Um, although I don’t want to cast aspersions based on my own ignorance — who the hell even is Anthony Martino? Is this his first shot at actually making money off his music, by suing a nonprofit?

I will say I did the most basic research into the guy, and according to his wikipedia entry his songs have been featured in some TV shows. Wikipedia also notes that “It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:lack of notability. Tony seems to have created pages for himself and related projects”, so draw your own conclusions.

closer to Drupal than it is to WordPress

Ouch! Thanks for that assessment. As much as I’ve favoured Hubzilla in my considerations lately, I’ve gotten a similar impression going over their docs. I just needed someone else to put their finger on it.

Bonfire — yeah, our timing is off as far as their development goes 🙂 But I think/hope we have time to wait it out before Wordpress realises their “AI” plans(?)

I could reach out to Bonfire, but imagine someone like you would have more cachet with them? Plus, knowing open source development, users asking for/wanting a thing doesn’t necessarily translate into developers changing their focus to that. But it’s worth a try!

Thanks for the heads up! It’s a rollercoaster with Classicpress, but good to have it back in the race.

we’re trying to make a federated bittorrent tracker, in the short term as an emergency information preservation vessel to avoid a fascist memoryhole, in the long term as a merger between the lessons of the federated and pirate web:

• web: https://sciop.net/
• code: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop
• in re: @SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org : https://safeguar.de/
• Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/

Dunno about you all, but I think “the lessons of the federated and pirate web” sounds intriguing at least.

This exactly. With a federated app store, how would users verify that apps hadn’t been tampered with? Federation isn’t a one size fits all solution.

And yes, “a future Fediverse OS” isn’t a potential, it’s a hallucination.

So basically what Drew DeVault wrote about the other day I guess?

“Great people on both sides,” as a very stable genius put it 🙄

Either way, this is probably OT for an open source thread…

Fair enough. I’m still smarting from that election result, all the way across the pond.

On the other side, I don’t count people as “great” who can’t be bothered voting against bigoted authoritarianism. But different strokes, I’m sure.

The majority of Americans are great people

They’re not the majority if they can’t win an election — just sayin’.

I genuinely can’t tell if that’s intended as a comment, or if it’s something you need to have looked at 🤷

Just the sheer percentages of Software User Distribution by MAU on FediDb contradict your assertions about what “people” focus on.

Currently, Lemmy is at 3.05% vs Mastodon 56.85%.

All of those other platforms you try to throw into the discussion are beside the point. Nice try though.

That went hard from “people I know” to people, period. I’m decidedly non-celebrity, but I use Mastodon as well as Lemmy Mbin 🤷

You’d have to live under a rock (or not bother looking up publicly available stats) to claim that your experience reflects general usage.

There is probably no doubt that this at least in part has to do with the current political climate in the US, and I think there is a potential here to grow a US-centric org and try to establish instead a network of national organisations coordinating their efforts internationally.

This might — on a longer timescale than “by April we can’t pay our bills” — make for a broader field of potential funding from national, regional, and other grants applicable to local organisations. Certainly, the EU would be amenable to funding an organisation like IFTAS.

On another level this decentralisation would not only chime well with the nature of the fediverse (indeed, the internet), but also add a diversity of international perspectives to the IFTAS’ efforts.

This might also dispel the notion in some quarters that the internet is somehow a thing for North Americans to govern. From a European point of view — and certainly in my personal bubble, as a Scandinavian who does a lot if not most of my online communication in English — there has probably never been as much distrust in US decision making as now, and it might become IFTAS and other organisations to recognise that.

Once again, none of the above would solve IFTAS’ immediate finances, but if the org struggles through the lack of funding somehow, it might benefit from the broader perspectives.

As much as I understand the drive to make Windows bearable with some better software than Microsoft supplies, I just can’t muster the suspension of disbelief to grok the words “windows” and “awesome” next to each other.

Keep fighting the good fight!

(I’m trying to be encouraging, but obviously finding a baseline decent mail or other tech provider shouldn’t have to be a “fight” …)

So, in my understanding ActivityPub is fine for different forms of decentralised communication — what you’re suggesting sounds more to me like a generalised peer-to-peer network or distributed file storage (see DAT or IPFS)?

Not federated though, so not relevant?

It was LibreSignal. That was a small scale but public meltdown from Signal’s founder, however. “Signal” is already a common term and as such hard to claim sole rights over.

In the same github thread he, Moxie Marlinspike, also insisted that LibreSignal abstain from using Signal’s servers, which sort of defeats the purpose of a third party app. Signal’s initial federation with other servers was rolled back, which again paints an image of a budding data silo.

You’re right, Molly seems to have navigated the third party relationship better, perhaps because Marlinspike has been replaced with new leadership as well?

My ¢2 is this: At this point, with tech leaders making hard right political turns, or just idiosyncratic attacks like Wordpress’ Mullenweg, trust in centralised services should be at a minimum.

Signal already foisted a cryptocurrency (that, incidentally, Marlinspike had consulted on) on their users. Controversial self-serving isn’t new to the organisation, and with full control of a significant share of the private/secure IM market, it’s only a matter of time before their stewardship veers of track.

“Signal is better than WhatsApp” is certainly faint praise. Signal is centralised, and has historically been hostile to third party developers who dared play in their sandbox. Signal likes to flaunt their FLOSS and privacy cred, but it’s basically built as another data silo, and pretty aggressively protecting their “brand”.

You know what, yes. Let’s build a power efficient AI simulation where all the tech bros can play their little pyramid games with digital Monopoly money — and keep that rubbish in that simulation. Just siphon every emerging grift into the bubble and ensure the bullshit doesn’t have real world ramifications like <checks notes> using most of Kazakhstan’s energy production to run Bitcoin mining server parks.