In Defence of Servers
Why pure peer-to-peer networks aren't always better than federated ones
Happy December Solstice
The best plaid plans of mice and me. Seasons greetings to anyone who happens to read this. Hope you all have a fantastic break over the solstice period, whether you're entering the depths of winter or, like us, sweating through the early summer. As for me, in a
Crowdsourcing or Outsourcing: Who Benefits?
As promised, here's another one from the archives, originally posted in November 2015 on the original version of this blog (on CoActivate), and then republished on The Daily Blog. This one explores the differences between the 'crowdsourcing' of genuine digital commons (Wikipedia, couchsurfing platforms, etc), and
A Four Paragraph Update
Because I'm a long-former, and what some people consider blog length is my idea of a quick memo. It's been almost a third of a year since I got Ghost installed here, and posted my 95 theses on leaving SS (SubStack). During most of that time
A Bridge Too Far
Every startup story has a beginning, and an end TL;DR the Bridge Seat Cooperative experiment is over, at least in its current form. I (Strypey) am done with SubStack, due to its escalating lock-in, promotion of actual Neo-nazis, and overall enshittification. If you want to keep receiving posts about
Ghosting SubStack
Why I finally decided to leave, and where I'm going next
Farcebook: One Thing To Rule Them All
The challenges of developing a privacy-enhancing everything app.
Resting Comfortably
Combining chronic emergency conditions and a nasty illness, not a great plan.
Indymedia Stores #4: Valuing Our Contributions
This is what imposter syndrome looks like. Maybe. Is it? Maybe it isn't ...
Get a Room
The challenges of having reliably-private conversations in decentralised networks
Indymedia Stories #3: Rob and Me
The tightrope between tinfoil-hat paranoia and rose-tinted naivety
Guess Who's Back, Tell a Friend
A quick update on future prospects for the Disintermedia blog