Richard Stallman Explains His Account in Identi.ca and Distributed Social Networks
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-02-23 20:24:47 UTC
- Modified: 2014-02-23 20:24:47 UTC

Direct download as Ogg
Summary: Dr. Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation's founder, talks about the RMS account at Identi.ca and more
3.7M
Worth noting: After our last interview release (about Diaspora) someone created an RMS account at JoinDiaspora, echoing what already exists in Ideni.ca and Stallman.org
Made entirely using Free/libre software, heavily compressed for performance on the Web at quality's expense
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Linux Kernel Tainted by Software Patents That Make Linux Worse and the 'Linux' Foundation is Compiling Bribes to Enable This (Promotion of Monopolies and Tolerance of Software Patenting)
- Why you need to reboot when a serious bug is found in Linux? "Licencing"...
- Links 04/05/2026: Energy Shortages Become More Visible, Germans Reject Military Service, Merz Says US 'Humiliated' Over Iran
- Links for the day
- KDE's Cornelius Schumacher Explains Why You Should be Slop-Free
- Output is not measured by quantity of words
-
- Gemini Links 05/05/2026: ASCII Chessboard Without HTML and Ongoing Antenna Migration
- Links for the day
- Links 04/05/2026: Economics of Slop Discredited, Democrat and Republican Voters Want Cuts to Data Centres
- Links for the day
- IBM's "FutureNow" is the Rebranding of the Client Innovation Center (CIC), for Lobbying Purposes by IBM While Halving People's Salaries
- So says a new comment
- Libera.Chat Openly and Publicly Admits It Has an LLM Slop Problem (Chatbots in Its Channels)
- If there's a policy that bans chatbots (not humans), there's even a moral imperative for it
- Microsoft: Yes, We Are Losing Windows Users and Yes, We Have Problems With Payroll (So We Lay Off Essential Workers)
- From what we can gather, "hey hi" is now the name of everything at Microsoft
- Ubuntu.com While Ubuntu.com is Under DDoS Attack and Intermittently Offline Due to Windows Botnets: Don't Use Ubuntu, Use Windows Instead
- Unbelievable, as this is their advice when Windows zombies hammer away at their Web site and general infrastructure
- Links 04/05/2026: "DNC Covering Up Its 2024 Autopsy" and Rudy Giuliani in Critical Condition
- Links for the day
- ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Exceed 5% in New Zealand
- Can we expect New Zealand and Australia to divest from GAFAM?
- The Real News is Botnets (e.g. Windows With Back Doors), Not Iran
- Let's focus on the botnets [...] Microsoft's aim is the opposite of security
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 66 Out of 200: Alex Graveley Did Illegal Things, Then Asserted Mentioning Those Illegal Things is Privacy Violation
- Alex Graveley "has suffered damage and distress" when the public found out he told women to kill themselves
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XII - Outsourcing Everything to Microsoft, Which is Illegal
- Today's EPO isn't about technology or law
- Melissa Chan on Why Press Freedom Matters to Everyone, Not Just Journalists
- dispelling a myth
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 03, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, May 03, 2026
- Gemini Links 04/05/2026: Another Old Web Pillar Gone and Simple Lobsters Mirror for Gemini
- Links for the day
- Links 03/05/2026: Insolvent US Bailing Out Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle, OpenAI, and SpaceX
- Links for the day
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 65 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Claims Are Word-by-Word Similar (They Also Collaborated All Along)
- We'll keep it short today
- IBM Has a Long and Rich History of Showing Chatbots Bear No Business Prospects (From Jeopardy to Watson Healthcare and McDonalds)
- Watson Healthcare is already in the dustpan, so they are rebranding it again
- Europe Decoupling is Bad News for GAFAM, Especially Bad to Microsoft
- Countries want independence
- India Needs to Recognise That the World Wide Web is Monoculture in India
- In the US, a judge with Indian roots dealt with a case related to this; why won't India?
- All-Time Lows for Windows Down Under
- seeing the demise of Windows in Australia (historically a slow or low adopter of GNU/Linux) is good news
- IBM's Kyndryl Accounting Fraud Explained and More Recently the Insiders Talk About Mass Layoffs
- Judging by how the media totally ignored 800+ layoffs at IBM's Confluent and 400+ layoffs at Red Hat a few weeks ago don't expect to hear anything about Kyndryl layoffs
- Links 03/05/2026: Water Shortages Crises and Slop Fakes "Are Coming for Your Bank Account" (Slop-Enabled Fraud)
- Links for the day
- All-Time Lows for Windows in Spain and Portugal
- data which became publicly available less than 24 hours ago in statCounter
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XI - EPO 'Products' to Cement Asian and American Monopolies
- Only a fool would believe Lame Duck Campinos
- Microsoft Windows Falls Below 9% in South Africa
- As one can expect, GNU/Linux is measured as going up in France
- Gemini Links 03/05/2026: The Black Side of the Web, LiveJournal, Chimarrão
- Links for the day
- A Month Since Mass Layoffs at Red Hat (400+ Engineers Laid Off), The Media Didn't Cover It
- We are very concerned about the state of the media
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 02, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, May 02, 2026