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  1. Current standings of levels:

    Last Updated: 2026-04-12_12:15:01 UTC
    Lvl 01: 146
    Lvl 02: 138
    Lvl 03: 95
    Lvl 04: 57
    Lvl 05: 47
    Lvl 06: 32
    Lvl 07: 27
    Lvl 08: 20
    Lvl 09: 16
    Lvl 10: 8

    @liberachat

  2. Current standings of #ircpuzzles levels:

    Last Updated: 2026-04-12_12:15:01 UTC
    Lvl 01: 146
    Lvl 02: 138
    Lvl 03: 95
    Lvl 04: 57
    Lvl 05: 47
    Lvl 06: 32
    Lvl 07: 27
    Lvl 08: 20
    Lvl 09: 16
    Lvl 10: 8

    #puzzle #puzzles #IRC #competition #April #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #Libera #LiberaChat @liberachat

  3. Current standings of #ircpuzzles levels:

    Last Updated: 2026-04-12_12:15:01 UTC
    Lvl 01: 146
    Lvl 02: 138
    Lvl 03: 95
    Lvl 04: 57
    Lvl 05: 47
    Lvl 06: 32
    Lvl 07: 27
    Lvl 08: 20
    Lvl 09: 16
    Lvl 10: 8

    #puzzle #puzzles #IRC #competition #April #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #Libera #LiberaChat @liberachat

  4. Current standings of #ircpuzzles levels:

    Last Updated: 2026-04-12_12:15:01 UTC
    Lvl 01: 146
    Lvl 02: 138
    Lvl 03: 95
    Lvl 04: 57
    Lvl 05: 47
    Lvl 06: 32
    Lvl 07: 27
    Lvl 08: 20
    Lvl 09: 16
    Lvl 10: 8

    #puzzle #puzzles #IRC #competition #April #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #Libera #LiberaChat @liberachat

  5. Current standings of #ircpuzzles levels:

    Last Updated: 2026-04-12_12:15:01 UTC
    Lvl 01: 146
    Lvl 02: 138
    Lvl 03: 95
    Lvl 04: 57
    Lvl 05: 47
    Lvl 06: 32
    Lvl 07: 27
    Lvl 08: 20
    Lvl 09: 16
    Lvl 10: 8

    #puzzle #puzzles #IRC #competition #April #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #Libera #LiberaChat @liberachat

  6. Current standings of #ircpuzzles levels:

    Last Updated: 2026-04-12_12:15:01 UTC
    Lvl 01: 146
    Lvl 02: 138
    Lvl 03: 95
    Lvl 04: 57
    Lvl 05: 47
    Lvl 06: 32
    Lvl 07: 27
    Lvl 08: 20
    Lvl 09: 16
    Lvl 10: 8

    #puzzle #puzzles #IRC #competition #April #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #Libera #LiberaChat @liberachat

  7. I'm surprised of my own muscle-memory using #irssi again after at least 8 years of neglecting IRC. Happy to see there are still some folks around on #liberaChat

  8. the 2026 April Fools Puzzle Competition will begin at 12:00 UTC on April 1st

    2026-04-01 1200 UTC

    We look forward to folks participating!!

    More info: blog.ircpuzzles.org/

  9. The difference between British regulation vs: American regulation: Rat Shit in Food vs: CSAM

    US regulation is binary: FDA permits 9ppm of rat droppings in flour, realising it’s inevitable. You are within limits, yes or no? UK regulation is analogue: banning any & all poop in expectation that this will drive ever-cleaner processes of food handling, so any (rare) cases can be dealt with by individual investigation.

    Guess which…

    Guess which doesn’t work for the internet, doesn’t scale, doesn’t travel, is gamed by those who face it, & inflames activists? Not to mention: in the world of food the rats are not actively attempting to circumvent restrictions on where they can poop.

    https://twitter.com/LundukeJournal/status/1988709946528334009

    https://twitter.com/owenboswarva/status/1989979267103707609

    Also:

    Father of teen whose death was linked to social media has ‘lost faith’ in Ofcom
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/15/molly-russell-family-social-media-ofcom

    Update: Citations

    • US FDA, Food Defect Levels Handbook: “Wheat: Rodent filth (MPM-V15) Average of 9 mg or more rodent excreta pellets and/or pellet fragments per kilogram”
    • UK: The Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995: Ch 1: “The layout, design, construction and size of food premises shall … permit good food hygiene practices, including protection against cross contamination between and during operations, by foodstuffs, equipment, materials, water, air supply or personnel and external sources of contamination such as pests”
    • (ibid) Ch 3: “…permit good food hygiene practices, including protection against cross contamination between and during operations, by foodstuffs, equipment, materials, water, air supply or personnel and external sources of contamination such as pests … foodstuffs must be so placed as to avoid, so far as is reasonably practicable, the risk of contamination.”
    • (ibid) Ch 4: “2.—(1) Receptacles in vehicles and/or containers must not be used for transporting anything other than foodstuffs where this may result in contamination of foodstuffs (2) Bulk foodstuffs in liquid, granular or powder form must be transported in receptacles and/or containers/tankers reserved for the transport of foodstuffs if otherwise there is a risk of contamination. Such containers must be marked in a clearly visible and indelible fashion, in one or more Community languages, to sow that they are used for the transport of foodstuffs, or must be marked “for foodstuffs only”. (3) Where conveyances and/or containers are used for transporting anything in addition to foodstuffs or for transporting different foodstuffs at the same time, there must be effective separation of products where necessary, to protect against the risk of contamination.”
    • etc.

    #ageVerification #censorship #ianRussell #liberaChat #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #prestonByrne #surveillance #vpn

  10. Oh look, Libera Chat received a memo saying the Online Safety Act doesn't apply—🎉 what a plot twist! Forget the lawyers, it’s all about the #donations rolling in like a Netflix series renewal. Keep those contributions coming, because apparently, laws are as relevant as a 90s dial-up modem. 😂💰
    libera.chat/news/advised #LiberaChat #OnlineSafetyAct #plotTwist #InternetHumor #90sNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

  11. Możecie (lub nie) kojarzyć bajzel wokół przejęcia #Freenode. Niemniej, za sprawą otwartości protokołu #IRC, wiele projektów mogło przenieść się na #LiberaChat z ograniczonymi do minimum trudnościami.

    Dobra wiadomość jest taka, że twojej zamkniętej platformy raczej nie czeka podobne przejęcie — bo już jest pod tego typu zarządem od samego początku. Co więc zrobisz, kiedy twój projekt nagle wyleci, i stracisz dostęp do wszystkich danych — włącznie z tymi, których nie powinieneś był tam trzymać? No cóż, rzucisz jakąś żenującym korpobełkotem typu "wyruszamy we wspaniałą podróż ku kolejnej zamkniętej platformie, nie zapomnijcie zainstalować kolejnej naruszającej prywatność 200 MiB apki, żeby uniknąć wykluczenia".

    #Discord

  12. You may (or may not) recall the #Freenode takeover mess. However, thanks to #IRC being an open and widely supported protocol, many projects migrated to #LiberaChat with as little disruption as possible.

    Good news is, your walled garden is unlikely to suffer the fate of Freenode — because it already is there, from day one. What are you going to do when your project suddenly gets banned and you lose access to everything — including all the data that you shouldn't have kept there in the first place? Of course, come up with some corporate bullshit of "join us on our illustrious journey to the next walled garden, and don't forget to install another 200 MiB privacy nightmare app not to be excluded from our community".

    #Discord

  13. All this #Fosstodon drama remember me #freenode I know the reasons to move to other instance are differents, but I can't stop to thing that #fosstodon is freenode and probably #flosssocial is #liberachat

  14. 🐢 Wow, it's 2025 and Libera Chat just discovered #burnout is a thing! 🎉 Only took them a few years to "finally" acknowledge what everyone else figured out decades ago. But hey, at least they're evaluating... something! 💼💤
    libera.chat/news/burnout #LiberaChat #Acknowledgment #TechNews #CommunityWellness #SlowProgress #HackerNews #ngated

  15. There are only 3 days and 20 hours left until the ircpuzzles competition begins!

    blog.ircpuzzles.org/

    It starts at 12:00 UTC on 2025-04-01

    Join us in on Libera.Chat

  16. @brentdev
    .. and on the other hand, you will certainly remember the time well (was that before Corona?) when, due to great egoism and the resulting loss of trust, freenode-irc became a no-go and thus destroyed for all people volunteering in free and open software #liberachat was created out of nowhere, which in turn resulted in a mass switch of all these good spirits to liberachat. This was unprecedented evidence of who the f(l)oss-fsf communities belong to mentally. Do you know a better example of positive conspiratorial and, above all, such great collective unity and clarity? Not me. This happened in no time without much talking. The good spirit called and everyone came. Well a few went to #OFTC, but even #Kali-Linux has a connection bot to liberachat because many of their fans were too quick to join libera. I have never experienced a major brain drain or should I say mind drain. The purest migration of good folks.
    I don't mean to say that with what's left of #freenode there are only heartless zombies running around. My friends from PuppyLinux are still there (and also on lberachat) and are holding the fort because many Windows users are interested in #puppylinux to get started and are checking out freenode first.
    You can see that so far I've only been on irc channels. Facebook x etc were never an option for me because even in their early days I foresaw that this could not have a good development for their users and for our society.

    You know, I believe that the spirit here for many people is the same good spirit and I have already seen a few profiles that reinforce my belief. I think I will feel comfortable here.
    Thank you for your welcome :D

    #UNIX #Linux #FediVerse #FOSS #FLOSS #FSF #it'sTeaTimeFolks

  17. This is an example of a marketplace listing in Flohmarkt.

    What "I" did here...

    - Went to the "All" tab over at Flensmarkt - Much like PeerTube, there's a Home, Local, and All tab, the latter of which includes items from other instances that you've manually federated with within the radius you've specified from your location.
    - Next, there's a choice to make if you're interested in an item. You can register for a local account (I don't see any reason to do that unless you want to post a listing on that particular server), or you can remotely add yourself (like I did). Since the remote features don't quite seamlessly work with Mitra, I tried this from a masto server - no joy. I tried it from another masto server (a masto fork) - no problem this time, even on an older version of masto. That was humorous to me, as I've a bit of disdain for mastopub servers and found it amusing that even some of the instances running the very latest version of masto won't work, while older one's based on forks do; but I've got a twisted sense of humor.
    - So next, you can engage with the seller directly from your local instance on most Fediverse platforms (support is added for various additional Fediverse platforms all the time). In this case, (visible because I chose the "All" tab), the particular item was from yet another #Fohmarkt server elsewhere - this is a very nice feature, like #DeSoc #eBay!!!
    - From there, once you boost the item in the listing, others can see it in their streams, boost it further, make arrangements directly with the seller, etc. Kinda Kewl.

    This is different from how most other attempts to deliver a marketplace into the #Fediverse. Usually, what I've seen is someone trying to integrate the functionality local to a platform, which networks (via ActivityPub federation) only with other like platforms. That's not a Fediverse solution - that's a platform solution and leaves everyone else on the fediverse not running that particular platform disenfranchised.

    For example, using the Epicyon server platform as an example, it is first to be understood that this particular server platform is designed for very small numbers of user accounts per each instance. You also have to manually contact the admin of remote Epicyon servers yourself (or be contacted by them), then mutually agree to federate each other's marketplaces separately and distinct from any wider federation configurations your server has. Considering the inconveniences with locating other Epicyon instances that may or may not have enabled and made use of their marketplaces and establishing a mutual publishing agreement, coupled with the likelihood that each of your instances between 1 and 10 users, posting an item in the marketplace has a pretty high probability of being more effort than its worth - especially since it dosn't federate with any other Fediverse platforms.

    Others follow a similar design, but also generally operate like normal #ActivityPub federation using a blacklist method, as well as being able to accommodate potentially hundreds, or even thousands of users per each instance (yeah, I know, semi-monolithic); so even if those marketplaces didn't already automatically federate across the Fediverse with all instances of other like server platforms, it's still a huge improvement over the previously discussed smolweb platform's model.

    But they're still not Fediverse wide...

    This is where Flohmarkt really starts to shine - it's fully Federating (Still a WIP wrt some platforms - see the wiki for particulars) across the entire #ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse.

    You can check for the latest particulars on Flohmarkt's current Federation status if you're interested in your particular Fediverse platform and level of interoperation with Flohmarkt instances.

    I do have some criticisms of the particular functionality in federating that the developers have chosen to incorporate, however. Basically, The server admin still needs to manually federate item listings between the local instance and other remote Flohmarkt servers. It doesn't need to be this way however, but one must concede that after going over the documentation and seeing that the concern's of the dev team are over unchecked spam, phishing, poor quality ads, etc., I find it to be a very reasonable concern, although I'm still not comfortable with how the Dev team has hard-coded this conditional into the server's capability, when a slightly different approach might afford self-hosters much greater flexibility and incintive for adoption; namely:

    - Make the current model the default
    - Enable other configurations for federating between other Flohmarkt servers (and eventually, other platform marketplaces) via either simple configuration files, runtime arguments, or via a GUI in an admin control panel, including that of an uninhibited fully blacklist model of sharing listings between Flohmarkt servers.

    I generally tend to think that hard-wired, opinionated configuration choices are a less than ideal (usually bad idea) than acknowledging issues surrounding such decisions and then choosing a default while affording server admins (or users themselves) of being able to manage the options for themselves. This is one of those cases where I feel it could make a huge difference in the viabilty and adoption potential for this, "Strictly Federating Marketplace" Fediverse platform.

    The other (very minor) criticism I have for Flohmarkt is the pin & string radius solution as it is currently implemented:

    - It's determined by the server admin, instance wide
    - It's determined by the server location, or some other arbitrarily decided locale

    The radius is a great idea, but I think the following would go a long way towards improving the utility of this feature set:

    - The server admin decides whether to enable user-level radius configs or server level, as is the case at this time.
    - Local users determine, and have control over whether an established is applied to either their entire user profile's repertoire of items listed, or on a per item basis.
    - If he user chooses a per item radius, each listing could have a different radius established.
    - The local users have location radius specifications that can be based on different criteria, such as pinning a location on a map of their choice, by country (the free IP2Location databases can accommodate this behavior).
    - The user's particular radius settings for each listing must be preserved and observed by all federating remote Flohmarkt server instances (but not by individual remote user shares/boosts, which should remain unrestricted).

    This Radius feature is extremely powerful and I think that every effort of the development team to exploit the potential of this feature set should be a major consideration. Eventually, Flohmarkt servers will federate with other server platform types, exchanging listings between say, Flohmarkt servers and Friendica servers, etc.. but the awesome power unleashed through following and boosting capabilities that are already fully available to remote users to share with others holds the potential at this very time to make Flohmarkt item listings ubiquitous across the entire Fediverse, ... And that is really kewl :)

    Well, I'd rather tease your interest and see you go checkout more for yourself rather than feed you everything you wanna know about a really kewl #social_commerce communications tool - you really should experience how kewl it is for yourself.

    I couldn't locate a #Matrix support room for Flohmarkt like most contemporary software products maintain in the FOSS world, but the more traditional irc chan #flohmarkt at #LiberaChat is readily available, and of course, there's the issue tracker at the Codeberg repo I previously linked to above.

    What are your thoughts and impressions on this novel approach to embedding the marketplace commerce structure into potentially everyone's social streams in the form of both a dedicated platform and as passive feeds via the intervention of other #Fedizens who share and boost individual items and listings in Flohmarkt?

    I hope that helps! Enjoy!

    #tallship #FOSS #Marketplace #eBay #I_can_haz_Cheezburgerz? 🍔
    @grindhold @me @flohmarkt_support #flohmarkt_support

    .

    RE: https://fedi.markets/users/Yonggan/items/f7f7f8d1-6279-4249-890a-bdd97340d218

    @Yonggan