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- context
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- status quo
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- geopolitics
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- surveillance
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- capital accumulation
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- monopolistic gatekeepers
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- big tech
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- legislation
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- digital markets act
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- digital services act
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- fediverse
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- open-source
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- federated
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- various applications
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- limited momentum
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- self-hosting
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- expertise
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- containers
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- configuration
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- SSO
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- LDAP
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- sysadmin burden
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- operating systems
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- reproducibility
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- network security
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- software LCM
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- backups
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- state of the internet
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- network-effect-fueled oligopolies
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- commercial interests
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- enshittification
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- misinformation
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- surveillance
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- manipulation
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- gamification
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- polarization
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- IP harvested by scrapers to spam the internet with AI slop
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- gamification-fueled addiction
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- lack of democratic control
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- illegal content
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- covert foreign/commercial online influencing campaigns
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- cambridge analytica
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- polarizing filter bubbles from engagement-fueled algorithms
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- stratify society
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- may culminate in terrorism
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- qanon's role in Jan 6 capitol insurrection
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- energy usage of data centers and AI
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- open-source
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- devops
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- nixos
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- developer-centric
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- self-hosting
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- yunohost
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- fediverse
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- innovation cycle
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- research
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- commerce
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- dissemination
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- commons
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- distribution
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- ecosystem
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- stakeholders
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- EU
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- NGI
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- [report](https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/)
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- let users separate content and data from internet-based sofware and services
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- re-establish boundaries between content owner and service provider
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- allow mixing/matching alternative/complementary services
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- service portability + data decoupling
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- achieve openness to new entrants
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- unlock clustered service verticals with dominant market positions
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- presentation
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- commons
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- context
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- security
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- economy
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- geopolitics
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- why
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- sovereignty
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- trust
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- collaboration
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- european declaration on digital rights and principles
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- privacy protection
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- user control and choice
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- portability
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- inclusion
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- decentralisation
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- NGI
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- internet commons
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- hardware
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- libraries
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- distribution
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- server apps
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- client apps
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- nlnet
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- OIDF
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- intro
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- fundamental right of individuals
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- privacy
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- self-determination
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- freedom of expression
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- internet is crucial infrastructure that should be maintainable long-term
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- nixos
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- transparency
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- open software
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- fediversity
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- presentation
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- objective
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- bring easy-to-use, budget-conscious, _federated_ hosted cloud services to organisations and individuals
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- goals
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- digital autonomy
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- innovation
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- service/data portability
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- federated decentralized services
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- sustainable economic ecosystem
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- open
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- benefits
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- providers
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- ease of operations
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- share investments
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- lower maintenance
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- ease of deployment
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- part of a larger ecosystem
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- users
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- easy of use
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- data portability
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- no vendor lock-in
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- service portability
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- digital sovereignty
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- independence from big tech
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- principles + assumptions
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- run on hardware
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- target providers to offer federated services
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- digital sovereignty
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- ease dev/maintenance
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- ease deployment/running of federated services
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- federated decentralised OSS using open standards
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- service portability
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- tech stack
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- django
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- nixos
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- nix packages
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- nixops4
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- proxmox
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- bare-metal hardware
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- custom code and databases
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- services
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- Mastodon
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- PixelFed
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- PeerTube
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- Matrix
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- Nexcloud
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- Stalwart
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- Owncast
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- Lemmy
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- EduMEET
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- [objectives](https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/background/)
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- primary
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- new technical building blocks
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- 3 partners
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- secondary
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- funding mechanism
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- nlnet
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- [NGI emphasis](https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-fediversity/)
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- replaces traditional social networking
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- create a practical, user-friendly, and secure communication environment
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- NGOs
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- waag
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- [state of the internet](https://waag.org/en/event/state-internet-2025/)
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- retake internet from US big tech
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- regulate tech as we do other fields
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- marleen stikker
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- book: 'het internet is stuk - maar we kunnen het repareren'
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- history of the internet explaining big tech platforms as step back in sovereignty
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- technology is not neutral
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- emphasizes human values over techno-optimism pushed by silicon valley
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- role of data access
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- understanding
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- democracy
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- control
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- mentions historical role of tactical media
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- [EuroStack](https://www.euro-stack.info/#eurostack)
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- goals
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- Sovereignty and Security
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- Sustainability
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- Decentralized Sovereign Infrastructure
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- Strong Democracy
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- De-Proprietarization and Interoperability
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- Data as a Common Good
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- Inclusive Governance
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- 7 layers
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- data + AI
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- software
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- cloud
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- IoT
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- networks
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- chips
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- raw materials, energy and water
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- [open forum europe](https://openforumeurope.org/our-vision/)
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- principles
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- user centricity
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- competition
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- flexibility
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- sustainability
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- community
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- developers
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- want easy path to users
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- want easy updating
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- hosts
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- want managed applications
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- want off-the-shelf solutions
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- operators
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- want app store of sovereign services
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- want things to just work
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- users
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- want easy UX
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- want sovereign infrastructure
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- want tools reflecting their values
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- human-centric
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- inclusive
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- accessible
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- why
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- policy-makers
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- achieve sovereignty to deliver on digital rights
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- sovereign managed applications
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- catalyze dissemination to have internet commons reach critical mass
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- starting out with social media over gatekeepers' effect amid geopolitical considerations
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- robust technology
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- fediversity
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- portable
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- fediverse
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- sovereign
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- nixos
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- [reproducible](https://reproducible.nixos.org/)
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- [vibrant](https://repology.org/repositories/graphs)
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- [security-conscious](https://tracker.security.nixos.org/)
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- hosts
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- off-the-shelf
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- easy for host and users
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- demand due to geopolitical relevance
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- users
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- sovereign
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- no lock-in
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- private
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- SSO/LDAP
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- ease
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- simple install
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- sensible defaults
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- update/backup policies
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- choice
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- open to hosts
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- portable data/hosting
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- different apps
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- control
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- open
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- federation
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- advanced settings
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- how
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- design
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- front: app store style UI not unlike [yunohost](https://apps.yunohost.org/catalog)
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- stack
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- fediverse
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- under the hood
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- NixOS
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- service contracts: [SelfHostBlocks](https://nlnet.nl/project/SelfHostBlocks/)
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- [upstream](https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/Fediversity/issues/127#issuecomment-5669) nix packages to source repos to normalize reproducibility and accelerate LCM
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- [opentofu](https://opentofu.org/)
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- VM hypervisor: [proxmox](https://proxmox.com/)
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- storage: [garage](https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/)
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- backups / data portability: [borgmatic](https://github.com/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic)
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- data interoperability: [json-schema](https://json-schema.org/)
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- validate
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- [visualize](https://github.com/json-schema-form-element/jsfe)
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- component architectures
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- traditional
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- orchestration
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- VMs
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- hypervisor
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- application VMs
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- storage
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- supporting
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- identity management
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- authentication
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- authorization
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- accounting
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- central database
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- nextbox
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- accounting
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- state
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- secrets
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- central services
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- email
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- decoupled
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- clients
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- [monolith](https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/Fediversity) (django)
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- host all-in-one
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- back
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- [existing](https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/myprotagio-api) (php)
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