Many cool events happening this week!
- @localfirstconf is starting today, and it will last until Wed, in Berlin!
- Same city and days: @republica
- 5/27, online: Public Goods Town Hall, https://lu.ma/pgtownhall9
- 5/28, Internet Archive Canada: In Honour of Canadian Web Preservation, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-honour-of-canadian-web-preservation-tickets-1316581433509
- 5/29-30, Berlin: USER * AGENTS * BERLIN, https://lu.ma/v457jxp2
- 5/30, online: Zk Av Club Foundry #4: Contests for live events, https://lu.ma/4joctlmc
Our latest newsletter is out!
- We’re Looking for a Django volunteer dev
- Next DWeb Office Hours: Thu 5/22
- News and opportunities from the community
I'm close to sharing my most ambitious decentralised app for #Autonomi yet.
It's a single 40k file of HTML that loads from the secure anonymous p2p network and talks to it over a REST API provided by a local #dweb server that I created.
It's going to be fun: a cross between chat and Mastodon/Twitter/X type #SocialMedia
I delayed release to support avatars, but nearly done now.
Secure, encrypted, #p2p social media. Simple to install and join.
Follow hashtag #ScratchChat
The “messiness” of DWeb isn’t a limit. It’s exactly what makes it special and wonderful in the first place!
Check out this interesting reflection by @weswalla
An update from DWeb community member @tychi about his research on Six Modalities of Computing:
1. Remote
2. Gaming
3. Mobile
4. Desktop
5. Shell
6. Music
Learn more: https://youtu.be/sq8H5IPXOLw
If this is your piece of cake, join our Discord, let’s discuss it more!
https://discord.gg/M29XtA3dv9
The DWeb Community Calendar is here!
Visit https://dweb.events for an overview of all the planned events that are on our radar
You are all welcome to submit your initiatives and ideas. Let us know what you think!
More in our latest newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/archive/2025-04-18154462
The Transition9 movement works for the natural integration of human and next-level artificial intelligence in harmony with a new nature-inspired computing architecture.
We've described Transition9 in rather technical terms to date.
The far harder challenge is writing about it in ways everyone might understand regardless of their own expertise, experience, and talents.
Here is Transition9's “Explain it to me like I’m a teenager”
In our latest newsletter:
- Save the date for the next #DWeb Office Hours, on 5/8!
- Recording from the last DWeb Bay Area Meetup
- Discord channel spring-cleaning
- Upcoming events and opportunities
Today is a wonderful day to remember one of our DWeb Principles:
> We stand for people having agency over their own data and relationships, rights to free expression, privacy, and knowledge, as these are essential to human empowerment and dignity.
Let’s remember and claim our rights as humans, as workers, as technologists.
Happy May Day!
100+ websites are now published on the #DWeb with @distributedpress! Congrats!
Join the endeavor towards making the Web beautiful again — open, uncensorable, and free — just like it used to be
Explore the DWeb here: https://explore.distributed.press/
(Browse via ipfs:// or hyper:// on supported browsers)
Hey everyone!
Notable events from the community, happening this week:
- Tue, 4/29, Vancouver: #ATProto Meetup, https://lu.ma/e96fv1p3
- Wed, 4/30, online: Transcribe and translate online events in real time, by the Zero Knowledge Audiovisual Club Foundry, https://lu.ma/zdaz177c
- Thu, 5/01, everywhere: it’s #LabourDay, so let’s take some time for ourselves and set work aside
How do we build the digital commons of tomorrow?
Watch the recording of last week’s DWeb Meetup Bay Area!
I'm developing a demo app to be called #Winsome to show how to use my #dweb #RESTful APIs for the decentralised #Autonomi network.
I struggle with raw HTML, CSS & JS and am much happier with Svelte but this is going to be an app in a single HTML file so it's taken a while but the hard part is done!
Thinking about next steps has clarified what else I need in the #REST API and how to provide a neat security model for p2p web apps!
I do love code!
I've been lax at updates to the dweb REST API which now supports most #Autonomi data types.
Web apps can POST/GET immutable data such as files and Archives (public and private), do multipart uploads of file(s), POST/PUT/GET Pointers (mutable references to other types) and POST/PUT/GET Scratchpads which are mutable storage for encrypted or public data.
To view #dweb #REST APIs:
- get rust
- cargo install dweb-cli
- dweb serve
In another terminal:
- dweb openapi-docs
@radicle looks like an interesting Free Software to check out: it’s a peer-to-peer, local-first git forge for the decentralized Web!
#Radicle #p2p #DWeb #decentralization #decentralized #git #gitForge #software #FreeSoftware #openSource #localFirst
Heyoo!
Appointments of the week:
- Thursday, April 24, Hamburg+online: AHOY! European Social Web Day. https://ahoy.eu
- Thursday, April 24, Vancouver: Venue Co-op Design Jam. Vancouver needs a permanent community-owned venue for live music + events… Want to help start one? https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/venue-co-op-design-jam-tickets-1302421330259
Today’s fellow for #DWebFellowFriday is Taslim Oseni!
Taslim is a software engineer who contributed to the development of #CenoBrowser, a #DWeb browser built to bypass censorship using #p2p technologies.
Check out Taslim’s talk about it @ DWeb Camp 2024: https://archive.org/details/taslim-presentation