Father of two, husband, gamer, lover of free software, and willing teacher.

Creator of Fireside Fedi Show: https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi

Chief Executive Officer BT Free: https://btfree.org/

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  • At this point countries outside of the US see this as a security vulnerability. The EU has mandated open formats. They’re all in on open source. They’re looking to spend more money in open source. Trump certainly did what I was hoping he would do, which was to show the world Big Tech can’t be trusted. They don’t be going back. They want software security, digital sovereignty.

    Keep up the food work y’all. We’re changing the course of history.










  • Very cool looking and interesting idea.

    Why not something like a browser extension?

    Have you heard of Fediforum and if so, are you joining? https://fediforum.org/

    Where is a good place to talk to you?

    I run two podcasts. Fireside Fedi and Works On My Machine Live if you ever want to hop on. Womml is me installing stuff with devs, so understandably probably not that yet.

    No matter what, keep up the awesome work. We need everyone to do anything. The web once built with a single piece. It took everyone imagining, designing, building, breaking, etc.

    Thank you for taking your time to build for us.




  • I’ve actually opened a feature request with the Peertube folks. I don’t expect much honestly at the moment. The Peertube folks lay out their plans and they’ve probably don’t that for the foreseeable future, but having this kind of mechanism, and building it out as you’re suggesting, is what I hope that can be built into Peertube some day.

    https://github.com/issues/created?issue=Chocobozzz|PeerTube|7493

    I can’t do what you’re suggesting at the index level. But it’s totally valid. We need good tools built into Peertube, or an extension or something, to give us that kind of control.

    Honestly I want to eventually come out with lists for like Child Friendly or Music or NSFW or whatever.

    But right now what you’re suggesting, it’s completely built based on my guidelines and what I want. Places like MakerTube have reached out to me and given me specific servers that aren’t within our guidelines and I’ve removed them manually from our list, but I hope there comes a day where EVERYONE can share their lists and groups.

    And I honestly think that there’s a doc going through the Open Social Web group to allow sharing of groups easier, that this might help Peertube as well.

    So the ideas are sound, I don’t have the technical chops to do it, and I think it’d take a lot of work, but I absolutely think this is a valid use case and would benefit us all.

    The best I can say, make sure to support Peertube however you can, even a $1 a month helps, so maybe we can help them get more folks to move Peertube along even faster.





  • ActivityPub, aka the Fediverse, aka the open social web, aka what powers Piefed, is created, built by and built into the web, run by the W3C.

    So while I agree that DRM sucks being built into the web, I disagree W3C is controlled by GAFAM. With DRM the W3C’s point was that everyone is doing it anyway at least we can have a standard way to doing it, making it easier for ends users to not have to jump through some new hoop and guaranteeing even that on alternative browsers, software or hardware aren’t excluded.

    Big Tech do plenty of awful things we can give them direct credit for. W3C isn’t really one of them.