Adam @adam@librem.one

#FollowFriday / #FF recap of this week's recommended follows:

🌟 @gancio - Libre online community calendar with Fediverse support

🌟 @veloren - FOSS open world RPG with online multiplayer support, sort of Breath Of The Wild / Minecraft hybrid.

🌟 @sergeaus - Skilful Australian photographer

🌟 https://social.bund.de/explore - German Government's official Mastodon instance

🌟 @wikihow - Randomly combined WikiHow images and titles

🌟 @gxabbo - Videos about languages, especially Esperanto

RT @candiwrites@twitter.com

If you work in product, content or UX design, accessibility is part of your job.

Not someone else’s.

Pass it on.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/candiwrites/status/1496946269914284040

I've been able to get my hands on the #TruthSocial source code (they do have a link to it on their website, although their website is not accessible to me).

They have disabled federation features. I absolutely expected that, just confirming it for others. It is just another walled garden.

Veloren is a FOSS open world multiplayer RPG, sort of like a cross between Breath Of The Wild and Minecraft. You can follow the official account at:

➡️ @veloren

It's available for Linux, Mac and Windows from the official website at https://veloren.net

Veloren includes online multiplayer options, and you can host your own server if you want to.

#Veloren #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Gaming #Games #Game #VideoGames #VideoGame #OpenWorld #Voxel #RPG #RPGs #SelfHosting

"Are you a rockstar/ninja/unicorn developer? Come join us!"

submitted by 1ByteIdiot

Our Favourite Free/Libre & Open Source F-Droid Android Apps (reclaim your privacy & freedom!) https://diode.zone/videos/watch/2308de03-196a-48b2-868f-a046b27bec36

💬 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
🗣️ Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

💬 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
🗣️ Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

💬 "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."
🗣️ Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995

💬 "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will."
🗣️ Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal messenger, 2022

Bob Saget's website is down because it's written in Drupal and too many people visited it.

Manyverse is a free open source "off the grid" social network. Each user's data is stored on their own computer or phone instead of on a server. You can follow the project at:

➡️ @manyver_se

There are apps for Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android, available from the website at https://www.manyver.se

Manyverse is part of the SSB/Scuttlebutt network.

#Manyverse #SSB #Scuttlebutt #OffTheGrid #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

So-called "web3" is about decentralization, if by decentralization you mean adding a bunch of much more expensive and totally unaccountable middlemen.

25 years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Signal is owned by a non-profit, the Signal Foundation, which is headed by Whatsapp creator Brian Acton.

If Facebook/Google/Amazon offers Signal Foundation, for example, $20 billion to Signal either as a purchase or a "donation" or some kind of partnership agreement, what happens next?

We don't know.

What we do know is most Signal users would be stuck the same way most Whatsapp users were when its privacy was degraded.

Centralisation is dangerous.

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#TIL about Scribe, a free code front end that does on medium.com articles what Invidio.us does on YT videos and Nitter on Titter posts:

https://scribe.rip/faq

#Scribe #Medium

@brennen Email.

Everybody loves to hate on email and tries to replace it with something else. But long after those "something elses" are gone, #email will still be here.

If WhatsApp infrastructure were owned by users, not Facebook, then #FacebookDown could only affect one household at a time. Communicating with family and work is too important to be the job of one company. Decentralize now! #EmailFTW

The talk “Diving deep into Briar - a closer look at its internals” is now online.

"After shortly introducing Briar and talking about the features it offers, I showed how Briar works on the lower levels and how it makes use of the Bramble Protocols."
It's available on #peertube and youtube.

more here:
https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2021/diving-at-xmpp/