I have (had) accounts over on diaspora* since 2014-Sep-28, but seeing that Friendica has a "calendar" function, I thought it was time to give it a try. (I'm considering finally de-Facebook-ify myself later this year?)
So, about me?
You could say Iβm your average anybody.
I like #reading β #books, but also #comics, both in paper and digital form. I tried audiobooks, but it didn't fit at the time. I do enjoy books read on the radio, and radio theatre, and listening to radio and "pods", though, so maybe I'll give audiobooks another try later on.
A few years ago I got myself an e-reader, and with age it's really convenient to be able to choose the size of the letters myself.
I mainly read #fiction, but there's the occasional non-fiction #book as well.
I listen to #music, but not as much as I used to. (I visited Roskilde festival 10 years in a row. Itβs been more than 20 years since.) The music I enjoy may range from #alternative / #indie / #NewWave, over some #classics, and #pop, and #synth, to certain #rock, to #EBM; I enjoy #ska to a certain extent, but Iβm really not that fond of reggae.
#Films are usually #nice, but if itβs too hetero-normative romantic I may start feeling uncomfortable. It doesn't "have" to be #lgbtq, though.
But horror #film is not my thing.
I used to spend time #geocaching, which then more-or-less got faded out by me playing the mobile app game Ingress.
Now I'm more into #krokning (it's called #TunisianCrochet in English, but there's nothing "tunisian" specific about it) β a yarn craft which, unfortunately, is less social / mobile.
But I do try to exercise. Considering that I have #rheumatism, I aim to get back to my exercise 2β3 times a week routine β but that very same thing also makes me prone to catch colds, and when I get it, I'm down for 10-14 days, and it always takes a bit to get back on track β¦
I used my #Jolla phone as my daily driver. With some Sony's in-between, I now have a #Fairphone 5 instead.
I liked #CrunchBang (#!), and then continued over to #BunsenLabs. I'm on Windows 11 now β¦ (and still wish I was better at #Linux).
I'm a cis-gendered Kinsey scale 5 female, and, should we go into detail, the Klein sexual orientation grid is probably a more refined "but messier to describe" tool. Also, I guess I'm more bi-romantic, than -sexual? β’
I like #languages. It would be neat if I could just "transfer" them into my head. Studying a #language is hard, and if you don't maintain it, it's gone.
Iβm #adopted. My first language is #Swedish, and I think I manage ok in #English.
Being #Scandinavian, I can usually understand #Norwegian and #Danish - at least as long as both sides concentrate on making themselves understood.
I can understand German so-so, but some of the German I studied went out the window when I gave learning Dutch a go. Iβve been studying Chinese (as an adult), and tried to learn #Esperanto (as a teen). I canβt really say my attempts of learning Spanish or Japanese, or Swedish sign language, have stayed with me.
Iβm not good at grammar as a subject.
I like #mathematics. Iβm no longer that good at #maths as when I was in school. I like the #scientific approach on things, even though I wish I was better at grasping and explaining β e.g. as in: understanding why things work the way they do. β
I understand that we as human beings wants to "believe in something bigger", but we shouldnβt forget the #sceptic approach. To blindly trust things without even questioning them is seldom good. Then again, to question every thing, to the point of seeing conspiracies all around us, isnβt logical either.
Iβm a close-to-atheist #agnostic. I have an equal hard time understanding fundamentalist atheists as I find it hard understanding fundamentalist theists.
Iβm a #feminist. Being #female β myself, that wasnβt a hard decision. When I was younger, I preferred calling it "being pro-equal treatment", or "pro-equal rights". Then I understood that there are branches of #feminism, and that calling myself "pro-equal treatment" instead of "feminist" only hurt the bigger cause, and that I donβt necessarily need to connect myself with the branches that (in my opinion) have the "wrong" view of feminism.
I donβt want women to rule over men, with sex/gender being the only denominator, just as I donβt want men to rule over women, with sex/gender being the only denominator. Weβre in this together, and to make things work we need to listen to, and learn from, each other. I'm not always good at this, but I hope I'm trying.
I wish I was up-to-date with #programming β what I learned in the 1980βs / 1990βs (Basic, Pascal, Ada, Prolog) is either out-of-date, or buried too deep in my brain-archive.
I think I can be quite good at contributing ideas, though.
Iβm really not that unique.
We may even have things in common.
additional tags that may or may not be relevant: #NewHere #NyHΓ€r #average #unique #anybody #lΓ€sa #bok #bΓΆcker #serie #serier #library #bibliotek #literature #litteratur #musik #alternative-music #indie-music #klassiskt #cinema #movies #yarncrafts #reumatism #lesbisk #lgbt #hbtq #hbt #gsm #sprΓ₯k #adopterad #GenX #svenska #pΓ₯svenska #svensk #svenskar #Sverige #SE #inSwedish #Sweden #SWE #skandinav #Skandinavien #skandinaviska #dansk #Danmark #Denmark #norsk #Norge #Noreg #Norway #finlandssvenska #Γ
land #Finland #nordisk #Norden #Europa #Europe #matematik #science #vetenskap #astronomy #space #TheUncertaintyOfDoubt #rambling #TooLongForSanity #over-tagged
Now, what about you?
Walter Vermeir
in reply to phle • •Thanks!
I follow Tom Gauld on BlueSky now and because of the active bluesky addon bridge here at friendica.world his posts will now show up in my feed here.
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phle
in reply to Walter Vermeir • •Ah, please remind me how to follow bsky-accounts from here on Friendica - I remember that I saw it somewhere, but can't re-find it;
it was something with entering parts of the bsky twice?
(edit) I solved it (found this post)!
here we go: bsky.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profilβ¦
Tom Gauld
2024-10-25 07:55:08
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Walter Vermeir
in reply to phle • •Sure, I will write this in a way so this can be used in a user manual;
How to active the 'BlueSky bridge' to this Friendica instance?
When using the default webbased GUI, set to English;
Go to your menu profile settings (right upper corner).
Select 'settings'
(left side) Go to 'social networks'
Select 'Bluesky import/export'
Here you can configure the settings for Bluesky. This assumes you have an account at Bluesky.
You need to fill in your Bluesky handle. ( Like yourhandle.bsky.socia )
For the 'Bluesky app password' go to the settings of your BlueSky account . Pick 'settings'. Then 'Privacy and security' .
Create a specific password for the BlueSky addon at Friendica
.... save it. And it should work.
The first line of the section text should indicate succes. When you go later back to this section you will see at the top of that section 'Communication issues with the personal data server service (PDS): '
It should still work.
How to follow a BlueSky account?
Most easy way is to just follow people on the BlueS
... Show more...Sure, I will write this in a way so this can be used in a user manual;
How to active the 'BlueSky bridge' to this Friendica instance?
When using the default webbased GUI, set to English;
Go to your menu profile settings (right upper corner).
Select 'settings'
(left side) Go to 'social networks'
Select 'Bluesky import/export'
Here you can configure the settings for Bluesky. This assumes you have an account at Bluesky.
You need to fill in your Bluesky handle. ( Like yourhandle.bsky.socia )
For the 'Bluesky app password' go to the settings of your BlueSky account . Pick 'settings'. Then 'Privacy and security' .
Create a specific password for the BlueSky addon at Friendica
.... save it. And it should work.
The first line of the section text should indicate succes. When you go later back to this section you will see at the top of that section 'Communication issues with the personal data server service (PDS): '
It should still work.
How to follow a BlueSky account?
Most easy way is to just follow people on the BlueSky platform.
But on Friendica self; go to the 'contacts' section (top menu, people icon)
Left side, option 'Add new contact'
Just add there the BlueSky handle. And press 'connect'.
How to post also to BlueSky?
When you post to Friendica when using the default small compose window you have the option to select to post also on BlueSky in the tab 'permissions'. At least if you enabled that option in the Bluesky addon section.
You can also there select do post by default also to BlueSky. If you post something that is to long for a BlueSky message it will be automatically divided in several Bluesky posts.
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phle
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Johan Moir (Friendica)
in reply to Walter Vermeir • •Is this another thread with the same info? Can't see mine or other comments in this one...
Someone said they could follow a bluesky account WITHOUT actually having an account but just "activating the bridge", but does that really work and how??
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