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not trying to drag birdsite drama over here but I would like everyone to do me a solid:

don't use people's productivity as a benchmark for their righteousness.

Many bad people get a lot done.
Many good people struggle to get out of bed.
Your ability to do work does not change your values or your value.

Just felt like it needed sayin'.

Deleted and reposting because I neglected to mention a major part of our team, @cirriustech and that needs to be set right.

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Hi all. I want to spend a moment expressing my deep appreciation for the infosec.exchange moderation team: @dnsprincess @apiratemoo @ScottMortimer @reg @jett @ClevVenger @SecureOwl @paco @cirriustech

I pulled this team together exactly a week ago, and in that week, they've made a world of difference in that short time. The respect, diligence, and professionalism they show in executing their moderation responsibilities is impressive. Not everyone is going to like every decision we make but know that it comes from a place of compassion and with the best interest of the community in mind.

I would also like to shout out to @dreadpir8robots, who has done a stellar job of organizing and transforming our wiki site.

In the coming days and weeks, we'll be adding additional people to the volunteer team for helping to reorganize the server infrastructure, provide ongoing infrastructure support, handle technical issues from the community, and so on.

I am taking some time off from work next week, and my focus will be filing paperwork to establish a non-profit to assume responsibility for the site, as I previously committed to do.

I'm very humbled by the community that's built up here so rapidly and I appreciate the patience you've shown as we scaled up fast and made mistakes along the way.

As people who have been here for a while understand, the fediverse is a much larger community than just infosec.exchange. While I have been running infosec.exchange for over 5 years, when it became clear that Twitter was likely to implode, I wanted to provide a reliable landing spot for people looking for a new site to connect with others in the industry and beyond.

While I hope to be deeply involved in infosec.exchange for at least another 5 years, it's important to understand that it's ok, and expected, that people who came in through the infosec.exchange front door to diffuse into the larger fediverse. I don't have revenue targets or account growth KPIs for infosec.exchange. There are no investors or advertisers to please. The only thing I am measuring myself against is that I created something useful for all of you.

But this ain't Twitter, and many people have let me know that, so some of you will conclude this isn't the platform for you for $reason, and that's ok. It's not for everyone.

Speaking of that, I think it's obvious that infosec.exchange runs on open-source software called Mastodon. That software is always looking for help - both in the form of code contributions and also financial support (see https:.//joinmastodon.org for more info). I took some of the donations I've collected and used it to help support the Mastodon project.

I wish all of you peace and love.

Jerry

Has anyone got some shows ready for the #HackerPublicRadio #Podcast. The queue is looking pretty empty at the moment.

Although we've been running for 17 years, remember that @hpr will only continue as long as people VERY MUCH LIKE YOU continue to contribute #creativecommons podcasts to the pool.

No restriction on length.
No restrictions on content as long as they are of interest to Hackers.
No spam.

Record
Pick a slot

https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/calendar.php

Couldn't be easier

Boosts appreciated.