How do I post to an instance that I follow? That may not be the right word. It's not an entire instance, like friendica.world. It's someone or a group on that instance. These terms are quite confusing, since some of them are actual groups, whereas others are individuals, and still others are organisations but aren't technically groups. Many come from Mastodon.
Those who love antique fashions will enjoy this. It is a compilation of links related to Regency and Edwardian mensware. If you have any to add or wish to make any suggestions, please do so.
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#antiquemensware #clothing #dapper #Edwardian #fashion #history #Regency #suits
Below is a conversation I've had with Perplexity. I am not including the links given, just to make this shorter. I am hoping that someone here could offer advice. I really love Friendica, but this drives me mad. I also use Semaphore, but it does the same thing. By the way, I don't "reach out" to people. I'm not a member of the four Tops. I write to them, contact them, speak with them, etc. I hate modern slang.
Me. "What is thread mode in Tweesecake? Does it link posts together as in GMail with e-mails? One major problem I'm finding with Friendica is that, when I read my timeline, regardless of whether I'm using the main site, Tweesecake, Pachli, or Tusky, I see posts out of context. Instead of seeing five separate posts, clicking on one, and seeing its contents, I see parts of conversations scattered throughout my timeline, and I have no choice as to which posts I want to read, because they're all there at once. I am blind and use NVDA and Talkback. This is very confusing."
Perplexity. "I apologize, but I don't have specific information about a "thread mode" in Tweesecake or how it might link posts together. However, I can address your concerns about the timeline experience in Friendica and provide some general information that may be helpful.
The issue you're describing with scattered conversation parts in your timeline is a common challenge in many social media platforms, including Friendica. This type of display is often referred to as a "flat" timeline, where posts and replies are shown in chronological order regardless of their relationship to each other.
To address your specific concerns:
Timeline Organization
Friendica's default timeline behavior shows posts and replies in chronological order, which can indeed lead to fragmented conversations appearing throughout your feedFriendica timelines are compelling - Col·lapse / Colapso. This can be particularly challenging for users relying on screen readers like NVDA or Talkback, as it may be difficult to follow the context of conversations.
Filtering Options
While Friendica doesn't offer a built-in "thread mode" as you've described, there are some filtering and organization options that might help:
1. Hashtag Filtering: Friendica has hashtag filters that can hide posts containing specific tags, though they don't remove them completely from the timelineEnable the filtering and hiding of hashtags in the timelines "New ....
2. Content Filtering: There's an addon called "advancedcontentfilter" that allows for expression-based content filtering, which might help in organizing your timelineFriendica Addons.
3. Collapse Features: Addons like "showmore" and "showmore_dyn" can collapse posts at a user-defined character length or dynamically limit the height of posts, potentially making it easier to navigate through your timelineFriendica Addons.
Potential Improvements
It's worth noting that there have been discussions and feature requests related to improving the timeline experience in Friendica:
1. A feature request has been made to completely hide blocked content rather than just collapsing itHide blocked content completely · Issue #14505 · friendica ... - GitHub. This could potentially help in decluttering your timeline.
2. Some users have expressed interest in having "exception groups" or "negative groups" for more granular control over what appears in their timelineDisplay - Motley.
Accessibility Considerations
As a blind user relying on screen readers, the current timeline structure in Friendica and its various clients may indeed pose challenges. It might be helpful to reach out to the Friendica development community or the developers of the specific clients you're using (Tweesecake, Pachli, Tusky) to express your accessibility concerns and see if there are any plans or possibilities for improving the experience for screen reader users.
While not a perfect solution, you might find it helpful to use the "Network" or "Community" views in Friendica, which sometimes offer a more structured way of viewing conversations, though this may vary depending on the client you're using."
#accessibility #blind #Friendica #Mastodon #organisation #Pachli #posting #Semafore #timeline #Tweesecake
I would like to settle something, once and for all. I think I may have asked about it this previously but not very clearly. On sites such as Livejournal, I enter interests seperated by a comma. For instance
books, classical music, cats
Some sites use brackets to separate each word or phrase. On Friendica, I followed their advice to use commas, but phrases, such as classical music, always show up as separate words i.e. "classical, music" when I read my profile, thinkint that was the seperator, but it did nothing. I want to know how to do this properly, since it may affect both how I find people and how people find me. How do I write these keywords, and is it the same for my profile as when I search by interest or for posts and people?
I asked Perplexity the questions I wrote here and received an interesting answer. Note that, so as not to really create these tags, I am using a full stop instead of a number sign.
"Based on your query, I can provide some guidance on how to properly use interests and tags on Friendica:
Profile Interests
For your profile interests on Friendica:
• Use commas to separate individual interests
• For multi-word interests, use single words without spaces
For example:
text
books,classicalmusic,cats,Windows7,WindowsXP
This approach ensures that multi-word interests are treated as single tags rather than being split up.
Searching
When searching on Friendica:
• Single words work best for general searches
• For specific multi-word terms, try using hashtags without spaces
For example:
text
.classicalmusic
.Windows7
.WindowsXP
Search Scope
The search box on the main page typically searches:
• Posts and content on your local Friendica instance
• Profiles of users on your instance
• Some federated content from connected servers, depending on your instance's configuration
However, it does not search the entire Friendica network comprehensively
Tags in Posts
When creating posts, you can use hashtags to make your content more discoverable:
text
I love .classicalmusic and .Windows7!
This format allows for better indexing and searching of specific topics.
Finding People
To find people with similar interests:
1. Use the "Directory" feature on your Friendica instance
2. Search for hashtags related to your interests
3. Explore "Similar Contacts" suggestions
Remember, the federated nature of Friendica means that search results and content availability can vary between instances. Experimenting with different search terms and hashtag formats may help you find the most relevant content and connections."
Me. "This is very interesting! So even with single terms, such as book and cats, I would write them without a space but place a comma between them i.e. books,cats, not books, cats?"
Perplexity. "Indeed, you are correct! On Friendica, when entering your interests in your profile, you should write them without spaces and separate each term with a comma. Therefore, you would format your interests as follows:
text
books,cats
This ensures that each term is treated as a distinct tag rather than being split into separate words. By following this format, you enhance the clarity of your interests and improve the likelihood of being found by others who share similar passions."
Well, it finally happened. Facebook did, in fact, discontinue the Basic Mobile site. So I will be posting on here and Dreamwidth a lot more from now on. Speaking of which, I wrote alot there over the last few days, filling in entries from earlier in the month. Anyone can read or comment on my entries, whether or not he is a member. I also have an extensive profile there, as well as a post containing links to essays on various topics. I will be sharing particular links with all of you that you may read or ignore, as you wish.
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#accessibility #blind #Dreamwidth #Facebook #Friendica #friends
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Why do CEOs get rewarded for failing? Why is their labor so much more important than everyone's else? When does this stop?
I understand Microsoft probably had a great year, but why are shareholders more important than the people that actually make the money? This system sucks.
Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs
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Free Paul Watson
Thank you Denmark to give a so great exposure to environment defenders.
#PaulWatson #Denmark #whales #faeroeislands #freepaulwatson #seashepherdfrance
Shared Perspectives #3 : CGI-Clinics, from NGS diagnostics to Patients bedside prescription.
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#NGS, #cds, #personalizedmedicine, #precisiononcology, #artificialintelligence, #OpenScience
Shared Perspectives continues CGI-Clinics twin-headed interviews focusing European projects on Precision Oncology. This third issue of the series’ interviewees are oncologists, member of the CGI-Clinics project consortium, involved in the development of C
Shared Perspectives continues CGI-Clinics twin-headed interviews focusing European projects on Precision Oncology.Christophe MICHEL, PhD (www.linkedin.com)
We just watched “Woman of the Hour” directed by/starring Anna Kendrick. Wow. I’m easy to please but I thought it was phenomenal. It did a great job of putting you in each of the actresses’ shoes. The antagonist was great. I hated him!
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I've started a tiny project to replace all the giant landuse ways I placed when I first started mapping with something more manageable. It isn't taking as long as I imagined, but I sure wish I wouldn't have mapped this way in the first place.
Stop account takeovers for good. Protect your users' personal data and prevent financial losses.
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Can I play Fortnite on a macbook? I'll need to check.
Shared Perspectives #2: CGI-Clinics, beyond human NGS analysis in Precision Oncology. The entire interview
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#NGS #cds #personalizedmedicine #precisiononcology #artificialintelligence
Olivia Tort - left [OT] and Tiago Bothelho - Right [TB] Olivia Tort, key scientific project manager of CGI-Clinics at the International Strategic Support Office at IRB Barcelona. She leads the coordination of the consortium as an EU project and its intera
Olivia Tort - left [OT] and Tiago Bothelho - Right [TB] Olivia Tort, key scientific project manager of CGI-Clinics at the International Strategic Support Office at IRB Barcelona.Christophe MICHEL, PhD (www.linkedin.com)
I just found a client called TWBlue. It seemed to be absolutely perfect! Then, I tried to post with it. Not only can I not hit enter to go down a line because it posts, but it literally has no function to allow me to edit my posts or comments! I can understand the first, since it was designed to work with Mastodon, but the second makes no sense to me. Still, these people are extremely serious about accessibility and actually care about user suggestions, so O I may write to them. I would love for these features to be added, since it looks like a full client.
This page should be updated to include Pachli for Android, and Tweesecake and Semaphore for Windows as clients.
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food, weather, classical music
Here, in my profile, it asks for keywords. Food and weather are fine. But when I write "classical music" (without the quotes) and save it, it always looks like "classical, music". In other words, it's being treated as two words instead of a phrase. I did try putting them in quotes, but that didn't help. The same thing happens with names or anything other than single words. Am I doing something wrong? Should I put them in brackets or use the number sign, or is that just how it handles them? If so, how can I search for such things? To use my previous example, searching for "classical, music" might give me results about classical antiquity or popular music. What about tagging posts that I write here to bring attention to a particular topic? Do I just use the number sign?
I am trying out yet another client. This one is for Windows, and so far, I really like it. It doesn't give me full control over my profile as Pachli and tusky do, but it does allow me to work with posts, which is what I will be doing most times anyway. So now, along with the website that works with everything, I have two windows clients (one web-based/Semaphore, and one regular/Tweesecake), and two android clients (Tusky and Patchli). Tweesecake can be found here. I have no idea what is meant by working without windows and such, but it can be used as a regular program.
I found a wonderful site with all sorts of instances to join here. Most work. This is the link to their most popular 100 topics, rather than to the main page.
fedi.directory/top-100-topics/
And groups do exist here! I found a page about them at the below site. It's about Mastodon, but the advice should apply to Friendica as ell.
fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on…
How to use groups on Mastodon and the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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Thanks for the recommendations! 😊
Just to make clear:
Tips for using this place are at fedi.tips
Servers to join are at fedi.garden
Accounts to follow are at fedi.directory
Fedi.Directory – Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse
Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.directory
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I just went here.
I saw a way to sort servers. I checked several boxes. But there is no "search", or "go", or "continue" button or link, and all that showed up was a few things. Yet I had several boxes checked. Am I only supposed to check one at a time, and then, the various options are displayed? If so, why did they use checkboxes and not radio buttons? I am not new to computing. I've just never seen anything like what I've observed during the last few days. None of it makes sense!
Hello again!
So, some servers may have a theme, and it may be full of people interested in that certain topic, but they will still post about things, which may be what you were seeing.
Much like friendica.world is your "portal" to the fediverse, other people go through other servers like mastodon.world, beige.party, or mastodon.online. When you see people you want to follow on these other servers, all you have to do is enter their username while you're looking at your Friendica. World account, and then you will receive their posts even though they are on a different server.
One of the downsides of this server currently is that it is fairly new, so us people located on it haven't followed too many people, which leads to *our* side of search not finding much. As long as you have a username you want to follow, that part shouldn't matter though.
Shared perspectives #1: Personalized Medicine future in Europe, from regions to Union, and back…
Our interviewees: Dr Eva-Maria Stegemann [EMS-left ] has a science, business and industry background and is involved in multiple European Personalized Medicine projects. Gianni D'Errico [GDE- right] is International Project Officer & European Affairs at F
Our interviewees: Dr Eva-Maria Stegemann [EMS-left ] has a science, business and industry background and is involved in multiple European Personalized Medicine projects.Christophe MICHEL, PhD (linkedin.com)
Friendica.World performance
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I've started looking over north Texas marking the band practice fields I can find with leisure=pitch, sport=marching_band. I am always open for suggestions! Here, you generally find them at high schools on a dedicated field, or part of a parking lot as seen below.
#OpenStreetMap #Texas #MarchingBand
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I have been a medieval flag waver in a team for quite a few years, and we'd always perform with our own marching band of musicians and dancers.
More often than not you need a lot of space and reference points, like in theatre and movies. Points to turn around yes, but also to align the figure with the dancers. May that be the case here?
That's a big difference between Italy and the US, having the director on a tower. That'd be impossible here and the drummers would go out of sync haha
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I might have been overselling it when I said tower, but thats what they're labeled in OSM. Haha.
They're usually a 10x10 foot platform, one to two stories high, nothing too extravagant. My school was smaller though and had a rollable platform that they would bring out on to the field for shows.
I think you're correct, but I was in choir in school, not band!
Only the schools that have larger parking lots have a full "field" painted. I've seen many that only go from something like the 10 to the 50 yard line, or some that are even shorter without numbering at all.
Yeah, after all why would you have a parking lot that huge? Might as well cut a section off for use in these occasions or as a general-purpose playground or field, right?
Makes sense!
We have something similar in some neighborhoods of Naples, Milan and Genoa, where sections of a few residential streets became soccer fields overnight
(without all the bells and whistles of painting lines and installing nets of course)
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Unfortunately, giant parking lots are normal in my state (country?). REALLY big parking lots without trees. It is super awful.
Soccer fields after dark sounds pretty cool!
Oh. I thought that was only an issue of bigger cities.
Without trees? Must be quite the oven when the sky is clear...! :(
Yeah it's pretty cool that people are still repurposing spaces without going through the infinite hoops of burocracy. People need livable, shared spaces, not a spaghetti bowl of roads leading to roads leading to roads. Parks. Plazas. Fields.
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*Note. I am referring to adding people who are on Friendica. I have managed to figure out how to add people who are on Mastodon, as the process is streight forward, though I am still seeking a directory of their groups, etc.*
How do I follow people or groups? I know there is a directory, and I have been reviewing it, but most of the listings no longer work or haven't been updated in awhile. I also had to sort by English. On my friendica.world page itself, it has a "Search" option. I can type, for example, "blindness". But there is no way to sort by posts, people, groups, etc. so I have to go through all sorts of post where people just mention blindness and then, maybe, find a group or interest among them. I then found this site.
tiotrom.com/2020/11/the-beginn…
"In the contacts settings, you can search people based on interests (keywords)."
I don't see this option. The only thing about contacts that I can find is "Manage Contacts". There, the search function is to search among my own, not to add new ones.
"Friendica opens the doors to pretty much any Federated network. Say you find a Mastodon account in the wild. Copy the url to your Friendica search bar then simply follow them. Do the same for any other Federated network. Now you can interact with these people (send private messages, see their posts in your feed, comment to them, like, share, etc.)."
What is this search bar? Is this the "Search" option I found on my main page?
There is a lot more about following pages, etc. on that site, but for now, I'm just trying to learn the basics. Also, does the main page of each node look different from what I see on riendica.world or is it a unified format?
You are very welcome! I do believe the tags you speak of work that way, and I know mastodon has them too, but at this point I don't know if that particular thing crosses over... The good news is that interoperability is increasing all the time!
Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any other questions. I might not know the answer, but will do my best to find it!
If only.
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I will try and explain this as best as I can. The issue you described when you had to enter your ID on the forum is something that people are currently discussing making easier, but its not very intuitive right now.
So, your account is on the server friendica.world.
The forum group is on the server friendi.ca. <-- This server does not know that your account exists.
So when you enter your username (@dandylover1@friendica.world)
this part: "However, I got it to work! I found the "follow" link, hit enter on it, and then, it asked me directly for my finger or address. I entered dandylover1@friendica.world, and it gave me another page with my full profile address"
That is your way of letting the server friendi.ca knwo who you are, and then friendi.ca sends the request back to your server, friendica.world. This is usually the more annoying way of doing things, but it works.
For finding contacts from friendica.world, you will want to click on the "Contacts" icon or go to (friendica.world/contact). The correct place to enter/search for a new person is in the "Add new contact" field. I have had this one work when I have the other person's "address". At the top of this page is a Find People option, which I haven't used much, but I imagine you can use it to search for people.
Please let me know if any of this was confusing!
As for finding people organically, I would recommend you search for some of your favorite hashtags. They are the best way to find content on the fediverse!
I'm still learning Friendica myself, so if you figure out any cool stuff, let me know!
If people want their children to go to a private school, they should pay for it themselves. If they want their kids to go to a religious school, they should pay for it themselves.
It is interesting that the plan enacted in Arizona has ballooned out of control. I have no doubt the same would happen here in Texas.
"The Texas Legislative Budget Board projected that the cost of Abbott’s voucher program would have ballooned to more than $2 billion annually by 2028."
I really hope this group fails. I'm tired of a minority of people trying to shape the world for their own gain, leaving the rest of us behind.
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