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Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

An avatar roaming the decentralised and federated 3-D virtual worlds based on OpenSimulator, a free and open-source server-side re-implementation of Second Life. Mostly talking about OpenSim, sometimes about other virtual worlds, occasionally about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. No, the Fediverse is not only Mastodon.<br /><br />If you're looking for real-life people posting about real-life topics, go look somewhere else. This channel is never about real life.<br /><br />Even if you see me on Mastodon, I'm not on Mastodon myself. I'm on <a href="https://hubzilla.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Hubzilla</a> which is neither a Mastodon instance nor a Mastodon fork. In fact, it's older and much more powerful than Mastodon. And it has always been connected to Mastodon.<br /><br />

Posts

  • New Fediverse features that actually aren't new

    Whenever someone announces to &quot;bring&quot; something &quot;to the Fediverse&quot;, chances are that Friendica has actually had it since 2010, for five and a half years longer than Mastodon has been around. For example, just about everyone on Mastodon is fully convinced that Eugen Rochko has brought quote-posts to the Fediverse this year. That&#39;s because next to nobody on Mastodon knows that Friendica has been able to quote-post practically everything in the Fediverse, including Mastodon...

  • Old *key bug is old

    So there&#39;s that nasty bug on Sharkey that mangles hashtags in messages from Hubzilla and probably also Friendica, (streams) and Forte. They always look like this: #[Hashtag](https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Hashtag) Basically, Sharkey receives fully standard Rich Text from Hubzilla. It manages to convert this Rich Text into its own Misskey-Flavored Markdown. But then its Markdown parser does not parse it and leaves the Markdown code visible to everyone. It simply doesn&#39;t expect t...

  • The minefield of posting images of obscure things

    On the one hand, I have to go out of my way and write two image descriptions for each one of my original images. One is short and goes into the alt-text, and I&#39;m going to limit all my future alt-text to a maximum of 512 characters (otherwise users on Misskey, Sharkey etc. will believe I haven&#39;t written any alt-text because they won&#39;t receive any due to a bug). The other one is enormous degrees of magnitudes longer than anything most Fediverse users have ever read in the Fediverse. I...

  • Post #754764

    Poll: What&#39;s intolerable to you? When an image post doesn&#39;t describe or explain everything you need described or explained, so you have to ask the author for details or explanations or try to look stuff up yourself? When a post is 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 characters long or more? Or both? Pleast boost/retoot/renote/share/repeat for a larger sample size! #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #CharacterCou...

  • Three descriptions per image instead of two?

    What if I switched from describing my original images twice... ...&quot;short&quot; (still fairly long) alt-text + fully detailed long description in the post text... ...to describing them three times... ...same as above, but I&#39;d keep these two descriptions to myself, just in case, plus an actually short alt-text (512 characters or fewer for Misskey compatibility or even 200 characters or fewer) that&#39;d be the only description that I&#39;d publish right away? There would be no excessi...

  • Post #754762

    I don&#39;t want to discuss alt-texts and image descriptions to try and weasel myself out of having to write them. I want to discuss alt-texts and image descriptions to get them right myself. To improve and optimise them both for all those who need them in some way and for those who enforce them. I want to know the alt-text activists&#39; quality standards. So I can exceed them. #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescription...

  • Post #754761

    If there&#39;s such a thing as a universal character limit for alt-text in the Fediverse, it&#39;s not Mastodon&#39;s 1,500 characters. It&#39;s Misskey&#39;s 512 characters. That&#39;s also because Misskey has a bug that deletes alt-texts from outside if they&#39;re longer than 512 characters. So no matter how much work you&#39;ve put into your long alt-text, Misskey users will think you haven&#39;t written any alt-text. #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltText...

  • Post #656715

    @@reiver@mastodon.social @@silverpill@mitra.social This is simply because little is written about Forte on the Web. However, I was there when Forte was born back in September, 2024. I was on (streams) back then. Mike Macgirvin had implemented FEP-ef61 in the &quot;nomad&quot; branch of the streams repository a few months ago to test it. When he was confident enough, he merged the &quot;nomad&quot; branch into the regular &quot;dev&quot; branch. In July, 2024, he merged the &quot;dev&quot; branc...

  • Post #276015

    Work has been resumed on establishing connections between the Fediverse and the likewise decentralised metaverse, i.e. OpenSimulator. For now, the only feature that&#39;s actually implemented is sending OpenSim group messages out via ActivityPub. However, it has been tested against the opposite end of the Fediverse from Mastodon: Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. https://codeberg.org/fionasweet/OS-AP https://opensimworld.com/post/128355 #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMe...