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I gave Friendica a FB facelift with a user stylesheet in my browser. So now, at least for me, it has a more modern, familiar appearance.

Here's an example of the Home Feed:

And an example of the Global Feed:

This is pretty easy to do if you're using Firefox and a user content stylesheet. But you could also use the Stylus Add-On to do it. There is also a Stylus Extension for Chrome (and other Chromium-based browsers).

For Safari there is the Userscripts Extension in the App Store, which can also do user stylesheets.

Friendica needs Settings > Display > Theme set to the "Frio" theme.

Under Settings > Display > Theme Customization it needs to either be set to "Lite" or to "Custom" ("Dark" nor "Black" will not work).

If you set it to "Custom" you need to "Save" it first to see the options. Then you can copy+paste my "schemestring" into the box and "Save" again. Even if you don't apply the user styles that will get you a newer FB color scheme.

I haven't looked at any of the documentation for Friendica themes. I have no idea if my stylesheet could be adapted to a "Frio" variant/scheme. If anyone else who knows more about it wants to try feel free to do so. But even if it can the server admin would still have to make it an option. This way you can apply it yourself.

I'll try to add links to the stylesheet files in the comments, though this is my first time using Friendica's file attachment features.

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in reply to Kristi H.

Looks good. 👍🏼

Will try that later.

Please share your schemestring so I can try it. Got the rest figured out.

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in reply to chef 😎

The "light mode" stylesheet works with the "Light" variant of Frio, but to make it look even better I do use this schemestring:
{"nav_bg":"#ffffff","nav_icon_color":"#606637","link_color":"#0866ff","background_color":"#f2f4f7","background_image":"","contentbg_transp":"100"}


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On polling and propaganda


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On polling and propaganda


For almost two years now polls in Canada have shown that the Conservative Party of Canada, led by Pierre Poilievre, Canada's answer to Donald Trump, have a commanding lead over the governing Liberal Party led until recently by Justin Trudeau. There is no doubt that this was a major factor leading to Trudeau's resignation, in the hope that the Liberal Party might recover lost ground under a new leader.

At the same time, I can't help feeling that the polls have a lot of influence on how Canadians will vote.

I wrote a thread on Mastodon about how this might work. The Conservative Party's messaging consists simply of repeating “Justin Trudeau is a horrible person and he should resign”. This is spread both by conventional media and corporate social media as news and commentary.

Then one day you get a phone call from a polling company asking whether you agree that Justin Trudeau is a horrible person and he should resign”. What are the odds that you will say yes, if you've been exposed to the statement repeatedly?

Polls are viewed as representing the most probable outcome of an election “if it were held today”. But that probability is only conditional. It is the probability that you will vote one way or another given that you've been exposed to a certain propaganda. I am sure that if in a parallel universe where the Conservative Party of Canada has not been hammering the message about Trudeau for years a similar poll was conducted, the result would be quite different.

But there's more. The poll itself has an influence on the election outcome. One reason is what is known as “social proof”. Gil Duran has a great post about this in The Framelab. He writes

People tend to copy what other people do. If something is popular, we tend to trust it more. When many other people buy a product or follow a trend, we tend to assume it’s good. Our brains are wired to look for clues from other people’s choices. It’s a basic human instinct to follow the crowd. “Monkey see, monkey do.”


If you see that a majority of your fellow voters will vote Conservative, you are more likely to do so yourself. Marketers know this very well.

The poll may also have another effect on the outcome of the election: If you are not a Conservative voter, but you are convinced that the Conservatives will win, that makes you less likely to take the trouble to vote. The poll becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I see propaganda as a process, where a certain political message is spread to as many people as possible and then polling is a feedback mechanism that confirms that the message is true. Polling skeptics will scrutinize the methodology and the statistical methods, and I have been one of them, but I believe now that that is missing the point. The polls can be quite accurate in that they reflect popular opinion, and yet be a key component of the propaganda process.

#Democracy #Elections #Statistics #Propaganda




Hoe wijzig je een evenement in de agenda ?


Ik maak op de agenda afspraken/evenementen. Door die te delen )openbaar of alleen voor een bepaalde groep) bepaal ik de zichtbaarheid.

Hoe wijzig ik achteraf de rechten?



Jan 13
Vergadering
Mon 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Hoofdkantoor
Bedrijfspagina (test)

Bespreking over het vervangen van onze Facebook bedrijfspagina.

Hoe blijven we onze doelgroep bereiken?

Hoe zetten we oude informatie over van Facebook naar het nieuwe platform?

Welke periode willen we gebruiken?

Hoe lang handhaven we Facebook nog (met daarin steeds links naar nieuwe platform)?

Locatie op Maps: met link naar Maps

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Hey...


How'd all these people get in my room?


Satisfactory, not very satisfying


OK, been playing Satisfactory since December 25th, when I got it as a Christmas gifts.

I'm struggling in the game. I think I hit the mid-game blues, and it's just frustrating at this point. I tried to do the Ficmas event, but because I was new, I didn't have the equipment to make what I needed to make. So I had to pause, work on getting the machines, then restart the ficmas stuff. The dependency trees are kind of obvious. How to work around terrain, less so. I've run into dependencies I can't do anything about, like mycelium. The first branch in the mycelium research tree is 5 mycelium. Guess how much I got the first and ONLY time I found mycelium in the game? Yep, 4.

I recently upgraded my scanner to find enemies, and now I'm too scared to actually explore. I don't know why-- I was relatively fearless before. I finally sneaked around till I found an impure quartz node so I could work the quartz research tree. I'm about 50 game days in (hard to tell-- I died twice.)

I see pics and videos of really gorgeous Satisfactory setups, and I'm so impressed. And then mine? Mine looks like this:

Just absolute spaghetti. Anyway, I know I'm just complaining, but what is the Internet for but to whine about video games, right?

I think I'm going to put this one down for a while and do something more productive with my time, like eat yogurt or burn things.



Mon a*tiste a d'étranges idées de loisir, sachant que Claudio est le nom du chat de son frère qui squatte chez leur mère

Capture SMS : "samedi janvier 18 judo ensuite on peiut se noyer claudio"




Migrating from corporate social media


Starting to explore migrating away from corporate social media like Facebook or Twitter, to the fediverse. The biggest obstacle is of course the network effect: I have a group of friends on Facebook, we all follow each other, will they migrate with me? I guess I'll find out. I am doing this gradually, first migrating to the fediverse (links in my profile), and starting a blog at write.as/leastaction/ with some longer pieces about topics that interest me: the meaning of democracy is a big one for me these days. And yes, the rise of oligarchic despots around the world.

If any of these things resonate with you, do let me know. I am very happy to have conversations about these important topics.







What's a good app for this on android? I'm currently using fedilab but I don't like having mastodon using the same app as this for autism related reasons.
in reply to Reid Merrill

I'm very new to this (as of yesterday, actually 🙈), and I found this page listing some mobile clients.

I'm experimenting with using the "Raccoon for Friendica" (via F-Droid), and also the one you're using, "Fedilab".
I'm still learning to navigate, so I'm also using Firefox ("Add to Home page") from my smartphone (this is from desktop, though). Maybe the last one is worth a try for you - just go via a web browser?



in reply to Sunshine

I'm able to toggle my 👍👎, but they're a bit slow
... like "<press>, ..., ..., 'oh, you want me to toggle that, don't you?', ..., 'ok, then'".


in reply to Jostein friendica

Nice, Friendica shows an icon from where the post originates. Another cool feature from the many the platform has.


Hi Friendica!


I can't believe this is the global server and it's only like a couple hundred people here. I love it though, growing tired of the massive metaverse. Greetings from around the middle of the Europe! 👋✌️