Catching up on bboard posts and the social.sdf.org timeline this morning as I also work on tickets today. #Coffee abounds as I need it. Waking up at 5 AM after 4 days of sleeping in can be a rough adjustment!
"DecSync (Decentralized Synchronization) synchronizes RSS, contacts, calendars, tasks and more without requiring a server. It uses a synchronized directory to synchronize the data. This can be done without a server by using for example Syncthing..."
"twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers. twtxt is a CLI tool, as well as a format specification for self-hosted flat file based microblogging."
I suppose this is something I'd want to use #pixelfed for but I'm not much of a shutterbug. Maybe on my upcoming trips I'll take some pics. I'll link my SDF Pixelfed and #lemmy profiles in my bio at some point.
Attached is a gif of my old #allstarlink node blinking away.
Online communities are real communities. People have met future spouses, weathered difficult life events, organized politically, raised money to help each other all through the panoply of social websites.
Often community rules and culture are guided by moderators, who almost always work for free.
Despite all of this we generally accept that these are not the people who own the website or the ones who control its fate.
Over and over this creates heartache and disappointment.
@futurebird I agree, but that would require the founders / original owners of these spaces to, uh, give a shit.
Ex-Twitter users seem to be giving Dorsey a pass and blaming it all on Musk, but it was Dorsey who made #Twitter a public company, basically guaranteeing that it would eventually become a dumpster fire. You don't—you can't—monetize a healthy and stable community and turn the sort of profits that Wall Street or especially S.V. demands.
All for-profit social media will eventually become shit, and will in the end be shut down, its content likely destroyed. Twitter just did a very dramatic speedrun.
The only online spaces I'm aware of to buck this trend are relatively niche, low-overhead places where they can survive purely from donations of time/money from users. The #SDF is one example, and it's incorporated as a 501c (I think); #Metafilter, which is still working out its governance and funding model, is another.
#lemmy seems cool and all but I really don't understand how it federates. I made an account on the #sdf instance but I can't seem to figure out how to view anything but the posts there. How can you subscribe to communities on other instances? How can I follow content with my #pleroma server?
Is any of that even possible? If not, why is it even federated at all? It's just another forum at that point.
I keep a link to #AnonRadio in VLC streams. There's always something weird going on there, whether interesting or not. If you don't like what you're hearing, just wait an hour.
If I had to assign myself a sub-cultural identity, it would have to be cyberpunk. mirrorshades 🕶️
Then I became a tentative street-preacher, then a tentative academic, and then a conscientious corpo slave, and now, cyberpunk-evolved: cyberpunk muslim.
@tallship@jamesp@SDF@anthonyg Thanks Tallship!! I'm an #sdf moldy oldy. Been on since 1999, back when it was alpha machines! :D You can find me on com all the time.