Video download link | md5sum 1825ed2475044e4d1fd8fc2faaf1d883 Redecentralising the Net Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: Hacking (as in coding) to help promote a decentralisation agenda is worthwhile and increasingly necessary; no, not all that crank and buff stuff about "crypto" but simply making a lot more domains and server instances (i.e. the opposite of clown computing)

THE subject of software freedom is very important to us. But as Internet freedom erodes rapidly (even more so after the invasion of Ukraine; both sides of the war or either side in the conflict already resorted to attacking the Internet in the name of "security") we need to reassess some priorities. Software freedom and Internet freedom are mutually connected; it's difficult to have one without the other. Remember how projects interact (e.g. Freenode until it abandoned freedom and banned a lot of people/projects) and how people nowadays collaborate on code/projects...

"Git, for example, is something that needs to be redecentralised for the sake of software freedom."The video above speaks of redecentralising ("re" because the Internet used to be a lot more decentralised or distributed; we need to get back to that in order to advance the freedom of Internet users). We don't limit ourselves to the World Wide Web; Git, for example, is something that needs to be redecentralised for the sake of software freedom.

Forget about brands. Stop hopping from one brand to another. Focus on the underlying ideas and general concepts. Build things, assemble things, deploy things. Just opening an account in someone else's turf is a short-sighted move; that someone doesn't care about your systems and your data as much as you do. ⬆