Notices by Martijn 🇪🇺🇳🇱 (chaosmonkey@masto.ai)

@chucker @jwildeboer @taschenorakel I'm not sure how that was decentralization to be honest.

People that were denying COVID and antivaxxers seemed to have been primarily relying on F***book and Twatter from what I remember. Not exactly decentralized.

The true root cause of the problem was/is IMHO: lack of education & lack of critical thinking skills.

Divide and Conquer my friend.

Give the populace bread & games and we will stay in power.

I.e. modern media, including "social", are the games.

@jwildeboer @_mosso That's one way to look at it. That period was way before my time, so I have to judge it through the coloured lenses of history.

In any case: people nowadays should be focussing on standing & working together to promote & defend "common" decency, respect and rights.

The oligarchs will not do it for us.

Personally I don't care if someone is "left", "right", black, purple, gay, trans whatever.. if we can have a respectful chat & work together, that's enough for me.

#respect

@_mosso @jwildeboer I rather see it as there was a brief period during the interbellum and 20-30 years post WW2 where people collectively thought wealth transfer was unacceptable... and were vocal enough about.

We lost that.

@tim Here's a random person asking a fairly random question! 😋

I have a small non-profit that is looking at potentially offering DNS registrar services (i.e. become a registrar).

Any advice on how to tackle that? What kinda software to use for the actual DNS services and what to use to allow users to self-manage their domains?

#dns #registrar #selfservice #nonprofit

@fell @Liberapay @opencollective And for the love of god, please don't just donate to the big names in Open Source!

Sure they can use the money, but so can that lone developer of that small project that makes your life just a little better.

So if you're using a smaller open source project that you like, check if they have an option to support them financially.

@simon_brooke @massonpj @ow2 That is a wonderful summary! Hear, hear! I fully agree.

#foss4ever

@simon_brooke @massonpj @ow2 More and more I find myself about true free open source vs "other open source". (#Corporate) #greed has companies / people to (ab)use #OSS devs' time to develop their (in the end) #commercial #products. #Rugpulling #licenses from under the #community.

#Opensource #funding is important, but it should be about:

"how do we allow those devs to live a decent life while they provide good, usefull & truly free open source software."

True #FOSS is indeed about #gifting.