Freedom in the Cloud

For those who didn’t know, this is the talk by Eben Moglen that inspired four students in New York to launch diaspora*, the first decentralized social network.

Eben was talking about a solution though where you’d hold your account in your own pocket, so to speak. It was never about pods or federation.

Incidentally, this original vision is fulfilled more accurately by now in the form of a project named Scuttlebutt.

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

It’s an application that can also run offline, or in a mesh network without internet access. You can write posts and comments offline or in a local network, and things will sync up whenever possible.

(And no, it’s not “blockchain”. I use this project to show people who believe you need one to implement such a network.)

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