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Bocchi the Ryu

1h ago

Lilly Hunter 3h ago

Here's Jerry Wayne Longmire's sketch from his tictok, which I managed to download. Enjoy!

Bocchi the Ryu

1h ago

TechCrunch 5h ago

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When the birthday parade list reads like a cautionary guide to history.

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The PeerTube mobile app crowdfunding campaign is a mere 2% (1500€) away from fully succeeding, how cool! \o/

If you still want to chip in (11 hours left): https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

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Let's popularize videos shared by the people, for the people!

Bocchi the Ryu

9h ago

Simon Repp 1d ago

A few words on #faircamp and the future °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

1. A patch release is coming ~tomorrow, including a small but notable fix for browse/search as well as some translation tweaks.

2. With all @nlnet supported work completed I'm currently evaluating options to fund future developments:

* For one there are big things on the horizon that I believe at this point will still require institutional support to achieve. For this I'll be writing grant applications and see if some work can be funded that way (fingers crossed!)

* Until that is under way however (and these things take time), there's also numerous self-contained plans to pursue, and I'd like to try getting some of these directly funded by you the community if you're up for it. ;) More on that in the coming weeks and through summer probably!

3. For the time being and while I'm working almost exclusively on my own funds (save for donations - cheers everyone for your support!) I'm also investing a few days to design and develop tooling that will greatly help with release communication, and I eventually intend to release that to the public as free software as well! Things are already far enough that the upcoming #faircamp/#hyper8 releases will be assisted by this - attached I'm excited to share some screencaps! More info in this thread: https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/114631198105328899

Bocchi the Ryu

9h ago

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂10h ago

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 182 (new software edition!) ☁️

Good morning Fedi friends!

This #GoToSocial account is officially back to posting about... self-hosting from the POV of a newbie / non-dev.

This morning I hit a new little milestone: I FINALLY installed #NextCloud on my VPS (thank you #YunoHost).

I'm getting ready to share short clips of my Fedi promo video (that anybody could use / upload on their own accounts - esp. Big Tech ones, if they're so inclined) and I needed a solution to let people download files. NextCloud is perfect for the task - and something I had looked forward to installing for a looooong time.

I'll share more details soon, but so far I'm excited to finally use it.

Wishing everyone a great day! 🌞

#FOSS #MySoCalledSudoLife

Bocchi the Ryu

19h ago

Mike Roberts 1d ago

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing internet communities to switch from email lists / IRC / another open standard to Slack / Discord. The latest example of a “it's only free while we say it's free" is CNCF’s / Kubernetes's Slack - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/communication/slack-migration-faq.md - who it appears have *4 days* to backup their history (for a server with 100,000s of users)

Neither Slack nor Discord are reasonable, serious, professional, options for open community discussion. They are either too expensive, and/or involve inappropriate advertising. And who knows when Discord will start pulling this kind of behaviour, too, requiring large communities to pay?

The problem is today when anyone says "can't we just use an email list?" they are pooh-pooh'ed as being horribly out of touch. Hence why even the linked FAQ describes Discord as the only likely exit plan for Kubernetes. What a mess.