Official Kiwi Farms Pleroma Server - pt 3: official flagship instance of the fediverse

[NewFriend]

the place is full of retards and faggots
please fix

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

the place is full of retards and faggots
please fix

It's a feature, not a bug.

 

[attractive_pneumonia]

Is it possible to run bots on the various Fediverse instances? Also is it possible to replicate a Tweetdeck setup? I don't exactly use Twitter for socializing, nor do I really feel like I'd actually use the Fediverse for that end either. I use Tweetdeck with a few lists with various outlets in each list and run an electron app to view it as a desktop application. This lets me use it as a news blotter, I followed the riots using this method for most of the summer. Since I run my own Nitter instance I could use the rss feature to scrape the accounts I desire and auto post it using Huginn which is an IFTT service, but I'm not really sure if it is common for public instances on the Fediverse to allow bot posting via the API.

 

[3119967d0c]

Is it possible to run bots on the various Fediverse instances? Also is it possible to replicate a Tweetdeck setup? I don't exactly use Twitter for socializing, nor do I really feel like I'd actually use the Fediverse for that end either. I use Tweetdeck with a few lists with various outlets in each list and run an electron app to view it as a desktop application. This lets me use it as a news blotter, I followed the riots using this method for most of the summer. Since I run my own Nitter instance I could use the rss feature to scrape the accounts I desire and auto post it using Huginn which is an IFTT service, but I'm not really sure if it is common for public instances on the Fediverse to allow bot posting via the API.

• There are 'TweetDeck'ish clients (haven't tried this one, but it looks good)- I believe the default Mastodon setup works this way.
• There's some good stable APIs for bots, but I suspect most instances would look askance on you running a bunch of them. There's a few instances where the owner runs Twitter-> Fediverse bots for accounts that they're interested in.
• I wonder if you might be better off with just using the Nitter RSS feeds to read on an RSS reader of your choice?

 

[ditto]

Is it possible to run bots on the various Fediverse instances? Also is it possible to replicate a Tweetdeck setup? I don't exactly use Twitter for socializing, nor do I really feel like I'd actually use the Fediverse for that end either. I use Tweetdeck with a few lists with various outlets in each list and run an electron app to view it as a desktop application. This lets me use it as a news blotter, I followed the riots using this method for most of the summer. Since I run my own Nitter instance I could use the rss feature to scrape the accounts I desire and auto post it using Huginn which is an IFTT service, but I'm not really sure if it is common for public instances on the Fediverse to allow bot posting via the API.

Not Plemora, but I have bots running on mastodon.online. No trouble with them so long as you mark the account as a Bot in the account settings.

 

[Aquinas]

people still use the kiwipleroma?
i thought that chinese fag and the boomers from Not!Reddit ruined it for everyone

 

[NewFriend]

people still use the kiwipleroma?
i thought that chinese fag and the boomers from Not!Reddit ruined it for everyone

What did the chinknigger do?
And yeah, pleroma is comfy. Even the trannies will call you a niggerfaggot

 

[Aquinas]

he was some underage retard who kept sexually harassing literally everyone

 

[NewFriend]

he was some underage retard who kept sexually harassing literally everyone

well obviously not everyone
>tfw not even some random chink on a twitter knock-off want to fuck you

 

[Aquinas]

ok pedo

 

[The Fool]

So is this going to be a viable alternative for our community in the new Chinese Internet if KF goes down?

 

[ChromaticAberration]

So is this going to be a viable alternative for our community in the new Chinese Internet if KF goes down?

Not quite, the kiwi Pleroma instance shares infrastructure with the forum. If Josh is forced to pull the plug, chances are the instance, the matrix server, etc. will go down as well.

 

[The Fool]

Not quite, the kiwi Pleroma instance shares infrastructure with the forum. If Josh is forced to pull the plug, chances are the instance, the matrix server, etc. will go down as well.

Well I meant the broader concept of the fediverse. Could we legally and safely sustain a KF using it?

 

[The Real SVP]

Well I meant the broader concept of the fediverse. Could we legally and safely sustain a KF using it?

Only if you found another fool to host it who's as obsessive about keeping it up as Null.

 

[ChromaticAberration]

Well I meant the broader concept of the fediverse. Could we legally and safely sustain a KF using it?

No. A Federated internet doesn't address the problems that arise with a repeal of Section 230. The only technological solution that does is obfuscation/anonymization.

 

[A Logging Company]

Well I meant the broader concept of the fediverse. Could we legally and safely sustain a KF using it?

In terms of shitposting, yes. In terms of detailed gossip and dox information, probably not.

 

[attractive_pneumonia]

There are 'TweetDeck'ish clients (haven't tried this one, but it looks good)- I believe the default Mastodon setup works this way.

I tried compiling that, it works... kinda. It has weird Japanese design problems that are grating to deal with. I opted to go with Sengi which is designed to mimic Tweetdeck and is all around a better experience. I went from using the KF instance to rolling my own personal Pleroma instance, I had a few problems initially with, opting to do a compiled build vs the OTP variant, once I went for the OPT build I found myself dealing with a different problem: Pleroma did a "bug fix" to deal with a security issue involving spoofed/false status updates and that broke the ability to relay with a lot of instances. Almost no Mastodon instance can be relayed with until they update to a more current version, something that takes time. It seems most Pleroma relays are functional though. I've found the Fediverse to be much more amusing than Twitter for sure, the old bags at Spinster are fucking hilarious and I love watching their anti-trans rant sessions cross my timelines. They're easily the most anti-trans group I've found on the internet outside of the /pol/ crowd.

As for bots, I've tabled that option for the immediate present as the Floyd riots have mostly ended and I no longer have need for a news blotter and I've become rather busy in the real world. I do intend to write up some kind of Nitter RSS -> Pleroma bridge once I bother reading more of the documentation. My quick skimming at high speed didn't really indicate where and how one generates API keys for Pleroma, but as I said, this is a job for later.

 

[Rusty Crab]

So with twitter doing it's great purges (and KF having a banner advertising it), it seems like this place might get more use (the fediverse in general, I mean). I've gotta be honest though, this interface is so cluttered and inconsistent that it's actually stressful to look at. There's tons of information in your face that doesn't need to be there and lots of space taken up by words that would be better suited as icons. Even in places that do you icons you get inconsistent sizing like this

Sorting through conversations is also difficult as they appear to be non-contiguous (meaning, other unrelated conversations are inserted in the middle of yours). Also, not 5 minutes in I'm getting hit by spammers, but I realize that's a bigger demon to deal with.

I realize that this is how it comes prepackaged. Considering that, has there been serious conversation about switching to Soapbox? I haven't used it, but at least from screenshots it looks far more coherent. Even just a color scheme change on Soapbox could make it more 'KF'ey.

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

So, while the forum was down, the Pleroma instance exploded! For obvious reasons. That's an exceptional enough feat, but, through word of mouth, this also spawned new Mastodon instances by Twitter influencers you've never heard of, totaling a domino effect somewhere in the ballpark of 100K new registrations in a couple days!

Kiwi Farms is lolcow, and Kiwi Farms is Twitter. Chads, the lot of you!

 

[I-chi]

Having a lot of fun with it. Beating the shit out of myself for not learning it sooner. Can't wait to make it flourish, especially as the lockdown efforts continue.