Ian Preston
@ianopolous.bsky.social
Mathematician/particle physicist turned privacy researcher. Java Rockstar #Oxford Building a better web - private, self-sovereign identity, p2p, social - with @peergos.org. Public social media undermines democracy. #covidisairborne #maskswork #cleantheair
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November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
And people who want something like a cross between atproto and proton drive should check out @peergos.org for portable accounts and data plus E2EE and fully open source. peergos.net/secret/z59vu...
If you want to protect democracy you have to fight surveillance capitalism and defend privacy. Come join us!
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If you want to protect democracy you have to fight surveillance capitalism and defend privacy. Come join us!
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iodéOS and /e/OS are based in France. iodéOS and /e/OS make devices dramatically more vulnerable while misleading users about privacy and security. These fake privacy products serve the interest of authoritarians rather than protecting people. /e/OS receives millions of euros in government funding.
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
iodéOS and /e/OS are based in France. iodéOS and /e/OS make devices dramatically more vulnerable while misleading users about privacy and security. These fake privacy products serve the interest of authoritarians rather than protecting people. /e/OS receives millions of euros in government funding.
Would love to grab a coffee!
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Would love to grab a coffee!
Then, if one day we decide that we need to change the licence, we would need all the previous contributors to agree that it is a good thing to do, which I guess you could say is a smaller form of community voting which you allude to.
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Then, if one day we decide that we need to change the licence, we would need all the previous contributors to agree that it is a good thing to do, which I guess you could say is a smaller form of community voting which you allude to.
Another thing I'm trying to avoid as an end-user is the common bait-and-switch that companies do by changing their licence to less open ones. That's why in @peergos.org we don't have contributors assign copyright.
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Another thing I'm trying to avoid as an end-user is the common bait-and-switch that companies do by changing their licence to less open ones. That's why in @peergos.org we don't have contributors assign copyright.
As an end user this is also a means to keep the company honest and aligned with end-users.
My understanding of AGPL is that in practice it does protect you from big companies because they are allergic to the licence: their legal departments ban it. This seems to be an increasingly common strategy.
My understanding of AGPL is that in practice it does protect you from big companies because they are allergic to the licence: their legal departments ban it. This seems to be an increasingly common strategy.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
As an end user this is also a means to keep the company honest and aligned with end-users.
My understanding of AGPL is that in practice it does protect you from big companies because they are allergic to the licence: their legal departments ban it. This seems to be an increasingly common strategy.
My understanding of AGPL is that in practice it does protect you from big companies because they are allergic to the licence: their legal departments ban it. This seems to be an increasingly common strategy.
This means I want not only the ability to modify and run the software for myself, but to acknowledge that that is a privileged position enjoyed by 1% of people, so I need the ability to pay someone else to do that on my behalf.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This means I want not only the ability to modify and run the software for myself, but to acknowledge that that is a privileged position enjoyed by 1% of people, so I need the ability to pay someone else to do that on my behalf.
Thank you for writing this! I totally agree we need more licence experimentation. I'm especially interested in time varying licences, like ones that protect the company for x years, then revert to FOSS. My main concern is on the agency of the end-user. As an end user I want credible exit.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thank you for writing this! I totally agree we need more licence experimentation. I'm especially interested in time varying licences, like ones that protect the company for x years, then revert to FOSS. My main concern is on the agency of the end-user. As an end user I want credible exit.
Looking forward to it!
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Looking forward to it!
I got a talk audience to demo that with @peergos.org using a WiFi router with no internet a year and a half ago. Works using mdns based discovery with zero config.
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I got a talk audience to demo that with @peergos.org using a WiFi router with no internet a year and a half ago. Works using mdns based discovery with zero config.