meeting-notes/2025-04-07-project-context-braindump.md

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