Does your messaging app allow you to leave without also losing your contacts (or having all contacts to move with you at the same time) ? #Prav don't do this, at any time, you can switch to #Quicksy, Monal, Monocles Chat and still talk to all your contacts stayed in Prav. This is a crucial factor that will keep your app honest. If you are staying on Prav, we know because it is by choice, not peer pressure. We also thank Quicksy and every other app that is compatible with Prav.

#xmpp

Here is our new Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse (for punks). Includes a full how-to on using Mastodon.

Give it a read if you are new here, share it with your punk friends who are curious about this place.

https://the-counterforce.org/guide-to-mastodon-fediverse/

Edit:

Printable zine version now available:
https://the-counterforce.org/guide-to-mastodon-fediverse/#zine

Prav does not sell milk.

(Happy #NationalMilkDay!)

https://prav.app/blog/why-register-a-coop/

#Prav #Cooperative #FreeSoftware

Excited that @prav is finally starting the process of formally registering as a #cooperative!

https://prav.app/blog/preparing-to-register-a-coop/

(By the way, if you know anything about cooperative law, especially in India, drop me a line is we could do with your help ⚖️)

#Prav #BoostsAppreciated 

The tech equivalent of "I thought that celebrity was already dead"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june

How to Build a Low-tech Website, by Kris De Decker @rra

In a nut shell:
* Solar PV panel.
* Low-power Linux box (Olimex, like a Rasberry Pi but reportedly faster, more compat with regular Linux, fully open-source at hardware level, yet need less energy).
* Nginx for TLS and #http2.
* Statically deployed from a CMS.

Original article: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website/

Follow-up 2020 piece:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html

More about the hardware:
https://homebrewserver.club/low-tech-website-howto.html#server
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/olinuxino-and-raspberry-pi-compare/

#lowtechmagazine