- Newsgroups - Personal Websites - Bulletin board - Email as a service, not a platform - Internet relay chat (IRC) - Early blogs
Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became consumers, trapped in algorithms, tracking, and enshittification. Revenue more important than people.
The Fediverse is a way back: no ads, no algorithms, no dark patterns. People first. A web worth reclaiming. And open source is the engine of this transformation.
Take back the web. Decentralize again 💪 Bring people to the Fediverse, promote open source and build federated services.
Say hello to Conjured Ink ( conjured.ink ): an #IndieWeb-based, #decentralized ecosystem of shops networked together to resist the kind of nonsense Itch and Steam have been dealing with.
We're a collective designing and building the software needed for folks who aren't techies to basically self host without feeling like they're self-hosting. Because you shouldn't need to be a sysadmin to free yourself from this yoke.
I said it before on Mastodon. I'm reposting this again. Comparing #DeltaChat and #Matrix together, if you want hassle free and consistent messenger for private #E2EE chats, don't go for Matrix. DeltaChat is way better.
However, if you want something like a public forum, or a public chatroom, don't go for DeltaChat. Matrix is way better suited for that. And DeltaChat does not support public groups at all. In DeltaChat groups, there is no admin or moderator and everyone have got permission to remove or add the others.
I think I have to write a longer post on my personal blog about these two, comparing them together.
PS: Another Matrix encryption bug few minutes ago triggered repost of this.
you could be recommending #DeltaChat that is an #e2ee #email client with an UI that looks like #WhatsApp, you could even provide it to your users as a chatting #decentralized solution using your email server, which fits with your business, but instead you prefer to recommend centralized phone-number based apps like #Signal 😭
Another reason to use ALT text which some people might not have considered: it benefits people who are not visually impaired as well.
As #Mastodon is #decentralized there is no central network hosting all of the images. Should the admin of a server decide to purge old images to save space, users accessing older posts will not know what an image was without an ALT text.
Our newest paper, “Logical Clocks and Monotonicity for Byzantine-Tolerant Replicated Data Types”, is now available under CC-BY: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3578358… We formalize @matrix and other autonomous #decentralized systems based on hash chronicles to verify monotonicity and Byzantine fault tolerance. #CRDT
#FediGov is an initiative by the he Swiss local group with GNU/Linux.ch to encourage public institutions to use federated free software solutions to communicate with their people.
People complaining: #Decentralized services are bad because #spam can't be effectively fought against... My current half a year lasting experience on centralized #google drive service:
Libervia: the Universal Communication EcosystemAre you looking for a communication solution that prioritizes privacy, security, and ethics? Introducing Liber...
So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…
As the hype for #decentralized systems (e.g.: #mastodon), where no could buy the whole service, continues, I want to also introduce decentralised #communication. Ever heard or tried a #matrix #messenger? A new, decentralised protocol of communication to allow multiple participants join the network with different clients and servers. You can choose whatever fits you best. You probably wanna start here to try it: element.io/ (Get a client, choose a server) For more background information, see here: matrix.org/ @matrix
the Article sounded good, is has all the necessary Buzzwords about #Freedom with #OpenSource and of course how to Support the Course, until I read at the end about #Patreon. 😒
First you complain about BigDataCompanys and #centralized Systems against #decentralized and after all this you seriously advice Patreon as a way to support. What a cruel Joke?
Why not something like #LibrePay or Alternative? 😉
We think even @elonmusk@twitter.com would agree: our social media is broken. Q: can #decentralized social media give control back to users? Hear from 🌤️ @bluesky@twitter.com's CEO @arcalinea@twitter.com ✨ @manyver_se@twitter.com's creator @andrestaltz@twitter.com 🌓 @matrixdotorg@twitter.com founder @ara4n@twitter.com Today 4PM ET Reg: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Facebook, Twitter… we’ve seen them go awry when faced with the scourges of misinformation and trolling. In authoritarian regimes, entire platforms are easily blocked.
W/ all 👀 on @elonmusk@twitter.com's #TwitterTakeover, it's never been more important to have alternatives. 📣 THIS THUR at 4PM ET: join our session on #Decentralized Social Media w/ @bluesky@twitter.com CEO, @arcalinea@twitter.com & founders of P2P networks @manyver_se@twitter.com & @matrixdotorg@twitter.com.
Facebook, Twitter… we’ve seen them go awry when faced with the scourges of misinformation and trolling. In authoritarian regimes, entire platforms are easily blocked.
W/ all 👀 on @Twitter@twitter.com & @elonmusk@twitter.com, it's good to know there are technologists working on a different path: #decentralized social media, controlled by the user. COME 4/28 as @bluesky@twitter.com's @arcalinea@twitter.com, @manyver_se@twitter.com's @andrestaltz@twitter.com & @matrixdotorg@twitter.com's @ara4n@twitter.com explain us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Facebook, Twitter… we’ve seen them go awry when faced with the scourges of misinformation and trolling. In authoritarian regimes, entire platforms are easily blocked.
Swiss local group with GNU/Linux.ch to encourage public institutions to use federated free software solutions to communicate with their people.
