I grew up on an internet that mostly asked me to make accounts. It took me until seventeen to realise I could make a place instead.

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or, how to accrue a billion dollars without losing your soul

Separate from my proposal for key transparency for the Fediverse (which I've certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been working on building out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for ActivityPub. The two projects are mostly being developed independent of each other, though connecting the two should be straightforward. As I prepare to tie up the loose ends and call my side of the work "feature complete" and consider tagging a major version 1.0.0 for the specification and reference implementations, I thought it would be useful to lay out the work that needs to be done in order to get this over the finish line--in part, because this is where…

Overturn the Chat Control 1​.​0 decision by the European Parliament

Overturn the Chat Control 1​.​0 decision by the European Parliament

decentralized networking is best realized with decentralized ownership

A new European ruling on algorithmic amplification determines if an operator controls how content spreads on a platform. But applying it to open social networks turns out to be a problem.

the door's open

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

Synthesized is a two day festival celebrating the computer and synthesiser and how the two technologies grew up together. Synthesized is a two day festival celebrating the computer and synthesiser ...

In which we resist the temptation to invent a clever authorization model & pick the boring one instead.

There is no free, unlimited energy