Good day all! Upcoming this week!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @haubles@hachyderm.io

11/02/2026 12:00 UTC-5

Mastodon community director / fediforum advisory board ☞ certified goof ♡ loves birds ☆ importantly, earnest

Special Guest: @scottjenson@social.coop

12/02/2026 12:00 UTC-5

Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team. Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time.

Special Guest: @joeress@mastodon.social

13/02/2026 21:00 UTC -5

Head of the Late Night Linux Family of podcasts. I mostly get paid to talk to my friends about computers which is nice. It seems I was radicalised by basic decency.

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree.org/@firesidefedi

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

I'm planning on starting a new podcast called WorksOnMyMachine.live or womm.live . Are there any software developers out there would like to join me?

The premise is we hop on a video or audio call on a Sunday morning, 0900 UTC-5, and we talk about your software application. However, I also attempt to follow your docs and use your application live. If I get stuck, or we experience issues we learn live, troubleshoot live, etc.

This allows all of us to learn your app, it helps go over your docs, etc.

Are there any software developers out there interested in doing this?

If so, what's a good place to contact you, what's the link to your website, what's your app do, etc.

#software #podcast #qa #troubleshooting #docs #livestream #tech #techTrends

Thank you again to @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org for joining me!

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@wakest@hackers.pub ​WOW! Thank you! 😊

Big Tech are the new

Cigarette Industry

Sugar Industry

Drug Dealers

They feed off of your addiction and we're finding more and more evidence they knew and exploited this.

BREAK UP BIG TECH!

techoversight.org/2026/01/25...

@screwlisp@gamerplus.org ​idk if I've had the pleasure of trying it to form an opinion.

Just a reminder to anyone that's near the Raleigh North Carolina area on Feb 28th some of us are getting together downtown Raleigh for a meetup.

@eric@mastodon.eom.dev and I will be there. Hoping a few others can come and hang out. We don't have to stay where we are, but figured we could all just meet up there and meet folks that share our interests. 😊

freestreamers.btfree.org/eve...

#meetup #raleigh #NC #northCarolina #fedi #fediverse

@teresa_athome@mastodon.online ​I've thought about an internet nutrition label. That kind of thing would be helpful as well. :-

@HumanizeMobility@troet.cafe ​yeah seems close, but hasn't been updated in 10 months. Wonder if it's still active.

@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange ​Oh got you. Interesting. IDK if ad filtering would work. I just want like a popup, like those annoying cookie pop ups, but it's from a past you reminding you not to give in to the website you're at.

@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange ​what is **#Drollodex ?

@teresa_athome@mastodon.online ​right?!? I want to avoid Amazon, but there are companies now that ONLY ship through Amazon. How can we support each other in quitting? How do we all work together to ditch the Big Tech?

We have ad blockers yes, but what if you had an app that just blocked things. You could also clearly show someone when a website breaks that yes, Google, Facebook, Amazon, are EVERYWHERE.

Probably easier said than done though as there's so many servers out there. IDK how you'd block it all. Something like CBS or Netflix shouldn't be too difficult.

I was just thinking, it'd be really easy to boycott online services. But with so many mergers, and companies are so big, you never know who owns what anymore.

So I was wondering, have anyone made any kind of web browser extension that lets you list a company and you put in why you don't want to support them and it gets all of that company's holdings, and hell even friends, and when you go to that website it pops up a warning reminding you why you hate them and a list of alternatives to support?

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ​@ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live is the activitypub account to get notified live. stream.firesidefedi.live is where to watch when we go live.

Good day all! I'm going to have to reschedule my episode with @scottjenson@social.coop . I messed up! I sent Scott a meeting invite, then I changed emails! I deleted the old one, which he had verified, and sent him a new one from my new email and I don't think he saw it!

I MASSIVELY apologize to Scott and everyone. I'll try to do better.

Tomorrow though! @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ! Very excited! Talk with yall then!

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🚀 Live TODAY! Fireside Fedi – Episode 71 - **From Newton to Mastodon: UX Evolution **🚀

Second half of the episode anyway. 😅

🗓 Feb 5 2026 · 12:00 PM ET (UTC‑5)
📺 Livestream: https://stream.firesidefedi.live

🎙️ Special Guest: @scottjenson@social.coop – Product Strategy Advisor to the Mastodon Core team. Former UX strategist for Apple System 7 & Newton, UX Director at Symbian, Mobile UX lead at Google, Creative Director at frog design, and head of product for two startups. Most recently led the Physical Web in Chrome.

💬 Don’t miss a deep dive into open‑source product strategy, UX lessons from the early web, and the future of the Fediverse.

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@gardiner_bryant@mastodon.online ​OH! How did you migrate? I hit this issue with castopod! When you do a dump you don't just dump the DB. The db itself I guess has meta data. Like the locales issue you're hitting. Do you have migration docs? I'd definitely reach out to Peertube about it and ask. If it's not in docs then we should get the socs updated. If it's a new bug gotta get that fixed. But this definitely sounds familiar to me, although for a different app.

@andypiper@macaw.social ​womm.live or Works On My Machine .live. Also have Debug & Debrief .live. But I think womm is pretty good IMO. 😁

@lqdev@toot.lqdev.tech ​I bought debugdebrief.live and I think yours is better I got worksonmymachine.live and womm.live.