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Ellie Kennard Photography
Just Rest There For a While

Last night I woke at 3:45 and just caught the last of the blood moon eclipse but I wasn't able to take any photos. The moon looked quite pink, unlike the one here.

I took this image during my participation in the #GooglePlus Mentorship Program for Photographers led by Robin Griggs Wood. What a great experience that was! This was my comment about the photograph and the mentorship then:
"Like this moon ...I feel that I have been told "just rest here for a few minutes, and look around you. We are all here to support and help you define yourself."
(Sigh.)

This is also my favourite tree which I featured recently.

I hope you have a great Friday, all my Pixl- and Fedi-friends.

#EllieKPosts #moon #FullMoon #Sunset #Trees #BlueHour #BlueHourSky
An evening scene looking through some bare gnarled branches that cross the image from left to right in the image. There are two main branches with smaller branchlets going every which way. It is the blue hour and beyond these branches is an evening blue sky with some light clouds tinged with pink. There is a small full moon that seems to be resting on the lowest branch about at the centre of the image. The bottom of the frame has tops of large bare trees in the distance.
#bluehoursky
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FiXato

You know what is another thing I miss from #GooglePlus?
Being able to preview the snippet for links before posting, and the ability to select which of the page images to accompany the snippet. Especially if it would be combined with an optional alt text for the snippet media.
Yes, I know I could also just upload a screenshot or manually download and attach the relevant image, but this would feel a lot more streamlined.
#mastoDev #mastodon

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)

In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.

It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...

eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-

HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.

The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:

"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user

#KolektivaSocial #Kolektiva #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #CyberRights #FBI #OnlineRights #JacksonGames

Edit: This is a 2023 story.

Electronic Frontier Foundation · FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their UsersWe’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. However, this new environment comes with challenges and risks for user privacy, so we need to get it right and make sure networks like the Fediverse and Bluesky are mindful of past...
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Yvan ー イボん 🗺️ :ferris: :go:

One of the things I really enjoyed at the beginning of #GooglePlus was that you could share circles of people.

A little bit like sharing one folder with your favorites pages 😄

#mastodon and the #fediverse in general would definitely benefit from something like this. It should be opt-in though. So others know you accept or not to be shared by your followers to their followers.

TLDR: a discovery mechanism for amazing people

I.e I'd like to read more on #infosec #security #nix

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Markus Feilner (has moved)

Take your time and watch this film. Remember? On #GooglePlus I created the Hashtag #CW2 and #CivilWar2, after several trips to the formerly United States. Seems like it is arriving in main stream media now. #Kassandra.

The movie #CivilWar is a great journalists' film and #HeartOfDarkness / #ApocalypseNow trip that gets more and more grippy to the end. Maybe too hard to stand... Don't read any spoilers, it's crazy.


youtube.com/watch?v=6akI-LbDsd

YouTubeCIVIL WAR Final Trailer (2024)By FilmSelect Trailer
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Rasta

And just for the record @juc One of the great things about #GooglePlus was the diversity of people, often the best group, similar to here.
Facebook people would drop out, saying, this is too hard, or I don't get this.. and that's fine. Those were the people we didn't get and didn't want. we had good conversations, sharing world events, people talked about the country they lived in, taught a few basic words, culture, showed pictures. That's how you get popular, you create too, and share.
#TALK

A profile page from @NovaScotiaRasta on (former) Google Plus. At this ScreenCap, there's about 50,000 followers. I'd manually removed 20,000 that didn't post or talk. Above, the profile has a tiny photo of me from the side, grey hair pulled back under a ball cap. Then, a Canadian Warship, HMCS Annapolis, in the Kiel Canal in Germany, in 1974, below are group photos of Dance Music, WAYCTV, OLDIES MUSIC and CATS
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Phil Landmeier

For Google Plus users only: A Walk Down Memory Lane.

Five years ago today, Google commenced the shutdown of Google Plus. The process took several hours as different geographic regions of the world went dark, one after another.

Here is a blog post with screen shots of what our beloved social networking platform used to look like.

shuttersparks.net/for-google-p

#google #GooglePlus #GPlus #G+ #history #memories

Shuttersparks · A Walk Down Memory Lane - ShuttersparksA walk down memory lane, screen captures from Google Plus.
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FiXato

@ILoveNumAn welcome!
While Mastodon doesn't have native groups yet, there are some other Fediverse alternatives that do. The most notable example probably is #Friendica: fedi.tips/friendica-a-flexible
While I do have a Friendica account myself, @fixato@libranet.de, I don't find myself using it actively. In theory it's closer to what #GPlus is, in reality it just doesn't feel as polished, and I haven't been able to curate a home feed and 'circles' with it that keeps me active on the platform on a regular basis. The user interface and user experience of #Mastodon just feels a lot more thought through and polished.
The same applies to #Diaspora, the platform #GooglePlus probably took the whole idea of Circles from, where they are called "Aspects". There's also #Hubzilla, which has even more features, but which just felt slow and cobbled together. I would suggest you give them all a try though, as your experience and needs might differ from mine!

Now, having said that Mastodon doesn't have native #groups yet, there is some third party support for them in the form of #Guppe (a.gup.pe/). Check out @FediTips for a good primer: fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on

Mastodon 'recently' did add a feature that reminded me of the early days of G+, which should help you discover people a bit easier than manually trawling hashtags, and that's the ability to follow a hashtag, so its posts will automatically appear in your home feed.

Finally, if you like the overall interface of Mastodon, but miss being able to format your posts by wrapping words in asterisks, underscores and the likes like G+ supported (though with less frustrations imho), or write posts longer than 500 characters (like this one), then I would suggest you also check out #GlitchSoc, a fork of Mastodon that adds a bunch of features which Mastodon for example itself has shown a resistance to to add. glitch-soc.github.io/docs/
Best advice I can give is to just try out several different alternatives and then settle on the one that best suits your needs. :)

Anyway, I hope this wall of text has been of some help. 😅

fedi.tipsFriendica: A flexible Fediverse server type with long posts | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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chris@strafpla.net

@jwildeboer #GooglePlus was a little more complex and whimsical that the rest of the social networks, so it had some self selection.
Maybe Google+ just was killed off before it went bad, so that leaves us with the positive memories - which is nice.
I am still following some people in the fediverse who had Google+ accounts.

(I don’t like that they took the “+” away from search.)

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