By the way, I just got my #PinePhone. If you're curious on the phone, #AskMeAnything!

Note: I'm not a pro in this, I'm just a developer with interest in having a phone that I fully own. (As opposed to being rented out.)

I intend to switch to the PinePhone if/when I get this to work:
* Maps that I can rely on. E.g. I'm travelling around and I can trust my phone to show me where I am and how to get out.
* A reliable email client. E.g. an email arrives and I'll see it next time I check my phone's notification screen. Or if I disable DND, I'll hear a sound right away.
* Some messengers for Matrix/Signal/Telegram. E.g. I'm going to see some friends and I want to read/write messages while on the way.
* Calling. E.g. I'm calling healthcare or a recruiter, and the call goes through without asking to call later from a computer/another phone.

The phone is very new to me and I'm still playing around with it. Ask me anything if you want :)

#pine64 #ama

American Medical Association says sex should be removed from birth certificates / LGBTQ Nation

Forty-eight states plus Washington, D.C. allow individuals to change the sex assigned at birth on their birth certificates. Texas and Tennessee, two of the most anti-trans states in the nation, do not. Only ten states allow for a non-binary gender marker.

I was born in Texas, of course.

#trans #transgender #BirthCertificates #AMA

Announcing G+MM AMA: Cake.co founder Chris MacAskill, Thursday 1 November 2018 at 5 pm US/Eastern

Chris MacAskill, has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 9 PM UCT (5 PM US/Eastern, 2 PM US/Pacific), on Thursday 1 November 2018, in the Google+ Mass Migration community on Google+.

Cake.co is a topic-centered microblogging service with excellent image support. For a good overview, see: "Welcome to Cake, Google+ refugees! Here’s how to get started using Cake".

This is the third in a series of AMAs, we have other guests invited and candidates and contacts are welcomed!

Guidelines, requests, scheduled AMAs, and more:
https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Ask_Me_Anything

(Also in the G+MM sidebar links.)

#googleplus #gmmAmas #ama #gplusrefugees #gmm #plexodus #CakeCo

https://plus.google.com/communities/112164273001338979772

AMA: Hello, my name is Jason and I am the author of Socialhome. Ask me Anything!

I would describe Socialhome as a social networking server with rich profiles. I kind of see it as a cross between Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. You can do statuses like Twitter, longer form posts like Tumblr and it has the visual layout more like Pinterest.

At Google+ now: https://plus.google.com/+JasonRobinsonJaywink/posts/aeHxmc6tZAR

#ama #googleplus #socialhome #gplusrefugees

Current G+MM AMA status

Colour-coding[1]:

• Red: Not yet contacted
• Yellow: Attempting, no address
• Blue: Contacted
• Green: Booked/scheduled.

Solid have replied (within minutes).

Google have not.

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Notes:

1. I'm aware of R-G blindness. The coding is additional signal to the displayed information, not required ;-)

#googleplus #gplusrefugees #gmm #ama

https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Ask_Me_Anything#Requested_AMA_subjects_.2F_topics
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Announcing G+MM AMA: Socialhome creator Jason "jaywink" Robinson, Tuesday 30 October 3pm US/Eastern

Jason Robinson, the creator of the Socialhome federated social networking server , has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 8pm UCT (3PM US/Eastern, 12 noon US/Pacific), on Tuesday 30 October 2018, in the Google+ Mass Migration community on Google+.

Socialhome is similar to a Diaspora or Mastodon server, but with a different UI. Unlike Diaspora or Mastodon it will speak multiple protocols so will simultaneously be able to talk to any other server that talks Diaspora or ActivityPub protocols. It's still in early alpha state.

This is the second in a series of AMAs, we have other guests invited and candidates and contacts are welcomed!

Guidelines, requests, scheduled AMAs, and more:
https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Ask_Me_Anything

(Also in the G+MM sidebar links.)

#googleplus #gmmAmas #ama #mastodon #gplusrefugees #gmm #plexodus

https://plus.google.com/communities/112164273001338979772

Announcing: G+MM AMAs

The Google+ Mass Migration forum (at G+) will be running a set of AMAs -- ask me anything interviews -- focusing on sites and platforms under consideration by present G+ members seeking to move elsewhere.

We're compiling a set of candidates, the first invitations have been sent out and accepted!!

Eugen Rochko, (@Gargron@mastodon.social), the creator of the Mastodon microblogging platform, has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 5pm Central European Time (1PM US/Eastern, 10AM US/Pacific), on Monday 22 October 2018.

Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers.

Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter. Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon server, known as an "instance" of the software, but can connect and communicate with users on other instances as well. Users post short messages called "toots" for others to see, subject to the adjustable privacy settings of the user and their particular instance. The platform includes artists, writers and entrepreneurs such as Chuck Wendig, John Scalzi, Melanie Gillman and later John O'Nolan joined in, while Mastodon had reached 1 million accounts on December 1, 2017.

(from Wikipedia)

#googleplus #gmmAmas #ama #mastodon #gplusrefugees