Thank you for the explanation. The storage- and cost factors are very good reasons. You are right: Thumbnails are a bonus, not a requirement. And should people want to have thumbnails in the previews, they can always choose the Pleroma frontend.
I saw that and it's the first time I see such empty boxes on any instance. They seem to appear because I inserted links. With the exception oy youtube video, all links on gnusocial.jp seem to show empty boxes at first (which to me feels intended like some form of CW). When you change to the pleroma backend for gnusocial.fp, the content of the links is shown immediately.
@gnusocialjp Oh, I didn't know that senooken was your server. I heard about it back then. But more to today's issues, I think your estimate is correct that the language barrier (between this or that European language on the one hand and Japanese on the other hand) may be a major factor in this mutual silence. Which is a pitty, and somethign we'll have to work on.
But I have one question that is is probably due to the machine translation which tells me that "we started the gnusocial.jp public server in July 2022" (ただ、現在のGNU socialの状況に強い危機感をもって、gnusocial.jpの公開サーバーを2022年7月に始めました). Does that mean that you started the server with some other people, or is this a special way of saying that your started it alone?
Irrespective of all that, it's a huge task to be willing to shoulder the development of gnusocial all alone. You have my respect and gratitude for this. Thank you for providing this instance and allowing me to be with it.
Well, I had these people in mind https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/src/nightly/CREDITS.md of whom you said in an early post that they didn't respond to you. Furthermore, gnusocial.net which relies on this fork, has a mostly Spanish-speaking user base whereas gnusocial.jp, with you as main developer, is for the most part Japanese speaking. Contacts between both sides seem rare or non-existent. And I was wondering why and how that happened.
@hannes
Hi there. I'm not sure if you remember me back from the days on Quitter around 2016. We had a acrimonious split back then which later on I regretted a lot. So for the rough departure and the bitter tone in our last exchanges I want to apologize. I was pretty out of my mind back then, felt underappreciated and bossed around. Our topical differences may have been resolvable in a better way. Looking back I can only say: Silly me. I'm sorry for the way I treated you back then.
I never shared your political leanings (or not to that extent) and your activism but I admired your dedication with which you concentrated on developing and keeping afloat Quitter. Thank you for your (and @3mp0's) tremendous efforts.
All the years I was wondering what has happened to you after you shut down Quitter (and seemingly sold your flat of which you then posted lovely images on the picture sharing site you deveoped but whose name I long have forgotten). Are you well these days? How are you doing? Is your life more tranquil nowadays? Do you succeeded (a bit) in your efforts to leave "standard society"?
Anyway, I hope you are well and I wish you the best.
@gnusocialjp
I don't think that one has to use gnusocial in order to be a developer of gnusocial. Also I heard from the administrator of gnusocial.net that they do make progress, slowly but steady. I don't know why they ignored your contributions on their development channels. Whether the administrator of gnusocial has the capability to code I cannot say. He once said he lacks programming skills but he was able to fix even quite complex problenms on his site.
@gnusocialjp
I usually write in English and German. But as I know that your instance is in Japan I thought it would spare you time and effort if I add machine-made translations of my posts into Japanese. Please feel free to write solely in Japanese, I will use Google translation to convert your messages.
The admin of gnusocial.net was doing that, I have no idea how he did it. But I put the account from which I don't receive upodates into a list and perhaps that works. Would be funny to see.
I'm sorry to tell you that I'm not a tech savvy person, especially not a developer, so I can't help with coding and the like.
Sorry to bother you, but I don't receive updates from an account I subscribe to: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral Normally on gnusocial it suffices when the administrator refreshes my subscription list. Could you please try that? I'll tell if it is successful.
May I ask who did all the themes in gnusocial.jp? Did you or someone on your team create them? I was really surprised to find them because on other gnusocial instances I never encountered them..
This is a sad story. I made some harsh (the admin of gnusocial.net would say: rude) comments at a moderator of a third instance who told a friend of mine to put sensitivity content warnings on some of his posts. (I can elaborate on this in a different post if you wish.) The admin of gnusocial asked me to take down the post to which I complied.
As the moderator kept addressing me, I asked her to stop which she didn't. I then asked the admin of gnusocial.net to do something about it so that this moderator could no longer address me. (gnusocial.net doesn't have the qvitter interface that allows a user to mute or block somebody else.) To which the adminstrator reacted dismissively.
But it was this moment that an already longer discussion between him and me (via email) about me leaving the instance due to differences of what is an appropriate behaviour on his instance culminated in him deciding to first "silence" (i.e., sandbox) me and then delete my account. He did send a backup of my data in form of an atom-file which I can open with a text editor, but no RSS reader is capable of displaying it. All in all, the impact has been hefty: destroying a lot of conversations across instances and damaging my ability to have access to my past data, posts, bookmarks, musings.
As I said, it's a sad story because with the exception of me not agreeing with all of what he thinks is a proper and polite behaviour on his instance I got along with him pretty well. We've talked a lot about gnusocial, about glitches in the software, and bug observations I sent him. I regret this development.
I truly hope that my stay on gnusocial.jp doesn't create a similiar fallout. Please give proper warnings and heads-up right in time when you see me do something or act in a way you don't deem fit. It is still your instance and I don't want to do any harm.
The main reason why Quitter.se in particular stood out in 2016 was that its admins and developers Hannes Mannerheim and @3mp0 created a UI resembling features of Twitter (which is why it was called Qvitter), with the goal to help Twitter users move to the Fediverse.
Today, with ActivityPub the main protocol and Mastodon the main platform software in the fediverse, gnusocial is a niche project. Gnusocial.net seems to be the largest one.