@penguin42 @crse muuuch nicer UX, client support ofc, the whole model is quite different and just a lot more seamless

@stephanie @crse that looks really promising! thanks

@crse xmpp is closer than matrix (in that it has user status messages) but both are severely lacking in a whole host of ways:

* slick reliable UX (matrix sync is still laughable)
* guilds/servers
* voice "channels" (not calls!)
* easy custom emotes
* server side moderation/rewrite history - absolutely ridiculous to have to wait for delete events to federate
* all the other moderation tools, roles, permission management, anti-raid/spam mechanisms

The UX and reliability is really what matters though, i have a bunch of friends who all use discord and won't be willing to leave unless the large and small communities they're a part of do as well... We don't necessarily need feature parity today but we need something good enough to get early adopters

heck pmOS uses matrix and we would benefit hugely from having custom roles to help identify people and let us quickly reach people who maybe own or work on a particular device for example

soo where's the foss federated discord alternative at?

spacebar and stoat seem to still be a ways out, having something API compatible (spacebar) that makes it easy to port over bots and use existing clients sounds extremely promising (mobile apps maybe a lil harder but still very achievable)

but oh boy both these alternatives are so not ready for the main stage...

Is anyone looking at getting these projects funded?

#discord #foss #federation

when i was a kid, Android hacking was wild, i made my phone look goofy as fuck, overclocked it to the point of instability, patched games to unlock all the items, hell once I even got a Debian container to run with X11 forwarding....

I jailbroke my ipod and installed a patch that turned my homescreen into a physics engine

Now running containers and VMs on your phone is boring, iOS shortcuts can literally call out to shell scripts running in an x86 interpreter

this is the state of android hacking in 2026

Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation.

We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.

We have some idea of how co-ops like Igalia do this, but we have a lot of differences (like being largely volunteer run and having very different goals) which leave us with a lot of unknowns.

To give an example of the kind of structure we're thinking of (by no means final, there hasn't been any broad agreement on a new structure yet):

We have the relevant pieces in place to form an assembly (everyone listed on https://postmarketos.org/team/ ) which could then democratically form teams and delegate responsibilities to them (e.g. finance/budget, technical policy-making, maintainers for various OS components).

The assembly would then also be responsible for deciding on focus areas and long term goals for the project (e.g. improving reliability, building a production-ready immutable version of the distro)

We could then form working groups to enable cross-team collaboration to move towards our specific goals.

Currently we lack a lot of understanding of the potential implications of something like this, how we can ensure the project doesn't get hijacked, that we don't drift too far from our mission statement, etc etc...

If you have a background in sociology and/or relevant experience from other projects then I would love to reach out and be able to discuss this in more detail!

#decentralization #opensource #freesoftware #foss

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