#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

• It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.

• It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!

I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.

• And I'd rather subscribe to the #LKML and see my inbox getting hosed than using any shitty #SaaS!

Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.

I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools

• Public Chat? IRC!
• Group Voicechat? Mumble.
• #Documentation? #mkDocs-material.
• 1:1 Chats? XMPP+OMEMO.
• E2EE Group Chats? #deltaChat.
• E2EE Calls? #WebCall.
• Filehosting? #IPFS, #BitTorrent, oshi.at, etc. ...
• …

Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.

Hopefully one day we will have a #Fediverse platform that fully incorporates #IPFS as its storage mechanism. Think about how much better the Fediverse would be if (by default) all clients and hosts had built-in IPFS support. #federation #FileStorage

Sistema de Arquivos Interplanetário

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CndshAH5R0s

I've published another #browser demo on the #IPFS: a web-based mail user agent prototype (from 2021).

"We could build something better in a just weekend! And it'd even fit into the memory of a C64!" – That's what I told a friend when they complained about today's slow, bloated #webmail #frontends. And I did, in… let's say an extended weekend:

A modern, mostly-featured yet minimal webmail prototype weighing in at just ~40 kB gzipped (incl. all #HTML, #JavaScript, #SVG)

https://webmail--demo-data0-one.ipns.dweb.link/

I've built a thing.

Sometimes my follower count seemingly fluctuates at random. To understand why, I dug into the #MastodonAPI and eventually created "fedi-followers":

A privacy-friendly #fediverse #followers explorer as local-only static web app, decentrally hosted on the #ipfs. See who's actually following (and unfollowing) you over time and much more.

https://fedi--followers-data0-one.ipns.dweb.link/

Initializing a new project - Interplanetary Markdown. Might explore a #Web3 (off-chain) approach later for a better experience, but for now, keeping it simple with good old #OpenPGP.

A censorship-resistant #Markdown publishing platform, enabling seamless content distribution. Powered by the Interplanetary File System (#IPFS), ensuring #blogs, #articles, and other written content remain accessible and verifiable across the distributed web.

https://github.com/rvnrstnsyh/cupoftea

How is one supposed to find files on #IPFS?

I love that it's based on #DHT of old https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/dht/#kademlia though in practice mediated by a central indexer (IPNI) https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipni/ .

But what made DHT useful in #eMule was the search by filename or other human-readable metadata, so of course they removed all of that!?
https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/cid-concept-is-broken/9733/16

So you can't search a file by its checksum, let alone its filename. You need to know someone who already has the file, and ask them where to look.

Is anyone working on #P2P server software compatible with #ActivityPub? It seems natural to be able to donate network resources instead of cash, and would make services even more difficult to censor.

Protocol Labs needs to hand over #ipfs to a non profit standards foundation if it truly wants the technology to address worldwide societal concerns .

Hey #internet #cloud #web #infrastructure #persistence is there any #p2p or publicly supported content-addressable storage (#cas) solution? (Other than #IPFS, which I am aware of.)
The problem is that I eventually would want a (few) small binaries to be available "in perpetuity", i.e. not some specific content hosting service. The idea being that if that binary-exact file performs an important function, I'd like it to be hard to become unavailable or disappear.

I'm a bit late to realize that Cloudflare's #IPFS gateway has been shut down. They don't really say why in their post, only that they moved this service to the IPShipyard team. When I went to their website, none of their gateways seems to work, though :(

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-public-ipfs-gateways-and-supporting-interplanetary-shipyard

#ipfs project started in 2015 and yet the ipfs(-kubo) version is 0.33 …

I know opensource projects are conservative about bumping up major versions but seriously?

#TLDW:

#Piracy is a #Service Problem.

• Gabe Newell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmufgTp6EQ

Piracy will exist as long as #corporate #greed will exist.

• As long as media will be #overpriced, #delisted, #pulled from shelves or get #OutOfPrint, Piracy will be inevitable.

If it was my decision #Copyright and #patents would be contingent on the #media / #technology being produced and offered for sale.

• In fact I think every #claim for #losses should be tossed by any #judge whenever there was no #legal way to obtain a new copy of some content.

Espechally since we live in the #AgeOfAbundance and nowadays the cost for distributing even a #AAA #Game or #Movie is merely the cost of #Storage and #Bandwith, so at worst a whole Euro if we're talking #PayAsYouGo - #Akamai with no minimums to get stuff distributed.

• We'd be in the single digit cents if we use #P2P technology like #BitTorrent and #IPFS to keep stuff available.

@dansup there really should be some way forward to incorporate "the interplanetary file system" #ipfs with #activitypub for the longterm survival of the #fediverse which would also thwart attempts to censor or regulate it out of existence... Cause you know, corporate tentacles have their ways of touching everything.

https://ipfs.tech/

Hi fediverse. I want to design a game where all the components that make up "the interplanetary file system" will be represented as "factions".

Could someone pls sketch me a simple but complete diagram of these components, what is their role/what they do, broadly speaking, and their relation (again, just broadly) with the other components?

Ive tried searching for such a diagram but they are almost always too technical for me >:\.

Thank you for reading!

Is there any way we might be able to make #decentralized #WebApps work on #iOS? I.e. something that doesn't depend on a durable domain name, like over #IPFS or something. Does #Safari support #WASM and #WebRTC on iOS?

I'm assuming we'd need to get something into the #AppStore. Even a local proxy would be fine.