João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

People would rather come up with 50 conspiracy theories about #elonmusk playing 6 dimensional business chess than admit that a rich mediocre white man might actually be mediocre.

there are many many people out here (myself included) for whom the fediverse has been personally, socially and even—yes—professionally important for years and years. mastodon's not a tabula rasa, and if you're a newcomer, i guarantee that folks on here have been thinking about the fediverse's problems and their potential solutions wayyy longer than you have. i would invite you to consider the possibility that maybe those people are just as smart and clever as you are. awoo

Wanna run #Waydroid on your @purism #Librem5? Here's a guide! I promise I won't judge ;) #mobile #gnu #linux #android
https://source.puri.sm/-/snippets/1198

A lot of people are moving to @Mastodon, but I also get a lot of misconceptions and questions about how it works, and about this cool giant social network that is the #Fediverse, including @pixelfed or @peertube. So, to answer all these questions, and myabe introduce you to some other parts of the Fediverse, I think it's time for a quickstart guide!

#mastodon #pixelfed #peertube

https://youtu.be/5npl2KCt2ok

This news doesn't lack a hint of irony:
Former Twitter workers create their own instance on Mastodon https://macaw.social/about

#Mastodon

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I keep hearing that #Mastodon is not likely to replace #Twitter. To that I say: so what?
I've been contributing to the #Linux desktop for the last 15 years not because it's likely to replace #Windows, but because providing people with free desktop is the right thing to do.
I use and support Mastodon not because it's likely to replace Twitter, but because it's a social network done right.

I'm really happy about the new Mattermost/Nextcloud integration https://nextcloud.com/blog/introducing-the-nextcloud-and-mattermost-integration/ Nextcloud is a platform that integrates everyone. Even competitors 😉

Version 2.0 of the Fediverse Archive Browser has now been posted at the below link. It is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows desktops. This version adds support for the archive downloadable from your Mastodon site. It can also read Diaspora site archives and Friendica archives generated by the Friendica Archive Generator. Along with browsing your old content you can perform free text searching, date span searching, look at your posting metrics, and more. Released under an Mozilla Public License and written in Flutter. #fediverse #mastodon #friendica #diaspora #TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration #FediverseMigration #MPL #OpenSource #flutter

myportal.social/download/

Looking at the bunch of improvements Tokodon is getting, it looks like @VolkerKrause is now active on Mastodon 😜 If you don't already follow him here, you should. He is doing a lot of awesome work everywhere inside KDE.

🚀📱 I've tagged version 0.0.1 of #feedbackd (a daemon to handle audio, haptic and led feedback on #linuxmobile e.g. when using (but not limited to) #phosh.

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd/-/releases/v0.0.1

There's still no API guarantees but having releases should make it a bit easier for distros than tracking git snapshots.

Thanks @devrtz for the fixes in this release!

#librem5 #mobilelinux

Interesting read by @agx "On a road to Prizren with a #FreeSoftware Phone" about using the #Librem5 to travel to #Debconf 22 (the #Debian conference) and improvements made https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/On_a_road_to_Prizren_with_a_Free_Software_Phone.html #nt

⚪🔴🟤🟡🟠⚫🟢🔵🟣 This is your daily reminder that contrary to the hype and marketing hullabaloo but #Mastodon is not the #fediverse and the #federation is actually a huge tapestry thousands of servers and volunteers and dozens if not hundreds of developers and even more volunteers who have made this space what you see today.

When you accidentally or intentionally spread the misinformation you erode the very foundation of what has drawn you to this place to begin with.

You are marginalizing great projects like: Diaspora — The OG. None of this would be possible were it not for two college kids who had a dream and set up a Kickstarter to fund its development back in 2010. Over 29,000 of your fellow fediverse peers are on #Diaspora at this very moment. (10/22/2022)

Friendica — The one app that lets anyone or any organization literally create their own private #facebook on the fediverse and make it accessible and federated with the rest of the World. It also has very modest hosting requirements making it accessible to more people to host without requiring a VPS or complex server setups. About 6,700 federation citizens use #Friendica each and every day and it’s still in active development. (10/22/2022)

Hubzilla — The successor to Friendica, #Hubzilla took what was great about Friendica and made it all the better. About 2,200 of your fediverse neighbors use Hubzilla every day. (10/22/2022)

Peertube — Calling #PeerTube a “YouTube competitor” doesn’t do it justice. PeerTube is so much more than a competitor to YouTube. In a very real sense it’s a YouTube killer, if only more people knew about it and more people used it. PeerTube lets anybody stand up a service and then instantenously their published videos become accessible to the entire Federation (and vice versa). There are approximately 113,000 active PeerTube users in the federation right now. (10/22/2022)

Mastodon — #Mastodon came on the scene in 2016 and promised a more user-friendly experience. Coupled with some fortunate timing and early publicity it quickly became the darling of the fediverse. It’s certainly the software with the most amount of users. 1.28 million active users back in October, but recent events mean this number is woefully inaccurate today.

Pleroma — Less than a year after launch, disagreements with certain design decisions and direction with the Mastodon project gave birth to #Pleroma, a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that at the time ironically offered a more user-friend experience than Mastodon itself and pioneered features years ago that are just now being implemented by Mastodon and other projects. Pleroma’s bug claim to fame was that you could stand up a robust instance on a single RasperryPi with little trouble. Approximately 26,000 of your fediverse neighbors access the federation from their Pleroma accounts. (10/22/2022).

Pixelfed — #Pixelfed is the federation’s answer to Instagram. By standing up a public or private Pixelfed server you enable yourself (or the public) to post rich multimedia content (photos and videos), “stories”, and more that instantly are accessible to the rest of the federation. Over 36,000 of your fediverse peers are here right now through Pixelfed. (10/22/2022)

And there’s others!

Lemmy — #Lemmy is a federated version of Reddit (or Digg or HackerNews). It’s a federated link-aggregator. Individuals can stand up their own servers or communities of topics.

Funkwhale — #Funkwhale is a federated version of Soundcloud or Bandcamp for sharing your music library with other Funkwhale users and the Federation.

BookWyrm — #BookWyrm is a federated version of GoodReads. A federated instance by book lovers and for book lovers. 🟣🔵🟢⚫🟠🟡🟤🔴⚪

Em primeiro lugar quero dizer que admiro muito a @eloisa.

Além de ser uma pessoa que quer o melhor para esta comunidade, é uma pessoa brilhante, correcta, justa e com quem dá prazer discutir questões difíceis.

Infelizmente hoje a pessoa que mais fez pelas moderação do Masto.pt decidiu que não queria continuar. Compreendo-a e sei que foi subestimada e criticada por aqueles que não têm, nem querem ter, uma visão para uma comunidade que protege os mais vulneráveis.

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Tirar sarro de quem precisa de aviso de conteúdo por qualquer motivo é fundamentalmente danoso a pessoas que possuem traumas e fobias, assim como outras que não conseguem lidar com certos assuntos.

Tem gente que pede só por questão de desconforto, sim. E não tem problema.

Também é possível discutir respeitosamente em relação ao quanto faz sentido usar certos avisos de conteúdo como uma norma mais universal.

Mas ficar dizendo "nossa, que frescura pedir aviso por X, como a pessoa vive hahaha" é uma atitude não só nociva mas também discriminatória.

Here's my prediction: After Twitter falls apart, Melon Husk will run a Mastodon instance for his fans and claim to have invented it.

Essa coisa do Mastodon, para gente com pressa.
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Twitter e Mastodon 101: plataformas vs protocolos
https://direitosdigitais.pt/comunicacao/noticias/138-twitter-e-mastodon-101-plataformas-vs-protocolos

Love the idea that @Raspberry_Pi account is hosted on its own instance running on a Raspberry Pi.

#RaspberryPi #Inception