Panos Damelos

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Living in Greece. Anticapitalist/anarchist/liberal communist. Polyamorous. Active in the internets since the late 90s through IRC and forums. Currenty loving the Fediverse and involved in the Calckey project, helping with community management and project coordination. Member of the admin team of the greek-speaking calckey instance (and matrix homeserver) electricrequiem.com.
This was my main english-speaking account, now moved to
@[email protected]. Greek speakers can reach me at @[email protected].
foxxo so cuuuuuutte
New #Calckey release and beta

Notes for v13.1.3:

This is a smaller, intermediary release in preparation for v13.2.0. We still recommend that admins upgrade, however.

Changes:
• Better blocking/muting
• Better user refreshing
• New help menu with app list (More! > Help)
• New headerbar style
• Bug + security fixes and performance improvements

Notes for v13.2.0-beta:

This first beta of v13.2.0 comes with many exciting features!

• Initial Mastodon API support
• Great performance improvements
• Many UI improvements
• Fix many bugs
• New dashboard
calckey

A fun, new, open way to experience social media

Codeberg.org
10,000 more to be laid off at Meta. Ugh.
Please boost

As part of a wave of layoffs, I got laid off from my backend development job last month as the company's financials I was working with have been steadily decreasing. I applied for another job shortly after, and after a month of interviews and an honestly great response from their team, at the last minute, they told me that they were focusing their hiring efforts away from the US and towards Singapore. With Calckey donations, I don't have enough money to pay for rent or groceries. So I'm asking to
#GetFediHired, I'm the lead developer on the Calckey project, and I'm a fullstack, multi-language developer. I have 3+ years of enterprise experience, and I work great on teams as well as solo. Resume and references available upon request.
I think that those who expect the #Fediverse to be a direct replacement for #facebook or #twitter, and who advertize it as such, are seeing the fediverse not exactly for what it is - and are perhaps potentially doing some harm to its reputation in the long run. Because yes, it is a social media experience, but whereas mainstream platforms are one company/entity providing everything, the fediverse is social media created essentially by federated communities. And this is not necessarily only "good" or only "bad"; it's different, and we shouldn't hide it - it is what it is. Because if we hide this fact, this structural reality of the Fediverse, then further down the road, when people for example might not be able to contact everyone because of fediblocks, they might say "this is confusing, this is not a social media platform like facebook or twitter - you lied to us!". And to some extent they will be right.

Yes, the Fediverse can replace big, mainstream social media - but with a somewhat different social media experience, provided by federated communities. Your community server can be more than just an email provider. It's also your community, with its unique software, choices, moderation and policies, and all these affect your social media experience in the Fediverse to some extent. But this can actually be an amazing thing - once you find (or start!) the right community/ies for you!
The nice thing on #Calckey File Drive is, that you can add image descriptions after you made the post, if you are ADHD like me and forget it sometimes, you can add it retroactively
@flor 2023 is the year of the Calckey desktop
hey, calckey devs (I) need rich peoples (people who own a Iphone) help! We need some people who are technical enough that they can help debug issues and report the causes to me. I dont own a iphone myself so I cant do the debugging but maybe someone of yall can,
current issue: the
@IceCubesApp login flow using the mastodon api is broken, the login flow on calckey side works perfectly but when one is supposed to return to icecubes, nothing happens. Like I said I cant debug it cause I only have android phones, (the login flow on android works perfectly) and I got it to work for most other iOS apps too. if someone wants to help me debug this, you dont need to write calckey code, I can do that part (I'll credit everyone who helped obviously as co-author) but I cant do the debugging part!
Any input on this, and boosts too, are apprechiated. This is one of the bigger issues that keeps mastodon support for calckey from releasing right now.
The USA just released two brothers from Pakistan, after imprisoning them for more than 20 years without even charging them for a crime. Let that sink in.
The western media will tell us all day long about how bad Russia is, how much the USA promotes "freedom" in Ukraine and other parts of the world. The truth is that all states enforcing a class society are just oppression tools in the hands of the ruling class.
Fuck states everywhere.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/23/politics/abdul-rabbani-mohammed-rabbani-guantanamo-bay-pakistan/index.html

STOP DOING THREADS

  • POSTS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SPLIT INTO 25 PARTS
  • YEARS of POSTING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for a low character limit
  • Wanted a low character limit anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called “SMS”
  • “My post got so long that I had to split it into 10 parts. Stay tuned for the 20 part sequel” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Mastodon Users have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the Fediverse and protocols WE built for them:
(This is REAL Posting, done by REAL Mastodon Users)

  • Why communism will win, a 🧵 (1/255)
  • Why I should be allowed to index all your posts for profit, a thread (1/X)
  • The rise and fall of Twitter (283/185,781)

“Hello, I would like a 500 character limit please”
They have played us for absolute fools