Unlike X, Twitter, or whatever they're calling themselves now, I actually learn things on #mastodon and the #decentralized web. It's so nice not being subjected to an algorithm. My feed is composed entirely of what I want, not what some psychologically-based algorithm thinks I want. I want to follow fellow #anarchocommunist people, and I can. Their voices won't be silenced by someone in fear of anti-#capitalist viewpoints.
a client made by an enterprise who will willingly backdoor your messages
a client made by 3 people that get random breaking changes that completely obliterate flow
a client that is one giant html5 canvas that uses 100% of your browser gpu power
a client that requires systemd
way too many abandoned android and ios clients
please use fedi we have:
an instance software which is so popular but so feature deprived it makes no sense why it exists, also it's trademarked in a bad way
an instance software that has so much code rot it spawned 500 forks to try and fix it only to become rotten themselves
an instance software that doesn't really know what it's doing and instead implemented 3 different api standards, and this is the fork i'm talking about. no one should talk about the upstream project.
"The promise of XMPP was to deliver federated instant messaging: anyone would be able to spin up an #IM server capable of exchanging messages with any other XMPP server in the world. Unfortunately, XMPP never delivered on this promise.
The goal of this project is to deliver on #XMPP's original vision: create a modern open platform for federated instant messaging with an emphasis on mobile communication. A secondary goal is to create a #decentralized IM platform..."
No, it did not. Tired of hearing this. According to who? In what?
I’ve seen platforms that ceased to exist over the years. I’ve seen social media companies getting acquired or going bankrupt. I’ve seen entire portals losing their users. The Fediverse keeps growing. How is this failing?
@collectifission@rolle Sadly I believe it's a lack of knowledge and disinterest to learn or take the time to learn the difference in the first place.
When many hear "#decentralized" they unfortunately associate that with crypto and there already, based on that incorrect first impression, you've lost a lot of people.
I've been trying to get my mutuals over to the #fediverse but instead they tend to pick #BlueSky which could as easily follow a similar path of #enshittification as #Twitter.
Bandcamp's new owners dismiss half of the platform staff. And they declare "It's business as usual".
Also Bandcamp is preparing to align with the other platforms.
All very predictable, I’ve been saying for a long time that a platform similar to Bandcamp, but decentralized, federated and open source should be created.
#Opensource and #decentralized social network #Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly #Twitter) and other newcomers like #Threads, #Bluesky, #Pebble and #Spill, had been undercounting its users due to a network connectivity error, according to founder and CEO #EugenRochko, and actually has 407,814 more monthly active users than it had been reporting previously
The distributed and #decentralized nature of #Mastodon and the wider #fediverse can sometimes make it susceptible to propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation campaigns.
This thead offers some minimal guidance to help you navigate this environment responsibly:
– Power grids must adapt to challenges such as increased electricity #demand, #variable energy sources, and a more decentralized model.
– #VirtualPowerPlants, formed by prosumers, are emerging as a resilient solution for managing power production and storage.
– Significant financial investments are needed to upgrade energy infrastructure, with the US Dept of Energy already allocating $100 million for VPPs.
Soapbox: if you want to have a decentralized system, that only works if you have an architecture where the layer below the decentralized layer is centrally controlled.
Example: the internet. Anybody can send IP packets to anybody, it's very decentralized.
But that only works if the layer below -- the definition of an IP packet and how to send it -- is centrally defined.
If there were no such central layer below, you wouldn't have a #decentralized system, only a bunch of incompatible pieces.
We’re looking more concretely at the client. The last testnet aimed to see how clients performed with the concurrency and batch-size arguments, but a bug in StoreCost retrieval scuppered that effort.
Here we want to:
Confirm our fix is in place for that.
Explore how concurrency and batch size effect uploads.
Look at how Kademlia caching effects downloads of popular data.
We’re making excellent progress, and a back-of-a-beermat calculation suggests we’re past the halfway point to Beta now, with payments, store cost and rewards all in place.
WhatsApp will likely set the global standard for messaging interoperability: This is Why and possibly What
The world already has quite a few good open-source, E2EE and secure messaging protocols like XMPP, Signal, MTProto, Wickr, Wire, and more. But none have ended up dominating across messaging apps. Also, there is no defined W3C open standard for messaging, like ...continues
I've never used (and prolly never will) #Whatsapp. As I understand, is only Signal protocol anyway with back doors installed of some form... not that I pay any attention to proprietary products like that.
But IMO, #Signal's not gaining any "global standard" status accolades until, at the very least, they remove the #DID requirement, drop #contact_database_farming, and ensure that email is optional too.
And then there's the hard requirement that it be #decentralized.
Call it synchronicity, a confluence of decentralised thinking, or longstanding issues coming to a head, but just as @dirvine was chatting to the team this week about protection against Sybil attacks, a post popped up alerting us to Vitalik Buterin’s thoughts on the topic.
David’s initial response, is ion teh forum. Tldr; outside of blockchain-land Sybil may not be so scary after all.
After iOS, Element X beta is now available on Android. Go rush it, break the app, report bugs, let's all get fun together! Oh, and it's extremely fast, don't be surprised.
After a successful DialNet we’re looking to test our reworked payment process. Now instead of badly guesstimating costs on the network, we ask each and every node how much they’d like and pay that. (This can be tweaked to avoid bad actors easily enough). As such, every node will receive rewards for PUTs directly!