Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

All,

I've gotten a small team together and we have started development on the Mastodon server for the disability community.

I am in the process of outlining some additional roles we will need to fill to make this succeed, and will put out a solicitation for that at a later date.

I am also making an outline for the information database we want to build, and will likely recruit people (or solicit information) for various pieces of it.

🍍

What's with the welcome pineapple?

Back when Mastodon first started, there was a trend of giving a pineapple as a token of welcome. According to Dictionary.com, the pineapple emoji represents hospitality, among other things.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/pineapple-emoji/

I think it would be nice to resurrect this tradition. If you've received a pineapple in the past or have been around here for a bit, please consider giving a pineapple to welcome any new members you see and show that we're a nice group here.

The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces.

System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits.

The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands. <3

Opinion: Normalize calling #Mastodon a social *network* instead of social media.

(I'm not sure when we as a society switched over to calling platforms like this "social media" but let's take it back!)

A #mobile #Linux devroom application for #FOSDEM was successful. So there will be cross-distribution talks and efforts to progress the state of mobile Linux.

Multiple individuals and distributions are jointly planning this. More details will follow as we hash them out. See you at fosdem!

#FOSDEM devrooms announced! https://fosdem.org/2023/news/2022-11-07-accepted-developer-rooms/

As we got the official announcement yesterday of the first batch of bands to be playing at #Donington next June, I thought I'd throw together a Spotify playlist featuring all of the announced acts so far:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45ZwGT4mnTf5hYOl6tc4va?si=72310d5f216443a1

I normally use this as an opportunity to discover new bands and #music. Off to get listening now..
#DownloadFest

I'm so thankful for the #fediverse

I never thought @pixelfed would take off, and you guys made it happen ❤️

I'm very happy to see so many of my colleagues in #journalism making the jump to Mastodon and the fediverse. Our industry has been at the mercy of Facebook, Google, and Twitter, all of which benefited from the work of journalists without paying them or their publications. The fediverse starts to undo that.
More importantly: every single journalist I know has been targeted for online harassment because of their work. Twitter and Facebook profited from those attacks just as much as they did from those journalists' stories. Meanwhile, most publications still do not take online harassment seriously, even as their employees are threatened on a daily basis.
There are still bad actors on the fediverse, but the individual moderation tools and the tireless work of the community and admins make this a far better place.
And most importantly, no company is profiting from weaponized hatred on the fediverse.

🐍Anaconda is looking to hire full-time back end software engineers (Python, Postgres, REST APIs, K8s) for its cloud and on-prem package server team in the 🇬🇧United Kingdom or 🇩🇪Germany.

If you have any questions: my DMs are open!

https://boards.greenhouse.io/anaconda/jobs/4217999

#python #Anaconda

Is your school forcing you to use Zoom, Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? Freedom is important to education. Read about freedom-respecting choices at https://u.fsf.org/311

Right, this is fun - let’s grow this community!

We’re going to be chatting about #politics #ukpolitics #elections #brexit #internationalrelations #EU #democracy #trade #health #costofliving #uknews #government #policy #legislation #education #climatechange #law #technology and probably a million other things as well. Hopefully with some jokes thrown in. Reply to this to join our network!

@zleap @lennardvanotterloo @jburnmurdoch @t0nyyates How do Dorsey's billionaire chums get richer from that? Open protocols should be curated by the IETF - and documented in rfc's

Hi Fediverse! It’s time to introduce myself. 🙂 I’m an #organic #chemist and #research fellow at Imperial College London. Most of my current research is on cyclic molecules known as #conjugated #macrocycles, which can be used in #batteries 🔋 and other applications. #ChemiVerse #ChemToots #Science
My team and I have recently developed a molecular building block for the synthesis of redox-active porous #organic #materials, which we have named #Squarephaneic #Tetraanhydride: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202212623

There's no doubt that most people online don't like #ads being pushed down their throat. I would also assume that some (most?) of them still believe that there's nothing they can do about it; they throw their hands up in the air and tell themselves that they're so used to ad banners at this point that they hardly even notice them, you know like an notch on a smartphone.

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Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So #KeepFediWeird.

@ejoftheweb @jburnmurdoch @t0nyyates
The German Data Commissioner is advocating that all public bodies should leave Facebook (and presumably Twitter) and use open platforms instead.

Various German bodies and authorities have already created their own Mastodon servers, as have many EU agencies and the Commission.

https://mstdn.social/@TheEuropeanNetwork/109307607062425853

@rysiek I'm brand new to this place as of today. I'm already feeling more welcome and safer than on that other place.

Good morning Mastodon! We're delighted to be here. If you're meeting us for the first time, we're the UK's leading cross-party advocacy group upholding internationalist values. Check us out at bestforbritain.org!

We talk about #ukpolitics #brexit #internationalrelations #politics #democracy #elections #costofliving #UK #education #law

Proposal to rename mastodons "content warning" (CW) to "content note" (CN), to make more clear, what it is actually / should be used for: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20117

Leave a thumbs-up there, if you also think thats a good idea! And thx to @leah for the proposal!