Apparently, this is how you find out about instance blocks. https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=mastodon.social
The French Free Software unit at Etalab DINUM is glad to announce a promising cooperation with the NLnet foundation.
Together, we will reward EU maintainers of #FreeSoftware #OpenSource already used by the French administration.
More about this in the next coming weeks !
The insecure "software supply chain" is the result of large corporations incorporating open-source software into their highly profitable, mass market software, without providing resources to those open-source projects. The only real solution is to provide those resources to those projects, but since this is a cost-cutting measure, that is unlikely to happen.
Given the massive influx into #fediverse over the last few days, make that:
!! RUN MORE INSTANCES !!
The irish have come up with a pretty cool hasttag to identify themselves across the fediverse: #Mastodaoine
Best case scenario here is that somehow #mastodon instances remain small, community based, serving to bring people together rather than keep them divided in fear, with just the right amount of cross over to stop filter bubbles. something that always would elude twitter.
Turning things upside down, it suddenly occurs to me that #fediverse could have the inverse effect of what is expected.
Twitter, as far as I can make out, generally goes like this:
Somebody who for whatever reason, makes something, builds something, or does some research, etc and makes a post of genuine interest about it, often linked to a blog or a publication.
several 100 or 1000 (maybe people, maybe bots) post one liner (often hateful, sometimes trying to be witty) noise on the thread.
Ahora pueden donar a #TIC con @circles@mas.to 😃
https://circles.garden/profile/0xfba64287b96824BBab0E087D15F1e59A8747Cdb2
You know the #fediverse isn’t just #Mastodon, right? :)
Do you live stream? Check out https://owncast.online
It’s a lightweight free and open live-steaming server. (We use it at Small Technology Foundation for our streams at https://owncast.small-web.org)
And you can follow people’s Owncast servers from the fediverse and get notified when they’re about to start streaming, etc. (e.g., hit the follow button on our stream and enter your Mastodon/fediverse account)
I've noticed a small wave of new people making their way to Mastodon from the birdsite.
Here is my brief Mastodon guide for social media worriers that may prove useful for making yourself more at home.
Editorial: Between Mastodon and Feedbin, I Now Have All the Tools I Need to Avoid Using Twitter While Following People’s Tweets https://ryanschultz.com/2022/10/21/editorial-between-mastodon-and-feedbin-i-now-have-all-the-tools-i-need-to-avoid-using-twitter-while-following-peoples-tweets/
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.