Adam @adam@librem.one

So-called "web3" is about decentralization, if by decentralization you mean adding a bunch of much more expensive and totally unaccountable middlemen.

25 years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Signal is owned by a non-profit, the Signal Foundation, which is headed by Whatsapp creator Brian Acton.

If Facebook/Google/Amazon offers Signal Foundation, for example, $20 billion to Signal either as a purchase or a "donation" or some kind of partnership agreement, what happens next?

We don't know.

What we do know is most Signal users would be stuck the same way most Whatsapp users were when its privacy was degraded.

Centralisation is dangerous.

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#TIL about Scribe, a free code front end that does on medium.com articles what Invidio.us does on YT videos and Nitter on Titter posts:

https://scribe.rip/faq

#Scribe #Medium

@brennen Email.

Everybody loves to hate on email and tries to replace it with something else. But long after those "something elses" are gone, #email will still be here.

If WhatsApp infrastructure were owned by users, not Facebook, then #FacebookDown could only affect one household at a time. Communicating with family and work is too important to be the job of one company. Decentralize now! #EmailFTW

The talk “Diving deep into Briar - a closer look at its internals” is now online.

"After shortly introducing Briar and talking about the features it offers, I showed how Briar works on the lower levels and how it makes use of the Bramble Protocols."
It's available on #peertube and youtube.

more here:
https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2021/diving-at-xmpp/

Mobilizon is a free open source Fediverse events platform, a privacy-friendly alternative to Facebook Events. You can follow their official account at:

➡️ @mobilizon

Its official websites are at:

https://joinmobilizon.org/en

and

https://mobilizon.org/en

You can follow Mobilizon accounts from Mastodon etc. because it uses the same ActivityPub federation standard as the rest of the Fediverse.

#Mobilizon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Activism #SelfHosting #FOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Events

RT @ReedSavory@twitter.com

The ENTIRE FUCKING DOMAIN FOR FACEBOOK NO LONGER EXISTS:

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ReedSavory/status/1445066528601387018

New pictures #shotonpinephone with the latest #megapixels from #debian #bookworm running on the #pinephone with #mobian.
Thanks to all who make this possible!

https://petrisch2.duckdns.org/apps/cms_pico/pico/pinephone/Camera/Bern

If you use #GMail, #Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt, and even if you didn't buy the product from them. Here's metadata from my takeout showing price, delivery address, description, vendor, etc. #privacy

title text: Honestly feel a little sheepish about the amount of time and effort I spent confirming "yes, the vaccine helps protect people from getting sick and dying" but I guess everyone needs a hobby.

(https://xkcd.com/2515)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2515
)

Familiar with Swift, UIKit, and know your way around XCode? Want to help advance the state of #XMPP on #iOS? 📱 We're looking for developers to help bring our iOS app over the finish line! 🏁

This will be a paid short-term project producing FLOSS. DM or email matthew@snikket.org if you're interested.

Not an iOS dev? That's okay, boosts appreciated too! 🙂