Anmol Sharma

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:42:34 +0530 from Anmol says

If anyone wants to switch to git and doesn't want to wait for the manual #Hubzilla or #Streams updates for #yunohost, here are the steps.

Anmol Sharma wrote the following post Mon, 23 Oct 2023 03:24:48 +0530

I tried to implement git for the #hubzilla, #zap and #streams #yunohost packages a long time ago. But they removed it while I was away from yunohost.

Here are the steps I wrote for @RockyIII (rockyiii@huby.infozoo.de)
Please feel to improve it.

So, you need to backup your instance first. Yunohost way is prefered, but you can do it manually too(you just need to backup the /var/www/hubzilla folder and the hubzilla mysql database).

$ yunohost backup create -n hubzilla_version_date --app hubzilla --debug

First move the hubzilla folder.

$ mv /var/www/hubzilla /var/www/hubzilla_backup

Clone the Hubzilla in to the /var/www/.

$ cd /var/www
$ git clone https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core.git hubzilla
$ cd hubzilla
$ util/add_addon_repo https://framagit.org/hubzilla/addons.git hzaddons
$ util/importdoc

Copy your files from the hubzilla_backup to hubzilla.

$ cd /var/www/
$ cp -av hubzilla_backup/.htconfig.php hubzilla/.
$ cp -av hubzilla_bacup/store hubzilla/.
$ cp -av hubzilla_backup/cache hubzilla/.

Give proper rights.

$ cd /var/www/
$ chmod -R o-rwx hubzilla
$ chown -R hubzilla:www-data hubzilla
$ chmod -R 775 hubzilla/store hubzilla/cache

Create a log file.

$ cd /var/www
$ touch hubzilla/php.log

Now it should work. Test it, if everything works you can safely remove /var/www/hubzilla_backup.
If things do not work as expected, you have two options. 1. mv hubzilla_backup to hubzilla(risky as database will be updated to latest version).

Restore with the Yunohost the normal way.

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:13:13 +0530 last edited: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 23:53:08 +0530 from Anmol says

Nesting #meta #threads comments is not that great to look at. It is hard to understand and feels a lot like the #misskey nesting.
I have seen a few different approaches to nesting and I liked the way #pleroma shows the nested #comments as tags in the parent comment. And the most unique is the #streams nesting with incremental coloured triangles.

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:27:26 +0530 from Anmol says

A few days ago, when I was using #instagram, I was looking for features that would be new to me. But to be honest, it all seems to have been copied from what we've seen on most of the platforms used by the #fediverse.
Instagram just offers a few gimmicks to make the normal, less informative posts look more attractive.
Instagram's selling point is mass following and likes, which has never fascinated #fediverse settlers.

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:13:52 +0530 from Anmol says

And for a while I got carried away with these fascinating #AI generated posts on #instagram and wanted something similar here and Mike said we're not in the emoji business, we're in security and privacy. And that made me realise that really fancy pictures can't explain the reality, I found out that most things are made up to get validation from people who are just giving validation to get the same in return for their made up things.
The driving force is I will call you #cool if you call me cool.

Anmol Sharma

anmol@anmol.net.in