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@maunzikation @Tusky my solution to that is usually to use a different app for each account. Maybe less practical on a mobile device though (I don't know as I don't have one yet)

@mike_hales
> Not free code I assume.

I find the best way to find out is usually to run a web search for "[app name] source code license". A search for #WeChat does bring up some hits, but my impression is that WC has an API for third-party clients, some of which are #FreeCode. Haven't found code for the core WC app or server yet.

hi @SexyCyborg I'm a kiwi (#NewZealand-ese ;) currently living in mainland China. Keen to connect with the hacker community here, particularly people working on #FreeCode and #OpenHardware.

@dl
> It was different!

In their early days, so were newspapers, radio, film, and TV. They followed pretty much the same path of corporatization the web has. To the point where people talk about the non-corporate net in hushed tones as the "deep web". I remember in the 90s fearing that one day running a website would have been mystified to the point where average people think only wizards can do it ... and here we are :<

@officialcjunior from everything I've read, #Wire seems like a better option than #Signal. Marlinspike's attitude to #SoftwareFreedom is at best ignorant, and worst suspicious, and forcing everyone to squeeze their "secure" chat through his central server screams #HoneyPot.

@z428 these are solvable problems. #Hubzilla allows full portability of accounts between hosts using the #NomadicIdentity aspect of their #Zot protocol.
At the moment we are using #fediverse 1.0. Once all the codebases have #ActivityPub support rolled out, and added all the features that makes available we will get to fediverse 2.0. Full portability of accounts between hosts will come with a fediverse 3.0, based on a protocol set that either extends AP or replaces it.

@saxnot @pertho @lordbowlich @Wolf480pl @rysiek I don't think any of the #FreeCode CMS have trackers in core, but their core is almost never useful without adding modules / plug-ins. As with browser plug-ins, people tend to assume they undergo the same rigorous peer review as the core, which mostly they don't. Also, adding third-party tracking cruft has become such standard practice people don't always even know they're doing it(see the #FreeCodeCamp lessons for examples)

@ignitionigel @ninjafoss @wion cool. What's your ID on there? I'd love to have someone to test with before I start twisting my family's arm about using it. Feel free to email if you don't want to share it here (private DM is an option too I guess?)
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/danyl-strype

@mike_hales no idea. Haven't found anyone #Chinese in the #fediverse yet. I was expecting #China to be heavily into #FreeCode, to protect themselves from US interference. The fact that Windows and proprietary apps are everywhere reveals a lot about the reality of sino-american relations, despite all the piss and wind

@natecull the word was originated by anarchists, mostly USian writers on the more individualist end of the spectrum. I'm not at what point Austrian conservatives started hijacking it, but its ours and I want it back. These days I identify as a "left libertarian" (in the mode of #C4SS), to distinguish myself both from the Austrians, and the leninists and maoists who have started calling themselves "anarchist" as an entryist tactic (or perhaps out of a genuine political identity crisis?)

@notclacke @adam @artsyhonker @switch @wakest I would object more if they were called "iPodcasts", and if most people hadn't already forgotten the origin of the term ;) "Audio feeds" is fine amongst us geeks (who know what a "feed" is in a digital context) but I can't see it overtaking "podcasting" on the inside at this point in the race.

@robertwgehl if you can't find anything on archive.org, maybe a question to ask the #ArchiveTeam (ArchiveTeam.org)?

@officialcjunior have you tried #Wire?

Remote.com (formerly Outsource.com - the name is the first clue) uses the shady startup practice of asking for access new users' GMail contacts so they can 'find their friends', and then uses them to send a mass email in the user's name, inviting all their contacts to join the platform. Avoid like the plague.
https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/5t7jtx/remotecom_is_a_mess_avoid_this/

@wakest @switch @artsyhonker @adam from what I remember the "pod" in "podcasting" refers to the iPod. Prior to that taking over as the generic term, I remember people talking about "audio-blogging".

@DystopianK @dansup cross-posters have allowed me to fully commit to posting in the #fediverse and doing the bulk of my interaction here, while still making my posts about #DigitalPolitics, #SoftwareFreedom, user-respecting tech etc visible to friends and randoms on the birdsite. I think it's worthwhile supporting people while they transition, and proves that is the birdsite being technically snobby, not us.

@yookoala might be a bit wrecked after the UK trip to stay for a whole week (we fly in Aug 22), but let's keep in touch. I'm definitely keen to meet more hackers based in this part of the world, and I might be able to come back for one of those sessions later in the year.

@dashie exactly, that's why I feared the worst. My #TinFoilHat brain was already starting to build a conspiracy theory about a proprietary software industry plot to destroy #FreeCode by buying out and shutting down code forges. Maybe there's a screenplay in that ...

@dashie ah the joys of #RubyOnSnails ;> I was fearing the worst, like an announcement of GL being acquired by Amazon ...

@natecull frankly I think we did that to ourselves by trying to popularize the academic term "neo-liberal" instead of using a less confusing term like "corporatist", which I'm now re-training myself to do