pleroma.debian.social

I have updated https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2021/10/17/federated-social-media-and-journalism/ to mention it

Interesting UK parliament publication at https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/1634/documents/17731/default/ which, in its 153 pages covers a lot of interesting material.

I trust Debian, and f-droid (and other
similar systems) precisely because there is so much emphasis put on not automatically trusting them. Debian with reproducible builds, f-droid describes how replicate their build system. In the same way science (hard science at least) is based on other people being able to replicate a result.

I have written a few thoughts about why I think journalists should have more involvement with the Fediverse at https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2021/10/17/federated-social-media-and-journalism/

It would be useful to have the way pleroma.debian.social was built documented on salsa, so it could be replicated for other sites. I know there are barriers to getting pleroma as a proper package, but sharing information would help spread installation.

@robertwgehl From this account I am posting as a Debian developer, with an allegiance to the concept of Free Software. Similarly a scholar.social implies a connection to the academic community, but I would like people who are members of an organisation to be able to participate in social media with addresses like @joe.biden@democrats.org, for posts as a member of the Democratic party, or @president@whitehouse.gov, for official posts.

@robertwgehl - however they are more clustered, mostly. There are some instances with a more liberal policy about who can join them and what they can post, and even when I disagree with them, and many of the conspiracy theories have gaping holes in them, I feel freedom of speech is important.
I personally would like to much more knowledge of, and use of, Federated Social Media in the mainstream.

@anjan @heavenly_general @morenonatural
I too like prosody for chat, and host my own server, where I am john@chat.paladyn.org, and also use xmpp:jlines@debian.org

My sample Small Organisation Server, the Ambrige Garden Club, is now registered on the DNS. The process is described at https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/11/13/ambridge-garden-club-registering-the-domain/

I distrust things, particularly big things, which exist without any obvious means of financial support, so wrote 'Who pays for WhatsApp' at https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/11/10/who-pays-for-whatsapp/

For a computer game, or other software used for entertainment, and End User Licence which says 'Any attempt to disassemble .... is illegal' is fine, but if lives are going to depend on it then the people responsible for purchase should use this as a danger flag to walk away (unless it is accompanied by something like 'We (software vendor), will guarantee that this works exactly as specified and will be responsible for any consequential damage, injury or death)

Software, or hardware that we depend on should Open Source, i.e. we should be able to, if needed find out exactly how it works, or interchangeable, so that we (the big we - national institutions, governments, education, health, the military), can swap out a component with one from another, independent vendor and the overall system should still work.

Many people think of George Orwell's 1984 mainly in terms of 'Big Brother', but Newspeak is as important and here today. When most people's only word for a concept is a product then the dangerous bit of 1984 is here. Almost everyone uses - and thinks - Excel instead of spreadsheet, Zoom instead of Video Conference, PowerPoint for Presentation Software. People might use the word Hoover for Vacuum Cleaner, but here their concept is broader.

Some thoughts about Federating social networks, mostly XMPP as that is the most mature, but it applies to ActivityPub too, at https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/10/26/if-you-cant-be-first-federate/