Freenet / Hyphanet
@Freenet@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Freenet / Hyphanet build 1502/1503: fix vulnerability and visibility, add animated webp, convenience, and optimization

https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-hyphanet-build-15021503-fix-vulnerability-and-visibility-add-animated-webp-convenience-and-optimization.html

1502 fixed an inserter tracing vulnerability and added several features, 1503 fixes regressions in 1502.

- fix vulnerability
- reduce visibility on the network
- support animated webp and more modern HTML and CSS
- enable direct linking to Freemail’s “New Message” page
- dismiss alerts and convenience
- substantial routing optimizations
- bug fixes
Freenet / Hyphanet
@Freenet@floss.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

If you want to help spread #Hyphanet, feel free to share this announcement with anyone who might be interested and boost the announcements on social networking and news sites:

reddit post for 1503: https://www.reddit.com/r/Freenet/comments/1meg3hp/freenet_hyphanet_build_15021503_fix_vulnerability/
hacker news post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751198
bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/hyphanet.bsky.social/post/3lvcayfuslc2e
mastodon toot: https://floss.social/@Freenet/114950375474028948
Twitter/X post: https://x.com/HyphaNet/status/1951059839183909134

Hyphanet - protecting #privacy since 1999.

#decentralization #FreeSoftware#p2p
Kit 🔻
@onrust@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp last week

Decentralized Tech to Resist Authoritarianism webinar starting now =>

"Join us for a virtual meetup on decentralized technologies that enable communities to self-organize for mutualistic, peer-to-peer power."

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-decentralized-tech-to-resist-authoritarianism-tickets-1510991800149

#decentralization
Kit 🔻
@onrust@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Ksenia Ermoshina speaks on eQualitie's approach to countering digital authoritarianism, using decentralized tech https://equalit.ie/

#authoritarianism #decentralization
Kit 🔻
@onrust@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp last week

DWeb organizers share their principles for a decentralized web: https://getdweb.net/principles/

DWeb Principles PURPOSE AND ORIGIN These principles define the values of a decentralized web based on enabling agency of all peoples. It is the basis for behavioral norms and mutual accountability. These principles originate from members of the DWeb Community — those involved with and convened by the Internet Archive's work on the decentralized web. These stand alongside other sets of principles that share or expand upon these values, in recognition that our efforts to build a more just and equitable world are interdependent. 01. Technology for Human Agency 02. Distributed Benefits 03. Mutual Respect 04. Humanity 05. Ecological Awareness
DWeb Principles PURPOSE AND ORIGIN These principles define the values of a decentralized web based on enabling agency of all peoples. It is the basis for behavioral norms and mutual accountability. These principles originate from members of the DWeb Community — those involved with and convened by the Internet Archive's work on the decentralized web. These stand alongside other sets of principles that share or expand upon these values, in recognition that our efforts to build a more just and equitable world are interdependent. 01. Technology for Human Agency 02. Distributed Benefits 03. Mutual Respect 04. Humanity 05. Ecological Awareness
DWeb Principles PURPOSE AND ORIGIN These principles define the values of a decentralized web based on enabling agency of all peoples. It is the basis for behavioral norms and mutual accountability. These principles originate from members of the DWeb Community — those involved with and convened by the Internet Archive's work on the decentralized web. These stand alongside other sets of principles that share or expand upon these values, in recognition that our efforts to build a more just and equitable world are interdependent. 01. Technology for Human Agency 02. Distributed Benefits 03. Mutual Respect 04. Humanity 05. Ecological Awareness
Kit 🔻
@onrust@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Focus today: How can decentralized technologies help you self-organize through mutualistic, peer-to-peer power?

#decentralization
Kit 🔻
@onrust@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp last week

Decentralized Tech to Resist Authoritarianism webinar starting now =>

"Join us for a virtual meetup on decentralized technologies that enable communities to self-organize for mutualistic, peer-to-peer power."

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-decentralized-tech-to-resist-authoritarianism-tickets-1510991800149

#decentralization
witchescauldron
@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Why It Matters

If metadata is the new currency, then open metadata is the new commons. Capitalism runs on closed systems — the #OMN runs on shared knowledge and decentralized trust.

This isn’t about perfect tech. It’s about:

Human-scale trust
Community autonomy
Fast, messy, democratic distribution
Real-world resilience

It’s not utopia. It’s compost — and we’ve got the shovels.

#OMN #4opens #metadata #trustnetworks #openweb #decentralization #anarchism#DIYtech #postcapitalism#foss
witchescauldron
@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The current media system is stacked against us. It’s rigged, exclusive, and hostile to alternatives.

That’s why we need the Open Media Network.

Because without an open, trust-based infrastructure for communication and coordination, we’re just shouting into silos.

Let’s build something different.
Let’s make history — together.

#OMN #4opens #metadata #trustnetworks #openweb #anarchism #postcapitalism #decentralization#DIYtech #commons #grassroots#foss #geekproblem #dotcons#KISS
witchescauldron
@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The current media system is stacked against us. It’s rigged, exclusive, and hostile to alternatives.

That’s why we need the Open Media Network.

Because without an open, trust-based infrastructure for communication and coordination, we’re just shouting into silos.

Let’s build something different.
Let’s make history — together.

#OMN #4opens #metadata #trustnetworks #openweb #anarchism #postcapitalism #decentralization#DIYtech #commons #grassroots#foss #geekproblem #dotcons#KISS
witchescauldron
@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Why It Matters

If metadata is the new currency, then open metadata is the new commons. Capitalism runs on closed systems — the #OMN runs on shared knowledge and decentralized trust.

This isn’t about perfect tech. It’s about:

Human-scale trust
Community autonomy
Fast, messy, democratic distribution
Real-world resilience

It’s not utopia. It’s compost — and we’ve got the shovels.

#OMN #4opens #metadata #trustnetworks #openweb #decentralization #anarchism#DIYtech #postcapitalism#foss
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

💬 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 ｣

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/giving-up-on-element-and-matrixorg/

#matrix #decentralization #opensource
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

On 14h July (though it was already the 15th here), some of my monitoring jails started throwing errors. Not all of them, though. On the same host, an Uptime Kuma instance was showing a ton of servers down, while LibreNMS wasn't displaying any issues. After investigating, I discovered why. The jail running LibreNMS was using local_unbound (integrated into FreeBSD), while the other, perhaps for speed, was using Cloudflare's DNS.

DNS is like email, the Fediverse, and other similar services: they work better and make us freer when they're decentralized.

Let's go back to decentralizing the internet. Its very existence, as we've known it, depends on it.

#BeFree#Decentralization#SysAdmin#IT#Technology#Internet#Networking

activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I've been following ATProto's development from the sidelines since 2022, but I somehow missed this great take by @eloquence on Bluesky interoperability with Mastodon and ActivityPub: github.com/bluesky-social/atpr

"We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fediverse and BlueSky. The fediverse tends to attract folks who highly value open source in principle and practice; BlueSky tends to attract folks who are looking for a drop-in Twitter replacement.

In this context, I would argue that a clear commitment from the key parties (that includes @Gargron's Mastodon gGmbH and Bluesky the company) towards an interoperable social web is essential. We should be able to follow each other no matter where we decide to make our social media home. Even Mark Zuckerberg's Threads has at least made a commitment towards interoperability."

It's a good read. Year after year, it feels like ATProto and ActivityPub, Bluesky and Mastodon, couldn't be further apart. Even Nostr and WordPress support ActivityPub. We're seeing more servers and clients in the Fediverse adopting ActivityPub. As far as I know, 99% of ATProto is still powered by Bluesky's main server, which makes it not very decentralized. I wonder why anyone would want to set up a server for ATProto when ActivityPub is so much more widely used.

I see Bluesky and ATProto's future as just another private company, like the rest. It's easy to pretend decentralization and open source just for marketing.
Roni Laukkarinen
@rolle@mementomori.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I've been following ATProto's development from the sidelines since 2022, but I somehow missed this great take by @eloquence on Bluesky interoperability with Mastodon and ActivityPub: github.com/bluesky-social/atpr

"We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fediverse and BlueSky. The fediverse tends to attract folks who highly value open source in principle and practice; BlueSky tends to attract folks who are looking for a drop-in Twitter replacement.

In this context, I would argue that a clear commitment from the key parties (that includes @Gargron's Mastodon gGmbH and Bluesky the company) towards an interoperable social web is essential. We should be able to follow each other no matter where we decide to make our social media home. Even Mark Zuckerberg's Threads has at least made a commitment towards interoperability."

It's a good read. Year after year, it feels like ATProto and ActivityPub, Bluesky and Mastodon, couldn't be further apart. Even Nostr and WordPress support ActivityPub. We're seeing more servers and clients in the Fediverse adopting ActivityPub. As far as I know, 99% of ATProto is still powered by Bluesky's main server, which makes it not very decentralized. I wonder why anyone would want to set up a server for ATProto when ActivityPub is so much more widely used.

I see Bluesky and ATProto's future as just another private company, like the rest. It's easy to pretend decentralization and open source just for marketing.

Alex Akselrod
just small circles 🕊
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xoron :verified:
@xoron@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

👋 Hey #FOSS community! Need your wisdom on grant funding...

I've been developing a decentralized chat app that challenges the centralized model - think WhatsApp but with zero servers, complete privacy, and VR capabilities built right into the browser.

🔍 What makes it different:
- Runs entirely in browser (JavaScript/PWA)
- Direct P2P connections via WebRTC
- Industry-grade encryption by default
- Experimental AR/VR shared spaces
- Users own 100% of their data

The project is open-source and functional, but needs funding to:
- Improve security auditing
- Expand mobile platform support
- Develop accessibility features
- Build developer documentation

Has anyone had success with grants for privacy-focused or decentralization projects? Especially interested in orgs that value user empowerment over profit.

🔗 https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat

#Privacy#Decentralization#WebRTC#Grants#OpenSource#P2P
xoron :verified:
@xoron@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

👋 Hey #FOSS community! Need your wisdom on grant funding...

I've been developing a decentralized chat app that challenges the centralized model - think WhatsApp but with zero servers, complete privacy, and VR capabilities built right into the browser.

🔍 What makes it different:
- Runs entirely in browser (JavaScript/PWA)
- Direct P2P connections via WebRTC
- Industry-grade encryption by default
- Experimental AR/VR shared spaces
- Users own 100% of their data

The project is open-source and functional, but needs funding to:
- Improve security auditing
- Expand mobile platform support
- Develop accessibility features
- Build developer documentation

Has anyone had success with grants for privacy-focused or decentralization projects? Especially interested in orgs that value user empowerment over profit.

🔗 https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat

#Privacy#Decentralization#WebRTC#Grants#OpenSource#P2P