Prasanna VenkadeshNov 23, 2019

Manyver.se Android app for accessing peer to peer, off the grid social network now supports attaching images with posts.

#OffTheGrid, means there is no need for any fixed network infrastructure like Internet or no need of any server at all.

We the people are the message carriers. Our daily social movements and interactions are the network along which the data flows.

  • We meet our friends.
  • One of us switch on WiFi Hotspot or Bluetooth.
  • Rest of us connect to it.
  • Toots/Status/Tweets are exchanged between our phones.
  • Switch off WiFi / Bluetooth and go back.
  • Read Messages offline, Like and comment offline.
  • Repeat from 1

    • There is no single point of control in such networks. Moderation is left to all individuals to decided whom to follow, block, etc., This cannot replace public social networks therefore Off The Grid Social Networks are well suited for closed, tight circle of friends to share information within themselves.

    There are lot of use cases. Journalists can have their own network and share reports among their devices without being monitored or censored.

    Off The Grid networks among group of individuals puts back the trust of sharing information among themselves without any central entity or third party mediating the service for them. Therefore the data is with you and your friends devices and not in some server somewhere out of your control.

    #Privacy #Censorship #Surveillance

    Show threadMalluSocialistNov 23, 2019
    @prashere I don't know.. Isn't the whole point of social media that I. don't have to go out and meet people..? 😑
    Show threadPrasanna VenkadeshNov 23, 2019

    @cripplingdepression Depends what you look for in a Social Network.

    If I care about the data, privacy and not to worry about surveillance I would switch to alternatives that provide control of the data and platform.

    App like Manyverse and it’s desktop equivalent Patchwork speaks a common protocol called Secure Scuttlebutt. SSB in short.

    SSB provides hybrid mode of exchanging information as well over the Internet. They call such intermediary servers as Pub servers.

    Isn’t the whole point of social media that I don’t have to go out and meet people?

    True. We should have the ability to achieve both. With SSB you don’t have to meet everyone. The information in SSB flows like how gossips spread in our real world.

    Since we will not have control over how the information spreads in gossip network, that is why I said, we shall not use it to replace large scale public social networks, but we all can have our own separate social networks with different identities in different social circles like how we establish our identity in different real world network of ours.

    In real life, we wear different masks with different circles. We discuss different things in different circles. School friends, Office colleagues, Family circles, etc., With SSB we can emulate the same in digital sphere.

    ssbc/patchwork

    A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). - ssbc/patchwork

    Show threadPrasanna Venkadesh

    @cripplingdepression Throughout the history of class struggles people have witnessed and experienced the oppression by ruling class institutions. The ruling class wants all of us to obey their institutions.

    When we rely on their institutions for all our activities and survival we are bound to play by their rules. Marx and Engels envisioned a future where workers self-organize the production at national and international level as association or in other words producers and consumer cooperatives. The means of production should be collectively owned by the producers.

    Information is both produced and consumed by all of us. We are both producers and consumers. i.e prosumers of information. Shouldn’t all those who participate then collectively own the means of communication?

    We should embrace the Peer to Peer sharing and communication mechanisms to realize the ideals of Communist society. This is also why the capitalists are afraid of peer to peer consumer products as well. BitTorrent peer to peer file sharing protocol jeopardized their Intellectual property regime. That is why they Hollywood hunted down The Pirate Bay

    I recommend to watch this video on class perspective in communication medium by Dmytri Kleiner who also authored Telekommunist Manifesto

    When we speak about the left needs to reinvent itself, it should do so in all aspects. The left cannot compete on the same centralized model of Capitalists. It’s a losing battle.

    #Peer2Peer #Commons #WorkingClass

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