this answer to @{Dennis Schubert; denschub@pod.geraspora.de} post seems reasonable.
it is indeed seems possible to map some subset of activitypub to the current diaspora functionality.
moreover that ruby libraries for ap already exists, there needs to be work done on integration, which is not easy, of course, but i think necessary - because otherwise diaspora stays isolated from the rest of federated world.
i think we have to try to create a social demand for this. if there is a demand, these functionality is more likely to be implemented - whether by diaspora team or by the fork.
well, the main problem is, that we have lack of developers, which is because diaspora is not that popular, and it is already a miracle that we have diaspora, and we have the existing team.
#activitypub #diaspora #activity_pub #ap #decentralization #federation #internet
RSS, or why lack of developer imagination will be the end of the open web
#rss #decentralization #web #open_web #openweb #development #internet
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the username/email crisis is easily solvable. decentralized web doesn’t imply there can be only one norayr on twitter, it implies that there can be norayr from mastodon.social and norayr from թութ.հայ. so more people on the net should theoretically not create huge nodes, but a lot of smaller nodes. just like towns in Austria - I believe except Vienna most of the towns have population less than 500.000. And, having user accounts on different networks don’t mean they cannot communicate. The oppressive strategy of forcing people to have account on your server should vanish in the future. #decentralization
are there decentralized photo communities out there? i only know mediagoblin. diaspora is not actual since they started to reduce sizes of photographs.
what would you suggest? the ideal solution is not only the software which i can host on my server, but also a community of photographers. #photo #diaspora #mediagoblin #decentralization
This combination of the defender’s advantage and the positive feedback loop in mining creates a property called censorship resistance.
https://taylorpearson.me/why-is-bitcoin-valuable/
very good article on bitcoins, and it relaits to all cryptocurrencies. #bitcoin #decentralization #censorship
Map those instances, and one thing becomes clear pretty fast: Mastodon is mostly a Japanese phenomenon. The two largest Mastodon instances – pawoo.net and mstdn.jp – have over 100,000 users each, significantly more than mastodon.social, the “mothership” site that Rochko himself administers. Three of the top five Mastodon instances are based in Japan, and the Mastodon monitoring project estimates that 61% of the network’s users are Japanese.
In one sense, this isn’t a surprise. Twitter is massive in Japan, where it has more users than Facebook, and is projected to be used by half of all social network users and a quarter of all internet users this year. But that’s not the whole explanation.
#mastodon #federation #decentralization
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runs #debian, not clear about window manager/desktop environment.
let’s see if it gathers community. #linux #phone #privacy #surveillance #matrix #decentralization
There is this concept of ‘wilderness’. When Moses took Jews out of the slavery, on the way to their own country, they had this transition period called ‘wilderness’.
This is the time when they were wandering and wondering what’s so cool in being free, because they felt they lived better lives with free food and less suffering back in Egypt.
I think when we care about our freedom, we loose a lot of opportunities. Among them - opportunities to socialize at centralized social networks, to be flattered there, opportunities to gain friends, opportunities to use web services to convert files or edit pictures, etc. And people wonder if they did not loose freedoms, instead of gaining them.
To me that is very similar to the transition period Jews had in a desert. So we are in the wilderness. We are wilderness wanderers in search of freedom.
#wilderness #freedom #decentralization #slavery #moses #history #bible #wilderness_wandering #wander #wandering
today’s internet is not decentralized, but multipolar. it has many centers.
it becomes something, which it would become, if there would be no arpanet with it’s decentralized design. it becomes something, which it would become, if usa would not contribute years of research to the public.
there was minitel. if someone remembers it. there were different online boards.
it becomes an universal access to different centers like minitel.
email still works as designed.
who will still use it after several years? #internet #minitel #bbs #decentralization #design
decentralization matters to the regular user: it is very much exhausting to keep several identities and keep them synced. on this site for these people and on that site for those friends. like we aren’t on a one global network, but several not connected worlds.
we had to underestimate what may internet become, and invent rss/openid much earlier, this had to be the foundation of internet, just like smtp was. may be rss/openid is not enough.
even if one chooses photo hosting service, she could choose one, and follow friends on the other services, because all services would provide generic interfaces to exchange the data. and that would lead us to the real competition - where every service has equal opportunities, but must work hard on be a better service.
because otherwise the user will get it’s data and move to other service! and this is what i call a true competition.
now we already lost this. :/ may be something new, in addition or instead of rss/openid will make a change. some new technology, which will define interfaces for data exchange.
#internet #decentralization #web #openid #rss #identity #competition
freedombox demo last year http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/sflc2015/04_freedombox.webm
i don’t know if it actually commercially available for the end user. currently only these features available, they say they work on adding other options too, including mail server, diaspora and/or gnusocial.
well, i wonder isn’t diaspora too heavy for that device? (never tried gnusocial). i’d like it to be available and i hope people will buy it and run their own servers easily.
#freedombox #freedom #internet #moglen #demo #decentralization #xmpp #owncloud #mumble #xmpp #ikiwiki #privoxy #tor #
Vahagn Poghosian from IstigateDesign will have a talk about decentralization.
#decentralization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILgxeNBK_8
I wonder is decentralization sustainable by design?
#decentralization #diaspora #friendica #identica #design #sustainability #game-theory #mathematics
12 reasons to invest in #primecoin http://www.reddit.com/r/primecoin/comments/2fml0e/12_reasons_to_invest_in_primecoin/ #xpm
#money #economics #crypto-anarchism #math #prime-numbers #crypto-currency #bitcoin #decentralization
netsukuku port to vala completed, so the project revives.
#netsukuku #vala #decentralization
The most important open and standard technologies to decentralize the web are openid and rss / atom feeds.
Let’s see how far social networks went in supporting these technologies.
It turned out, gplus provides openid, and works as rss reader (they killed reader for that).
That means we cannot follow google users from here(gplus is not federated), while they actually can follow us by subscribing to our atom feeds.
I remember there were discussions and bugs opened.
Just want to say - these features may deserve more attention.
#diaspora #development #web #decentralization #rss #atom #openid #technologies #freedom
The author of this poster doesn’t know about decentralization. We have more people - we need more network nodes. It can be new jabber server or now diaspora pod, or new mail server. (:
#decentralization #diaspora #network #jabber
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SouL ; thesoul@joindiaspora.com} Երկ 23 Դեկ 2013 03:17:00 AMT
#funny #future
Probably, my main problem with many saas services, including facebook, is that they quietly substitute ideas of technology with exact services. The verb “to google” is a perfect example, because we all know that web search is not limited to google.
Companies like facebook and twitter avoid using standard technologies, so that people think of services provided by company, forgetting that Internet is a network, and it’s about technologies, not companies. It’s a space where anyone can create a service, by using common underlying and free for all technologies.
That’s why saas avoids usage of rss, for example. That’s why there is a question “what’s your name on skype?” instead of “what’s your chat id?”, as we do with email.
#Internet #saas #web #facebook #technology #rss #email #smtp #jabber #xmpp #google #search #twitter #technologies #service #skype #chat #email #decentralization #freedom
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So the idea is to tie everything so hard into systemd that alternatives will just be impossible because of undocumented, unportable APIs that are leaky abstractions that make no sense without the thing they fail to abstract?
And why on earth does every daemon now need to be patched? They worked well for the last few decades without such specific hackery.
very good text by Gentoo developer Patrick Lauer about systemd.
http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/weblog/archives/2013-10.html#e2013-10-29T13_39_32.txt
#gnu #linux #programming #centralization #control #decentralization #gentoo #systemd #openrc #patrick-lauer #funtoo #dbus #logind #cgroups #kernel #unix #operating-systems #api #abstraction #freedom