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As we near 10 years of Tuta, our team continues to #grow! 🌱
Help us welcome Lena, Franz, Reed, Rick and Yohei to the Tuta Team 🥳 🎉
Meet the team of #privacy activists fighting to make the #internet a better place! 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/team-2024-03
Kicking Off 2024 Right: We Welcome 5 New Members to the Tuta Team! 😍
2023 has brought lots of changes to Tuta: new name, new domain - and most excitingly lots of new team members! In 2024, we'll continue this exciting path. Welcome with us five new team members who are joining our fight for privacy!Tutanota
Hey #Fediverse! @Seirdy has a 'forever' article: A look at search engines with their own indexes
One thing this article should remind you all about: there are three dominant #search indexes - Google, Bing, and Yandex. And Yandex is dominant outside of English.
But there are real options, and many of them are open source, especially for outside the commercial internet. (I am partial to the MarginaliaSearch project.)
GitHub - MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch: Internet search engine for text-oriented websites. Indexing the small, old and weird web.
Internet search engine for text-oriented websites. Indexing the small, old and weird web. - GitHub - MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch: Internet search engine for text-oriented websites. Indexing ...GitHub
this post @capjamesg wrote is almost plucked right out of my brain; been having these thoughts for a while, and i'm so glad to share it. thank you for writing it, james!
"To have a personal website is, presently, an act of rebellion. It is a statement. You are saying: I want to define my experience on the web. I'll let you in on an open secret: Big tech companies aren't the only ones who get to decide how we share ideas on the web. The web is yours. You can put up a website where you share whatever it is that you want to share with others."
https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/27/the-indie-web/
#indieweb #personalweb #smallweb #internet
The indie web | James' Coffee Blog
I went twenty-two years not knowing how to cook an egg. Cooking classes were a rough time for an anxious student like I was. I did not know I was suffering from anxiety at the time; that is a recent realisation.jamesg.blog
The commons we've enclosed
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/01/the-commons-weve-enclosed/
I, unironically, love Reddit. But it's just USENET with a better UI, and a few moderation improvements.
Most days I use DropBox. But it's just FTP, but a bit easier to use and automate.
I waste a lot of time on Slack. When I explain it to old-school nerds, I say it's IRC - but developed by someone who gives a damn about user experience.
Most people in the world don't have access to WWW. Instead, they use Facebook which gives them a much simpler way to post photos and share their thoughts. It doesn't ask them to hand-edit an .htaccess file.
I don't know anyone who uses Listserve. It turns out that Telegram is faster, more convenient, and doesn't require esoteric commands.
Indeed, why bother with Email? You don't need to learn how to configure SMTP when you have WhatsApp.
What other, classic, decentralised Internet tools have been turned from open protocols to closed and proprietary services?
A large part of this is our fault. And, by us, I mean gatekeeping nerds. We developed tools which were unforgiving. We had no interest in the "soft" skills of empathy. We were too socially-awkward to speak to real users. We were insular and we liked it! Worse than that - we revelled in it.
LOL! ROFL! LMAO!
And then Apple eats everyone's lunch by relentlessly focussing on being user friendly. Good for them. But it means handing over control to a single organisation.
I don't claim to be any good at user experience - far from it. But I despair at some of the redecentralised efforts I see springing up. They are technically brilliant, and follow the open-source philosophy of scratching one's own itch. And they all - without fail - are terrible to use.
Redecentralisation won't happen because of us nerds. It must happen despite us. Despite our ingenuity and despite our self-infatuation. It must be inclusive, and put user-needs at its very heart.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/01/the-commons-weve-enclosed/
#internet #ReDeCentralize #users
Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet
To many internet newcomers, they're one and the same.Leo Mirani (Quartz)
Free and Open Source Software is the backbone of the internet. 💪 That's why we are offering 100% free premium subscriptions to open source projects. 🎉
It's our gift from one open source project to another. 🎁
https://tutanota.com/blog/tutanota-for-open-source-teams
#FOSS #opensource #privacy #security #internet
Tutanota for Open Source Projects.
Giving back to open source teams with free Tutanota accounts.Tutanota
Got just over an hour to spare? Want to learn way, way more about #modems in the 90’s, and how people got around managing both #voice and #data calls without hanging up your #internet connection and getting mad? You do? Me too. Well then.
Voice chat in the age of modems : https://youtube.com/watch?v=7mqkTFq7Ekg&feature=share
Voice chat in the age of modems
I've been sitting on a pile of bizarre modems for years and I'm incredibly excited to show you their dumb features that you didn't want then and still don't ...YouTube
https://curlie.org/en
DMOZ was the internet directory from 1998. People use it to find websites before Google Search era and contribute website's URLs to it before Wikipedia era. It was discontinued and succeeded by Curlie in 2017.
Boost is very appreciated.
#DMOZ #Internet
