Notices by mairin (mairin@fosstodon.org)

What should I post? I don't know anymore. What do you want to hear from an open source designer?

@kev @victorvicpal I cannot in good conscience recommend anyone involved in FOSS (the vast majority of whom are not native English speakers) use this server with this handling of the issue.

@kev @victorvicpal Hey Kev,

would have been nice to get a "warning" or heads up about this some months ago when I started posting in Irish, look at my timeline, there is plenty of it.

I have never caused any moderation issues on this server, I am a good citizen. Too bad that won't be considered.

You need to rethink the phrasing of this email and policy. English is an ugly language w a cruel history.

@kev @victorvicpal So you choose to selectively enforce it? Allow someone to become comfortable over 11 months, then stab the knife?

This is *not* in the spirit of FOSS at all. You need to improve your language and messaging at a bare minimum. My current position as-is w the status quo is that this is a colonialistic server. You need to do better.

I got an email warning from this server - after posting in Irish a number of times over the lifetime of my account here and other folks telling me that it is welcome - that my posts in Irish are *NOT* welcome on Fosstodon.

Irish is a minority language not heard often, it is extremely important to me, and so this decision means this server is not a place for me. Sadly, despite my long career in FOSS.

I might abandon this account and use mastodon.ie. TBD

@mattb @fedora Likely not. But I'll ask.

Anybody got a good, humane FOSS-centric server to recommend so I can propose it to @fedora?

@mmu_man No excuse. If it's an open, volunteer, FOSS oriented community, you simply solicit volunteers in the needed languages. Instead of - in effect - telling an Irish speaker (of ALL languages) to stop speaking Irish and speak the Queen's tongue.

@mmu_man I already did. Multiple times. I am well aware of the intracacies of volunteer run projects, you could try googling me.

@BirdsiteLIVE @lasombra @mike @kev "explaination" <= this isnt English

It's ok if I post in Irish as long as I hide it? How generous.

Difficulties implementing suppression of my ancestor's tongue?

Have you read any books about, oh I don't know, colonialism?

@mobiuscog @technige That's why mastodon has language tagging and filtering features. The world doesn't exist to serve monolingual English speakers, and any discourse on this topic needs to be cognizant of that and the ugly and cruel colonial history of the language. Excusing such an inhumane policy as a practical moderation or filtering consideration is ridiculous at best.

@mobiuscog @technige Michael, I'm an Irish language speaker. You're calling my references to colonialism disingenuous?

@mobiuscog @technige Are you aware of the history between Ireland and England at least, if not the history of Irish? My ancestors were fucking stoned and beaten for speaking it.

Strange benefits of where I live.... two doors down from my house lives a Grammy-nominated musician 🎶 who has backyard concerts 🤩

Welp, I didn't play hooky to do it, but I did make it to the woods today 🌳

How we ran a 300+ attendee conference online using an open source stack including tech like #Jitsi, #PeerTube, and #Matrix / #Element - and attendees had a great experience!

All the deets are here:

https://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2023/04/10/run-an-open-source-powered-virtual-conference/

(#fedora #creativefreedomsummit )

The internet is a great place to complain about broken technology in hopes someone might have a solution but instead you get blamed for not redesigning your life around the flaws of a multibilliom dollar surveillance capitalism company's products

I miss blogs. I used to consume them primarily via planet sites. Is that something Mastodon or some other fediverse tool can do?