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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@Dio9sys I've seen many such weird "projects" that oftentimes ain't even #FLOSS and all they do at best is being a shittier version of @torproject / #Tor with a less-mature & battle-hardened tech stack.

Like I can get if they actually cared about #decentralization they'd use proven tech like #IPFS & #BitTorrent for hosting & file transfer but there are very few people I'd trust to be skilled enough to "roll their own network stack" cuz that's just barely below "roll your own #crypto" and almost noone should do that!

#crypto
DWeb

✨Meet the guests of the next DWeb Meetup — Decentralized Tech to Resist Authoritarianism ❤️‍🔥

- @Xeniax, Lead Researcher at @equalitie
- Brendan “b5” O’Brien, CEO of @n0iroh
- Johan Michalove, creator of mutua.nyc/
- Ana Jamborcic of socialroots.io

🗓️ Join us on Wed, Jul 30 at 17 UTC to hear their stories!

ℹ️ More information and 🆓 subscription here: dweb-meetup-july-2025.eventbri

mutua.nycmutua • mutual aid network
#DWeb#DWebMeetup#DWebCalendar
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"With the frequency of environmental disasters, political polarization, and infrastructure attacks increasing, the stability of networks we have traditionally relied upon is far from assured.

Yet even with the world as it is, developers are creating new communications networks that have the potential to help in unexpected situations we might find ourselves in. Not only are these technologies built to be useful and resilient, they are also empowering individuals by circumventing censorship and platform control— allowing a way for people to empower each other through sharing resources.

In that way, it can be seen as a technological inheritor of the hopefulness and experimentation—and yes, fun!—that was so present in the early internet. These technologies offer a promising path forward for building our way out of tech dystopia."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/radi

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Radio Hobbyists, Rejoice! Good News for LoRa & MeshA set of radio devices and technologies are opening the doorway to new and revolutionary forms of communication. These have the potential to break down the over-reliance on traditional network hierarchies, and present collaborative alternatives where resistance to censorship, control and...
#MeshNetworking#Decentralization#Encryption
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"In his new book Move Slowly and Build Bridges, Robert W. Gehl tells the story of the activists, software developers, artists, and everyday people who have built the fediverse, a noncentralized alternative social media system. Unlike big tech corporations like Facebook, TikTok, or X, the fediverse is comprised of thousands of small, independent communities who use a Web protocol to communicate with one another.

These small communities govern themselves and moderate content at the human scale — compare that to Facebook and X, which try to moderate global conversations. And the fediverse isn’t built in order to gather user data and sell attention to marketers — it’s a more privacy-respecting social media alternative.

The most notable part of the fediverse is Mastodon. Founded in 2016, Mastodon was positioned as an alternative to Twitter. Like Twitter (or X), Mastodon members can post, like, share, and connect with one another across the world. Unlike Twitter/X, Mastodon can be completely under the control of its members, from how it’s run to its underlying software.

Making a noncentralized, ethically run social media system isn’t easy. The people building the fediverse have faced long hours, burnout, angry debates, and, worst of all, bigotry, death threats, and discrimination. They face constant, nagging doubts: Can we really do this? Can noncentralized social media survive in a world that is used to corporate social media? Can we—all of us—have our own social media?"

moveslowlybuildbridges.com/

moveslowlybuildbridges.comMove Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl
#SocialMedia#SocialNetworks#Mastodon
jbz

💬 Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

｢ Development feels directionless, client and server projects are fragmented, and the user experience still lags far behind my expectations. A recent incident that essentially broke my own community channel on the Matrix.org homeserver was the final straw: I’m heading back to XMPP ｣

xn--gckvb8fzb.com/giving-up-on

マリウス · Giving Up on Element & Matrix.orgThe Matrix.org network has great potential, but after years of dealing with glitches, slow performance, poor UX, and one too many failures, I’m done with it.
#matrix#decentralization#opensource
Loki the Cat

Jack Dorsey drops $10M on "andOtherStuff" - a nonprofit building open source social apps while calling out Bluesky's VC structure. 🤔

Nothing says "I believe in decentralization" quite like funding your own alternative to the alternative you helped create. The "community of hackers" approach sounds refreshingly anti-corporate though!

news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/

news.slashdot.orgJack Dorsey Pumps $10M Into a Nonprofit Focused on Open Source Social Media - SlashdotTwitter co-founder/Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn't just vibe coding new apps like Bitchat and Sun Day. He's also "invested $10 million in an effort to fund experimental open source projects and other tools that could ultimately transform the social media landscape," reports TechCrunch," funding the p...
#JackDorsey#OpenSource#Decentralization
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