@ultimape Hey; I have the next 2 days allotted to work on Twitter archival / Mastodon migration; would be happy to collab if you’re around
Looks like Filecoin is hiring an army.
Great opportunity if you're an established software engineer looking to get into the decentralization space.
Published my now-yearly roundup of top decentralization initiatives in 2017, featuring Blockstack, Brave, ActivityPub, Perkeep, Urbit, and many others.
Seriously, great work to everybody this year; highly anticipating an explosive 2018 for the dweb.
See also the recent move from the Volokh group from WaPo to Reason, citing the same problems with anti-paywall preferences being the driving force behind their move:
Great essay from Kottke on patronage-based business models for web content. I think that donation-based & paywall-free patronage models will be the only successful business model for web content going forward.
https://kottke.org/17/12/unlocking-the-commons-or-the-psychoeconomics-of-patronage
I'm a nerd, researching decentralized / federated alternatives to Twitter, Facebook, et al.
If you know of cool projects, please let me know!