Hey there Fedi, I have a question for you again!
My new employer is using #Wazo for VoIP at work: https://wazo.io

Does anyone know how good/bad this company is in term of surveillance?

Should I try to avoid it as much as possible to limit potential recordings of my voice and face or are they supposed to be well behaved?
Their ToS seem relatively harmless but the product does not seem to be open-source so I'm not sure how much one can trust it.

Ok what are boosts on #Pixelfed doing? I've never seen boosts from someone else and when I boost something I have no idea where I (or my followers) can see these. Any ideas?

Hey Fedi, I need your help again!

My new job uses an exchange/activesync solution (not Microsoft, thankfully).

Everything just works out-of-the-box on Linux with recent @thunderbird versions, including the #calendar.
However, I cannot find how I'm supposed to sync the calendar with #FLOSS tools on #Android (#eOS to be precise).
Can anyone help me out with that?

Hey fedizens,
I'm having some issues with #PeerTube using #NewPipe and I'm wondering whether it's just me or if it's a more general issue.

Some PeerTube channels are missing sound on NewPipe, e.g.:

- https://peertube.mesnumeriques.fr/w/5Vym5Rso2gPJ8HdEA3D3Bc
- https://subscribeto.me/w/ucv4VNJJqZkmxyd8jZfMas

Could anyone here let me know if they can reproduce the issue on their phone?

It does not affect all of PeerTube, but before I start comparing versions and other technical stuff I want to make sure it not just me

I am considering whether to activate the option for the automated post deletion. To those who already do it: why do you do it? What are the reasons? #privacy ?

Hello, #FediFriends ^__^ I'm thinking of moving away from pixelfed.social (atm mostly in the hope that it will take away from server load).

Does anybody know about a good #Pixelfed instance that has strong values (that they're actually enforcing by blocking / defederating) regarding racism, sexism, trans-hate and other bigotry? (Or instances to avoid?)

What is your recommended provider for PeerTube managed hosting?

Hi #Fedizens, I was just asked whether there are specific #hashtags that people know and follow for #SciComm in specific languages.

I must say I don't know... is this a thing (at least in some languages)?
If not, well: there is interest in making it a thing, so now you know and can propose ideas

I have a question about how federation works, and I feel like I probably asked before so either I didn't get an answer or I got one that didn't "stick."

How does it work? I see a lot of "please boost this post so my instance can federate."

Does that do it? Or does someone from another instance have to FOLLOW that person to get them federated to that other instance?

Or is it enough for that person on the new instance to start following folks on other instances?

I really thought it had to do with the following part, not the boosting part.

Do I know anyone that hosts a #peertube? I'm thinking of hosting one myself for <insert secret project> and even after reading the documentation I'm still not entirely sure what it does. It hosts videos but how do people find them? Does it work like Mastodon? People have home servers and they subscribe to feeds? Does the server admin decide what feeds the server shows?

Is it even a reasonable thing to host your own if you want people to actually see your videos?

#FediQuestion #FediAsk #FediHelp

Does anyone know why Mastodon strips away almost any URL parameters when generating a preview?

Not only things like, with Invidious, &local=true (which makes sure that YouTube clips are proxied), but also in-page anchors even. Linking a certain part of a one-pager sometimes only makes sense when you jump to the respective anchor.

Compare text link and preview here:

https://babumenos.com/#chapter08

Bel #orage ici. Mais au fait, quelqu'un saurait pourquoi un coup de #tonnerre dure plusieurs secondes ? #FédiQuestion

À l'évidence, la #foudre produit un bruit intense, mais qui est encore émis bien après la décharge ‽

Is there anyway to block or mute an entire server, like *@example.com?

Is there an instant messenger that uses GPG/PGP?

#gpg #pgp #messenger #FediQuestion

EDIT: I didn't do anything and it seems to work¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Might as well ask here too.

Currently, my personal account (@theotime812) is the only admin account, and the first account that was created on this instance. I've tried giving admin rights to a new account (@Admin), by setting it as moderator, then setting isAdmin to true in the database, then restarting the server. However, @Admin doesn't seem to be able to see the user info page (I get "An error has occured" on the page and "You are not an admin" in the console). Any idea of what I did wrong?

#Fediquestion #Firefish

I'm considering running a Friendica instance instead of Firefish (because of compatibility issues with other Fediverse softwares that don't follow the ActivityPub standard as strictly as it wants + being able to follow RSS feeds and Tumblr accounts directly on the main timeline)

There are some things that hold me back, though. I've read that content warnings and alt texts are done only with BBCode, and that you can't mark images as sensitive/NSFW. Is this still true?

(I know it would be easier if I create a Friendica account somewhere but I don't want to come across as rude if I join an instance with the intent of leaving a couple days later ^^')

#Friendica #FediQuestion

hey smart people #askFedi #fediQuestion #tech
If I would like to know how well a specific link is getting used, are there easy ways to "design" such a link?
Basically I'd like to make a sticker with a link to my podcast, but I would also like to know if people are using the link at all.
I don't want to collect any data outside of how many time the link on the sticker was used.
What the easiest way to do that?