The Open Risk Commons is a welcoming online space to discuss #opensource #riskmanagement and #sustainablefinance topics
It is based on the wonderful #discourse platform that is providing a home for many healthy online communities.
If you work on tools, methodologies or #opendata in these domains come and join the discussion.
Framing social issues as 'civil rights' can sometimes backfire
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-social-issues-civil-rights-backfire.html
Question for members of climatejustice.social and climatejustice.global.
Would you be interested in a place for us to discuss topics concerning the two sibling servers internally?
I'm thinking of starting a #Discourse forum where we could:
* do community building
* brainstorm ideas for the instances and the Fediverse
* talk about our principles, rules, guidelines and moderation
* ask questions and help each other
* do whatever else we come up with
https://discourse.org/ is a free libre forum software that is working on ActivityPub compatibility, meaning it is/will be part of the Fediverse, able to federate topics and categories with other Discourse forums, #lemmy and possibly Mastodon and lots of other parts of the Fediverse.
For now you'd have to create an account on the forum to participate in discussions though.
I think it would be good for us, if more people were more involved in decisions and discussions about the instances as well as in community building and socializing.
What do you think?
One thing everyone should realize when they go on to those places is that these are **not** centrally managed by a corporation which also means that these **cost money to run**
That means that you will have to fork money for it you won't get it for quote unquote free or you pay for it with your data, or your usage patterns
You will have to pay actual USD or EUR for them!
Exit, stage left: X, formerly Twitter.
10th January 2025: https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/university/news/bauhausjournal-online/titel/universities-and-research-institutions-leave-platform-x-formerly-twitter-united-for-diversity-fr/
"Universities and research institutions leave Platform X (formerly Twitter): United for diversity, freedom and science
"Over 60 German-speaking universities and research institutions have decided to take a stand and collectively announce their decision to cease activities on Platform X (formerly Twitter). This withdrawal comes in response to the platform's current direction, which is incompatible with the core values of the participating institutions: openness to the world, scientific integrity, transparency, and democratic discourse. …"
"Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X … Elon Musk’s social media site “no longer aligns with our university values” …"
"University of Brighton, University of Sussex, and other like-minded institutions should – now – be at the UK forefront of what began in Germany. … Now. Do the right thing. Please."
Discussing privacy and cybersecurity on Reddit and Twitter? That doesn't make too much sense to us.
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Speaking of #EuropeanAlternatives, is there any for #TransactionalMail ? Not email providers, not newsletter providers, but those third parties that offer you a mail server to send email notifications and etc from your website.
In my case, it's for #Discourse instances. I'm still using #Mailgun which, well, may or maybe not count as European given its owner #Sinch, but also I'd like to migrate to a more fair and social option if possible (also not to just a brand cover with AWS underneath).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYwamikP0E8
#Comedian #BillBurr DRAGS Whiny #RightWingSnowflakes Who Cry About 'Wokeness' in #Media
I'm looking for a new comment system for my #Hugo blog, and I'm not seeing any clearly great options.
I've been using #Commento for #comments on my blog for a few years now, and it's about time to switch comment systems.
Commento has been effectively unmaintained for 4 years (see https://gitlab.com/commento/commento). Their (paid) hosted version has been continuing to work, but I've seen increasing numbers of errors lately, so it's time to move.
I'd really *love* something that could integrate semi-natively with #activitypub so new blog posts could show up in Mastodon and Mastodon replies would show up as comments, *but* I don't want to require a fediverse account for commenters; that rules out most (all?) of the embedded-Mastodon comment options.. After looking through Hugo's somewhat-outdated list of commenting options (https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/), it looks like #Discourse is the only option that even *slightly* fits that, and it's a lot heavier-weight than I really want to run today. Hours-of-maintenance-per-comment should be less than 1, thanks.
Basic requirements:
- Either easy to self-host or has a cheap hosted option.
- Allows anonymous comments plus common external auth options.
- Possible to import comments from Commento, possibly requiring code on my part, but it needs to allow arbitrary names, etc.
- Works with static sites.
- Not a privacy disaster
- If self-hosted, ideally written in something sane -- Go, Rust, etc. *Ideally* it's a single binary that listens to HTTP and stores comments in Postgres.
- Supports Markdown.
Does anyone have anything that they're really happy with?
Cultivating Community How discourse shapes the philosophy, practice and policy of water management in the Murray–Darling Basin
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I was forced to use Discord as a resource in a course I took. Absurd.
It's also, for some reason, used as a support forum for many FOSS projects. Idiotic.
Anyone willing to do the forum thing can run a managed #discourse server for a few bucks.
Reposting this from my back catalogue:
> Trying to understand something isn't validating it.
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> Understanding something isn't endorsing it.
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> Explaining something isn't justifying it.
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> Questioning something isn't attacking it.
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> Disapproving of something is not approving its opposite.
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> And agreeing with something isn't blind, unquestioning reverence to it.
You know how the #Discourse forum software hijacks your Ctrl+F and opens this dialog in the corner?
I was always annoyed by that! But today, I learned that you can press Ctrl+F twice, and it will go back to your browser's search!
Note, however, that not all posts of that thread might be loaded until you've scrolled to them, so in hindsight, I understand why they defaulted to this behavior…
Hello Fediverse! Feels good to be back! With this account I hope to make my small contributions in #romance #horrorliterature research and the #discourse around #horror, #fear, the #uncanny and #affect in general, but also to share some thoughts on the current political and philosophical discourse concerning #affecttheory #psychoanalysis #existentialism and #cosmotechnics
Writing primarily in ENG and GER but also in RU, IT, PT, ESP and maybe even FR!
Would there be anyone down to help us host a discourse forum?
Of all the things wrong with my language* I find that my ableism is the hardest to get rid of.
I try, then I fail, then I try again. I will keep trying until I no longer fail. And I try to tell myself every time I don't fall into ableism, it's is one discursive act improved.
* That I know of.
An intriguing new project by @raphael provides a pluggable #django app with the models, views and background tasks to let any django application integrate with any other service that uses #ActivityPub
Enabling popular "generic" web platforms like django, laravel etc. to integrate with the #fediverse complements the development of plugins for more specific apps like #wordpress, #discourse etc. and the dedicated "social media" type servers like #mastodon and #pixelfed
https://codeberg.org/mushroomlabs/django-activitypub-toolkit
Wish Casas had said something actually inciting instead. “Vaughn is my second baseman, our infield was set before we lit $40 mil on fire.” That would have warranted the #discourse
