Distributed Press is at Fediforum this week!
We're thrilled to be at Fediforum this week to present our latest tools! For the past year, we've been working on bringing distributed hosting to the Fediverse, to create better, more customizable social interactions built atop ActivityPub.
Come check out our talk on Wednesday March 20 in the morning, around 8:30am PT / 11:30am ET (the overall schedule is here).
Here's a sneak peek of our presentation:
No-code publishing to the distributed web: Sutty CMS is a graphical, user-friendly interface for static Jekyll-based websites. With a click on a toggle, you can publish your websites to IPFS, Hypercore, and of course, HTTP.
Social Inbox: Publish a profile and post your website's contents directly to the Fediverse. Other accounts can follow your websites, and replies to your Fedi posts can be moderated and published on your for sites through a back-end moderation panel on the Sutty CMS. It also allows instance-level allow lists and block lists. We've automated announcements so others can easily subscribe and follow your website posts on the Fediverse.
Social Reader: A new ActivityPub client that supports natively loading published data over p2p protocols, skipping the need for always-online HTTP servers for accessing content. It also gives you more precise controls over the content that you interact with.
We'd love to connect with you!
Especially if you're building or strategizing around:
Payments and sustainable funding on the Fediverse
Peer-to-peer and distributed publishing
Fediverse adoption by medium to large organizations
Hope to meet some of you there!
I was noticing many weird, histrionic posts from the Apple blogs about an ex-employee being convicted of a federal crime - but always smearing the employee about worrying about Apple spying on him. Many posts also called it a "short trial." I got curious.
PACER showed a 21 month long trial, across two states, with over 180 docket entries. Motions to suppress evidence exposed the FBI illegally spied on the employee, illegally searched his property, & illegally arrested him -at referral of Apple.
“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/
uBlock Origin filter list for sites that contain AI-generated content for uBlock Origin. Useful for scrubbing AI-generated bullshit from Google, DDG, and Bing image search pages.
Edit: I didn't make this! Just seemed useful.
https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/tree/main
OwO What's this? A new way to read through posts on the fediverse?
Come chat with us about it at the #FediForum
I need a Matrix client that is good … Element is constantly screwing things up. Sometimes short runs of messages in chats I've been in for months suddenly just can't be decrypted. Sometimes it doesn't notify me of new messages for a week or so, on desktop or mobile, before then returning back to normal. Sometimes certain channels just have an unread badge no matter how far I scroll in the room and the threads, and sometimes the badge will stay even if I mark the room read.
We've got a new version (v2.5.0) out which improves the look and feel along with fixes for the #Hypercore / #Holepunch protocol handlers.
https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/releases/tag/v2.5.0
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.