Post AztvKAgYRKuuwoPxGS by aral@mastodon.ar.al
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(DIR) Post #AztkSXZ2A7rwj2gibg by _elena@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T08:38:42Z
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🚨 attention #designers of the Fediverse 🎨 #VarnishCache is rebranding to #VinylCache and is running a logo and mascot contest throughout November.Vinyl Cache will award monetary prizes to the 3 best designs:🔗 : https://vinyl-cache.org/#vinyl-cache-logo-and-mascot-contestIf you follow my #selfhosting adventures (@elena) you know how much I LOOOVE Varnish Cache (I set it up for my Ghost site and I've never experienced the Mastodon stampede anymore, since activating it). It's really the best!#illustration #design #branding
(DIR) Post #AztkSYwT2UCx00ewls by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-04T09:49:54Z
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@_elena @elena Varnish Software is a VC funded corporation with ~84.5M SEK annual turnover.They can afford to hire a designer and pay them properly like they do everyone else who works for them.https://tracxn.com/d/companies/varnish-software/__NVwsqJztiiMDMENe3Et5nTplj52XAc9ZxixiNgHcTxI
(DIR) Post #AztkZ9TY7Z642lH7yq by _elena@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T09:51:06Z
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@aral thank you for letting me know this Aral. I will take down my post... your comments have been really eye-opening
(DIR) Post #Aztl3LvyMi8tN0yGBM by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T09:54:21Z
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@_elena @aral Rather than taking the post down, maybe edit it?
(DIR) Post #Aztl3MzYQsbMePedP6 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-04T09:56:32Z
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@KimSJ @_elena Your call, of course, Elena, but keeping it up would be educational for those reading the thread as it’s an important point about open source in general.
(DIR) Post #Aztm4JE01WelDAQGeW by _elena@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T10:00:05Z
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@KimSJ @aral done! thank you for the suggestion
(DIR) Post #Aztm4KTzLZ2Z72uYDI by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-04T10:07:56Z
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@_elena @KimSJ 💕
(DIR) Post #Aztn8T27b8UYkCPhdg by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-04T10:19:53Z
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@andycarolan @KimSJ @_elena Open source = open as in open for business.Free software = free as in freedom.Very different things, willfully conflated by the former at the expense of the latter.
(DIR) Post #AztnwIz7ES6y3glvxA by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-04T10:28:59Z
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@patpro @_elena @elena Fair enough. Did not know the backstory. Another great example of corporate capture (I mean, can it even be called corporate capture when open source exists for corporate capture?)
(DIR) Post #AztoNGTMgEBe5OmBay by WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
2025-11-04T10:33:48Z
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Indeed, this is how I learned, actually, by reading the thread so keeping it up was hugely helpful! @aral @_elena @KimSJ
(DIR) Post #Aztp3wu7JLnDqbdueO by meganL@mas.to
2025-11-04T10:41:26Z
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@aral Happy you said this. I used to go off on this regularly on the bird site and I think people thought I was being too "pie in the sky" about what designers and artists should expect.Of course, this sort of contest epitomizes the attitudes that made automated ripoff of artists and designers through AI acceptable to so many...
(DIR) Post #AztvK9VAqADfHE5Lt2 by slink@fosstodon.org
2025-11-04T11:19:57Z
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@woe2you @nclm @_elena @andycarolan @aral and everyone else who commented: THANK YOUfor now, i learned a lot - we need to decide what to do next.
(DIR) Post #AztvKAgYRKuuwoPxGS by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-04T11:51:26Z
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@slink @woe2you @_elena @andycarolan 💕