Notices tagged with fediverse

@wnymathguy I've been meaning to fix the #fediverse article on Wikipedia for a while. But of course anyone can do that, and you're welcome to port over info from fediverse.party. We exist to educate.
@ChrisTalleras

If you want a user-respecting, #FreeCode social network host, but the wild west openess of decentralized networks like the #fediverse isn't what you're looking for, #Sweet.sh could be an option for you:
https://sweet.sh/about

I can see people using both, Sweet for "internal" discussions (it has group features most fediverse apps don't yet have), and the fediverse for "outreach". Separation of concerns FTW!

@msh
> Lots of us here with shared interest in keeping VidCommons and WeDistribute going

I second that! I haven't seen much activity on the Matrix room yet. The new #SocialHub forum has a board called #Fediversity, which is for projects that provide info about the #fediverse, like fediverse.party, fediverse.network etc. Maybe we could have some coordinating discussion there?
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/fediversity

@deejoe @fitheach @heluecht

New #fediverse posting strategy; only include someone's @handle in a reply if I think the chance of it producing a productive discussion is more than 75%

If you are ever considering starting a non-profit on the Mastodon platform, DONT, here is why.

About a month ago I received a little less than a 10K donation to fund the QOTO effort (A space of distributed and federated services for open-source projects and project owners). The mastodon component is intended to be the social media aspect of that to replace the need for facebook or twitter accounts as a home for future software projects.

I reached out to the joinmastodon, the organization behind the Mastodon project, because I wanted to forward some of those donations to the mastodon coding efforts, as well as potentially offer additional donations to fund specific features on the mastodon to-do list, however after more than month of trying to reach the organization through e-mail as well as contacting @Gargron directly there has been nothing but complete silence.

This in turn has myself, as well as the donors, seriously dismayed about the future of the project. Unresponsiveness, particularly in the face of contribution or donations to a project, has myself and others worrying mastodon is a dead or dying software. At the very least it means bug fixes and other contributions never make it since contacting the team is a near impossibility.

I am now in the position of reaching out to the developers of competing ActivityPub software and seeing if we can use the donations to pay them to write a complete fork of mastodon, with my own contributions as well added on top.

What a mess, its such a shame that a project with so much potential is going to die because of rampant mismanagement. The in ability to even respond to basic email.

I hope I'm wrong but after a month of all communication channels being dead its time to reevaluate where to go from here... But it is clear mastodon is NOT a technology I recommend others adopt as part of any new project.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

@izaya Do not forget #matrix and #fediverse.