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If you are actively hiring for positions in a company that is friendly to transgender people, in a country that is safe for transgender people, and you are willing to sponsor visas for people seeking to emigrate for these positions, I would like to hear from you. https://werd.io/2025/seeking-trans-friendly-employers-who-sponsor-visas

This is the way.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@quillmatiq/post/DFAtiYLvnxH

OK listen up, you guys:

All we need to do is hand-encode our videos into efficient MP4s and upload them directly to webspace that we control, with the right access permissions and cache settings

Loop our hosting through a CDN

Then hand-code a web interface to peruse them all, complete with feeds

And use a RSS reader that's optimized for video scrolling on mobile, with an interest-based algorithm

Then we're good to go!

The best bit? It shouldn't cost more than about $50/month to run, each

Interesting new AT Protocol based non-profit with involvement from Nabiha Syed, Robin Berjon, Mark Surman, Mallory Knodel, Eli Pariser and others. Fediverse https://freeourfeeds.com/

Mastodon is transferring ownership to a new non-profit, which will also be based in Europe. I'm very curious to see what happens next. Fediverse https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/

The indieweb should be a journey of discovery, conversation, and community, not one of extraction. That demands different tools and a different approach to search. https://werd.io/2025/the-indie-web-should-be-a-universe-of-discovery

"Indonesia has launched a $45 billion nationwide free meal program aimed at providing nutritious meals to 82.9 million people by 2029." We should be doing this too. Democracy https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-08/indonesia-starts-free-meal-program/104794432