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Diaspora pod diaspora.happeningin.eu is going on strike on the January 18th, to protest against the Internet Censorship Bill (SOPA)

January 15, 2012
Americas, Diaspora, English, Europe, IT, Middle East, Politics, Western Europe
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To all users of diaspora.happeningin.eu and connected pods,

We are going on strike on the January 18th, to protest against the Internet Censorship Bill (SOPA).

On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. We need internet companies to follow Reddit’s lead and stand up for the web, as we internet users are doing every day.

As most major services are located in the US, we are supporting the protest from Europe as well.

There will be NO service of any kind on diaspora.happeningin.eu until the January 19th.

http://sopastrike.com/

https://diaspora.happeningin.eu/posts/6259

Using the Diaspora* social network as your blog, website and/or publishing platform

December 18, 2011
English, Europe, IT, Western Europe
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Diaspora*, the free, open source, decentralized, non-profit, user-owned, distributed social network that is based upon the free Diaspora software, can also be used as your public blog, website or publishing platform,

After signing up and configuring your Diaspora account, all of your published posts marked as public will be then made available at your own Public Diaspora URL, a URL in the format of https://yourdiasporapod/u/yourusername; mine, from the screenshot above, is available at https://diaspora.happeningin.eu/u/rovemonteux.

There are no limits for the size of the posts, you can upload multiple images + videos all together in a single post and photos will come up in a lightbox-like/slideshow interface, you can categorize the posts using hashtags, and the process of creating new posts, uploading pictures and posting videos is both intuitive and effortless.

You can then add your own internet domain name  to your new blog/website, or redirect entries from your existing domain, like, say, blog.myname.com, to https://yourdiasporapod/u/yourusername, and effectively use Diaspora this way as your daily publishing software (Diaspora also have a mobile interface, making it also a Mobile Publishing Platform).

A simple and effective way to accomplish it when using the Apache Web Server is to use a mod_rewrite rule,

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.myname.com$

RewriteRule (.*) https://diaspora.happeningin.eu/u/myusername [R=301,L]

When buying a domain (.com, .net, .info, .co.uk, etc), you will also be offered a free “URL Forwarding” option –  this option will enable you to forward your domain to your public Diaspora page in minutes, even if you have no web server nor hosting account, making the only expense for the entire process the cost of your fully qualified domain itself, for the entire lifetime of the domain.

Or, alternatively, you can use a free fully qualified domain, such as the ones offered by dot.tk, what will result in something similar to http://myusername.tk/, http://myusernameblog.tk/, or any name domain at your wish plus the .tk; they will also give you a URL forwarding option, making everything absolutely free.

Live example: http://rovemonteux.tk/ and https://diaspora.happeningin.eu/posts/197.

Each individual public post will be then made available for index and inclusion in search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo! (this feature is disabled by default in most Diaspora pods – your pod need to enable it for it to become public, see note at the end of the post), and each individual entry will appear alone, in its own dedicated address as an individual entry in searches, or as a collection of posts in a blog-like page in the root of your new domain.

Please note that none of your non-public posts, ie. posts not marked as Public at the time of publishing, will be available to the internet, thus will not be available in your new address and/or Public Diaspora profile. Posts marked as Aspect-only (default) only reach people you authorized to be in the same Aspect (group), and only.

You can also publish a Public post from inside Diaspora to Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr all in one go, after you setup the external services at Profile->Settings->Services (https://diaspora.happeningin.eu/services).

Below is a screenshot of a post of mine on Diaspora (the video is automatically rendered after posting the YouTube address, and clicking the camera icon enables you to easily upload and publish as many photos as you wish at once), and you can format messages ie. name links, use bold and italic nested or in their own, quote text, etc (see https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Message-Formatting),

And the same post automatically published to a Facebook account,

More information

Diaspora @ Happening in EU

podupti.me

Note for public Diaspora pod hosts and users: Edit your robots.txt file and remove the /u/ rule to enable the indexing of public user pages and posts; the same is enabled on Diaspora @ Happening in EU (https://diaspora.happeningin.eu/robots.txt). No private profile information, gender and location is ever made public, and users can disallow indexing and search for their own accounts in profile settings (https://diaspora.happeningin.eu/profile/edit).

Update, 20th of December 2011:  The following is a screenshot of a Google Search for “Rove Monteux Stream of Passion“; it shows my public Diaspora stream with a preview, the post mentioned in this article with its correct publishing date (“2 days ago”), correct title and description, tons of Google +1 buttons around them all, and as I have lots of contacts in the developer’s Pod joindiaspora.com, the third result is a copy of this same Public post that automatically went to tag stream “Metal” in that Pod,

 

Update, 21st of December 2011: While going through Diaspora’s source code, I have find out that the maximum length of a post in Diaspora is 65535 characters; that is enough space for a very long blog-like post. Tumblr have a 1000 characters limit, Twitter 140 and Facebook 420.

‎Česká republika: Špatný vzduch nad Ostrava (Tschechien: Dicke Luft über Ostrava)

December 13, 2011
Czech, Deutsch, Europe
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Die Luft ist zum Schneiden, den ganzen Tag brennen die Lichter.

Eine dicke Smogglocke hängt über der nordmährischen Stadt.

Schuld sind die Stahl- und Hüttenwerke, aber auch Privathaushalte mit der noch weit verbreiteten Ofenheizung.

Ostrava

Vzduch je střih, světlo hořet po celý den.

Tlustý Smogglocke visí nad městem severu Moravy.

Dluh je z oceli a železa práce, ale i domácnosti sohřívací pece, které i nadále velmi rozšířená.

Video: http://mediathek.daserste.de/sendungen_a-z/342024_europamagazin/8736980_tschechien-dicke-luft-ueber-ostrava

Capitalism: “Miss another payment and we take the blanket.”

October 3, 2011
Americas, English, Europe, Middle East, Opinion, Politics, Western Europe
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A hint on the ruthless nature of this predatory system promoted by the gambling politicians of democracy; the same politicians that have undoubtedly succeeded in provoking an unpredictable catastrophe, for the sake of a corporatocrat system with an artificial superiority complex, sustained by the gambling, lobbying and bullying of a self-interested minority elite.

Capitalism is the immoral distribution of capital, a corporatocrat tyranny.

Corporatocracy, in social theories that focus on conflicts and opposing interests within society, denotes a system of government that serves the interest of, and may be run by, corporations and involves ties between government and business. Where corporations, conglomerates, and/or government entities with private components, control the direction and governance of a country, including carrying out economic planning (notwithstanding the “free market” label).

If you don’t understand what are the practical social results of Corporatocracy and unfair distribution of capital, or even go as far as not acknowledging that there is a huge social problem in your Democrat Capitalist country, because it simply does not affects you, you are probably rich, and part of the said 1% “elite” that control the country and does everything for themselves while drinking champagne and sticking a big middle finger at the other 99%; which are basically the skint wage slaves, the people being ripped off by the banks, the people suffering from lack of infrastructure, the unemployed, and the, plainly said, people in misery.

A country has to be run for the country’s own people (99%), not in the name of every self-interested, dubious needs and demands of corporations, institutions and the elite (1%).

The fact that people are allowed to live in misery, alone, is a violation of articles 22 and 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

The first policy of any given country should be to guarantee fair distribution of capital, as in guarantee basic services and lifestyle to all of its people, guarantee a fair level of education and completely ban unemployment, as in redefining its system and structure to meet the most basic needs of its own people.

Capitalism: “Miss another payment and we take the blanket.”

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