Notices by Mike Macgirvin (macgirvin@pleroma.fr)
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In 2010 I left Facebook and set out to build a decentralised alternative. What I found out along the way is that it wasn't just Facebook I was replacing. What we created was a privacy-respecting overlay network on top of the internet so we could replace the entire surveillance state with a system where you controlled access to your thoughts and ideas and shared it on a single sign-in decentralised network. In fact we built that, and it works great, but most people rejected it because they don't understand what that has to do with Facebook. Everything and nothing amigo. We've been living in this privacy respecting overlay internet for nearly a decade now and refuse to go back to the old ways. We've always hoped the internet itself would catch on and evolve to meet us halfway, but it seems to be devolving, so in retrospect the architectural design (as an overlay network) turned out to be the correct one.
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You have the right to a permanent internet identity which is not associated with what server you are currently using and cannot be taken away from you by anybody, ever.
You have the right to refuse/reject or possibly moderate comments on your posts by anybody you don't know.
You also have the right to not allow them to comment on your posts in the first place, until such time as they have earned your trust.
You have the right to show your photos and videos to anybody you desire and also NOT show them to anybody you desire.
If your software does not implement these rights, you have the right to fix it or replace it.
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Most assumptions about Facebook or some other large corporate entity taking over the fediverse seem to assume they would use the embrace,extend,extinguish tactic.
Not necessary and horrendously expensive. All they need to do is send in a dozen toxic people and the fediverse will destroy itself from inside arguing about how to deal with them.
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Announce:
Zap 1.0RC
Zap is a social networking server implementing the Zot6 protocol. This is the first reference implementation of that protocol. The network is sparse at the moment with only a small handful of pioneers. Integration with legacy Zot applications (such as Hubzilla and Red) is scheduled for later in the year.
Osada 1.0RC
Osada is a social networking server implementing both ActivityPub and Zot6. It can communicate with both networks.
These projects represent tradeoffs between different social networking and social media features. Osada provides greater social reach, with a corresponding loss of privacy controls and account resilience (nomadic identity). Zap provides the full capabilities of Zot, which includes privacy controls, private media, and account resilience; with a corresponding lack of federation with networks that do not offer these features -- hence a much smaller and more intimate social graph.
Both projects and a handful of addons/apps are available now from https://framagit.org/macgirvin . These both use the LAMP stack and are licensed under the MIT license.
The Zot6 protocol is described at https://macgirvin.com/wiki/mike/Zot%2BVI/Home
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