There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
Probably not hosted on OVH though
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Probably not hosted on OVH though
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena "tracking troublemakers via algorithmic video surveillance" good God
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena Great idea. Decentralized networks like Mastodon are a great fit for protest organizers.
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena I don’t see the normies ever coming over here in numbers. They’re perfectly fine with their Twitter and their blue sky. We still got each other though.
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena Be aware of the French government's instances on Mastodon.
"Gangs meeting" ... aren't they using Telegram like some Bismillah police men?
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena YAAAAAAAAAAS! THE DOWNFALL OF BIG TECH, AND ONE STEP CLOSER TO MY CLUTCHES, IS PRIVATE COMMUNITY OWNED SOCIALS! WE SHAAAAAALL RULE THE WORLD THROUGH PRIVACY AND FREEDOM!
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena Especially with mesh wifi networks... Or even phone lines...
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@_elena Especially with mesh wifi networks... Or even phone lines...
@Dianora indeed! mesh for the win!
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@_elena Especially with mesh wifi networks... Or even phone lines...
I was stoked to see that BABEL (e.g. RFC 8966, 9229, etc. also see: https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/) implementations have made their way into BIRD (https://bird.network.cz/)! Though, I have yet to test that; perhaps they are now less full of Linuxisms and "academic caliber" code and can potentially operate on some BSDs at long last?!
CC: @_elena@mastodon.social
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I was stoked to see that BABEL (e.g. RFC 8966, 9229, etc. also see: https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/) implementations have made their way into BIRD (https://bird.network.cz/)! Though, I have yet to test that; perhaps they are now less full of Linuxisms and "academic caliber" code and can potentially operate on some BSDs at long last?!
CC: @_elena@mastodon.social@teajaygrey @Dianora @_elena Especially with the rush of Linuxers to BSD now!
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/117513247794023369
If you have friend group that isn't yet planning for internet restrictions, now is a great time to start.
I'm no pro, but I think Signal is a bare-minimum start. And I try to follow folks on Mastodon like @_elena.
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena I recently created a mastodon account and I really hope decentralized social networks catch on in Brazil, but they are pretty much unknown. Meta shouldn't be interfering in our elections or any election for that matter
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena ah. Mesh networks become even more interesting
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena "The French government explored ways of blocking social networks during last Saturday's protests"
this is fucking wild to read. that's what authoritarian governments (eg. in Syria) have been doing at various points in the past decade, to much derision from western media as "dystopian". and yet it's now being reported on as if it's a normal thing to be doing.
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@_elena "The French government explored ways of blocking social networks during last Saturday's protests"
this is fucking wild to read. that's what authoritarian governments (eg. in Syria) have been doing at various points in the past decade, to much derision from western media as "dystopian". and yet it's now being reported on as if it's a normal thing to be doing.
the political frame truly has shifted, huh? -
There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
There is a cultural problem.
They have no idea about the internet, no imagination.
I imagine the advent of many social networks like #holossocial , where every smartphone is the server. -
There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
@_elena @joachim that will need to be done IRL... Because the mass media won't mention it even in Europe and the alternative would be to create TikTok content everyday in hope the algorithm does not shadow bans us for promoting alternatives before we reach an audience.
Gotta print zines and hand them at highschoolers in the street
