I've always said that the #fediverse was vulnerable to corporations in the long run.
What I hadn't bargained for was the willingness of the most informed people, particularly instance admins to be oblivious or complacent about this danger, and for so many here to literally welcome federation with malevolent corporations like #Meta / #Threads and #Medium.
#Fedi is the lifeboat but #p2p will be the shore folks.
Very soon in Flipboard I will be able to follow @Gargron who is on Mastodon and @mosseri who is on Threads and @dansup who is on PixelFed. And I will be able to see, like and reply to any of their posts. And they will be able to see my replies and follow me from whatever app they're using. And anyone else who is following one of the three of us will be able to see our activity from whatever app they're using in the Fediverse. This is how things should be.
@mike
It's about more than connection. It's about content too, and most of all culture. There are many reasons to exclude #Threads, #Medium and their like.
Most of those reasons are why the fediverse exists in the first place and why many people came here.
That so many, especially admins and indeed Eugen ignore them is a mystery to me. They make #Meta's job so much easier than it needs to be.
I have much to look forward to in tech in 2024, but very little of that is to do with the latest tech frenzy.
Throughout 2024 most people are going to be chasing so called AI unicorns and rapidly drowning in unicorn poo, but keep an eye on peer-to-peer projects (not fedi) including #p2p tokens (not Blockchain, not defi or web3).
There are still projects putting values before shareholder value and some are ready to take off.
#Decentralization#SocialMedia#P2P#PeerToPeer#Spritely#Veilid#Privacy#Cybersecurity: "There are many technologies used behind the scenes to create decentralized tools and platforms. There has been a lot of attention lately, for example, around interoperable and federated social media sites using ActivityPub, such as Mastodon, as well as platforms like BlueSky using a similar protocol. These types of services require most individuals to sign up with an intermediary service host in order to participate, but they are decentralized in so far as any user has a choice of intermediary, and can run one of those services themselves while participating in the larger network.
Another model for decentralized communications does away with the intermediary services altogether in favor of a directly peer-to-peer model. This model is technically much more challenging to implement, particularly in cases where privacy and security are crucial, but it does result in a system that gives individuals even more control over their data and their online experience. Fortunately, there are a few projects being developed that are aiming to make purely peer-to-peer applications achievable and easy for developers to create. Two leading projects in this effort are Spritely and Veilid."
@amiya_rbehera
You need to build from the bottom up, so starting with a secure platform. #p2p is important because it can be the basis for the things you mention. Without it we see what happens and I expect fedi to succumb because it is not decentralised enough. We see it already with Meta / Threads and Medium.
So first we need secure, private p2p platforms that don't rely on altruism, but sustain themselves through sound economics.
Welcome to the last update of the year. We’re happy to be finishing on a high, with the CloserNet testnet and the community helping us check our fix for what we hope will prove to be the last major bug in basic data handling. We were making an assumption that nodes were being ordered by closeness to our node, whereas this was...
With the current testnet flying high, MaidSafe finish 2023 on a high and 2024 is something to look forward to if you value security and privacy for your data....
The definition of #P2P is really important. People tend to stretch it to suit the way they want to market their project. This confuses developers.
If a protocol only runs on servers, it can be p2p. But if those servers are used by a client, and that client doesn't have the same capabilities as the server, it's no longer P2P, now its a distributed system. Calling it p2p is intellectually dishonest.
This isn't debatable, it's computer science. There are no alternative facts.
Co-creator of CouchDB and Couchbase is working on something new called Fireproof — a real-time #database, written entirely in #javascript, end-to-end encrypted and backed by CRDTs so it’s ideal for use in #p2p.
Jami: A Versatile Cross-platform Open-Source Peer-to-Peer Decentralized Communication App
I can’t believe I last did a proper post about Jami as far back as 2019 last. I mention it a lot, and it was included run a debate today on my Friendica site, but I realised it does deserve a proper feature post of its own.
This week we’ve all hands on deck, filling holes, bashing in nails and replacing rotten timbers in the previous testnet so we can launch the thing of beauty that is the ReduceConnectionsNet, which thus far seems to be sailing along pretty nicely. So what were those things? Well, we’d gone from requiring three verified spends...
> Le service a essayé tant bien que mal de réduire ses frais en abaissant la définition de diffusion à 720p ou un adoptant un fonctionnement en #p2p (pair à pair) pour gérer la qualité des flux, mais rien n’y a fait.
Le retour du P2P pour gérer des gros flux, c'est cool.
Starting to think about a #p2p social media protocol that doesn't fall foul of the UK's ridiculously broad #OnlineSafetyAct, and leaves what you see in your own hands.
Feed curation as active or effortless as you like, using whatever approach you choose.
So a protocol that provides the basis for user respecting apps with different approaches.
Goal: curation with zero effort via support for 'algos' that serve you rather than the other way around.
@eludom I believe in #p2p, not client servers. For me, servers are the core source of pain: vulnerabilities, centralisation etc
You are free to solve the issues you see the way you want, but it's pointless trying to get me to adopt your approach when it is based on incompatible beliefs.
Hey! Looking to set up a peertube account to post videos related to #P2P, #coops, and #FOSS
Any suggestions for instances that explicitly have some of these focuses? Ideally a more "professional" environment. Something like fosstodon but for video.
#Sony removed content that people paid for in order to watch it due to "licensing issues". Here Louis does an in depth and very good explanation of what #piracy means for you after getting screwed over by these companies that have the ability to steal what you pay for, even though they're the ones who say that piracy is stealing.
Safe Network Update 14 December, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
Welcome to the last update of the year. We’re happy to be finishing on a high, with the CloserNet testnet and the community helping us check our fix for what we hope will prove to be the last major bug in basic data handling. We were making an assumption that nodes were being ordered by closeness to our node, whereas this was...
Safe Network Update 03 August, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
With the current testnet flying high, MaidSafe finish 2023 on a high and 2024 is something to look forward to if you value security and privacy for your data....
Safe Network Update 07 December, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
This week we’ve all hands on deck, filling holes, bashing in nails and replacing rotten timbers in the previous testnet so we can launch the thing of beauty that is the ReduceConnectionsNet, which thus far seems to be sailing along pretty nicely. So what were those things? Well, we’d gone from requiring three verified spends...