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Principal Research Software Engineer at CIM piloting this #bonfire instance. Expect a mix of RT from my mastodon account with genuine posts about #bonfire and the #fediverse
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@ccamara ah, sorry I replied to the other toot, before seeing this. Yes, indeed!
@smallcircles@social.coop hahaha, NP! I think we are on the same wavelenght!
It is a good article. I referred to the hashtags in the toot, just as a nitpick. But with the added observation that the dominance of Mastodon puts the remainder of the fediverse in the shade as it were. There are people on the fedi who do not know what fediverse is. They are "on Mastodon", they say. But they encounter perhaps posts from 50 other microblog and other apps. The broader public mostly only learns about Mastodon, but the fediverse is much more than that. Our communications unwittingly shape the public image. There is a recentralization danger here too.
(I don't point this out with a regular person, but I may do so now and then with institutions and journalists).
@smallcircles@social.coop I see. I believe you refer to the original post from @fsf@hostux.social , because they said follow us on MAstodon, while they can be followed (and are!) by the whole fediverse. Good point. And good point about not needing to be picky with individuals, but to do so with specialised profiles, such as journalists or foundations like the FSF, which tend to be very precise with their use of language. Agree.
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Mobilizon contributors online gathering
You are welcome if you're willing to contribute to the project, with your technical skills or by promoting the use of Mobilizon around you.
We'll present the latest project news, and then you'll have a chance to share your initiatives and thoughts about Mobilizon.
Let's share and boost Mobilizon!
Please note that roadmap definition is not part of this meeting. Refer to this post if you'd like to be involved further: https://framacolibri.org/t/were-looking-for-mobilizon-community-reprensentatives/24441
Link to the visio: https://talk.domainepublic.net/b/ale-p3e-sfy-qs5
@lahax@keskonfai.fr Oh, no, I missed it due to different time zone! (Is there a feature request for making Time Zones visible in the event's page?)
@smallcircles@social.coop Not sure that I'm following your point (probably due to automated translation, as I do not speak Dutch).
I think the @fsf@hostux.social does a good job explaining that, while Bluesky may be presenting itself as federated, this is partially true and there are a number of differences that go beyond using different protocols (ATProto vs ActivityPub). But maybe I'm missing something?
@smallcircles@social.coop but I agree that some do get confused by assuming that #Mastodon (a software), #Fediverse (an ecosystem), #ActivityPub (a protocol) are synonyms and some pedagogy is needed, especially to journalists who write about this. And especially if they are making comparison with other things that are not comparable (e.g. #Bluesky)
The hashtag use caught my eye, making the false equivalent between Mastodon and ATProto, same thing I pointed out yesterday to a journalist. In Dutch:
@smallcircles@social.coop Not sure that I'm following your point (probably due to automated translation, as I do not speak Dutch).
I think the @fsf@hostux.social does a good job explaining that, while Bluesky may be presenting itself as federated, this is partially true and there are a number of differences that go beyond using different protocols (ATProto vs ActivityPub). But maybe I'm missing something?
And this is another message in a group, which is posted by a different user. This means that by following the group, anyone can see what anyone has ever posted.
An apparently strange move from the FSF, turns to be an interesting reading about what #fediverse and #floss really being to the table
Another chapter of #AI extracting and abusing the commons. Today is #zenodo 's turn, but before it has been #OpenStreetMap, #Wikipedia... This clearly shows that they are not looking for knowledge (knowledge was already there in the open) but about appropriating and fencing it.
The recording of the talk "CoMaps: How to make a community based map navigation app based on OpenStreetMap" which @dmlls and @gedankenstuecke gave at State of the Map last Sunday is already out!
If you couldn't watch it live, it's available here: https://peertube.openstreetmap.fr/w/9DGz6jXc2wG93XohZweE8M
A very big thanks to the @sotm video team for getting those videos done so quickly (and of course also to the rest of the organising team for a job so well done!)
What shocked me at #sotm2026 is the gender imbalance in the public and presenters. I counted about 80% men, 20% women in the presenters, and I think that the public was possibly even more strongly biased towards men.
This seems to echo the results of this article from 2019, whose authors surveyed a small sample of contributors (N≈300), and found not only that men represented 87% of them, but also that men were more prolific than women in their contributions. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-019-10035-z
One anecdotal datapoint was that the only talk where I have been this weekend, which had more women than men attending, was a talk about mapping accessibility.
I obviously haven't been to all the sessions, so I don't know if this issue was discussed somewhere at some point. But I think that this is rarely a sign of a healthy community. Shouldn't such an imbalance be one of the most urgent problems that we should tackle? Is the OSM community hostile to women? At which stage: are they dissuaded to even enter it, or do they quickly leave after joining? Why?
@Armavica totally agree! And while ironically I embody that very hegemonic demographics you're rightly pointing out, my talk at #SOTM2026 ("Whose Knowledge Counts? Analysing Diversity and Exclusion in OpenStreetMap's Tagging Proposals Process") was precisely about this, but in a very specific contribution type: tagging proposals.
The first part of the session covered why maps are not neutral and why the lack of diversity is an issue.
You can see the slides here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22158699
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We have updated this instance to the latest 1.0.7 version of #bonfire. The new release includes interesting features and an exciting roadmap / roadbike for the future.
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