Unfortunately, we were not able to raise the necessary funds and thus will have to shut down Acter and its matrix sever (for now): https://acter.global/news/we-are-shutting-down-acter-app-and-service-by-february-2026/

*Fortunately* for you that means I am available for some freelance #rust engineering work again, part-time for now as things still require my attention at times. #fedihire

I can help from building SDKs to entire Apps in Rust (currently playing with #gpui ), architect, debug, profile, educate, teach and lead. Most of my 18+ years I've spent with #decentralization #privacy #encryption and #offlineFirst . If any of that is of interest to your, hit me up. Either here or via any of the contacts on my website (which also has a CV and project overview): https://GNUnicorn.org

Retoots appreciated ❤️ !

☁️The recent AWS outage showed how fragile “cloud-based security” can be.

When one datacenter faltered, global communication tools — including Signal — went dark 🌑

🕸️Matrix-based messaging systems kept running because they don’t rely on a single provider.

Resilience = decentralization

Let's invest in open, federated platforms.

#AWS #Signal #Matrix #Resilience #CyberSecurity #Decentralization #OpenSource

My first endeavor into social networks was with a #FidoNet node in the early 1990s.

Don’t think I’ve been so excited/curious about a tool for building social networks as I’m about @bonfire ever since.

That’s all good. Great, even.

What’s sad is that a huge part of that stems from where the centralized social networks took us.

Nevertheless, hope to take Bonfire for a spin ASAP.

#SocialNetworks #Fediverse #Decentralization

My first endeavor into social networks was with a #FidoNet node in the early 1990s.

Don’t think I’ve been so excited/curious about a tool for building social networks as I’m about @bonfire ever since.

That’s all good. Great, even.

What’s sad is that a huge part of that stems from where the centralized social networks took us.

Nevertheless, hope to take Bonfire for a spin ASAP.

#SocialNetworks #Fediverse #Decentralization

The XMPP Newsletter for October 2025 is out!

Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2025/11/the-xmpp-newsletter-october-2025/

Enjoy reading!

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter

The XMPP Newsletter for October 2025 is out!

Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2025/11/the-xmpp-newsletter-october-2025/

Enjoy reading!

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter

📣 𝔖𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩 ℑ𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔢 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿!

- We are finally testing a full #Matrix←→ #Discord federation for our community channels, thanks to @hyphacoop 💕
- #DWebCamp’s website has been refactored and updated by our volunteer Justus Perlwitz, who we also interviewed! 🧑‍💻
- Our websites are now hosted via @distributedpress, thanks also to @sutty 😘

💡 Read about all of this and more here: https://mailchi.mp/archive/2025-10-october-special-issue

#DWeb #newsletter #decentralization

📣 𝔖𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩 ℑ𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔢 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿!

- We are finally testing a full #Matrix←→ #Discord federation for our community channels, thanks to @hyphacoop 💕
- #DWebCamp’s website has been refactored and updated by our volunteer Justus Perlwitz, who we also interviewed! 🧑‍💻
- Our websites are now hosted via @distributedpress, thanks also to @sutty 😘

💡 Read about all of this and more here: https://mailchi.mp/archive/2025-10-october-special-issue

#DWeb #newsletter #decentralization

#SiliconValley (series) fans, can you help me find a GIF of the scene when the guy from Hooli partners with a factory in China to initialise as many devices as possible with its OS so that it could take control of #PiedPiper?

I want to use it to explain the pitfalls of decentralisation in my slides for my talk at SFSCON 2025

#Fediverse #decentralization #GIF #TV #series #TVseries

I'm again, in #Warsaw #Poland till the end of December!

Ping me to meet up for a chat if you're into:
- #cryptography
- #FOSS
- #decentralization and #p2p

Etc.

My dream? To create a new democratic web where people are citizens. I also like weird art and weird projects in general.

40 million people decided that the solution to corporate-controlled social media is another corporate-controlled social media.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/

#bluesky #bigtech #decentralization #socialmedia #wedoittoourselves #brainrot

40 million people decided that the solution to corporate-controlled social media is another corporate-controlled social media.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/

#bluesky #bigtech #decentralization #socialmedia #wedoittoourselves #brainrot

Unfortunately, we were not able to raise the necessary funds and thus will have to shut down Acter and its matrix sever (for now): https://acter.global/news/we-are-shutting-down-acter-app-and-service-by-february-2026/

*Fortunately* for you that means I am available for some freelance #rust engineering work again, part-time for now as things still require my attention at times. #fedihire

I can help from building SDKs to entire Apps in Rust (currently playing with #gpui ), architect, debug, profile, educate, teach and lead. Most of my 18+ years I've spent with #decentralization #privacy #encryption and #offlineFirst . If any of that is of interest to your, hit me up. Either here or via any of the contacts on my website (which also has a CV and project overview): https://GNUnicorn.org

Retoots appreciated ❤️ !

Update 30 October

Work is continuing rapidly on several fronts, first and foremost investigating the cause of download failures reported by the community.

We've successfully implemented paymaster for uploads in Dave (GUI front end).

Plus, we’re making good progress with the Merkle tree transaction verification (a.k.a. gas fees minimisation) integration.

And there's a new video from Jim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsdvQE_b9b0

https://forum.autonomi.community/t/update-30th-october-2025/42544

#autonomi #maidsafe # #decentralization

Update 30 October

Work is continuing rapidly on several fronts, first and foremost investigating the cause of download failures reported by the community.

We've successfully implemented paymaster for uploads in Dave (GUI front end).

Plus, we’re making good progress with the Merkle tree transaction verification (a.k.a. gas fees minimisation) integration.

And there's a new video from Jim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsdvQE_b9b0

https://forum.autonomi.community/t/update-30th-october-2025/42544

#autonomi #maidsafe # #decentralization