Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 3

*DRAFT* MoodleNet User Agreement and Covenant for Instance Administrators

https://blog.moodle.net/2019/user-agreement-covenant/

It's a sad comment on our news media that people can be employed not only as journalists for our daily newspapers, but as editors, then switch to writing #FakeNews for industry front groups (or spin for government departments). We desperately need a new generation of journalists who see corporate PR as the enemy of truth it is, not as potential future employers.

If you want to make the fediverse better as a developer, you have to listen.

Step out of your bubble and really understand what it means to create a better alternative.

Pixelfed wouldn't exist without y'all, and I am so thankful to everyone for helping make this project happen! ❤️ :pixelfed:

creating a open pad of green web hosting providers for inspiration. publishing it soon ...
everyone can join and edit this pad!

@greenfediverse you might like to take a look at those listed here:
https://github.com/ecobytes/awesome-librehosters
some do offer hosting for others, some not.

one of capitalism’s basic tricks for selling stuff to you is to put the doubt into your head that you are WITHOUT something that you NEED

this isn’t a REAL need but it is a method of tricking you into believing that what capitalism wants you to buy is something you supposedly lack in your life

and with a lack of oversight and control on this system of propaganda delivery, capitalism could manage to sell our basic needs to us, and for those it has thrown into poverty it works to convince them that to climb the ladder is how they can acquire the more expensive ‘needs’ capitalism sells to them on top of their basic needs

Google, who became the most powerful corporation in the world by selling web ads: Hey in the future every computer program should actually be a website. Don't worry about why, just do it. It'll be cool. We're the vanguard of technology or something

People: ok

People: hey why does this calendar i downloaded have ads in it

Google: Haha cool

You may know @nextcloud offers a free open storage system, but did you know it also has its own app ecosystem?

There are lots of extra apps you can add to your Nextcloud:

https://apps.nextcloud.com/

(Includes collaborative document editing, music streaming, video calling, calendar syncing, note taking, XMPP chat and lots more)

#NextCloud

@stevenroose @z428 @hinterwaeldler
Also, WhatsApp isn't the first time that a big 5 tech company took a huge userbase built on XMPP and gave the community the finger

Among the things that ActivityPub can do is provide discovery mechanisms for communicating about capabilities and bootstrapping key exchanges. I've seen indications that's something the Pleroma devs would like to do with XMPP

@z428 @stevenroose @hinterwaeldler actually this is also beauty and curse of XMPP - it's flexible and could be tailored to particular needs. And you, as a user have choice - maybe you are privacy oriented and don't want contact discovery then use server x, maybe you do, then user server y. #XMPP has also built-in mechanism of discovering features and it can be used to gracefully adjust the service.

@z428 @hinterwaeldler
That's not really true. #WhatsApp is by far the most popular messenger app. It ran on an #XMPP server for most of its existence. XMPP has a standards body and a protocol for proposing standard extensions. So WhatsApp should have proposed extensions for all the features they found were missing from the protocol. They should have enabled federation while other providers catched up on implementing the new protocol extensions.
Instead, they decided to build a #silo.