodon and #Diaspora*.

You can ask/direct people to follow your Friendica account. They'll see what you post both on Diaspora and Mastodon

Hello @Friendica Support
I'm writing to you from #Colombia, #SouthAmerica. My account is hosted on a server in #Argentina. I'd like to know how, either from #Fedilab on #Android or from a browser on #Windows10, I could follow several tags simultaneously, without having to add them one by one.
I'd also like to know how to use #Friendica as my "main network", so that when I post on #Friendica, the post is also done automatically on #Mastodon and #Diaspora*.
Thank you very much.

Es wäre durchaus denkbar, daß eine App eigene lokale Funktionalität einführt.

#Tusky bietet hier allerdings wirklich eine #API-Funktion einer #Mastodon-Instanz.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/domain_blocks/

@heluecht

Also ist der deutsche #Wikipedia-Artikel zum #Fediverse möglicherweise schon zu technisch?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

P.S.: Habe zu meinem "klassischen" #Mastodon-Account gewechselt. Das Zusammenspiel zwischen #Mammuthus und #Friendica bietet noch zu viel Raum für Optimierung... :-|

@helpers @schmaker

I don't use push notifications.

Have installed #Tusky, #Fedilab, ...

Afaik this just effects, how fast you will get notifications about... notifications... ... so e.g. someone mentioned you.

Mostly using #Mastodon (and #Mammuthus), i have to admit, but also installed a #Friendica instance once...