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@weirdwriter @goatsarah I already find myself, as someone with a reputation for knowing about computers, being told more personal and financial details than I would like to help out friends who are blocked by the complexity of the process from, for example making charitable donations, or sponsoring someone for a good cause.

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@dangillmor I have felt for some time that journalists should be on the Fediverse, and wrote something on Federated Social Media and Journalism in 2021. Unfortunately not much has changed since.

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Running your own social Network

I came across https://runyourown.social/ which is full of good advice, and fits in with my feeling that is should be easier for small organisations to set up their own independent internet presence.

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re: Federtated road/rail closures
Broadening it out a bit, it could carry the information that a route was Restricted - for example a new speed limit, route for pedestrians only, buses only etc (possibly between certain times)

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re: Federtated road/rail closures
The same 'this route is closed' format could carry information about unplanned closures, such as accidents, published by police and highways agencies, and read by route planners, and radio stations who broadcast traffic news, possibly even direct to car/truck etc satnavs. This could carry information such as whether the route was still available for emergency vehicles (say a road closed due to an accident) or not (e.g. a bridge collapsed)

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Federtated road/rail closures
We are having a spate of letters about road closures for gas works, maintenance etc, also some foot and cycle paths, and rail lines. If there was, say an #XMPP XSF for the information in a machine readable form it could be published by gas and electric companies, highways agencies etc, probably as proposed and then approved. Subscribers would be mapping providers, Google, #OpenStreetMap, Garmin etc, maybe logistics companies etc.

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re: IPV6 and the Fediverse
@JohnLines social.debian.org is IPv4 and IPv6 too

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IPV6 and the Fediverse

Many fediverse sites only have an IPv4 address, which may not seem to matter, as people with an IPV6 only device (such many mobile phones) can still access them as a client via their provider mapping to IPV4 on network exit. For twitter.com this does not matter, but an IPv4 only site can not Federate with an IPV6 only site. Please read RFC 9386 - IPv6 Deployment Status and ask your Ipv4 only server to act.

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@highvoltage Congratulations ! 😀

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@libreoffice although I personally use Debian on my desktop, I know this is unusual, and making Free Software more readily available to users on all platforms is really important, as is people from various backgrounds coming together to give to the world.

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@bert_hubert I certainly agree with all your concerns about the influence of large corporations on standards bodies, although tempered by the possibility that the best representatives can 'go rouge' and actually try to develop a good technical standard. Your points did make me think that there should be something like a public Issue Tracker behind the standard, to turn those points into issues to be resolved before release.

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If only there was some alternative ...

From the BBC - Twitter can’t protect you from trolls any more, insiders say

I find it alarming and depressing that a BBC Disinformation and social media correspondent does not appear to be aware that there are options that the people who have joined the #TwitterMigration have found to be better.

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@milica_m @thomasfuchs quite agree on that, and, although I have not tried it myself, I believe the systems for moving within the Fediverse without losing followers are supposed to be OK, so now is the time they should be devolving some kind of presence and gaining experience.

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@milica_m @thomasfuchs They will be able to control, via robots.txt which parts of social.companyname.com are indexed, and may want to do so, as some of the content will be outside their control.
They should also look to supplement the section they put onto every web page which points people to their Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn (and in some cases Google+) presence with a link to their Fediverse presence, wherever that may be.

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@acesabe @fribbledom I think my N900 has finally died, but I still have it, in case one day I will find the time to investigate more thoroughly and perhaps resurrect it. If Nokia had not switched focus to the Windows Phone we would probably all be using their phones as N900 descendants today 😢

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@milica_m @thomasfuchs However I agree it is still better than emulating Twitter etc and setting up an account on some random server.

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@milica_m @thomasfuchs If there are SEO issues then they are probably in the heads (or sales pitches) of people who want to sell more domain names. There seems to be quite a good correlation between organisations who understand the internet, and use its tree structure to good effect and those who hope it will all go away soon. It is good to be a tree

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@EC_OSPO The reasons given apply to all democratic governments, even if I wish someone would come up with a more catchy term for ActivityPub based microblogging, so the one implementation - i.e. Mastodon, does not have to be used exclusively.

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@osdc Interesting article, dating back to 2018, so some of the links are now dead, or point to marketing sites. but still interesting and valid. The link to Creative Commons content on Vimeo was interesting. I look forward to the day when there will be as much good content on Peertube.

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@openrightsgroup @mattmaison @beisbolcards @BylinesNetwork The other thing about your own server is that, even with some king of 'account verification' you can inherit the trust of your domain - anyone could make a Twitter account call something like RealOpenRightsGroup or some such, but only the domain owner (or their delegated agents) can create identities under a domain.

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