It's not a new movement, but taking back control from large corporations has been gaining momentum. Whether it's data storage, apps and services, or even communication. For the longest time, we've ...

The Internet, and large groups of people in general, tend to have a remarkably short collective memory. Whether it’s the ...

Years ago, I seem to recall reading of an Arstechnica IRC server, although I've no idea if it's still in use. I object to centralized services like Discord for discussion. I don't know what that is, ...

Element, the company and core developer behind the decentralized communication protocol known as Matrix, has announced a notable license change that will make the open source project just that little ...

The free-software community has frequently advocated the development of new decentralized, federated network services—for example, promoting XMPP as an alternative to AOL Instant Messenger, StatusNet ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...