I just noticed I missed this pretty massive tidbit of information from @joinpeertube regarding the roadmap for #PeerTube
"…Official PeerTube mobile application (end of 2024)"
:amaze:
This has been a long-requested development from the PeerTube community, and something I hear from our #tilvids community all the time. What an exciting development from an amazing organization! 🙌
How do these #DisruptiveTechnologies affect #ediasporas?
Do they hinder or exacerbate the impacts of networks predominantly driven by #data-centric activities?
ENS is the root for a very small number of top level domains, half a dozen? Everything else just gets passed to the regular ICANN DNS root because most people don’t monitor their DNS/ENS traces and it would be bad™️ if google.com didn’t actually go to google.com.
ENS is in a weird place because it’s a non-profit operating a namespace database that charges money to update the database, which is just ICANN with extra steps. Both are more distributed than the previous solution, which was Jon, but they’re still a singular organization providing oversight. ENS seems to be struggling to find a way to mesh the whole blockchain ethos with that it can’t just let whoever register google.com (/google.eth/etc.). That’s a social issue that requires negotiation/oversight, not a tech issue. Or at least not one they’ve solved yet.
A thing @ploum wrote about corporations wrecking and killing decentralized things (in this case, Google and XMPP) -- and why it's essential to learn from history to resist further corporate destruction:
I did it! I'm finally leaving mastodon.social for a Mastodon+Hometown instance of my own creation! You can now find my new account @kostyn !!!!
Thanks very much to @mart0 for your incredible step-by-step guide to hosting Mastodon for a begininer like me, and of course, to @darius for their incredible writings and work on Hometown.
P.S. don't fall for Facebook's ("Meta's") bullshit.
@kostyn Excellent! I've been on my own Mastodon instance for just slightly over 6 months and I am loving it. I hope you get the same sense of community and enjoyment.