For my friends on here that are unaware, I mostly use an alt account @mistermonster and don't really use this mastodon account all that often.
Non-trademarked fully unlocked fork of Mattermost®
Source: https://github.com/cjdelisle/Matterfoss
Why ?
1. Unless you buy an "enterprise license" even simple features like channel ownership are disabled (anyone can delete any channel)
2. Licenses are sold per-head so it's unusable for a public server
3. While the code is OSS, their trademark policy doesn't allow anyone to use their name in a fork
4. Unlike projects like Chromium, their trademark is all over their codebase
Tried to reach out, got no response.
@phoenix you update to the new Pleroma yet?
Looking at the local timeline vs the federated timeline is like venturing outside the city walls. Inside its a bunch of people you've seen around, maybe you know some of them. Outside it's all foreigners and vagrants and degenerates, bots and monsters and its a literal desert out there.
Side note, I wish #husky allowed you to browse a specific instance of your choice.
"Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser."
So there are some interesting things that #Mastodon and #Pleroma can't do. For example, Pleroma shows replies to threads you are not in (and you cannot turn this off outside the Pleroma web UI) and Mastodon cannot mute conversations like Pleroma can.
I've found this https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown which has some interesting features, most importantly, local only (unfederated) posting, which is great for communities. I think I will run a server eventually.
Youtube is about to remove community contributions like closed captions/subtitles:
"Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels after 28 September 2020."
arrgh mateys! It appears tons of source code has been leaked from many prominent companies due to insecure dev tools:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/source-code-from-dozens-of-companies-leaked-online/
if you'd like this occurrence to not be wasted effort, clone this repo before it gets DMCA'd off the interwebs:
ReverseEagle Developers: Similar to switching.software, a website suggesting privacy-friendly and ethical FOSS tools and software for developers.
https://developers.reverseeagle.org/
@Gargron it's time to tell instance administrators that blocking other instances prejudicially does more harm to the fediverse, than good to the users.
We need to encourage users to actively use self moderation tools such as blocking and filtering, and teach administrators that domain blocking should be a last resort action — e.g. when one instance actively attacks yours, not when one users from that other instance says something that single user on your instance may be offended of.
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