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. 😔

(Einige Tage im anderen Takt und unsicher, wo die Unterschiede zum eigenen Rhythmus, zu den täglichen Eckpunkten und Pfaden bestehen. Fahrtgedanken über Geschichten und Menschen und Ränder des Selbsts und Schneckenhäuser und Nutzen und Zeitverschwendungen und noch mehr Liegengebliebenes und Nebenprojekte und Konzentration. Einmal mehr. Und über Luxus und schuldbewusste Dankbarkeit. Auch einmal mehr.)

#outerworld #travel #returning #concrete city #all these stories

Marga Xeyat Ⓐ hat dies geteilt.

Landstraßen Zubringerstraßen Autobahnen märkische Ebenen alte Kirchen stille Wassergräben in winterschlafendem Kulturland Lärmschutzwände verschiedener Niederschlag verstohlene Sonne startende Linienmaschinen die zornige Aufdringlichkeit von Premiumlimousinen Abfahrtsgrau Ankunftsgrau Nachrichtenbrüche und viel zu viele Eindrücke und keine App, die irgendetwas daran ändert. Konzentration rissig wie die Nachmittagswolken und fast wieder zu Hause.

#outerworld #travel #concrete city #always in between

Einschlafen mit der See im Geiste, Aufwachen in Halbautomatik. Taschen bewegen, Fenster schließen, Eisluft atmen, den Duft der Küste der Wälder der Dünen einfangen mit Haut und Haaren und jeder Faser der dicken Kleidung. Nochmal Spuren hinterlassen auf weißem Grund. Die Stadt verabschiedet sich, die Stadt wartet, Straße und Landstriche dazwischen. Wieder unterwegs. Habt es mild heute.

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #moving on

In between, again: Places moods rooms luggage. Red lights green lights blinking and a known village on the other side of the bay. A clear evening. Frost creeping in once more. Routes and turns in mind. Humble and grateful. And always a little sad. Sleep tight everyone wherever you are.

#outerworld #the baltic self #escapism #stories of in between #travel

Marga Xeyat Ⓐ hat dies geteilt.

(Die Nachbarin führt einen kleinen Hund und äußerst spröde Freundlichkeit spazieren, aber in ihrem Garten hängen Futterhäuser in allen Büschen und ein Netz aus frischen Spuren dazwischen dekoriert den sonst unberührten harschen Schnee und vielleicht spricht das auch Bände über Wesen und Wichtigkeiten.)

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism #stories of people and habits

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An abandoned port slightly iced. A quay wall and a lighthouse in the back.

A tree frozen over. Ice on rocks behind.

A ship named Nordwind resting on a quay, near a heap of snow.

Ice on shore rocks. A water hole with ducks and seagulls behind.

Shorelines and seasides.

#the baltic self #outerworld #escapism #travel #ruegen #sassnitz

Stadthafen am Freitag. Immer noch eisiger Wind, aber hier und da bricht die See auf, kratzen Eisschollen aneinander, erzählen Möwen den Tagesgästen vom Fliegen über dem erstarrten Wiek. Bachmündung. Seebadhäuser. Töpferei. Wieder diese Empfindung von Erinnerungen als Schichten über Schichten, durch die verschiedene unerkannte Farben schimmern. Weiter entlang der Mole.

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #ruegen #escapism

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Bright white morning, new snow to hide the grey again. Clear horizons, the tug boat lights like small stars above the ever-silent layer of ice. 9am and slowly on. Small circles very few goals today.

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism #the winter in everything

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(Erste soziale Interaktionen. Andere Stadt, eigene Stadt, Frühling, Geschichten und Lebenswege. Und die Gedanken hallen immer gern in Fragen nach, die mit den Minuten größer werden.)

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism

HOPE 🕊️ hat dies geteilt.

Later: Reclining. Refraction of harbour lights in myriads of raindrops. The corresponding sounds muffled by a singing wind. Moving pictures, stories retold, an overlay of context, experience, decades. Slightly tired. And a bit uncomfortable with it. As always. Sleep tight everyone wherever you are.

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism #evening deviations

Marga Xeyat Ⓐ hat dies geteilt.

Manchmal schaffen die Füße den Weg. Unebenes Terrain, Nebel aus Eis, die Jacke schon nach kurzer Strecke nass und schwer. Andere Wälder, die See die Wiesen weiß und ohne Ende. Alte Schlösser. Überwucherte Säulen. Navigation entlang der Klippen. Anderer Fokus, unterwegs und überall und hier.

#outerworld #the baltic self #hiking #travel #escapism

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Torn forever between the sea and the mountains. Between travelling and staying, and connecting to communities and just striving to have a house in the hills surrounded by bushes and old trees, between selling books near the coast and just sitting, listening and letting thoughts flow with whatever waves pass by.

#outerworld #travel #escapism #the baltic self

HOPE 🕊️ hat dies geteilt.

9am and slowly on, without too much drive today. Muddy paths and muddy seas, wet snow making its way down, some distant seagulls and a bush full of sparrows. Watching the day shape and unfold.

#outerworld #the baltic self #the winter in everything #travel

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Hügel folgt Ebene folgt Hügel, die Kurven und Felder und Dörfer gleichen sich, und irgendwo gibt es immer ein Gut, einen Pott Kaffee, ein Stück Apfelkuchen mit dicken Butterstreuseln, nie so wie im ersten Jahr, aber zumindest nahe dran. Kraniche auf braunen Furchen. Tauwetter tropft aus den Bäumen. Und doch kühlt der Nachmittag wieder ab. Immer noch tief in verschiedenen Seiten des Winters.

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism #hinterland

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Spaziergänge am Gefrierpunkt. Die Küstenlinie verändert sich. Nasse Schuhe, immer noch Nebel in den Haaren, Wald in der Seele.

#outerworld #hiking #the baltic self #travel #in between

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Closing in on 9am, still in breakfast mode and listening to the neighbours wiping fresh snow off the sidewalk. Thick fog, limited visibility, the world's smaller today.

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism #the winter in everything

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(Slowly warming up and feeling how much coldness crept in with the hours. Found a few more rocks for the office desk and there's a slightly confusing breach of context in this observation. Inside outside and an afternoon bright white.)

#outerworld #the baltic self #escapism #where we are we are #travel

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A little later and still drifting in hazy white. The sound of unseen ship engines, a few locals chatting about weather and winter. 9am and on, the coast is mostly quiet again.

#outerworld #the baltic self #always in between #travel

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Und dann Fahrten schon wieder durch Dunkelheit. Schranken geschlossen, rote Lampe, der Zug noch irgendwo. (To be awake for days: Diesselbe Musik auf dieser Route, seit etlichen Jahren und warum auch immer. Resonanz und der Duft naher Küste. Und immer ein wenig müde.)

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #stories of music and identity

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(A long straight trail along the shores. Old places new places different names, unrecognised, slightly disconnected. Spinning in circles, sorting, labeling memories. 4pm and on. Dusk in the trees again.)

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism #shorelines

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Immer wieder graues Hinterland, ort- und zeitlos. Kreisverkehr, Bahntrasse, ein verfallenes Stellwerk. Alte Buchen, weiche Hügel, Wege unauffindbar, unbegehbar. Und dann wieder Abhang, Steilküste, Weite, Strand. Fast meint man die See zu hören, ganz weit draußen.

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism #hiking

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(Staring into the white, no lines spotted and at some point eyes grow tired. Still noticing people out there between lighthouse and buoy. 9am and on, slightly restless and yet most of the visible surroundings are static.)

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism #the winter in everything

Marga Xeyat Ⓐ hat dies geteilt.

Hours later, again and slowing down. Voices mostly asleep now. Emptying the bottle, opened that tall window once more as if suddenly unable to bear the heat inside. Ship crews on deck, inspections and preparations in artificial light. The hum of the other city, the whispering of the open quiet sea, some thoughts trying to grab loose ends on technology and ethics while others ponder irrelevance and humility and the path leading to the lighthouse fell asleep way earlier, now just remaining a necklace of glittering lantern pearls on a pale dark surface of frost and depth. Yawning, letting a sigh flee out to the cloudy sky. And retreating. Grateful, lost for words. Have a calm night wherever you are.

#outerworld #the baltic self #the quiet under the skies #escapism #travel

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Forests near the shoreline. Weathers, singing in tall trees. The steps turning less safe, eyes losing sight for details. Listening to the world nearby, the port, the vast and brightly illuminated ships. The challenges of keeping the mind from its usual wandering.

#outerworld #the baltic self #hiking #travel #escapism

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Tauwetter. Meilenweit über nasses Eis, die Steilküste am Horizont kommt nur langsam näher. Seebrücke. In einer Schale knistern brennende Scheite, daneben Glühwein, ausgefranste Flaggen an wettergeschliffenen Säulen. Nebensaison. Und trotzdem nicht allein.

#outerworld #the baltic self #hiking #travel #escapism

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Breakfast rituals. Watching tug boats on their course. Picking clothes and boots. Not too many plans and yet the urge to get out.

#outerworld #the baltic self #hiking #the winter in everything #travel

HOPE 🕊️ hat dies geteilt.

(Kalte Steine unter nackten Füßen. Einüben von Selbstorganisation, die Ort und Zeit gerecht wird. Signalanalyse. Schweigen über der Mole, dünne Decken. Noch kein Schlaf.)

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #escapism #late evening

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After dusk. Another walk near the quay. Small icy dots in a wild dance, touching like needles on a naked face. Wind piercing through all layers of clothes, leaving imaginary scratches across the skin. Buoy lights, a single car, slow speed, distant music and the sound of shoreline industry. Stories of wintry ports and grounded ships. The early year sleep. Have a calm night wherever you are.

#outerworld #the baltic self #escapism #travel #north from here

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(Schiffsbewegungen, aber weit draußen. Enten neben, in der Fahrrinne. Frühe Dämmerung. Weit offene Gegenwart hinter großen Fenstern. Und der eigene kleine Kosmos.)

#outerworld #the baltic self #escapism #afternoon deviations #travel

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Still arriving. Rediscovering: Known places but in a different year. Of course. Reconnecting: Feet on snowy soil. The waves are frozen. An unfamiliar silence at least outside, and the seagulls circling the outer harbour.

#outerworld #the baltic self #travel #elsewhere #the winter in everything

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