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Today is a wonderful day to remember one of our DWeb Principles:
> We stand for people having agency over their own data and relationships, rights to free expression, privacy, and knowledge, as these are essential to human empowerment and dignity.
Let’s remember and claim our rights as humans, as workers, as technologists.
Happy May Day! 
getdweb.netDWeb
100+ websites are now published on the #DWeb with @distributedpress! Congrats! 
Join the endeavor towards making the Web beautiful again — open, uncensorable, and free — just like it used to be 
Explore the DWeb here: https://explore.distributed.press/
(Browse via ipfs:// or hyper:// on supported browsers)
explore.distributed.pressDistributed Press Site IndexExplore the Distributed Press ecosystem. Find sites leveraging decentralized publishing.
I'm developing a demo app to be called #Winsome to show how to use my #dweb #RESTful APIs for the decentralised #Autonomi network.
I struggle with raw HTML, CSS & JS and am much happier with Svelte but this is going to be an app in a single HTML file so it's taken a while but the hard part is done!
Thinking about next steps has clarified what else I need in the #REST API and how to provide a neat security model for p2p web apps!
I do love code!
I've been lax at updates to the dweb REST API which now supports most #Autonomi data types.
Web apps can POST/GET immutable data such as files and Archives (public and private), do multipart uploads of file(s), POST/PUT/GET Pointers (mutable references to other types) and POST/PUT/GET Scratchpads which are mutable storage for encrypted or public data.
To view #dweb #REST APIs:
- get rust
- cargo install dweb-cli
- dweb serve
In another terminal:
- dweb openapi-docs
@radicle looks like an interesting Free Software to check out: it’s a peer-to-peer, local-first git forge for the decentralized Web! 
#Radicle #p2p #DWeb #decentralization #decentralized #git #gitForge #software #FreeSoftware #openSource #localFirst
radicle.xyzRadicleSovereign code infrastructure.
The DWeb Observer (TDWO) · Seattle Node Gathering (Feb, 2025)On the 28th of February, we co-organized the first Seattle Node Gathering of 2025. In this post, you'll have a chance to catch up on what was discussed there.
Hey there!
Here are some interesting events happening this week:
- Wed 4/9, London: Algorave @ Corsica Studios (https://www.corsicastudios.com/algorave-apr-9)
- Fri 4/10, online: Imagining Possible Futures (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-presents-imagining-possible-futures-tickets-1295350711849), by @DAIR
- Sun 4/13, Vancouver: coFood x DWeb Garden Kickoff! Work Party & Potluck https://lu.ma/jp988fpb)
www.corsicastudios.comAlgorave at Corsica Studios
So far, I have been delving into the #Web3 and #crypto debate only superficially, as the very few notions I got led me to abhor any kind of technology related to the #blockchain.
Since I started my new job at @dweb, though, I am finding myself revisiting my position by deepening my knowledge on the topic. I am mostly drawing the same conclusions—crypto is terrible—yet I am glad I am learning more also on what I am very critical about.
I am particularly thankful to @mai for writing this article, which I believe is a great starting point to develop an informed opinion.
Above all, as mai points out, nothing is all-bad, and there are for sure ideas and practices that can be learned (as cautionary tales in the worst case scenarios) even from problematic technologies, communities, and/or founders.
ffdweb.orgFFDW DWeb Digest: The Debate Over DWeb vs. Web3 & The Decentralized Elephant in the Room
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@mistersql Secure data distribution isn’t easy, but there are folks who are working on it like @roblach and folks in the #DWeb community
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I added a few more podcasts and independent publishing in part 2 here:
https://www.cindykohtala.fi/2025/02/16/growing-the-future-2/
also starting to add tools and guides people share in Mastodon to combat enshittification, from AI scraping to opting out of big extractivist tech
#design #technology #STS #dweb #indieweb #solarpunk
www.cindykohtala.fiGrowing the future 2 – Cindy Kohtala
I added to a list of design and technology podcasts and independent magazines here: see what people who are building an independent internet and liberatory tech are reading and listening to:
https://www.cindykohtala.fi/2025/02/16/growing-the-future-2/
gathered especially here in Mastodon - and I'm starting to add tools and guides people share to combat enshittification from AI scraping to opting out of big extractivist tech
#design #technology #STS #dweb #indieweb #solarpunk
www.cindykohtala.fiGrowing the future 2 – Cindy Kohtala
What happened to participatory #democracy platforms?
The mighty Hugi Asgeirsson has a theory: the developers that, in ages past, had worked on such platforms have split along ideological faultlines and focused on the Decentralized Web instead. As they embed their values into the artifacts they build, they also make them less interoperable.
In a way, participatory democracy platform were a feature of the multilateral, globalized world now on its deathbed.
https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-happened-to-participatory-democracy-platforms/20705?u=alberto
Edgeryders · What happened to participatory democracy platforms?As we go looking for “interfaces” I have a rather bleak prediction. My bet is that you will find lots of groups and platforms but that their glory days will be behind them. I think there are many reasons for it, and I am sure many of them are well understood. But I I have one hypothesis for a partial explanation that I think is often overlooked. In order to build and maintain open source tools like Decidim and their ilk you need a large enough number of ideologically motivated technologists w...
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@steve as hard as it is, I really do think it’s happening, and I think this will be a momentous year for the user-friendly #dweb .
The breakout success of a *somewhat* decentralized atproto has set a new bar of pragmatism for lots of decentralization nerds who better understand the ‘terms of adoption’ now.
Sutty: “Estamos poniendo en práctica todas esas discusiones tecnopolíticas que venimos teniendo hace tiempo”
Entrevista con fauno, de @sutty gestor de contenidos y cooperativa tecnológica.
De la serie de conversaciones “Las personas detrás de las tecnologías que queremos”.
#SoftwareLibre #dWeb #Tecnopolítica
https://sursiendo.org/2024/12/sutty-estamos-poniendo-en-practica-todas-esas-discusiones-tecnopoliticas-que-venimos-teniendo-hace-tiempo/
Sursiendo · Sutty: “Estamos poniendo en práctica todas esas discusiones tecnopolíticas que venimos teniendo hace tiempo”Conversamos con fauno, integrante de la cooperativa Sutty, que es también un gestor de contenidos para colectivos y organizaciones sociales.
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@ireneista Thanks for articulating that so well! Agree and this is why I wanted to talk it out a bit- it bothers me that engaging in resistance against malevolent forces can have the effect of their aggression finding its way into your language.
I think there is also something to be noted about *substance*. Even in those moments of outrage, the difference I find is that fascist actors' anger is expressed as vague hatemongering or condemnation against a broad target demographic (indeed, that's core to the whole deal). When myself and other activists confronting this condemn actions or call them out, the difference is that we point *precisely*.
Seeing this #DWeb mailout written this way seems to me like a milder form of prefigurative recruitment- labelling these as "knee jerk call outs" is completely disingenuous when numerous attempts at peaceful resolutions over the years have been pushed out; and your "community has raised serious issues about [Justine's] past tweets from 2014-2015 about Jewish people, indentured servitude, and slavery".
That is a long-term problem being ignored and a bigot being protected by a movement's leaders.
It's also a subtle broad condemnation of the DWeb community members who raised those serious issues, and that's why I label this mailout a fascist act.
They are recruiting.
️ Looks like the #InternetArchive and #Dweb have a fascism problem, and they need to purge the fascists and fasc adjacent from their ranks.
TechBros are no good for your org.