Hollywood recense les pires sites de piratage qu’il faudrait neutraliser
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Z-Library : le site spécialisé dans les livres piratés se fait bloquer en France
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Z-Library : la plaque tournante des livres piratés risque le blocage en France
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Piratage : le nombre de mails d’avertissement de la Hadopi continue de s’effondrer
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WhatsApp vient de créer un chouette service pour s’envoyer des œuvres piratées
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 9 May, 2022 - 14:26
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Dino 0.3: Video calls and conferences - encrypted and peer-to-peer
eyome · Sunday, 13 February, 2022 - 14:58
Great news for #xmpp!
#FreeSoftware, #InstantMessaging, #Movim, #Dino, #p2p, #Privacy, #ViePrivée
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The Decentralized Web of Hate - How and Why Hate Groups Started Using Peer-2-Peer Technology - But P2P Can Be Used For Positive Social Impact Too
GadgeteerZA · Friday, 14 May, 2021 - 19:41 · 1 minute
Emmi Bevensee, of Rebellious Data, SMAT, and the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, has finished the second of Rebellious Data new Research Insights series of deep dives into the critical topics of our time. This report looks at how hate movements are decentralizing using emerging technologies in ways that make them harder to combat. These technologies ask us critical questions about the future of society and the internet but also pose incredible potential to help us along our way.
This was a real growing issue near the end of 2020 and there was a lot of worry that the technology intended for privacy and protection of those feeling marginalised, would in fact be taken over and abused by hate groups. I saw those hate groups making a presence on Aether P2P network, and the debate starting there, but also on Scuttlebutt and RetroShare.
What is different about P2P is that your network and what you see in your feed, consists of who you are linked to and following. So if your 'community' unfollows or blocks problem individuals, they disappear from view. It does not mean they are gone as they can exist in their own community, but a P2P network is not a centralised moderated service liker Twitter or Facebook, and it effectively protects everyone. It also cannot really be shut off as it only exists between individual peers without any central server (hosting) or country managing it.
If the report whets your appetite to try Scuttlebutt and venture down the rabbit hole, I'd suggest trying it via the Planetary mobile app, or Patchwork for desktops.
See https://rebelliousdata.com/p2p/#more-2630
9 Decentralized, P2P and Open Source Alternatives to Mainstream Social Media Platforms Like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Reddit
pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / ItsFoss · Sunday, 10 January, 2021 - 14:24 · 5 minutes
You probably are aware that Facebook is going to share the user data from its ‘end to end encrypted’ chat service WhatsApp . This is not optional. You have to accept that or stop using WhatsApp altogether.
Privacy cautious people had seen it coming a long time ago. After all, Facebook paid $19 billion to buy a mobile app like WhatsApp that hardly made any money at that time. Now it’s time for Facebook to get the return on its $19 billion investment. They will share your data with advertisers so that you get more personalized (read invasive) ads.
If you are fed up with the “ my way or highway ” attitude of the big tech like Facebook, Google, Twitter, perhaps you may try some alternative social media platforms.
These alternative social platforms are open source, use a decentralized approach with P2P or Blockchain technologies, and you may be able to self-host some of them.
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I’ll be honest with you here. These alternative platforms may not give you the same kind of experience you are accustomed to, but these platforms would not infringe on your privacy and freedom of speech. That’s a trade off.
Alternative to: Facebook and YouTube
Features: Open Source code base, Blockchain
Self-host: No
On Minds, you can post videos, blogs, images and set statuses. You can also message and video chat securely with groups or directly with friends. Trending feeds and hashtags allows you to discover articles of your interest.
That’s not it. You also have the option to earn tokens for your contributions. These tokens can be used to upgrade your channel. Creators can receive direct payments in USD, Bitcoin and Ether from fans.
Alternative to: Reddit
Features: Open Source, P2P
Self-host: No
Aether is an open source, P2P platform for self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections.
The content on Aether is ephemeral in nature and it is kept only for six months unless someone saves it. Since it is P2P, there is no centralized servers.
An interesting feature of Aether is its democratic communities. Communities elect mods and can impeach them by votes.
Alternative to: Twitter
Features: Open Source, Decentralized
Self-host: Yes
Mastodon is already known among FOSS enthusiasts. We have covered Mastodon as an open source Twitter alternative in the past, and we also have a profile on Mastodon .
Mastodon isn’t a single website like Twitter, it’s a network of thousands of communities operated by different organizations and individuals that provide a seamless social media experience. You can host your own Mastodon instance and choose to connect it with other Mastodon instances or you simply join one of the existing Mastodon instances like Mastodon Social .
Alternative to: YouTube
Features: Open Source, Decentralized, Blockchain
Self-host: No
At the core, LBRY is a blockchain based decentralization protocol. On top of that protocol, you get a digital marketplace powered by its own cryptocurrency.
Though LBRY allows creators to offer l kind of digital content like movies, books and games, it is essentially promoted as an YouTube alternative. You can access the video sharing platform on Odysee .
We have covered LBRY on It’s FOSS in the past and you may read that for more details. If you are joining LBRY, don’t forget to follow It’s FOSS there.
Alternative to: Instagram
Features: Decentralized, Blockchain
Self-host: No
Here’s another blockchain based social network governed by cryptocurrency.
KARMA is an Instagram clone built on top of open source blockchain platform, EOSIO . Every like and share your content gets, earns you KARMA tokens. You can use these tokens to boost your content or convert it to real money through one of the partner crypto exchanges.
KARMA is a mobile only app and available on Play Store and App Store.
Alternative to: YouTube
Features: Decentralized, P2P
Self-host: Yes
Developed by French company Framasoft, PeerTube is a decentralized video streaming platform. PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users.
PeerTube aims to resist corporate monopoly. It does not rely on ads and does not track you. Keep in mind that your IP address is not anonymous here.
There are various instances of PeerTube available where you can host your videos or you host it yourself. Some instances may charge money while most are free.
Alternative to: Facebook
Features: Decentralized, Open Source
Self-host: Yes
Diaspora was one of the earliest decentralized social networks. This was back in 2010 and Diaspora was touted as a Facebook alternative. It did get some deserving limelight in its initial years but it got confined to only a handful of niche members.
Similar to Mastodon, Diaspora is composed of pods. You can register with a pod or host your own pod. The Big Tech doesn’t own your data, you do.
Alternative to: YouTube
Features: Decentralized, Blockchain
Self-host: No
Dtube is a blockhain based decentralized YouTube clone. I use the word YouTube clone because the interface is way too similar to YouTube.
Like most other blockchain based social networks, Dtube is governed by DTube Coins (DTC) that creator earns when someone watches or interact with their content. The coins can be used to promote the content or cashed out from partner crypto exhcnages.
Alternative to: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger
Features: Open Source
Self-host: No
Unlike the end to end encrypted chats in WhatsApp, Signal doesn’t track you, share your data and invade your privacy.
Signal rose to fame when Edward Snowden endorsed it. It got even more famous when Elon Musk tweeted about it after WhatsApp sharing user data with Facebook.
Signal uses its own open source Signal protocol to give you end-to-end encrypted messages and calls.
There are some other platforms that are not open source or decentralized, but they respect your privacy and free speech.
There is also Element messenger based on Matrix protocol which you may try.
I know there are probably several other such alternative social media platforms. Care to share them? I might add them to this list.
If you had to choose one of the platforms from the list, which one would you choose?
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Ruslan · Saturday, 9 January, 2021 - 08:34
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