Notices by switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at), page 20

uMap is a free OpenStreetMap service that lets you embed customised maps on your own site:

https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en

#uMap #Maps #DeleteGoogle

Facebook is trying to offer a really terrible Patreon-style service (which will take 30% of all income 😟 and permanent intellectual property rights to anything uploaded even if you leave the service 😱 ).

A number of people asked about free open alternatives. You might want to look at:

Liberapay
@Liberapay

Open Collective
https://opencollective.com/

Any other suggestions?

#DeleteFacebook #Donations #Crowdfunding

#XMPP (also known as #Jabber) is a free open federated standard for instant messaging.

To use it, you need to install an XMPP app, then sign up for an account on an XMPP server.

There are lots of XMPP apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and Linux:

https://xmpp.org/software/clients.html

There are also lots of XMPP servers to choose from:

https://list.jabber.at

The choice is maybe a bit overwhelming, but once you've picked an app and server it's very easy to use the service.

#AlternativesAtoZ

Hey Friendica users!

The android app Fedilab now supports Friendica accounts:

https://fedilab.app

It's available from @fdroidorg and Google Play.

You can follow Fedilab on here at @tom79

Fedilab also supports Mastodon, Pleroma and PeerTube accounts. You can manage many accounts at once from the same app.

#Friendica #Fedilab #Fediverse

Hey developers & ActivityPub enthusiasts!

@GetTogetherComm is a free open alternative to MeetUp.com.

The lead developer needs help with implementing federation, either coding or better documentation about ActivityPub.

There's an open issue for it here:

https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether/issues/60

There's been discussion but no code contributions yet.

Can you help?

(It would be *so* cool to get this kind of service federated, imagine every town having its own instance :blobaww: )

#ActivityPub #FLOSS #FOSS

#uBlockOrigin is a really good and easy-to-use ad-blocker for your web browser. It also blocks some other threats to your privacy.

You can install it from your browser's add-on or extensions menu, and it's available for all major browsers including Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Edge and Opera.

It works well alongside #PrivacyBadger, and switching.social recommends you install both.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT install "uBlock", it has a similar name but is a totally different app.

#AlternativesAtoZ

Prismo is an open federated alternative to sites like Reddit or Hacker News.

It's still under development, but the first instance is online here:

https://prismo.news

It's been in closed beta for a while, but Prismo now has open sign-ups for the first time.

You can sign up at:

https://prismo.news/auth/sign_up

#Prismo #Reddit #HackerNews #Fediverse #ActivityPub

@dansup

This was the straw that broke the camel's back and convinced me surveillance industries had to be stopped:

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/leaked-facebook-memo-ugly-truth/

"Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools."

"... all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it."

There are a couple of open source automated #Translation sites available.

Both are still under development so they lack some languages/features, but you can try them already on their demo sites:

Apertium
https://www.apertium.org

OpenNMT
https://demo-pnmt.systran.net/production#/translation

#AlternativesAtoZ #Langauges

#SelfHosting and #CommunityHosting are when you run your own server for yourself or your community. This means you can have full control over whatever services run from that server, for example email or social networking.

It has traditionally been quite difficult to run a server, but there are a number of projects on the Fediverse that are trying to make it easier:

❓ YunoHost:
@yunohost

📦 FreedomBox: @freedomboxfndn

🍖 FreedomBone:
@freedombone

🍭 Lollipop Cloud:
@cloud

#AlternativesAtoZ

A reader just got in touch with a couple of #Doodle alternatives:

Dudle
https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/

Termino
https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/en