Notices by Kristian (z428@social.tchncs.de)

@njoseph ... and worst: A lot of "FLOSS" projects are sponsored and backed nowadays by large industry donors who possibly don't care much about "free" / libre ideas (looking at you, GSoC). 😐

Skybound

@andstatus Yes, it actually is. Plus: I've seen discussions that (a) andstatus has at least preliminary support for ActivityPub, (b) fedilab *does* support friendica in some way because (c) current friendica builds come with ActivityPub support of some sort. I was trying to get these pieces together... 😉

@thefaico @tom79

Well.....

Notes just before breakfast: I really *got* to get thoughts sorted relating to #FLOSS, cloud computing, privacy and innovation. Currently feeling a bit lost between rejecting large platforms for the sake of keeping personal data somehow "safe" - and actually embracing them because, even in the #FLOSS world with all the Unix heritage, we *always* thought it is a good idea to stand on the shoulder of giants rather than re-inventing the whell all over and over again... 😐 Thoughts welcome.

@feral_yogi Yes, but at the same time services such as masto.host *could* end up being the "next Google", just on a different level. Just imagine Google or Microsoft either buying or creating such a service themselves and offering people to run "their own mastodon instances free of charge" without any hassle - just point-and-click install and you're done. That's just the same way Google Mail made available e-mail to a load of "non-techies". 😉

@aral @gargron

RT @Senficon@twitter.com: We did it! But now we must plan the next step: On August 26th, let's have a #SaveYourInternet action day to send the message: We will not accept a copyright reform that includes #uploadfilters or the #linktax. Are you in?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1014850204355432448

@tykayn @edgecontrol @Framasoft Yes, I'm trying to go down the same route. #Telegram is something that seems acceptable to end-users but has a reputation just a little better (if at all) than #WhatsApp in the #fedivers for obvious reasons. Likewise, I know a load of people who *exclusively* use smartphones these days and aren't able to, in example, sign up for any service that requires an e-mail address.

@tykayn @edgecontrol ... those who seem more willing to move usually are totally overwhelmed by what they see: "Should I choose mastodon or diaspora or friendica? How can I even get started on that thing if all I have is a smartphone? How can I find people I already know on that network? What does that "instance" thing actually even *mean*? I just want it as accessible and straightforward as Facebook or WhatsApp have proven it's possible."

@tykayn @edgecontrol Well actually, around here, people aren't using the Events feature at all. It's most of the time really that approach, like:

"People I know are here, and even if I wanted to leave, I know I'll not be able to get them all to move elsewhere, and keeping in touch with them is important enough *to me* to stay there."

Plus ...

@jordila @how Agree, there's a bunch of important things in that, and I really would love to see this working out. What's important to me, however: We don't need "just" the software /code infrastructure. We would need a (sort-of) "libre" provider offering actual (hardware, storage, ...) resources to run these systems. We won't get anywhere with all this infrastructure depending upon Amazon AWS. ;) The rest is pretty much close to what I think...

@jordila ... increasingly more complex (talking docker / containers and all this orchestration stuff). In worst case, people will go "self-hosting" on Amazon or some provider like that. That's why I think we need a "libre approach to SaaS" and providers who manage to offer that kind of hosting.

@jordila I think SaaS *currently* is sort of a trap, as it is mostly done by commercial organizations yet free-of-charge, so there just logically is a question how these companies refund their operations. I still don't believe self-hosting is a good answer. It's just not sustainable. It's about "wasting" a load of (personal, technical) ressources on doing fairly low-level stuff like maintaining servers and databases and all the required infrastructure - in an age where even these things get ...

Really love to float through the #fediverse again and again but pretty often this place ends up feeling a bit "meta", a place to mostly talk about - yeah, the fediverse and its technical and social aspects. Dump me with recommendations for interesting accounts of people who are, say, into #literature, #photography, #architecture, #philosophy (in a wider understanding). I'd like to see this is a fe*diverse*, actually ... ;) Merci!

“1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.” (Douglas Adams.)

@galaxis My mental problem with a load of these tools is hype and people using it as a silver bullet, so for me it gets better as soon as I can utilize these not for the sake of it but for solving an actual problem. There still is too much technical hype and too much technology (ansible, docker, kubernetes) used just because "everyone is using it". In most cases this is wrong. ;)

Anyone knows if #twidere is still maintained? Last update 5 months ago and the github page also doesn't look very much alive.

Worst thing about influencers and all that crowd messing up places like Twitter or Facebook: You know there are people having thousands of followers yet never actually following back - because you can be sure this is just "write-only web" and no real communication will ever happen with these guys.

Hmmmmm...: "Yes, by switching to this method, not only will you eliminate the need for a password — or to come up with a 20-character one every few weeks to please the security gods — but the whole reason for that kind of security farce will disappear. Without passwords, we can eliminate many of the common security threats out there..." https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/fido-alliance-and-w3c-have-a-plan-to-kill-the-password/