Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Student of mine is conducting a survey on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. Your input would be much appreciated. Please boost.

https://standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a35cj1Rjby58DxX

#fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #mastodon #activitypub #ostatus #pubsub #xmpp #mstdn
#indieweb #friendica #peertube #hubzilla #socialhome #pixelfed 
#fedilab #nextcloud

SpaceBear is a managed hosting service that makes it easier to create your own PixelFed, Mastodon, PeerTube or HomeTown instance.

Managed hosting means SpaceBear takes care of the technical stuff, while you own and manage the instance.

You can follow SpaceBear at:

➡️ @support

Their website is at https://app.spacebear.ee

(HomeTown is a fork of Mastodon which includes support for non-federated posts.)

#SpaceBear #Mastodon #PeerTube #PixelFed #HomeTown #Hosting #Fediverse #ManagedHosting

Oh boy oh boy @thegibson and @c0debabe and @tek and @ryen and @drwho are talking about the #Fediverse at #HOPE2020 *right now*:
https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/hope2020

Yeah, Mastodon is certainly better than Twitter, but you know what would make it even better?

If Mastodon got end-to-end encryption for DMs before Twitter did.

A quick reminder that just after he founded Farcebook as "thefacebook", Mark Zuckerberg said its users were "dumb fucks". Why? Because they trusted him to protect their privacy:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-people-first-ever-mark-zuckerberg-harvard

#MarkZuckerberg

Interesting news. An excellent way for Microsoft to fend off accusations of anti-competition would be to embrace open standards like Matrix for interoperability, showing they're not trying to vendor-lock their users. Slack could also benefit from this ;)

Mobilizon is a free open federated events system for the Fediverse, designed to get people off Facebook Events. You can follow the project here:

@mobilizon

It's currently in beta testing, and is made by @Framasoft (the makers of PeerTube and many other free open projects).

Mobilizon's official site is at https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

#Mobilizon #Fediverse #Events #FacebookEvents #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre

Jaron Lanier interviewed on a UK news show about how the datafarming that corporate social media make their money from, harms people and damages societies (21mins):
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q

#JaronLanier #interview

@Alamantus @okpierre @shine

Do you know about the Guide for New Implementers at #SocialHub?

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/guide-for-new-activitypub-implementers/479

It is a wiki post that can be edited / improved by anyone based implementation experience. Once it is more fleshed out it will be hosted in a better way.

🍀 Newly added #ActivityPub tools 🍀

• Little Library: A digital give-a-book, take-a-book library for ebooks - github.com/Alamantus/little-li…
• Mastodon.py: Python wrapper for Mastodon API; feature complete and easy to get started with - github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py
• atoot: Library providing an easy way to create Mastodon API applications - github.com/popura-network/atoo…

For all projects visit:
- fediverse.party/en/tools
- git.feneas.org/feneas/fedivers…

-l

The latest social media craze ... ;)
https://www.theonion.com/teens-flock-to-new-app-where-they-just-enter-own-person-1844339166

#SocialMedia

Open source technology is critical to internet freedom because it allows anyone to inspect the code, understand it, and discover any bugs or backdoors. For the community that OTF supports, the open source approach builds trust.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gz4d/the-trump-administration-is-attacking-critical-internet-privacy-tools

Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”

-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:

https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail

hi fediverse!

back in January, 100000 years ago, I got a chance to talk with @darius about running friend.camp; why hometown, his fork of mastodon, is currently needed to create safer spaces; human-scaled social media; and trust networks and technology, for an interview in @logic.

we just recently released that conversation for free online. check it out!

https://logicmag.io/security/party-at-my-house-darius-kazemi-on-human-scaled-social-media/

Instead of uploading all our information to silos like Facebook or Twitter, we should be able to host our own basic (meta)data like avatar, status updates or social connections in a standardized format.

You would then be able to grant services like Facebook or Twitter access to that data via a token, and you could control which service gets access to what kind of data.

Yes, I'm still dreaming of a semantic web.