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Me and some #FreeSoftware friends are setting up a #Fediverse + cloud server aimed at getting #Indian users away from the mass surveillance, censorship, and disinformation of proprietary platforms. Please let us know which services are important to you by filling out this 2-minute survey, so we can prioritize accordingly and estimate the costs. #BoostPlease #India #OpenSource #FOSS #Privacy #Federated
On the train ride back from Patna (#BiharFOSS), @npub188m0...kczn and I sardonically thanked Trump for the state of things in the US, which may have been why #GitHub disabled the #OrganicMaps repo and forced them to move to #FreedomRespecting #Codeberg. "This will hopefully teach people why it's important to boycott #proprietary platforms. But why do people always wait around for such things to pass? #FreeSoftware activists had been warning them for like 10 years!" (Also...Sourceforge???) #OpenStreetMap
Another happy landing. Or - another mappy workshop πŸ˜‡ I look @#β‚Ή%ing gross in the photos, but I'm really satisfied with how this workshop went πŸ˜€ Also, thanks to @npub1eyku...ndu6 for sponsoring the travel costs. My official role at the conference was to help with the Prav talk and table πŸ™‚ 1/ #OpenStreetMap #BiharFOSS
angry rant
Over the years, I've onboarded close to 100 non-geeks to #XMPP. I ask them to install Quicksy (Android/iOS), and we're good to go. XMPP is the only chat system I've used since 2017. I onboard family, friends, coworkers (from the arts), OSM contributors... But the #Signal #WhatsApp #Discord and #Telegram silo-lovers (and the #DeltaChat and #Matrix NIH fanboys) have the gumption to loudly proclaim that XMPP is unusable. It's a bit like telling a fish that swimming is impossible. πŸ™„ 1/