#decentralisation — Public Fediverse posts

“Is [UK Prime Minister] Andy Burnham About to Create a British Constitution?”

by Anthony Barnett in The Byline Tines on Substack

@uk_politics
@UKLabour

“On Friday 31 July, Andy Burnham made history, even if he did so in his trademark style. He triggered a process that points in a genuinely radical direction. Yet its destination remains unmapped and uncertain, leaving potential supporters broadly sympathetic yet sceptical”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/is-andy-burnham-about-to-create-a

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #Labour #Burnham #Constitution #WrittenConstitution #Power #Decentralisation #Democracy #Freedom #Protest #Thatcher #Authoritarianism #Starmer #Funding

Une preuve par l'exemple de la relative #décentralisation de #Bluesky et #ATProtocol
Bluesky est HS, #Musocial est un dommage collatéral. La raison ? Le relais entre les PDS est aujourd'hui géré par Bsky. #Eurosky compte-t-il monter son propre relais pour supprimer cette dépendance ?

"Part of the challenge of decentralisation is the language around it ...

In the book, this concept is a network of regional indie record shops that managed themselves in their area and acted as specialists for their local scene but they could also plug into a wider distribution network nationally to stock their shops and cross-pollinate with other areas. It is this idea that we want to transfer into digital terms."

@RobertaFidora, 2026

https://mirlo.space/team/posts/716

#decentralisation #distros

Apple has a "What the heck is Mastodon?" guide sitting in the App Store. Servers, the three timelines, alt text, content warnings.

They compare it to email. Thousands of independent servers, you pick one, you can talk to everyone on the others, and you can move house later without losing your contacts.

I have explained this to people maybe two dozen times and never once that cleanly. I usually lose them around the word "instance", which is a word nobody outside this place has ever needed.

Anyway. Nice to see it written down properly by someone with reach, even if the apps list has clearly been refreshed more often than the text.

Reading it from my own instance, which is the whole point.

https://apps.apple.com/ch/story/id1668483560?l=en-GB

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Decentralisation #ActivityPub #SelfHosting #Blog #Thoughts

Excited to be teaching the 5th edition of the Tunnel training tomorrow.

In 4 days there be some shiny new sovereign VPNs in the wild, running atop geothermal energy in Iceland, each capable of supporting hundreds of people.

One small step toward re-asserting that the basic right to privacy ought not be left to private enterprises. Rather, it should be in the hands of communities, meeting their needs, and on their terms.

https://courses.nikau.io/tunnel/

#sysadmin #privacy #decentralisation

I have published another blog post using Makko!

https://wolkenheim.eu/blog/decentralise-or-die.html

Be warned! You are being counted.

#makko #blog #decentralisation #fediverse #discussion #opinion #federation

Quite interesting, isn't it? Aotearoa NZ is discovering that decentralised for power grid infrastructure is the way to go for resilience, cost and meeting climate goals. Additionally, it gives us significantly more sovereignty from overseas suppliers.

Now Aotearoa will also need to see this with IT infrastructure. #Decentralisation to boost resilience over centralisation via SaaS and hyper scaler's #cloud infrastructure.

#DataSovereignty #decentralization #EnergyTransition #BigTech

@thinkerview avec @bluetouff, @czorn et @alexis_roussel

Le Jour d’Après : la Révolution des Octets.
Ça discute de #Politique du numérique, de #surveillance et de #décentralisation.

🔗 https://www.thinkerview.com/bluetouff-caroline-zorn-et-alexis-roussel-le-jour-dapres-la-revolution-des-octets/
🎧 https://www.thinkerview.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/mp3_128k/Bluetouff_Alexis_Roussel_Et_Caroline_Zorn_Le_Jour_D_Apres_La_Revolution_Des_Octets.mp3

#podcast #conseilPodcast #ThinkerView #PodcastFr

@jon @h4890 My experience within my IRL circles is that people do not generally care enough directly about these issues to make any changes.

However, they do care about social, political and other issues affecting their world, nation and daily life... so if you wait until they complain about any of these issues and then clearly link their issues to one of our solutions involving #privacy, #decentralisation, #digitalsovereignty, #opensource, #ethicaltech, etc. in a subtle and not-pushy way, you can have a good chance of success.

Using this strategy, I managed to persuade all of my family members to #gnuLinux, and all of my family and most of my extended family + in-laws that I'm in contact with are now on #DeltaChat.

@jon @Vivaldi Btw, would be great to have a light stripped-down version of #Vivaldi without the any of the proprietary UI bits for people who prefer Open Source. You could even make it a paid offering like some other browsers.

#FreeSoftware

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#Mastodon #Fediverse #decentralisation #decentralization

Save the Fediverse, move from mastodon dot social:
https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server
How to move: https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
#Fediverse #Mastodon #decentralisation #decentralization

🎉 Hey everyone, it's spec release day! Matrix 1.19 is officially here. 🚀

There are 6 new MSCs, with some highly anticipated features including:

✨ Native custom emoji support (image packs)
🔐 Encrypted room history sharing

➡️ Read the full announcement:
https://matrix.org/blog/2026/07/08/matrix-v1.19-release/

#Matrix #OpenSource #Decentralisation

implementing something no one asked for in #SSB is one of my fav things to do =^.^=

#decentralisation

GitHub - flythenimbus/bramble: Local-first, encrypted password manager. · GitHub
https://github.com/flythenimbus/bramble

#keepass #selfhost #p2p #decentralisation #alternative #android #firefox #chrome #claude

We'll be gathering at the @dweb camp in Alte Holle/Berlin from 8-12 July, together with people working on the crossroads of #opensource #decentralisation #cooperative #SSE Social and Solidarity Economy and #commoning

I'm really happy that we decided collectively to do this, when we were together at the @internetarchiveeurope in Amsterdam last February.

We'll be working together shaping the building up of the Democratic Tech Fund Below a list of the workshops and sessions we're part of (directly), while weaving connections with all people and communities working in solidarity towards a decent world, based on shared, democratic tech that works for our communities and not against us.

d:t:f #DTF

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@sebsauvage/116850867150236698

On est quelques-un·e·s à y croire fort au potentiel.
il manquerait plus que quelques asso / chaton / ou autre créent quelques relay et fasse un peu de pub pour que tout le monde se rende compte du potentiel génial du truc !

#Chat
#DeltaChat
#Décentralisation

I'm in Berlin until Sunday :hamster_dance:

If you're into #freeSoftware, #decentralisation, #cooperatives, #socialism, #anarchism, #workersUnion, #rojava or other rad stuff; I want to meet you for a nice discussion over a beer, tea, club mate or beverage of your choice :heart_cyber:

I'll be dropping by the #dwebcamp site, probably on Saturday (but won't enter because it's too expensive), so if you're around Alte Hölle we could also meet there.

About me: I'm a bit under 30 yrs old, I present mostly masculine. I organize for grassroots democratization in all aspects of society; political, social, economic, technological. Free technology enjoyer and contributor.
I believe we need to build international bonds between emancipatory movements, and that our movements need tech under movement control (no big tech).

#internationalism #fediask #ccc #dweb #freifunk #p2p #p4p #techcoops #commons #communism #mayfirst

Worshipping the #deathcult is strangely normal even inside our “alternative” tech spaces.

Look at how we talk about horizontal #openweb projects. The branding itself pulls us back into the same patterns: building identities around products, personalities and platforms instead of the commons and the wider movement.

#Mastodon, #PeerTube and the use of the term #Fediverse become part of this #fashernista cycle - chasing labels and recognition while avoiding or forgetting the deeper social change these tools were meant to support.

At the #OMN we use #openweb as the bigger frame. The projects are important, but they should sit as links within a wider ecosystem, not become the whole story.

The path is not another brand. The path is a living, diverse, decentralised movement for change and challenge.

Time to stop looking down at the floor, get up and build the commons.

#OMN #4opens #openweb #fediverse #commons #decentralisation #deathcult

Our #mainstreaming problem. If you are wondering why I keep documenting the issues around the #ActivityPub #openweb reboot, this is why.

Next time, maybe we can learn. Maybe we can mediate our “libertarian cats” a bit better and get a less messy path. Because we cannot keep making the same mistakes over and over.

I have been through this mess more than five times over 20 years of working on #openweb use, outreach and community building. This is not theory. It is experience.

Decentralised spaces are messy by nature. That is part of their strength. But if we don’t learn from our failures, the same patterns keep returning. So at the very least:

Can we please fuck up differently this time?

Document the lessons.

Build the memory.

Keep the commons alive.

Mess.

#OMN #4opens #fediverse #openweb #ActivityPub #commons #decentralisation #geekproblem

Wrote this 5 years ago, and it still feels relevant.

#OMN is about pushing pragmatic horizontalism as a living practice.

There are millions of people experimenting with these ideas through the #fediverse and the wider #openweb - one of the biggest real-world experiments in decentralised, networked social organisation happening today.

The interesting question is not whether horizontal systems can work. The question is how we learn from them, improve them and build the social tools needed to keep them healthy.

Less control, more participation, build the commons.

#OMN #4opens #openweb #fediverse #commons #decentralisation #geekproblem

Vivre sans État - Le doc ARTE qui titille l'anarchiste en vous https://korben.info/vivre-sans-etat-documentaire-arte.html J'sais pas si vous saviez mais l'État, ce truc qui organise et contrôle toute notre vie, sans que #vie-privee-anonymat/censure-liberte #décentralisation #documentaire #micronation #blockchain #vieprivée #anarchie #Arte

📡 [Nouvel article] Comment les réseaux #Mesh tactiques renforcent la résilience des territoires, des objets connectés et des secours
Découvrez comment un écosystème décentralisé peut transformer la gestion de crise, sécuriser les communications et connecter les acteurs locaux même sans infrastructure centrale.
🔗 https://germacrise.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/reseau-mesh-tactique-comment-un-ecosysteme-decentralise-renforce-la-resilience-des-territoires-des-objets-connectes-et-des-secours/

#meshtastic #Résilience #IoT #Sécurité #TechForGood #Décentralisation #GestionDeCrise #OpenSource #SmartTerritory #Preppers
@seeedstudio @Gaulix @meshtastic

Dear fedizens

I'm getting into secure resilient decentralised mesh p2p/p4p communication networks.
(Wow, that's a mouthful)

Could y'all give me some advice about relevant tech and hardware?

My primary use case is getting a few thousand people securely connected (messaging, preferably some web services as well) in a large area (hundreds of km²) with rugged terrain.
Eventually the use case will become fairly similar to "neighbourhood-first software", with 100k people across a few thousand km²: https://tv.lumbung.space/w/nzuB248U2LQA1LCn7vYmER

I've watched and read some stuff about #meshtastic, #meshcore and #reticulum, like
this blog post https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum
this glorious video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk
and #p4panda in this blog post https://lores.tech/blog/example-chat-app/

I'm leaning in favour of reticulum with p4panda on top, but can be convinced otherwise.

What sorta hardware is suitable?
Is #microreticulum functional?
Do you know of any decent guides?

Boosts welcome, cheers!

#fedihelp #fediask #mesh #networking #p2p #p4p #anarchism #digitalAutonomy #localResilienceTech #decentralization #decentralisation #neighbourhoodFirstSoftware

« Bien plus qu’un clone de X » : Rose Wang annonce le grand pivot de Bluesky

Oubliez la place publique d'Elon Musk. La directrice de Bluesky, Rose Wang, annonce une mutation radicale à la Reddit et ouvre la voie à l'Europe.

https://goodtech.info/bluesky-pivot-communautes-reddit-at-protocol-eurosky-w-social/

#Bluesky #Eurosky #Wsocial #Décentralisation #Réseaux_sociaux #FdC #RevueDePresse