Re: Solutions to help organisations mirror their antisocial media posts to mastodon?
On Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 2:55 PM Yuchen Pei <[1]i...@ypei.org> wrote: Not really. There are plenty of people with reasonable things to say on xitter who for whatever reason stayed there. Amusingly, when I was setting up a firefish instance for activitypub, I took a look at mastodon.social (to see if I wanted to federate with it or follow anyone there), their 'default-go-to' recommended instance, and found absurdly similar level of toxicity there too. Politician this that, Person this that etc. A ton of boosted comments were fairly similar to what you'd find on say, X as constant 'anger-engagements.' So I wholeheartedly agree. There are people on X that focus on what they do best and are really good accounts (Depths of Wikipedia for example), and similar on many ActivityPub instances. It's just a very YMMV at this moment. abe References 1. mailto:i...@ypei.org ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Re: Truth Social as an example of the limits of free software
I'm going to ignore the points about Truth Social for a bit since I do not wish to get into a political spat (and have no love for different parties in general). I understand the limits of free software. One problem I identify is that some people use free software not because they value freedom, but simply because it is economical to do so. Why is this a 'problem?' People who exploit the "cheapness" do nothing to promote free software and its philosophy; they do not say: "This product is possible thanks to the free software packages X, Y, Z and many more. We are grateful to all the develpers who worked on them while making this available to the public on gracious terms." I'm sorry, but this is quite a weird take to me. I hope you're able to see it from my POV: Not everyone can afford expensive software. People aren't 'exploiting' free software (or -f-OSS in general) just because they use something that's free. Also I'm not sure if we should confuse free software with free *and* open source software. Anecdotally, when I buy 'expensive' software (Such as Apple or in a recent case for me, Scrivener, or what have you - sometimes you don't have that much of a choice), does that mean I automatically go "This great expensive product is possible thanks to x, y or z?" I don't. I don't even know who wrote that software. When I see and like a free software (or in most cases, a FOSS), I usually check out the dev's profile to see if they've written anything else, but that's pretty much it - aside from donations for software that I use on an everyday basis and so on. But as is, even if I (or other developers of such things) weren't getting donations, someone using your own software instead of the x alternative is quite gratifying. *If* I like a piece of software greatly, I would obviously praise whoever wrote it and recommend it to other like minded people, but that goes for both free and proprietary software. But that doesn't mean I am going to do that for every free software, nor does it mean I do it regularly - everyday people often have other priorities. ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Re: What shall be recommended to Cambridge Public Library for replacing CPL use of Zoom?
I'm surprised no one has recommended Matrix. On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 7:04 AM Don Saklad <[1]dsak...@gnu.org> wrote: What shall be recommended to Cambridge Public Library for replacing CPL use of Zoom? ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [2]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org [3]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discus s References 1. mailto:dsak...@gnu.org 2. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org 3. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Re: The Imperative of Free Software
What does this have to do with libreplanet lol? I'm sure there are other mailing lists for this content. You can't just add "We need free software now" at the end of a multi-paragraph rant about wealth and call it libre software related. On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 1:52 PM Davis Remmel via libreplanet-discuss <[1]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote: Dear all, I'm probably preaching to the choir, but I am really tired of the ultra-wealthy. They are a self-enriching plutocracy, and I mean that in the most literal sense. I am not just throwing fancy words around. I mean: the rich use their riches to woo and shoo ordinary folks to enriching them even more by stoking fear and influencing the public's collective actions through their control of mass media. Our entire country has been captured by a legitimate plutocracy, a society ruled by the wealthiest, which is fundamentally an existential threat to the mass' ability to democratically govern ourselves. I don't know how to fix the mess that's already been created, but I do know that without free software, the masses are forever captive to their wealthy overlords. The exchange of information and work, and therefore the core of society, is totally controlled by the decisions of software. That software and its control, today, is dominantly proprietary and unaccountable. Software control is social control. That it, too, was ever thought legal that one could posses not only a billion dollars of wealth, but a billion dollars of sole discretion, was the greatest swindle ever pulled. The amplification of the wealthiest's messages through proprietary technology, and their ability to censor, quell dissent, and influence public opinion give them unthinkable power. Today, the masses will get fucked by them. Tomorrow, the masses will get fucked again, forgetting about today's. And this will repeat. Some of the population, perhaps, even desire being controlled, and feel comfortable and cradled, without worry. These people are authoritarians; if not overt authoritarians, then submissive ones. And this behavior is anti-social, anti-liberty, and contrary to American values. And, I feel so horribly grossed that the wealthiest's schemes keep working every goddamn day. I am _exhausted_ of living with the richest's wooing and shooing, and my constitutional liberties, which I dearly treasure and which legions of people died to leave me with, discarded because nearly everyone else has been intentionally and subliminally feared into authoritarian, corporate comfort. The masses don't have the vocabulary or time to gaze at the power structures that control them, or if they do then still be helpless and too socially weak to do anything about it, until they finally reach their limit and either submit or bust. Free software might be the only thing that can restore our republic's democratic control. It's cheapness to copy, plus its ratcheting and blanketing legal copyleft, catalyzes its propagation and crystalizes the power of the people. The only way to break authoritarian manipulation is to choose against using their tools and vocabulary, and to stand up for what we know to be true, right, and just. Our fears cannot be manipulated if we choose against consuming the programming of those who stoke them. The decisions and future of our technological society can only be free if we choose free software _now_. Be well, Davis ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [2]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org [3]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discus s References 1. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org 2. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org 3. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Re: The Imperative of Free Software
I mean, even if I disagree about the whole wealth=evil equivalency, I agree 'to a degree' about authoritarians centralizing most platforms as a sorta-kinda means to control us, I just don't think this is the proper list for this. If a majority of what you had said was about decentralization of software and platforms, then perhaps. From a cursory glance it seemed more like a philosophy of appropriate wealth and authoritarianism rather than a philosophy of decentralization of software. Maybe someone else can chime in and correct me :) Abe On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 1:58 PM Davis Remmel <[1]d...@visr.me> wrote: On 4/25/23 15:55, Abe Indoria wrote: > What does this have to do with libreplanet lol? I'm sure there are other > mailing lists for this content. You can't just add "We need free software > now" at the end of a multi-paragraph rant about wealth and call it libre > software related. I'm sorry, I just had something to say and I felt this was a place where others might comment on my opinion. Software controls our society, and without free software, we do not have control. I thought that was an appropriate discussion to have on this list. -- Davis References 1. mailto:d...@visr.me ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Re: What search engine best at "Freedom-Respecting"?
(Oops, originally replied to author only, my bad) I was under the impression that SearX-ng (use the ng) can still be used to build an ad-profile of you. A major advantage of searX is that the more people use it, the more anonymous it gets. Otherwise, it's just an aggregator, and thus, Google/bing/Brave/DDG etc will still be tracking you if you're the only person to use it. Potentially anyhow. On the other hand, the benefits of searx-ng are good enough for me to self-host and use it everyday. -- Abe On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 8:42 AM Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss <[1]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote: I would guess Duckduckgo is much better than the main search engines such as Google and Bing. There are several such as SearX which are more decentralised, but can also be self hosted, which that comes with the price tag of time, resources, cost and effort to set up and maintain. It probably depends what you want or are looking for. Paul On 02/12/2022 16:50, Don Saklad wrote: > What search engine best at "Freedom-Respecting"? > > ___ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > [2]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > [3]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discus s -- Paul Sutton, Cert Cont Sci (Open) [4]https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/ OpenPGP : 4350 91C4 C8FB 681B 23A6 7944 8EA9 1B51 E27E 3D99 Mastodon : @[5]zl...@qoto.org ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [6]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org [7]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discus s References 1. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org 2. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org 3. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss 4. https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/ 5. mailto:zl...@qoto.org 6. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org 7. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
