Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

How not to preserve data indefinitely: stick it in a vault in the arctic for a thousand years

Less than 24 hours left to provide your feedback on the EU guidelines for #RouterFreedom! #BEREC is running a #PublicConsultation defining whether your router will belong to you or to your ISP. Please participate now, it's as easy as sending an email!

See how to make yourself heard, and the #FSFE's response on the current draft: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191120-01.html

NEWS: Eben Moglen Delivers “FreedomBox Turns Ten” Speech

To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of #FreedomBox's birth, Eben Moglen delivered a speech. He stressed this idea: regular people can change the web through collective social action.

Details: http://softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/nov/19/freedombox-turns-ten/

Check out this blog post by @bob titled, "FreedomBox at Ten."

Bob Mottram: "If the last decade was the birth phase I hope that the 2020s will be the time when running your own internet services, individually or in small groups, becomes quite normal."

Read his full post here: https://blog.freedombone.net/freedombox-at-ten

Hey all,

A while ago, my publication, #WeDistribute, got picked up by Feneas, and now serves as the organization's official publication.

This is all well and good: I get to keep writing articles, and figure out how to turn this whole thing into something more than a one-man project.

The writing team is still very small right now, and I'm putting together guidelines for contributing. I would love nothing more than to see other people who are passionate about the fediverse and decentralized communication tech come on board to help provide news coverage, tutorials, technical explainers, interviews, and editorials.

If you think you're up for the challenge, please apply here: https://wedistribute.org/write-with-us/

There are people who will tell you that the way things are is the way things have always been and will always be.

Don’t listen to these people.

The way things are is just raw material for the way things can be. And by your every action or inaction you help determine what that is.

@clacke very true, and conversely facebook, twitter etc should be referred to as the legacy networks 😃

Me and @gavcloud just watched @aral's speech to the EU Parliament about the future of the internet and how it relates to the #fediverse and #mastodon and damn did they do a good job! Fierce!

https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/70f2128c-8c06-4cc4-8a5a-bf77e765c8fd

Now available: Video of Eben Moglen's speech commemorating the ten year anniversary of the founding of the #FreedomBox project.

📺WATCH: Eben Moglen: "FreedomBox Turns Ten" (Nov. 2019)
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/6eac4d50-0d49-413b-9d61-9156e6789579

I'm amazed at the folks I've seen online that believe that the only way for companies to make money is with VC funding.

I wonder if these folks ever got an allowance growing up, or if they had to go straight for Series A funding from the dog.

The recording of my talk today on the future of Internet regulation at the European Parliament is now available to watch.

Starts at 01:14:00 at https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation

#DigitalServicesAct #SurveillanceCapitalism #Mastodon #SmallTech #GDPR #EU

CC @Mastodon @Gargron

Secure Scuttlebutt Wikipedia entry finally got accepted 🙌 🖤

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt

If I posted text posts about anything I cared about on facebook the algorithm would not show it to almost anyone thats even following me. It would literally just drop off the radar and be forgotten. I post a random thought here and people from around the world actually have a chance to respond. That is powerful. That cant be underplayed. The fact that we dont have to worry whether our messages have financial viability makes our ideas stronger. Our voices ring.

Reminder: I don't think Microsoft's new "cloud" focus is any better then their old focus on proprietary software.

It's just that they've followed Google to a realm where FLOSS is less of a threat to them. And which demands more nuanced thinking from those of us who believe in Software Freedom.

Oh yay, another proprietry social network, inspired by Wikipedia: https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/

I can't wait for a moderator to delete my posts because they don't find them "notable".

Sorry, closed networks no longer interested me. We have Mastodon now as an example of what could be, and it actually works, and lots of people actually use it. There's zero appeal to me for another "Facebook, but by a different company".

Legally we have registered ourselves as a Limited Liable Partnership (LLP). We wanted to register as a #Cooperative in #Puducherry #India. But the Cooperative Act for Puducherry states that there should be a minimum of 25 members to register as a #Cooperative

Unlike material production, we are a Software Engineering consulting services company therefore it was not suitable for us to register legally as Coop due to the number of members required. Therefore, we registered ourselves as an LLP and wrote our Deed like a Cooperative. i.e We are operating as if we are a cooperative but legally we are not.

Thanks to Nilenso the India’s first Software Cooperative from #Bangalore without whose help and guidance we wouldn’t know how to get this legal process done. It was their Deed document which helped us.

We strongly believe in workers self-management along with commitment to class struggle. We have regular sessions to educate ourselves on previous experiences of building cooperatives across centuries, we have knowledge sharing sessions, etc.,

We would like to contribute more in the sphere of #PlatformCooperativism

An essay by Trebor Scholz, titled Platform Cooperativism was the one that inspired us to start such a coop here.

We don’t take Venture Capital, for it is fundamentally against practising Economic Democracy and we don’t strive to become a Tech. Startup whose aims are to be either chewed away by big tech. giants or become another big brother, instead we would love to practice what @aral and @laura termed as Stayups

Like this Cooperative #Fediverse, let there be federation of workers cooperatives.