(Linux news in previous posts)

FOSS NEWS

Mastodon 4.6 RC adds Collections, full API endpoints, and ActivityPub upgrades:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/mastodon-4-6-rc-adds-collections-full-api-endpoints-and-activitypub-upgrades/

Chrome moves to fully block MV2 extensions, effectively killing uBlock Origin workarounds:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/chrome-moves-to-fully-block-mv2-extensions-effectively-killing-ublock-origin-workarounds/

Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Vulkan-Video-Merged

Helium Browser adds custom shortcuts, Windows auto-updates, enhanced privacy:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/helium-browser-adds-custom-shortcuts-windows-auto-updates-enhanced-privacy/

Zen Browser 1.21b Release Brings Space Routing and Firefox 151.0.4 Under the Hood:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/zen-browser-121b-update-fixes-workspace-routing-and-theme-bugs/

Brave for Android adds custom search engine support in v1.91 update:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/brave-for-android-adds-custom-search-engine-support-in-v1-91-update/

LibreOffice gives its Ribbon-style UI a pop of colour:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/libreoffice-tabbed-ui-backgrounds

ONLYOFFICE DocSpace 3.7 Lets You Generate Files Using AI:
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17357018/onlyoffice-docspace-3-7

Collabora's CODE 26.04 Release Might Be Its Biggest One Yet:
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17356900/collabora-code-26-04

LibreOffice slams Euro-Office as ‘de facto ally’ of Microsoft:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/euro-office-ooxml-libreoffice
("You bunch of f*ckers, no fighting. NO EFFIN FIGHTING!" lol)

Introducing Proton Drive CLI: Use Drive from your terminal:
https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-cli

digiKam 9.1 brings support for Pixel motion photos, enhanced advanced search, and more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/digikam-9-1-brings-support-for-pixel-motion-photos-enhanced-advanced-search-and-more/

Audacity 3.7.8 Audio Editor Improves Support for HiDPI Displays on Linux:
https://9to5linux.com/audacity-3-7-8-audio-editor-improves-support-for-hidpi-displays-on-linux

Ardour 9.7 streamlines control surfaces, enhances MIDI editing and adds vertical scrollbar:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/ardour-9-7-streamlines-control-surfaces-enhances-midi-editing-and-adds-vertical-scrollbar/

HandBrake fixes 2-pass encode crashes, WebM on Linux:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/handbrake-update-open-webm-linux

Sigil 2.8 brings built-in image editing, CSS de-nesting, and support for more media types:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/sigil-2-8-brings-built-in-image-editing-css-de-nesting-and-support-for-more-media-types/

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@AccordionBruce and then analytically:

It’s harder to force people to make something viral by them having to do the actual boosting, and then another user having to not mute them, and not have boosts turned off, and reboost, and so on each time

So, remember "R naught", R0, for disease?

Memetics was originally formulated along epidemiological lines, IIUC.

Mastodon's shape drops the R0 in this pool. It's akin to what if corporate social media had metaphorical  N95s and 🪟💨 outdoor requirements and ↔️ human density maximums and  CO2 limits?

•  loose matrix of people filtering out the misinfo, the disinfo, and the marketing, but letting oxygen through;
• 🪟💨 bringing fresh ideas in faster than 'sick' people can exhale junk;
• ↔️ keeping people sparsely enough linked that if someone 'gets sick' they can socially isolate until better without pulling the whole network along;
•  system limits on how often a post can show on the timeline, keyword filters, detoggling view boots

Whereas corporate social media has everyone packed into the smallest nightclub possible, shoulder to shoulder, with recycled and unfiltered air. Chokingly, dangeriously stuffy!

it really is a pretty good metaphor I think.

#Fedi #Fediverse #socialmedia