@forktogether @satsuma Evaluating all options is definitely a good thing. Shame about still using a user hostile siren service for the chat, that presents a bit of a democracy problem
So I've been catching up with the @forktogether wiki, and the gist seems to be to run a project like a Swedish förening. This is fairly common in larger free software projects, and potentially a good way to avoid some issues Mastodon currently has (namely the very poor truck factor). Or perhaps it's just overkill bureaucracy, who knows.
There are some things in the list of requirements may not be possible, given how both OStatus and ActivityPub work. Blocking federation for certain instances is potentially one of these, modulo authentication stuff.
Accessibility sounds good. Probably requires a UI written from scratch to be maximally compatible (not relying on JS for example).
I don't see any code yet, but that seems to be because what to fork off of isn't decided yet. So a cleaner codebase like Pleroma could be an option. Plus that's written in Erlang, which is clearly the cooler language compared to Ruby (:
@chilljill Don't got one. Perhaps I could get one and bodge it into my bedroom window somehow.. Actually very doable with some thick styrofoam and duct tape. Then make a hole to pass the hot air tube through..
@chilljill Cooling my apartment by passing cold water through a radiator. I moved it to the sink now, with a slow dribble from the faucet to keep the temp low
@patricksudlow Isn't "slandering the State" the press' entire job description? A press that is always on good terms with the state wouldn't be very useful.
I'm finding Israel an increasingly useful example of what happens when you allow ethnonationalism to take root. Scarier still, I saw someone on r/the_donald point out that "if Israel can get away with it we can too!"