BeardlyDavid @fssofdeath@librem.one
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Joined Jun 2019
BeardlyDavid
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this site is so weird. how do I know how many internet points I won? how do I know what to be outraged about? I feel like I could just put it down at any moment and go to bed at a reasonable hour, and then check it again tomorrow if I felt like it, in a healthy way. what the fuck
Hi! @anmaeriel
I’m from Québec as well and I’m into all the nerdy stuff! I’m here I mainly post about #floss and #cybersecurity but I’m down for video games 😀
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You may be aware that there is something called the #Fediverse.
But do you know about all the different types of applications that run on the Fediverse?
I made this visual to give myself and others something to point at when explaining "the big picture".
You may be surprised by how many services beyond Mastodon there are to explore.
Download it for free here and use as you please:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/
That post also has links to all the different applications.
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Have you ever noticed that the number of devices you are using daily is continuously growing, but it is ever harder to run #FreeSoftware on them? In 2022 we kicked off #DeviceNeutrality and succeeded in the Digital Markets Act
More info: fsfe.org/news/2022/news…
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Does anyone want the computer pictured here? You can have the (somehow fully in box, although I believe it's repacked) monitor too if you want it
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It feels like it should have been the first thing in the #fediverse
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Si jamais ça peut vous intéresser : j'ai fait un mini-tutoriel "comment rejoindre Mastodon" (avec l'approche de quelqu'un qui a créé un compte il y a moins de 24h 😅) : https://twitter.com/a_berut/status/1587748363348344832?s=20&t=cKorztsTc72txW8exVsEUQ
(je l'ai fait sur Twitter, parce que ça n'aurai pas eu de sens de le faire sur Mastodon alors que les gens sont déjà là, je suppose 
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When it comes to content warnings, they're more of a liberation than a censorship. They allow you to say things into a crowd that would be difficult to say normally without a pre-warning
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Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them https://beehaw.org/post/176792
@mike well said! It seems that these days things aren’t considered desirable or successful unless they become viral and balloon to an unmanageable size. That’s such a toxic attitude. #mastodon is beautiful as it is and a steady stream of interesting people will always beat a surge of idiots in my book.
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@killyourfm and we appreciate the effort! #fediverse FTW!
I quite agree with you but there’s something you might be overlooking:
The features companies code in for their own purposes are often the basis used by other devs to build more user friendly stuff. Basically the companies pay to get a lot of the base level stuff done and then we can all build upon it.
That being said: I’m still in the fence about corporate involvement. It’s unavoidable but I wish we could mitigate it better than “mutually assured destruction”
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A few viewers have expressed concerns about how much of #Linux is built and coded by big tech companies. Let's see how true this is, and of that's really an issue!
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Federal regulations require me to warn you that Waydroid on Librem 5... is looking pretty good!
@josh welcome to the #fediverse very nice to have you here 🥳
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Hey friends, there is a scheduled maintenance window tonight from 9-11 PM EDT.
https://status.bitwarden.com/issues/6331870df4e01e6e40699c5c
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The #LinkedIn study is, without doubt, ethically inconsiderate. But we should still be concerned with its finding: within "people should use LinkedIn more" is the fact that #capitalism has reduced most #relations to "weak ties" of just faces & values (usefulness for jobhunting). How can we build a large, diverse (perspective-wise) #community, if all we have is just faces that we don't even try to understand? Because such a community isn't profitable for us?
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"Nextcloud works with governments to create MS Office rival for the EU!"
