Presenting the local LLM stuff in Agregore tomorrow at the #Ottawa branch of AI Tinkerers. Hopefully it all goes smoothly :)
Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).
@oceane @lrvick oh, we are very much working with and for people in heavily repressive situations and they often use #deltachat when signal, threema, WhatsApp don't work .... And even if they do. Why? Because our apps provide instant onboarding without phone numbers, multi-profile and multi-device support and a pretty secure audited and analysed key management protocol without key servers. Plus support for state of the art circumvention proxying. There is a whole lot more than PFS to consider.
But now comes the hard part. Finding a server. This can be frustrating to the new user. There are over 3000 servers listed on the Mastodon site, where you can choose the ones that match your interests. They will all be closed to new members.
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Have you ever lost digital content or a website? After a major project went offline, filmmaker Brandon Tauszik realized the need to preserve his work from link rot. So StarlingLab teamed up with us and SuttyWeb to create a future-proof, portable version of his portfolio. The websites were recreated in a way to be cloned and hosted in multiple places. We published copies on IPFS and Hypercore as portable code, making them resilient to link rot! Read more here: https://starlinglab.org/case-studies-link-rot/
@makeworld I've been downloading mp3s of stuff I listen to offten so I can have an archive and support random devices
@polpo you know what's crazy? One time I accidentally cracked a full-size SD Card open, and I found that inside it was just a microSD card adapter with a permanently attached microSD card.
@mcc termux with Unexpected Keyboard has been pretty comfy for me.
@KekunPlazas I'm in the process of migrating to "Organic Maps" which is going well so far.
@rmond Those are more about routing packets to specific devices no? I was thinking more along the lines of Hypercore Protocol or BitTorrent, but with a network aware gossip thing that'd work kinda like the original freenet.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.