Mayel @mayel@mastodon.social

Hey #Mastodon.social folks. I'll be migrating more of my #tooting over to my mattcropp@social.coop account in the next few days, which is the beta test of the #PlatformCoop #instance in preparation for a public launch May 22 (timed to coincide with the #buytwitter vote).

Thus, if you want to keep getting my #dank #coop-y #content, follow me there! https://social.coop/@mattcropp

#woollyweek #500k #node #coops

signal boost for this mastodon language translation userscript

https://github.com/tomouchuu/mastodon-translate

to use it click the ... icon in any timeline toot you wanna translate. it's pretty slick!

now i can be pretend french, like my mother wanted

japanese toots i try it on tend to come out nonsensical. makes me wonder if J-masto is just goofy (i've heard that) or it's the usual translation foibles :)

So first version of the translate script done: https://github.com/tomouchuu/mastodon-translate Probably a lot of ways I can optimise that and actually add some config for users (only niu.moe & translate to english). https://niu.moe/media/wMAcoqZT4akQppq_q94

Beyond the impressive statistics of new accounts, I would love to know about these stats, which may give a different picture:

* How many _active_ accounts (ie. who connected more than just a few times say over one day or two then never connected again)?

* How many _participating_ accounts, active and with at least one toot?

Would be interesting to get this stats at least from a few instances so we could try a rough interpolation of the rest..

@u2764 @Sweet_Tango_Chill @xj9 other collaborators include @mayel & @Antanicus

Also see this panel that was put together on #coop governance for large platforms (in the context of #BuyTwitter) on Thursday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5XTh8zxG4E

@xj9 @Sweet_Tango_Chill @u2764 A bunch of us has a conference call not 2 hours ago on this topic. Lots of good ideas coming out of the #buytwitter & #platformcoop movements.

We're moving forward with spinning up an initial instance to be at social.coop, and which will be open to #coop movement practitioners as the initial user base, with the governance infrastructure open sourced. Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/g/ibncxoDR/social-coop

I don't see enough talk of how the fediverse is structurally resistant to external power.
here, corporations and governments don't have any central node to pressure to suppress activity that conflicts with their interests. they could at most pressure one instance at a time, but there's no way to ever get their way across the entire fediverse at once.
the importance of this feature is tremendous.

If you want to get involved with the group designing a #PlatformCoop #Mastodon #instance aiming to launch by mid-May, DM me and I'll add you to the Loomio group...

#Node

@strypey @keithpp I see a #dualpower strategy: campaign in good faith for a #platformcoop conversion to spread the vision of a participant-controlled platform. When the logic of #capital prevails, channel disappointment to migration to democratic #opensource alternatives.

It's a conceptually shorter 1st step 4 most folks to imagine ownership reform of a familiar platform, while the energy generated by the frustration of that dream might spur radical action. #buytwitter

PSA:

If you migrate a Mastodon instance:

* Keep the secrets the same or people WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LOG IN WITH 2FA (I fucked this up)

* Remember to migrate the Redis database to keep your local timeline - see https://stackoverflow.com/a/22024286 for how

* Make sure your new instance has enough RAM or you'll have a bad time (I recommend at least 2GB and even that is pushing it)

Go have a look at this guy's sites: very interesting projects:
@mayel

You should definitely think of supporting @Gargron for developing #mastodon --> https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786

I just went around and did some basic nmap-ing on the most popular Mastodon instances, and there's some seriously sketchy stuff in there. Publicly reachable Postgres servers, tons of open internal HTTP ports, SSH with password login, multiple Mastodon instances that seem to be running on mail server VMs, …

I guess if you're just running a single-user instance for yourself, sure, but those are all 2000+ user instances.

Job thing! If you have a background in activism and understand tech, EFF has a couple of jobs you might be interested in (plz to boost)

Grassroots activist
You will support EFF’s grassroots advocacy efforts, support our security training team, and engage in outreach to grassroots groups, with a focus on technical communities and hacker spaces

Writer, Activism Team
This position will focus on net neutrality and a range of intellectual property issues
https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/jobs

How can I be sure nobody's gonna sell my data on mastodon?