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Gidi Kroon

gidi@friendica.gidikroon.eu

TV addict, science fiction enthusiast, proud inhabitant of Earth (our only home).

Trying to show support for films, tv series, actresses and musicians I admire. Posting some tech and politics in between.

There's nothing wrong with fighting for social justice. Black Lives Matter. Gender equality. Fight for a sustainable use of environmental resources.

Posts by me are published cc-by, so they may be shared, boosted, reposted, reblogged, retweeted, etc. Posts and/or photos by others that I share remain copyright by the respective owners. Posts by me are searchable in the opt-in index of tootfinder. This profile is discoverable on the opt-in fediverse.info people directory (#fedi22).

My tags for services that don't support or see profile keywords:
#film, #movies, #music, #tv, #photography, #scifi, #actresses, #fandom, #science, #physics, #astronomy, #electronics, #programming, #technology, #android, #politics, #news, #environment

People I'm likely posting about:
Jenna Ortega, Dove Cameron, Miranda Cosgrove, Stephanie Leonidas, Jodie Foster, Alizée, Dafne Keen, Alexa Nisenson, Bella Gantt, Katie Douglas, Ciara Bravo, Amy-Leigh Hickman

Network Posts

Netherlands

https://gidikroon.eu/

Gidi Kroon

11 months ago • •

Gidi Kroon
11 months ago •

Content warning: Pinned post, about following from multiple addresses

Fediverse

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Hi, this me from my Friendica instance. I also post from @GidiKroon@mastodon.social, @gidi@pleroma.gidikroon.eu as well as from Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr as @GidiKroon but I'm mainly using my own Friendica for now. Even though I have been on the fediverse for a few years, I've never done an #Introduction post, so let's do one for this channel.

I tend to post about actresses and singers I'm a fan of, sharing news about their new projects as well as my thoughts about films and tv I watch. In between I give my take on political things as well as about the fediverse. When I learn new things hosting a fediverse server or other technical things, I try to share them here too. Longer posts may end up on my blog gidikroon.eu (which you can follow at @GidiKroon@gidikroon.eu).

In real life I work as a software developer, but I keep work separate from a private account like this. I play (beach) volleyball when I can, at a very low level. I live in the Netherlands and occasionally cycle and take photographs. I read and watch sci-fi and fantasy, and am interested in ways to achieve social justice, gender and race equality, sustainable energy use and climate justice.

Feel free to follow, as I will also follow other accounts I find interesting without expectation of them following back. Feel free to share (boost, repeat) my posts if you want, using whatever share function comes with your platform. I tend to close DMs to only allow people I follow. I check my fediverse accounts only one or a few times a day, typically on my phone or tablet, so I tend to not be part of live discussions.

#Introduction @Gidi @Gidi Kroon @Gidi Kroon @Gidi Kroon

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11 months ago •

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11 months ago •

PeerTube tries to keep a view count on the videos, but the monitoring on the cdn shows that there are definitely more times the video files are accessed. Mostly by me, and maybe all the other requests are just bots, but PeerTube doesn't count them.
#PeerTube

#peertube Fediverse

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11 months ago •

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11 months ago •

In my quest to find how to do 'unlisted' videos on PeerTube, I found that PeerTube has unlisted videos. At least if you switch the UI to English, one of the privacy options is 'unlisted'. In Dutch it is called 'Geheim', which means 'Secret', which is much closer to the real behaviour. The 'unlisted' videos of PeerTube don't work at all like 'unlisted' posts, but more like the 'sharing with link' secrecy setting of Microsoft Sharepoint and similar.

I want something that is available publicly to guests, listed on my public profile, maybe notified to followers, maybe found in a search, but which doesn't show up in a federated timeline ('Recently Added' in PeerTube) on other servers. I want to avoid having to setup a separated server without federation to do that.

I'm now thinking of setting up a separate PeerTube account and/or channel especially for unlisted (but actually secret) videos, then setup a separate Friendica account (because 'unlisted' is a profile setting, not a post setting in Friendica) or Wordpress blog to manually publish my 'secret' videos in an

#peertube Fediverse

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Gidi Kroon

in reply to Gidi Kroon • 11 months ago •

PeerTube is one of the few platforms that have a 'license' field on each post/video. I would prefer that any post/video with an unknown (or non-free) license would never appear publicly (to unauthenticated guests) on other servers in some 'federated'/'Recently Added' timeline. I think Mastodon/Friendica/Pleroma are wrong in appearing to host items of which it doesn't know the license, which for these platforms is all items. One of the reasons I switched off public viewing of 'global community'.

So basically: unknown license? => always unlisted

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1 year ago •

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1 year ago •

#PeerTube has a neat opt-in mechanism in place to alleviate the fediverse ddos problem of popular videos: it's what they call redundancy. Servers that opt-in can share the load on new, trending or popular videos. Your browser, when playing a video, will fragment by fragment decide which server to get the content from, giving a smooth stream no matter what the load. The only extra requirement is that the original server is still online.

BTW, offloading storage and serving via cdn are also really easy in PeerTube, so you can go that route as well.

#peertube

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1 year ago •

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1 year ago •

Wait until all these new people find out there's also a whole alternative to YouTube. And that because the whole of the fediverse is connected, you're already connected to that!
#PeerTube #YouTube #fediverse

#Fediverse #peertube #Youtube

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Gidi Kroon

in reply to Hyproviola • 1 year ago •

@Hyproviola I'm totally not taking credit for the term fediverse... It's based on the fact that there are all these different platforms 'federating' with each other, like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Misskey, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Zap, etc.

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Hyproviola

in reply to Gidi Kroon • 1 year ago • •

Yeah I understood that, I meant that I've been seeing that term around #Mastodon. It seems really cool, and with the whole #Twitter thing, it might actually become mainstream.

#Mastodon #twitter

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1 year ago •

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1 year ago •

Things I think don't work well or at all in #Activitypub (the protocol behind the #fediverse), due to limits of the protocol or the used vocabulary:

Being able to control replies (who can reply, which replies are visible; some platforms suggest control of who can reply but you can't really prevent people from replying on other platforms)
Controlling who can see your posts (you think you control this, but you don't; once the post is on another server, they could theoretically show it to anybody) (similar to how on Twitter when you block someone, they can just log out and see your posts)
Hashtags (they don't work like you think, are used to, or how they should work)
tumblr-style reblogs (something between a reply and a reshare ('Announce'), sharing a whole thread on your feed while adding to it at the bottom, and increasing the 'notes' count on

#Fediverse #Mastodon #peertube #activitypub #ocap #XConf2023

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Gidi Kroon

in reply to Gidi Kroon • 1 year ago •

Another thing #Activitypub gets blamed for unjustly: text formatting! Activitypub suggests HTML for the post contents and HTML has bullet lists (and other rich text). This post above has bullet lists. If you're not seeing lists, Mastodon has stripped the formatting from the post for no clear reason. That's not the spec...

#activitypub

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