Free.Libre.Open.Source.Software
The second best time to migrate is today.
The first step is appraising your needs.
Just lost support for your perfectly good hardware? Formally or casually de-supported hardware collecting dust or gumming up your workday?
Reasonably concerned for the well-being and access ability of yourself and minority neighbors and community members?
Wish you could move platforms over a coffee break if the platform owner-operator gets really chill and chatty about how fun human rights violations are when they're happening to other people?
Just need to display information, but your platform added a login or pay wall, or biometrics checkpoint that stops and searches viewers?
Just tired of ads, scams, and malware using half your hardline and mental bandwidth?
Wishing Narrow Intelligence was an optional model instead of being disguised as an 'ai friend' and built into basic applications or even operation system cores without QA or permission?
Interested in the LLM systems refered to as Artificial Intilligence but like it to be fully optional and transparent? or want to run a small system yourself? Or maybe get into macros scripting automation, without the slippery and unexplained parts, or fees?
How much website do you really even need?
just a page with hours and address that's easy to update? A few pages with a calendar or a shop plugin? How about no competing ads on your own page...?
Sick of ads for scams, malware, and unchecked natsi stuff?*
Just fed up with internet 3.0 extra hoops and animations, and wish it were practical to go back?
For more and more things, that's becoming not only a practical option, but a safer one.
(Wow this section is under frequent construction!)
Arguably Reference Material:
Editorial Resources on
Movim (earth.xmpp)
Quickstart Resources on
Movim (disroot.org)
Appendices
Group Session Resources Handout MONO edition
Group Session Resources Handout Now in Color
Group Session Works Cited
(for now, see handout -- individual pages with editorial blocks soon)
(parts and parcels may get posted to friendica or movim first)
Quickstart Resources -- Least-Effort Edition for tight or tired schedules
Quickstart Resources -- FLOSSification (software)
Quickstart Resources -- Fediverse - We Socialize Together
Fear Not! (guardrails, guidelines, pitons, and pie; an encouragement)
My Usecase Worksheet
Before Install Prep Worksheet
Contact the Seminary on Other Platforms
~ Mastodon microblogging for micro-updates and feed curation.
~ Movim for blog posts and fast messaging
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Friendica profile.
Weekly replies at worst, usually.
No supremacy dogmas. This space observes the tolerance paradox and is pro POC, LGBTQ+, and Landback.