Lesson from Bridge Seat Co-op #5: Competing Digital Cages or Cooperative Digital Cafes?
Understanding fediverse servers as a form of hospitality
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Time to Stop Hunting the Replicants, Decker
One of the actions recommended by the KeepAndroidOpen.org campaign is to "provide feedback directly to Google using their Android developer verification requirements survey". They provide a link to that survey, and I'd been meaning to make use of it for a while. Then on Tuesday
Lessons from Bridge Seat Co-op #4: Into the Woods We Go
How to help your community explore the fediverse with you
Lesson from Bridge Seat Co-op #3: 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
Lesson from Bridge Seat Co-op #2: A Bridge Too Far
Lessons from Bridge Seat Cooperative (2023-2025) 1. Introducing the Bridge Seat Cooperative 2. A Bridge Too Far (this one) 3. In Defence of Servers 4. Into the Woods We Go 5. Competing Digital Cages or Cooperative Digital Cafes? This piece was originally published on the abandoned Bridge Seat and Disintermedia
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 ...
E2EE
Get a Room
The challenges of having reliably-private conversations in decentralised networks
policing
Indymedia Stories #3: Rob and Me
The tightrope between tinfoil-hat paranoia and rose-tinted naivety
enshittification
Guess Who's Back, Tell a Friend
A quick update on future prospects for the Disintermedia blog
indymedia
Indymedia Stories #2: Another Anniversary, Looking to the Future
25 Years of Indymedia.org and the Independent Media Centres
funding
Open Letter: The European Union must keep funding free software
Open letter initially published in French by Petites Singularités
open source
Invasion of the MOLE Trainers
Why I use "MOLE" to describe what most people are calling "AI"
freaks and geeks
In Space No One Can Hear You Screen
When social skills work differently in online and offline social situations
e-day
Internalising the Costs of Waste Management
Paying for the ecologically wise disposal of products at end-of-life, is the responsibility of the people who make and sell them.
public media
A Future for Television in Aotearoa?
If it has one, the future of television lies in live broadcasting.
community networks
(Re-)Democratising the Internet
The Challenges of Building Digital Network Infrastructure as Commons
id
A Free Online Birth Certificate
A modest proposal to liberate us all from second-class citizenship online
satire
SATIRE: Taylor Swift Generated by AI
Please note: this piece is satire, intended to be laughed at or ignored, not taken seriously. It was definitely written by an actual human and *not* an AI. Seriously.