Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it seems that the influx...
No ad-blocker needed.
Zero ads.
My data stays on my server.
Interactions are genuine, driven by people's desire, not an algorithm pushing for conflict to boost engagement (and ad sales).
Nobody's here just because it's trendy. If you're here, you want to be here.
The best social media experience I've had in years.
Thank you to all of you, among these 15 million accounts, who have helped make this a wonderful place to be.
I believe we are at a consequential moment for the open social Web so I thought I'd start a podcast for people to hear directly from many of the pioneers in this space.
To kick things off I talk with @mmasnick about his seminal 2019 paper "Protocols not Platforms" and we go deep on what it will take for the open social Web to blossom and thrive next year.
How is anyone NOT using @mozilla#Firefox by now? Between this and intentionally slowing #YouTube traffic for Firefox/uBlock users, #Google is officially evil. Please support an #open#decentralized non-profit #Internet !
#FediGov is an initiative by the he :fsfe: Swiss local group with GNU/Linux.ch to encourage public institutions to use federated free software solutions to communicate with their people.
We've launched a biweekly newsletter on LinkedIn to help connect the dots on the world of decentralized social media. We'll be taking a big step back to help non-technical people understand what the Fediverse is, why it's an improvement on traditional social media, and how to get started.
"This work shows that a #decentralized approach to #moderation can lead to higher content reliability on #socialmedia. This approach is also more efficient and scalable than centralized moderation schemes, and may appeal to users who mistrust #platforms.
“A lot of research into #misinformation assumes that users can’t decide what is true and what is not, and so we have to help them. We didn’t see that at all."
Thanks to everyone who’s participated in the DataPaymentNet testnet. It has performed its role magnificently, telling us that the fundamentals of data payments are sound, even if the UX leaves a little to be desired still. We’ve lost a few nodes after a replication spike the community spotted last night. But we’ve still...
As always, a huge thanks to all the contributors who helped make this release possible. Your continued support drives Meshtastic forward. 🙌 #lora#meshnetworks#decentralized#opensource
A good week of bug fixes and tweaks in preparation for our next testnet: NodeDiscoveryNet, which will look at how nodes find each other on the network. We’ve found a cause of excessive memory usage. We thought that nodes were only sending messages to the eight closest nodes to them, whereas they were actually sending messages...
The next testnet, which should be launched any day now, will look at variable store costs. As a quick refresher, when nodes get full, the price of data storage increases in order to attract more nodes onto the network; conversely, when there is plenty of space on the network, the store cost falls.
Another testnet is under way, we’re keeping an eye to see if our recent improvements are improving stability. Do join in if you have time. Nodes still have to be run from the cloud until libp2p has better QUIC support, but clients can run from anywhere. We’re hoping to see improved node stability, but we’re still seeing...
We have a new stable test network for you as PunchNet winds down. Impressive work as always from the community, and it’s wonderful to see all the dashboards brightening up the thread.
Bux is in Texas right now at the Consensus conference waiting to wow the audience. Go @bux!
Currently we're beavering away to get another testnet out of the door, building on the successes of ThisIsNotBetaRewardsNet and knocking off a few rough edges.
We’re particularly keen to get discord bot fully integrated this time round to automate the calculation of nanos for those running nodes.
The Beta Network has launched and the first wave of testers are up and running. It’s taken a wee while, but we got there, just as David always knew we would. It could never have happened without the steadfast support of the community over the years.
Thanks to you the network has grown from our original 2,000 MaidSafe nodes to over 17,000 nodes and counting, our biggest by some margin.
Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter (www.theverge.com)
Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it seems that the influx...
ThePriceIsRightNet [14/08/23 Testnet] (safenetforum.org)
A new testnet just went live - come and play!...
Safe Network Dev Update 27 July, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
Great progress and increasing momentum!...
Safe Network Dev Update 03 August, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
Thanks to everyone who’s participated in the DataPaymentNet testnet. It has performed its role magnificently, telling us that the fundamentals of data payments are sound, even if the UX leaves a little to be desired still. We’ve lost a few nodes after a replication spike the community spotted last night. But we’ve still...
Safe Network DataPaymentNet Testnet (safenetforum.org)
First pay to store testnet using Digital Bearer Certificates (DBCs)....
Safe Network Dev Update 29 June, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
A good week of bug fixes and tweaks in preparation for our next testnet: NodeDiscoveryNet, which will look at how nodes find each other on the network. We’ve found a cause of excessive memory usage. We thought that nodes were only sending messages to the eight closest nodes to them, whereas they were actually sending messages...
Safe Network Dev Update 20 July, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
Another testnet is under way, we’re keeping an eye to see if our recent improvements are improving stability. Do join in if you have time. Nodes still have to be run from the cloud until libp2p has better QUIC support, but clients can run from anywhere. We’re hoping to see improved node stability, but we’re still seeing...