Kellyn Delgado @revkellyn@social.gattai.net

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Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”

-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:

https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail

I'm afraid to implement a garbage collector because I might get swept up in the task #vaguejokes

We really need a FOSS search engine with, and this is important: its own in-house, FOSS crawler

Buying ads to advise viewers to install a damn adblocker

We had a busy June and released several important updates! Check out this month’s recap: https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-june-2020/

Xiaomi Mi TV Stick shows up in Play Console ahead of release https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/02/xiaomi-mi-tv-stick-shows-up-in-play-console-ahead-of-release/

please don't work for free.

in capitalist tech: massive user growth ---> lots of money (funding) available --> pay fancy people to do fancy scaling things

in community project: massive user growth ---> aaaah everything is really chaotic now, there are loads of tasks that nobody wants to (or can) do... it's like actual work!! I thought this was meant to be fun...

the solution to me is to scale out, not up, federate don't grow. but still, people seem more focused on big ideas that need to scale up to be successful.

I get very exhausted when people use their knowledge about how things are done in the big tech / surveillance capitalism (or maybe just "capitalist") world, and try and apply it in totally different domains, like community-focused volunteer projects.

Almost all the implicit assumptions don't hold.

Capitalist projects have a lot of resources to solve problems because they are willing to engage in destructive and extractive behaviours.

If we remove that part, the equation massively changes.

A trusty password manager could be pretty helpful.

Below I'm introducing Keepass, a #foss password manager!

Features : Offers AES256 cipher with SHA256 hash auth, Plugins, https://keepass.info/features.html .

Note: The official version is only for Windows. But there are forks for almost all Operating systems.

Site: https://keepass.info/

For:
, , , , Sailfish OS , Web , Chromebook , Palm OS , https://keepass.info/download.html

Hope you enjoyed and
Stay Safe!

#privacy

https://encryptionin.space/about
A really well-made Mastodon instance, which focuses on #encryption and #privacy. The administrator is a nice guy, too.

They mostly talk about encryption and how to stay safe on the internet. I really love the ethics behind this server.

Idea: an e-ink device similar to a Kindle, but for writing and publishing instead of reading.

Google Messages adopts bubble notifications for Android 11 Beta users https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/01/google-messages-adopts-bubble-notifications-for-android-11-beta-users/