@Blisterexe Well so many businesses do this because they believe that the vendor will somehow charge less if they can reuse that code... but if its highly customised thats unlikely . it just becomes a case of pushing the costs down the road.

Not many postal banking businesses in the world

@yak So this is an interesting thing. Obviously the functionality required by the #PostOffice is to a degree bespoke - but not considering ownership was a critial failure of the contracting process.

Interestingly I think that there is something that every #creditunion that outsources its #corebanking and other IT should consider - How locked into that offering they are and what happens if they want to change? #Opensource #banking solutions offer the ability to both switch vendors and also customise to their requirements realitively easily - I'm not sure how many use solutions based on #mifos or #fineract - I guess they are still fairly new.

@sarahsquirrel DM me..

@sarahsquirrel #UX is an interesting thing with ActivityFed since choice or service, server and UI are all kind of independent. e.g. I use #Lemmy communities alot via a #Friendica server that I sometimes access via web UI and othertimes via #Fedilab as such you could actually help with UX of lemmy by contributing to #Friendica or #Fedilab as well.

Regards your local group perhaps #friendica might provide a fuller set of features or indeed you could spin up something like #Yunohost and run a Friendica and #lemmy service for them (and throw in some #Nextcloud to)

One of the reasons I posted this is I think that it would be great if more people got in and supported the project

@callcc Would love to ...cant wait for a true highspeed #paris - #barcelona or #paris - #madrid service. With better #crossborderrail we might even get to sit next to each other. #europeansleeper might even get us in the same bed. Imagine #London to Barcelona overnight. Id probably almost never sleep at home

I can report that our test of Briar worked perfectly.. (Except it was accidentally called Brian at some point.. ) I can see that sticking. - Our test was somewhat short circuited by #Ryanair's decision to actually seat us together in an #exitrow for once. #extralegroom baby!

@Gayhitler Oh yeah .. we also considered both sign language and private jets but the couldn't agree on what type of either.

Of course #briar I knew I downloaded that for a reason.

@donuts
I saw #pinry - github.com/pinry/pinry/ - Haven't tried it - can't vouch for it .. but is that what you are looking for?
@Teknevra

@TheGrandNagus

@fne8w2ah @technology
The important thing here is this avoids what happened with (and sorry i have to mention this ) #wordpress where one guy personally ran the org that guided the development of the software and then created dependencies on a central site he personally owns to control updates and access to plugins
Ownership of #trademark terms are important and open structures for things like.joinmastodon.org is as well

@nevodavid @jawa21 Hopefully it will be fixed soon. I'm keen to spin up an instance and try it out.