Notices by The Freedom Network ♻ (librenet@opensocial.africa), page 10

Hey everyone! As you might know already, a.weirder.earth suffered a catastrophic hardware failure, taking us down for about 2 weeks and forcing us to move to a completely new instance.

A lot of us (myself included) didn't back up our follows either. So we're very much on square one.

How you can help:

- Contribute to #ff (follow friday) tomorrow. Everyone could do with the follow suggestions.
- Check your follows. If anyone is from 'a.weirder.earth', refollow them on 'weirder.earth'.

Thanks!

#Introduction
Hello! I am Falgn0n, The Wizard [https://the-wizard.co.za] (not really a wizard).
Unrelenting Optimist
Unapologetic Idealist
#Anarchist
Co-admin of #OpenSocialAfrica (we'are aiming for the #SocialCoop / #PlatformCoop model)
Founder and admin of "The Freedom Network", [https://librenet.co.za] - which strives to create decentralised social, sharing, communications & freecycling networks at the local community level (also aiming for the #coop model)
And I love Wizards
#introductions

So, I guess #Mastodon is like an unending river of (interesting?) content that is continuously flowing by, and you have to quickly grab something from the stream to take a closer look or interact with it.
#Hubzilla is more about creating focused groups and forums, for a slower, more in-depth kind of interaction around specific activities, topics or projects.

Masto+HubZ=😍

#fediverse

@tracer808 Hello!
#Welcome
#NewHere

It's official:

http://social.librenet.co.za is gone.

Long live http://Opensocial.Africa!

There was a website that let students share their academic journals under creative commons license, does anyone remember its name?

It occurs to me that we reward people who can entertain us more than we reward anyone else.

Duckduckgo is finally unblocked in Iran!

Have you heard of repair cafes, local meeting places where people come together to fix stuff that would otherwise end up as #waste? According to https://repaircafe.org/ there are more than 1,500 repair cafes world-wide -- a growing, noncommercial global movement.

This article in The Guardian from last month gives a good introduction: "Can we fix it? The repair cafes waging war on throwaway culture"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/15/can-we-fix-it-the-repair-cafes-waging-war-on-throwaway-culture