Last December, we launched our #donations campaign to accelerate Jami's progress. Five months later, we want to share with you a summary of our campaign, as stated in our commitment to publish a full report to all donors. 🙂
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I'm facilitating the first ever GOAT (Gathering for Open Ag Tech) Book Club this Saturday (5/18), open to any and all! 📚🤓🐐
Session #1 is on "Networks, Peers & the Virtual Class," with readings from Yochai Benkler, Richard Barbrook, Michael Bauwens, and others. More session details in the link below. #bookclub#foss#reading#p2p
FilePizza is a free peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser. FilePizza never store anything. Because FilePizza uses WebRTC, file transfers ate always fast, private, and secure.
Enquanto aplicativos como Slack, Discord e Signal usam servidores centrais, o Quiet sincroniza mensagens diretamente entre os dispositivos de uma equipe, por meio do Tor, sem a necessidade de servidor.
A #p2p future for the web is the radical idea that its bad to put all data in a single place owned by 3 companies and rented by a few hundred. The internet wasnt a mistake, the cloud was a mistake. Platforms were a mistake. A mistake where its not only possible but routine for "everyone's health data" to get stolen. https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/112341111375581551
I need to share my health data with like 3 people that arent me. Why on earth is that data in the same pile as literally everyone else's.
Ive said it a million times before: in research, if open data mandates mean that all data needs to exist on some cloud server, we are in for a catastrophe of the highest order where cloud providers will be in a position to siphon off however much public funding they want - the "free open data" programs are bait. The corollary is the continual rise and sudden collapse of archives who miss one grant cycle or cant keep up with the infinitely expanding cloud bills.
Its not just a disaster for private data, but public data and the whole of the web. If researchers want their disciplines to continue to exist, to contribute to a healthy information ecosystem, and to realize the promise of the web for science, they should be investing in and demanding p2p infrastructure.
@GavinChait the learning curve for p2p systems is not intrinsically any steeper than cloud systems, in fact there is a potential for it to be much simpler since much less needs to be concentrated in a single system. With generalized p2p the distinction between generalist and specialist data is actually much much easier - there doesn't need to be a specialist database or platform for each type of data.
neither wikipedia nor openstreetmap are p2p systems, and that is one of the reasons why they as platforms need to maintain paid staff to maintain data integrity.
there aren't any such systems, and there are good reasons for that having to do with the history of the platformatization of the web. the things that come closest are private bittorrent trackers which maintain excellent quality archives with next to zero budget in highly adversarial conditions.
「 With BTFS, you can mount any .torrent file or magnet link and then use it as any read-only directory in your file tree. The contents of the files will be downloaded on-demand as they are read by applications. Tools like ls, cat and cp works as expected. Applications like vlc and mplayer can also work without changes 」
@jbzfn Wouldn’t it be great if this was our way to use public “shared Dropbox” or “shared drive” ?
Wish there was an intuitive UI for most operating systems to do this. You just drop something in a folder and it becomes a torrent you can publicly share . Maybe with some decentralized web structure which just lists the torrents and contents .
I have been reading about solutions for a not-always-on internet and this could be part of it.