#crowdsource — Public Fediverse posts

Power you don't use, you lose...

Harnessing #fans and #develop *your* community as a priority online else you lose touch.

Should be your kind of "product" without exploiting but using their talent & consented energy and examples sent by them...

...because just improving #Tech doesn't work for #DEVELOPING PEOPLE in the #human sense...

Use people / #help them #participate / #cooperate / #crowdsource etc

We had a lot of this #GOOD but limited #forum stuff before - it's people that hold space!

Power you don't use, you lose...

Harnessing #fans and #develop *your* community as a priority online else you lose touch.

Should be your kind of "product" without exploiting but using their talent & consented energy and examples sent by them...

...because just improving #Tech doesn't work for #DEVELOPING PEOPLE in the #human sense...

Use people / #help them #participate / #cooperate / #crowdsource etc

We had a lot of this #GOOD but limited #forum stuff before - it's people that hold space!

Power you don't use, you lose...

Harnessing #fans and #develop *your* community as a priority online else you lose touch.

Should be your kind of "product" without exploiting but using their talent & consented energy and examples sent by them...

...because just improving #Tech doesn't work for #DEVELOPING PEOPLE in the #human sense...

Use people / #help them #participate / #cooperate / #crowdsource etc

We had a lot of this #GOOD but limited #forum stuff before - it's people that hold space!

Power you don't use, you lose...

Harnessing #fans and #develop *your* community as a priority online else you lose touch.

Should be your kind of "product" without exploiting but using their talent & consented energy and examples sent by them...

...because just improving #Tech doesn't work for #DEVELOPING PEOPLE in the #human sense...

Use people / #help them #participate / #cooperate / #crowdsource etc

We had a lot of this #GOOD but limited #forum stuff before - it's people that hold space!

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/116245525628375677

Er zijn inmiddels 14 bijlagen verschenen bij deze brief, Dit is een boel informatie, misschien kunnen we dit #crowdsource-en? Zit er nog iets spectaculairs bij waarom de btw naar Amerika sturen een extra dom idee is? https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2026D12169

For my Open Handbook Commons #crowdsourced book writing project. I now have a public Matrix space. Please feel free to join. "#open-handbook:matrix.org" openhandbook.org #opensource #crowdsource #freebooks #books #lifeskills

Open Handbook Commons

Here is the repo for the first book we plan to launch as part of the Open Handbook Commons. Right now, it just has an outline. People are invited to comment or contribute.

#freebooks #opensource #crowdsource #digitalliteracy #communitydriven

Open Handbook: Digital Literacy
A Practical Guide to Using Technology Wisely

https://github.com/openhandbookcommons/ohc-001-digital-literacy

Here is the repo for the first book we plan to launch as part of the Open Handbook Commons. Right now, it just has an outline. People are invited to comment or contribute.

#freebooks #opensource #crowdsource #digitalliteracy #communitydriven

Open Handbook: Digital Literacy
A Practical Guide to Using Technology Wisely

https://github.com/openhandbookcommons/ohc-001-digital-literacy

A rough website is ready. I could use some help with the #UI and #logo. I am using #Quarto #SSG and hosting the website on #GitHub pages.

#books #freebooks #OpenSource #crowdsource

https://openhandbook.org/

#mwgic #2026 #JosuaTree #Crowdsource #Photography #Climate #EarlyBloom

Apparently, they need all the phonecam pics of joshua trees they can get.

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/something-is-not-right-in-the-california-desert-joshua-trees-began-to-bloom-in-october-2025-yes-october-and-now-scientists-are-trying-to-figure-out-what-woke-them-up-months-earl/27950/

#mwgic #2026 #JosuaTree #Crowdsource #Photography #Climate #EarlyBloom

Apparently, they need all the phonecam pics of joshua trees they can get.

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/something-is-not-right-in-the-california-desert-joshua-trees-began-to-bloom-in-october-2025-yes-october-and-now-scientists-are-trying-to-figure-out-what-woke-them-up-months-earl/27950/

#LibraryofCongress has a #transcription project in flight for records spanning from colonial America through to the post-Revolution early Republic that you can help with:

https://crowd.loc.gov/topics/american-revolution/

#crowdsource #archives #AmericanRevolution #AmericanHistory

I've been doing some code quality stuff on my AI slop reporting web extension to make a better base for continuing development. I converted the project to #typescript to stop driving myself insane with some #JavaScript footguns. In the process I found out that source maps don't work for Web extension debugging in #Firefox, and ES Module imports don't work in content scripts. Nothing is ever easy, is it?

#AISlop #BrowserExtension #Crowdsource #Webdev

In Facebook groups & on Signal chats, tens of thousands of residents regularly #crowdsource information on #immigration agents’ last-known locations, neighborhoods being targeted that day & — importantly — the license plates, makes & models of the rental cars used by agents, which can change daily.

Some #ICE-spotting Facebook pages in #Chicago have up to 50,000 members.

#resist #Trump #law #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #Authoritarianism #fascism #Tyranny #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

I'm developing a browser extension to #crowdsource reports of AI slop articles, and to flag slop articles/domains in search results.

The extension itself is started, and now I've set up a database to form the backend with #FastAPI in front.

Trying to get something ready for people to try out and start contributing ASAP because I'm so tired of this crap in my searches.

#FuckAI #Browser #Web #Python #Javascript #WebExtension #AISlop #Slop #Enshittification

Xfence ra mắt cộng đồng các chuyên gia bảo mật uy tín, cung cấp dịch vụ kiểm thử an ninh liên tục. Họ sẽ tìm kiếm và báo cáo các lỗ hổng một cách có đạo đức, giúp bảo vệ nền tảng của bạn 24/7.
#SecurityTesting #Crowdsource #Cybersecurity #Vulnerability #InfoSec #BảoMật #KiểmThửAnNinh #AnToànThôngTin #ChuyênGiaBảoMật

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1o46s62/crowdsource_continuous_security_testing_by_expert/

Xfence ra mắt cộng đồng các chuyên gia bảo mật uy tín, cung cấp dịch vụ kiểm thử an ninh liên tục. Họ sẽ tìm kiếm và báo cáo các lỗ hổng một cách có đạo đức, giúp bảo vệ nền tảng của bạn 24/7.
#SecurityTesting #Crowdsource #Cybersecurity #Vulnerability #InfoSec #BảoMật #KiểmThửAnNinh #AnToànThôngTin #ChuyênGiaBảoMật

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1o46s62/crowdsource_continuous_security_testing_by_expert/

Một nền tảng mới ra mắt cho phép kiểm thử bảo mật liên tục bằng cách huy động cộng đồng chuyên gia. Các nhà nghiên cứu bảo mật sẽ liên tục tìm kiếm và báo cáo các lỗ hổng một cách có đạo đức, giúp doanh nghiệp bảo vệ hệ thống.
#BảoMật #KiểmThửBảoMật #AnNinhMạng #Crowdsource #Cybersecurity #SecurityTesting #Vulnerability #InfoSec

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1o46s62/crowdsource_continuous_security_testing_by_expert/

Một nền tảng mới ra mắt cho phép kiểm thử bảo mật liên tục bằng cách huy động cộng đồng chuyên gia. Các nhà nghiên cứu bảo mật sẽ liên tục tìm kiếm và báo cáo các lỗ hổng một cách có đạo đức, giúp doanh nghiệp bảo vệ hệ thống.
#BảoMật #KiểmThửBảoMật #AnNinhMạng #Crowdsource #Cybersecurity #SecurityTesting #Vulnerability #InfoSec

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1o46s62/crowdsource_continuous_security_testing_by_expert/

We'll stop Apple TV at the end of the current cycle. What movies or shows on there should I not miss while I still have it? (already watched Severance, Ted Lasso).
#appletv #tv #streaming #crowdsource

#Cenk LAUNCHES #CAMPAIGN To #Crowdsource The #Peaceful #REVOLUTION #tyt #yt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RsSANjhyxI

Thinking about getting a new backpack for travel with the laptop. Anyone have one they love? #travel #crowdsource

Someone mentioned a good app for identifying birds but I can't remember what it is called. Anybody know?
#crowdsource

I’m the de facto #data manager of a local #foodbank and I’m thinking about how we could publish data about the demand we’re seeing to try to offset the loss of this centralized data source.

If other folks have regular sources of directly gathered data on #hunger, #foodinsecurity, or similar, I’d love to talk about how we could combine and #crowdsource something.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ending-america-hunger-report-snap-cuts-750f90757f50ab2d8bc97dfca5a917dd

𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱.

I've been tracking the impact of #Trump actions on US research, primarily in this Mastodon thread. But the thread is becoming long and unwieldy, and this problem will only get worse.

I'll continue to track this news but I want to stop doing it primarily in threads. Once I depend less on threads, I'll depend more on #tags to help readers find the posts in this collection.

I already use #DefendResearch and will to continue to do so.

It comes from the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship.
https://www.defendresearch.org/

But I want to supplement it with a more Trump-specific tag. After mulling over a few possibilities — like TrumpAdminOnResearch and ResearchUnderTrump — I've decided to go with #TrumpVResearch.

Thanks to Alice Meadows and Suze Kundu for the suggestion.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/30/trump-v-research-how-we-could-turn-the-threats-into-opportunities/

I won't add this tag retroactively to (many) past posts. But going forward I'll use both #DefendResearch and #TrumpVResearch for posts in this collection.

To follow these topics, consider following these tags.

I encourage others to use these tags too, in posts on the same topics. It's one way to #crowdsource this tracking project.

Here's more on this tracking project and the need to crowdsource it.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114031943643988590

#USPol #USPolitics

Views on tech podcasts

https://techwontsave.us/episode/272_digital_sovereignty_in_a_time_of_rising_fascism

#Zine - https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus

#crowdsource #Patreon
#podcast

Cool series If somehow you haven't heard of this one:
https://darknetdiaries.com/

Here's one way to deal with #AI #bots and #scrapers hammering our websites: set up a trap. I've hidden a link on my website that humans wouldn't click on, but scrapers would follow. I added the destination to my robots.txt so that well-behaving bots won't follow it. Now I can grep my web logs for hits to that trap and get a list of IP addresses of badly behaving bots. If we #crowdsource such a list of IPs (like with Crowdsec), we can collectively ban them.

So, I would like to #crowdsource a solution to an #ElectricalEngineering #EV problem.

I need to safely split a J1772 split-phase input into two parallel chargers inside a project vehicle. Each charger is capable of 3 kW. How would YOU do it?

#Meta plans to test and tinker with X’s community notes #algorithm

Meta plans to test out X's algorithm for #CommunityNotes to #crowdsource fact-checks that will appear across #Facebook , #Instagram , and #Threads.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/meta-plans-to-test-and-tinker-with-xs-community-notes-algorithm/

Melodice

Melodice is crowdsourced website with music playlists for board games.

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/03/07/melodice-crowdsourced-website-with-music-playlists-for-board-games-shared/

#music #games #boardgames #fun #gaming #playlists #crowdsource #shared

Update. "Safeguarding Research & Culture — Distributing Cultural Memory"
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/about

"The destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage has happened, and therefore it can happen again. We are in the middle of that happening, whether it is caused by human action or natural causes…Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC) is creating an alternative #infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge…Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear. Our archive is built according to the principles of #FAIR and #CARE, based on open technologies and standards, and resilient against loss via meaningfully distributed storage…Everyone, from individuals to institutions, can participate by accessing, contributing, and supporting these archival infrastructures."

#Censorship #Crowdsource #DefendResearch #OpenInfrastructure #OpenSource #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

10/ #Trump is doing damage on many fronts, not just the front of open and uncensored research. Are there projects to #crowdsource info on all of that damage? If so, the project on damage to research could be part of that larger project.

I welcome your thoughts.

#OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #OpenScience

6/ I'm writing this thread this to brainstorm with all of you on other ways to #crowdsource this work.

1/ I'm doing what I can to track the actions and positions of the new #Trump admin on open and uncensored research. But it's far more than a one-person job. This is a post on what I'm doing — building up to a call to help find ways to #crowdsource the work.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #OAintheUSA, #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ScholComm #Takedowns #Universities

🧵

#CrowdSource time.

I like the fediverse, you are my kind of people. So...

Please give me your recommendation for low-stakes, cozy, wholesome books or anime or other media. Stuff that made you feel *positive* and *relaxed*.

I feel like I'm going to need that more as, well... *gestures at everything*

Please, boost if you're interested in finding some islands of hope too.

Starters:

- Travis Baldree; Legends and Lattes (short novel)
- Laid Back Camp (anime)
- Bartender: Glass of God (anime)

Hackaday Links: September 22, 2024 https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2024/ #enshittification #HackadayColumns #promptinjection #forwardscatter #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #nitromethane #crowdsource #makerspace #dragster #Starlink #nerfing #stealth #topfuel #openai #fire #Wyze

Hackaday Links: September 22, 2024 https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2024/ #enshittification #HackadayColumns #promptinjection #forwardscatter #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #nitromethane #crowdsource #makerspace #dragster #Starlink #nerfing #stealth #topfuel #openai #fire #Wyze

Hackaday Links: September 22, 2024 https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2024/ #enshittification #HackadayColumns #promptinjection #forwardscatter #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #nitromethane #crowdsource #makerspace #dragster #Starlink #nerfing #stealth #topfuel #openai #fire #Wyze

Hackaday Links: September 22, 2024 - Thanks a lot, Elon. Or maybe not, depending on how this report that China used Sta... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2024/ #enshittification #hackadaycolumns #promptinjection #forwardscatter #hackadaylinks #nitromethane #crowdsource #makerspace #dragster #starlink #nerfing #stealth #topfuel #openai #fire #wyze

Hackaday Links: September 22, 2024 - Thanks a lot, Elon. Or maybe not, depending on how this report that China used Sta... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2024/ #enshittification #hackadaycolumns #promptinjection #forwardscatter #hackadaylinks #nitromethane #crowdsource #makerspace #dragster #starlink #nerfing #stealth #topfuel #openai #fire #wyze

Hackaday Links: September 22, 2024 - Thanks a lot, Elon. Or maybe not, depending on how this report that China used Sta... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2024/ #enshittification #hackadaycolumns #promptinjection #forwardscatter #hackadaylinks #nitromethane #crowdsource #makerspace #dragster #starlink #nerfing #stealth #topfuel #openai #fire #wyze

Hackaday Links: September 22, 2024 - Thanks a lot, Elon. Or maybe not, depending on how this report that China used Sta... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2024/ #enshittification #hackadaycolumns #promptinjection #forwardscatter #hackadaylinks #nitromethane #crowdsource #makerspace #dragster #starlink #nerfing #stealth #topfuel #openai #fire #wyze

Hackaday Links: September 22, 2024 - Thanks a lot, Elon. Or maybe not, depending on how this report that China used Sta... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2024/ #enshittification #hackadaycolumns #promptinjection #forwardscatter #hackadaylinks #nitromethane #crowdsource #makerspace #dragster #starlink #nerfing #stealth #topfuel #openai #fire #wyze

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112832977372367753

I’m sorry but I don’t know what’s the point of having the CEO of #Crowdsource taking stand when the ones asking questions don’t know how a computer works.

I can bet there won’t be any technology expert and the CEO will run this one off as a small vacation for sightseeing.

#Windows #Security #Technology #Microsoft #Windows11 #Windows10 #Windows #CrowdstrikeFalcon #FalconSensor #Politics

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112832977372367753

I’m sorry but I don’t know what’s the point of having the CEO of #Crowdsource taking stand when the ones asking questions don’t know how a computer works.

I can bet there won’t be any technology expert and the CEO will run this one off as a small vacation for sightseeing.

#Windows #Security #Technology #Microsoft #Windows11 #Windows10 #Windows #CrowdstrikeFalcon #FalconSensor #Politics

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112832977372367753

I’m sorry but I don’t know what’s the point of having the CEO of #Crowdsource taking stand when the ones asking questions don’t know how a computer works.

I can bet there won’t be any technology expert and the CEO will run this one off as a small vacation for sightseeing.

#Windows #Security #Technology #Microsoft #Windows11 #Windows10 #Windows #CrowdstrikeFalcon #FalconSensor #Politics

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112832977372367753

I’m sorry but I don’t know what’s the point of having the CEO of #Crowdsource taking stand when the ones asking questions don’t know how a computer works.

I can bet there won’t be any technology expert and the CEO will run this one off as a small vacation for sightseeing.

#Windows #Security #Technology #Microsoft #Windows11 #Windows10 #Windows #CrowdstrikeFalcon #FalconSensor #Politics

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112832977372367753

I’m sorry but I don’t know what’s the point of having the CEO of #Crowdsource taking stand when the ones asking questions don’t know how a computer works.

I can bet there won’t be any technology expert and the CEO will run this one off as a small vacation for sightseeing.

#Windows #Security #Technology #Microsoft #Windows11 #Windows10 #Windows #CrowdstrikeFalcon #FalconSensor #Politics

I think I'm done with my app for the time being. I'll call this v1.0 beta.

Wouldn't mind having a few people read over the README and try the app out if you have a few minutes free?

https://git.axelrafn.is/axelrafn/tabRemember

#SelfHosted #Git #Software #Python #Crowdsource #Testing #Beta #Stressful

NOT ON OUR WATCH: People powered news
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/05/14/not-on-our-watch-people-powered-news/
#NotOnOurWatch #StopTheCoup2025 #crowdsource