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Hello Friendica!
I'm testing this out as a Facebook replacement. Really, however, it'll depend on how many people I can get to join me here.
Pros:
- Responsive, reasonably easy to navigate
- Formatted text is a nice touch
- It does technically have an events system
Cons:
- Would be nicer if we had a rich text editor rather than BBCode style editing
- No changing post permissions after it's published! Yeah, that's probably an ActivityPub limitation, isn't it?
- Little bit janky everywhere
- The events... don't let you invite people? That seems less than useful. There again it's not like I have any friends here.
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That's fair enough.
It seems tho there is no way of adding new people to the event!
That would be... a useful feature. 😅
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#Dotdot: a French revolution in private mesh networks and mobile data sharing
Dotdot is a French revolution in private mesh networks, offering subscription-free WiFi access and reducing the carbon footprint of local communications. Dotdot's self-healing mesh networks can operate in repeater mode to extend a router's Internet access, or in private mode (Off-Grid) for isolated local communication between devices. The Dotdot WiFi network is created by stand-alone pocket repeaters called “#dot's”, which can be paired with a smartphone to create a WiFi network visible up to 100 meters around the user.
A key feature of Dotdot is the anonymous sharing of Gigas of unused mobile Internet access, enabling unused mobile data to be monetized while providing shared access to the Internet. Dotdot's are low-cost WiFi repeaters that mesh without assistance, and enhanced versions are offered for automotive, construction or defense applications on which CivTAK and ATAK-type applications can run. Dotdot recently won an award at the CES Innovation Awards 2025 for its innovative approach to secure, anonymous mobile data sharing.
For your information, as I find the concept appealing, I've just ordered a #Dotdot box for n816 Life to test the concept. I'll be sure to let you know my impressions after a few weeks of real-life use. This French innovation was presented at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, and was discussed by Jérôme Colombain of the podcast “Le Monde Numérique”.
#Dotdot #MetNetworks #DataSharing #WiFiWithoutSubscription #CESInnovationAwards2025
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#Dotdot : une révolution française des réseaux maillés privés et du partage de données mobiles
Dotdot est une révolution française dans les réseaux maillés privés, offrant des accès WiFi sans coûts d'abonnement et réduisant l'empreinte carbone dans les communications locales. Les réseaux maillés auto-cicatrisants de Dotdot peuvent fonctionner en mode répéteur pour étendre l'accès internet d'un routeur ou en mode privé (Off-Grid) pour une communication locale isolée entre les appareils. Le réseau WiFi Dotdot est créé par des répéteurs de poche autonomes appelés "#dot's", qui peuvent être appairés avec un smartphone pour créer un réseau WiFi visible jusqu'à 100 mètres autour de l'utilisateur.
Le partage anonyme de Gigas d'accès internet mobile inutilisés est une fonctionnalité clé de Dotdot, qui permet de monétiser les données mobiles inutilisées tout en offrant un accès solidaire à Internet. Les #dot's sont des répéteurs WiFi à bas coût qui se maillent sans assistance, et des versions renforcées sont proposées pour des applications automobiles, du bâtiment ou de défense sur lesquels des applications de type CivTAK et ATAK peuvent fonctionner. Dotdot a récemment remporté un prix aux CES Innovation Awards 2025 pour son approche innovante de partage de données mobiles anonymes et sécurisées.
Pour informations, trouvant le concept sympathique, je viens de commander un boitier pour tester le concept au nom de n816 Life. Je ne manquerai pas de vous faire part de mes impressions après quelques semaines d'utilisation en vie réelle. Cette innovation française a été présentée au CES 2025 à Las Vegas, et a été discutée par Jérôme Colombain du podcast "Le Monde Numérique".
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Transform excess into access: #ShareYourGBs!
Tired of wasting tens of unused Gigabytes from your mobile data plan? Share them! Joint the #dotdot community, the first ever marketplace for the anonymous P2P sharing of unused Gigabytes of mobile internet access!#dotdot
Some issues still with Friendica.World
There still are some issues with Friendica.World (but we're working on it...)
First and foremost, the worker, which is executing the jobs (which do everything ) can't keep up. This is being addressed in github.com/friendica/friendica…
Then, image uploads don't work for large images (over 5MB?), while the settings have a max of 200MB defined (and php.ini has 500MB)
Lastly (for now), the backup locks the database. We need to test to use options to skip the locking of tables.
If there are any other issues you notice, let us know!
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@ruud Is Friendica set to the 200MB limit? When trying to upload an image in the image section of my profile, I get an error message shown, where 'nginx ' is printed below the actual image error message. This doesn't look like a PHP error message to me. I haven't ever used nginx, though.
A quick search reveals that nginx has a client_max_body_size parameter to limit the size of uploads. The default is 1MB. Could this be the problem?
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Facebook / Instagram / Twitter
Yeah, so this is an attempt to at least partially leave the Right-Wing propaganda networks. I fear that my contacts on Facebook may not come here, but hopefully there will be more of a migration.
My profile already shows somethings that define who I am. I might post numerous pictures of my cats and (hopefully) there will be silly cat videos involved.
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Testing federation of Events on Friendica.
Friendica <-> Lemmy integration could create a usable Facebook Groups alternative
The week of December 23, FEWSNet, an independently run famine reporting service funded by the United States government, updated its projections for impending famine in northern Gaza. The U.S. Ambassador to Israel publicly criticized the population figures used, and the update promptly disappeared from public view, apparently upon instructions from U.S. government officials.
This recent censorship battle over whether to call starvation in Gaza a famine is compromising United States credibility on issues where the U.S. has led the world for decades. A half-century ago, the U.S. helped forge a global consensus on norms to guide how the world responds to food crises, including that food not be used as a weapon. Now, U.S. officials are censoring independent reporting of starvation in Gaza resulting from Israel withholding food supplies from northern Gaza.
1974 was a crucial year for forging this new consensus. The year started out badly. In one of the low points in the otherwise proud history of U.S. humanitarian assistance, the U.S. Government indeed used food as a weapon, retaliating against the young government of Bangladesh by stopping food aid shipments in the midst of that country’s worst food crisis since independence. As many as 1.5 million people may have starved to death in that famine. US food aid stopped because of a dispute over Bangladesh’s trade relations with Cuba.
This followed on the Nixon/Kissinger policy during that country’s war of independence, three years earlier, of ignoring the terrible civilian human rights abuses and death toll inflicted by the military forces of a U.S. ally. Pakistan was a strong U.S. ally, its president a friend of President Nixon, and Pakistan was in the middle of secretly negotiating the China opening that took place a few months later. U.S. policy was willing to pay the price of a terrible humanitarian disaster inflicted by Pakistan’s army on Bangladesh’s civilian population by a close ally in order for President Nixon to achieve his foreign policy triumph on China.
That earlier Bangladesh disaster was a precursor to the U.S. withholding food aid during the 1974 famine. But the U.S. was not alone in 1974 in pursuing shameful policies that abetted famine. Emperor Haile Salassie’s failure to address or even recognize a famine in Ethiopia led to a Communist takeover there.
But at the end of 1974, the nations of the world represented at the UN’s World Food Conference established a new set of norms, institutions, and aspirations to guide global food security. And three years later, despite then-Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz’s contention at the 1974 conference that food was a powerful weapon in the U.S. arsenal, the U.S. along with the rest of the world outlawed the use of food as a weapon in protocols to the Geneva Conventions. This norm was recently reinforced by unanimous Security Council resolution (2018), U.S. Senate resolution (2022) and a joint UN communique led by the U.S. (2023).
A decade after that World Food Conference, when Ethiopia faced another famine, these norms were honored by one of America’s staunchest anti-Communist Presidents. President Ronald Reagan, deciding that starving people in Ethiopia would get U.S. food aid in spite of their Communist government, declared that “a hungry child knows no politics.”
That Ethiopian famine was part of a broader African food emergency in the mid-1980s, which led the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to start the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS). FEWS started as, and remains, an independent analytical and early warning service for the global food and humanitarian community under a series of USAID contract and grant agreements. As a former USAID employee, I frequently relied on FEWS estimates and information during my 38-year career and had close FEWS colleagues over much of that time as well. I know – even in environments of great uncertainty and inadequate data – how carefully and impartially FEWS analysts weigh the information they have access to in making their most informed judgments.
Since its adoption by the UN in 2004, the Integrated Food Security Phase System (IPC) famine scale has been the standard for early warning, and that’s the system used by FEWS in their most recent Gaza update. A FEWS declaration of famine also requires validation by an independent group of global food security experts called a Famine Review Committee. FEWS analysts are careful in using this system and making their assessments because that’s their job, but also because they know that – whenever and wherever they declare conditions approaching famine – powerful people and institutions will attack their analysis, as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew and USAID have just done.
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The Biden administration’s shameful weaponization of food aid
The Biden Administration has done more damage to the international norms of humanitarian law and food security than any other U.S. government in recent history.David A. Atwood (Mondoweiss)
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