Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it
The Bluesky project could help Twitter, but it raises red flags.www.theverge.com
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Funding Open Source Automatically
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For me currently it's Mozilla, Feneas and Matrix for monthly donations in the tech scene. For single projects I randomly throw small amounts based on the feeling of getting lots of value.
Donations are important! We should all be doing that whenever we can to ensure these projects have a future!
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Getting Ready for Diaspora API Going Live
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Unhappy With Social Media? Join Wikipedia Co-Founder In Social Media Strike
Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has called for a social media strike to demand decentralized social media platforms. He has urged users who are unhappy with social media websites to boycott the platforms on July 4 and 5 (at least one day). The motive behind the strike is to demand big corporations to give users back their privacy, control over data and user experience.fossbytes.com
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Retribute, a #donation system for #fediverse creators – We Distribute
Retribute, a donation system for fediverse creators
Eliot Berriot, creator of Funkwhale, has unveiled a new concept for handling donations to artists from their patrons on the fediverse.wedistribute.org
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The Feneas forum
Today we launch our discussion forum powered by #Discourse to help #federated folk have a place for cross-platform collaboration discussion.
Welcome!
#federation #community #fediverse #collaboration #feneasThe Feneas forum
After a process that started in February 2019 as a suggestion to us, we're finally launching our forum.Why does the web need yet another forum?The Feneas committee team has experience being involved in the federated social web since around 2011. In all that time one thing has becomefeneas.org
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My Contribution Conundrum
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It's Python, not PHP and to my knowledge the project's team doesn't mind integrating different Fediverse protocols too
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If you know a language other than English, you can contribute to many different Fediverse-related projects by translating their text.
Here are some translation links:
🐰 Friendica
https://www.transifex.com/Friendica/friendica/
🎧 Funkwhale
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/translators.html
🐤 Halcyon
https://translate.zanata.org/project/view/halcyon
🐘 Mastodon
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#translations
📺 PeerTube
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/translation.md
Are there other links to add to this list?
#Localisation #Localization #Translation #Languages #Fediverse
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FOSDEM 2019 Was Awesome
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Twitter, in contrast, is doing great and flaunts common decency and whatever average people want with the same uncaring attitude as Facebook. They're bad players acting in bad faith, and there is no one else in the Fediverse with the presence or mass to counterbalance them.
So, unlike IBM, Twitter has no reason or inclination to "play ball".
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Isaac Kuo 12 hours ago
As far as social media sites go, Twitter is like in the top three. It's in an extremely rarefied stratosphere. There's pretty much nothing they could possibly do to be doing better. And just like Facebook, they're in the position of doing whatever horrible things they want with absolute impunity. Like Facebook, they might occasionally "apologize" with a disingenuous non-apology, and then they just continue doing it anyway.
The bottom line is that they're in the exact opposite of any sort of desperate position.
In contrast, look at Tumblr. Tumblr actually has a sizable user base, but no one has been able to figure out how to make any money off us. Infamously, Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 Billion only to sell it at $3 Million.
Now, there is a site which could be desperate enough to try something radical to somehow turn things around.
Or heck ... $3 Million is such a comically low figure, that... show more
As far as social media sites go, Twitter is like in the top three. It's in an extremely rarefied stratosphere. There's pretty much nothing they could possibly do to be doing better. And just like Facebook, they're in the position of doing whatever horrible things they want with absolute impunity. Like Facebook, they might occasionally "apologize" with a disingenuous non-apology, and then they just continue doing it anyway.
The bottom line is that they're in the exact opposite of any sort of desperate position.
In contrast, look at Tumblr. Tumblr actually has a sizable user base, but no one has been able to figure out how to make any money off us. Infamously, Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 Billion only to sell it at $3 Million.
Now, there is a site which could be desperate enough to try something radical to somehow turn things around.
Or heck ... $3 Million is such a comically low figure, that it's possible some eccentric millionaire could pick up tumblr and ActivityPub-ize it just for the heck of it. Like ... not even trying to make money off it.
But Twitter? I'm wary.
Hank G 7 hours ago
--That's my problem with modern day vulture capitalism in one concise sentence. It shouldn't matter but it sadly does.
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