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Maybe things are different in silicon valley, but I think most people's friends are not randomers from across the world who messaged them, but friends of friends, or similar, like meeting at an event or a club or whatever.

We absolutely don't need both. Humanity thrived for millennia without a public permanent record of random daily thoughts of everyone. Democracy can't survive the amount of targeting you can do with the personal profiles of people's views made from this. Cambridge Analytica on steroids.

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This is basically Google+ Circles. Share only to whatever group you want easily.

The fact that Facebook can read everything isn't ideal yes, but most people still prefer that to public-like-Twitter (compare user counts). But an E2EE Facebook, now we are talking.. ;-) I get way more spam on bluesky than on facebook.

I think we might have different definitions of public. Public means anyone can read it, including governments, attackers and others who wish you harm. So Facebook, the biggest social network of all, is not public.

You can also define your own groups. These are private broadcast groups that let you share something with a larger group much faster. Members of the group cannot see other members or the name of the group. We've also added support to the weboffice app for the 10 languages that Peergos supports.

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Release Writer quotas and custom groups · Peergos/web-ui

G'day folks! There is a new @peergos.org release out with 2 cool new features. Now you can set a space limit on any file/dir you share writable, including secret links. So we've finally removed the warning that anyone you share write capability to could fill your space! github.com/Peergos/web-...

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You can now set a space limit when sharing a file or file writable, including direct shares and secret links. You can also create custom groups for fast sharing with larger groups of people. The me...

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 04/10/2026

VC finance definitely the critical proximate cause. But in the end its the possibility of super-lucrative "exits", where the techbros redefine what is legally, politically, socially acceptable, this is what sets the chain in motion. Even Friedman, the Pope of neoliberalism has warned us as much...

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Yep, though it's still driven by venture capital.

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We need to think hard when designing protocols about their emergent properties and effects on society. We are creating the future. Let's make it a good one.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm still disappointed that Jack Dorsey limited it to public conversation. Society and democracy need private conversation to survive, not more mass surveillance. We need to design our protocols to fight surveillance capitalism not enable it. Silicon valley and the VC adjacent seem blind to this.

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@dgruning.bsky.social and 2 others wrote an interesting paper on how to have an actual prosocial architecture for social media protocols. They analyse ActivityPub, ATProto, Nostr and @peergos.org Our client-assembled feeds should get 100% on Algorithmic Sovereignty though. arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35413

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You might be interested in how apps run in @peergos.org They can run with all their state and settings on any device and have fine grained permissions. As far as they know they are just a normal web app talking to a server, but under the hood it is all E2EE. book.peergos.org/features/app...

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Awesome, thank you. That (159.0a1 (2026-09-25)) raises it from 250 MB/s to 450MB/s on my machine. Chromium is 900 MB/s on the same machine. I'm using the github.io version. It's an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS. Can I help with a profile dump or similar?

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Peergos @peergos.org · 25/09/2026

Happy Friday, happy new Peergos release! Cool stuff in this release: * multi-file secret links (up to 100) * blake3 support (read-only until enough clients support it) * a beautiful new drive UI * better video thumbnails on desktop * Greek language support (about time!) github.com/Peergos/web-...

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Release Fix sync DB backwards compatibility · Peergos/web-ui

A patch release to fix sync db backwards compatibility. Flatpak is the recommended installation method for Linux: https://flatpak.peergos.org Mirrored at https://peergos.net/public/peergos/releases...

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nightly is the same for me: 260 MiB/s. I'm also on Framework Ubuntu, but AMD Ryzen 9 cpu.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a little demo of the benchmark. It hashes 4MiB in a single thread and takes the best of 10 runs. peergos.github.io/blake3-speed/

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BLAKE3 in JavaScript — how fast?

MetropleX @metroplex.bot · 19/09/2026

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2026 DeGoogle Mobile Telemetry Study How much data does a phone secretly send to Google when you are not using it? Our team measured 72 continuous hours of network packets from idle Android phones sitting untouched in our lab. www.praveentechworld.com/research/deg...

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Any Firefox devs interested in a pure JS benchmark where firefox is 3x slower than chrome? (It is blake3) Maybe @igalia.com ?

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If Android had used a copyleft license AND not had a single company own all the copyright, then Google would not be able to pull the shenanigans they are now. This is why @peergos.org is copyleft licensed and contributors retain their own copyright.

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MetropleX @metroplex.bot · 19/09/2026

Alas not very likely postmarketOS is dramatically less private/secure than either the Android Open Source Project or iOS. It greatly reduces privacy and security to below desktop levels, which is much worse, not better. It does the opposite of protecting against exploits or better sandboxing apps. 😩

Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The calendar has a brand new beautiful UI and now supports live sharing of events and whole calendars including with write access and in secret links. It also supports tasks which are synced over the standard caldav bridge.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It also lets someone delete files when they are over their space quota. Previously this wasn't possible because the delete has to first write some small blocks and those block writes were rejected as increasing the storage. Now we can calculate the size diff inside the single commit call.

Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This was a lot of fun. I've had this bulk/commit API planned for a few years now. It reduces the rounds trips from 4 to 1, and reduces the number of signatures by 1000x. That paves the wave for post-quantum signatures, as well as being much faster for both the client and the server.

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MetropleX @metroplex.bot · 16/09/2026

GrapheneOS continues to reveal Googles active hobbling of the ability of OEMs to protect their users in favour of market exclusivity/protection, and pushing ahead with monopolistic anti competitive abuse hand in glove with GPL violations. Read below the break for the teams detailed analysis:

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OpenAlternative @openalternative.co · 10/09/2026

2,500 stars on GitHub, and counting. Peergos is a peer-to-peer encrypted filesystem for storing, sharing and collaborating on files without handing the keys to anyone else's server. @peergos.org openalternative.co/peergos

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Peergos: Open Source Alternative to Mega, Dropbox and Tresorit

A peer-to-peer encrypted filesystem for secure file storage, sharing, and collaboration with end-to-end encryption and user-controlled data.

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Peergos @peergos.org · 10/09/2026

The Anakin Padme meme with: "I don't need E2EE, I self host everything." "You use your own server not a cloud server right? And no one else can access it physically right?" "Right?"

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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 06/09/2026

We've developed a secure paste feature replacing traditional clipboard APIs. Users will be able to take away clipboard access from apps to use this instead. It integrates into the standard selection toolbar, input methods, accessibility services and keyboard shortcuts. We plan to get it merged soon.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I ran a council, I would simply not put ads on bus stops. People don't need even more mental intrusion. If I ran a bus company...

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Likewise Peergos secret links. 😀

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This zip work was super fun. I've wanted this for years now.

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MetropleX @metroplex.bot · 29/08/2026

Google have properly shat the bed. I have a feeling the financial director asked AI/Gemini, what they could remove to save money that consumers wouldn't notice and that would create less issues for their corporate partners being shown up for their bad app development practices. It's answer MTE.

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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thank you, @moduality.bsky.social for pointing out the weird shadows of my impossible objects. That got me to think of yet another way to show how weird they are. Here, a light is shining down from behind at a 45° angle!

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

deleting or renaming files. You can also download a directory in the zip as a new zip file. Or upload new directories into it. There are two read-only examples here: peergos.net/secret/z59vu...

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Now you can browse into zip files on @peergos.org You can download individual files or view them directly in the app registered for them. You can even open websites or markdown wikis directly inside the zip. Links and images to relative files in the zip work. We also support adding new files, ...