Beide Gesellschaften schreiben dazu: „Wir teilen und fördern die Prinzipien von #OpenScience, Open Education und #OpenSource für die Hochschulbildung und wollen sie auch praktisch umsetzen. .... Darüber hinaus setzen wir uns damit für Konzepte wie digitale Souveränität und gemeinschaftlich organisierte Dienste im Sinne einer Kultur der Digitalität ein. Die Bereitstellung solcher Dienste im Fediverse (wie #Mastodon) ermöglicht uns als wissenschaftliche Fachgesellschaften, Gestaltungshoheit zu wahren und unabhängige, #datenschutzfreundliche Infrastrukturen zu fördern.“ #unisinsfediverse
I just hit send on the Open Letter to the Speaker, Clerks of the House and Senate and the Chair of the House Procedures and House Affairs Committee. (and cc'ed to other relevant Ministers, MPs and Senator)
67 signatures included! Anyone can still add one on the web version.
Thanks 🙏 for helping to push this. There may be a third (and final!) push, but it will be Canada only.
THANK YOU!
Block Suggest, a new feature coming to Pixelfed that allows you to suggest to mutual followers to block a specific account when you block them.
Imagine a Mute, Block and Block & Suggest Button
The recipients will get a special notification that explains the suggested you block them with optional context and on the web ui and official app, you will be able to block or ignore with one tap!
I'm about to break #federation for my other server. #hetzner is by far the largest source for attacks carried out an it, and since half of the #fediverse hosts there, blocking it's ip space might have some consequences.
I wrote about how Patreon needs to join the #Fediverse:
"Why would a creator send their audience to a third-party platform when Instagram and Threads can be a one-stop-shop with their existing followers while having access to new paid subscribers across the social web?
Patreon can no longer just be the place where creators are paid, it needs to be a place where creators can be discovered. And it cannot do that as a social silo."
I think after #DEFCON I will invest more time to enhance my #Mastodon alerter for when I am live on #Twitch, and see about how I can do the same with my @matrix server.
I do have to spin up my AWS environment for my cloud labs, and setup Twingate connectors for Zero Trust Network Access. Once I get the restreamer setup, I will work on adding Simulcast to #YouTube and #Owncast or #Peertube (thanks to @DavBot hosting me), but will require reworking my OBS scenes to be compliant with rules.
My goal is to ensure my community can access me on the platforms they desire so I have a simulcast to #Tiktok, #Twitch, #Youtube, and the #Fediverse (with #Owncast and/or #Peertube ) with alerts to my Discord, Mastodon, and Matrix in part to also be a learning experience to see how to interact programmatically with these chat platforms.
Last chance. If you want to have your signature on the real life letter that goes to Canada's House of Commons Speaker and others, you must tell me before 9AM PDT (about 40 minutes).
You do not have to be Canadian to sign.
Signatures received after 9AM will be on the web version.
I've made some updates to the letter including more supporting links and sources.
> It's interesting how much the #fediverse is in denial of these things:
I would very much like if you were willing to distinguish between "That is not a concern of mine because it does not interfere with any goal I have." and "I don't think that's real."
> 1. Big Social is bigger for a reason: you can reach audience, share information, and maintain networks. This is what normal people use the internet for.
I am not making a product for them: I am conversing with friends on a federated network. If anything, the Gablin flood proved that this would be a disaster. The normies like using Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and so if I want to address them, I'll go there. I don't want to address them.
I have a mail server, and I have not set up webmail, because everyone that uses that mail server is just fine with IMAP. If you come in and tell me that normies want webmail, and I say that's fine but I do not.
> 2. The Fediverse has failed to attain that status for the same reason FOSS lingers in the dark: they did what they were comfortable doing and went no further.
"If it's not popular, I don't care about it."
Stop trying to YOLD the fedi (it will get you exactly what YOLD got Linux: a bunch of horseshit jammed into an OS that your mom still does not use), but if you're going to, then stop assuming that anyone else has that goal. There's the extremely branding-conscious mastodon.social echo chamber. That is the sort of thing you do if you want to appeal to normies. I'm here, not there, because I don't want to be there: it's not my scene. I like what is here and I would like to improve what is here, not turn it into something else with the hope that it will be enjoyed by people that I don't want to talk to, people that don't show up regardless.
I have typed a variation on that paragraph in nearly every post I have put into this thread. You ignore that and then say "You're all in denial!" We even have a case study: Soapbox. It's the same backend as Pleroma and Akkoma, but no one deploys it aside from people that Gleason has personally persuaded. People outside fedi see "Kirkland Signature Twitter". Trying to appeal to normies creates appeal for no one. Here, here you go: http://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths
> 3. Free speech is a binary. Other than spam and CP, everything has to be included
Well, no argument from me on that point: editorial control over what people can post turns the place into a mall. pretty_much_a_1:1_copy_of_twitter.png