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

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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!
@zvati aliens
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
@cleo no I get it, I also grew up in a small town 😕 unfortunately doctors don't always act as professionals and will let their personal opinions affect them or choose the easiest explanation for something. Many people for example get poor diagnosis and treatment because of obesity, because some doctors will blame everything on that. Or break confidentiality. So idk, if possible maybe try going to a nearby town for anonymity? Hope it all goes well 💜
@cleo (i mean there is also doctor-patient confidentiality)
@cleo a doctor should be someone you can trust and you should be able to tell them any medication you're taking/you've taken in case it can be relevant. A doctor should just take all info and help you treat whatever condition you have (asthma or whatever) without being judgmental about your body and life choices. This is their job, don't worry about their opinion or whatever you might be worried about.