publicgoods-scripts VS sydent

(The Sovereign Tech Fund is different beast it seems because it is actually the German state behind)

So most of those non profits look the same, are all lead by some professional–managerial class newcomer who have no real link to computer science. They are not really here to inspire people or recruit contributors, they are people in charge of keeping the money flowing, governance, compliance, etc.

My guess is this new architecture of the open source software ecosystem is an elegant way for tech (IBM, Google, etc.) to keep funding & control over key projects they rely on. While fiscally optimizing the whole thing & getting public money from the EU and others.

This is just my intuition, if someone could confirm...

What am I complaining about?

Those are not free, grassroot projects & organisations anymore. The day you will desperately need free software because the Orwellian architecture of the EU chatcontrol and cyber resilience act will be operational those non profits will most probably take the knee and comply.

- [1] https://digitalpublicgoods.net/

DIGITAL PUBLIC GOODS ALLIANCE https://digitalpublicgoods.net/

You might want to consider what synergies there might be with the digital public goods alliance [0] (broader scope and they have a type a certification process)

[0] https://digitalpublicgoods.net/

See https://digitalpublicgoods.net you will find r/openlittermap listed as 1/200 endorsed DPGs

As outlined in my first and second blog posts, I took my time to find repositories I cared about and contributed to them. I did not just pick issues for the sake of getting my 4/4 pull requests. I wanted each of them to be meaningful. I felt accomplished through my small contributions because each of the organizations I contributed to was not random but had a special meaning to me. I spent years writing grant proposals for NGOs working for a good cause in Asia and the Pacific region. Similarly, I narrowed down my focus on contributing to digital public goods created by NGOs that were taking part in Hacktoberfest

You should check out https://digitalpublicgoods.net/. They already have a large regisry of projects that support the UN sustainable development goals

Integration of eligibility form into existing website

The beginning of enshitification of discord (while 100% expected) for some reason hits harder then any other service I've used throughout all these years. It has entirely replaced social media for me. It just felt more organic to me then anything else.

So... since I've heard about the ads coming to discord, and I have looked into alternatives.

They do exist, in varying quality, and there are programs for some of them that make a "bridge" from a discord server to your new platform. It's possible to have your cake and eat it to.

Matrix looks really close, but it needs ALOT of love. I have high hopes for matrix because of the idea of it. Perhaps my lackluster experience was because I didn't choose the best client available. I'm still trying new things here.

https://matrix.org/

Revolt is the more complete product as of today.

https://revolt.chat/

Spacebar I have yet to try but it's on my radar.

https://github.com/spacebarchat

I just wanted to see if anyone else had other recommendations for me to try. I really would appreciate help here. Hopefully something open source and self hosted so I can stop migrating and sink some roots in somewhere.

GitHub Discussions can also be a great place for support as long as these are regularly monitored. Another option along the same lines is Discourse and the Open Source Matrix which is used by quite a few Open Source and community-based projects.

Tangential: the article notes that Telegram is an “encrypted messaging app”. While this is technically true, it's worth keeping in mind that it's not end-to-end encrypted, so it's less secure in that regard than, say, Signal or even WhatsApp. Telegram does have opt-in end-to-end encrypted one-on-one chats, but those are very inconvenient to use.

For a properly encrypted chat app, including group chats (opt-in), try Matrix instead: https://matrix.org/

I'd love something like the Matrix [0] data model (JSON messages aggregated in an eventually-consistent chatroom CRDT) transmitted over something like simplex for metadata resistance.

[0] https://matrix.org

Trillian mod here. There's this new thing called Beeper, works on matrix.org. It's not as the good old times, but I'm currently using whatsapp, FB messenger, discord, telegram, signal, imessage and a few more. It's not Cerulean experience, but it's... slowly improving.