Roger Verhoeven @RogerVerhoeven@mastodon.social

Our new blog is officially here. Come read about why we left Medium and how we built a crazy fast, privacy-respecting blog just for you.

https://blog.elementary.io/welcome-to-the-new-blog/

Because I am getting too many strange signups in the last 24 hours and most people don't read the Terms of Service, I added a Temporary Notice to Masto.host Pricing page: https://masto.host/pricing/

"If you are looking for an alternative to Parler, this is not it. Please look elsewhere. Thanks."

I hope that's clear enough :)

This piece I wrote on some of the issues of big tech vs Federated services was recently published!

https://link.medium.com/xiRyhNyNEgb

I'm a Berlin-based entrepreneur and am new to Mastodon.

My larger goal is to replace all creepy social services, such as:

• Twitter to Mastodon ✅
• GMail to ProtonMail
• Google Calendar to ProtonCalendar
• WhatsApp to Telegram
• Facebook to WT:Social
• Google Drive to ProtonDrive/NextCloud
• Google Chrome to Mozilla Firefox

Anyone has similar ambitions or achieved the same?

I am happy to reveal that a non-profit legal entity for Mastodon, Mastodon gGmbH, is in the process of being entered into the German company register.

For context, I have been operating as a sole proprietor so far.

It's been in the works for 8 months but I didn't want to announce anything until everything was finalized just in case it didn't work out. Yesterday, I paid in the starting capital.

It wouldn't be possible without the help and advice of @mellifluousbox. More to follow in blog form.

Please boost

Which #universities are on #Mastodon / Fediverse?
Welche #Universitäten sind im #Fediverse?

Official:
• @unihohenheim Uni #Hohenheim, #Germany
• @unijena Uni #Jena, Germany

Own server:
• https://mastodon.utwente.nl/about @utwente #UTwente, #Netherlands
• https://metu.life/about/ @Tuan #Metu, #Turkey
• https://mastodon.mit.edu/about @maxj @dukhovni #MIT, #USA
• https://mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu/about @staff UC #Berkeley, USA

Students’ Committee:
• @astatu #AStA #TUBerlin #Berlin, Germany.

Any missing?

I'm migrating to another instance, and will be mostly posting from there.

@kristinHenry

Which is the right business messenger for your company? Our comprehensive comparison of nine services shows that not all apps are cut from the same cloth: https://threema.ch/bp/communication-tools-for-companies

🙈🙉🙊 → Shouldn’t be your attitude when choosing a chat app. Should be the attitude of the chat app you choose.

https://threema.ch/messenger-comparison

You can read more about The Observatory's methods in the accompanying Nature paper, "Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3

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