Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Today I officially launched my second business. Well registered, not much there yet. But the goal is to help small business owners to make use of free software as good as possible and get them away from solutions that lock them in. The homepage and everything else will be up within the next couple of weeks in time for the official launch, but I figured I give the fediverse an early notice….

You can now financially support the #Spectra #PeerTube instance on Liberapay!

https://liberapay.com/Spectra/

#FundOSS! Fund alternative software respectful of people and made for the benefit of people!

@pixelfed is a federated social image sharing platform, similar to Instagram (and promising!) that uses the ActivityPub protocol (like Mastodon).
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RT @pixelfed
FundOSS is matching OpenCollective donations for #Pixelfed, please donate if you can! 😁

https://fundoss.org/collective/pixelfed
https://twitter.com/PixelFed/status/1404833522238386186

Hello v0.11.0!

We're 3 years old today and to celebrate we shipped a new version. 🥳

- Autocomplete Support
- Creative Commons Licenses
- Network Timeline
- Admin config settings
- Profile pronouns
- New admin dashboard layout
- Fresh about page layout
- Instance Rules
- New Home Timeline

Now available! #pixelfed #pixeldev

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releases/tag/v0.11.0

Upcoming Instagram changes warn users to accept activity tracking to "Help keep Instagram free of charge" 🙄 #deleteInstagram

All undergraduates of #Duke University are told to #quarantine due to #covid19 outbreak caused by recruitment parties.

Effective immediately, students must stay in place until at least Sunday March 21. More than 180 positive #coronavirus cases have been reported. Suspension or dismissal will be the penalty.

Total #virus cases in North #Carolina is 887,595 with 11,716 deaths

The only game harder than Dark Souls

Interesting - putting a value on the contribution of FOSS developers... TL;DL -> $100s of billions contributed to the economy. https://www.zdnet.com/video/open-source-developers-contribute-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-to-the-economy/

Important call for experimentation from @democracypolicy:

Alternative Voting Methods | Democracy Policy Network - https://democracypolicy.network/agenda/open-country/open-government/alternative-voting-methods

😉

I suggest Bitwarden for those ready to migrate

LastPass’ free tier will become a lot less useful next month

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/16/22285531/lastpass-free-tier-mobile-computer-device-premium-family

Oh you know just a video of some birds playing basketball

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Acapella group doing Windows noises

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