@adz of the panda gang is co-organizing the DWeb Seminar next week (August 13 - 15) at the @internetarchive in San Francisco. It will be a gathering of researchers and developers around various peer-to-peer projects to reflect over the last years of building p2p systems and formulating ideas for the future.

During the DWeb Weekend (August 16 - 17) workshops and presentations are planned, including one on p2panda! Come if you are in this area!

https://dwebseminar.org/

Christian, Wendy, kev, nanomonkey, Dmitri and me organised this event here over the last months and finally it is happening next week at the @internetarchive in SF!

The idea is to bring people together to reflect about the last years of building peer-to-peer software and formulate ideas for the future.

https://dwebseminar.org/

* DWeb Seminar, August 13 - 15: we've invited ten researchers and developers from different p2p projects to come, cook and live together, share learnings and formulate a publication
* DWeb Weekend, August 16 - 17: Public days full of roundtable discussions, workshops, presentations and demos

Come and join us if you can! For Sunday we still have free slots for your talks and workshops.

I tried Quiet, a Slack alternative that is p2p over Tor. It worked on Android and Linux, but I never managed to connect on my iPhone. Currently very basic chat room features. You can attach images and files. I see there are a lot of recent commits in GitHub, so perhaps this can turn into something useful! https://tryquiet.org/ #p2p #openSource

The Fediverse Is Social Tech Built by People Who Don’t Understand the Community

We dig. Turn over the old soil. Question assumptions. Get honest about what’s working and what’s not. We plant. Build in the open. Share power. Let go of fear. We grow. Not towards scaling up, but spreading out, resilient, diverse, interconnected.

The Fediverse could still be a true commons. But we need to build it as one, together. Right now? Our thinking and common sense is building fenced off little kingdoms, each with its own rules, its own etiquette, and its own […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-fediverse-is-social-tech-built-by-people-who-dont-understand-the-community/

Why #NGO and fluffy #openweb tech events should include radical real grassroots projects

Let’s be blunt, “inclusive” tech/#NGO events talk about change but don’t platform the people doing the hard, messy work of building this path. This is a real problem, rooted in comfort, control, and careerism.

Radical grassroots projects like the Open Media Network (#OMN) exist precisely to challenge the #mainstreaming mess, not to dress it up. We aren’t here to repeat feel-good slogans and deliver polished #PR. We’re here to offer lived solutions grounded in the #4opens and decades of […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/why-ngo-and-fluffy-openweb-tech-events-should-include-radical-real-grassroots-projects/

fowl 25.7.0 is released.
https://pypi.org/project/fowl/25.7.0/

Extensively re-thought internal and external APIs, centered around giving each peer maximum control, while being safe by default.

There is now a usable Python + Twisted API for programmatic use: FowlCoop, fledge() and roost()

Coming next week: demo applications on top of this: "Git With Me" and "Shell With Me" for peer-to-peer git and terminal sharing (respectively)

ShWiM coming very soon for your peer-to-peer programming needs.

On SciOp, looking for data to protect from digital book burning, I find that these USA gov Coronavirus sites now point to a single site, promoting the lab leak conspiracy theory, attacking Faulci, China, science, common sense and being one of the most cringeworthy pieces of disinformation I've seen on the net.

I'll link to SciOp, not to the bullshit site:
https://sciop.net/datasets/coronavirus-gov

Finally, I can chat with my rat friends over Bluetooth

**bitchat-tui** — Secure, anonymous, P2P Bluetooth chat in your terminal.

Communicate off-grid with E2E encryption, public channels, and direct messaging.

Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

GitHub: https://github.com/vaibhav-mattoo/bitchat-tui

We've just published a new blog post about access control in decentralised systems!

https://p2panda.org/2025/07/28/access-control.html

The post includes details about the design and implementation of our new p2panda-auth crate, along with a discussion of some of the technical challenges that arise when trying to solve access control in a decentralised context.

This is brilliant! Over the past decade I've seen numerous discussions about #DNS on the #Autonomi peer-to-peer network (formerly #MaidSafe / #SafeNetwork).

Nobody mentioned this idea until MaidSafe founder David Irvine this week.

I think he just might have cracked #decentralized DNS. Different, but probably better. See what you think:

https://github.com/dirvine/four-word-networking/tree/main#four-word-networking-human-readable-ip-address-encoding
#p2p

#Decentralized #Module #Federation #Microfrontend #Architecture

I'm working on a #webapp and I'm being #creative on the #approach. It might be considered #overcomplicated (because it is), but I'm just trying something out. It's entirely possible this approach won't work #longterm. I see it as there is #onewaytofindout. I don't recommend this approach. Just sharing what I'm trying/#investigating.

How it will be #architected: [https://positive-intentions.com/blog/decentralised-architecture](https://positive-intentions.com/blog/decentralised-architecture)
Some #benefits of the #approach: [https://positive-intentions.com/blog/statics-as-a-chat-app-infrastructure](https://positive-intentions.com/blog/statics-as-a-chat-app-infrastructure)

I find that #modulefederation and #microfrontends to generally be #discouraged when I see posts, but I think it works for me in my #approach. I'm #optimistic about the approach and the #benefits and so I wanted to #share details.

When I serve the #federatedmodules, I can also host the #storybook statics so I think this could be a good way to #document the modules in #isolation.

#Cryptography modules - https://cryptography.positive-intentions.com/?path=%2Fdocs%2Fcryptography-introduction--docs

#P2P framework - https://p2p.positive-intentions.com/?path=%2Fdocs%2Fe2e-tests-connectionstatus--docs

This way, I can create #microfrontends that consume these #modules. I can then #share the #functionality between #apps. The following apps are using a different codebase from each other (there is a #distinction between these apps in #opensource and #closesource). Sharing those #dependencies could help make it easier to roll out #updates to #coremechanics.

#P2P chat - [https://chat.positive-intentions.com/](https://chat.positive-intentions.com/)
#P2P file transfer - [https://file.positive-intentions.com/](https://file.positive-intentions.com/)

The #functionality also works when I create an #Android build with #Tauri. This could also lead to it being easier to create #newapps that could use the #modules created.

I'm sure there will be some distinct #test/#maintenance #overhead, but depending on how it's #architected I think it could work and make it easier to #improve on the current #implementation.

Everything about the #project is far from finished. It could be seen as this is a #complicated way to do what #npm does, but I think this #approach allows for greater #flexibility by being able to #separate #opensource and #closesource code for the #web. (Of course as #javascript, it will always be "source code available". Especially in the age of #AI, I'm sure it's possible to #reverseengineer it like never before.)

(mastodon might not be the place for something like this, so let me know if you dont like this kind of content. i typically post on reddit and would like to shift it more towards mastodon. i also use lemmy, but mastodon has a better reach.)

This weekend wraps a replatforming of the #stigmerge CLI onto a high level #filesharing API. A necessary step towards a #Transmission like interface. Experimenting with #tauri now.

A few bug fixes happened as well :)

https://github.com/cmars/stigmerge/releases/tag/stigmerge-v0.5.7

Need to fix #rust docs.rs, they're not building yet

Why are so many people still afraid of losing their power even though they have no (relevant) power? In other words, decentralized Internet and its advantage, if implemented accordingly, is as positive for privacy as business secrets. Yes, there are always some crazy people who exploit this for their perversity and politics, but you can catch them even if they are properly investigated ~ #MindNode