I'm getting ready for a meeting next week to discuss decentralized storage for community archives: https://www.shiftcollective.us/ffdw

We are going to be talking in part about how Historypin resources can be redundantly preserved independent of the platform.

I put together a small tool called Pincushion which builds static sites for Historypin accounts, and we're going to put participants archives on personal thumb drives to seed discussion. https://github.com/edsu/pincushion

This is a nice site for discovering EU based alternatives to US based tools: https://european-alternatives.eu

Oh, and they're on the fediverse: @european_alternatives

Excited to announce that I will be at #fediforum today speed demo-ing my latest project: an ActivityPub data observatory!

This observatory does not collect any user data or metadata. Instead I am looking at the *shape* (aka schema) of data being sent around the fediverse. This will let software devs ask questions like "How is a Mastodon 4.2.0 image post formatted differently from a Misskey 2024.7.0 image post?"

And we'll get real answers based on data rather than on poor documentation.

Here is DuckDuckGo on remedying the Google monopoly on search by opening up API access to the index:

https://spreadprivacy.com/creating-enduring-competition-in-the-search-market/