@ascentale A9: BlueSky is absolutely the current hotness, and I don't think we can or should fight that. BUT!
What we _can_ do and I think _should_ do is establish links across BlueSky and the Federation, so people know they _can_ come here and _not_ lose contact with their friends.
To that end, I wrote up a big post telling people in simple, basic steps how they can follow each other across the services via BridgyFed. It's here:
I'm mid-career and I've just realised I have never received *any* mentoring on how to manage my workload, on how to explicitly recognise when I've taken on too much and how to proactively develop a system to manage saying no to more things.
🥳 Big news! While half of Europe is hanging out in Hamburg at 38c3, we got bored and accidentally our web frontend.
It comes with a bunch of new features, which we'll post about in the next couple hours and days, but the one which will probably be most obvious is that we now feature a built-in, automatic dark mode based on your browser / OS preferences 🌙 .
We are sad to see that @ThePlant has decided to close the GamingonLinux forum, a result of the Online Safety Act. We warned politicians that their attempts to regulate the net in the UK would destroy the best bits of the internet when trying to tackle the worst. #OFCOM#OnlineSafetyAct#Linux
This utterly failed, fastboot was not able to write the userdata partition, so now I guess that phone is dead :\ well, not dead, at least. I managed to flash postmarketos using #pmbootstrap - but the phone does not boot, justshows spinning dots. Not sure where to go from here?
#TIL that you can subscribe to a Mastodon feed using an RSS reader, or even a podcast listening app like AntennaPod. Although that only shows OPs to the feed, not replies or comments. I'm not up on RSS readers and whether they can display fediverse threads.
Anyway, this is just another demonstration of a) the value of open standards, and b) the way different standards can be combined, forming a unified social media space with many ways in
🇩🇪Ho, ho, ho: #Chatkontrolle am heutigen Nikolaustag erneut gestoppt (siehe Grafik) 🥂 +++ Danke an alle, die mitgekämpft haben! +++ Unser digitales Briefgeheimnis und sichere #Verschlüsselung sind unverhandelbare Grundfesten der Informationsgesellschaft!
Communities can choose freedom-respecting platforms, thereby forcing a significant number of people to use it.
But most communities are too cowardly to do that. Just try getting free software projects off GitHub, or try moving Telegram/Discord communities to XMPP. See how much pushback you get.