Hi SDF folks! I must apologize for the loss of the SDF social media account on StatusNet -- that was on my server, and although the messages to and from the SDF group propagated throughout the Fediverse, the administration of the group did not. I retired that StatusNet server because it was installed without SSL, and was running an obsolete version of StatusNet that couldn't (easily) be upgraded. I did send several messages to all the groups (over 100 groups!) that were hosted on the server, but very few people responded, and so far I think SDF is the only organization that's noticed :-) Sadly, I now have no up-to-date instance of StatusNet or GNUsocial; my GNUsocial instance at https://gs.jonkman.ca supports only the OStatus protocol, but not ActivityPub as a modern instance should. That means it cannot communicate with Mastodon, now the dominant software in the Fediverse, because Mastodon dropped OStatus support a few years ago. If SDF needs another account in the Fediverse I recommend the DFF sets up its own server for all the different programs (Hardware Freedom Day, Education Freedom Day, &c.) Again, my apologies for not being able to maintain that server... --Bob. On 2021-06-30 5:29 a.m., Frederic Muller - DFF wrote:
On 6/29/21 6:33 PM, LM wrote:
The link on https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SocialNetworks for the Federated StatusNet group appears to be down.
Indeed, "This StatusNet instance is no longer available". Like I said before and it is not an excuse, maybe a reason though, we are not into Social Network so much and when we did, the "Free" one we used disappeared one by one. Using them (from my point of view) was already a pain, doing it again takes even more efforts.
Now we're discussing how to best take the next step and somewhat "be there, and be heard".
Thank you all for your feedback.
Fred
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