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## Introduction
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The Debian Social Team maintains a variety of services under the
debian.social domain. These services aim to make it easier for Debian
contributors to share content and collaborate.
- https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSocial

Here are some examples of services that the Debian Social Team intend to run:

* Pleroma, a federated microblogging platform. Similar to Mastodon, Gnu Social
  and Statusnet.
* Peertube, a federated video publishing platform. Debian contributors can use
  this to share content like howtos, interviews, podcasts, etc. It will also
  be a friendly interface for browsing and viewing the DebConf videos and from
  other Debian meetings.
* Pixelfed, a federated image publishing platform. This is a friendly and
  modern site that makes it easier to share photos at Debian events where they
  can be easily found by other Debianites (as apposed to Signal, WhatsApp,
  Facebook, Instagram which has sadly become a norm for those).
* Jitsi meet, a web-based videoconferencing site (currently needs no
  authentication).

Federation means that these services can communicate with other instances on
the Internet. From a pleroma account, you can follow videos on peertube or
images on pixelfed, or other accounts anywhere in the fediverse and leave
comments on them. Not only can they interface with other instances of the same
software, but also with completely different software (if based on
ActivityPub.)

Here's a nice video that explains both Peertube and the Fediverse:
- https://peertube.debian.social/videos/wa...2039a1acc4


## How to get an account on debian.social services
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It's still early days for us and there's still a lot of work that needs to be
done. If you're a brave soul who doesn't mind occasional errors, crashes,
explosions and even (brace yourself...) spelling mistakes, then you can help us
test these services before we open then up for wider beta testing.

Long-term, we plan to authenticate these services against the salsa.debian.org
service. Some services are part of the way there, others may take some more
time and collaboration with upstream.

In the meantime, you can request an account for one or more of the services by
creating a ticket in salsa.debian.org:
- https://salsa.debian.org/debiansocial-te...issues/new
You need a salsa account in order to do this, your username on Debian
Social platforms will match your salsa account. We'll gradually add
accounts as we feel more confident in the service on a first come, first
serve basis.


## More information
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* For the most up-to-date information, see our wiki page:
  https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSocial
* If you need some help, try us on #debian-social (but please be patient,
  we're not always there and usually very busy)


## Current Known issues we aim to resolve before entering a proper beta phase
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* We're still working on moderation policies, CoC text on sites, etc.
  If you'd like to help with moderation, please join our IRC channel
  and tell us so!
* Server load is currently higher than normal, we're just about to
  finish importing all the last Debconf videos into the Peertube
  instance
* Pleroma has some suggestive images that we'd rather remove
* Peertube gives an internal server error when you upload an avatar
  that contains transparency
* We still need to figure out how to deal with some GDPR style requests
  better. For example, if a user requests a copy of all their data. For
  now we expect such requests to be few enough that we can deal with
  them manually.
* Various small CSS issues

We hope that some of our work might be useful to you,

- Debian Social Team