ProcessOne: Europe’s Decentralized Messaging Survives “Chat Control” Threat

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Good news for anyone building messaging infrastructure in Europe: Denmark&aposs Council presidency is abandoning mandatory detection orders in the Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) proposal for now. The proposal was nickna … ⌘ Read more

@alexonit@twtxt.alessandrocutolo.it Well we have to really use the same spec or threading doesn’t really work in a truly decentralized manner 😉

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, you gotta love when a “totally real decentralized protocol” does that. How are they doing this and still pretending to be one, is beyond me.

Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming
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How decentralized is the fediverse, really? [mastodon post]
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My Hypothesis for why registries didn’t work and why they still won’t really work today is because the bend the rules of “true” decentralization a bit. Users have to pick one or more registries to “register” to. Why would they want to do this? What is their incentive to do so? Then on the other hand, users need a client that has registry support, but now which registry or sets of registries do you choose?

I asked ChatGPT what it knows about Twtxt 😂 And surprisingly it’s rather accurate:

Twtxt is a minimalist, decentralized microblogging format introduced by John Downey in 2016. It uses plain text files served over HTTP—no accounts, databases, or APIs.
In 2020, James Mills (@prologic@twtxt.net) launched Yarn.social, an extended, federated implementation with user discovery, threads, mentions, and a full web UI.
Both share the same .twtxt.txt format but differ in complexity and social features.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz ngircd is nice: https://ngircd.barton.de/ You can absolutely host this on your server for you and your friends (I’ve been doing that for a very long time). Actually peering with something like libera is hard, though, because they have strict requirements and a lot of traffic. Then again, there’s no real benefit in peering, actually. IRC is pretty “decentralized” anyway and people are usually used to connecting to several networks, so joining another one isn’t a big deal, imho. 🙃

Dino: Dino 0.5 Release
Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application.
It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication.
We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.

The 0.5 release improves the user experience around file transfers and includes two completely reworked dialogs.

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The way file transfers are currently done in the XMPP ecosystem is limited in functionality a … ⌘ Read more

Yes you were right. It was technically a failure. It is very difficult to reconcile the differences between a distributed network and one that’s truly decentralized.

[ANN] Istanbul Monero Meetup - Monero ve Dağıtık Borsalara Erişim: RetoSwap

Date/Time: Thursday, January 30, 2025 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM GMT+3
Location: Altcointurk Trader Base & Cloak Blockchain Academy

MoneroTurko is hosting a Monero Meetup event in Istanbul to discuss Decentralized Exchanges and how it affects Monero.

Link: https://www.meetup.com/moneroturko-istanbul/events/305699269

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BenraouaneSoufiane submits CCS proposal to launch CryptoCheckout ‘email marketing campaign’
BenraouaneSoufiane1 has submitted a second CCS proposal2 looking to launch an email marketing campaign for the CryptoCheckout 3 project in an effort to onboard new users:

CryptoCheckout is a secure simple decentralized crypto payment gateway, enable merchants to accept crypto payments on their websites. CryptoCheckout integrates monero in … ⌘ Read more

I think it’s centralized shit with lying about decentralization. All network is worked by two centralized things: plc.directory (did storage?) and network relay (bsky.network). You can host your relay but this require TOO MUCH resources (2TB storage and 32GB RAM read more ). Also i try running PDS and: 1. I can’t register account via app,only via cli 2. It leaked on 2GB virtual machine then killed by oom after trying to register account via cli

I think salty.im is simplest than simplex. But attempt to implement this i have problems than salty cli cant decrypt messages from another saltpack realization (and reverse) . Also simplex is more decentralized (like nostr?)

Thanks @prologic@twtxt.net, I also just manage to get my own version of webmentions working. Please have a read at Webmentions vs. Custom Mentions Spec for Twtxt/Yarn - HedgeDoc and User Lookup for Twtxt/Yarn - Webfinger or Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) - HedgeDoc for how it sorta works

Did another write up on #webfinger and DIDs for twtxt/yarn that you can read and edit/comment in: User lookup for twtxt/yarn - Webfinger or Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) - HedgeDoc

Keyword: Decentralization - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure

Figured you’d be interested in this @prologic@twtxt.net

@prologic@twtxt.net when will we have Y coin, the decentralized crypto money of yarn social???

I’ve seen BlueSky referred to as BS (as in Blue Sky, but you know…), which seems apt.

CEO is a cryptocurrency fool, as is Jack Dorsey, so I don’t expect much from it. Then again I’m old and refuse to join any new hotness so take my curmudgeonly opinions with a grain of salt.

I read somewhere or another that the “decentralization” is only going to be there so that they can push content moderation onto users. They will happily welcome Nazis and fascists, leaving it up to end users to block those instances.

I wonder how they plan to handle the 4chan-level stuff, since that will surely come.

BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization

I say “ostensibly decentralized”, because BlueSky’s (henceforth referred to as “BS” here) decentralization is a similar kind of decentralization as with cryptocurrencies: sure, you can run your own node (in BS case: “personal data servers”), but that does not give you basically any meaningful agency in the system.

I don’t know why anyone would want to use this crap. It’s the same old same old and it’ll end up the same old way.

Dino: Dino 0.4 Release
Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application.
It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication.
We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.

The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.

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Reactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji.
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@prologic@twtxt.net That was exactly my thought at first too. but what do we put as the rel for salty account? since it is decentralized we dont have a set URL for machines to key off. so for example take the standard response from okta:

# http GET https://example.okta.com/.well-known/webfinger  resource==acct:bob
{
    "links": [
        {
            "href": "https://example.okta.com/sso/idps/OKTA?login_hint=bob#",
            "properties": {
                "okta:idp:type": "OKTA"
            },
            "rel": "http://openid.net/specs/connect/1.0/issuer",
            "titles": {
                "und": "example"
            }
        }
    ],
    "subject": "acct:bob"
}

It gives one link that follows the OpenID login. So the details are specific to the subject acct:bob.

Mastodons response:

{
  "subject": "acct:xuu@chaos.social",
  "aliases": [
    "https://chaos.social/@xuu",
    "https://chaos.social/users/xuu"
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
      "type": "text/html",
      "href": "https://chaos.social/@xuu"
    },
    {
      "rel": "self",
      "type": "application/activity+json",
      "href": "https://chaos.social/users/xuu"
    },
    {
      "rel": "http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe"
    }
  ]
}

it supplies a profile page and a self which are both specific to that account.

I decided to become popular in decentralized social networks. 1. Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/win0err — mostly landscape photography; 2. Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@win0err — software engineering content

How to Implement Decentralized Storage Using Docker Extensions
In part one of this two-part series, we discussed the intersection of Web3 and Docker at a conceptual level. Now, it’s time to get our hands dirty and review practical examples involving decentralized storage. ⌘ Read more

Two Key System
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Clarifying Misconceptions About Web3 and Its Relevance With Docker
This blog is the first in a two-part series. We’ll talk about the challenges of defining Web3 plus some interesting connections between Web3 and Docker. Part two will highlight technical solutions and demonstrate how to use Docker and Web3 together. We’ll build upon the presentation, “Docker and Web 3.0 — Using Docker to Utilize Decentralized […] ⌘ Read more

Dino: Dino 0.3 Release
Dino is a secure and privacy-friendly messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive, clean and modern user interface.

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The 0.3 release is all about calls. Dino now supports calls between two or more people!

Calls are end-to-end encrypted and use a direct connection between … ⌘ Read more

Bookmarked : Cwtch - Decentralized, Surveillance Resistant Infrastructure ⌘ Read more

decentralized P2P messaging platform that works on a LAN. [[https://briarproject.org/]] #links

“100 years of whatever this will be”
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Snikket: Snikket iOS app now publicly released
This is the announcement many people have been waiting for since the project
began!

Opinions are often strong about which is the best mobile operating system.
However, while it varies by region and demographic, wherever you are it’s very
likely that you have Apple users in your life, even if you don’t use one
yourself. We want to ensure that the platform you use (by choice or otherwise)
is not a barrier to secure and decentralized communication wit … ⌘ Read more

Snikket: Improving Snikket’s usability in collaboration with Simply Secure
One of the primary goals of the Snikket project is improving the usability of
open communication software. We see usability as one of the major barriers to
broader adoption of modern communication systems based on open standards and
free, libre, open-source software. By removing this barrier, we open the door
of secure and decentralized communication freedom to many vulnerable groups
for which it was previously inaccessible or i … ⌘ Read more

Any of y’all seen https://briarproject.org? It’s another fledgling decentralized chat like session but minus the weird blockchain.. it has group chat, forums, and blogs. Also can work via Bluetooth or tor.

briar://aaeutr6pvvr5pgachwlajy5x372xxjvs6btsmmk5kr4ygzps3k3eu

Redditors Launch A ‘Rescue Mission’ For Embattled Sci-Hub, With The Ultimate Aim Of Building A Decentralized Version | isn’t that a great challenge for the fediverse? ⌘ Read more…

a decentralized community !zet. individual zet feeds could be managed using something like git/git submodules, then built locally into self-contained SQLite files. zet items would be referenced by their zet nickname and UUID. #halfbakedideas

@prologic@twtxt.net it is some interesting work to decentralize all the things.. tricky part is finding tooling. i am using a self hacked version of the go openpgp library. A tool to add and remove notations would need to be local since it needs your private key.

@prologic@twtxt.net this is a go version of Keyoxide.org that runs all server side. which is based on work from https://metacode.biz/openpgp/

OpenPGP has a part of the self signature reserved for notatinal data. which is basically a bunch of key/values.

this site tries to emulate the identity proofs of keybase but in a more decentralized/federation way.

my next steps are to have this project host WKD keys which is kinda like a self hosting of your pgp key that are also discoverable with http requests.

then to add a new notation for following other keys. where you can do a kind of web of trust.

interesting challenged to remaining decentralized: Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/files/Mastodon.pdf

This is incredible. Simple. Text. Decentralized :-)

twtxt.net - a Decentralised Self-Hosted Twitter™-like. How and Why. ⌘ https://www.prologic.blog/2020/07/26/twtxtnet-a-decentralized.html

Make the Internet Decentralized Again! ⌘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtkicw97zSo

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Distributed Community Curation https://john.colagioia.net/blog/programming/2020/04/25/distribmod.html #programming #decentralization #socialmedia #moderation #community #cultivation #curation #socialshowdown

decentralize!

GitHub - scipr-lab/zexe: Rust library for decentralized private computation https://github.com/scipr-lab/zexe

Three protocols and a future of the decentralized internet https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a-future-of-the-decentralized-internet/

why are there so many decentralized social media projects that aren’t well known and haven’t been worked on in a few years

GitHub - orbitdb/orbit-db: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db

Planning a Decentralized Mesh Wi-Fi Network http://darknetmap.zone42.ca/

On Emergent Centralization · Field Notes https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/defensive-decentralization/

Any thoughts about decentralized ways to discover twtxt users? I’ve set up https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt which is my following list plus whatever comes in via user-agent. If everybody would set this up with the with an added .following we could fetch each others list and discover users that way.