Sweet Mana from Heaven

We’re back! To start the new season we’re talking about decentralization, community, trust, the weird mold thing called kombucha, and more with Sean Tilley. The walled gardens of the centralized silos that treat us as a product can make communicating with people outside the service difficult. The trade-off is in how much time and energy you want to spend maintaining your own decentralized services. We discuss some of these services, the communities funding them and the algorithms that abuse us. Sean’s publication, We Distribute. His project to collect Creative Commons videos, VidCommons. Paul doesn’t get the Captain Marvel references. Everyone gets the Dead Poets Society references, right? The 9 year old FB competitor, Diaspora. The primordial ooze of the Fediverse according to Sean— IRC and Bulletin Boards, usenet. Watch BBS: The Documentary. Sean schools us on FidoNet. Centralized networks make profit from user data. This is also called surveillance capitalism. The silly world of fifth world problems on Reddit. Nextcloud is a great alternative to Dropbox. Sean and Paul get lost in Javascript, JQuery, and React. You must watch Demolition Man. Sean tries to explain Hubzilla, a way to connect various decentralized services into one mashup of a place. We talk about flavors of linux, like Gentoo and ubuntu. During the recording, Jacky was in the chatroom asking questions and contributing to the conversation. SocialHome is a grid style blogging platform that’s open source and making headway to connect to the fediverse. Sean really enjoyed Adventure Game Studio’s community in his early days of learning development and the power of open source. Paul’s early entry into online communities was TIcalc.org. Paul’s sexy calculator, TI-92. We reminisce about places like Geocities where we hosted our ‘cool’ sites. Today, we have the open source alternative, Neocities. Thanks for listening. We really appreciate those of you that have been with us for a while and love all the new listeners sending us suggestions and comments. Stay tuned for the second part of this interview! Want to stalk Sean Tilley, click the link. Find us on Twitter and Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon