The news.cosocial.ca server is now updated to Lemmy v0.18. Changes are described in the release announcement

I did hit the server error and set icon to null to fix from using ansible to deploy.

cross-posted from: https://news.cosocial.ca/post/3965

I’ll have to add it to my Espresso Tonic List.

Also Razzy-Jazzy iced tea, cold brew, and whatever Raspberry Ripple Cold Brew is.

What other Vancouver cafes have espresso tonics or other fun drinks?

cross-posted from: https://news.cosocial.ca/post/4190

I just went to see the current exhibition at the New Media Gallery, DUST:

Search and you will find dust woven through the universe; swept up, dispersed and deposited across the globe; collecting in every corner of our lives. All of humanity lives on a fragment of cosmic dust…and we are dust. Visible, invisible, meaningful, reviled; dust has been exploited by artists as material, subject, ontology and here as landscape…full of properties, concepts and relationships and the potential to convey expansive ideas, Dust has been handed down to us through histories, words and images. In this exhibition it is interpreted through complex technologies, data collection, augmented videography and sound. DUST brings together three award-winning artists who have created extraordinary, populated landscapes, each underscored with striking aggregations of sound.

Features 3 artists:

• Denis Beaubois, No longer Adrift (2013, updated 2023)
• Her

I’ll have to add it to my Espresso Tonic List.

Also Razzy-Jazzy iced tea, cold brew, and whatever Raspberry Ripple Cold Brew is.

What other Vancouver cafes have espresso tonics or other fun drinks?

cross-posted from: https://news.cosocial.ca/post/3896

Walking through Woodland Park yesterday and saw this sign and went and looked up the event

A celebration of the rich cultural traditions of the West Coast Indigenous peoples.

Every Wednesday night through the summer starting June 21, 6 PM to 9 PM.

This is a family event. Alcohol and drug free.

Walking through Woodland Park yesterday and saw this sign and went and looked up the event

A celebration of the rich cultural traditions of the West Coast Indigenous peoples.

Every Wednesday night through the summer starting June 21, 6 PM to 9 PM.

This is a family event. Alcohol and drug free.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1249965

Guide: One way you can take advantage of federation is by opening a different instance, like ds9.lemmy.ml, and browsing it. If you see an interesting community, post or user that you want to interact with, just copy its URL and paste it into the search of your own instance. Your instance will connect to the other one (assuming the allowlist/blocklist allows it), and directly display the remote content to you, so that you can follow a community or comment on a post. Here are some examples of working searches:

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- !main@lemmy.ml (Community)
- @nutomic@lemmy.ml (User)
- https://lemmy.ml/c/programming (Community)  
- https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic (User)
- https://lemmy.ml/post/123 (Post)
- https://lemmy.ml/comment/321 (Comment)

  

*You can see the list of linked instances by following the "Instances" link at the bottom of any Lemmy pag

cross-posted from: https://cosocial.ca/users/boris/statuses/110590325981847185

DWebYVR Organizers Garden Gathering June 30th

https://lu.ma/pjdlgvpi

We're doing a catch up next Friday afternoon to talk about what to work on next for #DWebYVR, plus share what we're all working on.

Open to all, come meet us in the garden if you want to organize or attend events in Vancouver.

cross-posted from: https://news.cosocial.ca/post/3451

Takahē is a Python ActivityPub server whose original goal was supporting multiple domains from one install:

When I started the project, my main goal was to show that multi-domain support for a single ActivityPub server was possible; once I had achieved that relatively early on, I sort of fell down the default path of implementing a lightweight clone of Mastodon/Twitter.

I love the new direction, focusing on identity:

So, my new design goal is now to really take advantage of the multi-domain support and provide an experience that lets a diverse set of people, projects or companies, with a set of different domain names, logos and design ideas, all exist on the same server but still have their own profiles and identities that they can shape more in line with what they want.

Will support microblogging, but be focused on a sort of homepage functionality.

Takahē is a Python ActivityPub server whose original goal was supporting multiple domains from one install:

When I started the project, my main goal was to show that multi-domain support for a single ActivityPub server was possible; once I had achieved that relatively early on, I sort of fell down the default path of implementing a lightweight clone of Mastodon/Twitter.

I love the new direction, focusing on identity:

So, my new design goal is now to really take advantage of the multi-domain support and provide an experience that lets a diverse set of people, projects or companies, with a set of different domain names, logos and design ideas, all exist on the same server but still have their own profiles and identities that they can shape more in line with what they want.

Will support microblogging, but be focused on a sort of homepage functionality.

The tooling we’re building for moderation tries to take into consideration how social spaces are formed and shaped through communities.

Today, we’re publishing some proposals for new moderation and safety tooling. The first focuses on user lists and reply controls which can be used for community-driven moderation. The second will focus on moderator services and how they can handle problems that small communities can’t. The third is for Hashtags, which are not directly related to moderation but can have a large effect on customizing what you see. (We wanted to include this to distinguish between the labeling proposal, which is intended to address moderation, and mechanisms for discovery.)

The goal of Bluesky is to rebuild social networking so that there’s not a lock-in to the founding company, which is us. We can try to provide a cohesive, enjoyable experience, but there’s always an exit. Users can move their accounts to other providers. Developers can run their own connected

I did a bunch of experiments today and ... thoroughly confused myself, so I wrote down a bunch of things and took screenshots.

Here's what I learned:

(I have more protocol info but ultimately this is the lived experience of working across different software systems, federation, and the actual client / front end web experiences that people interact through)

Paste Lemmy URLs

Various things "just work" by pasting URLs into the Mastodon web interface or the Mastodon mobile app.

Posting the link to this post https://lemmy.ca/post/606549 finds this post

Clicking on the user profile shows me a profile for Doctor_Pi@lemmy.ca, with one post displayed. Including a follow button

Only one post is shown, because that's all that's available on the local server r

Using feedsin.space is pretty straightforward. First, you need to authenticate with the website by sending a message from your mastodon account to @admin@feedsin.space with the word "help". You'll get a response with a link you can click on to authenticate with the website. Then, you can create an account on feedsin.space by specifying a username for the account and the RSS feed you want to follow. Assuming everything looks good, there will be an account created at @username@feedsin.space, which you can follow from your Mastodon account,

Steps to use Feeds in Space

Send the word "help" to the @admin@feedsin.space account. In the screenshot, I'm sending a DM / private mention

The bot will respond with a login link, also via DM

I'm now logged in and can add feeds

![](https://news.cosocial.ca/pictrs/image/22b01

I asked someone who moved here from Nigeria so I have one one tip now.

Background from Serious Eats is interesting

It was then that I learned about the roots of this dish in the kingdom of Jolof, a historic 15th- to 18th-century state in the Wolof-Senegambian region, on the southern edge of the Sahara far to the west of Nigeria.

the Dyula ethnic group, famed merchants who established trade routes throughout the region centuries ago, were responsible for the dispersal of jollof south of the Sahara, taking it with them as they traveled. Today, every country in West Africa has a version of jollof, each reflecting its particular history and influences. Several regions beyond the African continent also have versions that speak to how far it has spread, particularly via the transatlantic slave trade—Lowcountry red rice and New Orleans jambalaya in the American South are both descended from jollof rice.

From Montecristo Magazine, covers Trinidadian Baby Dhal on The Drive and new-to-me Jamaican ghost kitchen Yardie Grabz.

[Baby Dhal’s] Mohammed and Hinkson pay tribute to many long-running Caribbean restaurants, such as Rehannah’s Roti and Trinidadian in Port Moody, The Lion’s Den Café, Riddim and Spice, and D Roti Shak, owned by Mohammed’s father in New Westminster.

Haye, Mohammed, and [Yardie Grabz] Hinkson see themselves as part of a small yet growing community—which includes Calabash Bistro, The Loft, Di Reggae Café in Surrey, and The Patty Shop—that continues the hard work done by an earlier generation.

TIL that individual users can choose to block an entire instance.

I somehow thought this was a server admin only feature.

I made a series of images for an Instagram post I made about migrating to the fediverse. I figured I'd share with anyone else who wants to use, so I included some blank template versions too. DM if you'd like the Adobe Illustrator file so you can make your own edits. And please,comment if I got anything wrong so I can correct it.

A great series of images explaining the Fediverse as well as federation and defederation.

Have been translated into a number of languages, including French.

Signing up here currently causes a little spinner and nothing happens, and it doesn't seem like you signed up.

You are signed up! Your account is held for approval.

An admin will see your application, and will approve it, and will need to reach out to you to let you know, and then you'll be able to login with the username and password you selected.

I posted the original post to LemmyCa with my LemmyCa account https://lemmy.ca/post/716848

I’m following !vancouver@lemmy.ca (search for it and follow in Mastodon with @vancouver@lemmy.ca)

That account boosts the OP as well as all of the comments.

My replies / comments are now all from this server, with my account here.

You can read it quite well in your Mastodon client. You can’t (currently) reply with a Mastodon account to turn it into a comment.

The legendary VanEats was a long running project by Roland Tanglao, documenting eating in Vancouver in one of the first food blogs (maybe the first in Vancouver?)

This is the community edition! Post reviews, argue about best ofs, document rare ingredients. Anything restaurant & food related for Vancouver and surroundings is a great fit.

Intro yourself in the comments, and link any websites or accounts where you share your food adventures.