Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 165

@lnxw48a1 @musicman I hear your frustration. But from an audience POV, it's so hard to decide where to put the $5 a week we can afford into. I really want there to be an organisation I can put that $5 a week into, on an automatic payment, and encourage everyone else who supports libre commons to do the same. Then either a committee gives out funding from that pool, or we have a co-budgeting process where everyone putting in decides together how to disburse it.

@demonshreder yes. My thoughts exactly. It reminds me of non-profits choosing #CreativeCommons licenses with the #Non Commercial clause, not realising that their content has no commercial value to corporations anyway, and the NC license just stops it being included in free commons like Wikipedia, or open textbooks under BY or BY-SA so they can be printed and sold at cost *sigh*

@craigmaloney fair enough. AntennaPod has #fydd, #gPodder, and iTunes searches. Haven't tried any other podcast listening apps yet.

@Shamar @Wolf480pl untag me!

@kensanata @krozruch what software did you use to host your photo gallery? @lightweight was looking for a solution for that, ideally one that can also handle video.

@craigmaloney ok. Be aware that if this affects a lot of mobiles, this could severely restrict your audience :-(

@krozruch a couple of questions, is your goal to develop a server package people can install to run digital zines? Secondly, will it federate, and if so, using what protocols?

@szbalint @feonixrift also, tools like this can make life easier when it comes to putting your finished podcasts on the web:
http://www.podcastgenerator.net/

@szbalint @feonixrift one way to avoid the need to edit is to plan, script, and rehearse your piece before recording, as if you're planning a show for live radio. It also helps if you can get someone else to operate any music or other extras, so you can focus on your delivery. If it doesn't work out on the first recording, no worries, you can always treat it as a trial run, and try again. Good luck!

@Shamar @clacke Please untag me from further discussion of this.

@Shamar @clacke I sympathize with your concerns. But almost none of them are problems that can be solved by a copyright license, and of those that can, the #AGPL already solves them (eg #SaaSS / #DRM). I shared those links earlier to point out that many people have already trodden this path of vanity licenses, and no good comes of it. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, I guess.

@musicman I don't remember seeing anything that suggested the FMA was in trouble. I guess I wasn't looking in the right place at the right time. Information overload remains a serious problem, and one that the fediverse, for all its good features, does very little to solve. If I had, this is a problem I would have put some serious time into. The latest blog posts suggest FMA folksare talking to some people that might be able to help them keep the wolves from the door, at least in the short term.

@craigmaloney cool, looks like that worked. Now that I have a mobile, a 16GB SDcard, and an offline #Maps app with maps of the Chinese city where I'm living, my plan is to download a bunch of podcasts, and start going for long walks and bus rides, before the weather goes completely to the dogs ;-)

@craigmaloney hmm. OK, I can see that when I look at the site using my laptop. But on my mobile, there is no sidebar on the left. It could just be an artifact of my unsupported version of #Android (4.2.2) and/or the version of #Fennec browser I installed from #FDroid. Might be worth checking though. In the meantime, I'll use my laptop to find the feed URL, and manually type it into AntennaPod :)

@krozruch nice one. I also really respect the commitment they've made to retain every photo FlickR has with a CC license, even if that means leaving free users with more than 1000 photos/ videos. I actually feel like FlickR is in better hands than when it was in the rotting embrace of zombie #Yahoo:
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/07/the-commons-the-past-is-100-part-of-our-future/

@musicman I've been struggling with the same issue, but related to experimenting with using the #Disintermedia.net.nz domain name to experiment with setting up servers. Obviously your situation is very different from mine though. I've had to remind myself that the whole point of getting a domain name was to run experiments, which I can learn from and apply to situations where more polish is required.

What's the meeting @musicman ? Are you able to talk about it?

It looks like the acquisition of #FlickR by #SmugMug might actually be a case where users are liberated from a #DataFarm by an acquisition, rather than sold to one. They're getting rid of the compulsory Yahoo login, and:
> "Giving away vast amounts of storage creates data that can be sold to advertisers, with the inevitable result being that advertisers’ interests are prioritized over yours. Reducing the free storage offering ensures that we run Flickr on subscriptions":
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/

New #Disintermedia blog post; 'Can Your Organization Help Save the Free Music Archive?':
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2018/11/27/can-your-organization-help-save-the-free-music-archive/
#FreeMusicArchive #FMA #CCMusic

@Shamar @clacke can you please state the unsolved problem that you wrote your new license to solve? In law, as in code, if you don't understand the problem clearly enough to state it in a simple paragraph, the chances of finding a working solution are very low. If we can understand what problem you are trying to solve, it might help us understand your proposed solution.