Notices by Bruno Girin (brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk)

@aral the Wikipedia article on democracy is clear that elections constitute a "minimalist definition of democracy": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

A democracy without protection against fascism is an unstable equilibrium: it only works as far as nobody pulls it away from equilibrium.

@aral plus there's an obvious and simpler design pattern using one check box for each of "this campaign" and "Uplift". This amazing design pattern even scales to more than 2 entities, it's as if it had been designed for their use case!

@kdawson @aral it works flawlessly on a Samsung S10, which is very cool!

@melissawm @aral @opensourcedesign @simulo @fosdem as this is a generic FOSS problem, would it make sense for FOSDEM to have a panel on the subject, say in the community devroom?

You highlight the key problem: "in the absence of any other source of funding". It looks like we need to find other sources of funding and grow them enough that they can provide an alternative. Neither is easy, it will take time and the earlier we start talking about it, the earlier we can get there.

@aral
I feel that's an unfair characterisation of Neanderthal people 🤔

@aral I'd go further and say that I would like an explicit DM function where the post is private, with the recipient being asked whether they want to receive the message, a bit like what Twitter does. Private messages open additional abuse vectors and handling those should be part of developing a dedicated feature.

@aral does the output switch to a white background when the colour is too dark? Using colour to represent a short hash is genius, just need to ensure it's also accessible!

@aral @noybeu Is that movement slower or faster than an arthritic snail?