I spent a lot of time redesigning and improving the new https://fediverse.info
it would mean a lot to me if you boost this, and spread awareness of this powerful onboarding resource ❤️
Streamlining Digital Libraries
You might have seen either other people or me talking about Autocaliweb. The – from my perspective – first and only calibre-based web project with an official repo on @Codeberg 🏔️
What is it and what can it do? Read all about it on @posts:
🔗 https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/streamlining-digital-libraries/
#SelfHosted #OpenSource #Calibre #eBooks #Kobo #Linux #DigitalSovereignty #IndieDev
Good morning, fedi!
Mastodon 4.6 is out, and one feature we were totes looking forward to is mandatory TFA! We strongly recommend our fellow modmins enable it, especially on larger instances where spammers and scammers like to take ovr accounts.
It is kind of non-intuitive; u have to enable it in the roles.
I need your help :fediverse:
Tomorrow a new month starts and currently we are still ~€600 short for the upcoming server, media storage and email bills that are coming in 18 days
https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
https://stux.store
It's still 18 days but it worries me a lot, if you can please think about helping us out 🫶
Some ask why we need Pride and CSDs today when the queer Community apparently has all the rights.
Let''s talk about it: https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/why-we-still-need-pride-today/
#PSA: Please protect yourself and loved ones from the heat wave. And also drink more than two (2) liters of water.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116775835031505173
To repeat: W Social, Bluesky and ATproto are glass floors of digital sovereignty.
You aren't digitally sovereign if only others control (or have the possibility to control) the ways how you work with and distribute your data and content.
You can read my full position on this here: https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-glass-floor-of-digital-sovereignty/
I can also strongly recommend the blog posts from @_elena about W Social, starting with https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
#WSocial: "We want to promote European digital sovereignty. We're made in Europe, for the world!"
@EUCommission: "A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces. Today, we’re expanding our presence to W."
W Social: "You need to verify your identity. Please download our #WIdentity app from Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store"
No further comment necessary.
Check for yourselves (04:30): https://inv.nadeko.net/Vcq4MiabpEQ
Wow! 🤯 Y'all have definitely stress tested my setup!
And no panic! My analytics are also self-hosted like you can read here: https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/digital-sovereign-ghost-local-tinybird/
With W Social starting this week, I recommend the brilliant research @_elena did into W:
- NO transparency about the tech stack
- NO public software repository (so no open source, no chance to see what W do with your data)
- TECH-BRO affiliates on the board
Is that the best alternative we can build in Europe? I strongly doubt it.
Why then are people like Ursula von der Leyen moving their accounts there?
Don´t make the same mistakes again.
Think before you subscribe.
The Price of Vibecoding
A look into BizzFed's security collapse, the Fediverse's immune response, and the dangerous reality of relying on AI-assisted "vibecoding" for infrastructure.Bizzfed is a good idea but also became a case study for a controversial reason.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 1,500 people turned up for Gütersloh’s very first CSD, making it instantly the second-largest in OWL. But in a world where queer rights are increasingly under attack, why do we still need Pride today?
My upcoming blog post on @posts dives into why standing together in our hometowns is still an act of defiance, from Stonewall in 1969 to the local streets today.
📝 Blog post coming soon!
@hetzner had another price increase.
In this regard should it be mentioned that servers on the Fediverse and the Open Social Web are run by volunteers that love the Fediverse as much as you do. (The same thing also for the very content you see here.)
So please: If you can, support your server admin/team (as well as the Fedicreators that you like) with a small donation. They would like that very much.
#Fediverse #Hetzner #SupportYourLocalInstance #SupportCreators
Queere Grüße vom #CSDBielefeld
RE: https://social.gelbphoenix.de/@gelbphoenix/116705091860218576
Here's the blog post how and why I switched the analytics backend of my @ghost blog (@posts) from the Tinybird Cloud to a local deployment.
https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/digital-sovereign-ghost-local-tinybird/
#Blog #DigitalSovereignty #Ghost #Tinybird #Blogging #Analytics
My blog @posts is back online and has now an own instance of the Tinybird Local Container as the Analytics backend.
Because of this will my blog be offline for a bit. But I plan to have it back online before the day ends for me if we follow after the calendar.