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The #XMPP Newsletter for May 2025 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and updates on our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2025/06/the-xmpp-newsletter-may-2025/

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation

Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌

Edit/update: THANK YOU for all the people who volunteered to have their avatar show up in the last shot. There were 750+ submissions and only 135 spots - sorry I couldn't include everyone 🥲

#TheFutureIsFederated

Fedistar v1.11.6
=> https://fedistar.net
Multi-column Fediverse client application for desktop
- Supporting SNS
- - Mastodon
- - Pleroma
- - Friendica
- - Firefish
- - Gotosocial
- - Pixelfed
- - Akkoma (Unofficial)
- - Sharkey (Unofficial)
- - Hometown (Unofficial)
- - Iceshrimp (Unofficial)
- Multiple accounts management
- Multiple columns
- You can see timelines without sign in
- Desktop notification
- Streaming update
- Send reactions from another accounts
- Change column width
Changelog:
=> https://github.com/h3poteto/fedistar/releases/tag/v1.11.6
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Friendica #Firefish #Gotosocial #Pixelfed #Akkoma #Sharkey #Hometown #Iceshrimp

Le 14 juin à 14h à la médiathèque du Neudorf à #Strasbourg, nous tiendrons un café #HOP ! spécial #demailnagement .

Si vous connaissez du monde qui réfléchit à changer de mail, n'hésitez pas à nous les envoyer.

On aidera dans le choix du mail, la création, la configuration, la migration des mails de l'ancienne boite vers la nouvelle, la redirection, etc.

https://hoplagenda.fr/events/7310eb67-74b2-4dc3-a59b-5d8a3a5b6865

🥰

On June 8th this year, PHP is officially 30 years old and it still powers 77,4% of the public internet. 🎂

So join us on June 12th in celebrating with the inaugural RotterdamPHP meetup featuring Gina Banyard (PHP core developer) talking about "30 years of PHP: The brilliant, the bad, and the baffling".

RSVP on meetup, and we'll make sure there's dinner & cake for you 😉

https://www.meetup.com/rotterdamphp/events/308104341/

#PHP #Rotterdam #Meetup

GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/06/01/0049240/github-users-angry-at-the-prospect-of-ai-written-issues-from-copilot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

You don't need to use weird spellings or algospeak for any topics on the Fediverse ("unalived", "seggs" etc). There is no automated moderation or algorithm on here, moderation happens entirely through human beings and posts are shown in chronological order.

In fact it's better that you use the correct spellings for difficult topics so that people with genuine traumas related to them can filter them more easily.

#FediTips

Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:

Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime. And then tell them: the moment you realized you fucked up, I know, the impulse is to try and cover it up, but don't do it. Come to the seniors you trust, and they'll help you unfuck it, and fight management tooth and claw like mamma and pappa bears to defend you from any shitheads in management. Because that's what our seniors did to us.

#curl and its website feature no trackers, no cookies, no ads, no website analytics, no telemetry, no logs. We truly don't know you and what you do with curl - unless you tell us in our annual survey.

Just Fucking Use HTML, by @kyrylo.org:

https://justfuckingusehtml.com/

#websites #html

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.