Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 47

#WhyIStayOnMastodon I hope that in the coming years the advantages of small communities will be recognized. The Fediverse is for me like a small collection of many exciting pubs where like-minded people come together. Such places have the potential to create subcultures, create their own language, own jokes etc.
To refer to my previous mail: Communities like the Restrealität (oldschool community for Berlin techno lovers) are exactly those subcultures I would like to see here.

Maybe someone who knows more about #scuttlebutt and #ssb has an idea if it could work through those?

Do you think a house-based social network (for sharing/co-dwelling and maybe even renting at a fair price) based on activity pub could work?

I am seeing lots of people in dire need of either a place where to sleep or of a few bucks to make it through a rough month... Would it make sense to connect the two?

@mayel hi, @prismo dev here!

I'm using Ruby on Rails stack for prismo development and i'm pretty happy with it. The biggest pro of using it is that mastodon is based on RoR as well so i can use a lot of code from it. On the other hand, ruby ecosystem lacks any libraries dedicated to work with AP so it's all about taking a lot of small pieces from mastodon and refactoring them for my needs.

When prismo is stable and ready, i would really love to make some ruby lib to make working with AP easier

it's telling of p2p's immaturity that "no true deletes" is still often considered a feature, rather than a structural vuln to be overcome.

i criticize p2p tech like dat and ipfs and ssb, and federated tech besides, because i am so hopeful about them. i want them to grow into the basis for robust alternatives to client-server applications, but we still deep in the land of demoware.

When people say "You're doing Agile/etc. wrong," they're often right, but only if they include management and the organizational hierarchy among the blamed.

Agile methodologies, even SCRUM (as intended by the creators), are inherently incompatible with the power dynamics of most organizations, especially corporate ones.

More developer co-ops. More unionizing.

Hey folks! New to the instance, and excited to be here.

I'm a writer, teacher, gardener, anarchist, ramber, reader, etc. Been involved in various cooperatives for 15 years or so, and committed to the structure.

Interested in talking to folks about #ecology #communalism #municipalism #permaculture #appropriatetechnology etc.

#introductions

I don't understand the enthusiasm for Open Collective, they are a for-profit, VC-backed, private company that take 10% of your money (+ 2.9% + 0.30c fee from stripe).

https://liberapay.com/ (specifically the "Teams" bit), seems like a great alternative to this - and fees can be as low as 0.6% / €0.59.

Liberapay is just missing the startup-style hubris :/ (and the sexy website)

Enjoying using a beta version of Changemap from @joshsharp with the #MoodleNet project. Community can submit suggesitons directly or, as in this example, I can collect it from several places in one thread: https://changemap.co/moodle/moodlenet/task/2302-feedback-on-ux-milestone-2/

https://social.coop/media/d9XyVoxNRomtSDOEhX0

@iona My girfriend told me about a book called Anti-Fragile.

Coding is a fragile job. One change in how your specialist language works and you have to re-learn.

An anti-fragile skill is one that takes more to 'break' as it were. Will stand up to more changes in the world and still be useful.

@iona

Yet coders are only one EMP incident away from uselessness.

Crafters, makers, cooks, gardeners, carpenters, metalworkers, builders, nurses, doctors, chemists, fishers, engineers, teachers, farmers, scientists will rebuild the world while we scribble javascript in the dirt.

;)