XSF Communications Team - 2025-03-27

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emus: I got this in my Mastondon client

Hi all, I am really sorry. I have been very much silent in the recent months. Even further not helped nor pushed out the work you did on the channels. I claim to correct this and be more active with helping the works you do! To start with, we just pushed this out: https://fosstodon.org/@xmpp/114235801609817484 I invite the translators to help translating this too, so we can reach many more people. And/or we publish a simple language summary that we can trabslate to many languages. what do you think?

Wondering if that's because of all the tags you added

ralphm: which hashes is it

does it tell?

Doesn't say

wait

and now?

Seems gone. Maybe something I did

👍

> Hi all, > > I am really sorry. I have been very much silent in the recent months. Even further not helped nor pushed out the work you did on the channels. I claim to correct this and be more active with helping the works you do! > > To start with, we just pushed this out: > > https://fosstodon.org/@xmpp/114235801609817484 > > I invite the translators to help translating this too, so we can reach many more people. > > And/or we publish a simple language summary that we can trabslate to many languages. > > what do you think? I would like to help translate this ↺

Great! Do you know how to deal with github? otherwise propose in a pad for example

Ok... Cool. I'll get started right away

> Ok... Cool. I'll get started right away 👍 ↺

> Hi all, > > I am really sorry. I have been very much silent in the recent months. Even further not helped nor pushed out the work you did on the channels. I claim to correct this and be more active with helping the works you do! > > To start with, we just pushed this out: > > https://fosstodon.org/@xmpp/114235801609817484 > > I invite the translators to help translating this too, so we can reach many more people. > > And/or we publish a simple language summary that we can trabslate to many languages. > > what do you think? 👍 ↺

Just let me know how did you send a letter to Meta. Last time had to send a snail mail to their EU headquarters in Dublin to be contacted by their lawyers in Italy, the same lawyers I had contacted before and said me they did not represent Meta 🤣🤣🤣

I've sent it to their press email. We'll see if they received it.

We do need a regulator who applies sanctions. This is the only way to obtain something. They only understand money and interoperability means a continue loss of users (and of money, of course).

> I've sent it to their press email. We'll see if they received it. 👍 ↺

> I've sent it to their press email. We'll see if they received it. The funny thing is that a company like Meta has not a contact mail for legal requests. Even public prosecutors have to compile a form in their website. ↺

> I've sent it to their press email. We'll see if they received it. Hope they'll give feedback. Your initiative is good and I appreciate it. ↺

Daniel wrote an article about this topic: https://gultsch.de/regulations.html

> However the most predominant reason on why companies don’t federate – despite the fact that they are using XMPP, and federating with other XMPP server would be as simple as flipping a switch – is that it doesn’t work with their business model.

> It is easy to understand why federation and interoperability goes against that business model. If your users can just move to a different server once you start sending advertisements or install a different app as soon you start showing ads in it, your vague promise of a future revenue stream falls apart. Aside from that, a truly federated ecosystem has no way of measuring its users so it is impossible to achieve the rapid growth investors demand simply because it is not quantifiable.

And here he was talking about VC and startups

https://piaille.fr/@movim/114236094656972803

awesome!

> https://piaille.fr/@movim/114236094656972803 🎉 ↺

> https://piaille.fr/@movim/114236094656972803 🎉 ↺

emus, so glad to have you back!! 🤗🤗🤗

In re "Open Letter to Meta" I just went with this piece of text on the pad

## XSF Announcements The XMPP Standards Foundation has signed an [Open Letter to Meta](/2025/03/open-letter-to-meta-support-true-messaging-interoperability-with-xmpp/). A call to action, urging Meta to adopt XMPP for messaging interoperability. We are ready. Let’s make it happen.

Also added two client updates

- [Profanity](https://profanity-im.github.io/) has released version [0.15.0](https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.15.0) of their console based XMPP client.

- [Poezio](https://poez.io/en/) has released version [0.15.0](https://codeberg.org/poezio/poezio/releases/tag/v0.15.0) of their console XMPP client.

emus: this is a proposed translation to portuguese. https://bin.nixnet.services/?888d617b258e3eb2#GX2XpsCRq4HqkQNbuT8uzqjHEjgABfQYj73k5fUzsP4Q

I would love to help more

paulo, do you know how to use github?

Yes

Perfect!

Would that be more conveniant?

Stick around. We will be creating the XMPP Newsletter PR for the month of March in a few days

> Stick around. We will be creating the XMPP Newsletter PR for the month of March in a few days 👍 ↺

If you are interested, I could help you learn what you'd need to know to help with the XMPP Newsletter translation 👍

gnemmi: I would apreciate it so much! paulo@xmpp.net.br

I'll make sure to keep you posted. Just stick around 👍

Cool! Tks

You are super welcome! It'll be great to have a pt_BR translation of the Newsletter! 🤗

paulo, are you on a UTC -3 time zone?

UTC -5

> You are super welcome! It'll be great to have a pt_BR translation of the Newsletter! 🤗 ❤️ ↺

Good to know. That way we can sync our times. I'm on UTC -3 .. 20:22 over here

Cool! I'm glad to be able to help... I'll be on standby for the march newsletter