EDIT: Saw a few mention two solutions to disable the automatic verification on iOS & macOS.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-enable-private-access-tok...
It isn’t perfect but we are ahead of most others (Mastodon, Matrix). We have spent TWELVE YEARS building the free, permissionless open source platform for anyone to assemble and host their own community software with all the features of Facebook/Twitter/TikTok for their own community:
https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
We are about to roll out version 2.0 — I have never done this before but I would like to invite whoever wants to learn about it or build on it, to a Zoom webinar where I will demo anything and answer any questions. Starting in Q3 this year all the webinars will take place on our own platform — no Calendly, no Zoom, no Google, just the free open Web.
Anyway, sign up here if you want. Will do it every Sunday throughout August:
https://calendly.com/qbix/qbix-2-0-platform-demo
Whether you’re a developer, a businessperson, or just want to learn about the latest technologies moving the Free Open Source Web forward, this platform can help empower you to build and engage a community around yourself and your projects.
Their leadership isn't "awful", their leaders are finally doing their job, for the first time in decades.
Post that comment again when crypto accounts are FDIC[0] (or whatever scheme, if any, is used where you live) insured. I'm sure you'll get a different response.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/competit...
[0] https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/
[1] Economists call these "rents", even though they're more general than just rent paid to borrow some real property
Contact info for antitrust authorities:
US:
- https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation
- antitrust@ftc.gov
EU:
- https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/contact_en
- comp-greffe-antitrust@ec.europa.eu
UK:
- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the-cma-about-a-competition...
- general.enquiries@cma.gov.uk
India:
- https://www.cci.gov.in/antitrust/
I could not find an easy contact method for filing a complaint for the CCI, but it looks like this is the process?
- https://www.cci.gov.in/filing/atd
Canada:
- https://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/frm-e...
I'm happy to share what I've sent to the FTC if others want to use it as a template.
Why using calendly, zoom, and google? Well, as I said, we haven't launched Qbix Platform 2.0 to everyone worldwide yet. This is if you want to get involved pre-launch.
We dogfood our own stuff, but we also interoperate with everything else out there, such as Discourse (https://qbix.com/ecosystem for example incorporates it), Zoom, Google, Facebook, etc.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215588/github-iran-sanct...
As a side note, many people on our development team that has worked with us since 2013 have spoken Russian, coming from Ukraine, Armenia, Russia, etc. Many of them continue to work together despite the war their governments are conducting.
We are for empowering people uniting communities around the world, and are pretty critical of government overreach:
https://community.qbix.com/t/transparency-in-government/234
https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/
If that appeals to you, the lowest hanging fruit is just joining the community and introducing yourself:
Just a reminder that several states have already filed an antitrust suit (in part) over a previous Google plan to turn the web into their own walled garden.
> Project NERA was Google’s original plan to create a closed ecosystem out of the open internet. Google documents reveal that Google’s motive was to “successfully mimic a walled garden across the open web [so] we can protect our margins.”
According to Google’s internal documents, the strategy would allow Google to extract even higher intermediation fees. A Google employee aptly described Google’s ambition for Project NERA to “capture the benefits of tightly ‘operating’ a property … without ‘owning’ the property and facing the challenges of building new consumer products.”
Google main strategy to do this was to leverage its popular browser, Chrome, to track users, by forcing them to stay logged into the browser. Google did this by logging users into the browser when they logged into any Google property such as Gmail or YouTube, and logging them out of services when they logged out of the browser.
https://mspoweruser.com/project-nera-state-attorneys-general...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.56...
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/21/russian_foss_contribu...
But thank you for your reply.
There were some reasonable criticism that it was too long/wordy hopefully you can adapt and reformat to your liking.