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. 😔

9am and on. Weather reports. Moist surfaces. Grey clouds. Invisible horizon. The imagery of old mental movies but here in the now.

#outerworld #sundays #waking to the day still #stories of clouds and its outlines

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Außerhalb des Küchenfensters schreitet der Morgen voran: Reif und Eis auf den Dächern, einige Lichter ruhen in anderen Quartieren, eine Taschenlampe schneidet durch das Restdunkel der Höfe. Und naher Sonnenaufgang, als vorsichtige Möglichkeit in den Wolken des östlichen Horizonts.

#outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #waking to the day still

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City grey but a bit brighter today. Concrete hidden under wet snow. A flock of doves on the terrace railings. Construction sites waking, ballet of cranes illuminated in blue and red strings of light. Colleagues arriving. Chocolate and tulips, close to 8am and a second coffee for the conversation.

#outerworld #office hours #concrete city #waking to the day still

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Entlang der Route: Zerbrochene Flaschen neben dem Müllcontainer. Eine Pizza in einem durchweichten, erstarrten Karton. Jugendliche unter wuchtigen Kopfhörern rauchen zwischen den Wartehäuschen der Haltestelle, eine ältere Frau wischt auf ihrem Bildschirm durch die grellbunten Aufreger des Morgens. Dienstausweis, kritischer Blick auf die Fahrkarte, knapper Austausch von Worten hart am Rande der Höflichkeit. Überfrorene Wasserfläche spiegelt den Aufzug zu den Bürofluren. Krankmeldungen, Terminverschiebungen, Themenfindung in der Büroküche. Alles im weichen Sonnenaufgang.

#outerworld #office hours #concrete city #waking to the day still #stories of commuting and waking

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Early morning, still. Hoodie morning. Home office chores, timetables, testing plans, other peoples responsibilities. Stumbling upon the nuissances of new tools, quietly muttering. 6am and on, forced upgrades and the numerous dissatisfactions of certain clouds.

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Construction site, heavy traffic, garbage truck and stormy wind in the trees. 7am and on, mentally waking up bit by bit while the body already responded to its usual morning routines. Waiting for sunrise.

#outerworld #home office hours #concrete city #waking to the day still #stories of morning winds

Morgenroutine, auch: Blicke in Richtung später Nacht, um ein Gefühl zu bekommen für das Wetter, das über den Dächern hängt. Und am Ende pure Kenntnisnahme auf dem Weg durch die Flure hin gen Bad, zum Spiegel, hier um ein Gefühl zu bekommen für das Selbst, das noch nicht wirklich gegenwärtig ist. Überlegungen und Anläufe zur Optimierung, kurz, aber intensiv - oder intensiv, aber kurz. Reihenfolgen sind nicht unwichtig. Kaffee, Wasser, Knäckebrot und elektronische Post. Geschichten von Vorplanung und Nacharbeiten und Aufgeschobenem und Überfälligem und es ist Mittwoch und das Viertel gähnt. Habt es mild heute.

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

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In between kitchen and office, different coldness in different rooms and the sound of commuters excavating their cars along the road. Stretching, yawning, opening closing doors. 7am and on, slowly getting todays context right again.

#outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #waking to the day still

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Closing in on 7am. Home office business, first things done, feeling both good for achievements made and weird for actually even thinking about tiny steps taken. Reconnecting. Missing feedback. Worlds within algorithms and digits.

#outerworld #home office hours #concrete city #waking to the day still

Erste Vorsonne offenbart Reif auf den Dächern. Blassblauer Himmel, kalte Luft. Gegenüber werden Balkontüren aufgerissen und Bettdecken gelüftet. Blättern in Notizen, digital und tatsächlich. Und immer wieder alte Themen finden. Suche nach Schnittmengen und Grenzen. Sinnieren über Geschwindigkeit, Takt, Motivation und Gründe, während der Hochstapler mit einem unscharf umrissenen schlechten Gewissen ringt.

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Einige Straßen weiter: Anhalten, um die Jacke zu öffnen. Feuchte, warme Luft, eine Straßenbahn dröhnt vorüber und klingelt sich durch die Kreuzung auf ihrem frühen Weg. Pendler entlang des Bahndamms, zwischen Parkbuchten und Tiefgaragen und einmal mehr Dankbarkeit für die eigene kurze Strecke von Fixpunkt zu Fixpunkt. Weihrauchduft im Fahrstuhl, überraschend und kurzzeitig überwältigend. Und dann Büroflure. Zweiter Kaffee, Gespräche über Alles und Nichts und so weit am Anbeginn des Tages mehr Nichts als Alles. Konzentration, als erste und fortgeschrittene Aufgabe, inmitten vorsichtiger Dämmerung.

#outerworld #concrete city #office hours #waking to the day still

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That other kind of mess: Storage at large, but uplinks are too slow. Waiting for progress, staring at small numbers increasing in steps too little to feel content. Meanwhile, a city waking to the morning outside. No sun grey skies, 7am and ad-hoc journeys.

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Lichter jenseits der Straße, hier im Abend, hier im Morgen, und vielleicht gab es dazwischen gar keinen Schlaf da draußen. Auf den Zehenspitzen stehend, gen Zimmerdecke gestreckt, Sehnen und Muskeln spüren, das Verknitterte regloser Stunden loszuwerden. Mit beherrschbarem Erfolg. (Wasser im Kessel. Ein chaotischer Tanz von Blasen aufwärts. Blauer Schimmer. Radiostimme, begleitender Gesang des Kühlschranks, im Hof nebenan startet der Motor der Vespa. Neuer Tag, gleicher Weg, eigener Rhythmus und dankbar für seine Vertrautheit. Habt es mild heute.)

#outerworld #concrete city #waking to the day still #stories of that deep silent void just before dawn

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Wieder eine andere Erfahrung des Pendelns. Kopfhörerwelt, dahinter der mechanische Lärm der Straßenbahn. Unterkühlte Gesichter, die Schwierigkeiten, den Schlaf loszulassen, sind geteilter Zustand auf jener Strecke. Hinreichend viel Abstand, Weihnachtsmarktsilhouetten und Ampeln und wartende Fahrzeuge und die hell erleuchteten unteren Etagen von Frühstückshotels ziehen als Schemen an den Fenstern vorbei. Und dann Tür, eisglatte Wege, Fahrstuhl. Der Plan gähnt.

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