@flo-bit.dev hope to meet you at the @atproto.berlin event coming up

@charlesblumenthal.com hope to meet you at the @atproto.berlin event coming up

@watwa.re hope to meet you at the @atproto.berlin event coming up

I'm going to "ATProto Berlin Meetup"!

On AI and Copyright, Trump Is Groveling Before Big Tech and Selling Out Working Americans It’s not just creatives threatened by Silicon Valley’s ethically questionable business model.

“The decisions we make today really could commit us to a future where any valuable work done by any human being will become fair game for a tech company to hoover up into its AI model and monetize, while that human being gets nothing.” - Joseph Gorden Levitt www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Hilarious 🤣

5️⃣ TL;DR recommendations

Want privacy + Notion-like UX → Anytype

Want full ownership & longevity → Obsidian / Logseq

Want structure + team workflows → Notion / AFFiNE

Choose your tradeoff. There’s no perfect tool—only the right one for your constraints.

4️⃣ The reality
Most power users end up hybrid:

Markdown for thinking + knowledge

Database tools for projects & collaboration

3️⃣ Key tradeoff

Databases optimize for convenience now
Markdown optimizes for control over time

2️⃣ Markdown / file-based tools
(Obsidian, Logseq)

✅ Full data ownership
✅ Plain text = future-proof
✅ Works offline forever
❌ Less “polished” UX
❌ Weaker real-time collaboration

Best for: personal knowledge, research, long-term thinking.

1️⃣ Database-based tools
(Anytype, Notion, AFFiNE)

✅ Structured data
✅ Powerful relations & views
✅ Easier collaboration
❌ Vendor lock-in
❌ Harder to export / future-proof

Best for: teams, project management, structured workflows.

🧵 When looking into privacy preserving note taking apps you'll find there are 2 different data approaches taken by different tools.

database vs markdown — what’s the real difference?

If you care about privacy, ownership, or long-term control, this matters 👇

@davidgasquez.com thanks for your help!!!

Sometimes it feels like life is just one big caption competition.

Privacy and Public Goods: Vitalik Buterin & Roger Dingledine - Buenos Aires 2025 YouTube video by Funding the Commons

Ethereum's @vitalik.ca an @torproject.org's @RogerDingledine

A powerful conversation from FtC Buenos Aires where they dig into what “privacy” really means, the tradeoffs behind it, and how incentives can warp communities. 🌐

Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=MDyU...

Perhaps the most important thing to work on in our times

100% please Ping me

@regensolarpunk.bsky.social when hello world?

Radioactive man is the epitome of electro IMO

Cookie jar?

It was a great talk - thanks for being such a pleasure to work with

🚀 Check out my project: Hyperstaker

platform.fundingthecommons.io/events/funding-commons-r...

#BuildingInPublic #FundingTheCommons

Who’s in Buenos Aires?

Penguin Padlock Party – Open meeting place for digital self-determination

The Penguin Padlock Party is a regular get-together held every third Thursday of the month from 7 p.m. at c‑base. It is aimed at anyone interested in free software, data protection and digital security.

fomo!!

Some people wanna live in echo chambers ... sounds boring to me

Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...

Many people have fought hard for us to enjoy the end to end encryption we have on our phones today, and we need to keep fighting to keep this freedom.

Please tell all of your friends about this and convince them to act!

More detail on the situation in Germany:
netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...

Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...

To be clear if this goes through every message, photo and video on your phone will be scanned and assessed. Signal will leave Europe, and we will all be on a dark path.

Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal.
Privacy = Freedom - there's a reason why your vote is private

Please take 3 mins follow the form which emails your local politicians: fightchatcontrol.eu

X. It’s what’s happening From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.

icebreaker.xyz
allows you to export your Social graph using zkTLS on @reclaimprotocol.bsky.social, and imports it as a graph of EAS attestations opening up your graph as well as that of your contacts. Can someone please do this for x.com so we can import into something on ATProto like bsky!? 🙏