Nest at my mother's house. #birds #life
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#crowfunding #strudel #FilippoGiardina
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Sono Filippo Giardina, sono un comico, forse mi hai visto a teatro, quasi sicuramente mi hai visto in qualche reel sui social.Ho scritto tanti monologhi che poi ho portato in tournรฉe, ma stavolta รจ un po' diverso.Produzioni dal Basso
Ecco perchรฉ i marchi di tablet da disegno non collaboreranno sui driver FLOSS per Linux
"Devo scusarmi perchรฉ oggi ho parlato di nuovo con il nostro team tecnico e abbiamo deciso di non procedere con il progetto del driver Linux in questo momento"
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Caro Ministro Valditara,
sono uno studente del Liceo Musicale alle prese con l'Esame di Maturitร .
Come migliaia di altri studenti, il 19 giugno ho sostenuto la seconda prova scritta. La traccia proponeva l'analisi di L'Ondine di Cรฉcile Chaminade, scelta che ho accolto con interesse e rispetto.
Fin qui nulla di strano. Il problema รจ che la partitura fornita agli studenti presenta un numero impressionante di errori rispetto all'originale.
Non stiamo parlando di una svista isolata o di un refuso marginale. Sono stati individuati errori di alterazioni, accordi, ottave, impaginazione e perfino intere battute divergenti dalla fonte originale. In alcuni casi gli errori si ripetono sistematicamente; in altri riguardano passaggi che possono influenzare direttamente l'analisi armonica e formale richiesta dalla prova.
L'aspetto piรน grave รจ un altro: la partitura utilizzata sembra derivare da una trascrizione reperibile online su MuseScore pubblicata da un utente del sito e non da un'edizione critica o comunque verificata con il rigore che una prova d'esame nazionale dovrebbe garantire.
Per fare solo qualche esempio:
- battute 5, 26 e 57: nota finale errata;
- battute 6, 27 e 58: note errate;
- battuta 39: contenuto della battuta completamente diverso dall'originale;
- battute 72-74: intere parti della mano sinistra scritte un'ottava sopra;
- battuta 75: numero delle semicrome non corrispondente all'originale;
- battuta 76: accordi scritti in modo errato.L'elenco completo รจ molto piรน lungo.Chi studia musica sa bene che una singola nota puรฒ modificare una funzione armonica, una condotta delle parti o l'interpretazione di un passaggio. > Chiedere a migliaia di studenti di sostenere una prova nazionale su una partitura piena di inesattezze significa compromettere l'affidabilitร stessa dell'esame.Non si tratta di cercare polemiche. Si tratta di pretendere il minimo indispensabile: che il materiale fornito dal Ministero sia corretto, verificato e all'altezza della serietร che viene richiesta agli studenti.A rendere la situazione ancora piรน spiacevole c'รจ un fatto che ho potuto verificare personalmente: oggi ho provato a scaricare nuovamente il materiale pubblicato e la partitura risulta essere stata sostituita con quella originale.Se cosรฌ fosse, significherebbe che la versione distribuita agli studenti durante l'esame non coincide con quella che oggi รจ consultabile. Una circostanza che merita certamente un chiarimento ufficiale, perchรฉ migliaia di candidati hanno sostenuto una prova sulla base del materiale loro consegnato in aula, non di quello eventualmente corretto in un secondo momento.Mi auguro che il Ministero chiarisca come sia stata selezionata questa partitura e che tenga conto di quanto accaduto nella valutazione delle prove.Condivido questo post affinchรฉ studenti, docenti, musicisti e giornalisti possano prenderne visione e contribuire a fare chiarezza.
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Caro Ministro Valditara, sono uno studente del Liceo Musicale alle prese con l'Esame di Maturitร . Come migliaia di altri studenti, il 19 giugno ho sostenuto la seconda prova scritta. La traccia...Facebook
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Qualche cialtrone del ministero ha chiesto all'AI di scaricare la partitura e non ha verificato che fosse la corretta?
Immagino io ๐
Sarรก difficile scoprire poi chi si รจ occupato di sostituire il tarocco con l'originale, per tentare di rimediare?
Sarร la stessa persona?
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sรฌ (e ormai non mi sorprenderebbe piรน di tanto) ma ci sarebbe anche un altro problema: la prova sarebbe ancora valida?
@6al in realtร il problema sta solo nella penalizzazione. Non c'รจ alcuna possibilitร che l'errore del Ministero possa avvantaggiare chi, malgrado tutto, รจ riuscito a scrivere un buon tema sulla partitura farlocca
@esilvia o semplicemente hanno dato per scontato che quella presentata durante la prova fosse semplicemente una versione semplificata. Il principio di autoritร di cui รจ portatore il testo ufficiale del ministero, in questo caso non รจ un principio sbagliato ma รจ il fondamento stesso della prova concorsuale. Se viene meno il rapporto di fiducia tra l'autoritร e lo studente esaminando, si crea un problema gravissimo
@6al @musica @matz @nicodilascio @strk @hristotranqui
@6al รจ incredibile: dopo la prima risposta, hai risposto ai miei messaggi quasi sempre con considerazioni non attinenti o assunzioni illogiche e poi ti permetti di parlare di "stile X" e fai pure l'offeso?
If there was a Fedi-Dating platform...
1. what features would you find most valuable?
2. what features do you like from existing dating sites?
3. and what features do you dislike from existing dating sites?
4. what safety features would you need in order to feel safe on the platform?
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1. If they're already on fedi then they're probably my kind of weird
2. Questions and Answers with the ability to rank how important the subject is to you
3. Everything is tinder now and you can't message anyone anymore if you don't match in less than 2 seconds off a profile photo only
4. I've seen some sites with validation in the form of uploading a short video of you reading a script to match against your photos.
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My biggest problem with dating sites and apps is also the reason I have more luck on somewhere like fedi or discord:
The ability to build rapport with someone before sliding into their DMs.
My wife and I met via OkCupid fifteen years ago. We both answered around 300 questions in their questionnaire and were matched above 99%.
What I like about their questionnaire was if you had possible answers A, B, C, and D, you could say "I choose B, but for a potential match A and B would both be acceptable. D would be a dealbreaker."
For safety features, a system to report unsafe dudes could save lives.
@Legit_Spaghetti Fake profiles are a huge problem in commercial dating apps. I used to be an avid reader of Reddit's r/scams and the amount of people who get targeted by romance/crypto scams is enormous.
Often times, the red flags are obvious to the people who know them, but the victims usually don't. So regularly giving out short tips with links to in-depth explanations of red flags or descriptions of scam patterns and how to stay safe in general seems like a good idea.
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@Legit_Spaghetti I came here to say this. OKC was great for people who liked writing oddly specific answers to their often very boring and Americocentric questions. I'd answered about 2000 questions by the time they Tinderised the platform to death (insomnia will do that to you) and met so many lovely people through it, some of whom I'm still in touch with.
So, to answer the question: freeform answers and the ability to choose weightings and dealbreakers.
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Oh yeah, I met my wife on OkCupid too, around the same time even.
Remember when OkCupid used to not be dogshite? Crazy times.
@Legit_Spaghetti same here, found my husband there.
Just want to add that you could comment your choices, and many of the questions were absurd and funny to fill in. It was part of the fun of filling them in.
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1. search and filtering based on self-ranked categories/labels, with more info revealed to better matches
2. accessible interfaces and ease of use
3. looks-first matching and engagement farming
4. a trust network and good moderation tools
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1. Sufficient space to talk about myself and my interests.
3. Not being able to contact people without paying.
4. The ability to block arseholes - from their profile, not just if they message me.
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Solve the devilish problem of privacy versus assurance that people are real. My biggest issue with other sites is that im glad to share private details with other honest real folk on the site, but existing services are greedy evilcorps, harvesting and selling intimate details, while allowing oceans of scammers from all corners of the earth who pretend to be in my postal code.
Its a tall order.... But I'd gladly pay a non profit for the service.
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not really using dating apps. So my mentions are maybe completely out of reality.
1. Safety: your data stays your data, no AI training, Building up Data to get stolen, e.t.c.
2. No profile picture: text, match, vibe, after that there is a option to defog your Profile picture or Pictures
3. Bullet points: Something to look at and Match before going deeper. But the points are also clickable to show an Explanation what the Individual understands under the bullet points. (bioware)
1. Absolutely the most valuable feature would be lack of algorithms. A clear view of people, with no addiction driven structures.
2. Only very basic features: they exist, they have users with pictures...
3. Datafarming, algorithms, bots, but also culture. Addiction based structures have built a single served dating culture, where people are used, not interacted with.
4. Possibility of being invisible to non-signed in users, moderation. Maybe a link to other fedi to facilitate trust.
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Possibility to safe someone to maybe match later, or at least revert rejections. It happened far to often that I accidentally swiped the wrong way.
Also no paywalls pls.
Free and open-source dating platform that respects your privacy - Alovoa/alovoaGitHub
Decentralization is a nice to have feature, and ActivityPub should be used for that.Nonononoki (GitHub)
If I can add (as not in the Dating Pool):
4: Photos only sendable with a kind "invite only", so when the other side explicitly gives the permission to send photos.
I've heard so much of female friends who got unsolitcide Pics, maybe this would help
Oooh this is a good idea.
1. If I stress an age/gender/sexuality/distance range, don't show me people outside of that. Also the ability to see likes and message people without paying.
2. I like the optional questions on okcupid to build percentages, with the ability to add more details to the questions.
3. swipe left/right. Paywalls. Minimum characters in bios. I hate writing bios and would rather match based on a few criteria and chat with them a while to get to know them.
4. Being able to block people based on their profile.
Things I hate as a millennial man (41):
1. I often have to pay to even be "competitive" (and I fucking hate using this term, but they've turned these apps into fucking gamified pieces of shit and it enrages me)
1a. I need to pay money to MESSAGE someone? The fuck is this? The whole point is to begin communication.
2. Zero effort to curb fake profiles, scams, and other miscellaneous fucking heinousness.
3. I know for a fact that there are intentionally fake profiles on their platforms to boost their numbers and these aren't real people and they know it. I bet they've even made them themselves. I wish I had a way to scrape their shit and prove it.
@gnarf This is also a great idea!
Shit, it sounds better than every single dating app in existence.
@gnarf Seems like the simplest way would be to make dating only one interest, and have a ranking of interests (i.e, donโt match anybody with this interest, matches with this interest are acceptable [default], prefer matches with this interest, and donโt match anybody without this interest).
This assumes people describe themselves accurately, of course. You would likely still get guys who leave โdatingโ at the default level or even set it to forbid because โthere are no girls otherwiseโ. Would take good trust and safety tools.
a #FediDating platform would be awesome!
Features I would love include the basic intro to feel how we can thrive together and give back to the world. Maybe ability to post a few pictures of what we like, such as a shot of our open source laptop, pets, bicycling, hiking, etc...
What features do I not want? Identity scraping sold to lists and billionaires that attempt to capture our basic freedoms and exploit our mere existence. What safety features do I need to feel safe? The ability to avoid having my identity included in a list sold to billionaire think tanks used to control my future.
That's about it 
A very easy and clear way for one to say 'I do romance but not sex' is something I remember noticing just not existing the few times I poked dating apps. Granted I also got the impression most people on dating apps were looking for sex more than romance.
No offense intended toward allosexuals, just not what I'm looking for ^^;
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@moss Re number 4... think also about how to disambiguate similarly named locations.
Before meeting my wife I was on a bunch of dating sites looking for people in the general vicinity of Albany, New York.
I had a match pop up in Albany, we hit it off on text conversation, then proposed an in-person meetup.
After several iterations of me suggesting date locations and her having no idea where any of them were, we realized the problem: She lived in Albany, Oregon.
Also I massively prefer the LEX style where people can post and interact in a semi natural social media way instead of the swipe format where you are cold messaging strangers.
Having a space where people can see you interacting with other people on the platform is such a massive thing and changes the dynamics a lot. You can build a reputation and make jokes and post stuff in the public feed where people can see. So someone might watch you from a distance for a while before deciding to message. I think that's a much better way of doing things imo.
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What I think is particularly interesting about a fediverse approach to dating is that I've never seen a dating site use the existing social connections between people to help. For example, I want to write public recommendations for other people ("hey, I think this person is cool and here's why you should date them"). Horrifyingly, I think the easiest way to describe what I mean is "LinkedIn for dating". (Maybe Fedi-Dating and Fedi-Job-Hunting should be the same protocol, but with different profiles?) I think it's often easier for people who know you to talk you up than it is to promote yourself.
That said, safety is already difficult in both social networks and dating sites, so identifying the right safety features for a combination of both is particularly intimidating.
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> Maybe Fedi-Dating and Fedi-Hiring should be the same protocol, but with different profiles?
Absolutely. The underlying pattern is 'offers and requests'.
Other examples includes hospitality exchanges, ride-sharing, timebanks, book exchanges, tool libraries, freecycling and repair networks. As with hiring and dating, recommendations can be helpful. Eg in freecycling, I know someone who could use that, and in repair networks, I know someone who can fix those.
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The #ValueFlows and @Bonfire folks are very interested in the possibilities of software based on the offers and requests pattern. I think there's even a planned Bonfire flavour with an economic exchange focus, that would include building plugins for offers and requests.
@moss Well that's a different situation.
I'm talking about naming collisions in general. Or for a more extreme example Cairo, New York vs Cairo, Egypt.
But definitely allow users to submit a location to advertise themselves as being in (which may not be their current location, e.g. if they are moving soon or currently traveling but looking for someone back home).
"People are flaky, might have diseases, and have all kinds of other problems. Here's why you should hook up with a LLM instead"
(sorry i'm not linkedin-brained enough to come up with something even more absurd)
Yeah, obviously the execution of LinkedIn specifically is horrible, but I feel like there's a core idea there that is solid, buried deep under the same layers of rent-seeking and abuse as the other social networks.
One question I think is interesting about trust/reputation networks is: should you be able to express distrust? On the one hand it's good to be able to identify people who may be harmful to you, but on the other hand then you have to be careful about the trust network itself being a vector of harm. I don't know how to answer that question.
@jamey the Facebook "are we dating the same man" stuff?
Maymay's predator detecting tool for OkCupid might be a better idea, since apparently a lot of people give oblivious answers to blunt questions.
4. Covid safe as a filter option.
Love it if you can come up with a was to disambiguate "athletic" into "people capable of treating a bicycle ride as the precursor to a date" and "people with a BMI under 100" because oh boy did that one get me down.
3. mandatory app and links to antisocial media (I don't *have* meta, tiktok or shitter accounts to link)
2. OkCupids endless quiz format.
1. website-centric, privacy compatible and the ability to express both preferences and rules.
1. matching based on advanced search criteria, filters to include/exclude profiles, for dating but also for meeting people w/ similar interests
2. can't tell, don't use
3. monetization probably (including selling data, feeding algorithms) - that's exploiting peoples desire for a bit of love, tenderness, and happiness
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4. a) maybe a feature to mark meetings in person: you only go if both people mark a geo location as the agreed place to meet, both mark themselves "safely returned" a defined period of time later; if not, the platform admin is informed about the place and the profiles involved.
b) a feature to show "trust" - no fake profile, real person, not being mean to the other person... however you solve that without real names in profiles and the needed anonymity...
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I like filtering with sexual orientation, gender, relationship types, smoking, trinking and eating habits, kink orientation and of corse distance.
I despise the looks voting.
I love profiles that describe what's important to you.
And I hate those one who someone can contact you but you only can answer when you hit match. No.
I think in the default view of ones profile or even profile picture, it should be very clear what they are looking for and who they are, to avoid the RSD of later discovering a misalignment on expectations.
Finding friends should be a first class feature and maybe also support the travel use case, without having to change one's home base location.
@sa7dse It would have to have a veil of pseudonymity, allowing you to advertise your interests/what youโre looking for discreetly and only reveal your identity/pictures selectively, as an open directory of online handles with relationship status and what theyโre looking for in varying detail might not have many takers.
Also, a many-to-one mapping of ads to users, so you can keep your d&d campaign plans, your band looking for a bassist and your love/sex life from colliding messily.
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1. Maybe a way to signify that you have a chronic illness or low energy.
As others have said, it would be good to be able to meet friends too.
No freemium stuff at all. Either free with the possibility of tipping or paid for everyone.
Disable geopositioning after matching, ideally don't rely on it at all. When I was online dating if I opened a profile after matching, their position would update. This can be used for stalking, at best that's creepy and at worst it can cause real safety concerns.
Possibility to enter words or hashtags in a filter bar to prioritize or exclude profiles with them in their description. To make it easier to find profiles with similar interests or values.
No AI text generation, image filter or profile suggestion whatsoever. It goes without saying.
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1. Being able to sort people based on multiple criteria - like mono/poly, genders, age etc. so that only people I plausibly want to match with show up
2. Idk? Maybe limiting how far away people are?
3. That they want me to pay to access all features.
4. Being able to hide oneself from certain categories, like if I'm not interested in men I don't want them to be able to see me. Them seeing me also wastes their time, since I'm not going to match with them.
since "every queer nerd wants to do this", here is a jumble of ideas from various conversations:
1)
* decisive privacy strategy
* non-clique matching
* interaction form diversity
* matching diversity
2)
* community-rooted ones are the ones that detract me least
3)
* fixed formats
* wrong dating culture
* clique matching
* pretend privacy
4)
* "informed to consent" perspective
* knowing nerds, dating explainers help more than people think sometimes
1. The ability to temporarily turn my profile invisible. If I find someone very interesting, I'd like to focus on that person and not keep beeing flooded with messages, either having to deny people or engage with 5 people at once.
2&3. Haven't been to many, so can't comment.
4. An optional (!) ID check with a mark on a profile. I get some people want to stay anonymous. But when it comes to IRL meetings, knowing someone is known by ID would make me feel safer.
honestly I enjoyed Hinge when it was new on the market, the concept of having text prompts or photo prompts did give you at least *something* to start a conversation instead of just photos like on Tinder.
Also the wealth of info you could put in to filter potential partners like "(do not) want kids" is extremely useful so that the "big life goals" between you are aligned
All I need is a safe little ace playpen where no one makes overly sexual commentary. However, I've always thought it would be cool for a dating site to have an option to link accounts for polyamorous people so they could basically have a polycule page where you can meet everyone if your interests match.
That way, everyone could have their own account as well as a shared page, letting them date within or outside the polycule as they wished. I know that's pretty much just what inviting someone to a group chat is, but it would be nice to have without giving out any emails, social media or personal info.
A design that encourages, if not requires, a discussion-first photos-later interaction.
Basically the opposite of all of the most recent / modern dating platforms.
I'm *not* suggesting that looks aren't relevant and photos shouldn't be encouraged - but they should not be the focus.
TBF, LinkedIn didn't get truly awful until it was bought by Microsoft.
Enshittification is everywhere of course, but I've seen a number of posts suggesting "Old OKCupid" and similar.
Yeah, I don't want to muck up my profile and my feed here with a bunch of dating stuff, and honestly, I don't need to see someone else's dating process from their feed.
I mean, I'm the same person regardless of where I post, but it would be nice to have some segregation between the two.
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Sounds like the Moderators would have their hands full with vetting and dealing with problems.
I'm not sure how else it could be done, other than manually....like moderating is being done now.
Saw this post this morning when I woke up, boosted it, and have been thinking about it ever since.
I've not met anyone through a dating site, so I can't say what would or wouldn't work or have a reasonable comparison, even if I could.
Since I tend to overshare, I'm big on putting myself out there and letting the other party decide if they want to pursue anything. I do think that hobby and activity matching would be important, since that's the bulk of our lives, but like, I don't have to have the *same* hobbies as the other person, just...the same flavor.
I hate that appearance is so important for me, but it is, and I don't want to be the asshole turning someone down after "finally" getting to see a picture of them.
I like the ideas of setting the goals up front - looking for friends? Casual sex? Polyamorous? Monogamous? And I would prefer those restrictions to be held to - don't hook me up with someone that matches every single one of my hobbies but wants a casual relationship if I'm looking for a serious one. That sort of thing.
I'm not officially on the market right now, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit to being interested in dipping my toe in the dating pool again.
An algorithm tuned to make the people leave the platform because they found a match and no longer need it.
(not using dating apps myself but this is the thing that irks me about the hearsay)
language filter, or geographical pinpoints (like this radius, but also that city that's just a little bit further)
I'm Dutch speaking, I can have conversations in French and English, but I prefer my "match" to be Dutch speaking as well. When I set my radius to 30km, I'm seeing people from Brussels, mostly French speaking, not really interested in that, but I miss out on all the lovely's from Ghent or worse Hasselt.
2. prompt questions to jog the writing imagination
3. โsend a message/like right now or never have another chanceโ โ no I want to bookmark people to return to later with time to think
Reuse the content they have boosted or marked, but only when the amount of profiles is beig enough. That way you can find people with interests as a basis.
Hide the fediverse account names until both agree to share it.
Save all higher tier security info on a separate service (your dating service).
I actually think you don't need separate moderation. If people are genuine creeps, mods and admins will not want them on their instance anyway.
Happily unpartnered here. My problem with dating apps is that it immediately launches you from chat to irl meet-up. There's no time to get to know someone organically and build some sort friendship. It's straight into interview mode, which puts a lot of pressure on meeting someone. Like buddy, who even are you.
In that way a fedi dating platform could be interesting, since you're sort of already building friendships here. Or at least have a sense about a person from their posts.
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Other approach:
- both need to subscribe to the "dating" service
- both need to follow each other
- both see two checkboxes on the other person's profile:
* interested in romance
* interested in sex
- if both reciprocally check the same box(es), both are notified
-> if P1 isn't interested in dating at all, P1 won't subscribe and won't be bothered. Same if both subscribed but it doesn't match. If there's a match, it's up to the two to have the flirt develop via DM...
a huge problem with any dating service is catfishing and romance scams.
Given how hard it is for any amount of community moderation to scale, and the difficulty you'd have attesting peoples' IRL identities, it might be a good idea for there to be eBay/trustpilot style ratings & feedback that both parties can give each other.
It's not a perfect system, but people with a longer-lived profile and higher star ratings would be the most trustworthy. It would be understood that if you interacted with a fairly new account or one with not that many reviews you may want to take more precautions before emotionally investing in that potential relationship.
Good question. Dating sites suck. If we were trying to plug one into Fedi I'd try a different way. Something that isn't a directory of single people, isn't a meat market or a meet market, but attaches naturally to the already-existing network. Just offering to try and pair people already here together.
Star with new User-profile checkboxes for:
I may be up for:
- Group-Meetups
- Meeting for fun with: {Guys/Girls}
- Dating: {Guys/Girls/including-trans}
- Within {X} Miles
- I am a {Guy/Girl/None/Trans}
- Living near: {location}
A handful of locations may be selected, people do move around, but not too many. Can't select everywhere.
Then the servers, if and only if you are already mutuals, AND you have the profile filled in, then when a like/reply/boost-request message is sent to a server your server attaches a 'Do We Match?' request with your profile options in it.
We don't even tell the liker the answer to that, just append a note about it in the interaction notification to the Original Poster.
EG: "alice liked your post. [AND they might be up for meeting for fun non-dates with people like you. Maybe DM them?]"
So the pair were interacting anyway, have a topic on which to begin a more intimate conversation, and mutual knowledge that they may want the same thing.
The intention here is there is no 'search for matches', procedure. No swiping. No extra scrolling.
I'm not trying to put people together who don't know each other, just match up those who already know each other but didn't know they might be up for a dinner date or to watch a football match or whatever.
We're only sending 'do I match you?' requests along with messages already passing between mutuals, and thus hopefully avoiding creating directories of single hot girls in your area for scammers to peruse.
And if you don't want any of all that you don't fill in the profile fields and then and no server evens sends you a match request.
Course, all this first requires sane private e2e encrypted DMs and presumably special moderation tools.
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I've never used a dating app, I have met internet people IRL and dated them pre-smartphone, I wouldn't use a fedi dating app AS a dating app, I *would* use a fedi dating app as a "Finding out that some of the cool people in my phone could be met and havebeerwith'd along the route of this road trip" app
I want this, fedi, the way we show off our doodles and make each other laugh or play with words or whatever, with an optional Extra Layer On Top, a sort of Physicality Hat. If I liked someone's vibe I could hit a button that'd send them a key to some extra information about me (encryption details to be figured out by encryption people) like where I am, what I look like, what my schedule's like, whether I'm open to dating or just to meeting up for IRL bants or whatever, and nobody gets any notification about anything until both folk involved had hit that "Show this person another layer of me" button, and the intent of pressing the button could remain flirtily ambiguous given that this could also be used between dads borrowing jigsaws and pinball people who want to see each others' barns full of shite
This would mostly be useful for two people doing the upward head tilt with flirtily cocked eyebrow of "oh hey there" followed by the chuckling shrug of "Well I'm still glad I looked" as you find out that you're a thousand miles apart. And then you have the Friendship That Began With Mild Romantic Interest And Is Now Comfortably Platonic, which is a very nice friendship to have!
(I say again I have never used a dating app)
1. verification system based on other users. so, instead of verifying with a phone/email, other users confirm your existence.
2. none of them, basically? grindr's anonymity is great.
3. in general, the lack of data privacy. dating apps are basically the world's largest data mine, and imo they're a secret eugenics plot from big tech.
4. i think there should be a downvote button, where you can get profiles banned very easily, through multiple reports.
I could be interested in contributing to such a thing, if it's a real project...
1. filters that actually work. If I set something as a dealbreaker, I would rather see โno more candidatesโ than someone that doesnโt fit my preferences. Same thing in the other direction. I donโt want to see people who will never see me because I am a dealbreaker for them.
3. โpay to see who likes youโ is the absolute worst.
4. maybe some kind of karma system though I donโt know how to prevent this from being abused for bullying
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I think having some hidden tags that only become visible if both people have them would be useful. Like if you tag your location as Europe, Western Europe, France, and Paris: if a potential match was also in Europe you'd see that, if a match was in France you'd see that, and if a match was in Paris you'd both already know! It gives a good indicator of proximity without screaming "Hello, this is my location!" to everyone on the app.
For location, you could maybe have a series of like cascading recommended tags? Like you could be presented with continent > country within continent > province within country, and also have the ability for some free tags where you could put your city if you wished. And obviously you could stop at continent or nothing at all.
"Only show if we both have" tags could also be useful for kinks and fetishes that would be great to share but aren't a dealbreaker.
I also think there should be a way to hide profiles that don't match certain specifications, like "only show profiles containing tags transgender, transfem, transmasc, nonbinary" for a quick broad t4t filter, or "only show profiles willing to have online/long distance relationship", or "only show profiles with tag "polyamorous".
I also think there should be different types of matches: maybe like a heart match for "I would like to match romantically/sexually", a star for "I would like to match platonically" (and maybe also like a hobby match, like "I would like to play video games/geek out about music/go to hobby conventions with you). A feature I think would be cool would be a thumbs up for "I'm alright with matching if you see something in me", where two thumbs up would result in a failed match and anything else would be a success. I also think you should be able to pick multiple types of matches for one match interaction: maybe you can set your default match type in user settings for quick tap/swipe likes, then have a long press or menu for multiple choice.
So: if Alice chooses to Star and Heart match, and Bob only chooses a Star match, they both Star match! If Alice and Bob both choose Heart match and Star match, they match (either as Heart which is pretty amatonormative or as like a sparkly heart? lol), the app tells them, and they can talk about it. But if Alice only picks a Heart match and Bob only picks a Star match, they clearly have different expectations and the match fails...? I think. (Or Bob is presented with a "hey, this person that you Star matched Heart matched you. Do you want to reexamine their profile and add a heart match, or would you like to turn the match down?")
I don't think that the public profile should necessarily have to include an irl picture, because I don't want unvetted strangers seeing my face. I think that maybe after a match a profile should show an irl picture, with a small set of 2-3 pics unlocked after a match.
And other people have already said this, but lots of q+a type prompts. Also, ability to create own fields for like "operating system" or "class I play in XYZ game" or "preferred role in XYZ sexual activity". Easy settings for users to pause (no longer show profile and freeze matches) and completely nuke (delete everything) their profiles. Competent blocking, whatever that ends up looking like with the final set of features. Good reporting for both images and profiles, maybe where if something receives multiple reports from different people (to avoid abuse?) the app automatically hides/mutes the images or user until a mod can delete or unhide them.
Final thoughts: Cool idea! Long post over. Fish 
1) already included. This platform is by far the best I've found for finding who people really are and...it still sucks at that. It's easy to lie over the internet. Lying fups relationships.
2) I'd like them to not be monitored and monetized by Big Data. I want a dating site built around anonymity. Lacking that, I just Bartleby all those sites. The world doesn't need to know my peccadillos.
3) I dunno. I don't use them. Is "all" an acceptable answer here?
4) Not to repeat myself, but actual privacy is the only feature that matters here.
1. Wizard to get that first date on the books and avoid the logistics hem-hawing. It could suggest good places based on each daters preferences and find a mutually good time based on dating hours settings.
2. You donโt have to swipe anyone to see the next suggestion on Feeld, and you can easily go back to previous discoveries. This eliminates the anxiety of choosing wrong at first sight.
3. Having to redo my profile on every dating app, and having them own that data. I should be able to self-host my own profile and proclivities.
4. I get hit up every day by obviously fake too-good-to-be-true profiles and Iโm sick of it. There needs to be some kind of vouching system or a more bulletproof method of verification that doesnโt involve matching profile pictures to IDs. The scammers put their own image on a billboard behind the fake profile image. Iโve caught it happening on Tindr.
1. features I would find most valuable in a Fedi dating platform:
- be able to chat for free
- not more than $20cad ($14usd)/month for all features
- optional ID verification if someone feels the need to have that for safety reasons before meeting in person, but not mandatory
- a way to sift out people looking primarily for sex and/or threesomes, etc.
- a way to prioritize people who need connection/friendship with the people they date even if not looking for long-term/marriage-like relationships.
Some multiple choice answers (as well as room to elaborate) to quality of life questions that are optional to answer:
- are you career-focused
- do you need your partner to be career-focused
- do you need your partner to be financially independent
- how many dogs do you live with
- how many cats do you live with
- are you ok living with dogs
- are you ok living with cats
- are you ok living with other animals
- do you have children living at home
- are you ok with a partner who has children living at home
- do you live with roommates/family
- are you ok with a partner who lives with roommates/family
- are you ok changing habits to accommodate allergies and/or disabilities
- do you need your partner to be physically active
- do you need your partner to be social with your friends
- do you need quiet space to yourself
- do you like to be social at home
- do you need to talk about issues right away or can you wait
- do you need time to reflect and be calm before discussing issues
(and lots more questions like these)
2. Features I like from existing dating sites:
I havenโt used a dating site in over 10 years but questions to match compatibility was useful.
3. Features I dislike from existing dating sites:
- The high cost
- prioritizing people who pay the premium features
- fake accounts / scammers
- very hetero
- too corporate
- have to give ID and personal details
4. safety features I would need in order to feel safe on the platform:
- Strong moderation
- quick response when reporting a safety issue
- blocking bots
- not have to divulge exact location
@pre Yip. In an ActivityPub context I've been thinking that "virtual instances" (like servers on d*scord) would be useful, so that communities can build bubbles that aren't instance- and domain-bound.
Now, could there be temporary instances for events, like parties or a dating thing?
1 + 4) a verification and reputaion system (to prevent scammers and honeypots better)
2) simple filtering systems to target search
3) Paywalls and persons who either just RP or have no serious intent to join.
1. The ability to fully hide oneself from specific groups (e.g. straight cis men, people looking for hookups or FWB).
2. When I was dating, I liked how verbose you could be on OkCupid.
3. Silly questions. Whether or. Not someone likes grilled cheese sandwiches is irrelevant to whether I was compatible with them.
4. People shouldnโt be allowed to delete and create new profiles over and over again. Reports of sexual harassment should be taken seriously and a bannable offence.
added context: when I was on dating apps, the vast, vast majority of the sexual harassment I received came from straight cis men who wanted hookups or casual sex and who ignored the multiple references on my profile to being demisexual and only wanting a LTR.
This is no way meant to be an offence to members of those groups who read profiles and do not send out abusive messages to people who donโt want hookups.
But strong filters are essential in this dating climate.
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I've been on dating apps for a long time, and am prone to strong opinions:
1. Features
- I like specific profile fields for things like hobbies, interests, hell even just top 5 movies, over bios. I'm bad at actually talking about myself in large quantities. Could be a mix and match where you can fill out the ones you like.
- Filterable opinions on having children
- Actually respecting what people put in their interested in section, and preferably not showing people to people they wouldn't be interested in. Specifically talking about gender here, I put in no men in my preferences, and after a while about 90% of my feed was men.
- Fedi specific, but a relay would be nearly essential for anything federated like this. Having one that's a default option to connect to would probably be a good idea, along with a site where people can list their own relays for more specific purposes, like a general area.
- Filter for people looking for romantic/platonic/sexual relationships, potentially with combo options? (i.e. someone looking for an FWB could put platonic+sexual)
- An expected seriousness of the relationship (are you just looking for a consistent casual sex partner on a month-long work trip, are you expecting to move after college, do you want to look at settling down, etc)
2. Features from other sites
- I really like OKC's questions they ask. Simple yes/no, with a place to explain questions. Obviously not perfect, but a decent way to filter people for big questions.
3. Features I don't like from other sites
- My desire to find love being sold for a profit is a big one I don't care for
- If swiping is present as a mechanism, please, please make it a toggle. I don't mind swiping as a concept, but it is very easy to accidentally pass on someone that I was scrolling a profile for, and they're just gone now. It's easy enough to undo an accidental like, but an accidental pass is usually something you can't undo
4. Safety features
- Allowing people to put in where they're physically located rather than going based on IP/Geo data
- Not showing where people are from publicly would stop at least most people from getting that info. That would be harder to do consistently, and wouldn't stop server admins from seeing it, but it'd mostly stop random people who're just skimming the surface.
- Maybe allowing people to select the areas they're willing to date from, since X distance would be a touch less consistent if the service doesn't know where you're physically located
- Require a certain amount of messages before you can receive images, potentially even disabling receiving images entirely. I emphasize receive because federation has weird ways of getting around rules, and just disabling images from being displayed would probably be more consistent.
I think that's it, but we'll see what comes to me after I hit reply
mulling over some of these considerations, maybe go the other direction.
there are tonnes of Fedi platforms, not just Mastodon, so maybe just add a couple standard fields to profile indicating dating status and whether one is "looking for...".
that will bake in existing networks of the person as well, and no worry about stale accounts becuase a user is now part of a solid, closed relationship.
1. No features.
2. Just the knowledge itself that people on the site are interested in dating.
3. All the automation and questions to preselect.
4. Fake profiles are easy to spot.
So, for me, a dating platform on the fediverse would come down to something simple like deciding on a small set of labels for people to use in profiles to signal that one is open for dating. Everything else is just the fediverse the way it is, really.
The point is that I use it as a faster writing tool, every single commit is still committed and pushed by myself. Theoretically you just can see that it was written by AI is by how fast I commit them sometimes between two commits.
There is a huge difference between AI vibe coders and humans like me who are even working in Developer Experience tools like eslint, oxlint, prettier and so on.
Good search queries. Maybe I'm looking for Gender P for romance and Gender Q for friendships. Can I search both at once? Maybe I want friendships and I want to search for others who are open to friendships vs only open to friendships? For things with standardized values, have both "I am" and "Looking for" fields. Some "Looking for" fields are Nice to Have, others are Must Have.
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1. I'd be most interested in a platform that allows me to meet new people based on mutual (niche) interests. Finding potentially compatible buddies to share time with, do something together, build trust and find out who they are before dating even starts. It would be nice to each specify a handful of topics to connect over.
2. Being able to somehow specify must-haves, what's important, "yellow flags" / maybes, deal breakers and then filter profiles based on those to narrow things down a bit more efficiently. Needs to be free text, no pre-selected answers.
3. Any platform that puts me under pressure to quickly decide whether I want to date a person or not doesn't work for me. I move like a glacier and am not usually attracted until I know people. Which can take months of talking online.
4. Any requirement to upload photos of my face or other identifiable parts means I'm out for privacy reasons. I'd like to visit profiles without those people seeing it, mistaking it for interest and pestering me.
Don't vibe code it. Maybe it makes sense to use ML-based tools for semantic understanding and matching, something like Word2Vec but for profiles, something that is well-contained, and not the core semantic of the site.
Maybe offer both an Images-forward and a Text-Forward experience? I suspect the latter will result in better matches... 7/
Re 1 & 2: I'd love to see an app with virtual cores, like Feeld has (had? I ditched it years back when TOS changed radically for the worse), where you have a virtual location and can connect with anyone who opts into that, too.
Re 3: Data harvesting and unencrypted messaging.
Re 4: @Em0nM4stodon wrote a brilliant article a while back about safety issues with dating apps. I have saved it in a million places and yet somehow can never find it. Em, could you add a link here? It really lays out the issues clearly and is worth consulting for anyone looking to build something new and non-abusive of users.
At the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences, it's inevitable to talk about queer dating apps. Unfortunately, most are horrible for data privacy.Privacy Guides
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Iโm still quite proud of the research I did on tracking dating app users by inferring distance and getting some of the apps to fix it.
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TL;DR We were able to precisely locate and track the users of four major dating apps, potentially putting at risk 10 million users This risk level is elevated for the LGBT+ community who may use these apps in countries with poor human rights where thโฆJoe Bursell (Pen Test Partners)
I talked with some people a couple of years ago about setting one up. One of the huge problems that I see is that the sort of governance and safety you really want on a dating site, especially one that deals with 2SLGBTQIA+ people, is not really compatible with a federated model.
I have given a few interviews where I say that I am expecting the concept of dating sites becoming past history, it's much easier these days to just start adding a way to identify that somebody posting to existing sites you use are willing and interested in being contacted for dating or friends purposes. Rather than answering 3000 binary questions with limited answers, people can see all you post and repost, and see for how long you have been around to give you credibility and substance. A summariser would be useful here.
You can see it happening on things like TikTok where people are hashtagging that they are available for dating. So say for example you are a Swiftie, it's immediatley obvious there that the person who is messaging you, who has been posting Swiftie posts for the last 5 years, is not some astroturfed predator profile.
It doesn't solve ALL the problems by any means... For example TikTok isn't going to remove a profile because you met in person and they assaulted you because that's not a thing that TikTok's safety teams deal with (sadly).
I would love to see Mastodon-style prompts for alt text anywhere you can post images.
To be a Fedi dating app, it should include the best parts of Fedi.
1.2. I think the questions system from OkC is great, you can set what's important for you and sort profiles based on that, allowing each instance to set their own questions and use questions from other instances would be nice
3. So many people ghosting and treating you like you're just a consumable ๐ค
I think it's by design I'm a bit too tired to articulate why
3. Don't ever require a phone number or a phone at all.
4. Good moderation?
I tried to answer but tbh the first try, it was just me repeating "I'm demi, dating sites have never rly appealed BC they have never tried to find a way to include ppl like me."
Me trying again:
1 & 2 = I dunno, they tbh make me anx bc they feel like they cater to superficiality and put lots of pressure on ppl to find matches. So I've never used them, tho I've helped other ppl set up. I'm prob not ur target lol.
3 = Number of creeps, feeling like I'm on a shelf, ppl who lie abt hobbies to get matches, feeling like it is a competition w everyone else. (Observing other ppl use)
4 = Anon profiles until mutual matches. But I know how easy it is to find ppl by photo so that would rly concern me too. So something to limit that. Maybe safety # or safety check-in if a date happens so if I get vanished someone knows?
@ozoned
Indeed I am, happy to talk, share or collaborate.
I started the online dating manifesto - datingmanifesto.cc/
Very much looking to create a distributed matching system which support human values
Lets be honest, dating is a total S*** show!It is something I and many others have known for over a decade. In 2014, I took to the TEDxManchester stage to tell the world something many of us dater have seen and experienced first hand.datingmanifesto.cc
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@cubicgarden hi๐
Exciting! I'm catching up on a million messages since I've been gone a couple days, but I'd love to see what you've done so far, and potentially collaborate on something! ๐ฉท
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Ciao raga, per lavoro sono due settimane a Madrid e mi verrร a trovare anche @Vi qualche giorno: posti carini/queer/interessanti da vedere o dove divertirci un po' nel weekend?
Grazie ๐
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@Micolcosta mi informo allora, grazie!
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Flipper Devices svela Flipper One, un computer Linux portatile modulare e aperto, con lancio previsto tramite Kickstarter
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Google ha deliberatamente provocato un malfunzionamento di reCAPTCHA per gli utenti Android che non utilizzavano piรน i servizi Google.
L'azienda che ora decide se sei un bot richiede anche che tu esegua il suo software per dimostrare il contrario.
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The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.Rick Findlay (Reclaim The Net)
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Overshoot Day 2026: da oggi l'Italia vive in debito con il Pianeta
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In soli 123 giorni abbiamo consumato acqua, energia e risorse naturali a nostra disposizione. Il budget ecologico questโanno esaurito tre giorni prima rispettoโฆa cura della redazione di Green&Blue (la Repubblica)
I'm honoured to have been elected to the Board of Directors of @fdroidorg , the most well-known #opensource alternative to Google's Play Store.
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Imagine Microsoft deciding from now on what you can install on your laptop. No internet, you can only download things through the MS app store. Apps that MS has approved. Who wouldn't find that suffocating? Yet that is what Google wants to do on our Android phones (and what Apple already has - a closed ecosystem).
f-droid.org/en/2026/04/28/boarโฆ
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In August 2025, Google announced: from September 2026, every Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on standard Android phones. This applies not only to apps from the Play Store, but to all apps. Including apps shared through F-Droid and apps made by hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers (and there are quite a few!) will be locked out of publishing their software on Android. :android:
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Registration requires:
- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google's terms and conditions
- Providing a valid proof of identity
- Providing proof of a personal signing key
- Registering all current and future application IDs
F-Droid is an important link in the open Android ecosystem; an app store without Google's terms, without registration, and without costs. And extra secure, because the F-Droid team checks, rebuilds and signs all apps themselves from the source code.
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On most privacy-focused Android operating systems (LineageOS on the Fairphone, CalyxOS, /e/OS), F-Droid is the primary app store.
As a phone-addicted nerd I will do my best to help keep Android open. Read more at keepandroidopen.org and at F-Droid.org. ๐ช
Board announcement: f-droid.org/en/2026/04/28/boarโฆ
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Congratulations!
Our free violence prevention games are already out of Google Play.
We wish we could make them available through #fdroidorg but they are not #opensource.
They are intentionally designed, trauma-informed games to teach adolescents about consent -- the content must be reliable & trustworthy.
Maybe some day a category.for free privacy-respecting software from NGOs even if not open source?
@gamingagainstv Would it be an option to make the source code open though?
Edit: to add, there's a whole OSS community happy to help.
Possibly. We might try this with a new game -- which is designed from the beginning with the intention of making it open source.
Several of the games we've published were developed using open source: Ren'Py, Twine, and Godot.
But, nearly all of the games are narrative-based with themes and tone that are safe for players. We need to find (or define) a model that incorporates the freedom of open source while respecting the boundaries of being trauma-informed.
This might share some philosophy with Mastodon - balancing the freedom to speak within a framework which allow others to not be subjected to or harmed by that speech.
We will probably try this but might create something that open source folks consider to not be completely open source - and trauma-informed folks do not truly trust -- but this is worth exploring.
We have had conversations around this concept several times in the past year.
We will be certain to reach out to the OSS community as we explore this more fully. Thank you.
16th century ring that unfolds into an astronomical (armillary) sphere.
Details here, from 1555
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Apparently, #Google has lost track of their goal for #Android "We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, where one industry player could restrict or control the innovations of any other. " web.archive.org/web/2012050108โฆ
That page is 404 Not Found now...
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they lied since the begening
Reality is : they are capitalists, and they are aware to be fascists
@indigotime That's a link to the source code for the source.android.com website, specifically the "jb-dev" branch which was last updated in 2012. Nice idea to look at the source code, here you can see the actual commit where they removed the "philosophy" in 2014:
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#Brave รจ malvagissimo
kitty.social/notes/9yxldk1f64lโฆ
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mstdn.social/@d1re_w0lf/115852โฆ
Brave web browser?? A recommendation? Really? ๐thelibre.news/no-really-dont-uโฆ
Why I recommend against Brave
If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection.Luca Bramรจ (LibreNews)
Ho appena scoperto una cosa FOLLE.
- Aprite la pagina IMDB di un film.
- Nell'URL sostituite imdb.com con playimdb.com (lasciando tutto il resto invariato).
- ???
- Godetevi il film.
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ovviamente non funziona con tutti i film. Sto cercando come un disperato Gunshot, bellissimo giallo egiziano del 2018 che ho visto in aereo durante un volo internazionale
e per questo NNVA (404 Not Found). C'avevo sperato.
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ciao, recupero solo adesso il post! Non essendo particolarmente esperto, chiedo... state continuando a usare questo metodo? ร sicuro o c'รจ il rischio di beccarsi qualche software-schifezza/furto di dati etc.? Ho visto che spesso ti reindirizza verso strani domini...
grazie!
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@myrornaskrig non รจ qualcosa che utilizzo onestamente quindi non ti saprei dire. Di fatto perรฒ se frequenti siti di questo tipo bisogna utilizzare come minimo uBlock origin per bloccare ads vari e avere un software antivirus ben aggiornato.
Il rischio di beccare qualcosa c'รจ sempre.
Se si vuole qualcosina di un filo piรน affidabile: gist.github.com/maxcri72/5524bโฆ
Migliori addon Stremio ITA. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.Gist
Posto per conto di un'amica di Erba (CO) una raccolta firme per questo parco che sta per sparire per farci una palazzina + parcheggio.
Una ricchezza di flora incredibile (cedri, pini, ginko biloba...), per un parlare della fauna (scoiattoli, corvi, gazze, pettirossi...), tutto verrร ucciso per fare spazio a colate di cemento.
Che rabbia!
Purtroppo il tempo รจ poco, ma speriamo si possa fare qualcosa di concreto per fermare l'abbattimento!
Firmate e diffondete. Grazie ๐ค
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Ad Erba รจ stata annunciata lโennesima colata di cemento e asfalto. Questa volta cancellerร un parco storico alberato, con essenze di pregio, per costruire una nuova palazzina di 4 piani e altri parcheggi. Il Coordinamento B.A.S.E.Google Docs
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25 APRILE SEMPRE!
#25aprile #liberazione #liberazionedalnazifascismo #ritapetruccioli #poster #illustration #art
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Yes! All Phones sold from 2027 in EU must have replaceable batteries!
@kbm0 ยปSince 2025, system updates must be available for at least five years from the date the last unit model is sold, according to the same regulation.ยซ
And for Apple for example the support is often longer. So it will make a difference.
Canonical has confirmed Ubuntu 26.10 will carry the Stonking Stingray codename and is scheduled to launch on October 15, 2026.
linuxiac.com/ubuntu-26-10-stonโฆ
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Fedora 44 release is delayed again due to outstanding blocker bugs. The new release date for Fedora 44 is set to Tuesday, April 28, 2026.
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Arriva l'app UE di verifica dell'etร per i social, von der Leyen: "Difendiamo i minori online come offline"Giulia Torbidoni (Eunews)
Sabato 18 impareremo OpenStreetMap!
L'abbiamo usata per mappare i raccoglitori di olio da cucina di Este, ma ha un'infinitร di utilizzi, in primis quello di non dipendere da Google Maps o altre mappe proprietarie.
A sabato!
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Sabato 18 aprile, dalle 14:30 ci ritroviamo per parlare di OpenStreetMap e delle mappe libere: uno strumento potente, collaborativo e accessibile a tutti, che dovrebbe essere preferito a Google Maps e ad altri sistemi di mappe proprietarie o commerciโฆFabio Lovato (ILS Este)
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Ci ricorda qualcosa ๐ ancora grazie per il talk su OpenStreetMap! ๐ป ๐
Ieri abbiamo partecipato a una risottata insieme ad altri LUG e per ringraziarli dell'invito abbiamo messo online a disposizione di tutti unโistanza di MicroBin: m.fedilug.it
ร uno strumento semplice ma potente: potete condividere le foto, codice e file con supporto alla protezione con password, cifratura e cancellazione automatica!
Un piccolo regalo per condividere gli eventi in modo piรน open e protetto, e grazie ancora per la giornata davvero speciale a tutta la community: @linux@diggita.com
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@Davide_Sandini Ciao Davide, capisco perfettamente la tua avversione al 100%. ร proprio uno dei motivi per cui abbiamo messo a disposizione MicroBin: offrire unโalternativa concreta ai servizi GAFAM per la condivisione di immagini e file. Su questo, sfondi una porta apertissima ๐
La nostra istanza, cosรฌ come il progetto, รจ โproudly made and hosted in the EUโ, senza lโutilizzo di tecnologie proprietarie.
Purtroppo, dopo lโacquisizione di GitHub da parte di Microsoft si รจ consolidata una posizione quasi monopolistica nel mondo dello sviluppo e uscirne non รจ semplice. Speriamo perรฒ che sempre piรน persone trovino alternative.
Detto questo, non ne farei un dramma. il nostro progetto resta totalmente indipendente e non promuove nรฉ tecnologie GAFAM nรฉ soluzioni di AI proprietarie. Confidiamo che, gradualmente, anche gli sviluppatori inizino tutti a spostarsi da GitHub.
Dear Fedi friends,
Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).
I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en franรงais).
I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.
Merci beaucoup โค๏ธ
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Andy Piper, Erik Moeller, Jürgen Hubert, Leonardo, โ๏ธ Cath, Michaล "rysiek" Woลบniak · ๐บ๐ฆ, Trendy Toots, Oblomov, s1m0n4, Buridan's procrastinator โ, stuxโก๏ธ, Kim Possible, JeniParsons, Leander Lindahl, Robert W. Gehl, Alexander Goeres ๐ฏ, Yogthos, Maho ๐ฆ๐ป, Melancholic Mediocrity, fedicat, ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ง, ralf tauscher, william โ maggos, Stefan Bohacek, Dr Pen, Erik Jonker, CD Castillo, ๐๐ต๐ธ๐๐ท๐๐ก๐ช๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ท ๐ดโ ๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธ๐ ๐ฎ๐น, myrmepropagandist, Giuseppe Aceto, Cassidy James, Iron Bug, Mastodon Migration, Tim Chambers, Jill โ๏ธ, René Seindal, CurlyParakeet ๐ช๐บ๐ณ๏ธ๐๐บ๐ฆ e Em reshared this.
sorry my French is still trรจs nul (working on it), but I would like to say;
The Fediverse is a special place due to it's decentralized nature, hosted by a kind network of volunteers instead of a centralized big tech company. It brings together a broad range of people that feel safe to post here.
(I shouldn't type while walking)
My take:
Community is built by people *for people*, not by companies for profit. The fediverse attracts those who are looking for that sense of community online and many find it in the fediverse.
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oh very very good luck to you! you will ace this. I've seen you present and you're so clear and confident. they are lucky to have you.
(in my terrible French my testimony is that aux autres rรฉsaux sociaux je lis, je vois des choses, de temps en temps j'รฉcrit. c'est bon mais ce ne change rien dans ma vie. chez mastodon j'APPRENDS. quand je le ferme j'ai appris des novelles choses et vu des liens nouveaux entre les choses que j'ai su.)
Matrix : parce qu'il me permet de retrouver le mรชme type de relations que Usenet : des communautรฉs de passionnรฉs d'un sujet.
Mastodon, ร l'origine pour la mรชme raison que Matrix (ce qui est une erreur). ร l'usage, cet outil permet des rencontres fortuites. Par exemple vous. Au fil du temps, je suis un petit groupe de personne dont je partage les intรฉrรชts. Mais pas toujours les opinions : il s'en suit des dรฉbats toujours courtois. Et quand ils ne le sont pas, je masque et jโoublie.
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@joncounts Everything @joncounts said.
For me it feels like I can interact with real people and have real discussions. So far, people have been kind. I like that I can pay for the infrastructure directly without having to deal with ads, or influencerโs, which are basically ads.
@stefanie@social.anoxinon.de @haubles@hachyderm.io I think it is also more than one campground, bunch of campground. Sometimes you will hear another campground having a party and wander over and join in.Supermoosie (Mastodon Australia)
Nell'attuale modello sociale, gli spazi comuni, gli spazi liberi, vanno riducendosi sempre di piรน, a tutto vantaggio dei luoghi "a pedaggio", luoghi in cui per stare seduto, per fare sport, per giocare, devi pagare in denaro o in natura. Cosรฌ come gli architetti urbanisti cercano di trovare soluzioni per fare in modo che la cittadinanza riconquisti il diritto agli spazi liberi e gratuiti, allo stesso modo gli "urbanisti digitali" del Fediverso hanno realizzato un'infrastruttura che consenta ai cittadini digitali di riappropriarsi dei propri spazi senza svendere le proprie relazioni e i propri pensieri alla profilazione dei data broker e alla manipolazione algoritmica a fini di lucro; questo รจ il Fediverso: uno spazio comune, pubblico e intimo allo stesso tempo.
en franรงais ๐
Dans le modรจle social actuel, les espaces communs, les espaces de libertรฉ, se rarรฉfient au profit des espaces payants โ des lieux oรน il faut payer, en espรจces ou en nature, pour s'asseoir, faire du sport ou se divertir. De mรชme que les urbanistes cherchent des solutions pour garantir aux citoyens le droit ร des espaces libres et ouverts, les ยซ urbanistes numรฉriques ยป du Fediverse ont crรฉรฉ une infrastructure permettant aux citoyens numรฉriques de se rรฉapproprier leurs espaces sans que leurs relations et leurs pensรฉes ne soient instrumentalisรฉes par des courtiers en donnรฉes pour le profilage et la manipulation algorithmique ร des fins lucratives. C'est le Fediverse : un espace commun, ร la fois public et intime.
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I love how much agency I have in the Fediverse. My feed contains only what I have chosen and not what an algorithm spits out.
Also I feel like the sense of community is stronger here. People are here because they want to be; there seems to be a general appreciation for real personal interaction and not just what will occupy the most minutes of human attention.
I wrote this yesterday:
aus.social/@chestas/1163628690โฆ
It seems that echo chamber is the key phrase of the day. Here's my takePersonally, I left Twitter because it was full of bullying and celebrity/influencer worship. I didn't fit in, and felt very uncomfortable.
I left Facebook when my friends and families posts started disappearing and an algorithm started feeding me things I should have interest in.
I haven't used any other social media, except the Fediverse where I have been accepted and feel comfortable, even though my introverted nature sometimes tells me to stop interacting and go back to lurking like on Twitter.
As social media goes, I have found a happy place. I follow what I want, block what I don't, and am really happy with the moderation of aus.social admins. Is it an echo chamber? To be honest, I don't care. I'm not going to the pub with a bunch of people I don't like the opinion of, and that's how I think of the Fediverse, a social environment, rather than a soapbox.
Anyway, I'll go back to talking about chess, and posting photos of Tasmania and cats. And thanks to all of you who happily tolerate me ๐
#Fediverse #Mastodon #EchoChamber @aussocialadmin #Socialmedia
here you go:
Best social network money can't buy.
And:
Fediverse proves that if nobody is tipping the scales to artificially boost "engagement", toxic people end up being blocked. Mainstream social media toxicity is not inevitable, it's a business decision, a choice. And Fediverse chooses not to have any of it.
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@rysiek Unfortunately this works 2+ ways or is multi-reasoned.
So the same good kind of blocking etc can be part of the similar culture of not going deep / teaching anyone / seeing others as your own (or as part of humanity) / work in progress etc...
Something positive in communication and not just fleeting (which counts) but something deeper / more frequently developed as humans.
Any thoughts on that?
@rysiek
I'm against the obvious #spam or #Nazism etc but I mean the #normal people are too sterile / not active (other than #job) and not able any longer to really be flexible / see past comments... too clean / doesn't grow the us (non-techies) as imperfect / human as we are.
Know what I mean?
Many kinds of #Truth to understand.
This is mostly Mastodon experience but:
I feel like I'm in control.
The system is made for me and I can sort and select what I see through filters and lists.
On the fediverse we have real choice in who we can communicate with.
We can choose where we communicate in safety. It's not a centralised community, it's overlapping communities choosing to communicate with each other.
We can choose to exercise freedom of association on here, not just free speech.
I used to go to a restaurant that was super popular and really small. They had a sign in their door:
Too small?
Too loud?
Too crowded?
Too bad.
I think I can adapt that to the #fediverse
No AI?
No monetisation?
No algorithm?
No problem!
le moment oรน on franchit cette porte, on comprend ร nouveau la diffรฉrence entre รชtre utilisateur et utilisรฉ.
Les rรฉseaux sociaux les plus connus aujourd'hui rรฉduisent les personnes ร leurs donnรฉes et ร tout ce que l'on peut exploiter de leurs clicks, leur navigation et leurs questions.
Sur le #Fediverse l'humain redevient un รชtre social capable de bรขtir une communautรฉ de gens avec les mรชmes centres d'intรฉrรชts sans, pour autant, รชtre exploitรฉ ou piรจgรฉ par l'addiction aux contenus.
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J'adore que les gens ici sont poli.e.s en gรฉnรฉral, parfois plus que les gens qui je rencontre au quotidienne ๐ et aussi que souvent ils/elles posent des questions concernant les sources des informations ou se souviennent de mettre des textes dรฉcrivant des images.
Ouff, and I don't mind if anyone points out grammatical errors in the above. No need to be too polite in this case ๐
Bonjour et merci.
Les personnes qui รฉcrivent et postent sur le Fediverse, elles ne le font pas pour compter les vues, mais parce qu'elles ont quelque chose ร apporter. Du coup, c'est facile de trouver du contenu intรฉressant, vรฉrifiรฉ ou vรฉrifiable et de conserver ce contenu bien visible dans son fil.
the biggest qualification for the fediverse is that amongst major social media platforms/ protocols, there is no plutocrat ownership and control
so while there is still conflict- there's always conflict, it's genuine. rather than manipulated and stilted by agendas that serve bigotry for political ends
because the largest problem in the world today is how the media, social media and traditional media, now serves a plutocrat-bigot political axis
La principale caractรฉristique du Fediverse rรฉside dans le fait que, parmi les grandes plateformes et protocoles de rรฉseaux sociaux, il n'est soumis ni ร la propriรฉtรฉ ni au contrรดle de ploutocrates.
Ainsi, bien que des conflits subsistent โ car il y a toujours des conflits โ, ceux-ci sont authentiques ; ils ne sont ni manipulรฉs ni artificiellement orientรฉs par des agendas visant ร instrumentaliser l'intolรฉrance ร des fins politiques.
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il y a quelques annรฉes, jโai โjetรฉ une bouteille ร la merโ pour essayer de trouver une location longue durรฉe de vรฉlo ร Paris. Je ne voulais pas utiliser de velib pendant tout mon sรฉjour.
Quelquโun sur le fedi (voir rรฉponse ci-dessous ๐) a lu mon message et mโa prรชtรฉ son vรฉlo pendant tout mon sรฉjour ! Cโรฉtait super. รa mโa permit de dรฉcouvrir un nouveau Paris, de rester en surface, de rencontrer un voisin qui mโai aidรฉ pour le garer la nuit. รa mโa refait!
@psoul c'รฉtait moi et c'est mon vรฉlo ๐ฅน
Tu รฉtais la 1รจre personne de Mastodon que j'ai rencontrรฉe "en vrai", je venais d'arriver sur ce rรฉseau ๐ค
@_elena
J'ai retrouvรฉ en Mastodon la raison pour laquelle j'aime internet depuis toute petite : l'internet qui rassemble et crรฉe du lien.
Auparavant peu habituรฉe ร m'exprimer sur les rรฉseaux, Mastodon m'a apportรฉ de la force lors de mon 1er voyage ร vรฉlo solo.
Depuis, les รฉchanges avec la communautรฉ ont largement contribuรฉ ร dรฉvelopper ma passion pour le vรฉlo et continuent de me faire grandir. J'aime que les interactions y soient si simples et de voir certaines connexions se transformer en de vraies amitiรฉs ๐ฅน
@emeline @psoul
C'รฉtait sur ce rรฉseau social que je me suis inquiรฉtรฉ pour quelqu'un que je ne connaissais pas pour la premiรจre fois, ร force de suivre ses aventures lors de son 1er voyage solo (oui, c'รฉtait Emeline).
C'est lร que j'ai fait les premiรจres rencontres IRL depuis longtemps : un petit tour dans une salle d'escalade parisienne oรน j'รฉtais en dรฉplacement pour quelques jours.
C'est aussi des รฉchanges avec d'autres Masto pour prรฉparer mes vรฉlorando en famille !
@Eriatolc je me rappellerai toute ma vie de l'รฉmotion que j'ai ressentie en dรฉcouvrant ton message privรฉ sur Mastodon le lendemain de mon accident, suite ร mon absence de post quotidien que j'avais pris l'habitude de rรฉdiger chaque soir ๐ฅน.
Quand je parlais de la "force que m'avait apportรฉe ce rรฉseau" pendant ce voyage, je faisais notamment rรฉfรฉrence ร cette histoire.
Je suis vraiment heureuse qu'on ait pu faire cette session de grimpe et j'y repense souvent !
Ooooh cool!
My French is beyond bad so in English:
The Fediverse allows me to connect to others how I always wanted to - on my own terms, in chronological order, without A/B testing, algorithms, adverts or biases from unpleasant CEOs being thrust upon me.
I have been extremely online since 1998 and have many treasured friends made via the internet from the pre-Big-Tech days, and now I'm able to make friends in the same way again.
Salut Elena!
Jโadore le fediverse parce-que รงa ressemble un peu le village mondial parfait. On parle avec tout le ๐ , de tous les sujets- mais toujours dโune maniรจre amicale et respectueuse.
Je me suis intรฉgrรฉ lโannรฉe passรฉe, je suis ici presque tous les jours- et je nโai vu aucun post insultant. Sauf deux occasions, quand les modรฉrateurs les ont publiรฉ pour expliquer lโexclusion de lโauteur de Mastodon.
Et presque tout le ๐ contribue des choses productives - cโest bienfaisant. Thx๐
jโai รฉvoluรฉ dans le monde de lโinformatique libre et des telecoms entre 1998 et 2005.
Jโai survรฉcu dans les rรฉseaux sociaux propriรฉtaires et toxiques entre 2012 et 2017, en y trouvant mon compte (travailleur indรฉpendant isolรฉ cโรฉtait un moyen de maintenir une vie sociale).
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Jโai trouvรฉ dans le fediverse un espace qui entretien cette socialisation et permet de construire soi-mรชme ses communautรฉ, selon ses affinitรฉs, hors dโun contrรดle marchand et de lโexploitation dโune รฉconomie de lโattention. Un retour aux fondamentaux dโun internet du partage et de la dรฉcouverte de lโautre.
Les forces du fediverse se sont pour moi :
- la taille humaine des instances et la modรฉration
- la bienveillance et la diversitรฉ
- la TL chronologique
- les #
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J'aime pouvoir participer, collaborer et contribuer activement ร quelque chose et ne pas รชtre qu'un consommateur passif, pouvoir agir et ne pas que subir.
Surtout ร l'รจre de la montรฉe de l'autoritarisme amรฉricain et des technos facistes.
Boycotter, c'est bien. Construire autre chose, c'est mieux. Et le Fรฉdivers est cette autre chose.
Le fรฉdivers, c'est un peu le Wikipedia des rรฉseaux sociaux.
Nice, good luck with the presentation!
Looks like you already have plenty of responses, but in case you're still looking for more, in light of this: stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1โฆ
I'd just like to add: The fediverse is special to me because it's a scrappy group project where we all contribute without needing to sacrifice our integrity, whether that's through accepting venture capital, or resorting to ads or crypto.
We don't always get along, but we can all pretty much agree that fediverse has been successful without those things.
Pretty interesting read. The TLDR here would be that the Blacksky community is gearing up to vote on whether they want to rely on AI coding tools, seek investments, implement ads, or not grow.blackskyweb.xyz/blacksky-algorโฆ
The ability to:
Filter my feed using keywords. Every platform needs this.
Cater my own feed to something meaningful and manageable instead of being at the whims of the slop algorithm.
The lack of ads and there being no incentives for them or any enshitification to be added in.
I can decide exactly what notifications I want or don't want, instead of having to choose between none or too many.
The privacy options are much stronger here than every other social media or content platform.
I left Twitter, expecting to find a similar experience on Mastodon. But what i found instead was community.
I'm brought back to the ways of the old internet, where humans matter and interactions are not fueled by algorithms, but curiosity.
Cher Prรฉsident Macron, pourquoi รชtes-vous encore sur X et toujours pas prรฉsent sur le Fediverse ? Quittez X et laissez le aux trolls et aux extrรฉmistes. Rejoignez nous sur le Fedivers, le rรฉseau social europรฉen, souverain et dรฉmocratique.
Why move away from platforms like X, Instagram, Tiktok, snapchat? Letโs take back control of our digital spaces. Social media platforms derive their power from conventions: we want to be there becaโฆxodus.online (Xodus)
@_elena What makes the fediverse special to me comes down to a few core differences from corporate social platforms.
First, control. On the fediverse, I decide what I see and what I donโt. Corporate platforms are built around engagement algorithms designed to keep you scrolling, clicking, and reacting. That usually means being shown whatever is most likely to provoke a response โ often outrage, conflict, or sensational content. Advertising is also baked into that model, because those platforms exist primarily to generate revenue.
The fediverse works differently. Thereโs no global engagement algorithm deciding what deserves your attention. Instead, you follow people, hashtags, or communities you actually care about. That alone changes the experience dramatically. You're not being pushed toward content designed to manipulate your attention โ you're choosing your environment.
That leads directly to the second reason: the tone and atmosphere. When I use the fediverse, Iโm not stepping into a constant stream of negativity. If I make a post, the people who see it are usually those who chose to follow me or share similar interests. That tends to produce more thoughtful, constructive, and positive interactions. Likewise, what I read is content I intentionally opted into, which creates a healthier and more welcoming social space overall.
Finally, ownership and autonomy. On the fediverse, no single corporation owns your voice. Your posts arenโt controlled by a company, a billionaire, or a centralized platform. Your instance may have moderation policies, but your content ultimately belongs to you. Privacy is also built into the structure itself. If you post to followers-only, only your followers see it. If you post directly, only the mentioned people see it. That behavior isnโt an afterthought โ itโs part of how the system was designed from the start.
Ultimately, the fediverse is built by users, for users. It isnโt controlled by a single entity, and that decentralization creates something rare: a social space shaped by communities instead of profit motives. Thatโs what makes it special.
-Kaelaeth & -Anivara
It's the trust that I have in the Fediverse. The trust that, even if individual instances come and go, the Fediverse will remain - and so will my presence here. And that it will only get better over time, instead of worse.
I put a lot of time and effort into Google+, but then it was gone. Then I put a lot of time and effort into Twitter, but then it was bought my Elon Musk. With the Fediverse, I don't have to fear any rug pull, and that does _woners_ for my peace of mind.
it's #DemocracyOfReach.
freedom of speech is not enough if the wealthy determine who gets attention. decentralized social media can displace them, allowing the public to collectively decide what information, ideas and art goes viral. based purely on human boosts. no owners, no algos, no ads. that's the revolutionary potential here. while there's other ways to find and participate in community and be entertained, nothing else can do this. nothing else can so empower all the people.
The Fediverse is a great place to learn about queer identities and anti-capitalism stuff that the super rich donโt want you to know about.
Plus itโs a pretty solid dating app.
I grew up with Web1.0, a free garden of oddities, trivia, useful bits of tech knowledge, weird and wonderful stuff, which was maybe limited by scant access, and tech-savvy required.
Web2.0 ("AOL") created walled gardens, where sheeple were allowed to see and go only where corporate goons wanted them to. Web3.0 monetized and enshittified that.
The #fediverse is Web1.0+, the freedom to access wonderful stuff, free of corps oversight... now with obscene broadband and storage/processing =D
La porte de la Fediverse, c'est une communautรฉ bien ร soi, que l'on peut s'approprier ร sa faรงon et selon ses propres besoins sans en dรฉlรฉguer le contrรดle ร autrui, tout en restant connectรฉ aux autres communautรฉs et ร leurs membres, dans le respect des valeurs et des besoins de chacunes et chacuns.
(Thanks Elena ! I am eager to learn what this prestigious venue is ๐ค)
Le Fรฉdivers construit des ponts โ entre les humains. Ici, je ne suis ni un utilisateur, ni un point de donnรฉes, ni une cible marketing. Je suis simplement moi. Et le Fรฉdivers nโa pas รฉtรฉ conรงu pour le profit, mais pour nous.
It's hard m there's so much good to say about the fediverse...
...because we don't suffer the advertising incentives that built the modern internet into a caricature of humanity.
Thanks to the dampening of that, humans can have real interactions in the fediverse. We are all imperfect, but our imperfections are our own rather than magnified and marketed.
We are allowed to be as whole as we can be without some marketing department telling us we are defective in a way that they magically have a product or service for...
I could wax really poetic...
But that should be enough. ๐
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the Fediverse is special, because it feels like "our" network, "our" social media. I run my own Mastodon instance and I love it. There are no algorithms, it is just a whole different experience to Twitter (where I was active for many years before) and other platforms.
As an advocate for open source software and operating systems, Mastodon/the Fediverse is the logical next step for communication and socialisation for me.
To me, it is the absence of algorithms. The resulting calmness is what truly differentiates fediverse from the big platforms.
Algorithms favor "conflict" over "dialogue" and since everything is displayed in chronological order, there is no incentive - as a content creator - to "feed the algorithm" to have your content prioritised.
I have yet to see a "Follow link in comments" post in fediverse - because there is just no need for it.
I don't feel like my human rights are constantly being questioned. Moderation is much better handled, specially in smaller instances.
I only see the things I am interested in, there are no narratives being pushed.
I can either have a nice walk around cute things or enter debates. I can choose. No algorithm is trying to force-fed me anything.
I can follow people or topics. I discover new things everyday.
There's no faking being happy. Everyone is human with good and bad days.
I love the Fediverse because it restored focus on People having Conversations again. The so-called "Social Media" sites started out that way, connecting you with friends you lost touch with, and gathering your extended family, but these days they treat you like an Audience instead.
The people who seem to have the greatest frustration using Fediverse systems like Mastodon are the ones looking for "reach" or "follower count" or other metrics of how big their Audience is. This is Big Tech thinking, and I recommend they instead look for people to talk *with* instead of *at*. Because that's where we really shine, and I love this space for it.
Why I'm not on Facebook, whilst everyone else seems to be, and prefer the Fediverse:
- I'm annoyed by the amount of advertising, which don't exist
- In the Fedi the Moderation is dar superior to Facebook
- I find my people in the Fedi, but not on Facebook (Facebook is somehow dead in my nieche.)
- I feel much safer to speak in the Fedi than on Facebook. There is some toxic culture at facebook
- The Fedi has no algorithm, which amplifies only, what brings engagement, which are mostly toxic things
- Instead at the Fedi is much more genuine engagement even for positive and more rational things.
- The Fedi is open to connect to the whole World wide web by open standards, no walled garden. A Link to something outside the Fedi isn't a crime unlike Facebook.
- In the Fedi no interesting post suddenly disappear just because you got disturbed by something. It is a huge annoyance with Facebook.
- If you post something in the Fedi and ask something, you get serious
hi @_elena fingers crossed for your talk, here is a testimony in French (feel free to cut some parts if it's too long).
ยซ J'aime l'idรฉal que porte le Fรฉdivers, d'un internet collaboratif, pensรฉ et construit par et pour des humains. Diffรฉrentes communautรฉs (individus, institutions...) peuvent y crรฉer des espaces oรน elles dรฉcident de leur objectifs et de leur fonctionnement, mais leurs membres peuvent aussi continuer d'interagir avec d'autres communautรฉs au sein de cet รฉcosystรจme plus large. ยป
What I like about the Fediverse is that there are real communities here in a way that there isn't and cannot be on websites where every bit of interaction with other humans, every who and what, is shaped by optimization to maximize some metric, like "engagement" or "ad views". It feels more natural here and more normal, and at the same time, messy, the edges haven't been filed off like they have off like they have off the experience of Consuming a continuous stream of content selected to keep you on a website as much as possible.
Most of the things that absolutely destroy peoples brains on social media sites are *just not a thing here*, which is healthy in a way that is genuinely difficult to explain to people who haven't tried it and don't remember this kind of thing.
Not that we don't still have problems (boy do we still have problems), but here, we can start working on fixing them. while on the corporate social media websites, everything just always gets worse, by design.
thanks for advocating for the fedivers and looks like you have a lot of feedback but I'll add my voice anyway.
Knowing that when people build communities here around their common interests, it is not because of "reach", "influencing", "hacking the algorithm", "brand deals", and other "link in bio" nonsense. But it is for the pure joy of sharing what they love with other humans; to form bonds that transcend national, technical, and corporate boundaries. The original promise of the free internet.
I really like the culture of consent and respect. CWs let you give people notice before blasting them with political shit, or severe depression or anxiety attacks, or just plain old lewdposting. Or spoilers. Or the punchline to a joke!
I also really love how public doesn't mean Publicโข. When you make a post, it doesn't instantly go to the entire world at once. It just goes to the servers your server knows, and then if someone boosts it, the servers their server knows, etc. Things bubble outward naturally.
This means you get real communities on here in a way that's probably harder on a more centralized site. I'm in a big furry bubble, which rocks. But there's also a large contingent of Firstname Lastname Human Fedi and we see them occasionally but it's not like, constant.
It also really cuts down on harassment when the trolls/queerphobes/anti-furry haters/whoever just don't even know your server exists, and/or have been blocked. They can go be hateful in their little hate bubble. :3
Oh yeah that's another thing. "You're allowed to say anything you want, but people don't have to listen" is actually a thing here! Nobody's censoring the nasty people, they can and do still exist in their little corner. But nobody talks to them. And this wasn't some decision handed down from on high, it's just that all the admins of the servers in our region of fedi went "nah, go away" and blocked them. We didn't have to block them (we selfhost our own server and are our own admins), we just never ran into them 'cause we keep a low profile and don't federate much.
Speaking of... if you're queer, furry, marginalized, or otherwise a target for being banned for no reason in corporate places โ around here, you can find a server ran by someone like you, full of people like you. That gives you both community /and/ assurance that you won't get banned just for being yourself. Even if the credit card companies push to get you labeled Evil and scrub you from existence. (...I wish I was joking.)
There's a lot of good here that comes out of it being (unlike Bluesky) truly decentralized.
Nothing fancy, but here's my take.
I've been on the 'net since it was called Arpanet. When the commercial social networks first came around, I was already jaundiced enough that their future business model - advertising, surveillance, exploitation, extraction - was obvious and inescapable.
So I never signed up for any of them. No Facebook, Twitter, or even any of the early ones. Sometimes I knew I was missing out on something that others weren't, but the costs didn't outweigh the benefits.
When Fedi came around - decentralized, independent, non-commercial, ungovernable, cooperative - I finally knew I could join something "social".
I love it here.
Commercial social media platforms are built for โinfluencerโ engagement and sponsored content - the fedi is not. Itโs lack of an global algorithmic feed and global moderation make this type extremely of high-engagement content difficult to achieve. Additionally, the lack of an algorithm ensures even smaller accounts have equal voice to larger ones. This comes at the cost of users having to strictly curate their own feeds through follow requests, instead of passively accepting an algorithmicly generated feed. For people used to other platforms, this model can feel burdensome, initially.
Generally speaking, it is misleading to try to compare the fedi to other social media platforms, like Bsky, X, Threads, etc. These latter platforms are singular in operations, ownership, and moderation. The fedi is best understood as a confederation of different communities (which we call instances). Each community has itโs own unique characteristics, culture, and moderation policies. No community is forced to interact with another but must come to a generalized, and understood, social contract, or face consequences of being โdefederatedโ by one or multiple instances (see various fediblock dramas). While this may create โ what appears as a โ hodgepodge of content restrictions or moderation policies, it is โ in fact โ the single most scalable and democratic model for moderation possible. This model does not rely on the exponential growth of a large centralized team or the implementation of questionable AI moderation bots, but requires merely that every new and ongoing instance abide by a general social agreement to participate within the larger fedi community.
what I like about it is that holds within it a precious gem, something you cannot put a price on. The promise of a better world. A hope for the future. It has idealism and the promise of world where we all partake as equals. A public democratic space.
Pur trop je ne peut pas exprimer รงa en franรงais (encore).
I just don't get the rage from it like I do with Meta products.
I've been so angry for so long.
Fedi is much calmer, chill, easy to nope out if things do get a bit weird in a way you don't like (just mute that conversation, mute someone for a period, or forever, or block, lots of options!)
Conversation is meaningful.
It's random, niche and nerdy.
Whatever your special interest, you can find it, if you look - there is no algorithm hiding things from us or presenting us with things we should apparently love/hate.
It's so much more.. Real. It's not sanitised or exaggerated for reach and clicks. People just put themselves out there for whatever reason. It's more like when the internet was better (granted not for every marginalised group but nowhere has achieved that yet - we can keep trying!)
And overall it's got more good things like: anti-AI sentiment and critique, no quarter for fascists etc. Again not perfect but, a definite improvement over for-profit socials where you and your life are the product. No one is a preiuxt product here. Just people!
Chรจre Elena,
je prรฉfรจre le Fediverse parce qu'il est cool, important et progressif. Et parce que je veux รฉviter tous ces idiots sur les grandes plateformes:)
Bien des salutations de Berlin,
Elke
Un bel exemple de la convivialitรฉ de Mastodon n'est-il pas la belle aventure de Bubulle-Bis ?
Je suis de longue date un zรฉlateur des logiciels libres.
De plus, mรชme si ce n'est pas un critรจre premier, la confidentialitรฉ de ces rรฉseaux est importante.
Ps : mes pouets ont une courte durรฉe de vie
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alas my French is very rudimentary these days.
In an age where most social media sites implement algorithms to control what we see based on the whims of tech billionaires, and people are encouraged to chase popularity and influence, the Fediverse frees us from those algorithmic barriers and allows us to find true human connections and build supportive communities, while giving individuals greater ownership and control of their data.
I suspect others could write it more eloquently!
interestingly, I'm reading a book right now by your fellow countryman Carlo Rovelli about Anaximander, a 6th C BCE Greek philosopher/scientist who is credited with bringing about the start of the modern scientific method to understand the world rather than attributing everything to the gods' influence.
The chapter about the political situation in the region at that time seems like an apt analogy with social media! (All quotes ยฉ Carlo Rovelli)
je vais pas mal rรฉpรฉtรฉ ce qui a รฉtรฉ dit j'pense :
Je prรฉfรจre ici parce que l'environnement de scrollingl'air bien plus... "choisi"
Enfin, on a le contrรดle sur ce qu'on veut voir. Si je veux pas de... je sais pas moi... de vache (pardon les vaches, c'est juste un exemple ๐คท๐ป) dans ma TL, je choisis tout simplement de pas suivre des gens qui en parle. Ou de masquer les mots-clรฉs liรฉs. Et รงa fonctionne !
Tandis que les grosses plate-formes nous imposent beaucoup de choses. On peut bloquer des gens qui parlent de vaches ร tour de bras, on continue encore d'en voir beaucoup.
Aussi on est + proche des "chef" des instances, et on peut discuter -
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I was about to write mine when this came across my timeline, almost exactly what I was going to toot.
wandering.shop/@realtegan/1163โฆ
The thing I like about doomscrolling on Mastodon is that I get the news I feel I need to get - but in between there are photos of cats, moss, and beautiful old trees, discussion of repairing and reupholstering old chairs, lockpicking discussions, outโฆLaura "Tegan" Gjovaag โ ๐ธ (The Wandering Shop)
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who wrote in to share what they love about the Fediverse.
I had almost 200 replies (all very thoughtful) and I just spent an hour trying to respond to everyone ๐
Off to sleep now, more inspired than ever. Good night everyone! ๐
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Pour moi le Fรฉdivers รฉtait une รฉchappatoire aux rรฉseaux sociaux "classiques" ร la base. Peu de nous admettent qu'ils ont un problรจme de dรฉpendance excessive sur Facebook, Instagram, et compagnie. Je voulais reprendre main sur ma vie et mes heures tout en promouvant la libertรฉ d'expression, la transparence et le juste traitement d'une plateformes de ses utilisateurs.
Ma session moyenne sur Mastodon est de quelque minutes, cumulant toujours moins d'un tiers d'heure par journรฉe. Celle de Facebook, ร l'รฉpoque, cumulait aux alentours d'une heure parfois, et je n'en retenais absolument rien.
Malheureusement, je n'ai parlรฉ point franรงais depuis il y a trente ans, donc je ne le parle plus bien.
Mais je peux le lire assez bien.
Ce que j'aime, ce sont les conversations non filtrรฉes par les algorithmes de Musk et de ses amis, sur les sujets qui m'intรฉresse, avec des gens raisonnables.
It ought to be enough that an organization can have an online presence not owned & controlled by Zuckerberg & Musk, but here goes...
If by "prestigious" you mean they have the resources (staff, money), they should have their own instance. As complete control as anyone can have in social media.
Corollary: Having a social media handle like CEO@Company.social ROCKS! (You might want to translate that to corp-speak.)
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The effort (staff time) of running an instance will be more than offset by the time saved keeping spammers, trolls, impersonaters, and other miscreants out of their feed.
Don't have to choose between paying Musk for a blue check or appearing dubious to some users.
A smaller but more thoughtful audience in the Fediverse. Far fewer fake accounts than Twitter. (I cannot speak to FB as I left so many years ago.)
I might follow them. <smirk>
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Le fediverse nous donne le pouvoir de dรฉcider comment gรฉrer nos rรฉseaux sociaux:
1. Les normes d'usage sont รฉtablies par consensus et peuvent se changer par consensus. Cela inclut aussi la possibilitรฉ de connecter ou bloquer certains serveurs.
2. Aucune entitรฉ privรฉe ne peut censurer nos conversations au fediverse.
3. Aucune personne ou entitรฉ privรฉe ne peut transgresser ces normes. Ni son argent ni sa rรฉputation peuvent acheter un traitement de faveur. Le fediverse n'appartient qu'ร ses utilisateurs.
4. Par consรฉquent, les utilisateurs sont plus conscients des normes et des consรฉquences de les violer, et cela peut s'apprรฉcier aux interactions, plus respectueuses que dans les rรฉseaux privatives.
En plus, le fediverse est un projet trรจs proche ร l'esprit de ce que l'Internet doit รชtre, un rรฉseau de communication libre et respectueuse.
I started out humbly, on mastodon dot social. Now I run private servers for Mastodon, PeerTube, and Faircamp, all of which run off of a PC in my living room. I couldn't host any of the corporate platforms at all, and here I am looking forward to adding users at some point.
It's also like a knowledge hub, with added pictures of dogs, cats, lizards, birds, arachnids, and countless close-ups of lichen and moss. Plus Monsterdon!
Anyone can join in!
The Fediverse is what social media was supposed to be.
Count me as an old guy, in my 70s.
In the Fediverse I define my "algorithm", following people who have interesting things to say or post). It means paying attention to individuals to determine who to follow, and expanding my lists both on relevant hashtags as well as strangers who appear in a thread.
Yes, there's certainly some confirmation bias in selecting who I follow, but the diversity of opinions is large.
I get to see posts in foreign languages, some of which I can read, but most I translate on-line.
I learn things from perfect strangers, sometimes inspired by them. And there's a level of engagement I don't see elsewhere.
les plateformes modernes poussent les utilisateurs ร se comporter comme des commerciaux qui vendraient une marque / un produit, comportement renforcรฉ par les algorithmes rรฉcompensant ces comportements.
Le Fediverse, c'est le retour au web d'avant ces services.
J'ai rencontrรฉ deux personnes extrรชmement spรฉciales ici. Les deux ont devenuent trรจs proche ร moi. Une est maintenant ma partenaire.
J'ai rencontrรฉ ces personnes ร cause d'une petite blague que j'ai publiรฉ. J'ai fait beaucoups de telles blagues sur des rรฉseaux sociaux bourgeois, mais chaque fois, les algorithmes ont dรฉcidรฉ de les oublier. Ici, les gens ont aimรฉ la blague, alors elles l'ont partagรฉ, alors tout le monde l'a vu. C'est ร cause de รงa que j'ai rencontrรฉ ces deux personnes. ร cause de l'absence des algorithmes, nous avons pleines des opportunitรฉs pour des connections vrais.
Pour les curieux-ses, la blague malheureusement ne fonctionne pas en Franรงais, mais c'รฉtait:
Ouais, chuis LGBT:
L - Absence d'
G - Allez au
B - Lit a l'heure
T - Transgenre
The kind of engagement Iโm looking for in a social network are conversations with inquiry, curiosity, and kindness. I see this all the time in the Fediverse and get great value whether Iโm an active participant or not.
Three years ago a person I followed was having a very very hard time with a chronic illness.
I wrote this thread for them, about growing Saffron โฆ and by the end about taking a breath and making the next moment a bit better.
ruby.social/@stepheneb/1096231โฆ
Attached: 1 image @bluebirdblvd@mas.to Hereโs a true story in the class of things I sometimes call โdomestic magicโ.Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) (Ruby.social)
Recently I find myself thinking and saying: โIt is a kindness to have the opportunity to be kind.โ
I find more opportunities to be kind here than in any other social network.
(Apologies because my French is not fantastic!)
Je suis Amรฉricaine, et le Fediverse a รฉtรฉ absolument crucial pour que je puisse continuer d'accรฉder ร des mรฉdias indรฉpendants et ร des perspectives importantes venues du monde entier. Je lui en suis trรจs reconnaissante.
what's special about the fediverse for me is that the feed eventually ends and i can't scroll forever
unless it's a live feed, which i can't bring myself to scroll even for a minute
I used to love Twitter but then a terrible person took it away from me. Nobody can take Mastodon away! It's a system, not a website or a company.
J'aimais Twitter mais puis un person affreux m'en ร emportรฉ ca. Personne peut emporter Mastodon! C'est une systรจme, pas une site web ou une compagnie.
According to the Internet Archive's Wayback machine I joined the proto-Fediverse (identi.ca) in 2008. It was fun. It was people who were not normal. We inspired each other to self-host, to make silly podcasts, and to share.
Eventually, I started thinking "Wow. I follow a lot of trans women. Well, I suppose that just shows what a diverse community we are."
There followed a series of personal epiphanies. I cocooned for a few years.
When I rejoined the Fediverse in 2021, under a new name, it was just the same, but so much larger. I have "met" people who are (whether they know it or not) very dear to me, and so many more who just delight and inspire me as they go about their lives, not necessarily conscious of my existence.
The Fediverse isn't software, or a communication protocol; it's a spirit. It doesn't demand "engagement"; it invites creation.
I was already an adult when internet became available to everyone and so I am certainly old enough to remember the first social media. Fediverse is as social media was originally invented: people sharing stuff to more or less public circles and everyone deciding for themselves whose stuff they follow. It's not that Fediverse is special or new (it isn't); it's only that algorithmic commercialization ruined the other platforms.
Also it's still August here. September hasn't even started.
The Fediverse gave me a way to fight my loneliness without selling my soul for it. I feel like a DJ, assembling my own daily input. It takes a little work, at first to get anything in my feed, later to reduce it again. But it feels like gardening. And I can send something out whenever I feel like it. It will reach real people while my face can stay hidden. I feel safe here. My phone number, my fingerprint, my connections are no concern to the maintainer of my host server. Finding my location through this structure is a challenge for strangers.
I found people here I can talk to. It's like back in the day, really. Not perfect, but very beautiful.
the fediverse is... difficult. It's not nearly as easy as "go to Twitter.com and you'll be tapped into the feed". It takes research, and work, and a little bit of technical knowledge to make a mastodon account and add users from different instances.
This modicum of difficulty has been a SPECTACULAR remedy to the Eternal September of the rest of the internet. So many people post thoughtful, quality content, everyone seems educated and knowledgeable. No dummies allowed.
Le fรฉdivers/la fรฉdvierse appartient aux utilisateurs et non ร une grosse sociรฉtรฉ et son CEO blanc cis mascu.
C'est tout.
- Part of what makes the Fediverse special is how UNspecial it is. It's not flashy, it doesn't go out of its way trying to "wow" you. It's pretty simple and boring technology. A mechanism. A standard. It just gets the job done.
- It's permissionless. Which is basically another word for "free as in speech". There's no big rich corporation behind it. There's no dictator at the top. You don't need to ask anybody. Your account is your own. Your server is your own. Your Fediverse software, in case you write it, is your own. The consequences are also your own. It does mean that the entry threshold is steeper, because nobody is coming to baby you into signing on and building your own social graph, but that's the deal.
- This, however means, that if you're invested into finding friends on your own, it very quickly starts feeling like a true home. I've found friends here. I've found a family here. My ragtag tribe of adorable goofballs. No other social network can provide that.
You have a bajillion of these so I'll be short,
#Fedi is the public radio of social media.
Meta, LinkedIn, Xhitter, BSky are giant trees, users (the leaves) send their nutrients (data) to the (billionaire owned) trunk.
#Fedi is a slow-growth forest of interconnected plants all sharing with each other.
And this is hardest to convey, #fedi isn't for people looking for audiences, or influencers, or "engagement". #fedi is for building a social network of relationships and interaction.
Il y a quelques annรฉes, jโai lancรฉ le projet social.overheid.nl ร partir dโune conviction simple : une communication ouverte de la part du gouvernement rend les Pays-Bas plus forts.
Cโest encourageant de voir que ce mouvement se poursuit, notamment au sein de notre administration fiscale. La transparence, le dialogue et les plateformes numรฉriques ne sont pas des โatoutsโ, mais essentiels pour instaurer la confiance.
J'aime beaucoup le rรฉseau Mastodon parce-que quelque temps je veux voir le buzz de seulement mes intรฉrรชts, (รงa veut dire les trains), et aux autres temps je veux voir une vue plus gรฉnรฉrale.
L'assemblage du ton flux Mastodon personnalisรฉ est comme cuisiner. Il a un saveur unique, et tu as le contrรดle de l'amรฉliorer.
Translation inside #Mastodon is a real game changer + step up.
But people who don't make #time or see the point in replying limits it all.
Using all levels of people / energy here ๐
rather than feel depth is a kind of liability or time-drag, seeing people as kind of #Spam for it.
I prefer the less defensive "show me what you got" usage instead of looking for perfection or short text.
Sincerity (people who critique) and #Spam can also look the same if not given time / care ur side โ ๏ธ
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In this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news show, we have some trouble brewing for our Open Source office suites, with OnlyOffice beefing with EuroOffice and Nextcloud, and COllabora having problems with the Document Foundation, the entity that manages LibreOffice.
Oh and we also have good news, like crucial stuff coming to Wayland, Linux passing 5% market share for gaming, and more!
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Profitez des vidรฉos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.The Linux Experiment (YouTube)
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Fine di chatcontrol: il Parlamento europeo pone fine alla sorveglianza di massa durante le elezioni, aprendo la strada a una vera tutela dei minori!
#ChatControl fermato โ le scansioni di massa finiscono il 4 aprile!
โ๏ธ Ma incombono la verifica dellโetร e nuove scansioni di massa. Come abbiamo vinto di misura il blitz del voto di oggi, chi ha votato cosa e come continua la lotta per la libertร
informapirata.it/2026/03/26/fiโฆ
#ChatControl fermato - le scansioni di massa finiscono il 4 aprile! โ๏ธ Ma incombono la verifica dell'etร e nuove scansioni di massa. Comeโฆinformapirata
GrapheneOS Wonโt Implement Age Verification
privacyguides.org/news/2026/03โฆ
The security and privacy-focused GrapheneOS stated in an X post that they will โremain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account.โFria Reyes (Privacy Guides)
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Manjaro 2.0: il manifesto che potrebbe cambiare il futuro della distribuzione
#Manjaro #linux
Nel forum ufficiale di Manjaro Linux รจ apparso un documento destinato a far discutere: il โManjaro 2.0 Manifestoโ, una proposta che mira a ridefinire profondamente la struttura organizzativa del progetto e il suo rapporto con la comunitร .
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Ciao fediverso! Purtroppo ho recentemente perso il lavoro, e sono urgentemente alla ricerca di un nuovo impiego come sviluppatore web / tecnico DevOps / sistemista. Sono aperto a collaborazioni di ogni tipo.
Il mio CV completo รจ qui: gabriele.lucci.xyz/resume
Software developer experienced in Python, Django, JavaScript and Node.js, specializing in backend web development and cloud-native solutions.gabriele.lucci.xyz
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in bocca al lupo
Hai provato a mandare il CV in Almaviva
Votazione storica su chatcontrol al Parlamento europeo: gli eurodeputati votano per porre fine alla scansione di massa non mirata delle chat private
In una svolta sensazionale nella lotta contro il Chat Control, la maggioranza del Parlamento europeo ha votato oggi per porre fine alla scansione di massa non mirata delle comunicazioni private.
informapirata.it/2026/03/11/voโฆ
Grazie a @echo_pbreyer per tutta l'energia spesa per questa battaglia
Votazione storica su #chatcontrol al Parlamento europeo: gli eurodeputati votano per porre fine alla scansione di massa non mirata delle chat privateIn una svolta sensazionale nella lotta contro il Chat Control, la maggioranza del Parlamento europeo ha votato oggi per porre fine alla scansione di massa non mirata delle comunicazioni private. Cosรฌ facendo, il Parlamento ha fermamente respinto le pratiche di sorveglianza incostituzionali e soggette a errori degli ultimi anni. Ora aumenta la pressione sui governi dellโUE affinchรฉ rispettino il voto dei deputati e pongano fine una volta per tutte alla sorveglianza di massa non mirata in Europa.
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Bill Hicks #billhicks
It's just a ride.
George Carlin #GeorgeCarlin
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Auschwitz comincia quando si vede un macello e si pensa: 'sono solo animali'
igi
Ecco fatto!
E. Cartman โ with wicked eyesight
Bingo!
Siouxsie #siouxsie
Something is not better than nothing
Courtney Love #courtneylove
Barbie is not your friend
igi
La vita รจ un fatto troppo tragico per non riderne sguaiatamente
02/03/2022 22:37
Stasera ho sentito di dover riaprire il mio archivio fb per recuperare e postare un mio pensiero di anni fa. Credo fu ispirato dagli attentati di Bruxelles del giorno prima.
Sento ancora la stessa cosa. #ucraina
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23 mar 2016, 00:11
La mia patria brulica di vita, di mille forme.
Non ha bandiere, ma bellissimi colori.
Tiepida madre, ha un boccone per ogni sua creatura.
A me il sangue versato fa orrore, da qualsiasi corpo sgorghi, in qualsiasi luogo macchi la terra.
Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso โ
in reply to emoxโถ • •@emoxโถ ricordati che oltre alle istanze locali esistono anche le comunitร locali: sono account del fediverso che funzionano come gruppi: se li menzioni in un post iniziale ricordano il tuo posto in favore di tutti quelli che seguono quel gruppo.
Qui puoi trovare i gruppi del Lazio su citiverse.it
citiverse.it/category/22/lazio
Ogni categoria di quel forum NodeBB funziona anche come utente federato
Per esempio
@Lazio o @Roma o @Ceccano
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in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso โ • • •Rinaldo Giorgetti
in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso โ • • •@notizie
Ceccano sul fediverso. ๐
Julian Del Vecchio
in reply to emoxโถ • • •oltre a puntarella esiste anche #Umoja se ne sentissi il bisogno ๐
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