Wiz

joined 1 year ago
[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I should have made the obligatory link to http://mastodon-near.me/

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yes! I'm on a local regional server that is nice. I like that it's locally owned and operated, and we can talk local news and events.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 14 points 2 days ago

Holy crap it's a full-page ad!

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 17 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Yes, because of Proton, I'm seriously considering dumping Microsoft now. My big holdup was my library of Steam games. I just found out about Proton a couple of weeks ago, and as it turns out, most of my games are pretty compatible.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

I participate in Street Complete already. But I was interested in something more game-like.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was thinking about the exact same thing! Open source, OSM mapping with a Pokemon-like travel and collection game. But I'm super busy in grad school at the moment, so I can't do it. Just put the idea out into the universe for now.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

There are PeerTube servers that allow a certain reasonable amount of content for free.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

PeerTube is also a Fediverse service, and does the longer form videos, like YouTube. It mostly works fine; it just lacks content.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

So, you're being negative about an alpha release of someone's hard work without checking it out first?

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Sad to hear this news.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We'll, uBlock 😎

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Proton indeed looks like honeypot to me.

What makes you think that?

Genuinely asking, since I literally signed up for their paid email service earlier in the week.

 

As a project, Mastodon has operated under the umbrella of Mastodon GmbH, a German company that benefited from non-profit status with the German government. Despite all indications that they were doing everything right, Mastodon GmbH recently had its non-profit status revoked, resulting in the team to seek an alternative.

In the announcement, CEO and founder Eugen Rochko had this to say:

Our day to day operations are largely unaffected by this event, since Patreon does not presuppose non-profit status, and Patreon income does not count as donations. We have in fact not had to issue a single donation receipt since 2021.

Mastodon remains one of the only popular social platforms that operates out of the European Union, and Eugen desires to keep things that way. With that being said, this could be an interesting opportunity for the project: a presence in the United States may reduce friction in hiring employees there.

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