I still don't understand how projects that are strongly focused on open-source and promote the open-source movement have their official support channel or discussion platform set as Discord.
@lcheylus I always have mixed feelings about such things.
While I’m fully into #FOSS and #federated services, I can also see the benefits of major and proprietary solutions from a beginners perspective.
I think it is always about the targeted user base and how to make it comfortable to them.
I can also see this with #BoxyBSD, where I’m targeting beginners who cannot afford virtual machines to learn and practice. However, to help them, you need to catch them at their starting point, which is mostly a well known service like Discord, Twitter etc. Beginners are not aware of the Fediverse, Matrix, IRC and all the other solutions. It won’t provide them or the communities to exclude them.
Moving code away from GitHub may reduce the visibility of projects and potential contributions. Moving support to nerd services may exclude them. Forcing them to deal with it, results in dead useraccoujts in long-term.
Teach them at the beginning, show them alternatives and as soon as they do it by their own will, they will switch and contribute.
I really love free and opensource software, projects and services but it does not mean that we should force people to avoid it. We should more be happy about people that decide to publish and contribute their code to the community in any way and also providing any solution to provide feedback, support etc. Decisions to a specific solution like Discord may have several reasons like not being aware of it, not having the time for it, no personal needs to deal with it (if it works, it works). Not everyone is deeply into FOSS or cares about it.
I always contributed heavily into opensource within the last years and was only on Twitter and never saw the needs for Matrix or Fediverse. I simply didn’t had the time nor the fun to deal with it - nowadays I’m running my own instances.
Uuuuuh why the fuck am I seeing posts from TRUTH SOCIAL when I'm on mastodon.gamedev.place? Is truth fucking social seriously #federated with this #instance???
Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated using #ActivityPub
We're really excited to share this sneak peek that showcases the new onboarding flow and discovery features (Connect Mastodon) and look forward to the upcoming beta release!
United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) has selected #Element as its #secure communications platform, following a competitive #tender process.
Element stood out as a digitally sovereign platform which offers end-to-end #encryption. Its ability to be #federated to support multiple organisations was also a key factor in the #selection process.
#UNICC will self-host Element through an Element Enterprise subscription.
We're working to make a #Federated alternative to #Bandcamp where up and coming bands can connect with fans and share their music on the Fediverse.
The progress is really encouraging, so it's time to get some feedback from real #musicians
My goal is to have something you could actually use in the next month or two. So please get your ideas in so's I can squeeze them into my launch calendar.
@mikedev thanks for the encouragement. Your software sounds like something people will need. But today most of us don’t know what we are doing on the Fediverse. Those of use #federated by #flipboard are learning how to manage our new accounts. Please keep me posted. #fediverse.
@salvomic@janette_speyer@msecchi scusi, no capisco. Do you mean the red verified check? If so that doesn’t mean I am federated yet just that I am a verified #Flipboard user. I am sorry. How do you see if you are #federated? The #treads account is federated is it the same?
A #twitter-like platform won't be how the #fediverse takes off. Fedi won't explode with popularity until there is a federated #expage-like platform, complete with #federated guestbooks
So threads is now #federated. I know a bunch of people are upset. My question is how does it even work? How do you follow a #threads user from #mastodon?
Has anyone else had trouble finding #federated#Threads users today? Some are coming up just fine in search and others.... aren't.
ETA: figured it out! You may have to search for the full name: @ThreadsUserName in order to get it to show up on search. Haven't had any issues doing it that way when I checked just now!
I just did a test and it took 12 minutes from the time I posted on Threads from my @cliffwade account until it showed up in my timeline here on Mastodon.
Searching for a #peertube instance to cross post the Minimum Competence #legal news #podcast to — any suggestions folks?
We cross post to #youtube and I generally feel yucky about it. Would love to transition away or, at the very least, give folks a #federated option for listening/watching.
I broke a little with #SvelteKit idioms here insofar as I have Pages merely pass a context object into a #Svelte component.
This in turn allows me to utilise #Storybook to describe the interface in different configurations (I have tests in place as well).
It's still early days but we tackle one page at a time to build up this #Federated#Forge (F2 for short).
In case you are interested in translating, hit me up. Be warned that things might move around or get dropped. I prefer early feedback to easily correct course if needed.
@sb
I wish there was a clear alternative, a sort-of blogger Wikipedia, an activity-pub-compliant platform for #newsletters+#blogs. We need to create synergy and network effects for small bloggers. Ghost and the alternatives don't check all the boxes yet