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"When I picture it in my head I think of the early web as more of a library. Over time it has transitioned into a shopping mall." - chris_f (via HN)

Here's how it works on sourcehut:

You pay us the subscription fee of your choice and you get access to our services. We spend it on maintaining and upgrading the hardware, and paying for staff to handle development, operations, support, and on-call.

Because we don't take money from investors, we're only accountable to users, and if we aren't working in your interests, we lose our revenue. We are incentivized to work for you, not to generate a return.

Because we're running 100% free software, we're held accountable because anyone can take our shit and run it on their own servers, or even bootstrap a competing company using our own software. We've made it easy to run out out of business if we lose your trust.

*Federation* is the true value behind ActivityPub, and you can get that without it

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Binary Application Record Encoding in PHP, a scripting language... (WIP) @sir@sir@cmpwn.com baremessages.org

If you do any sort of programming and haven't already watched Jonathan Blow's wonderful talk, watch it now: youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kk

@helpers
From the registration email:
The login details are as follows:

Site Location: http://

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@helpers
I'm having issues setting up a friendica server. When I try to register or log in, it redirects me to `https:///` (like it doesn't know the domain... and how should it?)

For reference, I'm using nginx (and have https set up).

Any linux desktop environments (or ways to configure) that provide the ^A ^E 'emacs' cursor movement shortcuts system-wide?

unix.stackexchange.com/questio

This askubuntu.com/questions/10008 thread doesn't seem satisfactory.

@sir

> Beware the Keybase formula:
1. Integrates with an existing, open ecosystem
2. May have open-source clients, but server is closed source and does not federate
3. Pretty UI and good marketing
4. VC funded

Agreed. And I'd pay *particular* attention to #4.

With a normal company, you have to ask "can the current business model make money?" If not, it will change.

With a VC-backed company, you have to ask "can the current business model make 10× returns?" If not, it will change.

@sir
"We need to rewrite everything with the benefit of hindsight."
-You, probably

@zachdecook not just with hindsight but with discipline

Does anyone know of any open source alternatives to Kahoot, a real-time multiple-choice quiz game where participants vote by clicking 1 of four buttons on their phone screen. Boosts appreciated. @switchingsoftware

@ac Welcome to not-twitter, a place where, much like twitter, groupies congregate around the personalities who put in the time, torrentially tooting.

Announcing the SourceHut project hub 🎉

sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-30-

I don't usually explicitly ask for shares, but this is a big deal for SourceHut - the project hub solves one of our major goals for the alpha. Please help spread the word ❤️

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