Notices by Mayel - sunny side punk (mayel@sunbeam.city), page 12

Hey #Fediverse, are you aware of any free software alternatives to https://toggl.com/ ? I need something that will help me track the time I spend on various endeavours.

It's zero secret that Twitter, Vine, Insta were built on the backs of P.O.C. labour. It's zero secret that Masto was built on the backs of queer labour. I'm not talking devving, I'm talking our participation in this space.

That LABOUR was predicated on the lack (or disenfranchisement) of communities and networks locally, on our being deprived normative systems of love and support, directing us into sites of labour where our WORK to find and speak to each other can be captured and commodified.

You are invited to #Funkwhale's first General Assembly, on May 19th, 6PM (UTC+2). This is a critical milestone to officially launch our collective, and we'd like as much participants as possible!

It's open to anyone, and the meeting itself will be text-based, so book the slot in your calendar, and come join us!

Everything you need to know about the meeting like the agenda, decisions, tools and voting process is available on our forum:
https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/WREZ1Ms9/you-are-invited-to-our-first-general-assembly-on-may-19th-6pm-utc-2-

#BoostAppreciated

In case you missed it, you can follow people across the Fediverse even if you're using a different kind of site.

For example, here's a PixelFed account:

@earth

...here's a PeerTube account...

@documentaries

...here's a WriteFreely account...

@carbontwelve

...here's a Plume account...

@PlumeDev

...here's a Friendica account...

@hypolite

...and you can follow all of them from Mastodon.

Just click on the @ link to see their profile, and then click on Follow.

#Fediverse #Federation

#framasoft is an organisation that works on education, development, funding and hosting of #freesoftware.

For their hosting they have their own software stack, and branded them as frama...

For every service they offer, they explain what software they have used to do so.
They do this also when they changed parts of the code and when they have their own branding.

Sometimes they also help to fund the development as they did for #peertube.

That's the kind of freesoftware culture I love!

and see, how much they have to offer:
https://framasoft.org/en/full

Hacking on the Friend Camp fork of Mastodon is so fun. I'm currently rendering Article activitypub posts inline and working on a way to get inline images both looking nice and proxied locally so user IPs aren't exposed externally.

The attached image is from a write.as blog post I made with inline images. I'll probably do like Pleroma does and collapse all Articles behind their "title" in the style of a CW.

side-note: we need to have a serious audit / checklist of the authz + authn of the options we have for the #indieweb / #fediverse so we can give new projects / dev GOOD suggestions

We have some exciting news! The team at Purism are thrilled to announce the launch of Librem One https://librem.one Private and secure email, chat, social and VPN. #LibremOne

Our Primary account is now https://social.librem.one/@purism

Techie friends: if you haven’t started using Mosh (vs SSH) yet, you should. The short version is that it’s SSH over UDP, so it’s connectionless and you don’t get disconnected whenever your IP changes (like you walk into work and your phone jumps from LTE to Wi-Fi) or your laptop goes to sleep. It also has much better interactive latency, especially on slow mobile networks. “The user pressed ‘A’ and isn’t in Vim’s command mode. I’ll display a proposed ‘A’ then unless the server tells me not to.”

If you were impacted by the #matrix outage please consider standing up a Synapse instance and help decentralize. I've been running one for a couple of weeks and it is stable, low-maintenance software so far.