It was terribly cold. And there was zero color, so I tried creating colorless colors. Next time, I'll imagine a colorful laser show inside the Hague Passage. To keep me warm.
Ik ben liefhebber van Arvo Pärt, en de uitvoering van Cappella Amsterdam was werkelijk prachtig. Sterker nog, het was amazeballs. En Bach nam ik op de koop toe. cappellaamsterdam.nl/productie…
5-16 maart 2025 | Pärt/Bach | Kamerkoor Cappella Amsterdam o.l.v. Daniel Reuss | Delen uit 'Kanon Pokajanen' en motetten van Bach. Bekijk het concertoverzicht.
Wes Anderson’s 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums features a short exchange that’s interesting for its taboo-linguistic detail. It takes place between Royal himself, played by Gene Hackman, and Henry, played by Danny Glover.
If you haven’t seen the film, but you might sometime (do, dammit), don’t worry about spoilers – the images below don’t give much away. And you don’t need to know the characters’ backstory, so let’s jump right in (transcript below the pics; more detail in alt text):
ROYAL: Can I say something to you, Henry?
HENRY: Okay.
ROYAL: I’ve always been considered an asshole, for about as long as I can remember. That’s just my style. But I’d really feel blue if I didn’t think you were going to forgive me.
HENRY: I don’t think you’re an asshole, Royal. I just think you’re kind of a son of a bitch.
ROYAL: Well, I really appreciate that.
I love pretty much everything about this conversation, not least Royal’s poetic use of blue to mean ‘sad’ – though here on Strong Language it tends to have another denotation.
And with those insults, too, the nuances clearly matter. So what is the difference, would you say, between an asshole and a son of a bitch?
I would like to know when a post is private or not. So, is this correct?:
To mention an individual user, I type: @username@instance.tld
To mention a group (a subaccount used as a forum or a community) I type: !groupname@instance.tld
When I use '!', the message gets posted directly to that group. It ensures that all group members see the post. If the group is private, the message will be visible only to group members. If the group is public, the message will be visible to everyone (including non-members and possibly search engines).
Is the use of @ or ! the same as choosing 'Limited/Private' on the Permissions-tab?
Mentioning a user doesn't make the post private. If you want to have a post private, you have to change the permissions of that specific post. The only exception are posts to groups.
I need to know when a post is private or not. So, is this correct?:
To mention an individual user, I type: @username@instance.tld To mention a group (a subaccount used as a forum or a community) I type: !groupname@instance.tld
When I use '!', the message gets posted directly to that group. It ensures that all group members see the post. If the group is private, the message will be visible only to group members. If the group is public, the message will be visible to everyone (including non-members and possibly search engines).
You may want to post this in the Friendica Support Group. Search for helpers@forum.friendi.ca and start following them. To post there just type [exclamation mark]Friendica Support and then your message.
Mentioning a user doesn't make the post private. If you want to have a post private, you have to change the permissions of that specific post (set to Limited/Private on the Permissions tab). The only exception are posts to groups.
So, if I mention a private group with an exclamation mark, the post will be visible only to people inside that private group.
OK, here's what I learned. Correct me if I'm wrong:
In Friendica, you can create sub-accounts under your main account. These can function as groups. By giving your sub-account a clear name, everyone will immediately know what the discussions are about.
Switching between accounts If you have one or more sub-accounts, you can easily switch between your main and sub-account:
Click on your avatar in the top right corner.
Select ‘Accounts’ and choose the desired account.
Creating a sub-account
Click on your avatar in the top right corner.
Go to ‘Settings’.
In the left menu, click ‘Manage Accounts’.
Click the hyperlink ‘Register an additional account’.
Enter the following details:
- Display Name: a name for the group (for instance: Make Love, Not War). - Nickname: a unique username (for instance: Lennon@friendica.world). - Password: enter the password of your main account (no new password required). - Do you want y
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OK, here's what I learned. Correct me if I'm wrong:
In Friendica, you can create sub-accounts under your main account. These can function as groups. By giving your sub-account a clear name, everyone will immediately know what the discussions are about.
Switching between accounts If you have one or more sub-accounts, you can easily switch between your main and sub-account:
Click on your avatar in the top right corner.
Select ‘Accounts’ and choose the desired account.
Creating a sub-account
Click on your avatar in the top right corner.
Go to ‘Settings’.
In the left menu, click ‘Manage Accounts’.
Click the hyperlink ‘Register an additional account’.
Enter the following details:
- Display Name: a name for the group (for instance: Make Love, Not War). - Nickname: a unique username (for instance: Lennon@friendica.world). - Password: enter the password of your main account (no new password required). - Do you want your main account to also participate in the group? Then choose ‘yes’ under ‘Include your profile in member directory’.
Setting up the sub-account as a group
Log in to your new sub-account.
Click on your avatar in the top right corner and go to ‘Settings’.
Click ‘Account’ in the left menu.
Click ‘Advanced account types’.
Choose ‘Community Group’, then ‘Public Group - Restricted (Contact requests have to be manually approved)’. People cannot join the group automatically. When someone requests to join, you will receive a notification with an access request, which you can approve or deny.
Additional options There are many more things you can add and settings you can set. Besides setting up a group, you can also configure your sub-account as a regular account or explore other options. There may be interesting possibilities that I am not yet aware of.
This guide is based on the current version of Friendica. Things may of course change in the future.
Now, I was hoping to add some categories to my group (sub-account)—like in Discord, a list of topics of interest. For example: a culinary group could have the following categories: cooking, baking, sautéing, fermenting, vegetarian, fish. It seems this is not possible. 'Circles' and 'Channels' aren’t suited for this, right..?
I Using the paperclip button I finally managed to embed video. Tadaaa! However, it does not work in a reply, it only generates a hyperlink to the video. Ah well...
A stop-motion mockumentary by Erik van Schaaik. The Smile is a story about beauty and horror, the definitive biopic documentary about the life and the downfall…
Okay, with a little help from my Friendicas, I’m learning about ‘circles', which seem to be user defined groups. You can add certain people to see certain posts.
I managed to create a circle called ‘Animation’, and when I click on it, I only see posts from friends who work in the animation industry. However, they might still be posting about their lunch—this isn't a group where people only discuss animation. For that, we’d need to create a group.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet figured out how to create a group that functions like a Facebook group. As soon as I do, I’ll let you know! (and if you know, please let us know!)
Attention: Be sure to refresh your page constantly, as pressing a button often doesn’t show any changes until you refresh! Sometimes, I even have to navigate to another page and return to see the necessary editing buttons.
Click the F-button at the top center, then select the Personal tab. On the left, you'll see circles, with a few pre-made circles listed below.
To edit your circle
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Okay, with a little help from my Friendicas, I’m learning about ‘circles', which seem to be user defined groups. You can add certain people to see certain posts.
I managed to create a circle called ‘Animation’, and when I click on it, I only see posts from friends who work in the animation industry. However, they might still be posting about their lunch—this isn't a group where people only discuss animation. For that, we’d need to create a group.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet figured out how to create a group that functions like a Facebook group. As soon as I do, I’ll let you know! (and if you know, please let us know!)
Attention: Be sure to refresh your page constantly, as pressing a button often doesn’t show any changes until you refresh! Sometimes, I even have to navigate to another page and return to see the necessary editing buttons.
Click the F-button at the top center, then select the Personal tab. On the left, you'll see circles, with a few pre-made circles listed below.
To edit your circles, click the pencil icon next to circles.
To add a new circle, press the plus button that now appears next to circles, type a name, and press Enter.
Click on your new circle and add friends from the list on the right by pressing the corresponding green + button. If these buttons don’t appear, refresh the page and click around until you can add friends to the circle.
To create a group like Facebook, you have to make an entirely new account on Friendica, then switch it to a Group account in the settings. You can use the same email address as your personal account.
I am new to Friendica and want to learn to create groups. The Friendica wiki tells me:
To create a group, visit your Friendica “Contacts” page and select “Create a new group”.
But there is no such button. I just don't see it. There is only one YouTuber showing how to do it, but his cursor-clicks are off-screen, and the audio is terrible, so it's impossible to make sense of. Am I the only one experiencing these problems? How can we improve our Friendica skills?
That's correct. The term Groups was replaced by Circles with Friendica 2023.12. According to the release notes: 'user defined groups are now called Circles and forum accounts are now Group accounts...' I think that the Friendica docs are not up to date.
By now I've come a little further with this question. So, when I use Chrome on my phone, I have to be in the timeline that is marked by the nine squares. There, I open the menu by tapping on the little arrows and then there's a 'groups' menu with a plus at the side which allows you to create a group, I think. I'm not sure though, because sometimes it asks for a registration as if it wants you to create a new profile.
I am new too; my understanding just from poking around was that "circles" are groups of contacts made for your benefit only so that you can allow only certain people to see certain posts, and that "groups" are like Lemmy channels, guppe groups, or Facebook groups, in that they are dedicated spaces that multiple people can post to.
@Erik van Schaaik Not only a new profile. An entire new account.
On Friendica, creating a new group as in a Facebook group means registering a whole new login.
If you want to create such a group, I'd recommend you to do that on another Friendica node than the one you're on right now. For if you had a group on the node that you're on right now, and you wanted to moderate the group, you'd have to
log out of your personal account
log into the group account
moderate
log out of the group account
log back into your personal account
But if your group is on another node, you can stay logged into both at the same time.
@Erik van Schaaik Two alternatives from Friendica's own creator would be Hubzilla and (streams). The latter is from 2021, it's still kind of maintained by its creator, it has a lot of features that Friendica doesn't have and a few that Hubzilla doesn't have. But it has a steeper learning curve than Friendica.
Hubzilla from 2015 is the most powerful of the bunch with lots of features that you won't find anywhere else, but also the one with the steepest learning curve.
Both have one big advantage over Friendica and almost the whole rest of the Fediverse: Login/account and identity are not firmly bound to one another. Imagine you can have multiple, fully independent accounts with their own identities on one and the same Friendica login. Not profiles for the same identity (Hubzilla
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@Erik van Schaaik Two alternatives from Friendica's own creator would be Hubzilla and (streams). The latter is from 2021, it's still kind of maintained by its creator, it has a lot of features that Friendica doesn't have and a few that Hubzilla doesn't have. But it has a steeper learning curve than Friendica.
Hubzilla from 2015 is the most powerful of the bunch with lots of features that you won't find anywhere else, but also the one with the steepest learning curve.
Both have one big advantage over Friendica and almost the whole rest of the Fediverse: Login/account and identity are not firmly bound to one another. Imagine you can have multiple, fully independent accounts with their own identities on one and the same Friendica login. Not profiles for the same identity (Hubzilla has these in addition), but fully separate identities, like fully separate Friendica accounts. This is possible on Hubzilla and (streams), and they call it "channels". They're kind of a byproduct of nomadic identity.
In practice, this means:
Register an account.
Create a channel for yourself on that account.
Create a forum channel on the same account. (They're called "forums" because what is called "lists" on Friendica is called "privacy groups" on Hubzilla.)
Now you can switch back and forth between your personal channel and the forum channel without having to log out and back in again.
Extra downside: Friendica has at least got dedicated Android apps and support for Mastodon apps. Hubzilla and (streams) don't have either, and they will never support Mastodon apps because a Mastodon app wouldn't cover over 90% of their features, including critical everyday features, simply because Mastodon doesn't have these features.
Wow, thanks for clearing that up. It doesn't seem to get any simpler, does it..? I'll have a look at Hubzilla and Streams and see where it gets me. Thanks again @Jupiter Rowland
If chat is important to you I would like to mention XMPP. It's for federated instant messaging. Encryption is possible. You can either join an existing server or create your own (which is surprisingly easy), create groups etc. Probably pretty barebone compared to Revolt (which I never used) but you're not depending on a centralized infrastructure.
I'm not good with terminology, so I assume node is the same as server in this case.
You and I are on Friendica, which is part of the Fediverse, and we're both using the server friendica.world.
Wikipedia has an image illustrating how the Fediverse is connected:
Here's the list of public Friendica servers: dir.friendica.social/servers If you were to look for another server for e.g. a group circle account, you'd choose one of the not-friendica.world ones. 😅
As far as u u can see you don’t need a new login, but a sub account to which you can switch anytime. You can have as many as you like, and they can be anything.
I would even say that Hubzilla’s channels are the same as these sub accounts.
1. Go to “Accounts” in the menu that pops up when you click on your profile picture. 2. Then click on “Manage accounts”. You should end up on youserver.url/settings/delegat… 3. Click “Register an additional account” 4. Fill in the name, nickname, and confirm with your main account password.
Voilà – you have a new account as a sub.account to which you can switch to at any time using the accounts menu.
I'm sorry, @Daniel de Kay , but I don't see an "Accounts" option in the menu that appears when I click my profile picture. Additionally, the URL that's supposed to show where I would end up isn't working.
I must go do some urban painting now (lovely analogue paper and paints!) but I will not give up, and I'll be looking back into this soon.
Hi @Daniel de Kay , I have managed to create a sub account. I believe this account is the equivalent of a group, am I right? Or should I proceed to create a group inside this sub account?
So, if I've understood it correctly, a circle-group is basically one "person" that acts as a hub that everyone "in" the "group" shares messages with
so when one tags this "person" (by adding an exclamation mark — ! — in front of the "person"'s name), the "person" then forwards that message to everyone else that it has in "its contacts".
@jalanchee @jupiter_rowland @phle It’s exactly the analogy used to explain federation. ActivityPub an actor sends notifications to all the inboxes of their followers. Just like email.
And the group is then a mailing list, makes sense.
I think that the documentation is not up-to-date which is very confusing. The term Groups is replaced with Circles since release 2023.12. To create a new circle go to your.server/circle and press on the + next to Circles.
Wow, this repost from Pixelfed is really giving me a headache. Either the picture is blurred, or it’s showing two images—one blurred and one clear. I have no idea what’s going on. It’s a simple repost...
There was flat, uninteresting light in my room, so I decided to imagine my own dramatic lighting. (A really fun exercise!) If you look closely, you'll spot the shadow of a penguin; Feathers McGraw is standing in the hallway... waiting for me.
The dialogues for 'Lazy Dog' are written in rhyme. It adds both a poetic and humorous quality, giving the story a song-like rhythm.
I’ve also jotted down some exciting ideas for the film’s music—more on that once I’ve had a chance to experiment. Ultimately, I hope to collaborate with one of the composers we met at the Third Character Event at Film Fest Gent.
DOCTOR (mumbling) Ah, are we here for that? How droll… So that's why I couldn’t find a bullet hole…
I asked the Mona app developer about their product, if it was open-source and if content is handled any differently compared to using Mastodon/Friendica directly. The answer was: 'The app is closed-sourced. Your content is handled by the Mastodon server of your choice, inheriting all the “decentralized” features.' So there! 😀
I like drinking bottles. Did I say drinking? I meant drawing bottles. The main goal was to test out some new paint tubes: Phthalo Blue, Cobalt Turquoise, and Helio Turquoise. That, and having a gloeibier—a warm cherry beer. It sounds awful, but it's actually similar to Glühwein or mulled wine, which is quite nice on a cold winter day.
I'm test-driving Mobi. For some reason, it added a "Content Warning" to all my previous posts. Any idea why? (I’m not posting anything that requires a warning.)
It seems that I can only add one server in the official Mastodon iPhone app. As far as I can tell, I can't add a Friendica server there. Which other iPhone app would allow me to use multiple servers simultaneously? (Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, PeerTube)
I just discovered an app called Metatext that seems to do the job. It does Mastodon, Friendica and Pixelfed, but no PeerTube. Not that much of a problem, however the name is a bit of a problem of course… Metatext..!?
Okay, here we go. My first post. I'm new here, and boy, there's a lot to discover. At the same time I am discovering Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube and what have you. So bear with me. Thanks.
@Ruud Hey Ruud, even voor de zekerheid: Als ik zo op jouw bericht reageer, is dat dan openbaar of alleen voor jouw ogen? Ik heb je nu ook genoemd met een @. Helpt dat?
I love how a lot of us are or have migrated over the fediverse and decentralized social media platforms such as this, Mastodon, and Pixelfed. I am pretty new here myself!
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