Daily Journal 📓 October 2024

Ibis has just been announced as a federated Wikipedia alternative. It’s based on ActivityPub and written by one of the Lemmy developers. “built on a stack of PostgreSQL and Rust, …with a frontend written in Rust Webassembly”

I’ve been using Grist, an open source and self hostable Airtable replacement, and excitedly telling people about it. They’re hosting a summit in Paris in early December, where I also found out about the French government’s La Suite, a government collaboration platform.

Had a catch up call with Tarun from Gitwallet. The platform has been iterating to serve developers doing open source consulting. A new thing they’re experimenting with is Echo: an software ecosystem explorer. Very cool!

The future is interfaces: @piratesoftware.live shared a short video of doing demos at a public conference with keyboard + mouse and with a game controller. The punchline of what kids gravitated towards is a good one.

Subvert is launching today: you can become a co-op founding member for $100USD by buying the zine “Plan for the Artist-Owned Internet”, or for free as a founding musician or label. I’ve joined, love to see more projects like this.

Had an inspiring call with the ZKorum team this morning. They’re trying on some new taglines, including “building citizen networks rather than social networks”

End of an era. I futzed around and switched my blog publishing back to Github Pages, after 4 years publishing to IPFS via Fission, according to the Colophon. My next protocol adventures are going to have more atproto.

Frontpage is a link aggregator (think Hacker News) defined as a new Lexicon data type on atproto. It’s out of invite only access, and you can use your existing account to login.