Boris Mann
I support #CoSocialCaTechOps for the CoSocial community.
I’m based in Vancouver. I like to cook and eat. DWeb, open source, and community building.
More: https://bmann.ca
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Boris Mann@news.cosocial.cato Canada•Only three Canadian schools made top 100 on a new global university ranking4·2 years agoThe TLDR elsewhere is that… Canadian universities have actually risen in rankings and for our population this is actually good.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPto Vancouver•West Coast Family Nights In Woodland ParkEnglish1·2 years agoThere were a couple of food vendors and some singing when I walked by the other night.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPMto CoSocial Co-Op@news.cosocial.ca•Things to do to test Lemmy1·2 years agoYeah trying to search for remote stuff seems incredibly flakey.
I just tried it again for NixOS and nothing … but just as I was trying a new search, it “popped in” a link to the remote community.
Searching for the URL I guess kickstarts federation.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.cato Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Non-commercial Open Source License?English9·2 years agoThere are a number of licenses that do this. And yes, many of them are not OSI approved and people will say mean things about not using the word open source. Which you should ignore and instead perhaps say fair source instead if you care.
A couple to look at:
a public LICENSE that makes software free for noncommercial and small-business use, with a guarantee that fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory paid-license terms will be available for everyone else
Prosperity is a public LICENSE for software that makes work free for noncommercial use, with a built-in free trial for commercial users.
I also recommend going through the back log of posts by Kyle Mitchell, an engineer - lawyer who has authored a number of great software licenses, including the two I listed.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPto Canada•TechDirt: As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In CanadaEnglish2·2 years agoI have seen worse behaviour and bias from corporate media than independent. I think we perhaps have very different pictures of what this means.
My 20 years of seeing people denigrated as “bloggers” while opinion columnists are platformed and not held accountable hasn’t made me feel good about the information coming from corporate media.
And yeah we’re in a tough spot. We need much better discussion tools. I don’t think the CRTC is the right entity to do a good job here.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPto Canada•TechDirt: As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In CanadaEnglish33·2 years agoMy opinion on the corporate media that is the only one funded by this is the same as what you’ve just said. Just in a rich get richer approach to media in Canada. That’s (one of) the big issues I have with this bill.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPto Canada•TechDirt: As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In CanadaEnglish21·2 years agoDo you agree that indepedent Canadian media should also get paid?
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPto Canada•OpenMedia on Bill C-18 and how it only supports corporate media in CanadaEnglish1·2 years agoBut it’s OK for independent media in Canada to not get paid?
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPto Canada•TechDirt: As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In CanadaEnglish73·2 years agoSure. Then it should also apply to independent media. Which the Canadian bill does not. The Canadian government is picking and chooseing who news media is.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPto Canada•TechDirt: As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In CanadaEnglish41·2 years agoBecause it’s supporting Canadian mega corporations. Read OpenMedia https://action.openmedia.org/page/121153/petition/1?
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPto Canada•TechDirt: As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In CanadaEnglish77·2 years agoSure. Except, if you read the article, this is about a fundamental discussion about paying to link to things. Should every post to Lemmy pay the website it links to?
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.cato Fediverse@lemmy.world•Shouldn't all the instances show the same community content?English0·2 years agoNo, you’ll get different content based on everything from flaky federation (software that isn’t perfect) to differences in moderation.
So, for moderation, let’s do an example. Bob has an account on Server A. He posts a comment on a community with his Server A account which is federated from Server B.
But Bob breaks the terms of service / moderation rules on Server B. Server B mods block his account and his comment is not visible there.
If Alice views the comments on the post on Server A, she’ll see Bob’s comment. On Server B, where Bob is blocked, Alice won’t see Bob’s comment.
On Mastodon, servers will sometimes connect to Relays which specialize in moving content between many different servers, which is different than moderation blocks ;)
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.cato Fediverse@lemmy.ml•best fediverse solution for a project/corporate /entrepreneurship pageEnglish1·2 years agoIt’s still new, but the Takahē server is now focused on homepage functionality.
My wishlist would be to be able to link Mastodon accounts to Lemmy accounts, so the Lemmy system “knows” it’s the same person. Including being able to edit the posts that come in from Mastodon, which right now is the biggest issue.
This post as an example, I was framing it as a Masto post, and it’s pretty terrible on Lemmy. I’d focus on optimizing favourite/boost/comment from Mastodon as that is I think going to work best - comments don’t need first class titles, links, and feature images.
For OPs, wouldn’t it be amazing if I could DM some links and images and stuff, and then login to Lemmy/kbin and have it appear as a draft, and then publish it natively with rich text tools on the Lemmy/kbin side.
Subscribing via Mastodon works much better for me, even if I then go over and interact with my Lemmy account. I want both OPs and comments, and it’s easy enough to put in a list or otherwise manage notifications from my clients. Micro-blog native vs Thread native people are going to differ in their opinions here :)
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.cato Fediverse@lemmy.ml•Gathering extended info about fediverse organizations aka Fediverse GalaxiesEnglish0·2 years agoIt’s literally a quick test with me filling out two, and @[email protected] submitting one. Can you dump a link to a CSV or source into an issue there of the stuff you’re gathering please – I need examples to build out the schema, so I can actually display that rather than just the blog post stuff. Well, and the JSON file underneath that is meant to be used as an API.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.cato Fediverse@lemmy.world•I know that Lemmy and Kbin can see each other's content, but what about the other 'form' of site like Mastodon or Pixelfed?English4·2 years agoI wrote a whole article with screenshots of how Mastodon and Lemmy interop.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.cato Canada•TekSavvy puts itself up for sale amid industry turmoilEnglish92·2 years agoI was with TekSavvy for a long time but they were getting worse. I Switched to Oxio https://oxio.ca which is cheaper and faster than TS was. It’s a brand for Cogeco.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caOPto Toronto•Torontonians should stand in solidarity with striking renters | TVO TodayEnglish4·2 years agoThat’s not how tenant unions work. I’m not in Toronto, but collecting a list of these unions and having a look at them might be useful.
Often times there are ones for particularly vulnerable groups, like new immigrants or single mothers. Rather than tenants have to figure stuff out on their own.
I did a quick search and found the Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations. Becoming a member is more about supporting and donating over time, much like you would any organization you believe in whether as an individual or a business.
The services of these organizations are free for tenants, like the Toronto Renters Forum that the FMTA runs https://www.torontotenants.org/toronto_renters_forum
Standing in solidarity might mean sharing their stuff, supporting their point of view, or any number of other supportive, joint action.
Boris Mann@news.cosocial.caMto CoSocial Co-Op@news.cosocial.ca•Boris Test Mastodon to Lemmy PostEnglish2·2 years agoFirst line is title seems to work. And then some weird behaviour where of course native Mastodon replies won’t make it to lemmy, because the community doesn’t remain tagged?
And the communities each receive the post, so both should act on it independently.
Enough for tonight. Thanks for experimenting with me, looking forward to more collab!
There is 2fa support, but it doesn’t work like I expected it to.
Here is a post that describes how to set this up with 1Password.
TLDR, rather than clicking on the button for 2fa link, which will open passwords on MacOS, copy the button link and paste it into a new OTP field in your 1Password entry for CoSocial News.