We have two new team members First, we are massively pleased that @Shu has agreed to join us to help out with monitoring, observability and visualisation of operations.
Second, we’re delighted to welcome Nic, who joins as product manager. This is an essential role as we move out of the R&D phase into delivery.
Sheesh, Mozilla has really lost their way. Putting ads in the search bar? We already have a search engine that does that, we don't need two running at the same time.
@cuchaz
I mostly use #Brave now (with the shit turned off) because #Firefox was degrading in performance and stability, and became unusable on my cheap mobile. For now that's ok.
That #Mozilla are doing this is very sad. I am though hopeful better days are coming, with new ecosystems based on #p2p that will bypass the enclosure and unleash the next generation of openeness & creativity.
I'm literally working on a demo to publish and browse websites on #Autonomi, so it's not just work thinking.
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.
As a fun little experiment, @damon and I worked together to get a #Mastodon instance up and running that stores media on #IPFS! It was an interesting learning experience.
I don’t think we’re ready to announce anything yet, as this was in service of another project in development. But, there’s an increasing number of ways to host content on an IPFS node service, and tie it back to platforms like Mastodon using an S3-compatible API for Object Storage and some proxying.
This is all pretty rudimentary, but the big-brain realization is that a more robust version could be done by pairing Minio to s3x if we wanted to self-host an IPFS node with those specific features.
@deadsuperhero
I expect more of this, not just re #IPFS but as #p2p systems are happening, storage models will change for the better. #Autonomi is the project I'm most familiar with and they have already talked about this and have partners ready to upload their data. They are not yet revealed, but I wouldn't be surprised if replacing AWS was in there.
I'm working on a demo myself in the area of web publishing and browsing, and am very excited about this whole area, so I wish you luck. @damon
@molly0xfff
One answer to that perennial problem is: don't. Start building with p2p as soon as you can and support those who are building #p2p platforms you might use in future, such as #Autonomi.
Ten years ago I thought I'd finished programming altogether, then I stumbled on #Autonomi (then called Safe Network, no actually just MaidSafe then).
That compelled me to learn NodeJS, and after they switched from C++ to Rust in 2015 (this project is lead by a visionary) eventually I had to try that. And my "learn Rust with a little project" app is now in the Debian repositories.
Unbelievable for an old guy. All you young folk have plenty of time. Enjoy!
@robin
I haven't read your essay so don't know if you go into how to rewild.
I have been aware of the issues for years, but as time passes my understanding of their number and nature has increased.
Partly because I've been part of a community that recognises this from different perspectives since 2014, brought together by a tenacious visionary who set out to change this in 2006, and 18 years later is about to launch the truly autonomous internet: #Autonomi
A couple of years after starting a little project to learn #RustLang, that little app is in the Debian repos and I can install it from the latest Ubuntu 24.04.
I am so chuffed. A very happyborg to have finally given something back to the #FOSS community in the form of an app.
The app, #vdash is very niche, so not of interest to many but has an enthusiastic band of #Autonomi fans using it every day and sharing their observations by posting screenshots online. 🥳
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.
So, you want to build an app that has its data co-located with its UI? That works offline? That synchronizes between clients? And that lets its users own their data?
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.