We distribute is a blog about Fediverse. Sean Tilley has been a part of the federated social web for over 15+ years, starting with his experiences with Identi.ca back in 2008. Sean was involved with the Diaspora project as a Community Manager from 2011 to 2013, and helped the project move to a self-governed model. Since then, Sean has continued to study, discuss, and document the evolution of the space and the new platforms that have risen within…
We have so many chat tools today. Maybe too many and they are not opent to each other. This video compare the most of them in angle of privacy and technical aspect. This video does not talk from the perspective of use. How easy it is to register and or to use and or how popular it is. But I recommend to see because we it is easy to understand and we can learn many things. If you use the…
Censoship is not neutral. What is good what is bad is subjective but Meta change radicaly its rules because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. « As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as ‘death to the Russian invaders.’ We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians, » a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. Such information…
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. The version number 7 is out with new features and many bugs fixed Hubzilla 7.0 is addressing one of the most important features of Hubzilla – permissions. By refactoring the way we set permissions we managed to simplify the workflow to do so and at the same time provide more flexibility while making it easier to organize. Channel…
I was reading a comment from Mike Macgirvin… Zot is gone and Zot6 along with it. Their successor, the Nomad protocol (which was derived originally from Zot10), is considered experimental and transient (hence the name) and is not intended to be implemented by other projects. Most of the functionality once provided by Zot has moved or is moving to ActivityPub. Nomad will remain until this migration is complete and ActivityPub has evolved to a point that Nomad is made redundant….
Friendica is a wonderfull and powerfull social network you can install easily yourself with just few lines of commands. This is not a detail way how to do it. But just a missing part of the official documentation. You have a server with yunohost. If you don’t know how to install yunohost go the official documentation of yunohost. But I can give you how to do it in 2 lines Install Debian Connect with ssh to your debian server and…
Powershell is THE system language of microsoft. If you are IT worker, you SHOUD know this language. It is a good investment to learn it. You have so many languages to know but this one should be mandatory because one day you will need it. Now as a linux user, I wanted to continuer my learning with my favorite opérating system. Linux have BASH scripting language by default and powershell is a microsoft language. But as you notices Microsoft is…
Hubzilla is maybe the most secure tool for a community, its nomadic identity let you free and don’t depend on an url or a server. Your account can follow you where you want.
Today in 2021 everybody use Whatsapp. It create a vendor lock-in. It means the ability to switch service is too hard because it requires convincing every contact to move to a new service. When Whatsapp announce they will change the condition to use their service many people start trying orther application. What is the best according to the Free Software foundation We recommend you to choose any federated system or peer-to-peer messenger according to your use-case so that you get…
If you have a mastodon account, you probably know that you are using a powerfull and amazing tool because you can communicate with all mastodon instances. But there is more… You are able to communicate with the whole Fediverse. You can follow peertube video channel, communicate with pixelfed contacts or even comment wordpress post all from your Mastodon account. If you have other kind of tool, pleroma, hubzilla or other that works the same way. Pixelfed is an photosharing tool…