xj9 [they/them, she/her]
en la sombra de un bolillo
“death to america” doesn’t mean “burn it all down” because america isn’t you or me or the roads or supply lines. america is prisons and wage slavery and a commons eviscerated by greed; it is the spirit driving that immiseration and privation.
I can’t believe I forgot about it, but secure scuttlebutt fits the bill here pretty well. The protocol has issues and the default clients are open to anyone by default, but the security properties of the design are pretty interesting and definitely applicable to building encrypted long form communicate nets. Bamboo Earthstar and Willow are all based on similar ideas and may also be useful. I have gotten a little use out of Briar, but being mostly phone-centric makes it hard to use the forum for actually long messages and complex discussions.
I have been working on a protocol for mobile adhoc mesh networking an general purpose coms that could fit the bill, but i’m still in the very early stages so its not really useful, but some of the research and project links at the bottom might be interesting.
dansup will almost certainly use the “limited availability while we figure things out thing” to prevent people from uploading any content critical of Israel, if his posts are anything to go by.
I was thinking about planning a hackathong to build a tiktok-like experience on top of existing fediverse services. Peertube does a lot of what you need already, but the UI isn’t really there. Loops could be “just” another type of client, but we’ll see if my motivation holds up.
Where my head has been lately is pondering “low-code” concepts as a potential method for making decentralized social media more malleable by users a la myspace, but its a tricky line. the overall idea is to redefine the relationships between service providers, developers, and users to give developers less control and put them in a role more like lego block designers who make kits rather than artisans that make the whole product.
If you want a revolution well you know We all want to change the world And I’m willing to be your leader Death to america
delta.chat has some concept of e2ee mailing lists, but i’m not positive on the details. technically PGP based (though rewritten in rust), but the app doesn’t expose many of the crypto details to the end user. sadly that does mean it inherits some of the weaknesses of PGP like a lack of forward secrecy. OMEMO, Signal, and Matrix all use some variant of a double-ratchet algo. I’d like to see something like this make its way into async/store-and-forward messaging, but idk if there’s some reason why it hasn’t.
the delta chat app is currently pretty chat-centric, but its based on email so it could be modified to fit better with long form discussions.
I don’t think capital can sustain projects of this magnitude. Space is too harsh of an environment for delulu. We can hardly grapple with the idea that our actions on earth have consequences because of our condition. I like space stuff and I even like to create designs of starships, but I don’t think we’re in a position to reach for the stars just yet. Even if I’m wrong, we can’t allow space fascism get started either. There is probably life out there and if space capitalism finds them, they’ll try to pull another indigenous genocide and invent new forms of xenophobia to justify it.
None of our problems are technological. We have massive people problems. Building a new billions of dollar machine or trillions of dollar space station isn’t going to disrupt the imperial core. The Gray Techno Fash won’t suddenly become humanists because space.
Space life can be fun to think about, but techno futurism is a liberal fetish and tends to result in liberal fantasies if you don’t decolonize your mind.
as a teen I would tell my dad that I was morally obligated to break the law if the law was wrong, but I did get in trouble whenever we got DMCA notices so I had to get smart about it or risk getting grounded.
the branded controller was cool tho
