Before I make the changes, what does that mean in practice? I have an account on Mastodon and it sees posts from baraza communities. I am on lemmy0.14.3 if that helps. Was this nginx config a requirement when updating? I did not see it in the docs, unless it was baked in during the updates.

Did you try to follow Baraza communities via Mastodon? I did see that “Cancel Follow Request” sporadically and now it seems resolved (displaying “Unfollow”). The mastodon federation is still at the community level. I will check in with @nutomic@lemmy.ml on what that means exactly. Is there a role for the remote Mastodon admin to play so that “Cancel Follow Request” move to full “Unfollow”.

Update after 18 hours or so: This post did not federate to c/Africa on Baraza even though it appears like so on Lemmy.ml. I updated the install from 0.14.1 to 0.14.3 and new posts made from lemmy to baraza did federate. Proximate cause for non-federation could then be different lemmy installations. But I was getting content on Baraza from lemmy, just not posts made directly to communities there.

Even after updating, a post to Baraza from Lemmy is not federating: Post on Lemmy to a Baraza community - https://lemmy.ml/c/africa@baraza.africa Community on Baraza without recent posts from Lemmy: https://baraza.africa/c/africa

I will observe this issue and probably make a proper issue on Github.

Roundup, a common plant killer, has also been at the centre of dozens of health related lawsuits. Bayer (and Monsanto previously) have had to pay billions in fines: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882949098/bayer-to-pay-more-than-10-billion-to-resolve-roundup-cancer-lawsuits

Ethiopian highlands (the source of Abaye/Blue Nile) are panoramic. I didn’t know it is one of the highest zones in Africa.

Interesting stuff, which is why there is a new community on central bank digital currencies on baraza: https://baraza.africa/post/9173

Just awesome.

They are well paid pirates. 🏴‍☠️

Is this Transno structure the ‘relational notes’ approach, like a wiki or Zettelkestein something something?

When Jack posted that idea, I remember seeing Christopher Lemmer Webber & Evan Prodromou mention ActivityPub to Jack right there. Oh how this world works :(

I agree. It is hard to see how a centralized powerful entity would cede that power to a decentralized system if their aim is not to turn decentralized communities into name-only but centralized in practice.

Obligatory XKCD

I like the publicity this gives to fediverse. I do not think ignoring existing protocols right from the start inspires hope in as much as Twitter and Harvard do not explicitly mention existing options. I hope I am wrong in the long run.

Twitter (at least their CEO) claimed they were interested in a decentralized form to allow more communities. ActivityPub, Matrix, Status etc were mentioned. But it seems these harvard people would like to build a new one instead of joining and improving the existing.

I do not know exactly what effect you are after, since all I did was paste the url link, but the editing options on web version are easy to use.

Reminds you of Pompeii :)

Wikipedia maintains a list of hotlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines Please reach out to someone, and as @ihaphleas@lemmy.ml offered, we can try get you the country specific helpline resources you may need.

Exactly. And this shows the difference between biological and social evolution mechanisms. Biological is physical (material reality of plants being genetically similar). Social evolution mechanism involves ideas + material base (bodies). It may help us understand why increasing number of people using the Internet may in practice reduce social diversity IF the ideas are centralized.

I must admit I felt they were out of place because only a handful of people might be able to understand them without a translator.

I think it is the other way round – in using whatever language they choose, they are seeking individuals who understand said language. If no one on the platform can understand the language, it is a miss for them, not you. For some reason, and even though I don’t mean that you are doing it, this sounds like those convenience store “speak English, this is America” moments. But the discussion it elicited is really helpful in understanding language issues on platforms.