This is really nice, but I don’t understand what the willow part really brings, unfortunately

rsync and rclone are two different projects

Peace of mind

I don’t have to go through artificial slowness, walls of ads, cookie/“please sign-in” gateways. My data remains mine. The thing does what it does, it just works. Using commercial stuff is actively aggressive towards me and requires my constant vigilance to get through; the fediverse just works for me

The hosting part is, indeed, a technical part but a tool like copyparty can help here:

https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/README.md#markdown-viewer

It runs everywhere, is just a single file you double-click to open and browse from your browser. Makdown files are automatically rendered. You can upload a bunch of files directly, or just send them by mail and put them in a directory served by copyparty

That’s basically what gopher is: a capsule of hierarchically ordered documents, easily browsable thanks to a normalized interface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

The web is one of its spiritual successor and is plenty usable to share text files. Most if not all software can generate indexes of content in a directory. wget and friends can be used to retrieve the whole archive. If you generate html files you can then style them independently of the content.

Most of the usage of platform is individual-based and it’s a problem. Collective-based interaction, like in the threadiverse, leads to a better sense of community, better organizing, better software that really helps us, etc…

I would like to see more wiki-like usage, where we congregate around topics/subjects/interests and collectively build something with rules we decide ourselves

ya un truc assez intéressant avec la clim en France, qui culturellement est vu comme une hérésie alors que le chauffage c’est totalement accepté. Ma théorie: le chauffage est l’accompagnant de constructions massives, et donc le résultat d’une planification dans laquelle on est né•es sans remettre en question, alors que la clim est un choix individuel payant: forcément c’est pas automatique

In a roundabout way the author says that the structure of the platform informs the structure of the discourse, the opinions, the information that is surfaced and the one that is invizibilized. It’s important to remember that a decentralized network doesn’t mean neutrality, there will be something put in front. It’s not the same as what a capitalist wants, and that’s good

I would love to see an [AI] tag, so I can easily hide it. Coupled with temporary bans in case of missing disclosure it would really sanitize the community

Then failure to disclose can be condemned, for instance by temporary bans

From the same author, this thesis explained in detail, along with some thoughts on what leftists in general can do about it:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-army-of-altruists

And with garage hosted on multiple places you can even have an S3 endpoint, with redudancy, without the cloud !

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

If not hosting anything is ok for you, deltachat allows you to share locations to people in a chat. It’s fully e2ee. You can use it with existing relays, but if you want you can host one that will be useful to everyone: https://chatmail.at/

I think there are 2 levels here: basic federation, where you can follow a channel on another instance and comment there, is opt-out like the rest of the fediverse. In fact you can even comment from Mastodon. The platform-level following is another thing, that enables other uses.

The issue of search is unrelated to that, it’s the same as with other fediverse platforms: search only searches on the current platform. But peertube also allows you to search on global indexes:

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/search#global-search

And, of course, you can use Sepia Search, a curated index of instances by the people behind peertube:

https://sepiasearch.org/

Le truc imbattable pour un site statique, c’est d’aller voir le Chaton du coin

https://www.chatons.org/

Pas besoin de sotir le méga datacenter. Parce qu’entre les hébergeurs commerciaux tu auras toujours un statut de client, tu participeras toujours à un truc méga-polluant et basé sur le profit.

I see you are a pretty good defender of nuance

Ptet que le modèle de la vente pour survivre est pas le bon du coup

I’m talking specifically about calling the network, ie the interconnection of independent softwares, as “mastodon”. It’s not about explaining how mastodon works, it’s implying everything works this way. This very platform we are using is definitely not mastodon, but is definitely part of the fediverse

calling the network “mastodon”

calling the network “mastodon”