I’d argue most people would know what centralised and decentralised mean, at least in abstract terms, while anyone that hasn’t encountered it before would have no idea what the fediverse is.

When I first heard “fediverse” I thought it was a joke about everyone on mastodon being a fed 😆

Occasionally, I stopped engaging here much after getting banned from a community for calling an obvious sockpuppet an obvious sockpuppet

You’re correct, but I doubt anyone here will listen.

Helium was interesting, but they locked it down so you can only use their proprietary hardware for access points, it seems kinda scammy.

IPFS is used by several archive projects like Anna’s archive and libgen.

Meshtastic is a distributed local mesh network for text messaging.

Maybe a general tag system, with community owners able to add tags that automatically apply to all posts, would be good? Otherwise there’s potential for special purpose tags like this to start piling up.

My non lawyer, and probably wrong, advice is to send them a polite reply asking them to refer to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram (1971)

Need more capacity for all the liberal tears?

Most open source projects rely on volunteers, and few technical writers volunteer.

Privacy is part of the reason I got back into film photography, my photos can’t be spied on if they never touch a computer.

Honestly surprised, i thought blu-ray m-disc was moderately popular

Seems to just be hosting issues https://www.reddit.com/r/Funkwhale/comments/1dlrsqn/funkwhaleaudio_down/

Funkwhale?

Mozilla is notoriously pro censorship, they blocked dissenter a while ago.

Yeah, after that I’m not really interested in what the grifter thinks.

I’m surprised it lasted this long. It was always kinda just a marketing gimmick for broadcom that got out of hand.

Apple puts a DRM chip in their peripherals, the fault for this happening is mostly on them.

I don’t see how that makes sense as a statement, an ai with access to a 56k modem can send a fax. It feels like they’re just using ai as a buzzword.

I’ve long thought that if politicians want to see our whatsapp messages, all politicians’ whatsapp messages should be published publicly.

How is he controversial? the only negative thing I’ve seen about FUTO is the proprietary license grayjay is under.

the large ecosystem of commercial crap which has tainted by association the open source core of it

Isn’t the main shop plugin (woocommerce) heavily infested with that though?