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"I read this book to my 6-year old child who was drawn by the beautiful illustrations and couldn’t wait to hear the story. It’s been the start of a much-needed conversation on out-of-the-box thinking, digital freedom, and contesting power in the age of surveillance."

Claire Fernandez, Executive Director, @edri

#softwarefreedom #righttorepair #FreeSoftware

ada.fsfe.org

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Conspiracy theorists cry betrayal at Trump’s selective approach to immigration

Trump's support of H1-B immigration visas has been seen as a betrayal by the conspiracy theorists who helped sweep him to power

skeptic.org.uk/2025/02/conspir…

#ConspiracyTheories #Politics

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Uptime update


So we're at the next hurdle in keeping Friendica.World stable.

We now hit an issue where a cleanup job hangs the database. The database query it fires takes too long, and after a while this starts locking other processes in the database. Then the database connections fill up to the maximum, and the site becomes available.

I've raised an issue for this : github.com/friendica/friendica… and someone proposed a workaround they are using, we might try that as well until a fix has been created.

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Remember these? Yes you do! The blanked out fields with an actual aztec code.

With some amazing wor j of a bunch of nerds we decoded that this is a real ticket issued by SNCB from Brussel-Centaal to Brussels Airport Zaventem on March 23, 2023 second class to a person named HE*** EV***

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Still using OpenOffice? It has unfixed security issues over a year old: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – So all users are strongly recommended to update to one of the actively maintained successor projects, like LibreOffice. (Please share and help raise awareness about this!)
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@lindarosesmit Not sure what that issue is as other macOS users aren't reporting it, but maybe the steps towards the bottom here will help you on your setup: support.apple.com/en-us/102445
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An email I received left me speechless. Obviously, they don't respect my creative choices. I will not 'fix' this panel under any circumstances.

I think this is a bug, but it doesn't bother me that much, what do people think...


!Friendica Support I have a bookmark in firefox pointing to friendica.world/profile/gargle… My browser remembers that I am already logged in. Clicking on the bookmark gives me my profile all localised in the language settings of my browser, which is Dutch on my work computer. My language in my profile however is set to English (UK).



The search box says 'zoeken' which is Dutch for 'search'.

I have to refresh the page (F5) to get everything in english:



The search box now says 'search'.

This does not happen when I change my shortcut to friendica.world/. Opening up friendica.world/ shows everything in English. The url however changes to friendica.world/network:



Note that if I open up Friendica with friendica.world/network instead of friendica.world/ then I get everything in Dutch:

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We are still celebrating #ilovefs ❤️ day with some events in Italy and Albania today!

While we gather all the pictures from the different events, we wanted to share with you an amazing video we received from the mother (and singer) of our colleague @sofiaritz

🎶 media.fsfe.org/w/gs8ZDniL6DHyV…

There are so many ways to say #thankyou to your favourite #FreeSoftware projects, what is yours?


Feliz Día del Software Libre - a song to celebrate the #Ilovefs day


Musiqueando (@MusiqueandoYT)did not want to miss the chance to say thank you to her favourite Free Software projects in her daily song to her daugher, and FSFE intern, Sofía Aritz.
The song is a traditional Galician one. The lyrics and subtitles are in Galego.
Find the original video here: youtube.com/watch?v=1JUeOKk9l6…

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synchronisation between instances


!Friendica Support I just noticed that my Friendica account is listed as a mutual on my mastodon instance. My Friendica instance however lists my mastodon account as just following, and not as a follower. Do I have to do something extra? I already tried selecting my mastodon account on Friendica and clicking on update but that did not help.

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How do I delete a photo album?


!New To Friendica I have this empty photo album that I want to delete. How do I get rid of it? When I click the name I get an url that ends with a long hex number. Friendica asks for a confirmation when I add /drop to the url and hit enter. After clicking 'Delete Album' Friendica tells me that the album cannot be found.

This album was created in the default language of my webbrowser. I changed to British English somewhat later, before deciding on adding a profile picture. My profile picture got created in a new album called 'Profile photos'. I want to get rid of the older non english album.

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Years ago, I went to a birthday party in a small town. I went to a general store and asked if they had balloons. The fellow said yes. I asked if they had any in fun shapes and he said, "depends on how amusing you find circular". For some reason that's lived in my brain for years.
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Troubleshooting


I've been troubleshooting the issues we keep having with Friendica.world.

The site gets unresponsive at nights (CET) around 3AM, and stays that way for a couple of hours. I've been trying to find the reason for that, but no luck yet.

It's not the backup (that runs at a different time), nor are the resources at 100%.

I did just change a setting for pm.max_children which defines the number of php-fpm processes which handle the web traffic, because I saw some errors about it having reached the max. This will fix some issues, but not sure if it fixes the freezing of the site.. We'll see I guess..

Volunteers


If there are people with some technical skills, wanting to help out running this thing (or any other instance we run), please send me a DM or mail info@friendica.world.
It's all volunteer work, and we can use some extra hands.

Donations


You can use this instance for free, but if you would like to and are able, you could help us funding the running costs by making a donation: ko-fi.com/fhfworld

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Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes tcrn.ch/3WYMJLz
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Friendica and Mastodon


!New To Friendica I'm on Friendica.world and floss.social. I feel a bit puzzled by having two seperate fediverse accounts. What's the best practice? Keep both, and syncing the follows and followers? Dropping one or the other?

I really like my mastodon server and I believe it's impossible to see its timeline on my Friendica instance. Am I correct in believing this?

I also like my Friendica instance. My mastodon is specialising in floss, my Friendica is more general. I like the news items that appear on Friendica's local timeline.

So, I am thinking of making Friendica my main instance on the fediverse. I will read my news and all the toots from my follows and followers on Friendica and I will regularly check my mastodon instance for the local floss timeline.

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