Rick Scully 🍻 @rickscully@mastodon.social

the top two headlines on wapo right now are about trump's tweets and I wish they (and the rest of the press) would just stop it stop it stop stop stop.

#war

The @GetTogetherComm project is making an open source federated alternative to MeetUp.com.

You can already use their first instance (https://gettogether.community) but they need help with building the federation side of things, so that instances can link together and with the rest of the Fediverse.

If you're a coder and interested in helping, you may want to take a look at this post:

https://fosstodon.org/@GetTogetherComm/101059017163892510

#OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS

bet: the link to this tweet won't work in two years

I just published: "Why Mastodon is defying the 'critical mass'" https://medium.com/@poshaughnessy/why-mastodon-is-defying-the-critical-mass-de3454109099

In the spirit of the alternatives listed, https://switching.social's text is now available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

As long as you credit switching.social and use the same licence, you can use the site's text on your own site, incorporate it into your own projects or translate it into your own language.

A number of people have asked over the last few months if they can do a version in their own language. The CC licence makes this possible.

Licence details:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

I just noticed Toot Cafe is still on #Mastodon 2.5. Anyone know why we haven't upgraded to 2.6?

Has anybody tried broadcast wireless networking using audio waves? I can't figure out how to search it without getting unrelated crap. I have a dumb mental image of a room full of modems connected to speakerphones screeching at each other, but it has probably actually been investigated for submersibles and mining.