Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 74

Facebook is a uniquely horrible creature.

Birthed as Ivy League frat house wet dream.

Coddled on narcissist need to always exist (be seen/be heard).

Juiced on the frictions of rubbing together ever available ideology divides until they bleed.

All the while gorging on copious amounts of free content and data until it enveloped the world.

There is no better version of this.

Only better places to spend our time and energy.

Where hopefully we can become better people.

#facebookbreakup

T H E G O A L O F
T H E F U T U R E I S
F U L L U N E M P L O Y M E N T

- arthur c. clarke

@gc You're not really self hosting if you do it using someone else's backbone: https://startyourownisp.com/
:P

datacenters do not imbue computers with special powers. if you own a desktop less than a decade old, congrats! you already own a server more than capable of hosting any/all of these:

- #gogs
- #nextcloud
- #pleroma
- #rocketchat
- #discourse
- #prestashop
- #funkwhale
- #hugo
- #radicale
- #standardnotes
- #prosody
- #wallabag
- #wordpress
- #etherpad,
- #dokuwiki
- #ttrss
- #kanboard
- #pixelfed
- #loomio
- #pihole
- #taiga
- #kodi
- #searx
- #homeassistant
- #znc

(for free, forever)

keep filming the police

The impending sale of GitHub to Microsoft is another example of what happens when we fixate on #opensource IP but not equitable corporate ownership models. How *should* the repository of most free, open software projects be owned?

"I can't convince my friends to come to #mastodon because it is too complicated to set up!"

And

"We need a decentralized federated #Facebook #twitter replacement!"

2 different issues. We don't need something at the scale of Facebook. Mastodon and federation work because it is people coming together in instances that connect to other communities, think neighborhoods to cities to provinces. It took a long time to build these nations, give Masto time to create more shared interest instances.

@kensanata There's decentralized systems like IPFS, BitTorrent, Zeronet et al. make replication of content easy, as in when you visit content you also help host it. No solution is 100% permanent, look at historical examples. But the more something is replicated the better it has a chance of standing the test of time; Epic of Gilgamesh, Shakespeare, Sanskrit scriptures and so on.

If you want your content to last, release it under a free license, back it up using free formats, or write it down.

We tell each other to self host in order to escape the big corps. But when we die, all the self hosted stuff is going to get wiped and history will only remember the archives that got stored by the big corps. And you know how history is written by the winners. Do we need a way to automatically hand over our sites to archive.org or similar? Or send them disc images? Nobody expects to get run over by a car but some of us will, today. I made no plans for this.

Il faut peut être penser à une version #git #Fediverse -> Un fork de #GitLab ! #MovingFromGitHub

The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant: http://www.businessinsider.com/american-worker-less-vacation-medieval-peasant-2016-11?IR=T

@cwebber it's the difference between Free Software and OpenSource: Ethics.