Gregory's Server
I see Element is going just great right now (this is Element Desktop. Literally the Electron app they ship)
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It’s honestly pretty annoying that the pool of money that goes towards mastodon is mixed up across the software, the nonprofit, and two massive instances I don’t want to have anything to do with Tbh I would be willing to fund mastodon by the software if my money wasn’t going to be used to pay for hosting fees for instances I’m not even on??? When you really think about it, it's utterly baffling that we've reached a state where the expected norm is that you literally aren't allowed to do some kind of labor (code) in your own time, because it 100% belongs to your employer. do you ever have this thing happen to you where you have a long, vivid dream where someone who purely existed inside the dream (and has no parallel to anyone IRL) becomes incredibly important to you, and then as you wake up, you realize you have to let go of them? Anyway I barely remember them now but now I'm a bit sad today. What a strange experience.
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In addition to filling out the freeform text in your mastodon bio, you can have a specific table of up to 4 metadata fields that you can edit in your Edit Profile page! One of those is also an official verification mechanism that associates your mastodon account with a domain name! Give that a whirl! This is how they show up in your profile after you add them: @zkat I certainly agree that there is a need for a safe and effective way artists to sell their art. Galleries have never been a great deal and most of those that I've worked with went out of business during the pandemic. My own solo experience with online sales have been abysmal. What is the end goal of your co-op's Web work? How does/will your platform support the members? In light of recent news and an increased interest in alternatives, I've updated my Mastodon Quickstart Guide with the latest info on apps and such. Mastodon isn't something you need to move wholesale to! Start migrating today! https://dev.to/zkat/kat-s-mastodon-quickstart-for-twitter-users-39db biggest change is that Mastodon _just_ released official apps for both Android and iOS, and they're pretty snazzy tbh! I like how people often refer to open source code as not production ready considering the absolute horrors I’ve seen in proprietary code. There’s some magical thinking that many of us are guilty that big-time company-owned projects somehow have all these quality processes. I can't believe I'm looping all the way back around to "permissive open source is actually good and we should actually be MORE AGGRESSIVE about it, to continue undercutting corporate products" but here we are maybe trying to jam capitalist concerns ("how do we pay for all this labor?") is always just going to be incoherent vs reality. Maybe the focus needs to be "what are we doing for the commons which gives _us_ stuff for free?" and stop worrying about whether we're "paid fairly"? |
@zkat wtf
@zkat at this point Chatty, the app that does SMS messaging in Gnome, might just be the best option for matrix.
and it has no "login with", no syncing keys with other clients, and no joining chats.