Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 @bjoern@mastodon.social

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall

#Mastodon celebrates it's two year anniversary. It is really impressive what all the people together with @Gargron achieved. Not only with Mastodon as such but also the underlaying technology #ActivityPub and the rich ecosystem of apps and tool around it. Thanks to all the people who made it happen! I'm sure the free, decentralized and open web has a bright future! #fediverse https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodons-2-year-anniversary/

Bist du dir noch nicht sicher wen du bei der Anstehenden Landtagswahl in #Hessen wählen willst? Vielleicht gibt dir der Digital-o-Mat ein paar Anhaltspunkte https://hessen.digital-o-mat.de #FreieSoftware #FreieBildung #OER #Netzpolitik #Politik #ltwhe18

Interesting read on why #Microsoft joined #OIN https://www.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-may-relinquishing-billions-android-patent-royalties-141047213.html TL;DR Microsoft is in a transition from a product company to a service company. With Azure they earn a lot of money these days with people running Free Software on their cloud platform. Which means that the threat of software patent interferes with the growth of their services business these days.

Wow, when I heard the rumors last week I bet that this will not going to happen. But now #Microsoft really surprised me by joining the Open Invention Network #OIN. This also means that they have to stop using #patents against #Android! https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-entire-patent-portfolio

Bist du dir noch nicht sicher wen du bei der Anstehenden Landtagswahl in #Bayern wählen willst? Vielleicht gibt dir der Digital-o-Mat ein paar Anhaltspunkte https://bayern.digital-o-mat.de #FreieSoftware #FreieBildung #OER #Netzpolitik #Politik #ltwby18

Do you want to discuss #FreeSoftware, #OpenSource, #FLOSS, #FOSS topics but not necessarily on a mailing lists? Maybe the Discourse instance run by #FSFE is something you want to try? Help us to evaluate if this is a useful service for our community https://community.fsfe.org/

#Debian and #Fedora developers join forces to fork the #Redis modules which where made proprietary a few weeks ago by applying the #CommonsClause https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/redis-labs-and-common-clause-attacked-where-it-hurts-with-open-source-code/ #GoodFORM #FreeSoftware

As I couldn't attend the Nextcloud Conference this year 😢 I'm now listening to @loic about why journalists should use #Nextcloud instead of #Dropbox, #GoogleDrive & other frequent surveillance targets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE3l7mD44Is

Wow, gerade erfahren dass die #Tagesschau ein eigenes #FDroid Repository betreibt. Sehr schön! Wenn jetzt die durch öffentliche Mittel finanzierte Software noch #FreieSoftware wäre, dann wäre es perfekt. #PublicMoney? #PublicCode! https://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/pmpc_de_desktop.mp4

#Google shut down Google+. I hope that many of the #FreeSoftware and #Linux people who are still on G+ will move over to #Mastodon finally. https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/

Interesting read: How #Tutanota replaced Google’s #FCM with their own notification system. Maybe this would be also a option for other apps... https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html #google #android #FreeYourAndroid #FreeSoftware

Geht es nur mir so, oder wusstet ihr bisher auch nicht das es bei Pressekonferenzen eine Kleiderordnung gibt? Oder warum kommt das BKA auf die Idee den Mann abzuführen und warum schaut unsere Bundeskanzlerin dabei nur zu? Fragen über Fragen... https://www.taz.de/Erdoan-Besuch-in-Berlin/!5536416/ #Politik

Christoph shared some nice pictures from the #Nextcloud conference 2018 https://blog.wuc.me/2018/09/28/nextcloud-conf-2018-photos.html