"a little over two decades ago, France also put out an arrest warrant on Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle, charging him as a war criminal, because Yahoo’s auction site in the US (notably, not the French version) allowed people to sell Nazi memorabilia. Eventually he was acquitted."

Techdirt

Arrest Of Telegram’s Pavel Durov Raises Questions, But The Answers May Not Be Known For A While

There’s plenty of news flying around over the past few days after it was reported on Saturday that Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, ...

Decentralization on Bluesky

Facebook what are you doing in there 😬

Nostr and Bluesky are frenemies Nostr is a ship for free spirits It's a pirate ship ☠️⚔️🛶 Bluesky is a rescue vessel for ppl who are afraid of freedom and afraid of choice 🚢 And they're held hostage by an algorithm of awful 🤖😈 Different ships for different reasons The numbers really don't matter

hysteria vs wisteria

Achievement unlocked: be woken by an earthquake and stay in bed while the room shakes because ur sleepy x 2 🤷 I take what I can

I'm amazed that digital networks have been around for 65 years, the internet for 35 years, and we still don't have words to talk about networks. There's only a weak consensus about the meaning of network topologies like "federated", "decentralized", "distributed". And there's no terminology for talking about the human control of those networks. People use "decentralized network" and assume that you know that they mean human control. Others think that human control and topology are the same thing. Imagine if all nostr relays were owned by one corporation. The network topology would still be decentralized! "Decentralized network control" doesn't cut it because "control" in terms of networks usually means automated. Network science is a field of study but the language is still pre-scientific 😔

Definition --- A permissionless network provides open and irrevocable access to perform the data operations defined by the network protocol

"A collection of interesting networks and technology aiming at re-decentralizing the Internet."

GitHub

GitHub - redecentralize/alternative-internet: A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation (in some form).

A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation (in some form). - redecentralize/alternative-internet