Introducing #Session Pro Beta: Supporting the Network, Unlocking New Features
The #XMPP Newsletter for June 2025 is out!
Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and updates on our #standards!
https://xmpp.org/2025/07/the-xmpp-newsletter-june-2025/
Enjoy reading! 
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation
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To move beyond catademocracy is to open the way for real plurality, dissent, and decentralization. It’s time to name things for what they are: this is not democracy, but its opposite. Thanks for your critical stimulation! #plurality #decentralization
#Hyphanet 1503 insert is starting. Your nodes should auto-update soon.
1503 is a hotfix release that fixes two regressions: a thread leak that caused restarting of very fast nodes after a few days and a html validation error due to which some pages with invalid HTML could not be displayed.
⇒ https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01503
You can watch the update spread on
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Understanding the Divergence: Libertarianism vs. Libertarian Socialism
#Libertarianism vs. #LibertarianSocialism: Anglo #Libertarians push #AntiStatism & treat the #SelfRegulatingMarket as truth, serving #Neoliberalism. #LibertarianSocialists (#Anarchism) seek #Collectivism, #Decentralization & #PublicSphere. Two opposing visions of #Freedom & #SocialJustice. #Philosophy #Politics Understanding the divergence between libertarianism and libertarian socialism is…
Great closing keynote on 'rewilding' the internet by @mariafarrell at the 2025 PublicSpaces conference. She talks about how a few fucked up right wing men think they own the internet, why they DON'T, and why the web is still ours and just needs (more) rewilding.
"To create a European public internet, it's neither necessary nor desirable to have your digital life operated by the EU and its member states, nor by its private contractors. Instead, the EU could make Eurostack a provider of technological public goods.
For example, the EU could work to improve federated social media systems, like Mastodon and Bluesky. EU coders could contribute to the server and client software for both. They could participate in future versions of the standard. They could provide maintenance code in response to bug reports, and administer bug bounties. They could create tooling for server administrators, including moderation tools, both for Mastodon and for Bluesky, whose "composable moderation" system allows users to have the final say over their moderation choices. The EU could perform and/or fund labelling work to help with moderation.
The EU could also provide tooling to help server administrators stand up their own independent Mastodon and Bluesky servers.
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In addition to improving federated social media, the EU and its member states can and should host their own servers, both for their own official accounts and for public use. Giving the public a digital home is great, especially if anyone who chafes at the public system's rules can hop onto a server run by a co-op, a friend group, a small business or a giant corporation with just a couple clicks, without losing any of their data or connections.
This is essential facilities sharing for services. Combine it with public data centers and tooling for migrating servers from and to the public server to a private, or nonprofit, or co-op data-center, and you've got the equivalent of publicly available conduit, data-centers, and fiber.
In addition to providing code, services and hardware, the EU can continue to provide regulation to facilitate the public internet."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/25/eurostack/#viktor-orbans-isp
Animoca Brand’s Moca Network Unveils Identity-Focused Moca Chain - Moca Foundation, the community-owned foundation behind Moca Network, is launching ... - https://cryptonews.com/news/animoca-brands-moca-network-unveils-identity-focused-moca-chain/ #decentralization #blockchainnews #blockchain #news
I'm happy to announce that I’ve received a new NLnet/NGI0 grant to work on XMPP metadata reduction and serverless implementation (RELOAD).
This will involve contributions to XMPP specifications and implementation within the Libervia project.
The outcomes will include improved privacy, better resilience to network issues or censorship, and serverless connections (e.g., in LAN or ad-hoc networks).
Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.
I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html
Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.
I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.
I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.
My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!
Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.
Just kicked off @NGICommons Commons' 2nd session : Towards a Strategic Agenda for the Digital Commons with Paul Keller from @openfuture and inspiring speakers like @robin @Lukasz Klejnowski (MEP assistant), and @Isabelle Zablit Schmitz .
E.g: the Draghi report’s push for digital as the only option, EU’s unique collaborative spirit public-led infrastructure & services with space for private sector, and building a unified Digital Single Market.
Threads Launches Fediverse Feed, Sparking Strategic Debate
#Threads #Fediverse #Meta #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #Decentralization #TechNews #OpenSocialWeb #Interoperability
https://winbuzzer.com/2025/06/17/threads-launches-fediverse-feed-sparking-strategic-debate-xcxwbn/
Hey Fediverse! 
We just wrapped up an amazing FediForum June 2025 a week ago, and BadgeFed was right in the thick of it! Here’s a recap of what we did, what we learned, and what’s next for decentralized badges.
BadgeFed at FediForum: Unconferences & Speed Demos
BadgeFed had the honor of presenting and hosting two unconference sessions and showing off our work in one speed demo slots (watch the demo). The energy was fantastic; lots of curiosity, sharp questions, and a real hunger for open standards in the credentialing space.
Community Feedback: Standards, Docs, and Openness
A big theme at FediForum was specs and open standards. We’re right there with you! That’s why we’ve enhanced our technical documentation to explain exactly how BadgeFed uses ActivityPub and OpenBadges together:
Read more in our DETAILS.md.
Making BadgeFed Easier to Try
We heard you: people want to try BadgeFed! Right now, it’s a solo setup (one admin, one Docker container), but we’re working hard to make it easier for others to deploy, configure, and even federate their own instances. Stay tuned for updates on multi-admin support and streamlined onboarding.
Feedback: Discoverability vs. Spam
One of the most important pieces of feedback we received was about badge discoverability vs. timeline spam (see the issue). We want badges to be easy to find and share, but we also don’t want to flood the Fediverse with unwanted posts. This is now our top priority, we’re rethinking how verbose BadgeFed should be, and exploring opt-in/opt-out models for badge visibility and hashtag use.
What’s Next: Embedding & Profile Badges
We’re also working on ways to let you embed badges in your blog or add them to your Mastodon profile. More news on that soon!
FediForum was a fantastic experience, huge thanks to everyone who attended, gave feedback, and showed interest in decentralized credentials. Let’s keep building a more open, verifiable, and user-empowered Fediverse!
Badge up, and see you in the timeline! 
You can read the article "BadgeFed @ FediForum June 2025: Unconferences, Demos, and Community Feedback" by @mapache here as well.
#activitypub #badgefed #fediverse #dotnet #decentralization #open-source #openbadges #identity #fediforum #recap#PrivacyProtection 
Unlike Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, XTwitter, decentralised networks don’t harvest your data for profit: You are in #fullcontrol!
#DigitalFreedom #Decentralization prevents corporate control, ensuring #freespeech and #communitydriven moderation: Open standards ensure #interoperability and foster #innovation.
#Fedizens in the #Fediverse ⁂ on #ActivityPub: https://Fedizen.EU (2/2)
It worries me that the SillyCon Valley tech press is *still* publishing articles about decentralised social media by people who don't have the first clue what the word "decentralised" means.
What BlueSky going down shows is that BlueSky is not decentralised. Even if the ATmosphere as a whole is getting there. But one TechCrunch writer's takeaway was;
"It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too."
#SarahPerez, 2025
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/wait-how-did-a-decentralized-service-like-bluesky-go-down/
The #XMPP Newsletter for May 2025 is out!
Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and updates on our #standards!
https://xmpp.org/2025/06/the-xmpp-newsletter-may-2025/
Enjoy reading!
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation
I have mixed feelings about #Signal. Despite its strong security and #decentralization benefits, they fear decentralized governance. This is an issue because relying on donations is unsustainable; eventually, they'll struggle to cover server costs. This could force them to sell data or implement mandatory fees. 
@maxlath a présenté Inventaire (en français) lors des @jdll 2025, la semaine dernière.
Et grâce a leur superbe organisation (un grand merci à elleux) tout le monde peut désormais en profiter :
Outiller les bibliothécaires amateur·ice·s, décentralisation et mutualisation de données
https://videos-libr.es/w/tUqfzLrhgQ6UED63n2WEZ9/
Slides de la présentation : https://presentations.inventaire.io/jdll-2025/
As creation gets democratized, capital cries "deprofessionalization!" But are all those meta-roles in corporations really serving us — or just maintaining power structures? Let’s rethink what overhead ought to be in a world where anyone can build.
https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/when-democratised-production-meets-corporate-bloat-who-pays-the-price/
"Germany Plans Global Alternative to PubMed."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115790
"ZB Med, or the German Library of Medicine, has launched an effort to create an #OpenSource global literature infrastructure which its developers are calling a #PubMed "alternative." They say there's a need to create such a service in case U.S. funding is curtailed or the quantity or quality of its 37 million citations fall victim to politicization, or a DOGE-like chain saw attack of its trained personnel."
