#decentralised — Public Fediverse posts

#Bluesky, a #decentralised #socialnetwork, is experiencing a #decline in #activeusers despite its initial post-election surge. While the company is shifting focus from the app to the underlying protocol (AT Proto), which powers other social apps and services, the decline in app usage suggests a challenge in retaining users. Meanwhile, #Threads, a #Meta owned app, is seeing significant growth in #dailyactiveusers and website visits. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-beyond-the-app/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

#Bluesky, a #decentralised #socialnetwork, is experiencing a #decline in #activeusers despite its initial post-election surge. While the company is shifting focus from the app to the underlying protocol (AT Proto), which powers other social apps and services, the decline in app usage suggests a challenge in retaining users. Meanwhile, #Threads, a #Meta owned app, is seeing significant growth in #dailyactiveusers and website visits. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-beyond-the-app/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

Anyone used #RetroShare / @xeres before ?

#Question #Mastodon

#P2P #Share #Files #retro #Email #messages directly #PeerToPeer #Encrypted #Decentralised ( etc )

#Windows + #Linux + #macOS + #Android client

https://retroshare.cc
https://xeres.io/

Anyone used #RetroShare / @xeres before ?

#Question #Mastodon

#P2P #Share #Files #retro #Email #messages directly #PeerToPeer #Encrypted #Decentralised ( etc )

#Windows + #Linux + #macOS + #Android client

https://retroshare.cc
https://xeres.io/

Are you affected by #Telegram being (temporarily) banned in #India for a reason so ridiculous it isn't even wrong?

Maybe now's a good time to try out a #decentralised messaging network like #XMPP! It's easy to get started with @prav and the more inclined can dig deeper for more customisable options :masto_angel:

https://prav.app

#Prav

Are you affected by #Telegram being (temporarily) banned in #India for a reason so ridiculous it isn't even wrong?

Maybe now's a good time to try out a #decentralised messaging network like #XMPP! It's easy to get started with @prav and the more inclined can dig deeper for more customisable options :masto_angel:

https://prav.app

#Prav

We've been reimbursing this from our Event Bursary, which also helps us give talks and run stalls at various #FreeSoftware events to further spread the word about #decentralised messaging through Prav and #XMPP

But our balance there is alarmingly low, hence the fundraiser! Any amount you can contribute to keep this going helps, but if you want a suggestion, I'd say: enough to pay for a café lunch for 3-5 people at whatever place you're from? 😋

https://prav.app/donate/event-bursaries/

🧵 3/3

We've been reimbursing this from our Event Bursary, which also helps us give talks and run stalls at various #FreeSoftware events to further spread the word about #decentralised messaging through Prav and #XMPP

But our balance there is alarmingly low, hence the fundraiser! Any amount you can contribute to keep this going helps, but if you want a suggestion, I'd say: enough to pay for a café lunch for 3-5 people at whatever place you're from? 😋

https://prav.app/donate/event-bursaries/

🧵 3/3

The #internet’s initial promise of #democratisation has been undermined by centralised platforms like Facebook, which, while empowering users, also created chokepoints for corporate and political control: This “#enshittification” and “#despotification” are inherent to centralised architectures. #Decentralised protocols like ActivityPub and Bluesky offer a potential solution, empowering users and distributing power across the network. https://www.liberalism.org/p/enshittification-despotification-and-the-open-internet?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

The #internet’s initial promise of #democratisation has been undermined by centralised platforms like Facebook, which, while empowering users, also created chokepoints for corporate and political control: This “#enshittification” and “#despotification” are inherent to centralised architectures. #Decentralised protocols like ActivityPub and Bluesky offer a potential solution, empowering users and distributing power across the network. https://www.liberalism.org/p/enshittification-despotification-and-the-open-internet?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

Dear Friends and #techie fiends,

- Due to #familiars/#family pressures I have made Zuckerburger bar my default messaging 'service' on my apple #spyware phone and data collection point.
I can not cut my family members off at the convenience store OR have them reported to the non existent Anarchist League of Rebels. Ah #well.

- Fortunately I will still be on #Mastodon due to its #robust and #mature #decentralised platform

- I will also be complying with all local laws that do not turn ordinary people into 'domestic terrorists' or servants/slaves terrorised by their lordships...

- I will be working unorthodox hours to improve my skill set. For example turning my desktop server into a working desktop instance/server. I have inadvertently already half completed this task. :ablobcatbongokeyboard:

This message or my brain will now self destruct :BlobCat_ThisIsFine: 🦞 :cyber_hacking: :0dd_verified:

https://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies/

Dear Friends and #techie fiends,

- Due to #familiars/#family pressures I have made Zuckerburger bar my default messaging 'service' on my apple #spyware phone and data collection point.
I can not cut my family members off at the convenience store OR have them reported to the non existent Anarchist League of Rebels. Ah #well.

- Fortunately I will still be on #Mastodon due to its #robust and #mature #decentralised platform

- I will also be complying with all local laws that do not turn ordinary people into 'domestic terrorists' or servants/slaves terrorised by their lordships...

- I will be working unorthodox hours to improve my skill set. For example turning my desktop server into a working desktop instance/server. I have inadvertently already half completed this task. :ablobcatbongokeyboard:

This message or my brain will now self destruct :BlobCat_ThisIsFine: 🦞 :cyber_hacking: :0dd_verified:

https://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies/

Idea: Mastodon should allow adding rel=me links to Mastodon profiles to allow an account to verify other accounts.

(Or maybe a specific rel=trust?)

This can be used to create a web of trust.

e.g., For Gaza Verified, we have verified about ~250 accounts so far using video interviews. But that sort of verification doesn’t scale. And if we trust these accounts to be people from Gaza, we should trust them to verify people they know from Gaza. So Gaza Verified and the 200+ verified accounts become a trust root.

If they could then add rel=me links to their profiles to say “I verify this account is by a Palestinian from Gaza” (which is all we do), then we would start creating a decentralised web of trust.

Thoughts, @staff @haubles and #mastodon and #fediverse in general?

#webOfTrust #federated #decentralised #verification #GazaVerified

Idea: Mastodon should allow adding rel=me links to Mastodon profiles to allow an account to verify other accounts.

(Or maybe a specific rel=trust?)

This can be used to create a web of trust.

e.g., For Gaza Verified, we have verified about ~250 accounts so far using video interviews. But that sort of verification doesn’t scale. And if we trust these accounts to be people from Gaza, we should trust them to verify people they know from Gaza. So Gaza Verified and the 200+ verified accounts become a trust root.

If they could then add rel=me links to their profiles to say “I verify this account is by a Palestinian from Gaza” (which is all we do), then we would start creating a decentralised web of trust.

Thoughts, @staff @haubles and #mastodon and #fediverse in general?

#webOfTrust #federated #decentralised #verification #GazaVerified

How on earth can anyone call lemmy.world, wizard.casa, and gotosocial.social anything but absolute rubbish? They’re a total disgrace, a complete waste of time and effort. It’s astonishing how these so-called platforms can still be allowed to exist when they’re nothing but worthless, ruined excuses for social spaces! Absolutely infuriating!

#Fediverse #Lemmy #GoToSocial #SocialMedia #TechFrustration #InstanceDown #SoftwareCritique #WebDevelopment #UserExperience #OnlineCommunities #Decentralised #TechThoughts #Rant #SocialPlatforms #FOSS

How on earth can anyone call lemmy.world, wizard.casa, and gotosocial.social anything but absolute rubbish? They’re a total disgrace, a complete waste of time and effort. It’s astonishing how these so-called platforms can still be allowed to exist when they’re nothing but worthless, ruined excuses for social spaces! Absolutely infuriating!

#Fediverse #Lemmy #GoToSocial #SocialMedia #TechFrustration #InstanceDown #SoftwareCritique #WebDevelopment #UserExperience #OnlineCommunities #Decentralised #TechThoughts #Rant #SocialPlatforms #FOSS

I've witnessed that Fediverse servers have shut down... Some have returned online...

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ServerDown #Decentralised #FOSS #SelfHosted #TechCommunity #DigitalResilience #Hosting #OpenSource #Federation #Instance #SysAdmin #NetworkOutage #OnlineCommunities #WebHosting

I've witnessed that Fediverse servers have shut down... Some have returned online...

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ServerDown #Decentralised #FOSS #SelfHosted #TechCommunity #DigitalResilience #Hosting #OpenSource #Federation #Instance #SysAdmin #NetworkOutage #OnlineCommunities #WebHosting

How many friends have you made on the Fediverse?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Decentralised #SocialMedia #FOSS #OpenSource #Networking #Community #Connections #Federated #TechLife #IndieWeb #DigitalCommunity #OnlineFriends #JoinFediverse #selfhosted

How many friends have you made on the Fediverse?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Decentralised #SocialMedia #FOSS #OpenSource #Networking #Community #Connections #Federated #TechLife #IndieWeb #DigitalCommunity #OnlineFriends #JoinFediverse #selfhosted

I like the fact that the #crypto and #Bitcoin communities are growing closer again. #Decentralised

Another noteworthy quote from that article worth while remembering:

"The difference from corporate social media comes down to incentive structures. Platforms designed around narcissism and parasocial relationships produce content optimized for engagement. A federated network with no central owner produces something closer to actual knowledge-sharing, because nobody profits from making it addictive" 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

#MediaTools #Fediverse #Decentralised #SocialMedia #Mastodon

Another noteworthy quote from that article worth while remembering:

"The difference from corporate social media comes down to incentive structures. Platforms designed around narcissism and parasocial relationships produce content optimized for engagement. A federated network with no central owner produces something closer to actual knowledge-sharing, because nobody profits from making it addictive" 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

#MediaTools #Fediverse #Decentralised #SocialMedia #Mastodon

“Not because the technology was superior, but because the people on it had no reason to perform.

Without engagement metrics or brand-building incentives, Fediverse users shared expertise instead of content”

Aaah, I still remember rather fondly when, 4 or 5 years ago, people on #MediaTools stated rather adamantly the #Fediverse was doomed because you couldn't rely on #Decentralised social networking tools.

And yet, here we are ...

More info 👉🏻 https://boingboing.net/2026/03/06/why-mastodon-matters-now-more-than-its-creators-imagined.html

#SocialMedia #Mastodon

“Not because the technology was superior, but because the people on it had no reason to perform.

Without engagement metrics or brand-building incentives, Fediverse users shared expertise instead of content”

Aaah, I still remember rather fondly when, 4 or 5 years ago, people on #MediaTools stated rather adamantly the #Fediverse was doomed because you couldn't rely on #Decentralised social networking tools.

And yet, here we are ...

More info 👉🏻 https://boingboing.net/2026/03/06/why-mastodon-matters-now-more-than-its-creators-imagined.html

#SocialMedia #Mastodon

#Platform #operators of the #decentralised #socialweb, like #Mastodon and #Bluesky, can limit #copyrightliability by following the #DMCA #safeharbour provisions. This includes designating a contact for infringement notices, responding promptly to notices and counter-notices, having a repeat infringer policy, not ignoring known infringement, and avoiding encouraging infringement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-and-dmca-best-practices-fediverse-operators?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

#Platform #operators of the #decentralised #socialweb, like #Mastodon and #Bluesky, can limit #copyrightliability by following the #DMCA #safeharbour provisions. This includes designating a contact for infringement notices, responding promptly to notices and counter-notices, having a repeat infringer policy, not ignoring known infringement, and avoiding encouraging infringement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-and-dmca-best-practices-fediverse-operators?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

#Manipulation 🚫 #BigTech shapes opinions through targeted ads and polarizing content: #opensource #socialmedia empowers #communities.

#MentalHealth 🧠 #Research shows that #algorithm driven #feeds fuel #anxiety and #addiction: #ActivityPub platforms, like #Mastodon, avoid manipulative engagement tactics.

#Privacy 🔒 Unlike Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, XTwitter, #decentralised #networks don’t harvest your data for profit.

👉 https://Fedizen.EU
👉 @fedizen #news

#Manipulation 🚫 #BigTech shapes opinions through targeted ads and polarizing content: #opensource #socialmedia empowers #communities.

#MentalHealth 🧠 #Research shows that #algorithm driven #feeds fuel #anxiety and #addiction: #ActivityPub platforms, like #Mastodon, avoid manipulative engagement tactics.

#Privacy 🔒 Unlike Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, XTwitter, #decentralised #networks don’t harvest your data for profit.

👉 https://Fedizen.EU
👉 @fedizen #news

This is early days. We're looking for people who want to place sensors in their homes, streets, and communities.

Follow along here, or visit wesense.earth to learn more.

#OpenScience #Environment #OpenHardware #AirQuality #CitizenScience #Decentralised #Meshtastic #IoT #WeSense #NewZealand #Aotearoa #NZ #Auckland #AirQuality #Homelab #EnvironmentalMonitoring

This is early days. We're looking for people who want to place sensors in their homes, streets, and communities.

Follow along here, or visit wesense.earth to learn more.

#OpenScience #Environment #OpenHardware #AirQuality #CitizenScience #Decentralised #Meshtastic #IoT #WeSense #NewZealand #Aotearoa #NZ #Auckland #AirQuality #Homelab #EnvironmentalMonitoring

What we measure: air quality, PM2.5, CO2, temperature, humidity, and more — reported every 5 minutes to a global P2P network.

No central server owns the data. If we disappeared tomorrow, the network and data survive. #OpenScience #Environment #OpenHardware #AirQuality #CitizenScience #Decentralised #Meshtastic #IoT #WeSense #NewZealand #Aotearoa #NZ #Auckland #AirQuality #Homelab #EnvironmentalMonitoring

What we measure: air quality, PM2.5, CO2, temperature, humidity, and more — reported every 5 minutes to a global P2P network.

No central server owns the data. If we disappeared tomorrow, the network and data survive. #OpenScience #Environment #OpenHardware #AirQuality #CitizenScience #Decentralised #Meshtastic #IoT #WeSense #NewZealand #Aotearoa #NZ #Auckland #AirQuality #Homelab #EnvironmentalMonitoring

The core platform is working. Multiple stations are already replicating 91,000+ data archives via peer-to-peer with zero failures. Every archive is content-addressed and tamper-proof. #OpenScience #Environment #OpenHardware #AirQuality #CitizenScience #Decentralised #Meshtastic #IoT #WeSense #NewZealand #Aotearoa #NZ #Auckland #AirQuality #Homelab #EnvironmentalMonitoring

How To Create Lokinet Exit Node VPN On An Ubuntu Linux Cloud Server (VPS) https://youtu.be/Hn0lpvb-Fbc #Websplaining #Lokinet #Loki #LokinetNetwork #VPN #VpnMode #VPS #ExitNode #LokinetExitNode
@Lokinet_org
#Onion #LLARP #LowLatencyAnonymousRoutingProtocol #Decentralised

How To Create Lokinet Exit Node VPN On An Ubuntu Linux Cloud Server (VPS) https://youtu.be/Hn0lpvb-Fbc #Websplaining #Lokinet #Loki #LokinetNetwork #VPN #VpnMode #VPS #ExitNode #LokinetExitNode
@Lokinet_org
#Onion #LLARP #LowLatencyAnonymousRoutingProtocol #Decentralised

Growing up (and even often as an adult) I need to refrain from expressing this interest and it becomes kinda lonely, alienating. When the internet became dominated by commercial interests promoting #materialism and other #mainstream values, I found myself marginalised again, so I dropped out as I had from IRL society. The #decentralised #fediverse seems to offer something like the OG internet and I am grateful for those who develop and maintain it for the #community #alternative.

Growing up (and even often as an adult) I need to refrain from expressing this interest and it becomes kinda lonely, alienating. When the internet became dominated by commercial interests promoting #materialism and other #mainstream values, I found myself marginalised again, so I dropped out as I had from IRL society. The #decentralised #fediverse seems to offer something like the OG internet and I am grateful for those who develop and maintain it for the #community #alternative.

i'm ewan — developer, writer, occasional poet. i build open-source ATProto tooling,
self-host most of my own infrastructure, and take commissions for things i'm actually
good at.

if any of that is useful or interesting to you, ko-fi.com/ewancroft
is where commissions live:

• poetry from £10
• short stories from £20
• SvelteKit websites from £100

everything's CC BY-SA 4.0. no NDAs, no nonsense.

tips are also welcome if you've got use out of anything i've made or written.
either way, cheers.

i'm ewan — developer, writer, occasional poet. i build open-source ATProto tooling,
self-host most of my own infrastructure, and take commissions for things i'm actually
good at.

if any of that is useful or interesting to you, ko-fi.com/ewancroft
is where commissions live:

• poetry from £10
• short stories from £20
• SvelteKit websites from £100

everything's CC BY-SA 4.0. no NDAs, no nonsense.

tips are also welcome if you've got use out of anything i've made or written.
either way, cheers.

Wanter – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

https://susam.net/wander/

#HackerNews #Wanter #Decentralised #Tool #Small #Web #Exploration

Wanter – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

https://susam.net/wander/

#HackerNews #Wanter #Decentralised #Tool #Small #Web #Exploration

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web

https://susam.net/wander/

#HackerNews #Wander #tool #decentralised #smallweb #exploration #tech #innovation

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web

https://susam.net/wander/

#HackerNews #Wander #tool #decentralised #smallweb #exploration #tech #innovation

A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

https://codeberg.org/susam/wander

#HackerNews #tiny #decentralised #tool #small #web #exploration #codeberg

A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

https://codeberg.org/susam/wander

#HackerNews #tiny #decentralised #tool #small #web #exploration #codeberg

So Jay Graber is stepping down from CEO of Bluesky. I have to say I'm not surprised. She's definatly got more developer energy then CEO energy tbh. Plus how she responded to genuine concerns over transphobia on teh platform was just horrendious.

I'm not crazy about the choice of having a venture capitalist as the temporary fill in. But he is assuming this role termporarily. Let's hope this doesn't turn into another MAGA cesspool like Twitter.

#Bluesky #Decentralised

https://nerdist.com/article/jay-graber-steps-down-as-bluesky-ceo/

So Jay Graber is stepping down from CEO of Bluesky. I have to say I'm not surprised. She's definatly got more developer energy then CEO energy tbh. Plus how she responded to genuine concerns over transphobia on teh platform was just horrendious.

I'm not crazy about the choice of having a venture capitalist as the temporary fill in. But he is assuming this role termporarily. Let's hope this doesn't turn into another MAGA cesspool like Twitter.

#Bluesky #Decentralised

https://nerdist.com/article/jay-graber-steps-down-as-bluesky-ceo/

​Right then, the mask is off and the suit is on. Now that a professional ‘scaler’ is in the captain’s chair, it’s only a tick of the clock before the AT Protocol gets its own set of ticket inspectors.
​Who’s pulling their sovereign PDS out of the official relays before they start charging for the air we breathe? Better to be a digital hermit on a Finnish server than a venture capital dividend. 🏚️💻
​#Bluesky #VC #SovereignStack #Decentralised #TechSceptic #Mastodon #Enshittification

​Right then, the mask is off and the suit is on. Now that a professional ‘scaler’ is in the captain’s chair, it’s only a tick of the clock before the AT Protocol gets its own set of ticket inspectors.
​Who’s pulling their sovereign PDS out of the official relays before they start charging for the air we breathe? Better to be a digital hermit on a Finnish server than a venture capital dividend. 🏚️💻
​#Bluesky #VC #SovereignStack #Decentralised #TechSceptic #Mastodon #Enshittification

And I'm not sure that will change soon.

It's interesting the differences between #Centralised and #Decentralised, even when a centralised app was designed to be against the #censorship of other platforms.

Something about centralised social media draws in the crowds that Fedi has never really done.

But that might not be a problem. Maybe Fedi is just a slower process but more resilient in the end.

#TheFediverse, a #decentralised #network of interconnected #socialmedia platforms, offers a potential path to digital sovereignty for #Canadians.

🇨🇦 While it provides user choice and data control, challenges like funding, user adoption, and content moderation persist.

🚀 Despite these hurdles, proponents believe the Fediverse’s open-source nature and potential for user empowerment make it a worthwhile endeavour.

👉 https://betakit.com/can-canada-find-digital-sovereignty-in-the-fediverse/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

A #reticulum #nomadnet web / #mesh #browser #rbrowser for #surfing the #reticulum #network using #rns as an alternative to #ip #internet . #ipfreeinternet #networking #resilientcommunication #Notfallkommunikation #rnodes
#decentralised⁩ (compare #yggdrasil #i2p #cjdns #dtn #packetradio #loramesh #meshcore #meshtastic like systems) RNS reticulum cryptographic, transport-agnostic, delay-tolerant comms https://github.com/fr33n0w/rBrowser
in brief:
https://youtube.com/shorts/S6JKM00D0gk?si=NyAm1Hj6ccgcYFKK
full info:
https://youtu.be/Vd3P6kMXWgY

#Mastodon, a #decentralised #socialmedia platform, is introducing #newfeatures to attract creators and make the platform more approachable for newcomers.

🎉 These updates include a #redesigned user profile, an enhanced compose experience, and new admin tools for server operators.

💆 The changes aim to #promote #smallinstances and make the onboarding process more understandable.

👉 https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/mastodon-a-decentralized-alternative-to-x-plans-to-target-creators-with-new-features/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News