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It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.
IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), Open Social, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy.
The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.
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Featured Item(s)
Rest of World writes:
A growing pushback against big tech companies, and greater awareness of the value of data, is spurring interest in data collectives and cooperatives, which give communities control over the collection, management, and distribution of their data.
This alternative allows creators to benefit from data sets that may otherwise be ignored or misused.
Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control
This works well with my diminishing hopes for Manade. ;) See the Fediverse section below.
Henry Codes writes:
The widespread deployment of AI/LLMs constitutes an existential threat to labor whether or not it is an adept move by the adoptive industries. Thus it is essential for workers to stop asking whether or not AI works and start asking who ultimately benefits from its deployment.
Speaking of this horseshit, Zuzai.org writes:
I'll begin with something obvious: things made with AI tools are proliferating in lots of places where lots of people don't want them.
Not so obvious: we don't have a good, crisp word to indicate that something is NOT one of these things, in other words, that it is free of AI.
We need a new word. How about ... zuzai?
As in this website is zuzai. We're all in.
CMSs
Kyrylo Silin says:
Germ's mama, Anna asks:
Typemill announces:
Typemill 2.25.0: Relaunch and Small Improvements
Pagecord announces:
Bear
The Hour is Blue explores:
Writing for Readers, Not Algorithms
The same goes for MCPs.
xIre reflects on:
Good advice.
Leaflet
Leaflet announces:
An option to switch navigation direction for browsing older vs. newer posts from the post footer
And Leaflet Lab announces:
Piloting paid memberships for the open social web
Going the Ghost and SuckStack route.
Write.as / WriteFreely
Write.As has:
A small but helpful fix is out for federated blogs!
Tools
404 Media reports:
On a related note, Rafael says:
Let me put in a plug for our dear old sdf.org/
Tres cool.
Chat / Team Chat
AboutSignal announces:
Scheduled messages in Note to self now work as reminders in Signal for Android
Useful.
Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?
Germ announces:
Unfortunately, it's iOS only.
Browsers
Waterfox announces:
6.7.0-beta.3- Ultra Protection returns and Linux package repositories
Search
Ecosia announces:
Your Ecosia searches in Germany just became more independent
Cloud
Nextcloud asks:
Do I belong at the Nextcloud Community Conference 2026? The answer is yes.
Writing
LibreOffice has:
LibreOffice, yours for a lifetime
9to5Linux reports:
Calibre 9.12 E-Book Manager Adds Option to Convert GIF Images to JPEG/WebP
Creative
Rolle examines:
Linux / Open Android
PostmarketOS announces:
New dependencies, requirements, and recommended workarounds for kernels
GrapheneOS announces:
GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
9to5Linux reports:
Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Officially Released for Supported Linux Phones and Tablets
F-Droid has:
Hosting / Serving
MauveRant examines:
Self-Hosting S3 object-storage with Garage
Interesting concept and demonstration.
This week's featured OMN tool
The Techno Anarchist Manifesto
The TAM is now available as a PDF, ebook, and website.
The Techno Anarchist Manifesto
Programming
SIV shares:
Verifiable Web Code — Why It's So Exciting
The Zone explains:
What software freedom means today
Shin's Psychedelic World examines:
Dave Rupert reviews:
The new yet familiar CodePen 2.0
See the Stolon note below as well.
Git
For all the AI butthurt Codeberg whiners:
A slop peddler has started a slop-friendly Forgejo instance
On a related note, Do Flamengos know they're Pink has:
Here's a great quote:
We don't need to defend the freedom to take from everyone all the time.
Our freedom to associate, our freedom to refuse, and our freedom to decide over infrastructure we reasonably control all need defending though, and all of that is outside the jurisdiction of licences and code. Thank you Codeberg for reminding us it was there all along.
Tangled is:
And Ricard Torres is:
Moving away from GitHub to self hosted Gitea
HTML
That HTML Blog asks:
SelfHTML.blog has:
Spickzettel zum schnellen Nachschlagen
The Art of Not Asking Why? shares:
Style & Emacs Config: A Semantic HTML Reckoning
CSS
Master.dev advises:
When You Need To Make a Triangle, Think Conic Gradients
Botmonster Tech says:
CSS @starting-style lets you animate elements on entry without JavaScript
Web Components
Raphaël Bastide shares:
Stolon has been updated, big time!
Cool tool.
JavaScript
Evil Martians (with the best site design on earth) shows us:
The secure way to release an NPM package in 2026
Master.dev looks at:
Same Name, Different Component with Scoped Custom Element Registries
AI
Brno Hat explains:
How AI Is Changing Open Source
And it's not in a good way.
Ivan Enderlin shares:
Good.
Other
XWiki shares its:
Release Notes for XWiki 18.6.0
This week's featured programming tool
In honor of their telling the slopmerchants and cryptobros to fuck off, it's Codeberg
A community-led effort that provides Git hosting for free/open source projects.
ActivityPub
ActivityPub.Space is:
Reflecting on the existence of httpsig.org
Ethan Black notes:
Development is being done in GitLab to add ActivityPub support!
This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool
Fedify
Fedify is a Typescript framework that lets you build for the fediverse but skip the boilerplate.
Permanent aside here (unfortunately)
This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:
- The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
- and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
- and Corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts.
So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.
Fediverse
The Nexus of Privacy says:
This is literally what we're going for here at The Fulcrum.
Bonfire
Bonfire is:
Announcing Bonfire for communities: groups and tools to organise together
More
AmalDev answers:
Tech Explained: What Survives an Internet Shutdown?
ATProto
Paul's Blog has:
Starting from scale in the design of the AT Protocol
Nick's Blog continues a series:
Permissioned Data Shapes: Feeds
Permissioned Data Shapes: Notifications
Chris's Corner looks at:
The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem
Atmosphere
Leaflet Labs asks and answers:
For potential users.
Wreckage/Salvage is:
Standard Reader asks:
What is Standard.Site? Next gen RSS?
Cosmik Labs explores:
Sensors, not just bookmarks (Patterns of Sensemaking #1)
Quite interesting.
Babesky says:
And Colibri.Social says:
If NVIDIA can un-launch a GPU, we can delay an app launch
Unfortunate, though smart.
P2P
After the Distortion Field explores:
The Antithesis: Why Freenet and Serverless Networks Are Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty
RSS
Jared Lemler shares:
A new way to build RSS clients?
Karthikeyen NG looks at:
RSS in 2026 — the best distribution channel nobody uses
Use it, mes amis.
Terry Godier announces:
Current Now Supports Feedly in v1.0.15
XMPP
XMPP previews:
Nicoco shares:
Quicksy ferme les inscriptions
Georg (not George) Lucas asks:
Are Emojis Allowed in XMPP Addresses?
CTAs
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