Sadly I don't find this surprising. The costs of running Mastodon instances at large scale are very high.B0rk had posted her personal server costs and I don't remember the amount but they were very high for the number of followers she has.
This will require real funds. And what happens the day a new gov gets elected on cutting costs? Bye bye Fedi server?
Apps scale without costs for those developing or administering them. It's peer-to-peer, so no servers to run, maintain, get hacked or censored. Fully autonomous, so no gatekeepers either, just each user and their data, their apps and their privacy.
With this testnet we’re going to punch some holes!
Computers in a home network will normally be unreachable from the outside, unless ports are forwarded manually. Lately, we’ve been experimenting with relays and hole punching, meaning nodes from inside a home network can participate in the network.
Some good news to kick off with: we have succeeded in getting nodes and clients working from behind NAT firewalls with Quic so we’re definitely getting there in terms of nodes from home
So come and give it a whirl from home with our latest alpha network: PunchNet.
Freedom requires no-lock in, which is why we self host domains, don't we? Rather than building on somebody else's domain. Oh, you use Gmail. Still?! 🤦♂️
Our desire for ease in a difficult world is what betrays us.
So freedom requires we make the following easy to obtain:
"#ActivityPods is a combination of two #W3C standards: #ActivityPub, and the #Solid specification. The first standard is for data federation and networks, the second is for data storage and access. The ideals of both projects put together create a compelling vision: data control, across user applications, in service to communication across the web."
Great to see #veilid as a member of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance to balance the voices of big tech. Have been tracking the hard work of @thegibson and others for quite a while now, and its P2P approach is one of the most inspiring developments on the horizon.
I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
@collinsworth
Yes, and there will be examples of exactly this, scaling without infrastructure costs - so a single part time person can create an app that scales world wide without spending a cent on hosting.
#Autonomi is a secure, privacy focused platform that will change the rules, expectations and possibilities in favour of developers and users.
@djsf
The project is #Autonomi, a secure, privacy focussed peer-to-peer network (no blockchains!). It is autonomous and aims to restore autonomy, hence the name and I'm building a demo app to show developers and users some of what it can do.
We have a new testnet out, following successful poking at the recent alpha network. Thanks to all those who have tried it so far.
And we are pleased to say the node manager is performing well now, so we advise that as the default way of deploying nodes as it provides several additional controls, particularly with regard to upgrading.
“#NathanSchneider has the patience and fortitude most of us lack. He’s identified a phenomenon he calls “#ImplicitFeudalism’ - the bias to build our online and real #communities as #fiefdoms, and how this has made us more tolerant of similarly autocratic CEOs and politicians. He’s even optimistic and energetic enough to see how the blockchain could be employed to distribute #governance in a more democratic fashion.”
With local software, there is no DDoS
With local software, there is no need to scale your cloud
With local software, there is no XSS
With local software, there is no SQL injection
With local software, there is no SSRF, CORS, and CSRF
With local software, there is no broken authentication
With local software, there is no V8 sandbox escapes
@eb with #Autonomi you get local software and a p2p cloud: no DDoS, scales with use, unhackable servers (cos there are no servers) and you authenticate locally, no gatekeepers, just you and a secure, private autonomous network.
Copyright is a deeply flawed weapon to use against the generative "AI" companies. But the tech industry's arrogant vacuuming up of everything in sight -- ingesting what others created so it can re-sell it to us -- is moving us quickly toward the worst possible Internet, a pay-per-view system that ruins what we've collectively built.
What is clear, meanwhile, it that Big Tech -- including Big AI -- should be broken up, period.
@dangillmor agree, yet this will lead them to enclose and capitalise what's left, those well curated open sources will be under threat one way or another.
We're seeing it with GitHub. Stack exchange is a bastion of crowd-sourced expertise available free of charge, but for how long?
Ultimately Wikipedia will be crushed too as AI is used to destroy free competitors.
We need to break away from this, create a new form of commons, and new models for rewarding those humans building it: #Autonomi
Welcome to our first attempt to have a couple of testnets running in parallel!
Here we have an alpha network, where we want to verify changes before we do a full release that would be compatible with the existing network.
This is not expected to be a wildly long testnet. But participation here will help iron out any potential issues as/when we release new code compatible with BasicEconomyTweaks.
Thanks as usual to the noble testers our first Technical Beta Network is still going good guns, and is proving as stable as we’ve come to expect.
We have a new separate testnet to test potential changes over here. This will run alongside the stable beta network and allow us to test out ideas without having to bring the beta down.
@sycarion
It's great to hear about people using Publii.
I'm hoping to use it to publish websites, including imported WordPress websites on #Autonomi. When I found #Publii I couldn't believe it because it is something I wanted to build almost a decade ago but wasn't able to get beyond a concept.
I haven't been this excited about something for years!
I embloggerated, about xz and Tidelift. Some key points:
the first, angry, draft was titled "I told you so", because we've been saying volunteerism + increasing burdens + solo maintainership is a recipe for disaster since 2017
money (and Tidelift) is not a magic bullet, it's a cornerstone—not enough by itself, but without money, other proposals will never hit scale
there's many more things I wish Tidelift could do, but we need more scale first 😞
Major progress on my first Autonomi demo app today. I'm sooo happy 😄
This proves that all the tricky but essential parts work together, so now I can add features and improve the operation knowing that effort won't be wasted.
It also already shows that we can build cross platform apps (desktop and mobile) with a web front end that use the #Autonomi#Rust APIs using #Tauri and your web framework of choice. Which for me is #Svelte
An incredibly technically complex #backdoor in xz (potentially also in libarchive and elsewhere) was just discovered. This backdoor has been quietly implemented over years, with the assistance of a wide array of subtly interconnected accounts:
@geofft #Autonomi can change this. One of the goals is to democratise by leveling the playing field for developers as well as users. So removing silos controlled by others on the one hand and providing income to those creating value in the system (including but not only developers). For developers who want to scale, there's a liberation from seeking capital, because infrastructure scales without cost. So one dev in a bedroom cold build the next unicorn and stay true to their values. @glyph@eb