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Here is the first episode of the #Linux and #opensource news podcast!
Compared to the videos, I go into more detail on each topic, and I also talk about more topics than what I can cover in the videos.
It's currently only on the website below, and there's an RSS feed to add it to your client of choice, I'll try and add it to other podcast directories in the future (but Spotify doesn't want it for now, spits out a random error, so it will have to wait).
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#Medium – the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter – now has a #Mastodon server.
It might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the folks who bequeathed you Twitter.
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The only non-invite only general server is rant.li about which there is no information.
Being a mere greenbeard of the #Fedi rather than total novice, I would appreciate knowing more about the person who would be volunteering to host my content and mailing list which they "reserve the right to discontinue without notice at any time."
#fedi
@kcarruthers interesting. I use ghost...
This should be counted as a fucking public service announcement
Forgive my ignorance; What is the benefit of WriteFreely vs any other wiki/wp/django instance that I may host myself?
@niclas It implements ActivityPub so folks can follow your posts from here. (There is also at least one plugin for Wordpress that adds ActivityPub support too.)
Mastodon needs to support _reading_ ActivityPub object types other than Note. Forks like HomeTown are doing it but Mastodon is holding us back.
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@naught101 The object type to replicate Medium would be Article which is for long-form content. HomeTown is a fork of Mastodon that lets users read Articles. WriteFreely lets users write Articles.
Here are all the Object types in the spec. A shared vocabulary like this is what enables all users of Mastodon, PeerTube, WriteFreely, Pixelfed, Gitea to follow and reply to each other.
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Mastodon is most dominant and only supports "Note". Which has forced all other ActivityPub software to shoehorn all kind of content into a "Note", even though there's a rich vocabulary that's been standardized.
Mastodon is most dominant and only supports "Note". Which has forced all other ActivityPub software to shoehorn all kind of content into a "Note", even though there's a rich vocabulary that's been standardized.
@naught101 Search for "Activity Vocabulary spec" and click "3.3 Object and Link Types" to reach here: w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca…
write.as should enable user subscriptions to compete with substack. People barely even use medium now
I was so … sad today when I learned that #KeepBadgesWeird uses Medium.
I hope I can have a conversation with them this year to learn about the motivation and whether a change would be possible.
Afaik, @dajb was/is involved with that. He’s a good egg. Maybe have a chat with him about it.
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Not sure. @epilepticrabbit appears to be responsible for the blog.
But I had prior contact with @dajb .
Well, I will move the conversation over to participate (as DM) I think.
Strong agree! Would be awesome if Medium would allow their users to switch instances like the Fedi allows you to!
Why would they? It goes against everything in their DNA. They have $163M in venture capital (VC).
The VC game goes like this:
1. You get investment
2. You scale (grow) as quickly as you can, as big as you can
3. You exit (sell) – either to a larger corporation or to the public via an initial public offering (IPO)
Nowhere in the game do you make it easier for people to leave your service for your rivals. On the contrary, you do what you can to lock them in.
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If I understand you correctly those clients would need to migrate first before you could?
Sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to me 😿
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What I could imagine, though, is to POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere).
But I don't know Medium's ToS OTOH.
I've had an account at Medium since before Mastodon existed. It has its good sides, but it goes through drastic changes too often. When it was new it was super easy: signed up with my Twitter account and started writing. Then they went to more paywalled articles.
I haven't posted there in a long time.
I looked at #WriteFreely and its ilk and I'm still curious, but for now I'll stick with my trusty WordPress blog that I've had since 2010.
#Blog
I'd be interested in knowing how easy it might be to integrate this into my own self-hosted single-user instance, i.e. so I could be
jimsblog@futurist.info
or something like that.
Is it just another nginx block in my existing? Has anyone done this?
I created a poetry publication on Medium, and nursed it up to 80,000 subscribers over several years. Felt like Medium was unsupportive the whole way.
As they turned on pay to view options it felt like I had to fight against their structure even more, so shut it down.
FWIW, I've owned my own domain and blog for years, but moving to @medium as my primary blog host enabled me to get a lot more viewership and better manage comments.
That said, I recognize there are a lot of legitimate gripes regarding Medium's history of pivots etc. I believe the current CEO is amenable to constructive feedback, so I am cautiously optimistic about the site's future.
even my cat prefers Writefreely over Medium katzenleben.fritz.cat/ (oh sorry, it is not #caturday yet)
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It's the eternal question of what will win? Executive incompetence or the rich bailing one another out?
It's the eternal question of what will win? Executive incompetence or the rich bailing one another out?
@dajb @RyunoKi yep, have been POSSEing for well over a decade, albeit manually and my site isn't always up-to-date with posts I've written... WAO members are always thinking and tinkering. ❤ this convo and we'll continue to work on carving out better spaces for the people and orgs that we try to shine light on. I'm not a huge Medium fan, but as a piece of tech becomes ubiquitous, the ween off it becomes more complicated...
So when some said that #Mastodon was a return to blogs, in reality it’s blogs that are a return to blogs. Really glad I saw this (how did I not hear of this earlier!).
sadly both plume and writefreely are unmaintained
Can you be rewarded for writing in Writefreely?
@SebasFC Isn’t writing its own reward? :P
(I don’t know if there’s anything baked in. Couldn’t see it at a quick glance. I guess you could always add a link to your posts to your funding site if folks want to contribute. It’s what I do on my blog.)
true, I guess one can support the blog platform without the platform needing to manage your rewards
So Aral, long had my own domain [which I hack creatively both at content and at primitive code level, presently not linked due to updating], how about some thoughts shared about how such stuff can be "lightly" federated, thus bypassing the gatekeeping of big commerce? I can't be the only one that doesn't want to shoehorn their content into a an additional or less-flexible layer of formatting, but would love to have the peer-connection of fedi a bit deeper than just links.
Great thread. Thanks for starting it. Fantastic discussion. I've never been a fan of #WordPress for the numerous security vulnerabilities it had over the years. Not a fan of #Medium for the reasons listed in the thread.
This minimal version seems like it might be a good fit for me wanting to post longer-than-note length bits.
Just to see what a generic, anonymous post looks like, I posted a #chatGPT -authored story into a mini #blog post here:
Just testing out the write.as anonymous posting platform.
What did this look like? Here is a short story from chat GPT. ------- The Sword of Truth Once upon a time, in a far-off land, there lived a young prince named Alexander. He was known throug...Write.as
I'm surprised Medium are still around. I read stuff years ago about how their business model had completely tanked. At one time everyone was using Medium but now you barely hear about them, so how are they still making money?
Maybe that's why they're doing this.
@ford_taunus @cheerfulmadness About Medium, WriteFreely, etc
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Happy to be a speaker at #SOOCon23 #stateofopencon 2023.
Guess what? I will be talking about /e/OS and Murena!
Meet you in London on the 7th and 8th February.
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It is not really fully degoogled if google still has access to all notifications due to microG.
Really? So how does google know who's device to send these "fully anonymized" messages to?
Google does not need people to have a google account. It can just collect all that information without having a google account connected to the information.
If the data collection problem would only exist for people with a google account then using google search, youtube etc. without an account would not be a privacy issue either.
But it is, and so is piping all notifications through their servers. Them not knowing a corresponding account doesn't mean they don't keep logs.
If the data collection problem would only exist for people with a google account then using google search, youtube etc. without an account would not be a privacy issue either.
But it is, and so is piping all notifications through their servers. Them not knowing a corresponding account doesn't mean they don't keep logs.
@n0r Google doesn't need to put in place complex tracking strategies to track people since so many ones are using Google accounts. They are interestes in consolidating user data to sell ads at a higher price. And that data is associated with people Google accounts + trackers.That is exactly the point solved with /e/OS. So you can keep on pretending that microG is useless or be pragmatic, embrace a larger point of view about the situation, and read the code, that is the beauty of open source.
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Google does not limit tracking to logged-in users. Use google search and youtube for a few weeks not logged in but also without privacy browser extensions etc. Targeted ads will certainly appear.
I did not at all "pretend microG was useless". Please don't make such false accusations. It does have a usecase.
What I am trying to say is things relying on connecting to google should not be marketed as "degoogled".
I don't have months of spare time to read that much code, sorry.
I did not at all "pretend microG was useless". Please don't make such false accusations. It does have a usecase.
What I am trying to say is things relying on connecting to google should not be marketed as "degoogled".
I don't have months of spare time to read that much code, sorry.
Disagreement is something that happens from time to time and is fine.
However accusing someone out of nowhere of having an extreme opinion they did not state at all is not a nice move. Please don't do that to people.
My takeaway from this discussion is I still hope microG will be developed well and improved, and I hope it will be advertised more accurately (or even better improve to the point where "degoogled" is an actually fitting label.)
Have a nice day (or night) :)
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I really hope the FydeTab aint gonna be another piece of Chinese garbage I'll prolly buy anyway and end up with the pile of other junk.....again.
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How do people function without this tool?
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I’ve been sharing this here and there when the topic of “#podcasts” that don’t do #RSS comes up
“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”
I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)
Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.
This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.
My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.
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Same here, I very much like this phrase. No vendor, no corporation, not even an ecosystem mentioned with that. Yet still it is clear where to get those podcast episodes. :)
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and also today you have things like Castopod that lets you host and manage your own podcast, making it ready for RSS and to publish at services like Apple and Google Podcasts.
Castopod is also part of the fediverse so you can follow your favorite podcasts via Mastodon and the like.
I love when a podcast isn't restricted to a platform like Spotify, it must be free for audiences to choose where to consume it.
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I have the opposite perspective on the phrase. I'm not a big podcast user, and "anywhere you get your podcasts" doesn't actually tell me where to find it. I don't use apps or a mobile phone for podcasts; my default way to find content is to look for it on a website. But without being told where to go, I have a devil of a time tracking it down.
I'm not arguing the utility of RSS. Just saying it doesn't cover all the bases of where users are coming from.
@mytwobits01 @attacus I want to argue that a good podcast allows you to just enter the website root URL and your audio feed client finds the feed.
Unfortunately that disqualifies 95% of the podcasts I enjoy from being "good podcasts".
It's just one stinking HTML element. But people don't do it. Many don't even facilitate finding it on the web pages and you have to use the podcast search facility and hope someone else found it.
I also think it's a cautionary tale: no one has ever found a better way to tell people how to use podcasts and RSS than to just vaguely geature at them, no matter how important they are to a vibrant medium like podcasts. Even when these open systems become popular, people don't really learn or recognize that they're using them.
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I’ve been sharing this here and there when the topic of “#podcasts” that don’t do #RSS comes up
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I personally am using MX-6 ATM.
There are other great options like liquid metal, but those you have to be more cautious as they conduct electricity - avoid frying something with those by proceeding with extreme caution (don't bridge anything on accident).
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Europe confirms that manufacturers are free to sell Android phones without Google.
There no better time for @Fairphone @NOKIA Crosscall, Wiko, Gigaset @shiftphones to join @murena to introduce phones with a privacy driven OS and apps like /e/OS.
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Nice! All I need now is an port for a LG V series and I'm in! 👍 😉
The article says: "The EU general court broadly backed the commission’s ruling that Google had behaved anti-competitively byrequiring that mobile phone manufacturers pre-install Google’s search and chrome apps on handsets as a condition for carrying Google’s Play app store." The real monopoly is thus the play app store.
That could be the beginning of more real independence from Google...
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This is awesome news.
The reality is that either they make it Android (most likely), or they will make their own proprietary Linux-based OS that will turn to be even worse than Android.
I mean, arguably more competition is still slightly better than no competition at all
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in reply to Nick @ The Linux Experiment • • •and I think it's the problem that most of the people here have. There are places, where IPv6 isn't that common, so it would be great to add some kind of tunnel (Cloudflare's proxy does this and you can set up tunnel with Hurricane Electric).
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There is a generated thumbnail, meaning it worked at some point. Now it doesn't.
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in reply to Nick @ The Linux Experiment • • •The topics seem pretty much like a duplicate of the news video. So if you've watched the video the podcast is not really interesting anymore. It might be good to do more of an opinionated deep dive on a few topics. You can also do listener questions and feedback as part of the podcast.
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in reply to Nick @ The Linux Experiment • • •If the idea is that the podcast is for people that don't watch the news video's then it works fine, but I wonder how many people that is
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in reply to TheStroyer • • •@TheStroyer That’s the idea: it’s for people who prefer longer form content in audio form. There are way more topics in the podcast and each of them is covered in more depth than in the video, so either you want a shorter thing with only the biggest topics and a video, or you prefer longer stuff to listen to.
If it ends up not drawing anyone, I’ll rework it but from the feedback I got on the news video, this podcast seems to be what people were asking for ;)
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(Also, just finished the first episode, and yeah, your grammar was fine there. 😺)
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