**Moving really sucks. Gotta pack everything up in boxes, Bubble wrap all the breakables... what? Yes I think I found a new home. It's called Socialhome and its right here on episode 22 of The Self Hosted Podcast**. #### Housekeeping - Our sponsor for this episode is [Ginny McQueen](https://ginnymcqueen.com/support/) - [**New** NO TRACKING RSS Feed](https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=Unkle+Bonehead&fl%5B%5D=creator&sort%5B%5D=publicdate+desc&sort%5B%5D=&sort%5B%5D=&rows=50&page=1&callback=callback&save=yes&output=rss) Special thank you to [Nachbarscaft](https://bildung.social/@Nachbarschaft) for the proof that it works. I had thought of this before but didnt try it because I thought it wouldnt work but I am wrong and it does work! - I'm now on [Socialhome](https://socialhome.network/u/unklebonehead/) and absolutly love it! @unklebonehead@socialhome.netwrok More on Socialhome to come. My ultimate goal is to move boneheadmedia to Socialhome and make it my personal site such as [Jason Robinson](https://jasonrobinson.me/) has done. He is one of the devs of Socialhome and has made it look just like a website. -Funkwhale podcast update. I've seen some wireframes that have been done up to show what its going to look like and they are beautiful! I cant wait to make my podcasts all available on the Fediverse! I'm excited as hell! #### News [OpusMT](http://opusmt.wmflabs.org/) - An open source alternative to Google Translate has gotten started. [Fediverse search engine](https://search.social/) [Fediverse Party 2019 review](https://www.fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2019) ##### Some interesting Numbers - 1000 new servers online - 1.8 million newcommers - Top 5 servers growth was Pleroms, Mastodon, WriteFreely, Pixelfed and PeerTube. - Misskey, Plume and Funkwhale grew as well - 13 new networks expressed a wish to become part of Fediverse! - But the big problem still remains. People are still flocking to big servers and not enough small ones. Reminder that the idea of decntralized is everybody hosts their own. Which I understand is not feaseable for most people. #### Socialhome [Socialhome](https://socialhome.network) is best described as a #federated personal profile with social networking functionality. Users can create rich content using #Markdown. All content can be pinned to the user profile and all content will federate to contacts in the federated social web. Federation happens using the #ActivityPub and #Diaspora protocols. **IMHO Pros** - Looks very cool and is easy on the eyes to read. - Uses markdown for posts with a preview available. - Ability to pin content so that you can make it look like a personal website which is what I want to do with Bonehead Media. Just need a VPS to put it on. - Choice of 6 different streams to follow. Followed, Public, Tags, Local, Limited and MyContent. - Very easy to follow other people - Similar to Hubzilla and is easier to use than it. Because it doesnt try to do everything that Hubzilla does. - Has a command line client that is available as a snap app. - Works somewhat well in Firefox mobile. **IMHO Cons** - Currently **NO** desktop or android apps in development. - Needs a dark mode! Way too bright especially in a dark room. - There are currently on 6 nodes, 1352 users, 23217 postsand 3794 comments. So I would love to see more people use it. I think I'm going to stay with it and not return to Hubzilla for the time being. This is exactly what I've benn looking for. A place to put my regular content and be social all at the same time in the same place. #### I'm the in The Funkwhale Community Spotlight! I was asked to be in the spotlight of the Funkwhale community. So of course I said yes. You can go read it [hear](https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Community/funkwhale-community-spotlight-unkle-bonehead). I thought that since this is a podcast and I am a podcaster that I should just do an audio version of it. So I had Casey ask me the questions and hit record. I thought this would be good since I do have a couple of blind friends that listen and I hope they appreciate it. #### Socialize with me ### Sometimes on the weekends I will stream **LIVE** on [Dlive](https://dlive.tv/RealUnkleBonehead)! I will also be streaming live periodicaly through out the week! 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What is it that makes opensource software so cool? What makes it work so well that the vast majority of the interwebs runs on it? Well, it's because its real humans that are behind it. Real humans that you can talk to. And thats what we are talking about right now on episode 22 of The Self Hosted Podcast! ### This weeks sponsor [Ibby Dot Blog](https://ibby.blog) You can support him through [Librepay](https://liberapay.com/theibbster/) | [Paypal](https://paypal.me/theibbster) and even [UK bank transfer](https://ibby.blog/support)! --- **Podcast Recommendation** [Your Secure Life](https://yoursecure.life/) I also recommend you go do through his email course on how to [clean your digital footprint in 5 days](https://garrett-mickley.ck.page/6bb0cf1d4c). It's well worth it and day 5 surprised the hell out of me and may end up taking me full week to go through because I didnt know there was that many companies sucking up my data. I've only been paying attention to this stuff for 6 months but there are years and years of my stuff on line. --- ## News [Funkwhale Channel for Podcast Testing](https://channels.tests.funkwhale.audio/channels/cb00a95d-81c9-485e-8302-0c4e0ba15ba6) - You can join the development by joining in the discussion at [this matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#funkwhale-podcasts:matrix.org). Meetings are held officially at 17:00 UTC on Saturdays and Thursdays. [Mozilla Lays Off 70](https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/15/mozilla-lays-off-70-as-it-waits-for-subscription-products-to-generate-revenue/) [Nextcloud is hiring](https://nextcloud.com/jobs/) [Deaf Man Sues Pornhub](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7899281/Deaf-man-sues-Pornhub-disability-discrimination-claiming-videos-dont-subtitles.html) - Accessibility matters people! [Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html) - So many things wrong with this! --- ### Interesting Links [Decentralized Social Networks](https://medium.com/@jaygraber/decentralized-social-networks-e5a7a2603f53) - An article on Medium comparing federated and p2p protocals. I know its Medium and they suck ass but it's worth the read. [Mother Fu@#*#g Website](http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/) - A no holes barred satirical look webdesign. If bad words offend you dont go there. But mark my words, you will laugh your ass off! It was created to market a web app called [txti](http://txti.es/) --- ## Contributing to an OpenSource Project Do you know whats the coolest part of the opensource community? Having the ability to talk directly to the developers. You tend to find out that they are humans too. They are real people who have lives. They just have different skills than you or I. And they listen to what you have to say. Case in point, Socialhome and Funkwhale. #### Funkwhale Consulting with the devs on - how other platforms work - what podcst producers expect from a platform - what podcast listeners expect from a platform - testing - providing input and feedback about the gui - spreading the word about the project - When the time comes I will be writing some docs #### Socialhome I'm not officially helping with it but I havve already - Done some feature requests - Testing with replys between Mastodon and Socialhome cross commenting - Asked for a dark theme or the ability to theme - Spread the word about Socialhome ### Why Contribute? Because that is the way #opensource works. It's meant for the community at large. The more hands, the more eyes that work together on a project the better the final result is. So many projects get started and end up dieing because nobody contributes to it. If its just one person doing it and they decide to leave someone else can pick it up and keep going with it. If it's a project that is really good and a lot of people are interested in it then it takes off and becomes its own thing and keeps growing. The community is what makes opensource great. People coming together to create something that solves a problem. Opensource projects are people not products. 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