Listening to the first episode of @mike ‘s new podcast “Dot Social” on decentralized social networking with guest @mmasnick. They start off with discussion of his 2019 paper “Protocols, Not Platforms” and how, all of a sudden, the stagnant big social platforms are now being bypassed with rapid innovation by developers all over the fediverse.
@mike and @mmasnick move on in their podcast to discuss an (upcoming?) paper by @danny where he discusses the ultimate (“terminal”) values of what we are all trying to do here in the #fediverse. Apparently his take is that #decentralization is not all that important, control over one’s own thoughts and ideas is.
Hot on the heals of NoClientGossip, we’ve a tweaked version of the code which aims to improve the network discovery setup. As mentioned in the update, it looks like some nodes did not know enough of the network, leading to assumptions of responsibility over more and more data, and so filling up and failing to store new data....
The most important news this week is the winding down of the Bittrex exchange. Anyone who has MAID on #Bittrex needs to take it off the exchange sooner rather than later.
Other news is that the latest testnet seems to have solved some problems and unearthed others in a one-step-forward-one-step-back kinda style.
The most important news to communicate this week, for those that haven’t heard, is the winding down of the Bittrex exchange. After 4th December only withdrawals from Bittrex will be possible. Anyone who has MAID on Bittrex needs to take it off the exchange sooner rather than later and store their tokens in an Omni-compatible...
I just noticed I missed this pretty massive tidbit of information from @joinpeertube regarding the roadmap for #PeerTube
"…Official PeerTube mobile application (end of 2024)"
:amaze:
This has been a long-requested development from the PeerTube community, and something I hear from our #tilvids community all the time. What an exciting development from an amazing organization! 🙌
Adblockers and alternative frontend will only get you so far in this. It's literally just a matter of time until step it to yet another level. Want some real change? Stop giving them power. #Boycott these fuckers.
"Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox" -> https://archive.is/yAdak (link to avoid direct #reddit)
Bring down closed data silos like #YouTube. Empower #foss federated platforms like #peertube.
Really proud of Signal, of this piece, and so happy to help lead an organization willing to be honest about what others hide: the incredible cost of developing consumer tech, and why it’s so hard (but rewarding!) to build tech that doesn’t rely on monetizing surveillance.
#OpenWeb#Fediverse#Mastodon#ActivityPub#Decentralization#W3C: "In a couple days, I head to Philadelphia for the 2023 version of the Association of Internet Researchers conference. It’s my favorite conference. And to give AOIR even more credit, they were one of the first professional academic organizations to set up their own Mastodon instance (I participate in that project by helping run the instance).
While there, I will present a paper about the creation of ActivityPub, the protocol that allows the contemporary fediverse to run.
Titled “The Non-Standard Standard: A Critical Genealogy of ActivityPub,” I will argue that ActivityPub is a very unusual standard. While it was created by a W3C working group, the Social Web Working Group during a W3C standard process, there were many non-standard aspects to its creation.
In this post, I’ll sum up my findings, arguing that there are four ways in which ActivityPub is a non-standard standard. This work is informed by reading the Social Web Working Group (SocialWG) meeting minutes, interviews with SocialWG members, and a study of historical documents."
#InternetGovernance#InternetStandards#PoliticalEconomy#Decentralization#OpenWeb: "Standards development is one of those esoteric, hugely important activities that almost no one knows anything about. Good standards are key to an open, free internet, and as governments around the world grapple with Big Tech monopolies, their plans often include a block that basically reads "insert good standard here."
As exciting as the EU's Digital Markets Act and US proposals like the ACCESS Act are, the "insert good standard here" stuff is wildly underspecified and undertheorized. Making a good standard – one that is robust, flexible and secure – is hard enough even under competitive competitions where the SDO can play independent referee, more powerful than the participants. But making good standards under monopolistic conditions is really hard.
And yet, it happens! Look at the Fediverse, powered by Mastodon and its adaptation of a W3C standard called ActivityPub. The Fediverse has done more for an interoperable, decentralized web than all the other projects of the past decade combined:"
For the next testnet we hope to put to bed the memory issues that sank the last one, so that’s been our focus this week. The pay-one-node branch is looking good, and with a bit more testing will be ready to merge. It should reduce memory usage compared to the previous approach of paying all nodes that store a chunk. As we...
It's truly amazing to watch how #tilvids has taken off almost 100% due to the #Mastodon community. We're currently sitting at #10 position on PeerTube's instance list for user count, which has jumped dozens of spots over the last year. 💙
Only 200-ish away from reaching #9 too! Feel free to join today if you want to be able to like and comment on the amazing videos our creator community is sharing! 🙌
"The environmental #footprint of social media #hosting": fascinating and absolutely read-worthy thoughts into #sustainable social networking, both environmentally and socially.
Alors, c’est comme ça ? Je vais devoir en passer par là (ou par Lagrange, voire Amfora) pour pouvoir lire les articles de Numerama sans devoir passer par leur site ?
C’était plus simple via FrogFind!, mais il ne veut plus afficher les articles de ce site depuis hier après-midi (et @ActionRetro ne répond pas…)… ;__;
We could only not make it trough such an event, because we're currently too much centralized to Earth. We need #decentralization.
And we need to send a backup of seeds and animal genes to outer space to such an orbital path to get it back landing to Earth securely, so we could re-estabilish the whole ecosystem without making damage.
Safe Network #Testnet NoClientGossipDiscovery [24/11/23 ] (safenetforum.org)
Hot on the heals of NoClientGossip, we’ve a tweaked version of the code which aims to improve the network discovery setup. As mentioned in the update, it looks like some nodes did not know enough of the network, leading to assumptions of responsibility over more and more data, and so filling up and failing to store new data....
Safe Network Update 23 November, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
The most important news to communicate this week, for those that haven’t heard, is the winding down of the Bittrex exchange. After 4th December only withdrawals from Bittrex will be possible. Anyone who has MAID on Bittrex needs to take it off the exchange sooner rather than later and store their tokens in an Omni-compatible...
Safe Network Update 09 November, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
For the next testnet we hope to put to bed the memory issues that sank the last one, so that’s been our focus this week. The pay-one-node branch is looking good, and with a bit more testing will be ready to merge. It should reduce memory usage compared to the previous approach of paying all nodes that store a chunk. As we...