João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.

Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.

The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whyisthefediverseonsomanyseparateservers

Ontem vi umas pessoas cegas na rua.. Dei por mim a descrever-lhes as cores do meu cão.. Como se estivesse a descrever uma imagem aqui no #mastodon obrigado software por modificares código fonte biológico do meu ser.

É incrivel o poder que o software. Que o cyberespaco tem sobre os nossos comportamentos

Some people "Things can't go viral on #mastodon

#JohnMastodon: "Hold my beer."

A rare photo of #JohnMastodon, late 1960s, being caught by his wife, #JoanMastodon, sending indiscreet messages to a female user. That was the moment when he decided to add the direct messages feature to the code.

On this invisibilised and therefore rare photo, #JoanMastodon and #ClaudetteMastodon (respectively the wife and daughter of #JohnMastodon, too frequently erased from the History of the federated network!) are seen hard-wiring some toots to some hashtags, in an early prototype of instance. (ca. 1926)

@PublicChaffinch "tonight, one of you will betray me with crossposts"

John Mastodon explaining the federated timeline to the new users

@tinker #BeingJohnMastodon

"I only go on Twitter to find people's Mastodon account info" is the new "I only use IE to download Chrome".

Version 2 of the UI!

Note that if you choose not to fill out one of the sections, it will not appear, so you can have as little or as much on the GUI as you want. All entries are strings, so you can customize it to your liking.

Same goes for the contacts, you can add as many as you want!

Now I have a Oneplus6 phone, should be easier to fix issues:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/commit/62ed7654a79b286c46df119025c773dac3eabb97

Lot of fixes in Lollypop coming soon.

#postmarketos #mobian #mobileLinux

Since #phosh made lockscreen widgets a plugin, I actually found it is prettty easy to make one yourself! I have been playing around with one that displays emergency info and emergency contacts.

Is there anything obvious I am missing from it? I got these from Android. Note that a user can add/remove/edit Emergency Contacts as they wish. (My hope is to merge this back into Phosh proper).

Probably also worth noting:

My dear twitter refugees,

As you are grieving the communities you are leaving behind, please remember Musk bought a platform, not a community.

YOU built the communities, and you will build them again.

#twitterMigration

@fosdem has just announced the list of accepted stands for this year edition, and we're thrilled to see that the Ubuntu Ecosystem stand was accepted, as we're part of the orga for it, and will be represented there.
We also see and are also very happy that the Linux on Mobile stand was also accepted, and we will also be doing collaborations with the #MobileLinux community over there.
https://fosdem.org/2023/news/2022-12-08-accepted-stands-fosdem-2023/

#FOSDEM2023 #Ubuntu #UbuntuTouch #UBports

I'm very excited to see our #Linux on #Mobile stand was accepted for #FOSDEM2023. #SailfishOS and #Jolla will be represented there alongside many other great #MobileLinux projects, including #postMarketOS, #Mobian, #UBports and more.

https://fosdem.org/2023/news/2022-12-08-accepted-stands-fosdem-2023/

Speaking of which, the CfP deadline for the #LinuxMobile devroom has been extended to Dec 12th, so you now have no excuse but to submit a proposal 😉

https://gitlab.com/fosdem_mobile/devroom/-/blob/main/README.md

#MobileLinux #LinuxOnMobile #Mobile #Linux

@fosdem has announced the accepted stands for the upcoming #FOSDEM2023 edition and for the first time #postmarketOS has a Linux on Mobile stand together with other #mobilelinux projects!
https://fosdem.org/2023/news/2022-12-08-accepted-stands-fosdem-2023/

Come say hi when you're there, we'd love to talk to you and show of our project