Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Statement on “Join The Fedi” jointhefedi.com is a website owned by known “gender critical” activist Alex Gleason. The domain name and SEO is clearly designed to appeal to individuals curious about the fediverse, and potentially take traffic from joinmastodon.org. Unfortunately, Gleason does not have the best intentions when it comes to helping the fediverse grow. Gleason formerly contributed to other fediverse projects, before being removed from doing so due both his behavior and poor code quality. This is a problematic individual, recommending problematic services.

Join The Fedi has an explicitly right-wing agenda and seems to only promote instances which either a) run the “Soapbox” front-end software created by Gleason himself or b) advertise themselves as “free speech” instances. As of right now, the site actively recommends the following instances:

poa.st (blocked by Howlr for harassment)
Spinster.xyz (blocked by Howlr for transphobia)
Shitposter.club (blocked by Howlr for harassment)
Gleasonator.com (blocked by Howlr for transphobia)
Freespeechextremist.com (blocked by Howlr for hate speech)

In other words, Gleason is using the site to promote his own agenda rather than simply gain more users into the fediverse. This is not a site that should be recommended to new users. I would recommend using https://joinfediverse.wiki/ instead!

Thank you!

> Try to listen to Captain Beefheart for 5 minutes
> Instant headache

Seeing an influx of new #pixelfed users today!

Still working hard on the mobile app, it can't come soon enough 😅

The more I think about Instagram, the more I hate it. Every time I open that app, it feels like a hybrid of a brand shop, algorithm content from loads of people I don't follow, and a million selfies of old flames that make me feel creepy. I originally joined to share neat pictures from my travels, but Facebook has squeezed the life out of it.

I think I'm going to take a step and shut mine down for good, after pointing to #Pixelfed. Dansup's mobile apps cannot come fast enough.

My solo art show about #AlgorithmicBias and #SurveillanceCapitalism opened yesterday at the gallery Transformer in Washington, D.C. It's called, "The Algorithm Will See You Now" https://www.transformerdc.org/e19

Excited to be able to do something a little more advocacy-oriented. I'll follow up with some details about the artworks in the coming days.

Open through July 23, for those in the Washington, D.C., USA area!

Hi there Fediverse 👋,

This is the Mastodon account for the Vala Programming Language - "A Familiar Way To Develop Applications"

Over the years, #vala has been used across the #gnome ecosystem to create #gtk apps, as the main programming language for creating apps in #elementaryos and more.

Now with this Mastodon account, you can see what we're up to and where this language will go next!

#introduction #valalang

Tips for using Linux and open source tools for academic research
https://blog.senderolinux.com/academic-research-on-linux-operating-systems/ #linux #opensource #academia

The US is not divided on the issue of abortion.

Only 19% of US Americans support a ban on abortion and the percentage has been fairly consistent for decades.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

Fully decentralised and Open Source communication and collaboration solutions like Nextcloud are key now. Especially for journalists and political activists in times of war. #UkraineInvasion

Trump's social network (Truth Social) is now open source due to pressure from the maintainers of Mastodon.

I have now mirrored the code on Codeberg and GitHub to keep track of changes, ease public examination, and ensure a copy stays public.

https://codeberg.org/TruthSocial/truth-social
https://github.com/justjosias/truth-social

I have also generated a basic diff between Mastodon v3.4.1 and Truth Social's latest code. https://codeberg.org/TruthSocial/diffs/

#TruthSocial #mastodev

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