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Nonprofit defining tech standards for encyclopedias. Started by

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For anyone looking for ways to leave big tech, #amazon #apple #google #facebook #windows #tiktok #spotify #wikipedia you can START here ➡️

#decentralized #bigtech #openaccess #opencontent #interoperability #neutral #selfowned #ksf #ownyourwords

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Leave Big Tech—Google, Apple, Amazon, Windows, Facebook, TikTok, Spotify, etc.—as much as you can. This is probably the most meaningful, effective thing most of us can do to undermine their power.

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How the encyclosphere is growing: what we've done recently and the next steps for this year

How the Encyclosphere Is Growing

This short video explains next steps—how the encyclosphere network is growing.Other related videos:* Intro to the KSF and Encyclosphere - Larry Sanger explai...

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Distributed identity is essential to re-identifying and controlling your own content on an open, decentralized network. What's that mean? Well, if you want to own your own content, you should know. We explain:

Protect Your Ideas With Distributed Identity (DID)

This video explains how to regain full control of your own work, and how to protect your identity using DID and keys.Other related videos:*Intro to the KSF a...

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Minifeed: how to transform the blogosphere/RSS into a social media network. We are transforming RSS into a network similar to the encyclosphere—but for social media.

Minifeed: The Decentralized Content Network

Larry Sanger explains how you can build your own decentralized content network using MiniFeed and Encyclosphere. This video focuses on the social media netwo...

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Technical standards of the encyclosphere: the ZWI file format (for encyclopedia articles). Covers the technical vision and progress so far.

Technical Standards of the Encyclosphere

This video explains the technical standards that are being promoted by the Knowledge Standards Foundation.Other related videos:* Intro to the KSF and Encyclo...

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What's this "encyclosphere" thing I keep talking about? How would it solve the problems with Wikipedia's bias? Here is a series of video explainers. What is the encyclosphere? What's it for? youtube.com/watch?v=F69Vjv Four more 👇

What Is The Encyclosphere?

A short introduction to the decentralization goals of the Encyclosphere and the Knowledge Standards Foundation.Related videos include:*Your Articles - explai...

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Decentralize the encyclopedias—and social media! Here’s a progress report on how

is doing so: encyclosphere.org/ksf-progress-r Here’s a long-form semi-technical video explainer on how we’re building the encyclosphere network: youtu.be/3WT6vvzfdnA | via ...

The Universal Network of Encyclopedias: A Progress Report

Imagine all the encyclopedias in the world, connected into one decentralized network, the way all the blogs are loosely connected. You've heard of the blogos...

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join here encyclosphere.org/joinin donate here encyclosphere.org/donate watch full report here youtube.com/watch?v=3WT6vv

#decentralized #openaccess #opencontent #interoperability #neutral #selfowned #ksf #ownyourwords

encyclosphere.org

We want your help. The Encyclosphere is Coming The community is meeting mostly in our Slack group (join). In our Gitlab group, we have a growing number of developers who contribute code to projects...

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To find out what KSF is doing to help widely disperse all knowledge, check out Encyclosphere.org The Knowledge Standards Foundation is dedicated to open knowledge. KSF is working on several projects that involve building decentralized content networks.

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Building a Universal Network of Encyclopedias

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join here encyclosphere.org/joinin donate here encyclosphere.org/donate watch full report here youtube.com/watch?v=3WT6vv

#decentralized #openaccess #opencontent #interoperability #neutral #selfowned #ksf #ownyourwords

encyclosphere.org

We want your help. The Encyclosphere is Coming The community is meeting mostly in our Slack group (join). In our Gitlab group, we have a growing number of developers who contribute code to projects...

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To find out what KSF is doing to help widely disperse all knowledge, check out Encyclosphere.org The Knowledge Standards Foundation is dedicated to open knowledge. KSF is working on several projects that involve building decentralized content networks.

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“With knowledge conceived of as both fragmented and widely dispersed, systemic coordination (with an evolved natural order) among the many SUPERSEDES the special wisdom of the few.” (excerpt by T. Sowell) #wikipedia #youtube #twitter #google

#decentralized #openaccess

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join here encyclosphere.org/joinin donate here encyclosphere.org/donate watch full report here youtube.com/watch?v=3WT6vv

#decentralized #openaccess #opencontent #interoperability #neutral #selfowned #ksf #ownyourwords

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We want your help. The Encyclosphere is Coming The community is meeting mostly in our Slack group (join). In our Gitlab group, we have a growing number of developers who contribute code to projects...

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To find out how to help, check out the KSF and Encyclosphere.org The Knowledge Standards Foundation is dedicated to open knowledge. KSF is working on several projects that involve building decentralized content networks.

#openaccess #opencontent #ksf

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Who likes musty old books? …where old knowledge lies. Help KSF convert good old public domain encyclopedias into a standard format, and publish them online. eepurl.com/h2Xe2b Encyclosphere.org #books #encyclopedias #ksf #knowledge #opencontent #openaccess

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What can we do? To find out what KSF is doing to help check out Encyclosphere.org The Knowledge Standards Foundation is dedicated to open knowledge. KSF is working on several projects that involve building decentralized content networks.

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“Along with the venality of its controllers, the technology of”

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“predetermines the boundaries of its content. Some information can be conveyed completely, some partially, some not at all. …The bias is inherent in the technology.”/excerpt by J. Mander

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If you lament the disappearance of tech freedom and say, "If only there were some org that were serious about funding the technology of freedom!", well...now there is one. youtube.com/watch?v=CZLf2s | via StartThis

FUTO's Obligatory Corporate "Change the World" Video

FUTO, the video. Probably too earnest, maybe a little cringey and corporate, but it's pretty slick, ain't it?Want to learn more about FUTO and its mission? C...

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The Encyclosphere.org is inclusionist, not deletionist. #includenotdelete #decentralized #openaccess #opencontent #interoperability #neutral #selfowned #ksf #ownyourwords

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The KSF is dedicated to open knowledge. join here encyclosphere.org/joinin donate here encyclosphere.org/donate watch full report here youtube.com/watch?v=3WT6vv #decentralized #openaccess #opencontent #interoperability #neutral #selfowned #ksf #ownyourwords

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We want your help. The Encyclosphere is Coming The community is meeting mostly in our Slack group (join). In our Gitlab group, we have a growing number of developers who contribute code to projects...

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We will convert the content of all the encyclopedias in the world into a standard format. Make all data publicly available. Give you tools to build your own article collections and search engines. #opencontent encyclosphere.org - Universal Network of Encyclopedias

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Here's a bunch of annotated links that illustrate our progress in building the encyclosphere. And BTW we also raised $300,000 from FUTO!

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Annotated link list. And donation!

Hello encyclopedia lovers, We have great news: last month we deposited a $300,000 grant from FUTO, a new org founded to “develop technology and share knowledge that gives control of computers back...

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Developers: want to work with us to develop your own project to ensure Wikipedia’s deleted content stays available via the encyclosphere? encyclosphere.org/developers-hel | via

Developers: want to work with us to develop your own project

Developers: want to work with us to develop your own project to ensure Wikipedia’s deleted content stays available via the encyclosphere?https://encyclosphere.org/developers-help-save-deleted-articl

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The Knowledge Standards Foundation's spring newsletter shows massive amounts of progress. mailchi.mp/e823428b283e/t If you want to make sure you don't miss another such newsletter, add your email address to encyclosphere.org (scroll down).

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Building a Universal Network of Encyclopedias

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Want to know how the encyclosphere and Minifeed work? This video has taken us months to produce. You’ll like it. PREMIERES Tues, 11 am EST: “The Universal Network of Encyclopedias: A Progress Report”

The Universal Network of Encyclopedias: A Progress Report

Imagine all the encyclopedias in the world, connected into one decentralized network, the way all the blogs are loosely connected. You've heard of the blogos...

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This tweet will not go to all of our readers.

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This tweet will go to only some of our readers.

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What we do.

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It’s a start! Help kick it up over 100 donors! It’s for encyclosphere.org (sign up) /

(follow). givingtuesday.mightycause.com/organization/K

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Developers! Can you help scrape a usable "description" from HTML files of encyclopedia articles? mailchi.mp/bdd7f9b0d1d9/h | via

Developers! Can you help scrape a usable “description” fro

Developers! Can you help scrape a usable "description" from HTML files of encyclopedia articles? https://mailchi.mp/bdd7f9b0d1d9/help-extract-usable-description-from-html-files

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$2,354 raised in the first afternoon. Thanks, everyone, and please help us meet our goal, if you haven't yet!

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Hey, @Wikipedia: propaganda is not knowledge! —They won't listen. But we don't need them. We're building an open network of all the encyclopedias. encyclosphere.org/the-encyclosph But we need your help. Please give generously! #GivingTuesday | via startthis.org/?p=2390

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The Knowledge Standards Foundation is starting its first fundraiser beginning tomorrow! Stay tuned for a big update! And...please give generously if you want a better free encyclopedia system.

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Imagine all the encyclopedias in the world, connected into one decentralized network, the way all the blogs are loosely connected. You've heard of the blogosphere; now, we’re building an encyclosph...

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Decentralizing social media? I interview technologists Christian Gribneau and Dmitri Zagidulin. We ask five questions; runs two hours. Live chat on YT with me & whoever shows up. Premieres Mon. @ 12:01 p.m. EST youtube.com/watch?v=VT4zgL rumble.com/vn0cuv-decentr | via ...

Decentralizing Social Media (Tech of Decentralization week 3)

Discussion with two technologists working on decentralized social media projects:- Christian Gribneau, founder of Ology.com and the Public Square Network, an...

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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger convened a roundtable with five encyclopedists to discuss how to create an encyclopedia network—an "encyclosphere," like the blogosphere, but for encyclopedias. Premieres in 30m! YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=mQvkua Rumble: rumble.com/vmi0fb-encyclo

Encyclopedists discuss a decentralized encyclopedia network (Tech of...

Interview/interaction between Wikipedia co-founder and five encyclopedists:- Leslie Graves, philosopher and founder/publisher of Ballotpedia- Sam Kazemian, c...

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Week 1 of the "Technology of Decentralization" seminar is starting in 20m! Sign up: encyclosphere.org/seminar/ First up: an interview with Web pioneer, Jean-Francois Groff & Silicon Valley executive, Peter Magnusson, by Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger.

The Internet: from decentralization to corporatocracy (Tech of...

Wide-ranging interview on the origins of the Internet and its decentralization, and how it declined to its current corporatized, controllable state.With Web ...

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Hi KSF followers! Please check your mail for this update email: mailchi.mp/91560f36d36d/n Did it arrive in your Inbox or in your spam folder? Please let us know below. Thanks.

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Subscribe to our KSF channel. We'll be adding a series of seminar videos soon.

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Imagine all the encyclopedias in the world, connected into one decentralized network, the way all the blogs are loosely connected. You've heard of the blogosphere; now, we’re building an encyclosph...

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