Flockingbird @flockingbird@fosstodon.org

🎉 The first release candidate of #Mastodon 3.3.0 is out for testing:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.3.0rc1

Read the changelog at the link above!

@sl007 @Argus I'm actively working on a modular #ActivityPub library for NodeJS that includes complete client-to-server spec with support from Grant for the Web / Coil inc.
Goal is to promote development of more specialized apps (like https://gup.pe) and not just full stack social platforms.
https://github.com/immers-space/activitypub-express

Nextcloud is growing. We plan to hire 20 new colleagues in Sales, Marketing and Engineering (C++, PHP, Go, JS) https://nextcloud.com/jobs/ Join us if you want to change the world. No requests from outsourcing or headhunting companies please.

Hey Fediverse!

https://qcard.link/

Published another update to my FOSS project: QCard

Added more information about how it all works.

Please drop me any feedback!

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Boosts Appreciated, I think this has a really cool use-case! 🚀

What FOSS application or service do you wish existed?

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Mobilizon. Your events. Your groups. Your data.

Go behind the scenes of the design of #Mobilizon, our new tool to free your groups and events from Facebook.

https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/mobilizon-your-events-your-groups-your-data

(illus CC-By @davidrevoy)

Most cryptocurrencies have at least one testnet. For testing, debugging and development.

Is there a fediverse testnet?

@flockingbird i've also used and liked https://milligram.io/ because it styles default elements rather than requiring you to use classes, but this can be heavy handed as it prevents you from opting out. i just used it cause i used semantic elements everywhere and didn't really wanna write much CSS

@flockingbird Really there is no definitive answer for that question, since every framework has it's positive and negative attributes. For my lightweight css needs tho, I've found #bulmacss to be a good solution.

https://bulma.io/

"We moved to GitHub because everyone's already there"

"We shut down the mailing lists because most of our users prefer to use GitLab in their web browser"

"We're rewriting in Rust because we don't really have any non-x86_64 users"

"We're leaving IRC because Discord is more user-friendly"

What all of these arguments have in common is that they exclude people, centralize infrastructure, and eschew free software for proprietary solutions, all in the name of some ill-defined measure of "progress".

Thanks to @debian 's €10,000 donation (and not $10,000 as announced a few hours ago), we've just reached the 4th step of our PeerTube fundraising. Many thanks to all those who donated. And it's not too late to contribute : https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap

@flockingbird My ideal would be to be able to network with professionals I have worked with or could work with, to talk about best practices, tips and/or new ways of doing things, technologies etc.

@flockingbird I see. Well if you seriously "did the math" then even if it feels bad you should go with github! :), because anything else will, according to your considerations, hinder your project so much that it's of no help to the cause anyway. Failing idealistically is failure. If I misread things and you wanted feedback on your bullet points, mine would be that I would consider Discoverability and Participation Barrier both moot: Any serious and viably attractive project should and will (I believe) succeed without the extra discoverability GH provides, if it does not the proposition or marketing is probably too weak (note that this is no judgement on your project, I don't know it (yet)). Likewise any serious and determined contributor - the ones a project really needs - will not be hindered by having to register somewhere (my feeling anyway) and one shot "drive-by" contributions are probably negligible in the big picture. One shot issues/bugreports might be a relevant factor though, I concede to that.