Anthony Accioly

GM Nostr. I woke up to good tech news today. https://youtu.be/R25rGC7w2fU 1. Google is not fully blocking sideloading, just making it as annoying as they possible can. 2. Regular YouTube is talking about DiVine. nostr:nprofile1qqs8d3c64cayj8canmky0jap0c3fekjpzwsthdhx4cthd4my8c5u47spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmny9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0nw62p3’s name is all over the news, from Linus Media Group to Business Insider. The “anti-AI slop” instance seems to have worked. There are even en passant mentions of Nostr while explaining "andOtherStuff". And while some of the media is, as usual, calling it a “Jack Dorsey Vine revival”, at least the focus this time is not a cult of personality. #GM #Sideload #Divine #GrowNostr

GM Nostr. There’s a lot of truth in this video. https://youtu.be/DBNZnTspsaw I dislike her proposed solution, though. I don’t want to be "rescued by Microsoft", or by Azure / AWS / GCP revenue. I don’t want billionaires to sponsor me, or shady BTC payment companies to buy my goodwill with spare-change zaps while driving Nostr users away. I want users to fund software and break out of the techno-feudalism cycle where a few billionaires control and cash out the multiplier effect of technological progress. I want users to run their own software and infrastructure, to fund software that matters to them, to sponsor developers directly, to learn how to weaponise FOSS licences like the AGPL (no need to "rug pull" if you pick an anti-exploitation licence from the start), and to be free. I know this is a heavy message for a Sunday morning, but honestly, it doesn’t matter if you’re on Nostr, Mastodon, or anything else. If you aren’t willing to sponsor and contribute to the free internet (and it doesn’t need to be through coding), you’re still just a product at best and a slave at worst. It’s time to stop talking about doing the thing and actually start doing the thing. Which devs have you zapped lately? How much have you spent on Nostr? What proportion of your sats have gone to benefit this community? Be it donating to client devs, relay runners, "Other Stuff" research, and so on. How are you contributing to this little experiment of ours? #GM #FOSS #Nostr #GrowNostr #TechnoFeudalism #Decentralisation #SelfHost #AGPL #FreeInternet #SupportDevs #OpenSource #BitcoinCommunity #NostrCommunity

GM Nostr. There’s a lot of truth in this video. https://youtu.be/DBNZnTspsaw I dislike her proposed solution, though. I don’t want to be "rescued by Microsoft", or by Azure / AWS / GCP revenue. I don’t want billionaires to sponsor me, or shady BTC payment companies to buy my goodwill with spare-change zaps while driving Nostr users away. I want users to fund software and break out of the techno-feudalism cycle where a few billionaires control and cash out the multiplier effect of technological progress. I want users to run their own software and infrastructure, to fund software that matters to them, to sponsor developers directly, to learn how to weaponise FOSS licences like the AGPL (no need to "rug pull" if you pick an anti-exploitation licence from the start), and to be free. I know this is a heavy message for a Sunday morning, but honestly, it doesn’t matter if you’re on Nostr, Mastodon, or anything else. If you aren’t willing to sponsor and contribute to the free internet (and it doesn’t need to be through coding), you’re still just a product at best and a slave at worst. It’s time to stop talking about doing the thing and actually start doing the thing. Which devs have you zapped lately? How much have you spent on Nostr? What proportion of your sats have gone to benefit this community? Be it donating to client devs, relay runners, "Other Stuff" research, and so on. Or are you just zapping meme-posting Nostr and BTC "celebrities" that you know podcasts and conferences? #FOSS #Nostr #TechnoFeudalism #Decentralisation #SelfHost #AGPL #FreeInternet #SupportDevs #OpenSource #BitcoinCommunity

As someone who used to spend a lot of time with ROI-obsessed bean counters controlling, well, every budget on 🌎. Make the magic conversion metrics plummet and you kill the main incentive driving companies not only to slurp up everyone’s data, but also to keep you addicted to maximise the chances of you clicking on an ad. Turn Google’s, Meta’s, and X’s own game against them. If they turn off the data-scraping bots taking down FOSS infrastructure, I might even consider disabling my brand new "ad-clicking" plugin. https://youtu.be/7GeCq1qwqjc #ADS #Privacy #BrokenInternet

Also... write docs, please, please write docs :) My kingdom for regular folks willing to contribute documentation, websites, blog posts, videos, etc. As hard as we try, hyper-technical devs have blind spots. The best person to contribute something to the documentation is you. The person who just struggled with Tor, struggle setting up a Cloudflare Tunnel, file systems and ACLs, firewall rules, DNS, Certbot, Systemd, or whatever. This is all just “everyday stuff” to the standard nerd mantainer 🤓, documentation always have gaps. And also please donate. Everyone has a threshold where they stop doing things purely out of the kindness of their hearts. Sure, it can last 20 or 30 years for some, but the equation is simple: more donations = more time spent doing FOSS work. No money, eventually no FOSS work. nostr:nevent1qqsv8hkcntkt5673966vvjsgg8q5zue3z4r290wyz2497w4htrh4jkspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygzxpsj7dqha57pjk5k37gkn6g4nzakewtmqmnwryyhd3jfwlpgxtspsgqqqqqqsfp8lt2 #FOSS #ValueForValue #BeyondJustWords