a cool thing about being on friend camp infrastructurally is the array of little services we get access to through oauth, made by campers. @darius's rss-to-activitypub, @emma's camp map for instance relevant stuff, @deathsatchel's alert service for when campers are streaming.

any instance could offer similar sorts of little services just for its users via the oauth endpoints mastodon provides: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/oauth/. the ones we have are pretty neat and useful imo

TIL that if you can prove permanent disability (eg doctor’s note, document from the VA, SSI, SSDI, or a state agency) you qualify for a lifetime national parks pass https://www.nps.gov/subjects/accessibility/access-pass.htm

feeling feels helping edit my last interview for logic. after the next issue the magazine will transition to new leadership and I'll be formally out of the day-to-day and moving fully into cheerleading from the board! I'm excited for its future and very glad to have had shaped it and it shaped me

the washington post has an article up today about the work immigrant groups, newsrooms, and meedan (where I work) have been doing to curb misinformation in non-english language speaking communities for the US midterms, and how gargantuan of a task it is particularly when large centralized platforms continue to be rife with misinformation and moderate non-english content poorly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/07/whatsapp-wechat-election-lies/

I've seen some chatter lately about folks encouraging institutions to run new instances, but haven't seen as much about the emergence of new collectively governed instances by groups of people unaffiliated with a particular institution, which I'm personally more excited about.

are there examples of these existing currently (I only know of social.coop) and does anyone know of resources for people looking to start their own?

a thing I think folks outside of government may not be aware of is that it's not a given that the federal government can develop technology services that can be provided, for fee or for free, to non-federal agencies (eg gov in states, tribes, territories, local).

why? good question! it's because the US loves private industry, and has written into its guidance that the US federal government should not offer services the private sector could.

links in next post -

I get sad when I think about people joining the fediverse and not being able to have a conversation just with folks on their instance, with infrastructure and a moderator they trust

I'm selling my elektron digitakt, barely used. sorry it's a lot of money, was a pricey buy to find out it wasn't my thing! but maybe it's yours?

anyway if you'd care to buy it here you go; feel free to send offers. can arrange free pickup in SF! https://rvrb.io/2010s-digitakt-684irp

we're now accepting pitches for our next issue of Logic! the theme is DISTRIBUTION.

more on the theme, rates, how to pitch, and deadlines are here: https://logicmag.io/pitch-us/

outside of reported pieces, we're also always looking for interesting folks to talk to for interviews (identified or anonymous). our anonymous series talks with rank-and-file tech workers about their work.

if you know of someone who'd like to chat, contact us the same way as a pitch or DM me for my signal

my team just opened up a role for product manager! do you know anyone who might be a good fit? job requirements, values, and salary in the post.

day-to-day you'd be working in a small team focused on expanding clearance eligibility, implementing clearance automation with gov, building tools for legal aid, centering impacted folks.

happy to chat/answer any questions!

https://www.codeforamerica.org/jobs?gh_jid=2544715