#protocolsnotplatforms — Public Fediverse posts

@EUCommission
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What's about European Culture of subsidiarity? Standardized decentralized protocols, not centralized platforms!
USE decentralized (European) Software(-protocols) such as Mastodon with ActivityPub FIRST instead of offshore (no-)controlled platforms!
#publicMoneyPublicCode
#OpenSourceFirst
#dataSouvereignity
#DecentralizationMatters
#protocolsNotPlatforms

@smeg #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

ATproto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/27/atproto-the-enshittification-killswitch-that-enables-resonant-computing/

Open social media has a new fan: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna. The congressman for California's 17th Congressional District appeared on Kara Swisher's "On" podcast last week and talked about Bluesky, @surf, and the importance of being able to construct your own social graph, take your followers where you go, and opt out of algorithms. Here's the full episode:

https://flip.it/G01JHr

#SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial #Bluesky #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #ATProto #ActivityPub

@Catwoman69y2k I've concluded that much of the "join xyz platform for updates" mentality comes from the one-two punch of both web browsers ditching RSS and Atom and Google ditching Google Reader.

Say a free software project maintainer writes a development blog. The audience may or may not already have an RSS reader installed. This means the project maintainer might feel responsible for recommending a reader application for all 7 major platforms (Windows, macOS, desktop Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Firefox extension). Otherwise, people will land on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators and experience analysis paralysis.

I guess one disadvantage of protocols is that platforms have tended to do better at landing pages than protocols. Is there a page to which a blogger can refer visitors who have never used RSS before?

#RSS #DevBlog #RSSReader #AnalysisParalysis #GoogleReader #Atom #FOSS #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #LandingPage

@Coreyartus Followed!

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms

@travisfw
> "using the internet" should always mean engaging directly with other individual humans, with nothing but routers in-between.

We need to un-shackle the internet from its current #monopoly #SurveillanceCapitalism #feudal lords, and return the net to the proper #WorldOfEnds.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050828023214/https://worldofends.com/

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms #Federation #BreakThemUp

Thank you again to #Special #Guest @ChrisWere ! #Episode 13 is now available as a #VOD and #Fedicast.

#Peertube - https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/poYgA3RUpyXSAMqViDUgeX
#Castopod - https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/chris-were-peertuber-freebooters-and-space-virgins

As always please let me know if there's anything I've missed, typo'd, constructive criticism, suggestions, etc!

#fedi #fediverse #people #peopleoverplatforms #protocolsnotplatforms #tech #wales #expanse

TRY #2 - Thank you again to @stefano for @admin and for joining me today on Fireside Fedi Episode 12!

You can find the links to the VOD and Fedicast below:

https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/vSo87e6Vtd2yQJ6pZj8raj

https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/stefano-marinelli-fedimeteo-and-bsdcafe

#meteo #meteorology #meteorologists #fedimeteointerviews #fedi #fediverse #interview #peoples #fediverse #fedi #peopleoverplatforms #protocolsnotplatforms

Love this clip from @molly0xfff's Fediverse House talk:

"Imagine for a moment a web where communities can create their own spaces while still simultaneously and seamlessly interoperating with others. Think of it like a network of independent neighborhoods, each with its own character and rules, but with shared community spaces, art galleries and libraries.

"In this web, you control what you create and decide how it's shared.The algorithms that shape that experience, they're transparent and customizable. You can peek under the hood or tweak them to your liking or replace them entirely if they're not serving your needs. If you're sharing a space with a group of others and you disagree with how they run that space, you can leave, but you can take your work and your community with you.

"This isn't just a dream. This is already happening. Take Mastodon and the broader Fediverse, where millions of people are building communities that talk to each other across servers and platforms."

https://flipboard.video/w/s6FVEb2wei2ctFrdeZjuZa

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW #Mastodon

Fighting words from @molly0xfff's opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:

“We're facing an existential threat. We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols, not platforms…It's being built right now by people like you in communities like this one.”

Thank you, developers and denizens of the open social web.🙏🏼

https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW

We need #ProtocolsNotPlatforms for reliable, safe, future-proof communication @evan

It's no slight on the #Python maintainers that the #OpenPGP system is inadequate. They have correctly sounded the alarm, they're right that the system has lots of problems and should be replaced.

What I do fault the Python maintainers for, is dismissing valid concerns about GitHub and Google, by recommending them as replacement. If we don't have an open replacement, that's bad, but that doesn't justify vesting trust in proven untrustworthy entities.

@todd_a_jacobs

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms

@freakboy3742
> It's getting increasingly difficult to argue that Bluesky *isn't* where the vast majority of public discourse is heading

Even if that were true, it doesn't imply people should build anything there.

Building community in a centralised (no real plan for a distributed ATProto), cryptocurrency-grift, venture-capital-owned, corporate platform

is the same mistake people made that led to the Twitter collapse. Never again.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms

IMs come and go. #email is here to stay.

#protocolsnotplatforms #deltachat

@anneroth iconic der satz auf der webpage "people over protocolls". Da haben wir jahrelang mit dem slogan "protokolle statt messenger und plattformen" gearbeitet und dann kommen die jetzt so :D
#protocolsnotplatforms #openvibe

Thanks @sethmlarson for committing to make #FreeSoftware #Python volunteer maintainers lives easier.

I'm sadly shocked, though, that PEP 761 lauds dependence on #platform providers out of our control (Google, GitHub, etc.) as some improvement? Have we not learned that we need #community control of our identity, not #corporation platforms?

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms is a necessary part of divesting centralised power over our #SoftwareFreedom. Vesting yet more control in Microsoft is not the way.

@pganssle

This doesn't explain why that #ProprietaryPlatform (#Discord, #Slack, MS Teams, etc.) were initially chosen for that specific group of people. The person who made that decision did it for other reasons.

But it does explain what you asked: Why is this so popular, i.e. why are *so many* people continuing to use it?

#NetworkEffect and #SwitchingCosts. Nothing much to do with the properties of that particular platform.

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms avoids those problems.

@pganssle
> How is this platform [#Discord] so popular?

I lean on the old reliable explanations:

Network effect, brings people in.

Switching costs, prevent them from leaving.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/21/involuntary-die-hards/

#NetworkEffect #SwitchingCosts #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

@hamatti predicted this.

> When the company calls their home appliances "smart", what I hear is:
> - they spent money on features I don't care about
> - those features will be worse than standalone devices but will drive them out of market (looking at you TVs)
> - the appliance is more likely to break
> - my data is likely being sold to advertisers
> - when the company loses interest in it and cut support, I will need to buy a new device
> So no, I don't want "smart" home appliances.

https://social.chinwag.org/@hamatti@mastodon.world/112943946581235674

@arstechnica

#InternetOfShit #WhoOwnsYourDevice #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

@Codeberg

Codeberg knows to implement #ProtocolsNotPlatforms so that every service can inter-operate without lock-in.

So that we don't get a #FreeSoftware community so confused that they worry "why are some people not linking their software project to *this one proprietary platform?*" like that's a bad thing.

https://forms.office.com/e/b5uvsPdJLF

Over at Threads/Instagram visual artists oppose Meta's AI scraping practices by switching to yet another platform owned by someone.

Good time to advertise open protocols.

Tell your artist friends about Pixelfed.

@pixelfed #meta #AI #Instsgram #Threads #ProtocolsNotPlatforms