Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

Special Guest: @RussSharek@mastodon.art

Russ Sharek has been described by reliable sources as wiser than a rubber duck, a zen fool, a benevolent super villain, a talentless hack, a magical f***ing wizard, a misanthropic community leader, a clown (grand)father figure and an Impish Cabaret Rasputin. Each of these facts is true. he/him (and sometimes they/them)

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It will happen on 22/03/26 at 20:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

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@phillycodehound@indieweb.social thank you!

Good day all!

I'm excited to announce that BT Free is now 501(c)3 tax exempt!

Any donations, in the US, are now tax deductible!

I'm currently working on getting verified on GiveButter in order to enable easy access for folks to get their donations for their taxes.

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@lps@holos.social some apps are Mastodon compatible, such as gotosocial, but I don't think Bonfire is one of them.

@logan@social.logal.dev @JenJen@mastodon.art I've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty salesman.

@logan@social.logal.dev @north@xn--8r9a.com logal enjoys creating bots.

@lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social I don't know that one at all.. I shall look into them.

@lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social I don't know if you're familiar with #FunkWhale or not:

blog.funkwhale.audio/funkwha...

If you're not familiar, then it's a federated self hosting music platform.

@_elena@mastodon.social @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online

They JUST found it between the couch cushions.

@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @_elena@mastodon.social

And you know who can never be used to make that money back?

US!

We're FREE.

Folks like BSKY, idk why. But they'll either stay or they'll leave. If they leave, they're not going back to Twitter. If they stay, maybe they don't know or maybe they don't know how good we are. Or maybe they have something we need.

How can we turn this into a strength to HELP people move over?

Bonfire is AMAZING imo. It's not Mastodon. We have so many options, we just need to convince folks that this way is better and we can suit them however they need.

@colo_lee@mstdn.social @_elena@mastodon.social

I was at Red Hat when they were sold to IBM.

The CEO, Jim Whitehurst, that for some reason people saw as a god and didn't understand he didn't INVENT Linux or anything, was standing up there selling us the idea of the sale to IBM.

CEO's are only there to keep the business running. They're not there for the people, they're not there for the customers, they're there to make sure it just keeps humming along.

Even if they disagreed, they're not going to say it publicly. You know how much money that CEO job is making them? Say whatever, world be damned.

THIS is why they can't have this power.

They will ALWAYS convince themselves and anyone they can that this is BEST FOR ALL.

@geonz@mathstodon.xyz @_elena@mastodon.social those silly businesses would forget about the law if they weren't reminded! It happens to us ALL!

@benjamimsilva@social.vivaldi.net @_elena@mastodon.social He's foolish, he's not THAT foolish. He'd pay no more than $40 billion this time.

@Pouakai@mastodon.social @_elena@mastodon.social if they ever do we still have the rest of the Fediverse.

I'm on my own private #Bonfire for my business and I LOVE IT.

@greenWhale@dice.camp @_elena@mastodon.social

ALL HAIL The First of HIS name, Founder of the TOOT TOOT, Creator of the meme of the elephant wetting itself that we all find hillarious, the greatest person to ever live, for realsies, JOHN MASTODON!

@_elena@mastodon.social I mean, I won't use BSKY EVER. I'm happy it exists for those that choose to. But we're going to keep seeing this over and over and over again. But I'm also happy because more folks that choose to use other platforms takes power away from Big Tech.

I think things like this show folks that BSKY is NOT the same as Mastodon or the fediverse in general. But I think most won't care and for those that DO care, do they care enough to move AGAIN?

And if they do, we know they won't be going to Twitter. Maybe a few will run their own whatever in the Fediverse or some will be empowered to build something themselves and make it better and AP is the only way to go really imo.

No matter what, thank you ALL for joining us on the #Fediverse because the ABOVE is the ONLY alternative that Capitalism sees and I'm happy to have REAL choice.

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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!

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Special Guest: @rileytestut@mastodon.social of @altstore@fosstodon.org

Building emulators and app stores for iPhone with shanegill.io.

AltStore isaA home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS — no jailbreak required. By [@rileytestut](https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut "https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut") @shanegill.io@threads.net

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Watching the "Liability or Deniability" hearing on Section 230.

Ms. Farid Johnson keeps discussing how they shouldn't scrap 230, but amend it with user security and interoperability.

I'm enjoying this just watching that idea get public.

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