Hello #Fediverse and Happy New Year
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Hello #Fediverse and Happy New Year!
I'd like to mark the start of 2025 with the first message from my self-hosted instance. You may already know me as @_elena@mastodon.social. Well, now I also run my own #ActivityPub microblogging server, thanks to the magic of #YunoHost and #GoToSocial (and #Phanpy, which I'm using to compose this).
I registered this domain – aseachange.com – a looooong time ago but never did anything with it. It was the very first domain name I ever bought, even before securing elenarossini.com (!!!). It was so long ago, but I remember I was inspired by Beck's album Sea Change. seachange[dot]com was taken, so I grabbed Aseachange.
I absolutely love its meaning of profound transformation and I think it's PERFECT for my self-hosted #Fediverse instance and what it represents: independence, empowerment and digital sovereignty.
Ever since setting it up, I've been feeling joyful and hopeful. Everytime I look at myself in the mirror, I think: I'm in control of my own social media platform. And it feels SOOO GOOD.
What do I have in store for 2025? I plan to use this account to post messages about #selfhosting, learning #Linux, privacy and digital sovereignty.
I will also keep posting from my Mastodon account because you don't give a Lamborghini to someone who just passed their driver's license. I barely know what I'm doing here, so I feel a lot safer (for now) keeping my mastodon.social account as well... In case anything goes wrong here. Better safe than sorry!
So, this is my #Introduction and if you've read as far as here I just want to thank the Fediverse for being so amazing and allowing me to connect with people on my own terms. And thank you Fedi people for being so generous and supportive with your superb advice and kind words.
This is a really magical, special place.
Happy New Year, everyone! -
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@lexinova
A desktop app is planned, but a web interface is not something we will build. The core principle of Holos is that your data stays on your device, not on a remote server serving web pages.
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I get that part. But somehow the wording you used in your initial post made it sound like the local transcoding was something undesirable and unusual...
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@agowa338
Holos runs an ActivityPub server on your phone. Transcoding locally is not a workaround, it follows the same logic: your device is the server. The cloud storage part (S3/WebDAV) is there so your media stays reachable when your phone is offline. The goal is to give regular users full ownership of their data while staying part of the Fediverse.
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@apps what still miss is a way to log (even remotely) on a web portal (meaning having something similar to web mastodon) for when we use a computer.
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@apps So basically just like "Enhanced Broadcasting " on services like twitch.
You kinda make it sound like this was a drawback of using "non big us cloud" services...
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116183535316096143
Some news from #HolosSocial development. The latest release moves media processing to the device. Videos are transcoded locally before upload. Users can store media on their own S3 or WebDAV server, and the resulting URLs are used directly in #ActivityPub activities. The relay server handles neither transcoding nor media storage. Each user brings their own resources to the #Fediverse.
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In Italy, we've attempted this experiment at https://citiverse.it, which we haven't yet adequately promoted. However, it's a NodeBB instance designed primarily to create an alternative to local Facebook groups. The entire first section is made up of categories hierarchically coordinated by regions, cities, provincial capitals, and localities.
Thanks to NodeBB's features, we were able to begin capturing some posts from the Fediverse, especially from Mastodon, and some categories have finally been populated by actual users who decided to mention them directly from the Fediverse or who signed up to the forum to publish new posts.We don't claim to be the official forum for all Italian communities. But the greatest advantage NodeBB offers is that if one day someone were to decide to create an entire forum dedicated to a region or a single city, we could simply deactivate that category or subcategory and link the newly created category as a remote category.
All this has been possible thanks to the fact that in just over a year, NodeBB has become a fantastic and extremely versatile tool.
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RE: https://activitypub.blog/2026/03/05/8-0-0-smash-that-like-button/
Now it federates the poster image for videos. 👍 @pfefferle #ActivityPub
