FreeSchool=Co-Op+Friendship🔁? @freeschool@qoto.org

Love this clip from @molly0xfff's Fediverse House talk:

"Imagine for a moment a web where communities can create their own spaces while still simultaneously and seamlessly interoperating with others. Think of it like a network of independent neighborhoods, each with its own character and rules, but with shared community spaces, art galleries and libraries.

"In this web, you control what you create and decide how it's shared.The algorithms that shape that experience, they're transparent and customizable. You can peek under the hood or tweak them to your liking or replace them entirely if they're not serving your needs. If you're sharing a space with a group of others and you disagree with how they run that space, you can leave, but you can take your work and your community with you.

"This isn't just a dream. This is already happening. Take Mastodon and the broader Fediverse, where millions of people are building communities that talk to each other across servers and platforms."

https://flipboard.video/w/s6FVEb2wei2ctFrdeZjuZa

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW #Mastodon

Fighting words from @molly0xfff's opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:

“We're facing an existential threat. We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols, not platforms…It's being built right now by people like you in communities like this one.”

Thank you, developers and denizens of the open social web.🙏🏼

https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW

“We can build the web we want to see.” @molly0xfff kicked off XOXO 2024's conference with a hopeful talk about building Web3 Is Going Just Great, and how we can “push the web back towards the wonderful, joyful, beautiful place it used to be.” https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/molly-white

“Cost of living” is a polite way of saying “Fee to not be dead”

@raph And people wonder why people criticise Israel. It's not a matter of being anti-semitic but rather being horrified of the actions of one people against another. It's simply inhuman.

Datacenters contain 90% crap data. We’re destroying our environment to store copies of copies of copies of stuff we have no intention of ever looking at again.

👉🏻 https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/

Did you know anarchists own a building in downtown #Montreal?

Yeah yeah, “property is theft”—but sometimes you gotta steal it back.

This spot has housed an anarchist bookstore, radical media, and generations of organizing and resistance. It's where I first found my Montreal peeps. Now it needs our help.

💣 Read the story, throw down some cash, and help keep this beautiful contradiction standing: https://amplifierfilms.ca/building-resistance-help-save-montreals-anarchist-stronghold

#BuildingResistance #Montreal #Anarchism #MutualAid #FuckTheRentierClass #SolidarityNotCharity

@diffusionlibertaire

For those interested to know more about life here around our free inn #TheHappyPig 🐷 , here's the 45 minute episode of #BenFogle's #Channel5 show #NewLivesInTheWild where he came to stay and hang out with #MarkBoyle:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/NewLivesInTheWild.mp4

Or a 4 minute taste of the place by actress and model #LilyCole, in which I appear:
https://www.nowness.com/series/retreats/retreats-marble-hill-lily-cole-mark-boyle-the-moneyless-man

More info at:
https://darkoptimism.org/projects#TheHappyPig

#gifteconomy #Ireland

Imagine a mobile text chat app that's a cross between Delta.Chat and Silence (defunct SMS app forked from early Signal);
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure/

As well as being the mobile app for my personal email address, it could also replace my SMS app. With the capacity for E2EE text when the other person's app supports either AutoCrypt (or something based on the variant of Signal's protocol that Silence uses).

#chat #E2EE #DeltaChat #Silence #Signal

Booked to see Cory Doctorow @pluralistic at Blackwells Bookshop Manchester on 02 July. I now have over two months to think of a halfway sensible question to ask.

Booking link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059

#Manchester #UK #Books #Bookstodon #CoryDoctorow

Have you ever walked into a supermarket, pharmacy, or department store looking to buy a specific item, only to find the layout confusing? Perhaps you ended up aimlessly strolling around, purchasing other items? This is deliberate, and known as the Gruen Transfer. The 'Transfer' part is the moment that you, as a consumer surrounded by a deliberately confusing layout, lose track of your original intentions.
We've all experienced it, and now it's starting to consume the internet. #Internet #GruenTransfer #DarkWeb #WWW #Enshitification

https://sebs.website/blog/the%20gruen-transfer-is-consuming-the-internet