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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/952618

Fediverse is going mainstream fast. And it is going to be a corporate hellhole if the grassroots initiatives that drove it to its current success are losing their grip on evolution in proper direction: Humane tech that is to the benefit of the people andd society, free culture thriving.

While corporate threads are looming, meanwhile the activated developer community is once again splintering, fragmenting initiatives appearing that dilute attention to focus on common efforts, cohesion, cross-pollination and collaboration. The "herding cats" problem of grassroots movements.

Great opportunity is now. Cohesion means that initiatives remain independent, but take care to coordinate with what is going on elsewhere.

👉 You can help! Avoid a CorporaVerse where you are exploited and milked. Bring attention to the opportunity and participate in the related initiatives to help bring them closer together. You might also boost my related toot.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/364581

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/364580

The EU via their Horizons Europe program, the Next Generation Internet (where e.g. NLnet are associated) (NGI Initiative) are the biggest funders of the free software projects that comprise the fedi. Without their support fedi wouldn't be what it is now.

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) recently launched a pilot to have both a Peertube and Mastodon instance on the Fediverse, hashtagged #EUVideo and #EUVoice respectively. On these servers official European Commission related institutions as well as individuals working at the EC can have their accounts.

This recognition of the Fediverse and the interest that exists in entering our decentralized social networking environment is an important development. With success of the pilot there will undoubtedly be a follow-up and more initiatives to come. First results until now is that the parties that 'test the waters' are very happy on the kinds of interactions and quality of discussions they encounter on the Fediverse.

That is no wonder, of course. Fediverse offers social networking that is more personal and friendly, than corporate social media which is about 'broadcasting' and influencing.

Current pilot can be a ramp up to something much bigger:

Fediverse: United in Diversity

A social networking technology where everyone can find their place and participate, that is not controlled by Big Tech and commercial corporate interests. For the European Commission there is the opportunity to passionately put their support behind fostering "The European Take On Social Networking". Fediverse aligns to the NGI Initiative who envision an Internet for Humans.

How you can help

To progress towards this vision it is important for the EU/EC pilot to be a success. As fedizen you can help with this. Here are a couple of ways to offer your support:

→ Follow, boost, favourite the EUVoice accounts on Mastodon and EUVideo Peertube videos.

• These early adopter accounts are still learning how the Fediverse works, what the culture is and e.g. how we value accessibility and image captions. You can help them discover.
• Many accounts are still Twitter bridges and broadcast only. Some others respond and interact with fedizens, notably @EC_OSPO, @EDPS and @EC_NGI. The operators of the Twitter bridges don't know what the value of Fediverse is to them, and if they should spend time with us. All reactions by us are monitored, so we can help them here.
• There are people giving highly toxic reactions to almost any EC-related toot. There are many things to be critical about. Politics is about the discussion of these issues, and good arguments help more than toxicity. Here we have opportunity to show we are different than the cesspit that Twitter is.
• Do not expect too much, too soon. There is a complex organization structure at the EC, and given the politically sensitive nature all communications are weighed carefully and undergo multiple levels of approval. Plans move slowly, but they are in motion.

→ Let's give the fedi accounts more followers than they have on Twitter, if possible.

• For instance the Director General of Informatics at DG DIGIT, Veronica Gaffey, has 191 fedi followers in short time, while on Twitter she has 279 followers.

→ If you are on Twitter, then help encourage EC institutions to also have an account on EUVoice.

• A notable example is the European Parliament. Respond to their tweets and name-drop the fedi as THE place to be.

→ We are gathering a group of volunteers on SocialHub that can help train EC representatives in how to use the Fediverse effectively and understand its culture.

• The activities we do here, starting later this year, stand to benefit any administration or institution interested to join the Fediverse, not just EU representatives.

This post is also cross-posted to the Social Coding Movement that is dedicated among others to establish a Peopleverse on top of the fedi. Social Coding is not yet officially launched.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/106576

I've been exploring Emacs vanilla and found some gems. I'll list those and would like you to list as well in special those that you migrated to from a non built-in package.

• fido: minibuffer completion
• tab-bar: flexible tabs for frames and windows
• desktop.el: saving/restoring sessions
• rgrep: grep recursively
• ibuffer: has filtering functionality
• vc: frontend to git, mercurial, but very limited in comparison to magit

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/613685

Simple Gemini browser for Android

cross-posted from: https://jeremmy.ml/post/12177

About installing the light-weight Pleroma with the Soapbox front end.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/684232

cross-posted from: https://jeremmy.ml/post/26052

Shared December 31, 2022

00:00 - Intro

01:26 - Introduction of akkoma

01:44 - Setup VPS for akkoma

03:27 - Initial Linux hardening

07:50 - Prepare environment for akkoma

13:21 - Install akkoma

20:02 - Configure Ingress for akkoma

22:36 - Installing frontend for akkoma

24:58 - Creating user in akkoma

25:31 - Following user in fediverse

26:20 - Admin panel in akkoma

27:15 - Switching off registration

27:50 - Federation & Publicity

30:00 - Disable Known Timeline for anon users

30:48 - Black listing instances from Federation

cross-posted from: https://jeremmy.ml/post/26053

Shared January 3, 2023

00:00 Beginning

00:09 Introduction to Pleroma and the Fediverse

05:35 Thank you to my Patrons at Patreon 06:10 Installing Pleroma

10:10 Editing the Environment Variables

15:40 Check our Install

16:10 Setup our Reverse Proxy

18:10 Add an Admin User

21:30 Login with the new user

23:30 Enable Configuration through the Web UI

30:12 Allowing Registration and Federation

31:40 Adding Relays

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/243881

I recently started thinking again about the Social knowledge fabrics discussion, and it seems to me that one of the biggest obstacles for fedi to become one is the following. The things we refer to as "threads" are actually "branches of a tree". You have a trunk, basically the whole fedi, each post is a branch, each branch can itself ramify into branches, but all the branches stay independent.

It would be useful if a discussion branch was not only shaped like a thread, but also had the usefulness of one : sewing, or tying together different discussion topics. Sometimes I think again about an old discussion when participating in a new one, and so I cite it. But this message is still fundamentally part of the new discussion, while the newly established link should be of equal interest to participants of both threads.

What we miss is for that message to be part of both conversations, or a clear way to automatically signify to both threads that something new happens. Of course, this can be done by hand, writing a comment in each cited branch to point to the new one. But we won't remeber to do that everytime, or we will not want to "necrobump", or we just don't want to make the extra effort. So it would be interesting if the relations were established automatically. For example the way I proposed for Friendica's quote-shares in the linked URL, or the way GitHub handles issue that cite each other.

Maybe two old topics will come to know about each other that way, effectively being sewed by the new thread.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/735718

I'm excited about about a more CMS-like approach to a fediverse server, especially one that leans on #IndieWeb building blocks.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/134613

Not sure why, but I feel this might be related to the Fediverse :)

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/519589

Heres hoping that all the projects considering group support can implement a standard approach.

cross-posted from: https://group.lt/post/46209

it is a week since I have been using Perject as an alternative/replacement to packages like tabspaces and persp. Perject is much better than those, and I have yet to experience a bug. The workflow is:

1. create a collection of projects: perject-open-collection
2. create a project under a collection: perject-switch
3. add buffer to project: perject-add-buffer-to-project

Then can create collections, projects, ... and switch between them from any frame. It does auto save state, and I found it very good in reloading the saved collections/projects; I have not experienced any bug with it while I would experience much bugs with persp...

Also Perject integrates with GNU Emacs built-ins for all that, such as desktop, project.el, tab-bar, ...

The author, overideal, released it recently, but it already is one my favorite Emacs packages. Really worth it trying it out.

My config if anyone wants to try it out https://codeberg.org/yymacs/yymacs/src/branch/main/yyuu/module/yyuu-mod-emacs-uix-space.el#L42-L103

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/904362

I'll elaborate on my thoughts further in my reply below, but I'm keen to hear what everyone thinks of this concept