this is a non-toxic place to collaborate on projects (programming, design, art, or otherwise) and share information; effectively, it’s the awful.systems answer to Hacker News. this community has been in the planning phase for a long time, but the xz backdoor recently emphasized how severe the toxicity problem in existing open source communities is, and how important it is that we have a place to collaborate that isn’t controlled by toxic personalities or corporate interests.

FreeAssembly is starting its existence as a Lemmy community that enables collaboration on externally-hosted projects, but that doesn’t necessarily need to be its final form. as we figure out the needs of this community, we can grow to service needs like code hosting and design collaboration. for now, we recommend hosting code on software forges like Codeberg (and we recommend avoiding github if possible, though it’s well-understood that this isn’t easy for established projects). we also want to explore the best options for designers and artists to collaborate without making them dependent on large corporate infrastructure.

there are some expectations around posting to FreeAssembly. see the sidebar for details.

  • @selfOPMA
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    39 months ago

    feel free to use this thread to ask questions about FreeAssembly or suggest ways it can grow

  • @froztbyte
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    39 months ago

    imagine making this and not pre-adding me to the subs, scandalous!

    • @selfOPMA
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      39 months ago

      this is the perfect time to implement the button that lets me sub you to new communities!

      or I mean I could tinker in the database directly

        • @froztbyte
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          9 months ago

          (not a bad idea on the button, mind. I’ve got it on my list to try take a look sometime the week)

          ((today I’m debugging bad vendor chipset drivers because I’m tired of random interface hangs and other heisenbugs on my infra))