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Danie van der Merwe

PeerTube 7.1 Expands Podcast 2.0 and Apple Podcast Support

For those who don’t know PeerTube, it is an open source decentralised alternative to YouTube with many of the same features. But importantly it also integrates with the Fediverse so anyone from Mastodon, Hubzilla, Friendica, etc can follow a channel ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/peertube-7-1-e

PeerTube logo featuring a playful octopus, film strip design, and an orange gradient background, highlighting decentralised video sharing.
GadgeteerZA · PeerTube 7.1 Expands Podcast 2.0 and Apple Podcast SupportFor those who don't know PeerTube, it is an open source decentralised alternative to YouTube with many of the same features. But importantly it also
#decentralised#opensource#Peertube
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Autonomi

Update 6 March

Consider this the official start of the Great Autonomi Upgrade Campaign. To properly test changes to the way relay nodes work, we need at least 50% of nodes to be on the latest version. Please update your nodes to the latest version and restart them.

forum.autonomi.community/t/upd

Autonomi Forum (Safe) · Update 6th March, 2025Consider this the official start of the Great Autonomi Upgrade Campaign. To properly test changes to the way relay nodes work, we need at least 50% of nodes to be on the latest version (run antnode –version or check the Launchpad. It should say Autonomi Node v0.3.7) If not, please update your nodes to the latest version and restart them. Currently, only about 45% of antnodes are version 0.3.7 or above, which is not enough for us to test the connectivity and rewarding of relay nodes. The la...
#automomi#maidsafe#decentralized
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Folks, when we are building spaces out here, please please please remember that people from marginalised communities who have built an income by participating in centralised social media, can't just drop everything there and start again. They will be extremely aware that every second they continue to use it, feeds the oligarch machine, but they need to feed, clothe, and house themselves. We do not all have the ability to just up and abandon established spaces.

These oligarch driven machines are extremely aware of this, and they make it difficult to leave on purpose.

Rather than saying DUMP THAT AND COME HERE OR YOU PERPETUATE FACISM, help create spaces for them that feel welcoming so they can grow new places here. This means making sure you don't fuck up early on and forget about people who aren't white nerdy blokes (I like white nerdy blokes too, but a lot of you need to pay attention!)

An example would be when Bluesky was still in invite mode, they failed BADLY to make sure racist usernames and the like could be deployed at sign up. You'd hope that disallowing slurs of ANY kind would be implemented from the get-go, but they weren't. When the Black trans community spoke up about it, it went ignored for too long, and all the while the platform contined to grow.

If you want people to come and participate in spaces where oligarchs don't reign, then make sure it's safe for everyone. There's no excuse for not doing this, you can't claim ignorance to this, and then ask people to abandon hard built spaces. You should know better.

Building new things means paying attention to things far outside our own experiences. If you don't know what to do, then hire someone who can educate you. Don't skimp on this, because it WILL bite you in the ass, as the saying goes. #decentralised #decentralized #fediverse #getfedihired

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One excellent example of feeding the machine but can't stop, is #substack. It's an Andreessen Horowitz product, and they're directly linked to funding those terrible fascists currently taking a wrecking ball to America. So many people on the left continue to use it, because they've built a platform there. I've had to check MYSELF recently because I loathe seeing it used, but it's not as easy as that unless you're wealthy and just writing for funsies.

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Daniele de Rigo

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Maybe also #DigitalSovereignty the right for #democracy public discourse not to be dominated by centralised proprietary media and agendas

In #Canada, another formal digital petition (e-5359: ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet) asks "to transition official government communications away from Twitter/X to more secure, community-regulated platforms that prioritise public safety, accurate information, and #accessibility" and "to explore publicly accountable alternatives, including #decentralised networks"

www.ourcommons.caPetition e-5359 - Petitions
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Toni Aittoniemi

#Distributed and #decentralised #computing networks aren’t left-wing. They are right-wing technologies which aim to escape from being controlled by a central authority.

They aren’t democratic either. Democracy requires a central authorative force which can apply the collective will even to parties resisting it.

We are being sold a right-wing package wearing hippy left-wing tie-dye. That’s why it’s so conflicting.

One of the best books in years:
upress.umn.edu/9781517918149/c
#amreading #bookstodon

University of Minnesota PressCyberlibertarianismAn urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role ...
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Marcel Stritzelberger

Small update for my #matrix article on the #bsdbox.

An English translation has been created and added to a new article for first steps. It briefly explains what spaces and rooms are and how you can join them. With e.g. the bsd.cafe also on other servers.

bsdbox.de/en/matrix
bsdbox.de/en/artikel/matrix/ma

bsdbox.deWhat is the Matrix? | BSDbox.
More from Marcel Stritzelberger
#decentralized#decentralised#freesoftware
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Joshua M 🇦🇺

@ericb @jwildeboer to try not to stand against the original toot:

If you arent yet using secure messaging — start with Signal. Its easy and beats out proprietary options in a billion ways

But the criticisms are:
* desktop app sucks
* Signal depends on Google Play services on Android; so its not entirely Free (custom ROMS can get around this with MicroG— noncustom ROMs can use #molly
* centralised - we are trusting OpenWhisper systems. They have held up so far; but one day someone with a lot of power or money might come knocking.
* requires **a** phone number to register - so its shit for young people and people who don't want to smartphone (this is the number one reason I moved away from relying on it; it requires phones to keep your account online. but I still monitor it to help others move to a private platform.)

#matrix wins for all of these things

But you can do so much worse; so the nerds should be using matrix *and* signal and signal can be a bridge of safe harbour to get the sheep off of shit protocols like #telegram #WhatsApp #Facebook #messenger
(Ed. "to true" changed to "to try to")
#foss #floss #decentralized #decentralised #freesoftware

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