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--- gettingstartedwithpumpio [2014/08/09 13:47] – [Getting an Account on Pump.io] sekula
+++ gettingstartedwithpumpio [2014/12/19 11:38] (current) – [But how do I USE pump.io?] sekula
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 ====== Getting Started With Pump.io - by Stephen Sekula ======
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 New users of federated social networks may, at first, be a bit confused about simple things that seem so obvious on Facebook and Twitter. People coming from another Federated network to pump.io may find it hard to locate people, etc.
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 You can find me over at https://hub.polari.us/steve
+Other people than me have also written about getting started on Pump.io. Check these out if you don't like what I have to say:
+  *  Jan Kusanagi, developer of the Dianara pump.io client, explains how pump.io is not identi.ca and many other great things.
+    * English version: [[https://identi.ca/jankusanagi/note/IpfiW7kBQYuXt6H7odMzQQ]]
+    * Spanish version: [[http://comunicatelibremente.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/si-tu-servidor-pump-io-es-identi-ca/]].
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 http://pump.io/tryit.html
-This link sends you to a random, known pump.io server with open registration. Make an account. Upload your avatar image. Describe yourself so that when others find your profile, they find you interesting enough to want to follow. Don't be an avatar-less, descriptionless nobody. C'mon, commit to openness! :-)
+This link sends you to a random, known pump.io server with open registration. Make an account. Upload your avatar image. Describe yourself. Be as brief or verbose, as accurate or as inaccurate as you like.
 Need inspiration or, at least, an example of what NOT to do? Check out my profile: https://hub.polari.us/steve
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 Your identity on pump.io is tied to your "webfinger," a string like steve@hub.polari.us. It identifies me to all other pump.io instances via my username on the instance and the name of the instance. With this, I can log into any other instance, follow people, have people follow me, etc.
+==== Identity and Pump.io ====
+Many corporate social networks (like Facebook and, until recently, Google+) require you to use your real name to get an account. For a variety of reasons, there are many people who prefer to socialize without having to reveal their identity. Pump.io is one of many federated social networks that assumes that you are the best judge of how to use your identity. You can setup an account without using your real name, home address, or other personal information. Pump.io cannot promise total anonymity, but it's better than what Facebook can offer you.
 ===== How do I find people? =====
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 There are a few ways to find people on pump.io:
-  * **Randomly finding people who seem interesting**: visit a "Hubub" instance. Hubub is a way of spam-filtering the open "firehose" of public posts from pump.io. There are a few of these: https://hubub.polari.us, http://hubub.jpope.org/. You can also just visit the open firehose, but it's not pretty. Hubub makes it pretty, mostly spam-free, and easy to go back in the history a few hours.
+  * **Randomly finding people who seem interesting**: visit a "PPump" instance. PPump presents a spam-filtered view of the open "firehose" of public posts from pump.io. There are a few of these: [[https://hub.polari.us/public]], [[https://pump.mamalibre.com.ar/]], and [[https://www.inventati.org/ppump/]]. You can also just visit the open firehose, but it's not pretty. PPump makes it pretty, mostly spam-free, and easy to go back in the history a few hours. It also gives a list of users across the network ranked by their number of followers.
     * https://ofirehose.com
     * RSS feeds of the open firehose: http://ppump.redaustral.tk/rss.php, https://pump.mamalibre.com.ar/
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       * https://io.jpope.org/jpope
-===== But how do I USE pump.io? =====
+===== I am interested in more than people. Are there any robots I can follow? =====
+You bet! We welcome all to the federated social web, including our transhuman friends. Here are a few nice ones:
+  * X11R5: the iconic botscript that uses some machine learning plus sampling posts from the social network to (a) construct its own posts (they are indescribable - just follow the bot to see what I mean) and (b) reply to yours. X11R5 also shares posts, likes posts. You'd swear it was a living 7-year-old. [[https://identi.ca/x11r5]]
+  * WeatherBot: want to know the weather in a city? Just follow weather@hub.polari.us ([[https://hub.polari.us/weather]] and send it messages containing "City Name,Region" to get the weather in that city. For instance, you could send "Jefferson City,MO" to get the weather in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA . . . or "Uppsala,SE" to get the weather in Uppsala, Sweden. Try it out. This is still a beta-bot. Lots more information is at [[http://polari.us/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=weatherbot]]
+  * Jeremy Pope runs a whole bunch of neat botscripts. Check them out! [[http://www.whird.jpope.org/bashscriptville-part-ii/]]
+===== But how do I USE pump.io? (You need a client) =====
 You, my friend, need a CLIENT. Pump.io is just a network protocol - you need something that speaks the language. Here are my suggestions:
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   * **Desktop Clients**:
     * I use Linux and sometimes Mac, so I like Pumpa (https://pumpa.branchable.com/) and Dianara (http://jancoding.wordpress.com/dianara/). You can even get clients in Windows. Check out the full list of desktop clients at https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/wiki/Clients
+      * [[http://systal.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/dianara-a-client-for-the-decentralized-and-free-social-network-pump-io/|Dianara How-To Guide]]
   * **Mobile Clients**:
     * I use Android most of the time, so I recommend getting either Impeller (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.e43.impeller) or Puma. Both are available from the F-Droid store. Impeller is also available on Google Play.
     * For iOS, there is "Social Monkeys" - it's not free, but it's worth the small amount of money it costs: http://www.roguemonkey.in/
+  * **Clients in the Terminal**
+    * "p": the Python/Pump.io equivalent of "t" (for Twitter, written in Ruby), you can check your activity stream and inbox, send messages, reply to messages, post images, etc. I love this. [[https://github.com/xray7224/p/]]
 ===== Pump.io and Your Language - it's a client thing =====
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 You can define groups most easily using the Web Interface. Go to your account settings and play with your groups. You can then set your default posting choices in many clients (e.g. only post by default to your "Family" or "Friends" group). You can also set, on a post-by-post basis, who gets to see it. If a feature is missing from a client, complain politely but firmly to the client author. It will get fixed.
+===== Administrator Tips =====
+So you're administrating a Pump.io site. Here are some tips.
+==== Oh Noes! One or more of my users don't have associated email addresses! ====
+Not to worry - you can actually fairly quickly edit the database directly and add the field. My instance uses MongoDB. Here is how you add a missing email address for a user in MongoDB:
+<code>
+Connect to your MongoDB:
+> mongo --host <IP ADDRESS>
+List your available databases:
+> show dbs
+Select the database for your pump.io instance:
+> use <PUMPIO DATABASE NAME>
+Print all your users' records to find the one you want
+(HINT: look for the "_id" data member in a record):
+> db.user.find()
+Once you have found the "_id" you are looking for (in this example,
+I will use "steve"), you can add the "email" entry to the
+record:
+> db.user.update({_id: "steve"}, {$set : { email: "email@example.com"} } )
+Now check the record again:
+> db.user.find( { _id: "steve" } )
+to verify the email entry is present. At this point, this user will
+start to get email notifications at that address if there is activity
+related to them on pump.io.
+</code>