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Achievement unlocked: double vax!


happy about a sliver of hope regarding future socializing, partying and so on, and at the same time... sad about the global inequality which totally could be avoided but, alas, capitalism.



Hello. What does it feel like to be you - right now?


If you asked me "How are you?", I'd probably reply fine or alright. Yet, neither fine nor alright are feelings. By using them, I guess I often said more about the person asking and/or the context we were in, than how I was actually doing.

Like: I don't know you enough, or I don't trust you to reply appropriately or maybe just I don't want talk about it at this time or in this place.

So - what does it feel to be me right now?

Confident about sticking to my intent of making things differently in the second half of my life. Because this is probably the polar opposite of my usual first post on a social network. Because I'm confident about answering the question honestly. With awareness for the bittersweet contradicting notion of both grief for the past and hope for the future. As well as being aware that any moment, my brain can start creating different stories about whatever I feel. But that I can manage.

Hello then: What does it feel like to be you - right now? :)

in reply to Ronny Pries

So - what does it feel to be me right now?

On the one hand I'm quite enjoying this new social network over here and reflecting upon its pros and cons. The interaction model intrigues me - its privacy is somewhat between a public twitter and a personal facebook page, with lots of customization options. Excited about the future! Down with Facebook!

On the other hand, a lot of dread and anxiety about the state of the world in general. Climate breakdown, general destabilization, fascism on the rise - all things that need a lot of willpower to block out. And at the same time, having the privilege to even block it out - for many, that's not an option.

Working on a lot of personal art projects (flashy lights + animations synchronized with a DJ software or DAW) is a continuous source of joy since last October.

Partner + me making ourselves at home in the space we're inhabiting for half a year now, a big, long term project that's both enjoyable and also has an "ungh, why does this furniture not deliver + install itself?!" component.

Sadness about having to cut ties with old friends, because they turned out to be too egotistic for me to even engage with the subject/trying to improve the situation.

Isolation. Very much yearning for more in-person contact, which hopefully will be an option soon, getting my second shot tonight.

Always somewhere between bursts of energy + productivity and lying exhausted in a corner, annoyed with the lack of energy to get things done, both of the "really have to" and "really want to" kind. Thanks, ADHD!






stable or development?


humans of the abraum, i have a question for you: the initial few weeks i was running the development branch of friendica with little issues. now that we are gathering a small crowd here, i switched to stable at the current release. this puts us 1-3 months behind current developments. what is your opinion about running dev vs. stable? do you/we want to keep it stable, or do we want to accept stuff possibly breaking from time to time in exchange for pulling latest developments faster? or maybe run a second playground instance?
in reply to felix b. ohmann

I'm a BLEEDING EDGE ALL THE WAY kinda guy. Just keep backups of the user db etc in case things go up in flames I guess?
in reply to felix b. ohmann

I don't care about downtime but don't make hosting unnötig nervig for yourself.



Where is everyone?


Irgendwie sehe ich keine älteren Posts in meinem Feed. Vmtl gibts da ein max age limit oder so?
in reply to Frederik "ace`r`us" Bleiwurst

ich glaube, es geht nur vorwärts. es gibt n lokalen feed, und es gibt globale feeds von allem zeug, was auf der instanz so öffentlich passiert, und was auf den verbundenen instanzen so passiert.


So hallo


Benutzer blockieren scheint in dieser Instanz iwie nicht zu gehen hm. Generell kann friendica das wohl schon, aber diese Hovercards finde ich nicht? Naja, I will survive.

Jetzt noch rausfinden wie man automatisch von oder zu Facebork crosspostet und ab geht der Peter!

in reply to Frederik "ace`r`us" Bleiwurst

ausserdem github.com/friendica/friendica…
ansonsten muss mans halt manuell machen. aber da facebook eh nurnoch voller scheisse und hass ist, muss die aufgabe wohl eher sein, menschen da wegzuholen. imho.
in reply to felix b. ohmann

yo, bin auch immer angepisster von Fb, gibt kaum mehr interessanten Content, dafür krieg ich pausenlos Blockchainwerbung und meine Freunde + ich werden aus lächerlichen Bullshitgründen gesperrt (zB wenn man Faschos eine reinhauen möchte oder irgendeinen SEXUAL CONTENT hat lol)


toxic waste


woke up very early, spent some time preparing reentry to germany (digitale einreiseanmeldung, smooth process, well done rki). also created a new facebook account 2 days ago to let more people around me know about the fediverse. instant feeling: urgh. the level of toxicity(?) in/under almost all content they show me over there is just astounding. i have not missed that at all during the last few months. bleeeeerrrgh. that monster needs to be taken down.





mobile clients


people on our instance, you can use a number of mobile clients for ios (amaroq or b4x) or android (see faq at github.com/friendica/friendica…) to make mobile use more streamlined!
in reply to felix b. ohmann

@Felix Bohmann für iPad (oder eventuell Tablets allgemein, so es Android-Versionen gibt) find ich (natürlich nur ultrakurz geprüft ;) ) Oyakodon und/oder Tootle gut.
Weil: Landscape-Modus
EDIT: Ok, Tootle vielleicht doch nicht, denn damit konnte ich diesen Kommentar nicht absenden :)


building a party


i like how with every single one of my friends taking a look at our little place on the fediverse it feels a little bit less empty. i know it is not exactly empty, but getting friends over feels so good. good night good people of the abraum.




hello again


greetings from bergen an zee! refueling after uc11, will be back soon!



packing for #uc11 has begun. looking forward to a week of outdoor (tech-)fun with normal people. ;) #demoscene


nichts zu sehen


what has happened these days: sold 2 vw t3 busses, workspace cleanup almost done. almost no time spent in the studio, beginning preparations for a 7 day semi-outdoor demoparty. feels good. also feeling tired.


Das ist also freies soziales Netzwerk. Ein wenig wie Lebkuchen, an sich geil aber wääh.




mobile clients for ios


hello world! i went through the docs of friendica, and it seems i have to update the server a bit in the near future, as there is a release candidate for the beta we are currently running. good thing: since this version, it features a mastodon-style api, so mastodon ios clients should be useable with this instance soon! i will let you know once i have tested this!


hello (sane) world 👋


may we keep our sanity here and avoid all the crap out there! happy time! 🦄



it has begun (for me)


oh nice! the first real contact to an outside instance. hello @David ‘Bombe’ Roden

friends, lets get more people to freedom! :)

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Hello world!


I hope life has been treating you guys well.
I'm eager to see where this place leads to, I feel we may accomplish something important here for everyone, and to finally detach from the mainstream social media.



facebook aftermath


so, a few days ago i decided i could actually reopen my facebook account for a few days to pester my friends with new social locations like this here. turns out i missed the 30 day deadline by a few days, so my facebook account is gone for good now. the first few minutes i did not really know what to think of that, but this weird feeling turned into a slightly less weird kind of relief quite quickly. it is gone, all the data should be gone (or going soon) and that huge backlog only exists as a html archive here at home. feeling good. now: good night.

in reply to felix b. ohmann

this feels a lot better than mastodon. but the testpicture felix is my mastodon test account on mastodon.social, and the federation works nicely.