More Fediverse stuff

[vextaur@blog.taursnd.haus]

More Fediverse stuff

Yeah, I know, seems to be every day I post about my misadventures with Fediverse software, right? Seriously though, somethings are moving really fast...

#holos just released 17-1, that's like five versions in less than a month, and Federation finally works, yay... And we seem to have a new problem, I seem to have followed a few new people without following them, that's a weird new glitch @HolosSocial Still, it otherwise works great, extremely fast to update, in fact the biggest problem is with my phone which seems to go to sleep when the screen goes off, and all notifications stop, obviously a problem here. Beyond that, its really me, while I do the occasional message from my phone, I'm an old grey muzzle, and prefer to leave the net on my computer, so I don't think I'll be sticking around, maybe to the end of the month, maybe less, but if'n you're the type that does most things from your phone, give this one a look, its a really neat project, a really good alternative to Mastodon.

#Loops , maybe it'll work, I really wish it would.

#wafrn now this one, this one I'm really in love with. Sure, there's a few features I wish it had, and unless I can find a way other than hashtags to sort my content, it won't replace this place completely, but it could very easily become my main and replace my #Mastodon . Honestly I think it might kill #diaspora , don't get me wrong, I love Diaspora, but I think the lack of #ActivityPub has done it no favors, and Wafrn may be the first viable replacement for it. Either way, for those not familiar with it, its basically the Fediverse's answer to Tumblr, and while it doesn't look quite the same, it looks quite nice, and has some fun features including the ability to bite people.

[eeveecraft@dragonscave.space]

@vextaur

I looked at #Wafrn and am not quite a fan of them trying to block VPNs or them storing IPs for when you register, send an image, or when you last logged in, presumably to punish VPN users.

Just not crazy about that because using a VPN has become more important than ever.

[vextaur@blog.taursnd.haus]

@Eeveecraft Is that Wafrn the software, or the site? I'm on bark.wolp.chat rather than the original and would switch to my own hosted instance if I decide to move mostly over there.

[eeveecraft@dragonscave.space]

@vextaur I'm talking about the main instance. The one that pops up firm when you look up Wafrn.

[jb@waf.moe]

We only block registration from VPNs because of safety purposes (we have seen so many times that spambots and stuff wants to get in with a VPN), but if you use a VPN after registration (e.g. for posting or viewing posts), it is fine

well, thats for waf.moe, going to cc @admin for this

[gabboman@gabboman.xyz]

sorry its an anti gore and anti dox measure.

I got people join with vpn and start posting gore or dox info of other people.

Not anymore since we do the vpn checks.

Its for the safety of everyone.

[vextaur@blog.taursnd.haus]

@gabboman @admin @Eeveecraft @jb Thanks for chipping in, I figured it was instance specific, so I wasn't going to try to speak for y'all. Me personally, I don't use a VPN though I should, but I'm not sure what good it would do as I'm on Verizon 5G

[gabboman@gabboman.xyz]

the software has that as a safety measure on open instances because i dont want my software to be used for harrasment.

also reminder, VPNs are security snakeoil.

[vextaur@blog.taursnd.haus]

@gabboman @admin @Eeveecraft @jb I'm suspicious of them, but considering that I'm effectively connect via cell phone, I have my doubts that even if VPNs are real, they're going to do much for me