Sean "Diggity" O'Brien @diggity@mastodon.social
https://privacylab.yale.edu/directory
Founder & Lab Director @privacylab. Homebrewer, urban homesteader: Ferment The World!
+1 ★ if you remember Foojbook
@guizzy @lain I'm really pretty tired of this "Pleroma/GNU Social/SomethingElse is Nazi software/space" bullshit.
I had a StatusNet account until Evan killed identi.ca years ago; a shit-ton of great people I talk with here every day have accounts on Pleroma or GNU Social. Some are their developers.
#Mastodon benefited handsomely from there being a large community of dedicated people in Fediverse before Mastodon was a thing. Let's acknowledge that and stop being so condescending.
That's not a hit on Diaspora, which moved forward with their protocol because a lot of work had gone into it, but there's a lot of FUD that's gone around that "well Diaspora couldn't use ActivityPub because it's not Facebook-like". I have yet to see anything in Diaspora or anything else facebook-like that couldn't be handled by the AP protocol.
Nothing about ActivityPub is specifically "twitter-like". In fact the protocol itself, if anything, is way more facebook-like than twitter-like (and largely derives from the facebook-like pump.io). It just so happens that the largest implementors are Twitter-like. But that's not reflective of any protocol restriction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836027
We also designed the thing *so Diaspora could adopt it*, even though that didn't happen.
Boingboing and Wired both featured the What is Mastodon video today.
"He also said that all 2 billion users should assume that malicious individuals could have scraped their profile data... And, of course, Facebook has been reading your Messenger chats." https://bgr.com/2018/04/05/facebook-messenger-privacy-facebook-spies-chats/
I am now selfhosting @nextcloud at home. Have to say it feels good being in control of my data.
Shout out to ubos.net and duckdns.org for making it easy to securely deploy with letsencrypt.
Confession: I always read FLOSS in my head as "Free and lossless open source software"
@cwebber we'll be doing a relatively high-profile event @privacylab in September or October (I'll announce it when it's a done deal). Do you know the current playing field of FOSS-y options?
I know there's some custom setup for LibrePlanet, and we're comparing Jitsi Meet+YouTube, OBS Studio, and Flumotion.
Videos will also be uploaded to MediaGoblin at #goblinrefuge, CC BY-SA.
@cwebber just uploaded a #mediagoblin SVG icon I did for @privacylab here, CC BY-SA: https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/privacylab/m/mediagoblin-circle-icon/
Thank you mastodon for being open source. For not having annoying tracking, or advertising. Thank you Ostatus and GNUsocial for providing an open protocol and bootstrapping a network around it. Thank you other software in the federation for doing what you do. And the people behind it all: thank you for being you.
I realize it's almost 1AM already.
I realize I have to work tomorrow.
I realize my bosses anger still awaits me.
I realize I still have to make my #DailySketchChallenge
say hi to Pitbull, latest member of the animal colony/farm https://mastodon.social/media/_DXRcI3X2wHYPW-33G8
loving @Mastodon so far. Nice to see #gnusocial with such a slick interface, and taking off so quickly. What a long, strange trip "federated social networking" has been!
A #Cormorant drying it's wings after diving for fish.
#photography #Mastodon #art #mastoart #artwithopensource #Colorado #magiclantern #darktable