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We Distribute

2019-03-04 03:33:45


Welcome to the new We Distribute!
We Distribute is my years-long-in-the-making project to document and write about free software, decentralization and federated social technologies. It has taken many forms over the years, ranging from small news bulletins talking about what a given project was doing, to detailed overviews of how these different systems actually work, and interviews with the people who are building them.

This status is a statement of intent to bring this project into its next phase: a media publication focused on bringing news about these things directly to the fediverse itself. How, you may ask?

Firstly, We Distribute is moving off of Medium.com, and opt instead to self-host using only Free Software. Our site doesn't serve ads, doesn't use paywalls, and doesn't limit how many articles you can read. We don't collect personal data on you, and we give every article away for free under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution Share-Alike license.

Secondly, our publication feeds directly into the fediverse. We're using the ActivityPub protocol to talk to the federated social web. What this means is that if you have an account in the fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Hubzilla, and a growing list), you will be able to subscribe to this site (blog@wedistribute.org) and comment on our articles through your social stream reading applications of choice.

All you have to do is subscribe to blog@wedistribute.org using your fediverse client of choice.

There are currently some kinks in federating with certain kinds of platforms, but we're doing our best to work them out. Articles that exist before today will not be able to federate because they are older, and existed before our federation plugin was implemented (Pterotype doesn't appear to like content made prior to itself being activated).

We're working hard to prepare for a new and improved writing cycle, which means more quality article in less turnaround time. This will include:

  • News
  • Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Demos
  • Opinion Pieces

We're excited about starting off March 2019 strong. Please keep an eye on this space as we continue to grow and develop!

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The Onion Daily News

2019-02-21 00:33:29


‘We Will Not Repeat The Mistakes Of The 2016 Election,’ Vows Nation Still Using Internet


WASHINGTON—Promising that they had learned their lesson and would not fall into the same traps they did in the last presidential election cycle, the U.S. populace vowed Wednesday not to repeat the errors of 2016, while, at the same time, nearly every American voter continued to use the internet. “We’re not going to… Read more...

Read more at: politics.theonion.com/we-will-…

#humor #satire #news #theonion

#news #Humor #Satire #theonion

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Rysiekúr (old account)

2019-02-12 21:39:15


Calling all #Fediverse admins of instances in the #EU. The #CopyrightDirective is coming, we need to show the MEPs how massively the EU Internets will be affected.

We are preparing a list of all EU-based #Pleroma, #Mastodon, #GNUSocial, #Peertube, #Funkwhale, and any other instances.

Please *contact me*. All I need is the domain name, which EU Member State it's located in, and the rough topic of the instance. Approximate user count welcome, but not necessary.

Please help. This is important.

#mastodon #fediverse #gnusocial #funkwhale #peertube #pleroma #EU #CopyrightDirective

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[share author='Hypolite Petovan (he/him)' profile='https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/profile/hypolite' avatar='https://social.isurf.ca/photo/12134899005aacbf5d6db7a871119042-5.jpg?ts=1548791964' guid='735a2029-135c-50b0-2768-d5f092103658' posted='2019-01-29 19:57:27' link='https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/735a2029-135c-50b0-2768-d5f092103658']Any US-based #Friendica developer would like to apply for an Open-Source grant by Sentry? via @Sean Tilley
blog.sentry.io/2019/01/29/appl…
#friendica @Sean Tilley

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Interesting how they arranged this by common compounds observed...never saw one with carbon, silicon, and titanium in the same group!


Khurram Wadee

2019-01-18 18:40:13


#StAndrews find may be #oldest surviving wall #chart of #PeriodicTable | #Science | The Guardian


theguardian.com/science/2019/j…

#History

#Science #HIStory #periodictable #StAndrews #oldest #chart

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Phil Stracchino [DEFUNCT]

2018-10-30 21:44:25


The Hubble telescope is back in service and doing science again.

Kepler, unfortunately, is dead.

No, not Johannes Kepler. He died in 1630. The Kepler Space Telescope named after him. Nine and a half years into its planned five-year mission, after discovering 2,681 confirmed exoplanets and many more "possibles", it has finally run out of fuel for its maneuvering/positioning thrusters. 94 million miles from Earth, there's not a hope of a refueling mission.

Kepler, we salute you. It's time to rest now.

abcnews.go.com/Technology/wire…

#space #science

#Science #space

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Any EU friends know of any resources?

Another country slides towards far-right autocracy.

Goldkin

2018-10-28 23:56:43


This is a long shot, but if anyone here knows how to seek expedited immigration or asylum from Brazil into the EU, that information is urgently needed by friends of mine.

Capsule version: they have credible fear or persecution and harm under Bolsonaro, and any information that can get them out of harms way as they try to flee would be incredibly valuable right now.

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