#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
Such a great read. "Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out." https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/
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
Hi @cwebber @fossandcrafts I recently listened to the Foss & Crafts episode 27 on Game Design and Social Systems. I thought you might enjoy this article by a BU professor about how Mario Kart can teach us to reduce world poverty - from the mechanic where in last place you get powerful items while in first place you just get banana peels, in order to keep everyone in the race.
@kev Question for you, what software do you use for your blog at https://kevq.uk/blog/ ? Is it wordpress, and do you have thoughts on wordpress vs write.as?
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
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
"Own a Newspaper for $1 per Month." An interesting story about a growing experiment in cooperative local journalism.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november-december-2020/own-a-newspaper-for-1-per-month/
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I love the #replyall podcast, but... FUCK the latest 171 episode.
Paraphrasing: "I hate that Twitter can decide who gets banned, I wish people made different social platforms where there is no central power like that".
Yes, I live in a fediverse bubble. But surely, with just a tiny bit of research, they could have found the fediverse, right? At least, Mastodon?
Now they leave it hanging as all other article: "Twitter sucks, but what can we do? No good alternatives"
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