Concerned about the unprecedented power of the big tech oligopoly?
There's no better place for you than FUTO.
Applications for the Summer 2023 FUTO Fellows class are now open!
Imagine that🤔, Louis Rossmann's excellent videos explaining how FUTO's Grayjay lets you follow creators instead of platforms are...how should we put this?...abruptly unavailable on a certain trillion dollar company's video platform.🧵
We've been getting a lot of questions about our new app Grayjay. Tutorials for a video app are naturally best done with video, so grab the popcorn! 🧵
We'll be adding to and updating this list of Grayjay tutorials soon
As long as users and creators are reliant on any platform to connect, they'll never be free. Throw off the chains! Break out of the silos! Take back control of the Internet!
Get Grayjay:
Learn more about the FUTO philosophy:
Casey Muratori (
@cmuratori
) gave the keynote talk at FUTO's Don't Be Evil Summit. He discusses a new way to approach moderation online: Digital Due Process.
Give it a watch and let us know what you think. Do you agree/disagree? Tell us why!
Last week, Google sent FUTO a letter demanding we stop offering you
@FUTOgrayjay
as a better way to connect with your favorite creators. It was wrong, on the facts and the law. We've told them so in no unclear terms.
Grayjay is here to stay.
Louis Rossmann, Casey Muratori, Nick Merrill, and Eron Wolf discuss the burning question:
"Why Hasn't Open Source Won?"
Let us know what you think about this panel discussion in the replies!
The media team here has a hard time finding posts about us on here because half of the posts mentioning 'FUTO' are Japanese people posting anime images of a Touhou Project character named Mononobe no Futo.
9 months ago, we hosted a conference for anti-establishment software engineers in which a couple of our engineers gave a talk about how they created Grayjay. We filmed it for educational value.
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The lesson is that if you used Grayjay, it *wouldn't matter* what platforms do or do not host the content you want. If a creator is anywhere on the Internet, Grayjay can connect you, automatically. What any company or platform thinks of what you want to watch is irrelevant!
Thank you The Quartering for covering our new app!
Grayjay only exists because of creators, so we want to make this an app that every creator and viewer wants to use.
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Today, Youtube took down the video and gave us a warning, informing us that this powerpoint presentation violated their Harmful and Dangerous Acts policy.
The GREAT Vsauce2 called into our show to discuss the soft censorship of educational videos on Youtube with The Kino Corner.
Watch the video to hear what they have to say!
This is why FUTO exists.
Lawfare and the Supreme Court aren't a silver bullet. We can't just sue our way into a censorship-free internet. As long as ultra-centralized levers of power over public discourse exist, those in power will be tempted to pull on them. The key is to
We wouldn't want Grayjay's success to overshadow FUTO's other fantastic projects.
For example, if you ever wanted totally local voice-to-text -- no calling home to Google! -- we quietly solved that problem.
Check out Louis Rossmann's in-depth video about the whole Grayjay project on YouTube...or better yet, get Grayjay first, then follow Louis and watch it on there!
Are you interested in using Grayjay? Here are some quick video tutorials to help you get started so that you can start enjoying content across the whole internet in one place! 🧵
1/ How do you install Grayjay?
Louis went down to the Houston Abilities Expo to discuss wheelchair repair issues with grant recipient Thomas of the Mobility Independence Foundation.
Watch the video!
Heads up FUTO Fans - over the next day or two we'll be dropping hours of fresh new content. All the presentations and panels from both tracks of our "Don't Be Evil" Summit earlier this month will be available through Grayjay and some other, less notable video apps
We're hiring a Software Engineer for Grayjay to help us bring creator platform flexibility to everyone.
Please share this with anyone you think would be a great fit:
If you're interested, Louis Rossmann has taken the time to read both their letter and our response. Enjoy. Better yet, follow Louis on
@FUTOgrayjay
and enjoy it there.
Big announcement today in FUTOland!
We're proud to reveal that immich, the most sovereign (not to mention best!) photo and video hosting solution we've come across, is officially joining FUTO
But what's the real lesson from this?
It's not that you should look for your favorite content on different platforms. It's not even *just* that you should check out Grayjay (although you should!)
We appreciate all of your support for GrayJay and open source software! So much support, in fact, that y’all hug of death’d our gitlab instance. Working on getting that back up!
- engineer in charge of the gitlab instance
The Kino Corner sat down with Ross Scott to discuss his Stop Killing Games campaign. Watch the video to learn more about this campaign to protect consumer rights.
If anyone in tech wants to be in one of our videos to discuss tech news, projects, tech freedom, or any other FUTO-aligned topics, please DM us or send an email to peter
@futo
.org.
We have a new app in beta that you can try out right now! Circles is like Facebook but with the privacy of Signal. Download it from the Play Store or Testflight today!
Thank you
@thekinocorner
for shouting it out in your latest video! If you like films, join his film group!
Here is our new video introducing the new purchasing options we have just rolled out to support Immich and our response to some community feedback we have received.
Another example of why you should get
@FUTOgrayjay
installed ASAP! Follow creators, not "channels" and no one will be able to decide a video on Lysenkoism is "too shocking" for you to see in your feed.
I have no words for what
@teamyoutube
just told me. They've accused Vsauce2 of contributing 'shock content' that is vulgar and in violation of age guidelines. I've made 500+ educational videos over 10 years without ANY problem at all. I don't know what to do.
@FUTO_Tech
Grayjay is hard to understand conceptionally at first for many people. I'm having some problems convincing people.
Still would recommend. Daily driver on my phone. I'd really love a cooperation with SmartTubeTv 🤩
Most swipe datasets are locked inside corporations and generated by spying on users. This has made it hard to improve swiping on our keyboard. So, we're reaching out to the community to help construct an open swipe dataset.
Learn how to participate here:
We have more content from the conference and for all of you who don't use Peertube (that's almost everyone - we can see the view count), we're putting all the videos up here on Twitter.
1) Eron Wolf gives a brief introduction; discussing his past, the state of Big Tech nowadays,
Due to recent actions by an exceedingly large Silicon Valley corporation, we can't guarantee they'll be available on *every* platform. But we *can* guarantee they'll be on Grayjay.
How? Because with Grayjay, if it's available ANYWHERE, it's available to you!
We were honored last weekend to host a hackathon at our FUTO campus in collaboration with
@hackclub
, the Girl Scouts of Central Texas, Girls Who Code, and We Rise and Inspire!
Love this energy. We've gotten a few like this for
@FUTOgrayjay
and FUTO Voice Input purchases. That's how we know we're appealing to the right audience.
Wow. Interesting. What if there were an easy way to do this not just for Y*uTube but for every platform and source on the internet, all from one app??
Oh wait. There is.
.
@ggreenwald
joined us in the FUTO Studio to discuss censorship, the insidious nature of ad networks, and the importance of independent journalism in the online age.
Link in reply.
We appreciate all of your support for GrayJay and open source software! So much support, in fact, that y’all hug of death’d our gitlab instance. Working on getting that back up!
- engineer in charge of the gitlab instance
Wherever you work(ed) -- laid off, quit, or just bored -- if you're really an "ace coder," I can promise you one thing: come to FUTO and you'll never work under a "non-coding manager who has no clue what their staff actually does" again
Twitch is firing loads of staff, now so is discord, and many others have done the same. This was all started when twitter laid off a huge number of devs. Everyone at the top knew this needed doing, but were waiting for someone to go first. Where is the outrage now? Are discord
@TimSweeneyEpic
1. Scraping is already disallowed by T&C.
2. The scraping orgs dgaf & mask their IPs through proxy servers or through orgs that appear legit. For example, a recent massive scraping operation originating from Oracle IP addresses was just using their servers as a laundromat.
3.
Last week, Curtis Yarvin joined our founder Eron Wolf to discuss tech freedom. The entire video is a new tech exclusive, so you can only watch it in full on sites like
@OdyseeTeam
! We'll post short clips to Youtube in the coming days.
Link in reply
Starting class at
@UTAustin
? Want FREE Chick-fil-a during orientation on Friday? You're in luck! FUTO is moving Friday lunch back to 2410 San Antonio and we have a special treat this week:
@AllumBokhari
of
@FFO_Freedom
will be joining to deliver a talk on the demise of
#GARM