Notices by Pirate Praveen (praveen@social.masto.host), page 2

Can anyone using #firefox in #Ubuntu confirm, if you need to click "I agree" to use firefox ? Does it show ToS before you start using firefox ?

Clicking or not clicking "I agree" makes a crucial difference in mozilla getting your permission to use your data. Unlike proprietary software or services, you can get #firefox from a different source without agreeing to this shit. Just the name may be different or they might have made it better for you.
#mozilla #debian #librewolf #ironfox #gnomeweb

Are you and #android developer? Would you like to contribute to #Prav? Here is a small task for anyone to try making a small contribution / getting your hands dirty...

https://codeberg.org/prav/IssueTracker/issues/2#issuecomment-2920546

Context: #Quicksy and hence #Prav currently takes phone number as the username. But this makes a lot of people reluctant to use / promote Prav. So we raised funds and hired a local company Softrate to do the work. But we need to troubleshoot why this is not working as intended.

#XMPP #FreeSoftware

We had a brain storming session at the end of #PravConf about promoting #Prav. One big item all #Telegram users want in Prav is #stickers! Especially animated stickers!

Monocles Chat has some stickers, we need to bring that to Prav and add more stickers.

#XMPP #FreeSoftware

It took us 6 months to publish #Prav on Google Play Store!

@VishnuSanal has wrote a blog post on the whole experience.

https://vishnusanal.github.io/posts/publishing-prav-on-play-store/

We are happy to announce the schedule for #PravConf. This is our first conference, and volunteer team is small, so we could not publish it earlier.

https://prav.app/conf/2025/#schedule

#Prav #XMPP

We have a logo for #PravConf, thanks to our designer @badrihippo

If you have not registered yet, good idea to register now at https://conf.prav.app

#xmpp #FreeSoftware

Happy to discover another email client for mobile gnu/linux!

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-thunderbird

#Geary was very brittle (crashes often, was not working with gnome online accounts and was missing pgp support) so one more option is nice!

#thunderbird #mobian #postmarketos #debian #freesoftware

Dear #fedi who care about #privacy and #federation, we have been paying for 3 servers (1 each for diasp.in and durare.org and another for testing the migration) till now and hope to drop 2 of them soon. For #hetzner we have raised on 16.83 (durare.org and its clone used for testing diasp.in migration) usd out of ~34 usd till January 2025. For #Infomaniak, we will publish the account soon once we get a balance from Navodaya's RazorPay account.

Consider donating https://diasp.in/#donate #xmpp

Any designers in #fedi who can create a logo for durare.org #xmpp public service?

#askfedi #design #logo

https://gitlab.com/piratemovin/diasp.in/-/issues/59

#durare.org and #diasp.in are xmpp services maintained by volunteers, funded by donations and open to everyone.

This makes #federated messaging and #privacy available to everyone. We share part of the load on the xmpp network, keeping it collectively managed.

Use apps like Monocles Chat or Monal.

cc @buster @libreinator @badrihippo @ravi @slimmilan

Any web developers here who can make fasttrack.debian.net web page responsive ? #askfedi #debian #freesoftware

Debian Fast Track is a repository that allows making “backports” of packages available to users of the stable distribution, if those packages cannot be maintained in testing and backported in the usual way.

This service was started originally to provide #gitlab packages and now include other software like #VirtualBox. Hosting sponsored by #Infomaniak

#backports #fasttrack

#poddery November hosting invoice is available. Since this is a volunteer run public service supported by donations. Please consider sponsoring this expense, you can also contribute a part of it as well.

https://fsci.in/donate/ has instructions for Indians. If you are from outside India, crediting our #Hetzner hosting account directly would be easier. We can share details of how to credit our Hetzner account via bank transfer if you are interested.

Any web developers out there who can build a web app for diasp.in and poddery.com to create users like how #diaspora did? Since we are shutting down diaspora, we want to just keep the user management part of it. As prosody is configured with a plugin to authenticate against diaspora users table in the database.

Details here https://gitlab.com/piratemovin/diasp.in/-/issues/96 Volunteers preferred, but we could also possibly raise some funds to pay someone.

#FreeSoftware #XMPP #fsci

Authenticated Media support is now added to aria-net.org #bifrost bridge! So please donate to them directly https://archon.im/arianet/support-us/

poddery.com is a public #matrix and #xmpp services (we used to provide #diaspora as well, but it is scheduled to be shut down soon). This service is run by volunteers and we raise funds through donations. Would you like to sponsor part of domain renewal charges for 1 year?

gandi.net hiked charges 2-3 times! and it is 29.39 USD (so we moved to Hetzner.de which charges 13.5 Euro for 1 year only - we already host the server with them). @milvus_migrans_govinda already contributed half of it.

Last time we raised funds to add offline messaging support to #bifrost bridge, which connects #matrix and #xmpp. Now we need to raise some funds again to adapt the bridge to support recent changes in how media is shared in matrix. Please contribute https://opencollective.com/bifrost-media #FreeSoftware Once we have some funds, we hope this will motivate someone to fix the bridge. You can also join xmpp:bifrost-mam@groups.poddery.com?join if you like to help.

@prav since some people in the community will be traveling, we shifted the event to March 1st. So we have more time to plan and publicize.

@prav A more specific call for volunteets - would you like to make a website for #PravConf ? May be conf.prav.app Since main website is hugo, that would be preferred, but any other combination works too. We could use something like formbricks.com for registrations.

#Prav #XMPP #FreeSoftware

Looking for volunteers to organize first #PravConf on Jan 4th at MEC Kochi. We need people to handle event website, registration, proposing talks related to federated communications with #FreeSoftware, making posters, banners etc Please reply if you like to help.
https://codeberg.org/prav/IssueTracker/issues/28
@prav

I'm proposing we start using #XMS (eXtensible Messaging System) as a shorter version of #XMPP. This would be easier to remember as similar to SMS/MMS. What do you think about it?
https://codeberg.org/prav/IssueTracker/issues/27

@strypey @snikket_im 1. yes, I know about Snikket. I like what they do. I think they are able to reach only a small percentage of the WhatsApp userbase - those who can afford to self host an instance and people in their immediate circles. We can't recommend a random person to use Snikket, as the entry bar is too high. So imho, it has to be a public service like Quicksy, hence we built Prav on Quicksy. Prav is a coop variant of Quicksy. Technically both are very close to each other right now.