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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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Special Guest: @lrnz@feed.lrnz.it
Artist | Visual Designer. Geist Maschine.
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It will happen on 24 February 2026 at 12:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )
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@dreampopclub Design feature ™️
@thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden @dreampopclub@toot.cat I honestly don't even know what needs fixing here, but I do know that is beautiful whatever it's going to be.
Also not sure if I should even long post about my intention to move abroad, since I'm on a tech focused server. Don't want to bother yall but it's also such a big theme in my life atm that I don't have much else to post about 😅
@Gina@fosstodon.org I know you're on Mastodon, but can I recommend you check out Bonfire? Bonfire has MANY ways of controlling your posts. They call them boundaries. I haven't done too much with them yet, but I'm with you on the feeling of wanting to keep work and my personal life/social network life separate.
Hello, Fediverse 👋
I'm Sophie. I run a digital ops consultancy from the south of France, working with purpose-led businesses.
I'm in the process of leaving Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. I got tired of building on platforms that sell our data, gut safety systems to please politicians, and treat people as products.
Still figuring it all out. Would love to connect.
#Introduction #EthicalSocialMedia #SmallBusiness #DeleteMeta #Fediverse #DigitalEthics
@sophiekaz@mastodon.social welcome to the club! 😊 There are quite a few of us on the Fediverse attempting to figure out business plans to help continue funding the Fediverse.
From hosting platforms, to looking for grants, to building out services for people, to just educating.
Thank you for joining us.
There are quite a few of us on Matrix in the Fediverse Developer Network space: matrix.to/#/#fediverse-devel...
Also if you really wanna get started, could I suggest the FediForum coming up in just a few weeks. it's an unconference that's online where we discuss everything about the Fediverse. fediforum.org/
Also I'm more than happy to help discuss anything as well. I run BT Free, btfree.org, as a nonprofit attempting to figure things out as well.
😊
@ozoned ah thanks - yes this is something I didn’t fully get my head around last time - the differences with Mastodon around this.
@nicol@social.coop YUP! 😊 That's the decentralized nature to this. It's all new to us, thanks to the evils of Big Tech. I'm MORE than happy to have any kind of discussion, video chat, livestream, etc. Helps me practice my Fedi Pitch and learn how best to help folks.
What I'm saying is, you have any questions, want to sit down, etc, I am here.
Great video showing how people are trying to take back the internet.
I messaged them directly to see if they'd be willing to go a step further and take back their content and socials as well, but we'll see.
If anyone is interested in doing the same, support@newpress.com
@ozoned thanks so much!
This will be a one-user instance. I'll see how many resources it uses before changing that (five years ago I spent too much money on it but I was also doing it via YunoHost so was probably missing stuff).
I only got three submissions - one was a short film which I published, then there was a grainy copy of Maze Runner 3 then the HD Dune which forced me to shut signups. Human vetting sounds like the answer.
Sidenote: those sound good prices. I've been on social.coop since 2017 as it was the only instance back then that unashamedly asked for money to pay for bills and towards time…
One Q "if you want to federate with me" - does that mean peering videos / WebRTC? Or more like following to establish more legitimacy across the fediverse.
@nicol@social.coop Peertube servers can follow other servers. So if your server followed mine you can watch my stuff on your server, but I can't watch your stuff unless I follow you. There are exceptions and more options, but follows of servers seems to be the general way folks connect to each other.
You can follow servers directly or you can run an index that lists servers to follow.
I currently run, as well as host ptindex.btfree.org/ , a public index for folks to pull into their Peertube if they wanna follow what I do.
I was attempting to work on a script to help automate this a bit more, but got completely sidetracked.
@FediThing @fedihost thanks alot - yes TubeFree looks a great option for a video community - and @ozoned was v friendly. Scott Jensen and LABR are great names to see when I first visited, and BT Free in general sounds a top org.
But I'm being drawn back to hosting myself… when I last tried five years ago there was no off-the-shelf and it cost me a ton and lots of headache (someone uploaded a perfect HD copy of Dune before it was out in cinemas, which has been prisonable in the UK!). But €7-15 is really appealing and I know better than having open signup now!
@nicol@social.coop if you need ANY help in setting up Peertube, any questions, if you want to federate with me, just let me know!
Honestly MORE Peertube servers is only a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
And, yes, sadly, open signups are just trouble. Having even a few barriers to entry, while it does put off some, has helped me keep the server fairly easy to manage. Folks have to ask to get an account. Then I make them ask again for some storage. Then I monitor the videos they put up until I know we're all on equal footing and then let them upload whatever.
It's a lot of work, but there's only been 1 instance of someone attempting to post copyrighted content and I turned them away and they haven't come back.
I'm hoping to offer like 50GB free, and then $1/month or $5/month above that. That little bit of money, those hurdles, show that if someone wants to do that, they're wanting to be a member of a community and not just use us as a dumping ground for content.
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116094529575866670
We are living in the dumbest possible timeline. 👽
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social maybe the aliens want us to believe he has a speech ready so we believe we're in the worst timeline? That'd be some real next level alien like planning.
I think I just realized something.
I feel like I have the unique position to see the entirety of the puzzle and not just a few pieces.
And folks, let me tell you, every single piece is here, and it's a beautiful thing.
We're even adding more pieces that don't exist yet.
You're all incredible. EVERYONE here. Thank you for sharing your energy with the rest of us. You're beautiful.
@ShaulaEvans@zirk.us tubefree.org/firesidefedi is one of mine.
Can anyone recommend a #PeerTube instance for hosting long original video interviews?
Am happy to donate towards upkeep - indeed would prefer to know there was a model for paying for hosting, moderation and maintenance, as would like to think the instance will still be up in a decade's time.
UPDATE: thank everyone for boosts, suggestions & offers.
I ended up with own instance via @weingaertner_it in the end. Covered by GDPR, "100% green electricity", £6/month and lets me use the open.movie domain I've been sitting on since shutting my last expensive attempt at PeerTube a few years ago.
@booteille@framapiaf.org @nicol@social.coop I have TubeFree.org where I post my own interviews for Fireside Fedi and it's open to others.
I feel like
"I have nothing to hide."
is the new
"I can quit anytime I want."
Just sharing the Legal Eagle video. Jamie Raskin is being interviewed and states some incredible things.
300GB of docs have been released. That's 3 million documents that aren't released and those 3 million are 39,700GB. That has to be video. They really think we're this dumb. And they'll keep denying it to the very end, because they've absolutely corrupted the entire system and it looks like the system is holding.
Epstein had a 60 count federal indictment, negotiated down to 1 count of state prostitution where he served 18 months and got to work from home 12 hours a day. They did this in the open. They thought they'd get away with this forever.
Just sharing the Legal Eagle video. Jamie Raskin is being interviewed and states some incredible things.
Fireside Fedi 76 - FediVariety Show: Public Code Curtains Up
Special thank you to the team at @FediVariety@mastodon.social ** **!
FediVariety is a European collective of digital activists and researchers dedicated to harnessing (Free) Open Source Software —(F)OSS— for public administration, focusing on the Fediverse. We're generously supported by the NLnet foundation and the SABOA foundation.
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Re: Ads in podcasts... how to do them right.
@ozoned@btfree.social, @samsethi@podcastindex.social, @james@bne.social, @mattmedeiros@podcastindex.social, @evoterra@podvibes.co, @lyceum
What do you guys think?
@phillycodehound@podcasting.chat I agree. Sponsorship spot after intro. I have no plans of doing this professionally so I won't have ada. But as long as they're topical, and not too many, absolutely.
