Session: Make de-centralized personal data storage the new normal

Convener: Björn (www.privact.org)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Jim (@jimwhite@mas.to)

• Ryan Barrett (@snarfed.org@snarfed.org)

• David Wabila (@abekonge@sunbeam.city)

Notes

Context:

• PolyPoly: https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/polypoly-2

• Decentralized personal data storage (https://polypoly.org/ now defunct).

• Goal: All personal data is stored on users’ own devices.

• https://github.com/polypoly-eu

Resources

• https://www.privact.org/t/reclaiming-digital-privacy/48

• Bluesky

• Nostr

• IPFS

• IPLD

• Dazzle Data Palaces: https://dazzle.town/ . We take back our personal data from the centralized surveillance platforms to our own decentralized Data Palaces in the metaverse where we decide how our data is used and by whom.

• Private Data https://soatok.blog/2022/11/22/towards-end-to-end-encryption-for-direct-messages-in-the-fediverse/

• Crypo wallets, the ultimate in personal private data stored as you like.

• Hosting

  • SOLID Pods: https://solidproject.org/

  • SOLID Project is TimBL’s second attempt at Semantic Web this time for social media.

• ActivityPods brings together two game-changing technologies, ActivityPub and Solid Pods, and empowers developers to create truly decentralized applications: https://activitypods.org/

• https://unhosted.org/ - freedom from web 2.0’s monopoly platforms

• https://ubos.net/apps/ - Docker image with single command to launch apps which include Mastodon, NextCloud, MESH, and IndieWeb