mailboxMar 25, 2025

πŸ“© Whether at work, with friends or when shopping online - your e-mail is more than just a communications tool. It is your digital ID, the key to online services and often the first impression you make. A personal e-mail address creates trust and underlines your identity.

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#mailboxorg #OwnDomain #E-mailBrand #Identity #TipsAndTricks

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Discover the advantages of a custom domain email address: individuality, flexibility and security. Set up your own domain. Tips and tricks.

Julian FoadDec 2, 2024
Moment of joy: looking up a #freeSoftware app and finding it's in a freedom-respecting forge such as #Codeberg or #SourceHut or on its #ownDomain (and not fed to Microsoft github).

https://wrily.foad.me.uk/open-tech-be-afraid-microsoft
https://wrily.foad.me.uk/your-foss-project-deserves-its-own-domain
https://wrily.foad.me.uk/foss-apps-live-in-foss-forges

#GiveUpGithub #useOpenTools
Open tech, be afraid.

Soon after leaving GitPod whose technology links the two, Geoffrey Hunt last year explained their strategy and what it's doing to our open tech world, in a great and "harrowing" article, "Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture" https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ "The future of software development tooling that is being built is closed as \\\\, and people seem to be okay with it..." This is ...

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Julian FoadDec 2, 2024
We who value #FLOSS, #openTech, #openProtocols can't fail to notice how dearly we need one another's support. So when I hear "join our Discord"* from a supposedly #freedomTech project my heart sinks. We should feed the proprietary silo? Deny our community the very freedom and joy of using open tech? Oppose our own work and values? How sad, how ridiculous. No! We must turn towards our #freedomTech cousins.

#DitchDiscord #useOpenTools

https://wrily.foad.me.uk/discord-vs-community-values

* (It's not "yours" BTW.)

#ownDomain #Matrix #Discourse
Discord vs Community Values

I wrote this piece in response to a particular organisation that empowers local people to create tech solutions matching community values...

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