social.dk-libre.fr 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.
ho tiens, le premier reportage (à ma connaissance) depuis bien longtemps sur le #FOSDEM par la rtbf ... un short d'1m30
mais il termine par donner un rdv l'année prochaine !
https://www.rtbf.be/article/les-logiciels-open-source-se-developpent-de-plus-en-plus-de-quoi-s-agit-il-et-comment-ca-marche-11710585
(4/5)…It's easy to forget that the enemy to software freedom is *not* proprietary systems' *users*, rather those who *sell* such systems *for profit*. #LLM-backed gen-#AI proprietary systems are simply the latest tech fad (like, say, Web 2.0 & AJAX).
@karen & I keynoted 2x at #FOSDEM & 1x at LCA about the importance of — as social workers say — “meeting people where they are”:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/interviews/bradley-m-kuhn-karen-sandler/
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/full_software_freedom/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n55WClalwHo
https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/open_source_won/
Cc: @silverwizard @josh
tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server — it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There’s lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub.
https://tags.pub/user/_____relay_____/inbox (Mastodon) or https://tags.pub/user/_____relay_____ (Pleroma) to your server relays. This is a one-way pipe — your server will send public posts to tags.pub, but tags.pub won’t send all its public data back to you. Instead, your users should follow hashtag accounts to get specific feeds.Tout autre git européen que #github fait l'affaire, mais si vous cherchez une nombreuse communauté, vous la trouverez sur HTTPS://codeberg.Org comme au #fosdem ou à #educalibre début juillet aussi à @ULBruxelles pour parler #libre et #education @ploum @nitot @nicolasvivant
Even more than Gleam community the AS/AP based fediverse faces existential threats where it comes to the promise to lead us towards "the future of social networking", a peopleverse. And #AI poses high danger risks that must be known, so we can anticipate and mitigate them timely.
But above all we have to find ways to constructively collaborate with each in this chaotic grassroots environment we are part of.
#Collaboration and #cocreation at scale, organic growth and sustainable evolution are applied research areas of Social coding commons, where participants add value while working on their own solutions, following their self-interests in alignment with those of other people
To folks who are interested in the general subject matter I addressed above, I recommend watching the talk given by Michiel Leenaars of @nlnet at #FOSDEM last month:
"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI" by @michiel
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FE7ULY-foss-in-times-of-war-scarcity-and-ai/
#FDroid has a board, old news, time goes by, we get busy with the apps, the client, the repo, the server, the imminent danger, the #FOSDEM, and terms come to an end.
We seek an enthusiastic, collaborative and diverse board that can support our community as effectively as possible.
Nominations are now open to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for two years each.
How? When? Where? Who? Read: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html
In #FLOSS you can make a difference!
At #FOSDEM I promised people that if you attend the talk by @nicorikken and myself you will feel better afterwards. From the feedback we received I think we accomplished this.
The recording of the talk "Automating translation of a bestseller to spark children's interest in coding" is now also online here, so if you ever need some "feel good" moments around #softwarefreedom feel free to watch: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/R9Q9ZP-ada-zangemann-bestseller-automation/ #zangemann
Some folks at #FOSDEM tried to buy the makeshift hats one of our team members brought, so I arranged for this prototype of an official hat to be made. It's a fisherman beanie with our logo embroidered. I'm trying to gauge interest here. Is this something you'd buy? (Poll in follow-up post)
[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) debuted in 1985; it is a universally used, open specification that is deeply important for all sorts of activities we take for granted. It also, des [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1059200/ #LWN #Linux #security #systemd #FOSDEM
During #FOSDEM we launched a survey on #CRA Article 25 - Attestation
📄 This survey gathers input on how voluntary security attestation programmes for #FreeSoftware could work under Article 25 of the #CyberResilienceAct.
There are 27 questions (no need to answer all of them) plus additional thoughts in the free field are more than welcome
Please respond until 28 February! Don't forget to share
➡️ https://dialog-cybersicherheit.limesurvey.net/113884