BUYOUT NEWS: The beleaguered and heavily indebted social network formerly known as "Twitter" is acquired by the X Org Foundation, a 501(c)3 scientific charity

"Fixing Twitter will be easier than finishing Wayland," said a spokesdroid

One of the daftest self-owning aspects of #X will be websites updating their social icons, realising it looks like a close button, so putting something else there instead..

(Hopefully the fediverse is ready then to make the friendly case that having your global broadcast medium paywalled and beholden to the whims/bong-rips of a billionaire, is neither necessary, or great PR)

Announcement: Macstodon 0.3 is here! 🥳​

Macstodon is a Mastodon client for 68k Macintosh computers! With it, you can post plain-text toots, view your home and local timelines, and view your notifications!

System Requirements:
- A 68020/68030/68040 Macintosh
- System 7.1 through 8.1
- At least 1.5 MB of free memory
- 32-bit addressing enabled
- Internet Config installed
- an SSL-stripping proxy running on another machine

You can download the latest release from GitHub: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
(but please read the Read Me, I worked hard on it!)

And with that, I'm going to take a break from this project for a few days! But do let me know if you've successfully used it!

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac

For some thoughts on what should guide content moderation for a social media platform should look like, The Santa Clara Principles are required reading:
https://santaclaraprinciples.org/

The most important thing to recognize is that there are going to be mistakes. That is why transparency and accountability is at the center of these principles.

(Q) Is anyone keeping track of Democratic or Cooperative instances?

(A) Yes - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/Collectively-owned-instances

Thanks to @nemobis for this great resource and to @jmnw for pointing me to it.