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Reclaiming RSS

“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”

ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rs

#ethicaltechnology

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Why ActivityPub is the future

We often tout things like “Mastodon is based on open web protocols” as one of its advantages. I want to elaborate why exactly that’s a good thing.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/

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Cose utili:

In Emilia-Romagna, donne di diverse categorie possono usufruire di mezzi anticoncezionali ed assistenza gratuiti.

Si spera che il progetto si estenda al resto della penisola.

Autodeterminazione, sicurezza, libertà di scegliere.

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I just helped to stop #CensorshipMachines that would filter ALL of our online content. You too can help to #SaveYourInternet: d.shpg.org/420107097t Contact your EU representative before 4 July!

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Happy Pride Month to all of you, especially if you can't wave your flag or haven't found it yet.

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A new mastodon instance for the (english speaking) #OpenStreetMap community! It's under construction, but might be a nice place for #OSM people!

A mirror of the OSM twitter account: @openstreetmap

en.osm.town

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Prima uscita numero 0 dell'edizione italiana della Guide d'Autodéfense Numerique
numerique.noblogs.org/ da stampare e diffondere

La guida di #autodifesa #digitale in lingua originale invece è qui
guide.boum.org/

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@admin
GNUsocial e Pleroma non sono comunità, come non lo è Mastodon. Sono software, usati da comunità diverse in contesti diversi. Mastodon non è intrinsecamente di sinistra come Pleroma non è intrinsecamente di destra. Il mio server gira su Pleroma ma non credo di essere nazi.
(ci sono istanze di merda che girano su Mastodon, per dire...)
@Gino @cicredopoco
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@WelshPixie

Mastodon: what's really going on in my head

Facebook: what I don't mind my aunts and uncles knowing about

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I need to rave about #Python.

One of my colleagues has deep knowledge about #GreenhouseGas calculations but doesn't write code, in any language. She was giving me instructions on how to perform a calculation, which I kept getting wrong. Frustrated, I just show her my Python code. She instantly recognises the error and tells me how to fix the code. This is the first time I show her Python.

Can *your* programming language do this?

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github take Show more

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"We take the existence of borders for granted simply because we’ve always been told they are real, and the borders with our neighbors have remained unchanged during our lifetimes.

In reality, they are not real. In fact, while I can say with all certainty this will not happen in the foreseeable future, it is entirely possible that all of the borders dividing all of the countries all over this world could be erased in a single day.

In a sense, we are hostages of the countries in which we are born, held captive by artificial borders. We are not asked if we would like to be a citizen of the nation in which we’re born."

-- Margaret Donnelly
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so what is Pleroma about anyway?

in a nutshell, it's about autonomy. it's about social media autonomy for every person on the planet. all 7.6 billion of us. nobody else telling us to do, what to say, and nobody else forcing us to see things we don't want to see.

this means Pleroma is being built for an entirely new scale of fediverse: one with billions of nodes. it's also why Pleroma supports alternative transports such as TOR and I2P out of the box.

it also is a major differentiator between Pleroma and Mastodon. in the Mastodon model, there's maybe a few million islands which host a few thousand people each. to contrast, in our model, everyone who wants to host their own instance does so. that means everyone can choose to have total social media freedom.

but it's not just social media, we also intend to use the same underlying tech to enable real-time communications with the same capabilities as the social media side of things.

and it's universal: different frontends for different preferences. like Mastodon but don't have the resources to run it? use Pleroma with Mastodon frontend and apps. like GNU social? Pleroma's default frontend was modelled after it. like diaspora* but want to talk to your fediverse friends? use Feather. like the alternative Mastodon frontends like Pinafore and Brutaldon? they work too.

hate spam and harrassment? we have a mostly as yet untapped framework called MRF which can be leveraged to automate moderation of an instance.

want to modify it? drop by #pleroma on freenode and we help with that too.
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Non mi piacciono i siti che dubitano ripetutamente di qualsiasi cosa (complottisti) ma neanche quelli che credono di avere la verità in tasca.
Lo spirito critico va esercitato, invece si rischia di esercitare l'arroganza.

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I'm sad that Mastodon seems to be getting more and more passive-aggressive and mean-spiritedly cliquish as time goes on. It's starting to feel like the worst of Tumblr culture in a lot of ways. Over the last few days I've pre-emptively muted notifications for several posts because I can predict the replies I'm going to get and I'd rather not see them.

I don't think it has to be that way. I think we can all do better. Exercise compassion for others, and maybe think twice about our next subtoots.

sulla censura nel Fediverse Show more

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#avviso
Avete 4 modalita' di pubblicazione del post.

Pubblic: visibile nella timeline locale e federata
Unlisted: visibile nel vostro profilo ma non nella timeline
Followers-only: visibile solo ai vostri follower
Direct: visibile solo ai diretti citati

(ATTENZIONE! I messaggi Direct sono salvati in chiaro sul database, usate altri mezzi per comunicazioni sensibili)

Alcune novità su 2.4.2:
- il filtro per lingua ora è su che lingue si vuole vedere, invece che l'opposto
- rilevamento automatico della lingua dei post

Ecco ora avere un account per lingua non è più necessario, devono avermi letto nel pensiero!

altre novità (in inglese): github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/

Nei prossimi giorni un po' tutte le istanze verranno aggiornate!