Short apparition here. Humbled to serve in this transition and build that new home for the Open Collective platform. Thank you for everything Pia! 🙏

After a year of work, @ecosyste_ms now indexes more packages than @librariesio It's been a long journey for @teabass and I since our work on Libraries but Ecosystems is already powering the next generation of researchers, policymakers and application developers in open source ✌️

After completely disconnecting earlier this week, I'm login in to share this. I've been using this Twitter thing for 16 years. I tell you, it starts to be a shame to be there. It's time to leave. Disconnect. Go elsewhere.

Over 1 million people have joined Mastodon since October 27. Between that and those who returned to their old accounts, the number of active users has risen to over 1.6 million today, which, for context, is over 3 times what it was just about two weeks ago!

Mastodon is the #webWeLove. The one that we were hacking 20 years ago with RSS, Trackbacks, etc ... The one that gave us the original Twitter 16 years ago. Feel good to see this live.

venture-backed CEOs after laying off half the company

Few things make me as proud as having somewhat catalyzed this group to come together to solve access to money for communities world-wide. OC is a beautiful thing. ⚡️OC2022 Global Retreat⚡️+ team members who are not in the picture!

Pour pratiquer cette ligne, plus que l'heure en moins, la fin de la correspondance obligatoire à Mannheim/Francfort qui foire la moitié du temps sera le bienvenue.🤞

🇺🇦 The @1kproject has delivered 5,000+ USD$1k direct cash grants to Ukrainian families. Immediate help, no strings, in a time of wrenching crisis. 100,000+ families waiting. For the next 48 hours, @jennifer & I will match all personal donations.

Les amis ! Le 24 mai, venez parler avec nous all things @opencollect dans la conférence sur les communs numériques à Paris. On présentera la nouvelle stratégie d’ @OC_Europe. It is🔥 Merci @VirgileDeville et @jfdehertogh de rendre cela possible! 🙏🏽

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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the EU has given €35bn to Vladimir Putin in energy payments since the start of the war, compared to €1bn given to Ukraine in arms and weapons.

Zelensky tells the UN Security Council to expel Russia or dissolve itself. The kind of blunt language that the UNSC should hear more often.

Yesterday, RIA Novosti published a lengthy piece titled "What Russia should do with Ukraine", which explains in detail what Russia understands by denazification. It's truly horrific: 1/6

An op-ed for state news agency RIA Novosti titled "What Russia should do with Ukraine" by pundit Timofei Sergeitsev has created quite a stir today The rhetoric is truly horrific, even by the standards of what I'm used to seeing from pro-Kremlin media Below are a few quotes:

Got questions about why I think it is genocide. Until this morning I resisted applying the term. War crimes? Sure. Heinous rhetoric? You bet. What changed is the combination of more and more evidence, from different places, and even more importantly, explicit official rhetoric /1

As a genocide scholar I am an empiricist, I usually dismiss rhetoric. I also take genocide claims with a truckload of salt because activists apply it almost everywhere now. Not now. There are actions, there is intent. It's as genocide as it gets. Pure, simple and for all to see

What about VPNs? I guess local commercial VPNs are not a recommendable option? Can they use out of country ones? Or should we provide ad-hoc VPNs to them using AWS or similar?

What is the Tor situation in practice today there? Usable? Any specific guide?

What can we do to help Russia based Russians access blocked independent information like meduza?