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The continued cratering of Twitter, and the joy of discovering open alternatives. Lars and many others find themselves on the open and federated Mastodon instead of Twitter, having a great time, and feeling more excited about open systems than in a long time.

On the level of individuals, owning and controlling your own data feels back in fashion, but there is even more to dig into on the level of large organizations.

Perhaps when GDPR says no and the good spirit of the internet is strong, there is a chance for municipalities and other public sector organizations to get and help build open alternatives to the closed, proprietary, and often hair-raisingly expensive and poorly received software they have today?

Lars sees exciting business opportunities, better software for all, as well as the interesting challenges of navigating tender processes and plain old corruption.

Links

Mastodon
genserver.social
fosstodon.org
Ruby on rails
PostgreSQL
Object storage
Redis
Pleroma
Akkoma
glitch-soc - "Mastodon Glitch Edition" - where Mastodon UI discovers new features
Glesys' object storage
PeerTube
Pixelfed
Activitypub
SpaceX rockets exploding compilation video
WebTorrent
Element and Matrix
eSam
Mattermost
SPF - Sender policy framework - email authentication method
Skolplattformen
Offentlighetsprincipen

Quotes

Elon happened
A very straight path to somewhere else
As open as email
Satiate my doomscrolling needs
A Twitter on IRC
I don't trust the ecosystem under my feet
Lectured about a culture I'm not in
Teams was dubbed illegal
videos.varberg.se
The good spirit of the internet
GDPR says no!
People software
You have people living in you
I want "Svenska IT-myndigheten"
Pointless, annoying, and wasteful

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