I appreciate the efforts, but may I ask why wait for 7.6 is out. IMHO NC 15 (or whatever version) should be available on all available NS versions. Otherwise I feel ‘forced’ to upgrade to 7.6 whilest I do not want that at this moment.
Since I recently started to get involved a bit in fediverse I can explain a bit about what it is and what it does. Fediverse is a set of protocols that connect several decentralized social media projects. Currently we all know Facebook and Google plus, twitter, instagram etc…
These social media platforms are immense popular but also are immense nasty in tracking and profiling you. The phrase: “If you get something for free, the product is most likely you” is more than true in these cases. (nice read: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html)
Privacy advocates started privacy friendly, decentralized projects as alternatives to the commercial social media networks. Examples are:
All these networks are decentralized. This means that there are many servers available that are connected but independent from each other. This allows you to choose the server you want to create your account on, or even start your own server. I have my own diaspora* server running at https://pod.interlin.nl
Nextcloud 15 will have options to connect to the fediverse and be able to join the social media options hosted through fediverse connected servers.
As a privacy lobbyist I am quite excited that Nextcloud decided to add fediverse social media options. I think privacy is important and the power of FB, Google, Twitter, MS and several more large datagrabbing, profiling companies has grown too big and it is high time we take our privacy back.
/edit: found another distrurbing privacy documentary. Sorry for the political hijack…
I think this is an issue. Nextcloud ‘requires’ one to be current and updated all the time. Updates between major versions are hard, so upstream ‘pushes’ one to be on the latest and greatest all the time.
There is no ‘LTS version’ or support for older releases.