You’re interested in tech and you want a nice home (or just any home) and stability? Go work at Google, Facebook, or some other surveillance capitalist.
What’s that? You want to work on free and open source? Sure, go work at IBM or Oracle… Oh… you don’t mean enterprise software? Tech to protect human rights/democracy? Not for profit hippie-dippie crap for the common good?
Oh, then suffer.
I mean, is it any surprise things are as they are?
@kkarhan@aral
And do you feel you are a prisoner of Microsoft and Gooogle that you write like that ? I could understand it if github or youtube were the only tools in their field. But thanks to the people who put a lot of work into their #foss / #decentralised alternatives, we no longer have to be prisoners of Microsoft and Google.
If you're going to the trouble of moving your community, why would you move from one centralized service to another? I've given this advice to a number of #reddit subs so far:
Start your own hosted website to post a daily summary of community news.
Move your community to a federated service like #Lemmy or #Kbin.
@tilvids I completely agree here. Why move from one big mega corporations social media service that is literally falling apart to another one that will soon follow? It’s time to make sure that nobody owns social media and we all go #decentralised. No more stupid API changes, no more community riot uprising, no more megacorps harvesting our data for third parties and no more “big blackouts”. It’s time we take back control of social media and go decentralised.
The general idea is that you have lots of ‘normal’ nodes and some which are able to adapt (using a generic algorithm or one of the more recent open ended evolutionary algorithms). This is in some ways an old topic, but the recent design changes, which include instant join of new nodes and a generally quicker time to earning...
My video overview of Nostr: A simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media
Nostr is unique in that it has a global public key ID that replicates posts (notes) via relays, so it is scalable, resistant to censorship, and the user fully owns their identity profile. There are only two parts to the network, namely relays and clients, wit ...continues
The more I see giant, wealthy companies ruining the platforms we love, in the pursuit of even more wealth, the more I believe that decentralised services are the future.
I’ve noticed a lot of instances are using #patreon to collect instance fees and donations. Patreon is shareholder owned. When you make payments through Patreon, 7% of your payment goes to Patreon, which ultimately goes to Patreon shareholders.
That’s not a model that suits the #fediverse. Here’s an alternative: use https://opencollective.com/. It’s a co-op, and it only charges 2%, which ultimately gets used to fund new #coops. Now, that’s a more #decentralised, fediverse-style model, isn’t it!
Does anyone here use #SecureScuttlebutt apps for building a community? I have #Manyverse installed — I love the concept, the execution, and the idea of the distributed tech behind it (public key signed posts that you get directly from their app, or from a follower who’s stored them; no ‘server’) but … it’s a ghost town for me, cos no-one I know uses it!
It’s definitely considerably less polished than mastodon, but I can’t help but fall in love with #distributed over #decentralised.
Evolutionary Safe Network nodes (safenetforum.org)
The general idea is that you have lots of ‘normal’ nodes and some which are able to adapt (using a generic algorithm or one of the more recent open ended evolutionary algorithms). This is in some ways an old topic, but the recent design changes, which include instant join of new nodes and a generally quicker time to earning...