The Movim social network

Movim is a social network based on XMPP that lets you chat, blog and setup a news feed. I’m using it for two years now and I wanted to share some of my experience..

Freedom in the Cloud (eleven years later)

Eleven years after Eben Moglen’s speech Freedom in the Cloud I’m looking back at was has been achieved in ethical social networking.

Linux on a 17 year old laptop

A few years ago I wrote about my IBM Thinkpad happily running Puppy Linux. The laptop is still running fine but now with AntiX.

Lemmy, the federated alternative of Reddit

In this post I write about my experience with the link aggregator Lemmy.

The exciting roadmap of PeerTube version 3.

Framasoft published a roadmap for version 3 of Peertube and you can contribute.

DeGoogle my life

According to Wikipedia to DeGoogle is the act of removing Google from your life. As the growing market share of the internet giant creates monopolistic power for the company in digital spaces, increasing numbers of journalists have noted the difficulty to find alternatives to the company’s products. This is my experience to purge my life of Google and I can assure you it’s difficult but if we don’t act soon it will become impossible.

Cheap and versatile climbing board

With a lot of people locked into their house most of the time I thought it was a good idea to publish this DIY hangboard for climbers and boulderers. It’s cheap and easy to build.

My videos remastered on PeerTube

I uploaded my sixth remastered Solvespace video to PeerTube.

ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

If you’re new to the Fediverse you should know about ActivityPub and why it gives the Fediverse an edge over other social networks.

Welcome to the new decade

In the coming decade we need to take back control of the internet. The Fediverse will help us do that.