Notices by Greg Vernon (alpinegreg@mastodon.green)

@AllysonShaw @pluralistic

We need our own alternative to #facebook. Kind of like #owncloud or #nextcloud, if you will, but for our social media.

@AllysonShaw @pluralistic

So, I think a successful FB successor needs to be something independent and federated. Mastodon does Twitter reasonably well.

I guess #FreeBook, as I would call it should run on federated servers. Users could publish their own feeds, kind of like ATOM worked for with blogs. You put your feed on your server and people that know you subscribe. You should be able to unsubscribe people as well. Should handle various media well.

Some great thoughts by @pluralistic

A number of us are stuck on #facebook due to lockin by friends and family. Especially those of us that have migrated to other corners of the globe from those friends and family.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba

@LaChasseuse @glent OpenStreetMap as well, could use some funding. I met someone last week involved with OSM who pointed out the massive difference in the funding Wikipedia gets vs OSM, and it was quite a bit.