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submitted 2 years ago by Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/539688

From the article: Moving to the Fediverse This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon.

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[-] coderade@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I think we should be advocating for schools to be encouraged to use open source software through their entire curriculum. People could learn that from the start and have a better appreciation, especially as FOSS software has gotten more stable

[-] ggt@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

GitHub actually has a program for educators. I think it just needs to be more widely adopted.

[-] coderade@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve seen GitHub used for class turning in and stuff, but not a program on there. is that like a learning course for FOSS stuff? Would be very influential as people would grow up caring about FOSS

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