@racchio there has been a lot of chatter about it on https://scuttlebutt.nz over the years, if you care to install Yet Another Distributed Social Network to dive deeper. It is the usual rhetoric & dog-whistles in #Nostr projects- "complete freedom of expression" "without the risk of de-platforming" predictably attracts bigots who want to shout hateful things. 'Big Tent' philosophy and the 'Nazi bar' outcome etc etc https://startup-weekly.com/Primal-launches-new-social-network-for-digital-freedom/
@racchio I don't know much about #Nostr, other than that it's a fascist-run project with a disastrous cultural history. But yes, #Keet is for IM and runs fully decentralised.
(I'm going to use that word rather than "distributed" as the architecture *does* actually facilitate the distribution of power as well as of compute & storage. It's also built by a pretty cool community of anarchists & anarcho-syndicalists, at least the ones I've met.)
@racchio I don't know much about #Nostr, other than that it's a fascist-run project with a disastrous cultural history. But yes, #Keet is for IM and runs fully decentralised.
(I'm going to use that word rather than "distributed" as the architecture *does* actually facilitate the distribution of power as well as of compute & storage. It's also built by a pretty cool community of anarchists & anarcho-syndicalists, at least the ones I've met.)
To everybody currently experiencing the #Signal messenger downtime and precariousness of digital infrastructure that relies on servers, know that #Keet exists! It can preserve network connectivity and message deliverability in very degraded and hostile network conditions due to the absence of servers in its #p2p architecture.
The world needs resilient communications for what is to come. Don't let your whole network depend on one company.
#Nostr is a classic “me-too” project caught in the #geekproblem loop. It won’t move forward until it learns to value community as core infrastructure.
#Bluesky, meanwhile, is already drifting into the hands of VC-funded #fluffy elitists who turn every commons into a brand. It’s a likely dead-end for real change or challenge — which is exactly why the #mainstreaming, #blocking, #NGO, and #fashernista crowds flock to it.
#Nostr is a classic “me-too” project caught in the #geekproblem loop. It won’t move forward until it learns to value community as core infrastructure.
#Bluesky, meanwhile, is already drifting into the hands of VC-funded #fluffy elitists who turn every commons into a brand. It’s a likely dead-end for real change or challenge — which is exactly why the #mainstreaming, #blocking, #NGO, and #fashernista crowds flock to it.
We finally have true #socialmedia in #nostr for authentic conversation compard to the disingenuous facade of #mastodon
【 #ANProto is the spiritual successor to #SSB, but without all of the extra stuff that is difficult to maintain...an attempt to argue that #ATProto is too involved in it's own networking infrastructure to be usefully decentralized...operates under the working theory that #Nostr will never reach anyone besides Bitcoiners" 】
Everett Bogue's new protocol https://anproto.com and its first app https://wiredove.net
【 #ANProto is the spiritual successor to #SSB, but without all of the extra stuff that is difficult to maintain...an attempt to argue that #ATProto is too involved in it's own networking infrastructure to be usefully decentralized...operates under the working theory that #Nostr will never reach anyone besides Bitcoiners" 】
Everett Bogue's new protocol https://anproto.com and its first app https://wiredove.net
friends, i’m sorry, but queer.party will, after eight and a half years, shut down on the 15th of December, 2025.
for more information, please see the announcement posted on the home timeline - this announcement also includes links to, and a list of, other instances that have offered invites or opened registrations to queer.party’s users.
a full timeline of the shutdown is posted on SourceHut, where queer.party's
source code is hosted: https://paste.sr.ht/~maff/67f89a7d69279ee04ea7e352056149f86ac08ec4
Thank you for being here. It’s been lovely.
post was written as reply in thread announced discontinuation of queer.party instance, but Original Post of Topic Starter lost #queer.party #queerparty
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that wouldn't be the case if queer.party was really decentralized #p2p like freenet, hyphanet, scuttlebutt manyverse tildefriends, #web3, (or at lame case #nostr)
So refugees are welcomed to try those.
There is also promising project AutonomiDweb, but I haven't seen any users posting content there.
You could also try http://mitra.social & #hubzilla , both should have nomadic identities.
Follow me & boost if you interested in sutainable decentralized tech.
If anyone knows of people/groups that actually care about people, getting people off of #BigSocial, advancing the Open Social Web and making the spaces more accessible, safe and user-friendly let me know. Just without the weird ideology, religion and protocol wars. #Fedi#fediverse#opensocialweb#activitypub#atproto#nostr
You’d think people would want to work together to get people off of #BigSocial yet people want to be weird & engage in protocol wars. That lets me know it’s not truly about the public benefit #atproto#activitypub#opensocialweb
If anyone knows of people/groups that actually care about people, getting people off of #BigSocial, advancing the Open Social Web and making the spaces more accessible, safe and user-friendly let me know. Just without the weird ideology, religion and protocol wars. #Fedi#fediverse#opensocialweb#activitypub#atproto#nostr
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The Computer Networks Group researches and develops distributed infrastructure for secure communication and computation at all levels of the networking stack. Our past activities include work on sensor networks, autonomic operations of networks, bio- and chemically-inspired networking, as well as mobile code. Currently our main focus is on survivable computing.
The aim of the P2P Basel workshop is to bring together researchers and software builders to share insights and collaborate towards the sound and sustainable development of efficient eventually-consistent (offline-first) peer-to-peer systems. Examples of related projects of interest are Secure #Scuttlebutt , DAT/Hypercore , Cabal , #Tox, BitMessage , #IPFS , Socket Supply co., #OrbitDB , Earthstar , Willow , #Nostr , #Holochain , #P2Panda , #GNUnet , #Hyphanet , #Freenet , #Zeronet , #Retroshare , #NextGraph , #Web3 , #serverless , #maidsafe , #matrix , Other P2P projects that are based on stronger consistency models, such as Mass Market are also of interest.
Social Web Conferences
https://reiver.codeberg.page/social-web-conferences/
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I am working on creating a list of upcoming Social Web Conferences.
Using a broad definition of "Social Web" that includes the ActivityPub, AT-Protocol, ATmosphere, Bluesky, Farcaster, Fediverse, Matrix, and Nostr.
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These are conferences that I might want to attend. (And, perhaps you may, too.)
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Is there anything else I should add to this?
#ActivityPub#ATProto#ATProtocol #bluesky#bsky #farcaster #fediverse #matrix #nostr#SocialWeb