totsipaki.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Search results for tag #fosdem

Evan Prodromou boosted

[?]django » 🌐
@django@social.coop

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

    3 ★ 5 ↺
    laza boosted

    [?]nparafe » 🌐
    @nparafe@totsipaki.net

    I got hit with the flu and couldn’t make it to 2026. I normally go because I like to get a feel for where the broader “software freedom” world is heading. But let’s be honest: FOSDEM isn’t really about in the political sense. It’s mostly an event - “open code,” “open collaboration" - framed in a way that’s comfortable for companies and public institutions.

    This year, from what I watched online, a few speakers tried to bring politics back into the room. They talked about things like technological sovereignty and the war. After years of carefully avoiding politics, that shift is genuinely welcome.

    But the real question is: who are you talking to, and what do you think it will achieve?

    If your strategy is to appeal to the EU, or to the supposedly “good intentions” of big corporations, then you’re not fixing the movement’s confusion - you’re reinforcing it.

    Because in Brussels and in C-suite offices, the only constant is money and power. And that’s why they will never seriously confront Big Tech, or the US state that protects it. The whole “we just need better policy” or “we can partner our way out of this” story collapses the moment it runs into actual interests.

    And the irony is impossible to miss: FOSDEM itself takes sponsorship money from the very companies shaping the problem - including Google, and IBM (via Red Hat). Whatever you think of sponsorship in general, it’s hard to square that with any serious claim of challenging US tech hegemony.

    Technological radicalism didn’t come from boardrooms or polished conference stages. It came from communities: from messy, stubborn, principled people building things together with and from the hacker ethic, with its insistence on autonomy, curiosity, and refusal to ask permission.

    If we want to keep the spirit of dissent - and the possibility of genuinely free creation - alive, we have to stop chasing legitimacy from institutions that will never be on our side. We have to rebuild from the roots: our communities, our practices, and our politics.

    Three slides from https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026/slides/265524/2026-01-3_k4oppqv.pdf. 1) Top left has the phrase "Open Source has always been political", 2) top right, has the world "Sovereignty" and the third has the sponosrs of fodem (including Google and Redhat-IBM)

    Alt...Three slides from https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026/slides/265524/2026-01-3_k4oppqv.pdf. 1) Top left has the phrase "Open Source has always been political", 2) top right, has the world "Sovereignty" and the third has the sponosrs of fodem (including Google and Redhat-IBM)

      [?]XSF: XMPP Standards Foundation » 🌐
      @xmpp@fosstodon.org

      @ 2026

      Thanks to all organisers, supporters and visitors for the great experience at our XMPP Lounge and at the venue overall!

      We end the day with this lovely creation from Angela (piscimisty) <3

      A self-made, hand-drawn (aquarell) folded letter with a mermaid holding the XMPP logo out of the water. Its adressed to XMPP Devs of the XSF.

      Alt...A self-made, hand-drawn (aquarell) folded letter with a mermaid holding the XMPP logo out of the water. Its adressed to XMPP Devs of the XSF.

      Unfolding the letter shows a hand-drawn (aquarell) mermaid and the logos of multiple XMPP chat apps such as Conversations, Dino and Snikket. The text admires the work of the quote "best messaging protocol" and sends regards from Angela to Ge0rG, a long-term comunity and the disroot.org admins.

      Alt...Unfolding the letter shows a hand-drawn (aquarell) mermaid and the logos of multiple XMPP chat apps such as Conversations, Dino and Snikket. The text admires the work of the quote "best messaging protocol" and sends regards from Angela to Ge0rG, a long-term comunity and the disroot.org admins.

        [?]XSF: XMPP Standards Foundation » 🌐
        @xmpp@fosstodon.org

        @

        Impressions from the XMPP talks in the room:

        What are you listening to now?: Implementing "Now Playing" feature in modern XMPP - Özcan Oğuz - (not affiliated but it's based on @dino

          Back to top - More...

          about this site - powered by snac/2.89