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stux, to random
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Ohh! Just 830 ‘partners’?

Nty! :nkoHammer:

downey,
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@stux Wow. Who?

jens, to random
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Let's merge the code bases of sharkey and mastodon and call it megalodon.

downey,
@downey@floss.social avatar

@vincent @jens Yes! @megalodon and its downstream @moshidon are awesome.

paul, to devops
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There are several #MastoDev 'Help Wanted' requests from the Mastodon #developers if you are a #coder #Programmer

*Use /search for search (/search?query=something)
*Move account secrets to a dedicated table (and encrypt it?)
*Add a way for the user to select which languages they understand
*Allow admins to configure instance favicon and logo
*Allow searching for hashtags in admin UI
*Convert Redux state to Typescript #MastoAdmin #devops #Programmers #dev.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/labels/help%20welcome

downey,
@downey@floss.social avatar

@paul @liaizon Hey cool, only took 6 years! 😆

downey, to microsoft
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:microsoft: ➡️ :matrix: It's a Big Freaking Deal when we can move any #UnitedNations organization away from #Microsoft.

The system-wide IT shop UNICC has announced its move to #Matrix:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security

downey,
@downey@floss.social avatar

@B4ckBOne

ESS is a self-hosted deployment for homeserver management, and also provides client software, along with technical support.

I don't know the specific implementation details here. But AFAIK, it's still the case that UNICC run data centers are at least capable of offering international jurisdiction.

https://element.io/server-suite

downey, to Matrix
@downey@floss.social avatar

"You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project."

— a national government who relies on #Matrix when being asked to support it financially

Read more about the problem and some initiatives that are responding to it:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #funding #xz #sustainability

downey,
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fromjason, to threads
@fromjason@mastodon.social avatar

The reason why and are incompatible is that Mastodon is a community, and Threads is a market. That's it.

It's not big Fed vs small Fedi. It's not platforms vs protocols.

It's communities vs markets.

Communities are supportive and markets are extractive. Communities answer to those who must live with decisions made. Markets answer to money.

And wouldn't you know it, those contrasting forces influence people's behaviors, goals, and motivations for engaging with others.

downey,
@downey@floss.social avatar

@rscottjones I suspect your view of the Fediverse may be sufficiently filtered by the server you are on.

Here's the communities-first model that the guy that runs yours used to promote before he declared himself "CEO of Mastodon" and sold out to big tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE

@fromjason

BrideOfLinux, to random
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Ya know, Mozilla has kinda like become the laughing stock of open-source, I think as I shake my head sadly: Mozilla Drops New Privacy Partner After CEO Found Tethered To Data Brokers https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/28/mozilla-drops-new-privacy-partner-after-ceo-found-tethered-to-data-brokers/

downey,
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drewdevault, (edited ) to random
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Quick FOSS legal literacy quiz

Imagine the following situation: your project is MIT licensed. Someone takes the whole project and white-labels it (changes the name), then sells it commercially without providing the source code or sharing any of the sales revenue with you. They include "Copyright <your name>" and a copy of the MIT license in the "about" page of the software.

Is this allowed?

downey,
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thibaultamartin, to random
@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr avatar

Fediverse, what nonprofits do you donate to, and why did you choose them?

If you don't mind specifying, I'd love to know what region of the world you're from!

🔄 Please boost to help me discover the problems people want to solve and the orgs solving them!

downey,
@downey@floss.social avatar

@thibaultamartin Nonprofits on the Fediverse to which I currently donate:

:gnome: @gnome - Making free software accessible for everyone's daily computing

🌳 @conservancy - Protecting software freedom and promoting its sustainability and diversity

:matrix: @matrix - Revolutionizing distributed, private, secure communication

:fsfe: @fsfe - The global leader in software freedom advoacy for the public sector

PresGas, to random
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#opencollective may be shutting down?

https://daniel-lange.com/archives/186-Opencollective-shutting-down.html

Looks like some #notforprofit and some #floss groups will have some decisions to make and then communicate.

downey,
@downey@floss.social avatar

@PresGas Not the platform or the Open Source Collective 501(c)(6) business league that hosts many groups. Only the OCF 501(c)(3) public charity entity is winding down.

The blog title is unfortunately misleading and, while a loss to the world, is also causing a lot of unnecessary panic today.

sonny, to Matrix
@sonny@floss.social avatar

I'm looking for a solution to only allow people with a specific email domain to join a Matrix room.

Ideally a bot that would be able to send emails, verify the user and invite them into the room.

Any idea or suggestion?

@matrix @element

downey,
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jik, to accessibility
@jik@federate.social avatar

If anyone knows of any concrete evidence that Google's Invisible reCAPTCHA adversely impacts people with disabilities more than others, I'd be grateful if you could share it with me.
I searched but could not find any; on the contrary, I found at least one study showing that Invisible reCAPTCHA is equally usable for disabled and non-disabled people.
To be clear, I'm not looking for theoreticals, I'm looking for concrete evidence one way or the other.
Thanks.
#accessibility

downey,
@downey@floss.social avatar

@jik I don't know of any studies, but the problem with their "invisible" product is that it's only invisible if it has n inference (true or false) that the user is human. So it reverts to the same accessibility challenges as the others in a portion of visits.

downey, to mastodon
@downey@floss.social avatar

:boost_love: Boost if you think groups like @NGIZero @nlnetlabs and others should band together and fund a hard fork of that prioritizes trust and safety, and the needs of admins to protect their users from abuse.

⭐ Favorite if you would support with a little money, too.

downey,
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@NGIZero @nlnetlabs Yes, oops! 💚

stefan, to mastodon
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Guess when the spam started?

I think the only way to reduce is to delete posts and media no one has interacted with in the past X number of days?

downey,
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downey,
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