Amanda Unvarnished

FerretDB announced its release 1.0 and thereby brings MongoDB database workloads back to their free software roots. Read more at https://u.fsf.org/3za

—@fsf

The next phase of the #ThreadiverseMigration is helping relocate and build #kbin and #Lemmy communities by mapping old subreddits to new communities.

yoasif @yoasif, who has been a #Reddit moderator on r/firefox, has taken up the challenge:

Unofficial Subreddit Migration List (#Lemmy, #Kbin) >>> https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html

“Here’s a quick and dirty list that you can contribute to (https://github.com/yoasif/yoasif.github.io/blob/main/_posts/2023-06-15-unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.markdown). Put new entries in alphabetical order. Pull requests welcome!”

#RedditMigration

—@mastodonmigration

A sense of community is important and that includes those who suffer from mental illness. heypeers.com is a great, free site that has wonderful peer meetings for those with mood disorders, anxiety, depression and other illnesses.
Sometimes just knowing your not alone, is enough.

#mentalhealth #anxiety #depression #bipolar #selflove #selfcare

https://heypeers.com/

—@bazurk

Dear #indieweb people– what's the least enshittified domain registrar out there? I need to find a new one. Again. 😭

—@thecityinspeech

@tchambers The Ghost CEO is also amazing. Substack stole their whole (open source) code without accreditation and he basically said “look, I know you were going to steal from someone anyway, but if you take it from us who are already giving it for free, at least say thank you as we ask you for.”

—@b3n

What a lot of people who sign up here looking for a like for like replacement for something else then getting upset when we rigidly refuse to change to into it don’t seem to get is that we simply don’t have to care.

You can suggest it’s a failure all you like but we’ve been here for years happily. We’ll be here happily if you decide to go.

It doesn’t hinge on it being a typical corporate ‘success’. It’s out there in the world where anyone can make a new server exist. It’s already a success.

—@doot

Watching #Elon and now #Reddit CEO Huffman run the same play, it makes me think that Matt Muellenweg may be the only tech CEO left that I can think of has any credibility on the #OpenWeb. #WordPress #Automattic

—@tchambers

Many people have been talking about deleting their #Reddit account and posts because they hate what the Reddit CEO does.

While I welcome a major #RedditExodus (I never posted on Reddit because it’s #proprietary), I urge people to #backup their high-quality posts (those that have helped a large number of people) before they delete their account for good.

And then repost your high-quality stuff somewhere else for archival purposes.

Just a suggestion.

—@Wuzzy

Advice for new folks from #reddit –

Hello and welcome. Please note that we don’t yet have a robust Reddit replacement because the two we have (#lemmy and #kbin) are still in really rough betas with features being hammered out by volunteers. Reddit had the gall to implode when these projects are at most some months old, but it isn’t as if current Reddit is into doing anyone any favors, huh?

So please have patience as you re-orient yourself. Unlike Reddit, nobody in the Fediverse made a deal with the devils known as Venture Capitalism. This means we don’t have to pay the piper when interest rates make the bottom fall out of our funding, but also means we don’t have the speed of development that funding can sometimes yield.

I recommend taking some time to decompress and experiment with how things work on Kbin and Lemmy. If you have feedback, give it to the devs.

And don’t feel bound to these networks. You are the captain of your ship.

Smooth sailing and good winds to you.

—@avajarvis

I find it amusing that the CEO of Reddit, evidently a socially challenged individual, thinks he can outsmart the nerdiest social network aficionados in the world: his site’s admins.

—@danielpunkass

A friend of mine recently burned out on maintaining open-source software and communities, and had been half-joking for a while that they wanted a sassy license to the effect of “I release this code for free, take it or leave it, or go do it yourself”.

Tonight I wrote that license for and with him. Please enjoy the “Fork Off” Public License, v0.9: https://github.com/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license

(I’ll tag a v1.0 after any feedback y’all might have to clarify things or make it funnier. Forking it is also of course ok.)

—@klardotsh