Hey, for anyone looking for an alternative to #Meetup dot com, just a heads up that there's a Fediverse alternative. It's called Mobilizon.

https://mobilizon.org

I'm starting to use the US instance (mobilizon.us) for tech and dance events here in the DC area.

And hey, #Elixir people? It's written in our language.

The old web was decentralized:

- Newsgroups
- Personal Websites
- Bulletin board
- Email as a service, not a platform
- Internet relay chat (IRC)
- Early blogs

Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became consumers, trapped in algorithms, tracking, and enshittification. Revenue more important than people.

The Fediverse is a way back: no ads, no algorithms, no dark patterns. People first. A web worth reclaiming. And open source is the engine of this transformation.

Take back the web. Decentralize again 💪 Bring people to the Fediverse, promote open source and build federated services.

#TakeBackTheWeb #Decentralized #Fediverse #StopBigTech #OpenSource #DeGoogle #UnplugTrump

Inspired by @molly0xfff's podcast/article about #RSS.... I've absolutely jumped onto this technology. Set myself up on a reader, and I've rediscovered sites & blogs I used to check regularly but sadly forgot about. Cleaned up the RSS feeds on my own sites & patched in post pictures on the WordPress generated ones.

Describing this as a way to create your own custom newspaper is right on. Better than getting stuck on the same few sites all the time.

Highly recommend!

#WebDev #SocialMedia

I've added a phpunit-setup command to Drupal Flake, the local development environment manager we use for doing local #Drupal development using #Nix .

The big blocker to using Drupal Flake for phpunit tests turned out to be a Drupal core issue, not passing the unix_socket into test connections. Found and fixed here! https://www.drupal.org/node/3546633