Redecentralize Digest — kthxbye
It’s been a pleasure. • DWeb Camp • the consumer computer • futher reading • etc.
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It’s been a pleasure. • DWeb Camp • the consumer computer • futher reading • etc.
In this issue: Give up Github • Chrome Alone • etc.
In this issue: PublicSpaces conf • Elephant in the room • Subsidiarity, not redundancy • etc.
In this issue: Twitter’s indecency • Bluesky opens up • EU Voice & Video • etc.
In this issue: DMA hammered out • Ethereum 8 years later
In this issue: Interop remedies • EU’s Data Act • OTWSU • DWeb Camp ahead
In this issue: FOSDEM • Moxie on Web3 • Paul on individualism & collectivism
In this issue: Web3, DWeb, Web0…? • Self-Certifying Web Protocols • Avoiding Internet Centralization • etc.
In this issue: A declaration of interdependence • Whose Web3?
In this issue: What to get right first • DWeb meetup
In this issue: economics limiting governance • ecological awareness • petnames • etc.
In this issue: human rights are not a bug • preventing the next google • full stack public media • spiPhones
In this issue: not much (vacation break)
In this issue: Cross-linking accounts • domain seizures • Paul’s pivots • etc.
In this issue: DWeb meetup • Reimagining the internet • Matrix Spaces • etc.
In this issue: orthogonality • Aether on P2P governance • I* newsletter • etc.
In this issue: DOTS pattern library • tomato cans • Public Spaces • etc.
In this issue: DWeb website • event calendar • user domestication • etc.
In this issue: centralisation vs democracy • ecosystem review • Brave & IPFS • etc.
After the Capitol riot, the question isn't about how the social media monopolists should wield their power - the question is whether they should have such power in the first place.
In this issue: DSA & DMA • rC3 • decentralised hate • etc.
In this issue: Digital public infrastructure • Radicle • EFF podcast
In this issue: Self-sovereign identity • OTI event • GDPR vs RTB • etc.
In this issue: NGI workshop • DSA consultation • DWeb meetup
In this issue: Google Play vs. fediverse • community networks meetup • about feeds • etc.
In this issue: Node zine 2 • Schrems 2 • this is fine • etc.
In this issue: DOTS • DWeb developer report • TrustNet • Text Fragments • etc.
In this issue: GDPR 2 years • Dat→Hypercore • Grant for the Web • etc.
In this issue: contract tracing apps • Wikipedia’s social protocols • better than Goodreads • etc.
In this issue: epidemic surveillance • github+npm • Diaspora • etc.
In this issue: FOSDEM • Our Networks • Ted Nelson’s foresight • new newspapers • etc.
This post covers what breaking up big tech would mean and why it’s not enough. I propose an open intervention that will give people a real choice and a way out of controlled walled gardens.
In this issue: DWeb SF meetup • What makes decentralisation hard? • Jay’s project comparisons • etc.
In this issue: 36C3 • Delta Chat • Twitter’s bluesky • Site.js
In this issue: IGF • .org sell-out • death of transit • etc.
In this issue: Redecentralize unconference • break them open • app store politics • etc.
In this issue: DNS over HTTPS • Facebook on data portability • Nitter • etc.
In this issue: CCCamp • Data Transfer Project • EU’s internet plans • etc.
In this issue: DWeb Camp • adversarial interoperability • local-first software • fediverse hosting & blocking • etc.
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The internet and near-costless scaling of digital has allowed the concentration of too much power in too few hands. Our systems for accountability can’t or won’t keep up. By building alternatives, the decentralisation of networks, governance and control are a promising antidote. That’s why it’s exciting to see web inventor Tim Berners-Lee announce a commercial venture to support the Solid platform.
We’ve heard about the consequences of mass personal data mining — from manipulating elections to exploiting people’s neuroses. Companies keep basing their business models around tracking their users and selling that data. Data breaches and unsavory uses of all this information clearly infringe personal privacy, but what’s the alternative beyond becoming a cave-dwelling hermit?
As the decentralisation movement grows, I consider the characteristics of decentralisation, what decentralisation is a tactic for, why and what work still needs to happen to re-decentralize the digital world.
A quick writeup and overview of the first redecentralize conference from 2015. Written for the FLOSS newsletter in Nov 2015, reproduced here in its former glory
When Google announced the retiring of Reader, once again I found myself doing the cloud service shuffle. While many looked to Feedly as the heir apparent of Google Reader, I decided to take control and end the cycle of shepherding my data from one cloud service to the next
I went to a Redecentralize meet-up the other day (3rd December, as it happens) and thoroughly enjoyed myself meeting a bunch of people and finding out what they did and how they saw the internet playing out both short and long term.
Why are people motivated by... 1) Privacy. 2) Resilience. 3) Competition. 4) Fun