Does Mobilizon currently support hosting paid events that charge a participation fee? If not, is there a roadmap for a future feature update that will make this possible?

#Mobilizon #fediverse

Hach #Taichung ey 🫶
Sonntags-Spaziergang und du hoerst schon von weitem Musik und ne Frau laut singen.... und dann kam sie vorbeigefahren mit ihrem rollenden Marktstand, inkl Soundsystem und Werbung fuer nen Ex-Baseballspieler, der nun Politiker ist.

Hat sich auch mega gefreut und schoen in die Kamera gewunken... im westlichen Zentral-Taiwan sind Langnasen halt durchaus exotisch!

Moin #Fediverse und euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Sonntag. Alles wird gut!

Does Mobilizon currently support hosting paid events that charge a participation fee? If not, is there a roadmap for a future feature update that will make this possible?

#Mobilizon #fediverse

a post for helping ppl onboard to mastodon/fedi:

okie, so someone is wanting you to get on mastodon/fedi

what the heck is it?

it's a better way to do life and share life online

you know how a gmail user can send things to a hotmail user?

it's kinda like that

you choose a server (also called an instance) that is your home-base and then public posts you make are "federated" out to servers all around the world

you can choose to keep posts private and only limited to your followers or even to just one person

there are no ads

there is no algorithm: we are the algorithm by reposting/boosting other ppls posts and being an active participant in creating things or just talking

it kinda feels like the Internet of old and it gives me hope

you can follow hashtags to get a feed of other folks doing similar things to you

many news orgs are on here too bc of flipboard

you can follow RSS feeds even with rss-parrot

wanna change your instance? you can! your followers and following lists can be imported to a new instance

some instances (like mine) have character counts past 10k, so you can post longer form content too

what's "fedi" mean?

fedi or the fediverse refers to how it's not just Mastodon that counts in this network: there are many other compatible softwares besides mastodon that are still all interconnected

mastodon is a non-profit project developed on top of protocol called activity-pub and it's what drives the fediverse

for instance (heh), a good instance for fellow trans folks is transfem.social which uses a software called sharkey instead of mastodon, but they still communicate with each other

i recommend getting started on a mastodon instance:

• infosec.exchange
• catgirl.cloud
• lgbtqia.space
• you can also take a look at featured instances: https://joinmastodon.org/servers

sometimes, depending on the server, sign up times can take a min

but once you get on and established (did you remember to turn on your 2fa?), make sure to add some details to your profile!

a lot of folks here don't wanna interact with blank accounts or accounts with no posts

once you get a bit setup, how do you find ppl?

well, first recommendation is to create an introduction post (tagged with hashtags)

here is mine for an example:

https://infosec.exchange/@sparklepanic/114923778190319719

you can browse more related content by clicking on the hashtags in the post

hashtags are important to how discovery works on fedi

the culture of fedi is to ALWAYS use the CW (content warning) function for anything remotely 18+/nsfw and ALWAYS use alt-text on images (the descriptions for those with disabilities)

please don't boost images if they don't have alt-text

there are quite a few trans/poly/sex-positive ppl on fedi and the way we keep it nice is by making sure to always mark things with CW (even politics for a lot of folks is important, with "uspol" as the cw)

follow these to get started (not in any particular order, some do post 18+ occasionally, but they content warn)

following ppl is a bit different if they are on a different server:

when you click on them, if they don't share your home instance, you'll see something like "remote follow this person" and then you put your home instance URL into the box (to the instance ur already logged into) and then you can follow them!

• https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad
• https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco
• https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity
• https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci
• https://defcon.social/@deviantollam
• https://reentry.codl.fr/@apod
• the "catsofmastodon" hashtag
• a hashtag related to you local area (since im in Portland, i follow the "pdx" hashtag)
• https://mas.to/@skeletor
• https://mastodon.social/@eff
• https://lgbtqia.space/@alice

another thing i should mention is defederation and codes of conduct: each instance has it's own code of conduct and the whole space has it's own version of netiquette, keeping ppl accountable for their posts and if it gets really bad, instances will "defederate" from each other so that you don't have to see content that is harmful or that doesn't abide by community standards

remember, these servers are basically all operated by volunteers: people with technical ability put them online at cost to themselves and they are usually administering it as a side-project or as a public service

make sure to throw some money at your instance admin if you can

https://fedi.tips/ is also a good resource! (or here on mastodon @FediTips

what the hecc app do i use?

i recommend using the progressive web app (PWA): this is the "add to home screen" thing in ur browser and it behaves like a native app

you'll also see i had typos in this post, but mastodon supports edits, so it's okie!

fedi is really cool and im so happy to be part of the community and hope that you too can be active online in ways that actually honor our humanity

#fediverse #newuser #mastodon #netiquette

The #US has sanctioned U.N. Special Rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese after she warned tech firms about potential complicity in #Gaza.

Palestinian victims and their families deeply value Francesca Albanese’s exceptional courage—history will remember that she stood on the right side of it

@politics #palestine #genocide #resistance #law #icc @law #humanrights #fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia #women @womensvoices @democracy #eu #italy #italia #europe #canada #un

a post for helping ppl onboard to mastodon/fedi:

okie, so someone is wanting you to get on mastodon/fedi

what the heck is it?

it's a better way to do life and share life online

you know how a gmail user can send things to a hotmail user?

it's kinda like that

you choose a server (also called an instance) that is your home-base and then public posts you make are "federated" out to servers all around the world

you can choose to keep posts private and only limited to your followers or even to just one person

there are no ads

there is no algorithm: we are the algorithm by reposting/boosting other ppls posts and being an active participant in creating things or just talking

it kinda feels like the Internet of old and it gives me hope

you can follow hashtags to get a feed of other folks doing similar things to you

many news orgs are on here too bc of flipboard

you can follow RSS feeds even with rss-parrot

wanna change your instance? you can! your followers and following lists can be imported to a new instance

some instances (like mine) have character counts past 10k, so you can post longer form content too

what's "fedi" mean?

fedi or the fediverse refers to how it's not just Mastodon that counts in this network: there are many other compatible softwares besides mastodon that are still all interconnected

mastodon is a non-profit project developed on top of protocol called activity-pub and it's what drives the fediverse

for instance (heh), a good instance for fellow trans folks is transfem.social which uses a software called sharkey instead of mastodon, but they still communicate with each other

i recommend getting started on a mastodon instance:

• infosec.exchange
• catgirl.cloud
• lgbtqia.space
• you can also take a look at featured instances: https://joinmastodon.org/servers

sometimes, depending on the server, sign up times can take a min

but once you get on and established (did you remember to turn on your 2fa?), make sure to add some details to your profile!

a lot of folks here don't wanna interact with blank accounts or accounts with no posts

once you get a bit setup, how do you find ppl?

well, first recommendation is to create an introduction post (tagged with hashtags)

here is mine for an example:

https://infosec.exchange/@sparklepanic/114923778190319719

you can browse more related content by clicking on the hashtags in the post

hashtags are important to how discovery works on fedi

the culture of fedi is to ALWAYS use the CW (content warning) function for anything remotely 18+/nsfw and ALWAYS use alt-text on images (the descriptions for those with disabilities)

please don't boost images if they don't have alt-text

there are quite a few trans/poly/sex-positive ppl on fedi and the way we keep it nice is by making sure to always mark things with CW (even politics for a lot of folks is important, with "uspol" as the cw)

follow these to get started (not in any particular order, some do post 18+ occasionally, but they content warn)

following ppl is a bit different if they are on a different server:

when you click on them, if they don't share your home instance, you'll see something like "remote follow this person" and then you put your home instance URL into the box (to the instance ur already logged into) and then you can follow them!

• https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad
• https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco
• https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity
• https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci
• https://defcon.social/@deviantollam
• https://reentry.codl.fr/@apod
• the "catsofmastodon" hashtag
• a hashtag related to you local area (since im in Portland, i follow the "pdx" hashtag)
• https://mas.to/@skeletor
• https://mastodon.social/@eff
• https://lgbtqia.space/@alice

another thing i should mention is defederation and codes of conduct: each instance has it's own code of conduct and the whole space has it's own version of netiquette, keeping ppl accountable for their posts and if it gets really bad, instances will "defederate" from each other so that you don't have to see content that is harmful or that doesn't abide by community standards

remember, these servers are basically all operated by volunteers: people with technical ability put them online at cost to themselves and they are usually administering it as a side-project or as a public service

make sure to throw some money at your instance admin if you can

https://fedi.tips/ is also a good resource! (or here on mastodon @FediTips

what the hecc app do i use?

i recommend using the progressive web app (PWA): this is the "add to home screen" thing in ur browser and it behaves like a native app

you'll also see i had typos in this post, but mastodon supports edits, so it's okie!

fedi is really cool and im so happy to be part of the community and hope that you too can be active online in ways that actually honor our humanity

#fediverse #newuser #mastodon #netiquette

RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116025421547573109

The #Fediverse, and #Mastodon in particular, showcases what social media can be when designed for democratic dialogue rather than profit.

It’s open source, so its rules and algorithms are transparent and accountable.

No single company owns it, so no billionaire can unilaterally shape speech.

It’s also interoperable, meaning people can move freely instead of being trapped in walled gardens.

Because it doesn't depend on outrage for ad revenue, it fosters healthier, more civil conversations.

I know this is going to be a hard lesson for people on the #Fediverse to learn, but here we go:

NOT EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET KNOWS HOW TO DO THE THINGS WE DO!

While I’ll take #ActivityPub over #Bluesky, #Threads, and #Twitter, some of y’all make it so difficult to just exist in a space without having to “well, actually” every fucking thing!

Understand that not everyone has all the answers (you sure as shit don’t) and treat people with some fucking grace and respect!

For fuck’s sake!

@i47i If governments want to protect children from the harms of #socialMedia, age-based bans are not the solution.

Instead: Take all that funding that would be spent on enforcing the ban and instead invest it in #Fediverse development, hosting, and administration. The primary harms originate from engagement-maximizing algorithms, which the reverse-chronological and followees-only feeds of federated media, by design, do not have. This funding would help destroy the toxic oligarch-owned media through simple competition and an objectively superior product. Give children a better alternative, without all the #enshittification, and they'll migrate of their own accord.

Meanwhile, to deal with coordinated mass inauthentic engagement, and to facilitate effective moderation, governments could invest through partnerships with research universities and known-good manufacturers such as @yubico to produce state-issued zero-knowledge credentials. These credentials could be issued, necessarily in-person, at government offices (such as Service Canada and its provincial and international counterparts, and at embassies for citizens abroad), as well as notaries public and other trusted institutions such as public schools and libraries.

With these, Fediverse instances would have a means to restrict membership to say, unidentifiable but guaranteed-unique individuals known to the government of a given country, and to make it impossible for a person to return after being banned for anti-social conduct, while maintaining mathematical impossibility of determining anything more about a person (besides what they voluntarily reveal through what they post) but that they've never been banned from the instance.

Making it impossible for the instance to identify the individual, or to gain any information from the credential but the fact that they've never been banned, prevents the otherwise inevitable breach of identity documents. It also prevents the otherwise inevitable slide into technofeudal fascism which inherently follows wholesale surveillance and the ensuing censorship, yet still ensures every person has exactly one chance per instance to be a decent human online.

Since there are a limited number of instances with which most will federate, and since all those instances have heavily overlapping pro-social moderation rules, the predatory users will quickly find themselves relegated to the broadly defederated instances full of Nazis and such, and to oligarch-owned social media.

Governments could also get themselves (ministries/departments, agencies, crown/state-owned corporations, elected and appointed officials) onto publicly federated government-only instances (i.e., ones where anyone can read, but only government principals could join or post), making it impossible to convincingly impersonate governments or officials. They could also use arts funding and tax policy to incentivize major cultural leaders (such as celebrities and private media production companies) to get on the fediverse.

Everyone decent having never joined the cesspool fediverse instances, and having migrated away from the oligarch-owned centralized social media, governments can then ban both of those, irrespective of users' age, without adverse consequences.

Taken together, these measures would benefit everyone except foreign influence operators, bot farmers, spammers, and the violently anti-social, while still allowing children safe spaces for community and free expression.

#cdnpoli #auspol #Australia #Canada

I love seeing my monthly little donations ping out to my Mastodon instance admin @mia and the maker of my favourite client @cheeaun (who develops @phanpy)!

Support your faves :)

#fediverse #funding

🦣 Stegodon v1.7.1 brings full-text search with SQLite FTS5 and major performance optimizations! Timeline rendering is now faster and search uses less memory. #stegodon #fediverse #golang #tui

RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116025421547573109

The #Fediverse, and #Mastodon in particular, showcases what social media can be when designed for democratic dialogue rather than profit.

It’s open source, so its rules and algorithms are transparent and accountable.

No single company owns it, so no billionaire can unilaterally shape speech.

It’s also interoperable, meaning people can move freely instead of being trapped in walled gardens.

Because it doesn't depend on outrage for ad revenue, it fosters healthier, more civil conversations.

@i47i If governments want to protect children from the harms of #socialMedia, age-based bans are not the solution.

Instead: Take all that funding that would be spent on enforcing the ban and instead invest it in #Fediverse development, hosting, and administration. The primary harms originate from engagement-maximizing algorithms, which the reverse-chronological and followees-only feeds of federated media, by design, do not have. This funding would help destroy the toxic oligarch-owned media through simple competition and an objectively superior product. Give children a better alternative, without all the #enshittification, and they'll migrate of their own accord.

Meanwhile, to deal with coordinated mass inauthentic engagement, and to facilitate effective moderation, governments could invest through partnerships with research universities and known-good manufacturers such as @yubico to produce state-issued zero-knowledge credentials. These credentials could be issued, necessarily in-person, at government offices (such as Service Canada and its provincial and international counterparts, and at embassies for citizens abroad), as well as notaries public and other trusted institutions such as public schools and libraries.

With these, Fediverse instances would have a means to restrict membership to say, unidentifiable but guaranteed-unique individuals known to the government of a given country, and to make it impossible for a person to return after being banned for anti-social conduct, while maintaining mathematical impossibility of determining anything more about a person (besides what they voluntarily reveal through what they post) but that they've never been banned from the instance.

Making it impossible for the instance to identify the individual, or to gain any information from the credential but the fact that they've never been banned, prevents the otherwise inevitable breach of identity documents. It also prevents the otherwise inevitable slide into technofeudal fascism which inherently follows wholesale surveillance and the ensuing censorship, yet still ensures every person has exactly one chance per instance to be a decent human online.

Since there are a limited number of instances with which most will federate, and since all those instances have heavily overlapping pro-social moderation rules, the predatory users will quickly find themselves relegated to the broadly defederated instances full of Nazis and such, and to oligarch-owned social media.

Governments could also get themselves (ministries/departments, agencies, crown/state-owned corporations, elected and appointed officials) onto publicly federated government-only instances (i.e., ones where anyone can read, but only government principals could join or post), making it impossible to convincingly impersonate governments or officials. They could also use arts funding and tax policy to incentivize major cultural leaders (such as celebrities and private media production companies) to get on the fediverse.

Everyone decent having never joined the cesspool fediverse instances, and having migrated away from the oligarch-owned centralized social media, governments can then ban both of those, irrespective of users' age, without adverse consequences.

Taken together, these measures would benefit everyone except foreign influence operators, bot farmers, spammers, and the violently anti-social, while still allowing children safe spaces for community and free expression.

#cdnpoli #auspol #Australia #Canada

Today has been a long day, one that started very early in a soft, cool mist.
At last I can relax a bit, enjoy dinner, and try to catch a little bit of that weekend feeling.

Have a great weekend, #BSDCafe
Have a great weekend, #illumosCafe
Have a great weekend, #Fediverse

If decentralization is the future of social media, where millions or even billions of people share knowledge, then we can learn a lot from how the Open Knowledge Foundation (@okfn) and the Wikimedia Foundation (@wikimediafoundation) built cross-border, international movements with clear missions.

These two organizations are just two examples, but they demonstrate an important point: decentralization worked because communities were intentionally nurtured, not just because the technology was open.

The Fediverse, powered by the ActivityPub protocol, already has the technical capacity to thrive (UI tweaks aside).

What we still lack is the decentralization of communities, including shared ownership, coordination, and a mission that extends beyond individual instances.

Cc @eloquence @bjoernsta @_elena

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Openknowledge #Wikimedia #Decentralization #SocialMedia

This server has imported the first set of banned instances, using @moderation's and @admin's work as a template. Thank you cathode.church and neuromatch for providing this resource.

https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Defederated_Instances

#fediverse #mastodon #moderation #admin #selfhost #sysadmin

We are starting with Follow intents, but plan to support many more.

Ever seen the Facebook Like button?

You will be able to do the same for any fediverse activity, in a privacy-friendly way.

Built and managed by the trusted team behind @PixelFed, @loops and @fedidb, the entire platform is open source, and can be self-hosted!

https://github.com/web-intents/webintents-web

We're building a better federated future, together ❤️

If you want to help, please get in touch.

#WebIntents #Fediverse