Mastodawn

Help! I've been thinking so much about decentralized platforms and open protocols lately that my brain has become completely decentralized itself. 🙃
Time to go touch some grass.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #FediDevs #OpenProtocols #DecentralizedPlatforms

Ecologia Digital Mar 26

"On #openprotocols, individual providers may address threats within their own systems, but lack the network-wide capacity to address coordinated activity across infrastructures or protocols. This is a gap that commercial actors have little incentive to address…
This points to the safety and integrity of the #publicsquare being coordinated as a critical #publicfunction, backed by #publicfunding. The practical implication is a core of publicly provisioned infrastructure."
https://openfuture.eu/blog/public-money-public-platforms/

Public Money, Public Platforms? – Open Future

A European Citizens' Initiative calls for publicly funded social media. But copying the same centralized, surveillance-based model would repeat the harms. Public money deserves a more ambitious target.

Open Future

Ecologia Digital Feb 22

#MustRead: "Stronger #communities could be built on traditional #socialmedia platforms, too. But those have proven themselves to be unreliable partners: remember that referrals are down, links are being suppressed, and trusting a tech company means letting tech happen to you, like an asteroid. #Openprotocols are permissionless; building on them means building real ownership, as long as the #protocols are built with #publishers in mind."
@ben
#journalism
https://werd.io/building-trust-in-the-open/

Building trust in the open

How Protocols for Publishers points to the future of journalism – and the web

Ben Werdmuller

mpsi Feb 6

“As part of our efforts to use more sovereign digital solutions, the European Commission is preparing an internal communication solution based on the Matrix protocol,”

Matrix is an open source, community-developed messaging protocol shepherded by a non-profit that’s headquartered in London.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/

#matrix #eu #foss #openprotocols #digitalsovereignty

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Oweo Jan 12

The Fediverse isn’t “the alternative to Big Tech.” It’s older than most of it.

Email works because it’s a protocol, not a platform. The Fediverse works the same way.

☑ Different servers.
☑ Shared standards.
☑ Real interoperability.

You don’t sign up to Mastodon.
You join a server on Mastodon, and suddenly the whole network is available.

Oweo doesn’t abstract that away.
It makes it visible, legible, and pleasant.

#oweo #joinoweo #fediverse #openprotocols #mastodon #activitypub #socialweb

Michael J Burgess Dec 23

I am exploring an idea for a Sovereign Social Protocol. A way to rethink social media around user ownership, decentralised Identity, and freedom from algorithmic control and surveillance. This is about rebuilding social spaces with autonomy and trust at the core.

Learn more here: https://sovereign-social-protocol-kp7pi9bx.sites.blink.new/

#Decentralisation #IndieWeb #DigitalRights #OpenProtocols

Sovereign Social Protocol - Decentralized Social Network Framework

A decentralized, forkable, creator-first social network framework where users own their identity, content, and social graph.

Superbloom Dec 14

🌍 Survey announcement: Help shape the future of decentralised social!

Are you building on Nostr or exploring what decentralized social networks can be? We want to hear from you!

On behalf of Nostr, we are conducting a community survey to map how people worldwide are using the protocol. We also aim to identify what would make participation easier and more sustainable.

✍️ Take part in the survey here: https://lnkd.in/eqzNeWnU

#DecentralizedSocial #OpenSource #OpenProtocols #FOSS #Community

Superbloom Dec 11

💬 Community insights wanted!

Calling all developers, builders, and people interested in decentralized social networks! Want to help shape Nostr's future? Now's your chance.

We're gathering insights on behalf of Nostr to understand how its global community engages with the platform and what support it needs going forward.

✍ Share your perspective by taking the survey here https://survey.superbloom.design/878514

#DecentralizedSocial #OpenProtocols #OpenSource #FOSS #Survey #Community

Dimly Lit Corners Oct 4, 2025

In the long run Open Source is all which remains ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

All closed source, usually commercial, software comes with a hidden sell-by-date. For whatever reason — a merger, a hostile takeover, a new management paradigm, incompatible OS update, a bad financial year — someone you will never know can pull a rug and —puff— it's gone.

#FLOSS #FreeLibreAndOpenSource #OpenProtocols #OpenFileFormats #RightToRepair #RightToSalvage #RightToExtend