Hacker News with Generative AI: Decentralized Web

Ann, the Small Annotation Server (mccd.space)
Ann is a minimal ActivityPub-based decentralised alternative social media built around Web Annotations. An annotation can be thought of as a comment, recommendation or a like on any piece of content. Ann allows you to store your annotations, send annotations to your followers and receive annotations from people that you follow.

Social Media, Decentralized Web, Web Annotations, ActivityPub

76 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 11 comments

GameBoy retro games to play online (on IPFS to stay there forever) (dweb.link)

Retro Gaming, Gaming, Web3, Decentralized Web, IPFS

56 points by evgy 76 days ago | 18 comments

Retro Games on IPFS (dweb.link)

Retro Games, IPFS, Decentralized Web

4 points by evgy 92 days ago | 0 comments

Forum software NodeBB has added ActivityPub support (techcrunch.com)
Before there was social media, there were internet forums. Millions of forum sites continue to operate, which is why it’s notable that one top forum software provider, NodeBB, is now joining the fediverse, also known as the open social web.

Forum Software, Open Source, Social Media, Decentralized Web

5 points by Fitik 122 days ago | 0 comments

This website is hosted on Bluesky (danielmangum.com)
Well, not this one. But this one is! How? Let’s take a closer look at Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it.

Social Media, Decentralized Web, Technology

713 points by hasheddan 180 days ago | 168 comments

PeerTube 6.3 (joinpeertube.org)
PeerTube v6.3 released!

New Releases, Video Hosting, Open Source, Decentralized Web

232 points by jrepinc 247 days ago | 22 comments

Beaker Browser and the Dat Protocol (bernsteinbear.com)
In this paper, I will introduce the Beaker browser and the Dat project upon which it is based. Then, I will critically analyze the design of the project using the principles and practices we have discussed throughout this course. Finally, I will provide references to related and future work on similar topics.

Web Browsers, Decentralized Web, Dat Protocol

32 points by luu 261 days ago | 20 comments

Sub.club aims to fund the Fediverse via premium feeds (techcrunch.com)

Social Media, Decentralized Web, Funding, Technology

5 points by manuelmoreale 267 days ago | 0 comments

Threads Enables Fediverse Replies (karliner.net)

Social Media, Decentralized Web, Mastodon

179 points by mkarliner 267 days ago | 84 comments

Ask HN: Why do ActivityPub and Nostr not encrypt an "event" content and metadata (ycombinator.com)

Social Media, Decentralized Web, Encryption, Privacy

3 points by ahmedbaracat 280 days ago | 5 comments

Freenet 2024 – a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web [video] (youtube.com)

Freenet, Decentralized Web, Video, Technology

109 points by sanity 344 days ago | 93 comments

Mycorrhiza: Filesystem and Git-based wiki for the independent web written in Go (github.com/bouncepaw)