# Fediverse The fediverse is a decentralized network of independent social platforms and servers that communicate through shared protocols, primarily ActivityPub. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## No billionaires at FOSDEM DevFeed: [No billionaires at FOSDEM]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: January Published: 2025-01-16T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Drew DeVault]() Topics: [FOSDEM](), [foss](), [Open Source](), [Blockchain](), [Fediverse](), [X (Twitter)]() Tags: [blockchain](), [ceo](), [elon-musk](), [event](), [fosdem](), [foss](), [keynote](), [open-source](), [twitter]() ### AI overview This opinion article argues that FOSDEM should not give its keynote platform to Jack Dorsey. It connects the criticism to Dorsey's former role at Twitter, the impact of Twitter's sale on the fediverse and free software communities, and Block's sponsorship of FOSDEM. The article also notes that Dorsey's talk was later cancelled. ### Source excerpt Update: Dorsey's talk was cancelled! See the update here. Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM. The FOSDEM keynote stage is one of the biggest platforms in the free software community. Janson is the biggest venue in the event - its huge auditorium can accommodate over 1,500 of FOSDEM's 8,000 odd attendees, and it is live streamed to a worldwide audience as the face of one of the free and open source software community's biggest events of the year. We've platformed Red Hat, the NLNet Foundation, NASA, numerous illustrious community leaders, and many smaller projects that embody our values and spirit at this location to talk about their work or important challenges our community faces. Some of these challenges, as a matter of fact, are Jack Dorsey's fault. In 2023 this stage hosted Hachyderm's Kris Nóva to discuss an exodus of Twitter refugees to the fediverse. After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right for a crisp billion-with-a-"B" dollar payout, the FOSS community shouldered the burden - both with our labor and our wallets - of a massive exodus onto our volunteer-operated servers, especially from victims fleeing the hate speech and harassment left in the wake of the sale. Two years later one of the principal architects of, and beneficiaries of, that disaster will step onto the same stage. Even if our community hadn't been directly harmed by Dorsey's actions, I don't think that we owe this honor to someone who took a billion dollars to ruin their project, ostracize their users, and destroy the livelihoods of almost everyone who worked on it. Dorsey is presumably being platformed in Janson because his blockchain bullshit company is a main sponsor of FOSDEM this year. Dorsey and his colleagues want to get us up to speed on what Block is working on these days. Allow me to give you a preview: in addition to post ## Neurodivergence and accountability in free software DevFeed: [Neurodivergence and accountability in free software]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: September Published: 2024-09-25T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Drew DeVault]() Topics: [Software](), [Fediverse]() Tags: [argument](), [article](), [community](), [software]() ### AI overview The article argues that invoking Richard Stallman's alleged neurodivergence to excuse or explain problematic behavior is ableist and harmful to neurodivergent people. It examines how this defense relates to accountability, sexism, and norms in the free-software community, including responses gathered from neurodivergent people. ### Source excerpt In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman's political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), endorses and advocates for a harmful political agenda which legitimizes adult attraction to minors, consistently defends adults accused of and convicted of sexual crimes with respect to minors, and more generally erodes norms of consent and manipulates language regarding sexual harassment and sexual assault in his broader political program. In response to this article, and on many occasions when I have re-iterated my position on Stallman in other contexts, a common response is to assert that my calls to censure Stallman are ableist, on the basis that Stallman is neurodivergent (ND). This line of reasoning suggests that Stallman's awkward and zealous views on sex are in line with his awkward and zealous positions on other matters (such as his insistence on "GNU/Linux" terminology rather than "Linux"), and that together this illustrates a pattern which suggests neurodivergence is at play. This argumentation is flawed, but I think it presents us with a good opportunity to talk about how neurodivergence and sexism presents in our community. Neurodivergence (antonymous with "neurotypical") is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of human experiences, including autism, ADHD, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, and others. The particular claims I've heard about Stallman suggest that he is "obviously" autistic, or has Asperger syndrome.1 The allegation of ableism in my criticisms of Stallman are rooted in this presumption of neurodivergence in Stallman: the argument goes that I am putting his awkwardness on display and mocking him for it, that calling for the expulsion of someone on the basis of being awkward is ableist, and that this has a chilling effect on our community, which is generally thought to have a high incidence of neurod ## Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server, Netlify edition DevFeed: [Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server, Netlify edition]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Harsh Shandilya Published: 2022-11-16T06:30:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Posts on Harsh Shandilya]() Topics: [Mastodon](), [ActivityPub](), [Fediverse](), [Netlify](), [Command-line interface](), [TypeScript]() Tags: [cli](), [fediverse](), [mastodon](), [netlify](), [protocol](), [typescript](), [webfinger]() ### AI overview A tutorial for creating a Fediverse identity on a personal domain without hosting a Mastodon or other ActivityPub server. It uses a Netlify Edge Function to implement WebFinger and serve the identity information. ### Source excerpt A quick and easy way of creating a Fediverse identity on your own domain without an ActivityPub server