As I've been hinted to reconsider here, maybe that's a good starting point to think of - follower power: Please do share bubbles that you consider work well out here on the #Fediverse, maybe (for obvious reasons) with the specific exception of those focused on protocols, web technology and development. Curious to see what might be around.


Respectfully, and as a newish user from a special interest group, I disagree. There's a large and vibrant #blind community on Mastodon that couldn't exist on any other platform.

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(Switching back to here for now. I love social.lol and the community over there but ... can't help feeling very much how annoying it is to keep communication across Bluesky, Tumblr, Diaspora* and ActivityPub on any platform other than Friendica. Not sure whether I'll regret that but then again, and in general, maybe ... it's all about accepting imperfection of all of these solution and not bothering all too much as ... esssentially no one does.)
Als Antwort auf Kristian

In many ways this ... is also basically caused by being increasingly disappointed with how things are going in the #Fediverse but maybe that's just a bubble thing. I've been out here ever since early identi.ca days, with my first post on federated social networks dating back to 2011 and still being around somewhere in the Wayback Machine. As of 2018, I think, this was the first time ever to feel like this kind of networks could finally be up to counter the commercial walled gardens, to provide an actual, human, human-centered alternative to surveillance capitalism and people farming. Turns out: It surely does better than Facebook, X, ... in some way. But it still is far from where it would need to be for that. And worse, it doesn't seem to improve much. Sure, individual platforms have matured. Mastodon has. Friendica has. But at the very end, at the bottom of things, in 2026 (eight years later) it's still the same un-addressed, unresolved issues to run into as in 2018 (which I have been whining about often enough not to do it again). Still, from some angles, it's amazing to see how some of these things did "just work" before on Diaspora* (and still do). It's amazing to see some of these issues fixed in ATProto (regardless of ones opinion on Bluesky) because people cared to think a bit ahead of the status quo in advance. It's, too, saddening to see how many once-vivid accounts and contacts out here have either turned quiet or deleted their accounts or visibly announced retreat into some walled garden (again) or to individual blogging and all of that. It's not a bad thing. It's an individual decision that should of course be respected. But it's sad. It feels very much like mission not accomplished. It feels like specifically ActivityPub has turned out to be what it apparently started wanting to be - a protocol that focuses on open networking but actually, in this, focuses on hackers and tinkerers and developers rather than users and communities, a protocol that by design is biased towards people building "something new" on top of it (and making compatibility - or lack thereof - something anyone else is to blame for) over people using technology in a reliable manner. Not sure whether the Fediverse is growing or shrinking and at some point I don't really bother that much at the moment. Just hoping that, for the time being, #Friendica will somehow continue working as good as it can to keep different channels under one hood (and not having to decide to keep or cut contacts based on an individual network technology choice again - or being overwhelmed by trying to handle a plethora of different inboxes in a load of almost fully equal yet separated systems) - and hoping for people out here to be forgiving if there are things, conversations, communications I just miss out on. Maybe part of the deal is accepting that big-picture things over "here" aren't built with reliability in mind.
Als Antwort auf Radgryd

@Radgryd Yeah, this. It's also ... not so much the fact that people give up and move on, that apparently happened in every other network too. It's specifically, in my environment, that I notice people moving on after being here for weeks to months, trying to feel home here, becoming more quiet and eventually just quietly cutting ties then, for a lot of reasons that probably could have been avoided and are valid. 😔

Later: Gazing empty nightsky, no visible clouds but no stars either. Moon hiding, the city covered in its rusty dim light, street lanterns drawing hard shadows on old facades, some fixed, some moving, and two scooters hurrying by heading for the other side of the river, a trail of two green spots against the fabric of weak darkness. 10pm and on, left with the ambitions of being off to bed early - and the usual success rate in these. Sleep tight everyone wherever you are.

#outerworld #concrete city #the late evening #grounded #always in between

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(Ferner: Papierspuren. Der Scham in Schriftverkehr und Liegengebliebenem. Übergänge, Veränderungen, Entwicklungen, entsprechende Dokumente und ihre Geschichten. Wichtige Unterlagen und das Schwere in jedem Teil dieser Worte. Gedanken zu Ordnungssystemen und Kommunikationsverläufen, abstrakt und scharfkantig wie die Materie selbst, und trotzdem ohne wirkliche Hilfe.)

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #paper chores

Closing in on 4pm. Couch meditation but too far from calm to be refreshing. Sun came and went, city humming outside, a train in the distance and images of webcams depicting different realities. Always somewhere and still here.

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #afternoon deviations

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Plötzlich ward es Nachmittag, Straßen und Dächer trockneten. Luft schmeckt nach Wiese und Weite. Eine Schar Kinder quillt aus einem schwarzgelben Bus. Staub tanzt im Licht, der Mittwoch findet seine Bahn durch Nebenräume, umgeben von Stapeln von Papier und eingehüllt in eine Wolke aus mäßig guter Laune. Pausenmodus, außerhalb allen Taktes. Erster klarer Himmel, erste milde Sonne seit vielen Tagen.

#outerworld #grounded #concrete city #afternoon deviations

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(Snow quickly turned water, leaving behind wet sidewalks glittering in that little sunlight that makes it through the clouds. Shards of broken bottles, remainders of cigarettes, a cyclist on its way heading towards the river, the usual flock of crows observing the janitor next door rolling trashcans in and out and there's as much routine in that morning as somehow possible. A brief visit to outside daylight, and a quick retreat. Vague memories of journeys not taken, platforms not seen, trains not missed.)

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #the waking day

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Müde Stunden weiter, verschlafen in mehreren Sinnen des Wortes, kalte Luft, frischer Schnee, etwas mehr Licht als sonst etwas mehr Winterduft als sonst etwas mehr Ruhe als sonst aber diesselben Kreiselgedanken wie immer. Vor dem ersten Kaffee, vor dem Blick in den Spiegel, vor Selbstgesprächen über Sinn und Unsinn und Burgen und Elfenbeintürme und die Mühen der Ebenen und alles bleibt eine Notiz am Rande der Seite, die auf Bedeutung hofft, irgendwann. Neue Dämmerung, und langsam voran. Habt es mild heute.

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #waking to the day #the early hours

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Many hours later again, concluding a day devoid of real structure. Things one needs to get used to. Across the street, some more appartments removed illuminated stars and strings of lights from their windows and balconies, hinting the year's moving on quickly. A cab near the crossroad, heavy suitcases, two people, thick winter clothes and suddenly the cold making its way through the glass becomes a lot more palpable. A deep breath. Music from somewhere along the ages, in and out of hand and Tempers as an infinite loop. The art of slowing down without having been fast before. Have a calm night wherever you are.

#outerworld #grounded #concrete city #half awake half asleep

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Unterwegs, langsamer Verkehr, Baustellenfahrzeuge, ein Gerüst vor einer alten Fassade, Pendler, Schüler, Wartende, Bewegte. Streifenwagen. Takt im Ohr im Kopf im Geist. Eingehende Anrufe, überhörte Kontaktversuche. Sekunden Minuten Stunden vor der Dämmerung und immer zu schnell in zu vielem.

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #afternoon deviations

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Afternoons, doors opened, doors closed and out in the cold. Maintaining lists, trying to work through them top to bottom, even though it takes a modestly pleasant trip to the other side of the city. Some chores won't accept waiting. 4pm, dizzy and already in evening mood.

#outerworld #grounded #concrete city #where we do what we do #stories of grey skies

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Immer noch irgendwo und nirgends, dritter Pott Tee und ein weit geöffnetes Fenster und ein unsicheres mentales Gewand. Wind in den Straßenbäumen, die Nachbarskinder spielen noch, wieder laut und begeistert, vor den Häusern schleppt der Paketfahrer einen großen Turm pappgrauer Kartons gen Bordstein, ein Fahrzeug steht im Weg, eine Alarmanlage brüllt erschreckt und der Stapel gerät ins Wanken. Schon wieder Nachmittag. Grauweiße Wolken, soweit das Auge reicht.

#outerworld #concrete city #no sleep no rest #grounded

Marga Xeyat Ⓐ hat dies geteilt.

10am and on. Challenges in adapting to different flows of day. Paperwork. Lack of enthusiasm versus pressure of need. Coping strategies, avoidance tendencies. Still no sun.

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #stories of paperwork not artwork

(Etwas später fliehen die Stare wieder aus ihren Bäumen, Krähen beobachten den rauschenden Schwarm, nebenan wird eine Kiste mit Spielzeug ausgekippt und dem inneren Auge bietet sich ein Berg von Bausteinen und Kunststofftieren, der klappernd in die Breite rutscht. Ein Newsletter unterbreitet Textpassagen von Stimmen, deren Gedanken man zu lange nicht mehr gelesen hat, über die eigene Kanälen währenddessen fällt es schwer, jene wiederzufinden, deren Namen man kennt, in den Radionachrichten sinniert eine Expertenstimme, dass AI alles disrupted, und die eigenen Überlegungen dazu spielen keine große Rolle, aber vielleicht haben Menschen, die englische Verben im Deutschen konjugieren, an gewissen Stellen einfach die Kontrolle verloren...)

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #stories of time and its strange fabric

Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag

friendica (DFRN) - Link zum Originalbeitrag

Kristian

@crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts Seltsam. Deine Antwort hat wohl deutlich länger hierher gebraucht als alle anderen. Solche Brüche im Verlauf sind immer merkwürdig.
Aber egal. Immer Kaffee. Kommt gut durch!👋☕
@Sigrun ☕️🏳️‍🌈🚲📚🐕🧡

Aufwachen, Aufschrecken, nach nochmaliger kurzer Ruhe nach viel zu brüchigen Stunden. Der spätere Morgen, ungewohnt im Takt. Viel zu hell schon, alles, trotz des fortgesetzten Grau, und einiges im Ablauf rebelliert gegen die Wahrnehmung dieses Momentes. Gewohnheiten, Umwege, Zugeständnisse an sich selbst. Immer noch vor dem ersten Kaffee. Habt es mild heute.

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #waking to the day

And suddenly it's a new night again to stroll these roads. Leftovers, dangling links, unfinished attempts to cleaning up some aspects of the daily self. Listening to the high pitched sounds inside, waiting for it to find some melody. So many hope so many different dreams and so much more hiding in twilight. Sleep safe everyone wherever you are.

#outerworld #concrete city #quietness of late hours #grounded

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Heißer Tee, heiße Suppe, Installationsroutinen, ein gelegentlicher Anflug von Unzufriedenheiten. Daneben Kerze, Tulpe und ein dunkles Fenster zu einer dunklen Stadt. Montagsgeschichten. Viele Fußnoten, keine Pointe.

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #evening deviations

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Somewhere in the afternoon, some time out and back and shivering in the wind. People passing by, disagreeing on individual destinations but apparently altogether convinced that it takes hurry and speed to get there today. Slowed down, not necessarily by free choice.

#outerworld #grounded #concrete city #slowed down

Montagmittag, Kapuzenmittag, falscher Tee in der Tasse und es braucht einige Augenblicke, den Duft wieder aus der Küche zu vertreiben. Unvorsichtige Griffe in falsche Postfächer, viel zu viel Verlauf und zu wenig Filter und in den Höfen herrscht die Stille eines eiskalten Tages, an dem man sich ganz nach drinnen zurückzieht und wortlos mit den Blicken durch weiße Himmel fährt.

#outerworld #grounded #unsorted and restless #concrete city

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