Neil @neil@glasgow.social

As individuals, we have to decouple ourselves from the centralized nature of social media and begin to move back to a decentralized model, similar to what the internet looked like at its inception.

https://fee.org/articles/why-the-threat-to-free-speech-suddenly-looks-much-bigger/

Mastodon now has an official app for iPhones, you can get it from the App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/mastodon-for-iphone/id1571998974

(The app is FOSS, the source code is at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios )

The official app is aimed at new users who aren't familiar with the Fediverse. It streamlines the signup process and hides some features such as the Federated timeline.

However, because Mastodon is built on open standards, it has lots of unofficial apps too. There's a complete list at:

https://joinmastodon.org/apps

#MastoTips

Pétrolette is a free open source customisable news feed reader, with an emphasis on privacy. You can follow at:

➡️ @petrolette (in English and French)

You can self-host, the project's source is at https://framagit.org/yphil/petrolette

There's an example instance at https://petrolette.space

The project is looking for help translating into other languages, if you are interested please message the lead developer at @yphil

#Petrolette #Pétrolette #FOSS #Français #Francais #RSS #Atom #NewsFeed #SelfHosting

The Framework (repairable, upgradable) laptop getting a 10/10 repairability score from iFixit is a great endorsement for the team who worked on the product.
https://youtu.be/AV2umY3R0vw

We're hosting our bi-monthly "Setting up a webserver from scratch" tutorial online this evening from 6pm. All welcome to drop in.

More details on our #Matrix chat at #opensource:glasgow.social

Element raises $30M as Matrix explodes
https://element.io/blog/element-raises-30m-as-matrix-explodes/

(submitted by ssklash)

periodic reminder that there is a TNG fashion blog called "Fashion It So" and it's a treasure

https://sttngfashion.tumblr.com/

RT @dust__bath@twitter.com

I mistyped http://Gmail.com on my work laptop and found http://Gail.com today- why has nobody told me about this before? It’s amazing

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dust__bath/status/1417584477946138627

Incredibly exciting to get official confirmation that Germany's health service (@gematik1@twitter.com) has standardised on Matrix for secure decentralised communications, targeting all 150,000 healthcare organisations in Germany(!!!) 🤯 Read all about it at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthcare-system-adopts-matrix 💉🇩🇪🚀

Popular webcomic "The Oatmeal" no longer asks people to follow them on #Facebook, #Twitter, #instagram etc. Here's their explanation as to why (contains minor swearing):

(from https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people )

PS Currently if you want to follow them, visit here:
https://theoatmeal.com/pages/subscribe

Technically, it's #Caturday, but here's an oscilloscope drawing of a dog that can go either way if you squint

uh... guys...

https://github.com/mwenge/defender

i'm here on the timeline of mastodon dot social, a federated, decentralized social media platform

Tibetan woman holding flowers, only they're not flowers they're cryptocurrency mining PSUs.

(Via Reddit)

Oh hello... native matrix: URI support in @firefox@twitter.com 90!!!