Katherine Druckman @katherined@librem.one

If you can, donate to keep this instance up! If enough of us pay for what we use, maybe advertisers will eventually fuck off and die. 😈

https://opencollective.com/drupal-mastodon

@katherined To me interoperability is almost always a good thing. It can become a bad thing when "embrace" moves to "extend" and "extinguish."

For instance, it was great when Slack was interoperable with IRC. It allowed it to attract all sorts of community rooms to move from IRC. The downside was when they extended the protocol beyond IRC and ultimately extinguished their IRC support, closing the door behind them after everyone walked through.

I was interviewed about supply chain security (around 15 min mark) in a longer CNBC feature about manufacturing phones in the USA. In short, it's less about trust concerns with any particular country/govt., and more about reducing the links in the supply chain to reduce the opportunities to tamper with hardware.

Our Made-in-USA-electronics Librem 5 USA phone also got a number of shout-outs. Pretty neat!

https://youtu.be/YdbA7Z8Ae4w #security #supplychain #infosec #manufacturing

The #SCALE20x call for papers is open through December 2nd https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/cfp

#introduction Hi!

I'm Jim, known on neclimdul on socials and open source projects. I'm a nerd interested in software and computing as well as games, star wars, star trek, MCU and various other media. Also love a good rocket launch.

I'm an avid advocate for FLOSS and a long time #drupal contributor so you may find me on bug trackers around the internet. Feel free to hit me up for a review trade!

Most post random things from my FLOSS journey, occasional rants, and anything I find interesting.

Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.

Is there an app or an easy way to harvest, download, etc your Twitter DMs? I'm downloading my Twitter data but I'm realising there are conversations etc with people going back to 2008 in Twitter DMs I'd love to be able to access if the site goes away. When you download Twitter Data it gives you your DMs... but with no information on who you were talking to. It looks like this, and is thus a very special kind of useless:

Now that we're learning this lesson that centralized silos are brittle and operate in the interest of the owners not the users...

...please note the move toward centralizing podcasts into apps from Amazon/Audible, Spotify, iHeart, YouTube, TikTok etc.

If you like podcasts, use an RSS-based podcast player. Support the open ecosystem. We can only survive if you clearly see the threat and act supportively.

I found this diagram online. I think it can be useful for folks new to #mastodon. I know I forget it all the time.

(Originally found in https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/8if9r6/adding_other_mastodon_instance_feeds_to_my/)

My thread here yesterday about this cycle between open and closed protocols inspired me to write a longer-form piece on the subject:

https://puri.sm/posts/swinging-back-to-open-standards/

#fediverse #foss

if you hack a mastodon server does that mean you’re rootin’ tootin’?

Hmmm… Mastodon makes me think of social media from 10+ years ago. Let’s do #WriterWednesday

Writers I follow who are here, off the top of my head: @JacquiCastle @Ken_McConnell @johngreen @stephenfry @scalzi @kevinhearne @neilhimself

I’m sure I missed people, my apologies. I’ll do better next time. :)

Tune in to our new episode! @katherined, @dsearls, @shawnp0wers, and @kyle discuss the ups, downs, and how-tos of using Mastodon amid Twitter's recent instability.
Visit the following link for full episode - https://www.reality2cast.com/132

#Mastodon #socialMedia #Technology #Privacy #Podcast #newEpisode

After the dotcom bust 20 years ago, there was a shift away from attempts to turn the Internet into a portal owned by a single company (AOL, Yahoo, etc) using incompatible and proprietary tech, in favor of open standards.

This spawned a heydey for things like self-hosted blogs, RSS and XMPP powered by Linux. People rejected lock-in and embraced the benefits and freedom open standards brought. Even Big Tech embraced these standards.

#federation #decentralization #OpenSource #FreeSoftware