Notices by smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) (smallcircles@social.coop), page 3

@aral I use the word #Hypercapitalism to avoid the annoying rant of people arguing "No! #theMarketWillFixIt .. if only #capitalism was implemented properly".

The project that @yarmo created to auto-generate the https://delightful.club website, might be used as well for @gabek documentation website at https://fedidocs.org to aggregate FEDERATION.md from registered #Fediverse apps, which detail how #ActivityPub is implemented.

https://github.com/gabek/fedidocs/issues/4

Question on #Accessibility #a11y

In which cases are the use of #emoji a horror for blind or otherwise vision impaired people using #screenreader software?

For instance this toot has more than a hundred goose emoji. I imagine most screenreaders to say "150 goose emoji" or something like that.

https://hachyderm.io/@ian/110097184352415450

It becomes more annoying most likely if people use a long range of different emoji. I see that too in people's profile name.

What is best-practice / proper netiquete? #AskFedi

@aral @EU_Commission

#Github is an important one that's missing on the #Microsoft entry.

Looks so deceptively open to the naive eye, but is a huge trap of walled garden lock-in, esp. with all the stuff that's being added right now to this all-pervasive platform.

#FreeYourCode or otherwise #GiveUpGithub I'd say to all the many governmental institutions in the #EU that are considering it in their - well-meant - efforts to move towards #FOSS. Before the next problem is at your doorstep.

#FOSS community is so focused on tech concerns, that it often loses sight of non-technical objectives. #Fediverse is a perfect example.

Ask yourself: What's the key defining quality leading to success of our fedi?

Well, no. Though they're important, it isn't #ActivityPub or #Mastodon.

👉 "It's the #Culture, stupid!"

All our #grassroots efforts to slowly get where we currently are, created favorable conditions for true #Social to emerge.

And NOW we must protect that!

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/ideating-organization-structure-for-the-grassroots-fediverse-wiki/3037

@aral congratulations! This may be a case where 1 + 2 = 4 .. sum greater than individual parts 😊

Bye bye old fedi 👋 thx for all the Free Beer!

With #Facebook plans to test decentralized waters after #Cloudflare and others, we'll see resilience of #Fediverse to remain of-the-people.

Does it matter if they'll be #ActivityPub-based or not? Stuff depends on levels of investment and products launched.

Was thinking #BigTech would only add AP endpoints a bit naive?

Will slick open core products, sdk's, quality semi-open specs and docs, launch the #CorpoVerse?

Keep the #FOSS free beer coming 😞

@atomicpoet I wouldn't say I am worried. This was bound to happen one day.

But I am disappointed that in all the years before the grassroots #FOSS movement wasn't able to create stronger foundations that would place them in a better position than they are now.

It is a fact of life, I know. #FreeSoftware has a big sustainability issue that is very hard to tackle.

If #Fediverse is taken over by the corporate world, FOSS projects are left to add to that or explore new areas to be captured later.

@oskardudycz @Martindotnet

Tangential: Wrt #telemetry taking into account that any features related to it are strictly opt-in is prudent.

As #Google found out with their discussion on adding telemetry to the #Golang toolstack, where they lost a lot of creds, and likely #Go devs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34709078

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744948

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34771472

@ekes @fredsarm @PeterBronez @mitexleo @help @xrobau @aral @laura

I see #SmallWeb more as a philosophy. A means of approaching technology and build things in ways that are more in tune with what people actually need. The human-scale web.

Aral is building comprehensive and intuitive tools that conform to this philosophy. That's all. This is not about the Nth protocol.. that's tech details.

Might have a look at the #SmallTech principles at https://small-tech.org if you hadn't seen them yet.

@ekes @fredsarm @PeterBronez @mitexleo @help @xrobau @aral @laura

My view is that hybrid #decentralization is where we'll go. Having both federated services as well as #p2p cients and they each have their own use cases where they shine.

@fredsarm @PeterBronez @mitexleo @help @xrobau

Some typo's he he 😄

It is what @aral is doing at https://small-tech.org together with @laura

@smallcircles is just me tooting 😊

State of the Fediverse

✅ Eternal September. Done.

⌛ Corporate Takeover. Underway.

@aral @tiesselune

Yes, I think there was even a study of that. Vaguely remember discussion some time ago. Adorable #Kitten :blobaww:

@onepict @dentangle @EC_DIGIT @EC_OSPO @NGIZero

I can't remember all the #BigTech tools we had to use during DAPSI. But they included Zoom, Sharepoint, GoToMeeting, Google Hangouts / Docs / Forms and more.

Besides the #privacy issues, and the fact that some of these don't work well on #Linux, it killed collaboration between selected teams. The program might have a dedicated VPS with #Matrix, #Discourse and #Jitsi on it.

Ironically @CollaboraOffice @cryptpad and #LibreForms were participants.

@ajroach42 @billseitz @alcinnz @aral

Good point, thanks!

@aral @ajroach42 @billseitz @alcinnz

That is also a good argument. The legal status of the license in court is less relevent here, but by using it you clearly state your intent wrt monetization.

And Fair Use mentioned by Andrew is also dubious in many cases. I think of e.g. Google Books and Github CoPilot, for instance.

Hmm, 🤔

@ajroach42 @billseitz @alcinnz

I noticed that @aral on his personal site https://ar.al uses CC-BY-NC-SA for all post content, which is also an interesting choice.

At various times I was in doubt whether to choose that too, or go with CC-BY-SA for personal stuff. I've yet to find a good summary of considerations as guidance to help make this choice.

I am delighted to announce that another #delightful curated list is available at the #DelightfulClub.

Welcome delightful #Forgejo 💎

https://delightful.club/delightful-forgejo

The list is maintained by @caesar 🙏 and lists many interesting #FOSS projects and resources related to @forgejo

For those not in the know.. https://forgejo.org is the recently launched community-driven soft fork of #Gitea. And its the code forge software that #Codeberg is based on.

Check the list and PR any project's still missing.

@nickcolley @nolan

cc @weex https://lemmy.ml/post/700339