Adam @adam@librem.one

"Are you a rockstar/ninja/unicorn developer? Come join us!"

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Our Favourite Free/Libre & Open Source F-Droid Android Apps (reclaim your privacy & freedom!) https://diode.zone/videos/watch/2308de03-196a-48b2-868f-a046b27bec36

💬 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
🗣️ Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

💬 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
🗣️ Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

💬 "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."
🗣️ Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995

💬 "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will."
🗣️ Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal messenger, 2022

Bob Saget's website is down because it's written in Drupal and too many people visited it.

Manyverse is a free open source "off the grid" social network. Each user's data is stored on their own computer or phone instead of on a server. You can follow the project at:

➡️ @manyver_se

There are apps for Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android, available from the website at https://www.manyver.se

Manyverse is part of the SSB/Scuttlebutt network.

#Manyverse #SSB #Scuttlebutt #OffTheGrid #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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