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Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/decentralisation-next-big-step-for-the-world-wide-web-dweb-data-internehe story that broke early last month that Google would again cooperate with Chinese authorities to run a censored version of its search engine, something the tech giant has neither confirmed nor denied, had ironic timing. The same day, a group of 800 web builders and others – among them Tim Berners-Lee, who created the world wide web – were meeting in San Francisco to discuss a grand idea to circumvent internet gatekeepers like Google and Facebook. The event they had gathered for was the Decentralised Web Summit, held from 31 July to 2 August, and hosted by the Internet Archive.
The proponents of the so-called decentralised web – or DWeb – want a new, better web where the entire planet’s population can communicate without having to rely on big companies that amass our data for profit and make it easier for governments to conduct surveillance. And its proponents have got projects and apps that are beginning to function, funding that is flowing and social momentum behind them. In light of the Snowden revelations and Cambridge Analytica scandal, public concerns around spying and privacy have grown. And more people have heard about the DWeb thanks to the television comedy Silicon Valley, whose main character recently pivoted his startup to try and build this “new internet”.
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Prismo is a decentralized link-sharing app powered by ActivityPub
▻https://medium.com/we-distribute/prismo-is-a-decentralized-link-sharing-app-powered-by-activitypub-f03bfe1cf9Prismo is a new link-sharing platform intended to work similarly to Reddit, Lobst.ers, or Hacker News. Michał Bajur, creator of Mastodon Tags Explorer, is building the platform for the fediverse, meaning that it speaks the ActivityPub protocol and is intended to work with other federated parts of the ecosystem.
The platform is still very early in development, but the basic features so far (registering an account creating new links, tagging, commenting) all work. It will be interesting to see how Prismo takes shape over the coming months, but it’s exciting to see another fediverse application!
#fediverse #réseaux_sociaux #réinventer_l'Internet #ActivityPub
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[Vidéo] Retour sur le FGI France 2018 (Forum de la Gouvernance de l’Internet) avec Pierre Bonis, Directeur général Afnic ▻https://www.afnic.fr/fr/ressources/blog/video-retour-sur-le-forum-de-la-gouvernance-de-l-internet-france-2018.html
[Video] Review of The French IGF 2018 (Internet Governance Forum) by Pierre Bonis, AFNIC CEO ▻https://www.afnic.fr/en/resources/blog/video-review-of-the-french-internet-governance-forum-2018.html
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Privacy and Tracking on the Fediverse
►https://blog.soykaf.com/post/privacy-and-tracking-on-the-fediverseRecently, there have been some shocking revelations. Facebook, a company in the business of selling your data to advertisers, had some of its data used illegally by a third party that used it to advertise to you. As people hate nothing more than getting their data misused without Facebook getting a cut, they are now up in arms and want to leave Facebook once and for all.
Media eye seems to have fallen on the Mastodon network as a solution this time. For an example, look at this Washington Post article, «The new technology that aspires to #DeleteFacebook for good» (19 trackers on the page, including Facebook), in which they tout it as a privacy-preserving alternative to walled-garden company-run networks.
Mastodon BDFL Gargron himself wrote an article with the nice subtitle Perspective from a platform that doesn’t put democracy in peril. He is privacy conscious, so this page only has two trackers.
(Aside: This article contains the delightful phrase “#DeleteFacebook is trending on Twitter.”)
In all of these articles, Mastodon (and by extension, the Fediverse) are described as a more private and secure way of posting cat pictures and “please subscribe to my patreon” online. But is this actually true? Let’s check the situation on the fediverse.
#Facebook #Mastodon #Fediverse #vie_privée #traces #tracking #réinventer_l'Internet
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ActivityPub Rocks!
▻https://activitypub.rocksDon’t you miss the days when the web really was the world’s greatest decentralized network? Before everything got locked down into a handful of walled gardens? So do we.
ActivityPub tutorial imageEnter ActivityPub! ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. ActivityPub is an official W3C recommended standard published by the W3C Social Web Working Group.
It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and subscribing to content.
Sounds exciting? Dive in!#Fediverses #réseaux_sociaux #réseaux_décentralisés #réinventer_l'Internet
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Wikipedia
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPubActivityPub est un standard ouvert pour réseaux sociaux décentralisés basé sur le format Activity Streams (en) 2.0. Il fournit une API allant d’un client vers un serveur pour la création, la mise à jour et la suppression de contenu, ainsi qu’une API entre serveurs pour la fédération (en) de notifications et de contenu. Cette norme est une évolution de Pump.io et est proposé comme remplacement d’OStatus par le groupe de travail sur les web social fédéré du W3C1, lancé en juillet 20142, pour le Fediverse.
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Cauchemars et facéties #48
▻https://lundi.am/Cauchemars-et-faceties-48Sur l’internet, on trouve...
« ►http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2016/06/04/tristan-harris-millions-dheures-sont-juste-volees-a-vie-gens-264251 »
« ▻http://www.canardpc.com/linky-enquete-telechargement-gratuit.html »
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Avant de penser que l’internet puisse être une institution signifiante de défense des libertés publiques, peut-être vaudrait-il mieux constater qu’il est fragile, en constatant que trois pauvres malheureux semblent pouvoir déconnecter peut-être involontairement 75.000.000 d’usagers
Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said on his Facebook page that the three men had been caught diving from an inflatable dinghy as they worked underwater to try and cut the cable at a point just north of the port city of Alexandria, AP reports. Alexandria is the main entry point for the multiple submarine cables that bring internet connectivity to Egypt.
▻http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/27/egypt_cables_cut_arrest
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Enfin de nouveau des cafés-internet à Berlin ?
Le problème ne touche pas tant les Berlinois mais les visiteurs étrangers. L’accès à l’internet mobile coûte à peu près 15 Euros/mois pour 5GB mais il faut savoir où l’acheter. Dans le passé de nombreux cafés offraient un accès gratuit au net mais un grand nombre a disparu à cause des lois allemandes : La Störerhaftung fait que chaque propriétaire d’un accès au net est responsable pour toutes les activités de ses utilisateurs.
►http://www.indiegogo.com/sorglosinternet
More and more WI-FI´s in Germany are being shut down due to the fact that the account owner is liable when something illegal happens on their internet connection. Interested in diving more into the topic? Check out: ►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abmahnung
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surf and share your internet safelyNetz-Aktivist über Störerhaftung : „Wir bekommen die Abmahnungen“ - taz.de
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