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Kinetix :canada:

https://humanwords.cc/@kinetix

Dad, command line smasher, recumbent trike cyclist, retail store owner, privacy advocate, climate/earth advocate. Previously network engineer, linux sysadmin at web and managed hosting companies.

Fedizen since early 2018.

Have been convinced over time that the only chance for healthy social media is a non-capitalist setup like the fediverse. What billionaire-owned social media platform can make a business case for having enough moderators?

Sharkey, this fediverse microblogging software humanwords.cc is on, is truly fantastic, and I think you should give it a look-see if you haven't already. It has perhaps the nicest, most useful UI of any current fediverse platform.

I admin humanwords.cc, by the way - I turned up this instance on Dec. 13, 2024. This isn't my first or only fediverse instance, in case it sounds like it's too new. I also run video.mycrowd.ca, a Peertube instance, and a couple of ActivityPub relays to help out smaller instances like my own.

#climatechange #climate #ClimateCrisis #bicycle #recumbent #trike #tricycle #cycling #linux #foss #technology #GeoCaching #RecumbentTrike #antifascism #fedi22

Sharkey App Linux/Android/IOS/Windows/Mac: https://github.com/poppingmoon/aria/releases
Country: Canada
Cycle: Recumbent Trike
Linux: Gentoo
Aged: Yes
Fediverse: Rules
DeltaChat / Email: kinetix@humanwords.cc

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2025-11-04 00:35:05 UTC

I love eye opening articles like this - truly helps to understand the situation.
Framework is idiotic to want to keep this sort of thing in the big tent. Pathetic that they haven't appropriately addressed this yet.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/
#DHH #framework

2025-10-18 21:50:26 UTC

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You know what I did recently, (and my wife might kill me if I push it too quickly), is I dug in to the prosody (XMPP) instance I had running as it was a component of another bundle of software (jitsi), and I thought I'd check out the current state of XMPP-land again.
Now it's running bridges to matrix & discord, has the easy onboarding invite system and whatnot and I am going to start testing with one of my kids. However, just using it myself, it's been excellent.

2025-09-11 20:37:03 UTC

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Hah, you jest! 🙂
Yes, we have some familiarity with winter. The "over produce" bit is calculated yearly, *and* one of the positives of our hellish recent move was to get down to a lower elevation, where winters are generally much less snowy.
That, and I plan to take much time off over winter to sit on the roof and melt snow off the panels with a hair dryer.

2025-09-11 20:22:46 UTC

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We've fortunately got good roof space for 26 500W panels. With us switching to more electric heating (heat pump with electric furnace back up) I'm sure hoping we can still generate excess. Time will tell.

2025-09-11 01:01:15 UTC

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I hope they do tremendously for you. I'm hoping we have ours up by the end of October, or sooner.

2025-06-28 23:30:20 UTC

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Aaand some of us don't allow Windows in our lives, except as a VM or some crazy thing just to support some hardware that they refuse to support sane operating systems for (some very proprietary stuff).

2025-03-28 15:12:25 UTC

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What in God's name is up with this project?
I've been trying out Jami the past couple of weeks as there had been some mentions around about giving it a try, it might be a possible Skype replacement. Here's what I found:
* when setting up the Android client and adding a person to have a conversation with, getting a message to/from that other person might not work *at all*. Much toying of settings in the apps ensued. This is, to me, the *most basic* function of the app, and it was broken. It might work after a time, it might not. It might work if you changed networks. It might work if you fiddled with DHT or uPNP settings. It might not.
* Later, and after an app revision update or two, I tried setting up a conversation with a user on IOS. I have received messages from the IOS user, but they have not yet received a message from me. This is even after an update to this super-duper release you're posting about.
I've been to the project's website, wiki (which is not a wiki), forums, both code repo sites, followed your fedi account, and here's what I've seen:
* Your fedi account, until just now, hadn't posted since August, and it appears to be a one-way account that doesn't respond to people.
* Your website has quirks on it like, for the Android download page "Download Jami from Jami.net" which links to f-droid.org (jami.org != f-droid.org) - someone's filed a bug about this. This doesn't really smack of trust, though.
* You don't seem to have anyone paying attention to the forums - there's a couple of people (who don't appear to be, or identify as being part of the Jami project) sort of trying to help, kind of, sometimes, maybe, but otherwise there seems to be little interest taken in the issues people are having. People are moving to proprietary solutions because of the jank in the app
* Up until a few days ago, git.jami.net, where links to file bugs go to, and most code repo links that people find go to, which is apparently a mirror of review.jami.net, wasn't mirroring properly for a month, so it looked like the project may have been abandoned.
* I posted a bug report about the broken mirroring several days ago. While it appears the mirroring is fixed now, the bug report was deleted. Not responded to, not closed, not resolved, just *gone*.
To me, it seems like this project is super inwardly focused, whose only existence seems to be to try to do something for corporate use (I honestly can't imagine), but is completely missing the ball with people who are trying to communicate that they're not having a good time with the product, at all.
I don't know what kind of community you're trying to build around the product, but I don't see projects like this as very trustworthy (appearing to be on the brink of shutdown, refusing to have 2-way communication with the user base).
This is in no way a critique of the developers at all - this just appears to be a project that's lost and could probably find it's way if it would pay attention.
I suspect this post will fall on deaf ears, sadly.

2025-03-11 23:46:16 UTC

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I would like an option #3, please. "A cookie". 😋

2025-03-04 16:00:10 UTC

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Amateur radio has entered the chat.

2025-02-07 17:11:49 UTC

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Good luck with it and hope it helps.
I am curious to know how it goes - I have tried one very briefly just to see how it worked and how it felt and it was pretty foreign to me.
Around the same time I gave a trackball a real go (but not so much in order to alleviate any physical issue), and I could now happily use that everywhere (I have a Logi ergo M575), and carry it around with my laptop. I still use a mouse on other systems, though, but again, I very fortunately haven't had to work around possible repetitive stress/strain issues.

2025-02-01 16:39:40 UTC

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I've found this bit really amazing. Delta Chat requires nothing of anyone and is nicely secure. Everyone already has a DC account but it's completely ignored at this point.
Meanwhile, Signal could disappear at a moment's notice.
Nobody can take my email infrastructure away from me. And/or I could move it/replicate it anywhere I needed to pretty easily.

2025-01-21 21:23:57 UTC

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The point isn't about self-hosting, it's about treating the millions and millions of potential users out there with an ISP-based e-mail address, or gmail, or hotmail, or whatever, as second class citizens in your "it works over email" IM.
"Oh, we have to sign up for one more thing"
And then what's the point?
You're relegating the software to very niche uses when you have the opportunity to welcome (nearly) all.

2025-01-21 21:10:40 UTC

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I find it a little disconcerting that you're now actively trying to push people away from the one thing that made Delta an intriguing proposition in the first place - it's ability to do IM over existing email accounts. For self hosters like myself, this was a great selling point for not having yet-another-thing-I-need-to-maintain.
But now you're actively messaging that people should poo-pooh the idea after already making one's own secure email infrastructure a second class citizen in the app.
It sounds like you're heading down the road of making it impossible to use standard email servers at all (why support 'em if you have reasons to demote them and poo-pooh them?), and then what's the advantage of Delta over signal, matrix or xmpp?
This seems really short sighted, even though you're obviously very excited about what you've done with chatmail.

2025-01-03 00:16:34 UTC

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> Already in this short exchange the file that will serve you this post will contain my profile, and yours, at least 3 times. That includes my profile URL, my bio text, my profile links, point to where my profile pic is etc. All in all, from an information point of view, not bad info for those who wishes to know who they’re talking with. But for every post?
I don't know where you're seeing that this is the case for all of that data, though. Your fedi user ID, link to that ID, the reference to your profile pic (not the graphic file itself) are all fired to the browser, but I don't see any evidence that your bio and/or links in the bio/profile, etc, come along with each post or conversation. I can specifically see that when I hover over your pic in Sharkey it makes a post to get your bio/profile.
Are you sure that's what's happening?

2025-01-02 23:33:44 UTC

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I'm going to have to spend some time seeing if I can replicate that behaviour difference you're seeing between Akkoma and Sharkey.
I'll get back to you in, say, 6-14 months, is that OK? :grin:
I don't disagree with what you're saying about this flaw that is apparently only better or worse depending on the software. If everybody could just give me their money for forever I'll go and create **the one instance for everybody** and we'll solve it by brute force.
I'll see myself out. 😉
Seriously, though, I'm going to try and keep a bit closer eye on this discrepancy over the next while here and see what I notice. Maybe there's some issues that could be filed.

2025-01-02 17:34:58 UTC

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How was the view from the Sharkey instance you were using to compare with? I've been really, really pleased with this instance I've got going here.
I'm not sure I would equate thread completeness with 'truth', though. Even if we only use the word 'completeness', what are the boundaries there? There's the thread that is the direct replies to the original author, but entire new threads and conversations can spawn off any portion of the thread via quote posts, right?
But, you'd think better thread completeness would get a little more attention drawing people to non-Masto instances.

2024-12-20 17:35:54 UTC

If you're looking for an open, primarily English, general #Sharkey instance to try out, I've opened self-registrations ?[on our instance here](https://humanwords.cc) for the time being. I'll be leaving registrations open for the next week or two, or until we have 25-30 new accounts.
Boosts appreciated!

2024-12-17 20:42:35 UTC

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JFC, 10%?
Time to make voting mandatory.

2024-12-17 16:35:22 UTC

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Oh! Sorry, I hadn't seen the full thread for some reason. My bad. 😁

2024-12-17 16:34:12 UTC

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Oh no, you did find the source. Just a guy looking for views.

2024-12-15 16:13:01 UTC

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I wonder where discussion about kbin is hidden. It sure looks dead at this point, doesn't it?