I'm in Belgium for #FOSDEM and the #XMPP Summit, and ever since I crossed the border on Wednesday, my roaming has been extremely spotty or non-existent. It's amazing how much XMPP instant messaging traffic I can still get through a very slow EDGE connection, whereas the Mastodon API with Tusky doesn't work at all.
Last of the Matrix series at the Decentralisation Communication devroom: what does it take to bring MLS to decentralised environments? Hubert tells us so!
I didn’t get a chance to ask the question during the panel, so I’ll ask it out-loud here :)
I tend to have a mental model of behaviour that I think about on social media: interaction level and collective level.
If you want to moderate interaction level content, then that’s things like “is this image problematic” or “is this person harassing someone else” and so on. That seems to be what the DSA mostly addresses? Which is great! We need more protection there
But the collective level is something I’m curious about: what happens when attacks are designed to be “harmless” or “not violating” at the interaction-level, yet deeply harmful at the collective level? How does one defend against a synthetic threat carefully designed to target a vulnerable collective in a way that no interaction level defense is really capable of handeling?
Do we have regulations around this yet? Is it a problem we’re trying to address at the governance level? (I know the tooling is nearly non existent, but slowly starting to emerge. It would be encouraging to see similar momentum in governance)
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Together with @Mastodon@mastodon.social director @mellifluousbox@mastodon.social , Open Networks advocate @samvie@chaos.social and EU MP @alexandrageese@bonn.social , @jmaris@eupolicy.
XMPP is listed at the ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DIDAY) as an alternative chat option and the community created switch recipes to enable users to migrate to independent messaging.
The German initiative ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DI.DAY) has been kicked off this year to enable users to migrate to open-source software alternatives in various contexts. Beside others XMPP is listed as an alternative chat option and …
I just met @bagder and he was as nice and humble as you can imagine! I also got to see his retroactively awarded medal from the European OpenSource academy which was very shiny! #FOSDEM
Jérôme Sautret and Edhelas will be presenting together: "Engineering XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects"
Now in the Decentralised Communication devroom: @cassidy and Anne presenting how Roost helps orgs mutualise their Trust & Safety efforts to keep people safe
To understand how we can replace Google push notifications (FCM) with something open source and decentralized, we need to understand how they work and why they are needed in the first place. This talk explains the mechanics of push notifications and why, despite their potentially bad reputation, they are a more elegant solution than having every app maintain its own persistent server connection.
While open-source tools like microG can remove proprietary Google software from your Android phone, the actual notifications are still sent via Google's servers (Firebase Cloud Messaging).
UnifiedPush is a framework that allows push notifications to be delivered in a decentralized manner or through self-hosted servers. Numerous open-source Android apps already support UnifiedPush, including Tusky, Ltt.rs, Fedilab, DAVx⁵, Fennec, Element, and many more.
The presentation ends with a short demo on how to use UnifiedPush on Android.
I am getting ready for the second day of #FOSDEM! The first day was a blast! It was great to meet old friends and new people. I am loving the new location of the #XMPP & Realtime Lounge, that is now in the AW building. If you are around today, come say hi!
We should explore adopting or integrating the MidCamp Live Captioning project as part of FOSDEM’s accessibility efforts. https://github.com/MidCamp/live-captioning?tab=readme-ov-file#live-captionin...
25% of the population has a disability. 100% of the population has temporary or situational barriers which needlessly stop them from accessing information on the web. The FOSDEM community isn't doi...
A very nice first day at FOSDEM. I spent time at the @matrix booth and met overwhelmingly enthusiastic people, then left it to our fabulous team of volunteers.
I’ve met Allan and @jsparber at the @gnome booth, got one of those fabulous systemd T-shirts, said hi to the @postmarketOS gang, got a T-shirt and brainstormed with @pabloyoyoista, got to thank Proxmox and OpenTofu for the great tools they provide.
