“You’re telling me that seeing has a cost?”

“No one wants to believe it, but yeah. Collective awareness is finite. Too much load, and the System starts dropping frames."

https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/fault-tolerance

#XMPP Community

XMPP #Sprint in #Berlin on 23rd - 25th May 2025! It is open to all interested.

More details: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2025-05_Berlin

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #standard

Hey there!

Here are some interesting events happening this week:

- Wed 4/9, London: Algorave @ Corsica Studios (https://www.corsicastudios.com/algorave-apr-9)
- Fri 4/10, online: Imagining Possible Futures (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-presents-imagining-possible-futures-tickets-1295350711849), by @DAIR
- Sun 4/13, Vancouver: coFood x DWeb Garden Kickoff! Work Party & Potluck https://lu.ma/jp988fpb)

I created an #X account because I wanted to have more reach for my crowdfunding campaign(https://cr8r.gg/@farooqkz/114295543059522709). But then I greatly regretted my registration on the platform.

The problem's not just that it recommends these people on the top. The problem's also that it requires following at least 1. But it doesn't provide search feature in this window so I can easily find the one I want to follow myself. The only way is scrolling.

I was never more confident that decentralization advocates, including cash and messenger, must have decentralized platforms such as Fediverse and Mastodon as their primary channel.

Hello! I have started a flipstarter crowdfunding campaign to launch a #Persian website to promote and teach Bitcoin Cash.

The website is currently here:

https://persianbitcoincash.com

The flipstarter is here and I have explained everything in details:

https://fund.persianbitcoincash.com

Reposts appreciated.

The #CoSocialist Future
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/05/The-CoSocialist-Future

An interesting article about https://cosocial.ca/ by @timbray - If you're interested in running community services, you should read it.

They take Canadian paying customers only (50 Can$), got 200 ppl after 2y and will hire their first paid employee soon.

Shameless plug:
https://info.graz.social is also providing paid memberships which supports efforts to educate the masses about #Fediverse and #decentralization for people in and around #Graz (and I'm part of @wir). Meet us at #GLT25 on April 26: https://www.linuxtage.at/en/

Consider a membership or a donation to your team of choice that runs a #communityservice!

After some hiatus, @Jami is back on #Flathub, an easy way to have it on any Linux distro. If you miss the #p2p days of Skype, Jami is here - https://jami.net/jami-vs-skype-welcome-to-where-your-privacy-matters/ #GNU, #FOSS, #Decentralization, #DistributedSystems

Make no mistake: #ProtectEU is an overreach that can't be justified when held up to the standard of the #decentralization pee l principle.

Imagine starting a post office, but instead of it being illegal to unseal envelopes, you instead have an assembly line of police that opens each letter and makes notes.

Could you imagine? If the US and the EU get their way, that's what we'll get.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption! • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption/

After intense #USA discussions on

#Decentralization
https://mdpi.com/2504-2289/8/3/26
#GenAI #Web3
https://mdpi.com/2504-2289/9/3/62
#DataCooperatives
https://mdpi.com/2624-6511/4/3/62
#AlgorithmicNations
https://mdpi.com/1999-5903/16/10/361

...worth watching #Cyberlibertarianism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f4pmXl4RCcE&t=13s https://pic.x.com/lH8XDCjCXm #OpenAccess

The #XMPP Newsletter for March 2025 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2025/04/the-xmpp-newsletter-march-2025/

Enjoy reading!

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization

The #XMPP Newsletter for February 2025 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2025/03/the-xmpp-newsletter-february-2025/

Enjoy reading!

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization

Pakistan is installing Solar Panels at an incredible pace. "Warehouses, textile mills, farms—anything with a flat roof and a balance sheet. The government barely needed to nudge the market. It just removed tariffs, approved net metering, and got out of the way. Good governance." #solarenergy #decentralization #renewables https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/04/pakistans-22-gw-solar-shock-how-a-fragile-state-went-full-clean-energy/

"Turns out what drives and sustains #decentralizedsocialmedia is not hype, but a sense of #community and the possibility to have some real #agency in one’s social media experience. This #decentralization and sense of community allows #Fediverse to survive even if individual instances disappear."

https://rys.io/en/177.html

Ditching the Cloud: Running Syncthing Like a Ghost #OPSEC #Cybersecurity #PrivacyMatters #SelfHosting #Decentralization #DataSovereignty #Encryption #NoCloud #Surveillance #CyberGhost #SecureSync #PeerToPeer #DigitalAnonymity #DeadSwitch

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/04/05/%e2%9b%88%ef%b8%8f-ditching-the-cloud-running-syncthing-like-a-ghost/

Glad to having contributed to #DataCooperatives event at Georgetown University McCourt School of PublicPolicy, #WashingtonDC on 1-2 April 2025. Looking forward to #ActionNetwork to shape #Web3 #GenAI #Decentralization for #digitalinclusion #socialinnovation

https://www.projectliberty.io/news/from-theory-to-action-scaling-data-cooperatives/

Sentient Co-Founder: Decentralized AI Crucial for Achieving Artificial General Intelligence - The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is shifting its focus to artificial gene... - https://news.bitcoin.com/sentient-co-founder-decentralized-ai-crucial-for-achieving-artificial-general-intelligence/ #artificialintelligence(ai) #decentralization #interview

#Decentralized platform #Vana is letting users own a piece of the #AI models trained on their #data

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-decentralized-platform-users-piece-ai.html

Before the modern internet, Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) were the backbone of online communication. Emerging in the late 1970s, BBSes were text-based systems accessed via dial-up modems, where users could post messages, share files, and even play primitive online games. These digital meeting places became hubs for underground communities, tech enthusiasts, hackers, and early software distribution networks.

Despite being largely replaced by the web, BBSes never truly died. Today, a dedicated community keeps them alive using telnet and modern technology, ensuring that the spirit of decentralized, independent online spaces lives on. Whether through retro computing nostalgia, hacker culture, or a desire for an internet free from corporate control, BBSes continue to thrive in small but passionate circles.

I said it before on Mastodon. I'm reposting this again. Comparing #DeltaChat and #Matrix together, if you want hassle free and consistent messenger for private #E2EE chats, don't go for Matrix. DeltaChat is way better.

However, if you want something like a public forum, or a public chatroom, don't go for DeltaChat. Matrix is way better suited for that. And DeltaChat does not support public groups at all. In DeltaChat groups, there is no admin or moderator and everyone have got permission to remove or add the others.

I think I have to write a longer post on my personal blog about these two, comparing them together.

PS: Another Matrix encryption bug few minutes ago triggered repost of this.