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bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@travisfw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>travisfw</span></a></span><br>&gt; "using the internet" should always mean engaging directly with other individual humans, with nothing but routers in-between.</p><p>We need to un-shackle the internet from its current <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monopoly</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/feudal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feudal</span></a> lords, and return the net to the proper <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WorldOfEnds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldOfEnds</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050828023214/https://worldofends.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2005082802</span><span class="invisible">3214/https://worldofends.com/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Federation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Federation</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BreakThemUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BreakThemUp</span></a></p>
Flipboard<p>Love this clip from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>molly0xfff</span></a></span>'s Fediverse House talk: </p><p>"Imagine for a moment a web where communities can create their own spaces while still simultaneously and seamlessly interoperating with others. Think of it like a network of independent neighborhoods, each with its own character and rules, but with shared community spaces, art galleries and libraries.</p><p>"In this web, you control what you create and decide how it's shared.The algorithms that shape that experience, they're transparent and customizable. You can peek under the hood or tweak them to your liking or replace them entirely if they're not serving your needs. If you're sharing a space with a group of others and you disagree with how they run that space, you can leave, but you can take your work and your community with you.</p><p>"This isn't just a dream. This is already happening. Take Mastodon and the broader Fediverse, where millions of people are building communities that talk to each other across servers and platforms."</p><p><a href="https://flipboard.video/w/s6FVEb2wei2ctFrdeZjuZa" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.video/w/s6FVEb2wei2c</span><span class="invisible">tFrdeZjuZa</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OpenSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSocial</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OpenSocialWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSocialWeb</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/MollyWhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MollyWhite</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FediverseHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseHouse</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SXSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SXSW</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a></p>
Flipboard<p>Fighting words from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>molly0xfff</span></a></span>'s opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:</p><p>“We're facing an existential threat. We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols, not platforms…It's being built right now by people like you in communities like this one.”</p><p>Thank you, developers and denizens of the open social web.🙏🏼</p><p><a href="https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGr</span><span class="invisible">fQo9Cqvb8r</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OpenSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSocial</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OpenSocialWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSocialWeb</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/MollyWhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MollyWhite</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FediverseHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseHouse</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SXSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SXSW</span></a></p>
bignose<p>We need <a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> for reliable, safe, future-proof communication <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@evan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>evan</span></a></span></p>
bignose<p>It's no slight on the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> maintainers that the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenPGP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPGP</span></a> system is inadequate. They have correctly sounded the alarm, they're right that the system has lots of problems and should be replaced.</p><p>What I do fault the Python maintainers for, is dismissing valid concerns about GitHub and Google, by recommending them as replacement. If we don't have an open replacement, that's bad, but that doesn't justify vesting trust in proven untrustworthy entities.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ruby.social/@todd_a_jacobs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>todd_a_jacobs</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a></p>
bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@freakboy3742" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>freakboy3742</span></a></span> <br>&gt; It's getting increasingly difficult to argue that Bluesky *isn't* where the vast majority of public discourse is heading</p><p>Even if that were true, it doesn't imply people should build anything there.</p><p>Building community in a centralised (no real plan for a distributed ATProto), cryptocurrency-grift, venture-capital-owned, corporate platform</p><p>is the same mistake people made that led to the Twitter collapse. Never again.</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/foo</span><span class="invisible">l-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a></p>
bignose<p>Thanks <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@sethmlarson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sethmlarson</span></a></span> for committing to make <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> volunteer maintainers lives easier.</p><p>I'm sadly shocked, though, that PEP 761 lauds dependence on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/platform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>platform</span></a> providers out of our control (Google, GitHub, etc.) as some improvement? Have we not learned that we need <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> control of our identity, not <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporation</span></a> platforms?</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> is a necessary part of divesting centralised power over our <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareFreedom</span></a>. Vesting yet more control in Microsoft is not the way.</p>
bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://qoto.org/@pganssle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pganssle</span></a></span> </p><p>This doesn't explain why that <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProprietaryPlatform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProprietaryPlatform</span></a> (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discord</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Slack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slack</span></a>, MS Teams, etc.) were initially chosen for that specific group of people. The person who made that decision did it for other reasons.</p><p>But it does explain what you asked: Why is this so popular, i.e. why are *so many* people continuing to use it?</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NetworkEffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkEffect</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SwitchingCosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwitchingCosts</span></a>. Nothing much to do with the properties of that particular platform.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> avoids those problems.</p>
bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://qoto.org/@pganssle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pganssle</span></a></span><br>&gt; How is this platform [<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discord</span></a>] so popular?</p><p>I lean on the old reliable explanations:</p><p>Network effect, brings people in.</p><p>Switching costs, prevent them from leaving.</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/21/involuntary-die-hards/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2024/03/21/inv</span><span class="invisible">oluntary-die-hards/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NetworkEffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkEffect</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SwitchingCosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwitchingCosts</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a></p>
bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Codeberg</span></a></span> </p><p>Codeberg knows to implement <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> so that every service can inter-operate without lock-in.</p><p>So that we don't get a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> community so confused that they worry "why are some people not linking their software project to *this one proprietary platform?*" like that's a bad thing.</p><p><a href="https://forms.office.com/e/b5uvsPdJLF" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forms.office.com/e/b5uvsPdJLF</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Ю ⁂<p>Over at Threads/Instagram visual artists oppose Meta's AI scraping practices by switching to yet another platform owned by someone. </p><p>Good time to advertise open protocols. </p><p>Tell your artist friends about Pixelfed. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pixelfed</span></a></span> <a href="https://nahe.social/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://nahe.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://nahe.social/tags/Instsgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instsgram</span></a> <a href="https://nahe.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Threads</span></a> <a href="https://nahe.social/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a></p>
bignose<p>Even better future-proofing <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@matuzo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>matuzo</span></a></span>, is to Post to your Own Site, then Syndicate Elsewhere.</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2023/10/23/239285</span><span class="invisible">50/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon</span></a></p><p>Control the primary location of your social media posts so you never need to worry that a "platform" will whisk them away or turn evil.</p><p>Syndicate your posts to whatever is popular at the moment, without making the mistake of depending on any of those.</p><p><a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/POSSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POSSE</span></a> <a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/DataSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a></p>
bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@yakkoj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>yakkoj</span></a></span> <br>&gt; For me, the only winning move is frequently to not play.</p><p>To not pour our lives and effort into the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WalledGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WalledGarden</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PlatformSilo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlatformSilo</span></a> social media, is sensible.</p><p>And it frees up time and energy, to put into <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> systems like the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a>. Not everyone needs to do it, but the more people who do, the more options expand for everyone.</p><p>More effort before a payoff, sure. But far less *wasted* effort when yet another platform submits to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a></p>
bignose<p>&gt; <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> as defined by the person who coined it</p><p>Phrased concisely as:</p><p>"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#History_and_definition" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitti</span><span class="invisible">fication#History_and_definition</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@flowchainsenseifoss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>flowchainsenseifoss</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AntiMonopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiMonopoly</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Captialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Captialism</span></a></p>
bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Taffer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Taffer</span></a></span> <br>&gt; instead of sending an email or SMS code for 2FA?</p><p>Or, worse, implementing *yet another* proprietary authentication requiring a proprietary app.</p><p>When my workplace went from open-standard, easily portable <a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/TOTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TOTP</span></a>, and instead replaced it with Microsoft Authenticator, that was a bad day that has not ended.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@mattcen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mattcen</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/MFA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MFA</span></a> <a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/2FA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2FA</span></a> <a href="https://sw-development-is.social/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a></p>
bignose<p>You run a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> project? This is your occasional reminder to move away from <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discord</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Slack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slack</span></a> and other <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Platforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Platforms</span></a>.</p><p>As convenient as they seem, every "platform" is a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WalledGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WalledGarden</span></a>. They can and will pull the rug from under you any time it's in their interest, without regard for yours.</p><p>Migrate your community to systems under community control. Before it becomes a crisis.</p><p><a href="https://en.osm.town/@amapanda/111771768413699746" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.osm.town/@amapanda/11177176</span><span class="invisible">8413699746</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DataSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SelfHosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosted</span></a></p>
Robin Riley (fka Josh)<p>A couple weeks in to having my Matrix homeserver bridged to IRC, Discord, Slack, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and already it is having wonderful effects.</p><p>I struggle mightily with monitoring all the walled gardens.</p><p>Being able to communicate with folks all from one interface has meant participating in conversations I have been missing, and reconnecting with folks I haven't spoken with in a while.</p><p><a href="https://josh.tel/tags/Matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Matrix</span></a> <a href="https://josh.tel/tags/Interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interoperability</span></a> <a href="https://josh.tel/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://josh.tel/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a></p>
The Matrix.org Foundation<p>We're glad to see that Tchap, which is built on <a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/tags/Matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Matrix</span></a>, is one of the messaging tools that remain available to French civil servants following this change in policy: <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/france-requires-ministers-to-swap-whatsapp-signal-for-french-alternatives/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.eu/article/france-req</span><span class="invisible">uires-ministers-to-swap-whatsapp-signal-for-french-alternatives/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/tags/OpenStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStandards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSovereignty</span></a></p>
BuZZ-dEE ☮️ 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇩🇪<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@signalapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>signalapp</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a> is expensive because it is a single monolith service which has to handle all users alone. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/redecentralize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>redecentralize</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralization</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/federation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>matrix</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/xmpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xmpp</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interoperability</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Gargron</span></a></span> </p><p>Plan to ask about the future of social media and prospects for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> specifically. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/protocolsnotplatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protocolsnotplatforms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>