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.
I run TubeFree.org and have created a Peertube chain of trust as well. So I'm pulling in from multiple sources and have an index others can use if they'd like. https://ptindex.btfree.org/
Steaming platforms have worked for quite a while in Linux. Been a while since I had Netflix, but it worked just fine when I did. Disney+ and Hulu work.
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.
Awesome! Let me know if there's any quality servers you think I should be pulling in. What's your server?
Also please don't hesitate to let me know if you find any unsavory things. While I can remove it from the index, you'd have to manually remove it from your server.
Yup that's the one! The default one Peertube basically says anyone can join that. I'm paying attention and doing the moderation for the PTIndex so if anyone has issues with it, let me know! :)
The EU in their latest financial charter have put open source first. I can't remember, and don't have the time to find the article right now, but EU is basically demanding digital sovereignty and they're not accepting Microsoft putting data centers in the EU as the current US administration can't be trusted.
For those that don't know Alt.Store is an alternative App Store. The EU is forcing Apple and Google to allow alternate stores. These got some funds, like a lot, to build an open store. Alt Store is it. I'm going to be talking with them on Fireside Fedi next week if anyone wants to learn more! https://firesidefedi.live/ or https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi or !firesidefedi@tubefree.org
They've build Fediverse INTO their App Store, so ANYONE running the app store will be connected to the Fediverse.
Others have done this as well. Basically a trojan horse of freedom and openness being added to all kinds of projects atm. :D
Oh they're finally admitting it? Ok, so we're at least seeing progress that it is in fact a bubble. So we're along the bubble highway. How much longer before the rich get tired of throwing that money away?
Sounds great! Thank you so much for your time and energy! This is incredible and greatly appreciated!