Is it for mail, programming, irc, usenet, website, etc? I’m just curious what other people do when they log into sdfeu.
I don’t recall exactly what I used it for, but one day, out of the blue, my account was deleted. Maybe due to a dormancy policy?
I think that’s where I discovered some radio related stuff, like a streaming radio and a schedule where people could sign up to broadcast at certain times. But I only tinkered with it every few months or so.
I heard about someone else getting deleted from SDF without reason. They were a digital rights activist so maybe SDF had something against their movement.
I’m currently using it for FOSS project related mail, trying to use it for website, and am wanting to do a gopherspace/gemini capsule version of said website once setup.
Cool :) What type of FOSS project is it? Is it your own project or part of a bigger project?
To directly answer your questions: My own, as of right now it is only a rust port of a static site generator I made in python. More as I figure out how to move my projects and their commit histories over to Codeberg without doxxing myself as my old address is my dead name.
To satisfy my brain’s compulsion to add so much extra context and detail to a simple answer: I kind of became even more pissed off recently with all of the corporate shenanigans being pulled across the tech sphere and cancelled a lot of subscriptions and thanks to the AI stuff, switched from GitHub and GitLab to Codeberg, which is another nonprofit. My public commits on GitHub and GitLab were attached to my GMail account, which I no longer use after almost 15 years partially due to transitioning and changing my name. On Codeberg I’m using the anonymous email feature which I like, however, I do not think that will work well if I contribute to other projects on other platforms. I’m not entirely sure how that system works and don’t want to find out the hard way. I also feel like my SDF-EU inbox provides a lot of value, being dead simple to use, being a fairly familiar .org, and I’m pretty certain my mails aren’t being scraped by the server operators. The domain is also easy to remember, and the tight storage restrictions will force me to delete mails, resulting in better storage management and opsec practices!
In all seriousness, SDF(EU) is, in my opinion, a pretty good community to associate a FOSS account with. By going with Lifetime ARPA+MetaARPA, I’d be directly supporting a community rather than a corporation, and 30 years is a long time for a community to be incredibly active so I feel confident that the money goes to a good cause. All of the subscription money I’m now “saving” on big tech is being redirected to all of the FOSS foundations and projects that I’ve been using throughout my almost 25 years on the Internet, as well as towards the Mastodon and Lemmy instances that I use.
That got kind of long, I’m looking forward to typing these kinds of things in a blog as soon as I can be bothered to figure out what is causing this HSTS error 😂