"The #IndieWeb doesn't need to go mainstream to be meaningful. It's a celebration of a more personal, #decentralised, and creative world wide web."

https://susam.net/indieweb-does-not-need-to-take-off.html

Folks, when we are building spaces out here, please please please remember that people from marginalised communities who have built an income by participating in centralised social media, can't just drop everything there and start again. They will be extremely aware that every second they continue to use it, feeds the oligarch machine, but they need to feed, clothe, and house themselves. We do not all have the ability to just up and abandon established spaces.

These oligarch driven machines are extremely aware of this, and they make it difficult to leave on purpose.

Rather than saying DUMP THAT AND COME HERE OR YOU PERPETUATE FACISM, help create spaces for them that feel welcoming so they can grow new places here. This means making sure you don't fuck up early on and forget about people who aren't white nerdy blokes (I like white nerdy blokes too, but a lot of you need to pay attention!)

An example would be when Bluesky was still in invite mode, they failed BADLY to make sure racist usernames and the like could be deployed at sign up. You'd hope that disallowing slurs of ANY kind would be implemented from the get-go, but they weren't. When the Black trans community spoke up about it, it went ignored for too long, and all the while the platform contined to grow.

If you want people to come and participate in spaces where oligarchs don't reign, then make sure it's safe for everyone. There's no excuse for not doing this, you can't claim ignorance to this, and then ask people to abandon hard built spaces. You should know better.

Building new things means paying attention to things far outside our own experiences. If you don't know what to do, then hire someone who can educate you. Don't skimp on this, because it WILL bite you in the ass, as the saying goes. #decentralised #decentralized #fediverse #getfedihired

Edit:

One excellent example of feeding the machine but can't stop, is #substack. It's an Andreessen Horowitz product, and they're directly linked to funding those terrible fascists currently taking a wrecking ball to America. So many people on the left continue to use it, because they've built a platform there. I've had to check MYSELF recently because I loathe seeing it used, but it's not as easy as that unless you're wealthy and just writing for funsies.

"No Musk can shut us down." As I said to Henrik, the @SafeguardingResearch project demonstrates the power and resilience of #decentralised action.

English subtitles down-thread at https://social.edu.nl/@MishaVelthuis/114018953574863912
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114016015621397500

J'adore toujours cette représentation de l' #ordre et du #chaos. Ça s'applique aussi bien à la #nature et à sa magnifique #biodiversité qu'au #fediverse et #Mastodon #pixelfed dont I'approche est assez similaire.

#Distributed and #decentralised #computing networks aren’t left-wing. They are right-wing technologies which aim to escape from being controlled by a central authority.

They aren’t democratic either. Democracy requires a central authorative force which can apply the collective will even to parties resisting it.

We are being sold a right-wing package wearing hippy left-wing tie-dye. That’s why it’s so conflicting.

One of the best books in years:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918149/cyberlibertarianism/
#amreading #bookstodon

New Social is open, friendly, and ready to make a difference.

You can learn more about New Social on our website - we'd love if you checked it out and shared the page with anyone curious.

See it here: https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/new-social/

If #bluesky is #decentralised, where are the non-bsk-owned servers? Who owns them?

Kleines Update für meinen #Matrix Artikel auf der #bsdbox.

Es wurde eine englische Übersetzung erstellt und auf einen neuen Artikel für erste Schritte hinzugefügt. Da wird kurz erklärt was Spaces und Räume sind und wie man diesen Beitreten kann. Mit z.B. dem bsd.cafe auch auf anderen Server.

https://bsdbox.de/matrix
https://bsdbox.de/artikel/matrix/matrix-extra

I really enjoy learning about #federated and #decentralised networks. Especially their history, analysis of their structure/design, and how this diffuses power, encourages or discourages centralisation and other properties.

Does anyone know of reading material like this? Below are some of my favourites that I already know about.

#Decentralisation #Decentralization #Federation #Fediverse #OpenNetworks
#OpenStandards

The streams repository is a self-hosted Fediverse server that offers more of a Facebook alternative type experience

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-350ede57-93bc8ec6f2590b3a

A large number of the issues we face today come down to large platforms being under the control of a handful of billionaires who are all currently sucking up to Donald Trump.

We have to break up the monopolies and build reliable, easy to use #decentralised social media.

#Decentralisation may still "locally fail" when a server fails

#NomadicIdentity vs #BackupAccounts as potential mitigations:

fully #decentralised systems (as the #Fediverse) may still miss

sustainable ways to decouple

- the digital identity/activity within that decentralised system

- from a specific server (which may fail as everything)

https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma/113636185846890339

https://2ality.com/2024/11/mastodon-weaknesses.html#nomadic-identity

(full discussion, with other perspectives/comments: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/113635945036850628)

@rauschma @FediTips

Guess who snagged the name dweb for his first #Rust library crate on crates.io.

It also includes my first Trait and templated type, making it easy to create and manage a history of any data type saved to #p2p storage.

So it doesn't just support versioned #decentralised websites, or file trees, but versioned #decentralized anything.

t00t!

"Decentralised social media is more than just a technical shift; it's a step toward restoring autonomy and trust in our digital lives, empowering individuals and communities to connect without compromising their values or privacy."

A study by the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford finds that decentralised social media leads to citizen empowerment.

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/decentralised-social-media-increases-citizen-empowerment

If you want to use the #cloud for stuff, FFS wait until it is #decentralised.