TL;DR — how to build a community services to protect and retain our fair use rights when, say, a streamer pulls content that you've paid for and have a right to archive for innumerable fair use reasons

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TL;DR — the pirate bay, but for preserving our Fair Use rights ; decentralized & federated to reduce the legal & practical attack surface

#FairUse #Deprivatize

Is it possible to build a decentralized Zero Knowledge object storage or BitTorrent like system for mirroring (under #FairUse or as #CivilDisobedience) where the possibility of hash collisions provides plausible deniability under DMCA or DMCA-like regimes?

I.e. can we make it unecomonical and innefective to prosecute folks for what in most cases will be legitimate fair use. Corporations will always overreach & sue for the chilling effects. This would help neutralize that?

#FairUse #Deprivatize

Where they exist, what are the state of the art for community owned & decentralized #Fediverse analogs of these services:

- CDN like CloudFlare or Fastly

- Object Storage like S3

- Sync solutions like Dropbox, iCloud storage, Google Drive or relatedly BitTorrent

- CA recognized by major browsers; this one doesn't exist to my knowledge. Are folks working on one?

#FLOSS #Deprivatize

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[CDN]: content delivery network
[CA]: TLS Certificate Authority
[TLS]: Transport Layer Security

I would like for us a community email infrastructure that undoes all the changes that made emailing a virus possible.

For several productive years the biggest threats via email were SPAM, scams, phishing, and an inundation of yearly recaps in December.

#Email #RetroComputing #Internet #Deprivatize

openwashing — passing off your privately owned project or company as part of the public commons. Also FOSSwashing

Recent example is OpenAI.

Thought of it just now when browsing determined.ai, noticed how much it borrows the aesthetics of a FOSS project, how thoroughly they buried that it's a Hewlett Packard project.

I've been noticing this kind of thing a lot lately. Feels like an escalation of the decades old attempt to create FOSS license confusion.

#Commons #FOSS #Deprivatize

The #Facebook legal threat against #Pixelfed is a corporate attack on the notion of a #Fediverse itself. This is a financial attack under the guise of legal one. If you've had curiousity about joining or running a Pixelfed instance now is an opportune time to satisfy it:

https://youtu.be/a985oxQdBXA?t=65

Pixelfed is like Instagram without ads nor corporate control. We have a right to build our own infrastructure, tools, services, & apps.

#AntiCapitalism #Deprivatize

Sponsored content, bots, and syndication should be prohibited on most instances. Piecemeal blocking of individual accounts isn't going to accomplish anything long term. Privatization & capture of the #Fediverse will continue accelerating unless we curtail it.

Need standardized hashtags / categories so instances can self-report. In lieu of that watchdog orgs could maintain lists.

CWs on all sponsored content should be made mandatory.

#Deprivatize