Department of Decentralization

Don't forget the Berlin Swapfest #5 is coming soon.

Register now for a table!

Fireside chat with Brewster Kahle and Wendy Hanamura – DWeb Camp Meetup, c-base Berlin (2026-02-28) : Brewster Kahle; Wendy Hanamura : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Recording of a fireside chat with Brewster Kahle and Wendy Hanamura at the DWeb Camp Meetup at c-base, Berlin on February 28, 2026.

A raw cut from the fireside chat with @brewster.kahle.org on board of @c-base.org for the @getdweb.net event (a collaboration between @archive.org and @dod.ngo)

archive.org/details/dweb...

Thanks to @zkavclub.bsky.social for the recording!

Now we close day with the @getdweb.net meetup on board of @c-base.org with a fireside chat with @brewster.kahle.org - founder of @archive.org

Now @brewster.kahle.org of the @archive.org is on stage of @c-base.org

The @getdweb.net planning unconference by @archive.org and @dod.ngo on board of @c-base.org started. Lot's of great people around. Beautiful weather (so we will do some sessions outside at the river).

The @getdweb.net Camp Unconference day at
@c-base.org just started! Excited for a day of co-creation and to be supporting the camp happening in Berlin via the @dod.ngo this year! 🏕️💚

photo of a hand holding up a poster from dweb camp 2026

going camping this summer

DWeb Camp 2026 posters hanging on a wall with plants around them, illuminated by sunlight

💕🌱

Also find some DoD members there!

Photo of Brewster Kahle speaking.

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📣 Co-create #DWebCamp 2026 in #Berlin next week!

Join the Unconference + Meetup exploring #decentralization & the future of public knowledge in Europe. Meetup features a live fireside chat with Brewster Kahle.

📅 Feb 28, 2026
📍c-base in Berlin
🎟️🆓 dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/

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Photo of Brewster Kahle speaking.

📣 Co-create DWebCamp 2026 in Berlin! 🏕️

Join the free Unconference + Meetup Feb 28, 2026, exploring decentralization & public knowledge in Europe 🇪🇺

DWeb community gathers at c-base, with an in-person fireside chat with @BrewsterKahle@mastodon.archive.org .

🎟️🆓 dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/

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A graphic with the same info in the post + a picture of people at DWeb Camp joining their hands.

✨ 𝗗𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 + 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 🛸

Sat 28 Feb we’ll meet at @c-base.org, Berlin with @brewster.kahle.org, @internetarchive.eu, and many new and long-time DWeb allies!

Join us to contribute shaping #DWebCamp 2026 🏕️

Free attendance, limited spots!

🎟️ All info + RSVP

Leaky LLMs: Accident or Nature? How LLMs are by-design incapable of retaining secrets

This is why we build privacy tech.

- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Good speech by Cory Doctorow

Let's repeal anti-circumvention laws.

Nothing should be updateable without the user's permission, nothing critical should be a black box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1Gnxhfok0

Berlin Chaos Mesh meetup tonight at @c-base.org #Meshtastic #Meshcore #Reticulum

An image with a black background with white text that reads "The Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem: Lightning talks" with the date and time, January 28 at 10am PT, virtual. The DWeb logo is on the top left, with a circular graphic with colorful dots shaped like a star map.

DWeb Virtual Meetup: Latest from the DWeb Ecosystem — featuring @mauve.moe of @awana.digital, @blaine.bsky.social of @newpublic.org, & @l5y.tech of @dod.ngo

Join us next week, Wed Jan 28 10 am PT / 1pm ET / 19 CET

Register here >>> www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-virtu...

DWeb Virtual Meetup — The Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem (Jan 2026) We’re going to kick-off our first DWeb Virtual Meetup of the year featuring talks about two recent product releases, as well as a talk by a Berlin-based group that’s closely partnering with us to ...

I'll be presenting the @dod.ngo at the next @getdweb.net virtual meetup next week.

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Tonight is the first @dod.ngo Stammtisch of 2026 on board of @c-base.org

Conversation about the plans for this year (e.g. the participation in @getdweb.net camp)

Please RSVP (we will not check the RSVP in this case - but it is a good opportunity to test/improve/establish/push @smokesignal.events)

Our next DWeb Virtual Meetup (Jan 2026) is next week, WED Jan 28 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 19 CET!

Our first meetup of 2026: two talks on recent product releases and an intro to a Berlin-based group helping us bring you DWeb Camp this summer.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-virtu...

DoD Stammtisch January 2026 The first DoD stammtisch in 2026

Tomorrow we will have our first stammtisch in 2026. It will happen on board of @c-base.org as usual. Please RSVP on @smokesignal.events

smokesignal.events/did:plc:cspd...

DWeb Camp 2019 group photo. Photo by Mitch Maher.

Person with megaphone outside of big igloo tent at night at DWeb Camp 2019. Photo by Mitch Maher.

Person dancing at DWeb Camp 2019. Photo by Mitch Maher.

People sitting around a bonfire at DWeb Camp 2019. Photo by Mitch Maher.

🏕️ DWeb Camp 2026 is happening in the Berlin area on Jul 8–12 ✨

Are you curious, excited, want to participate?

Fill out this survey!

We would love to shape the first-ever DWeb Camp in Europe together!
Detailed location and further info soon 👀

This Sunday on board of @c-base.org - ticketing powered by the @dod.ngo

🌠 We are coming to #39C3 🌈

We are eager to chat, connect, and hack, especially because the next DWeb Camp will be happening near Berlin on Jul 8-12 2026! 👀

Ping @tommi.space (DECT 9848) if you want to meet! 🌻

#DWeb #DWebCamp #CCC

Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>>

✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨

We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm.

Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU...

Berlin Swapfest @ c-base The Berlin Swapfest is a place for people to buy, sell, and swap electronics, computer equipment, and tools.

The Berlin Swapfest is coming back in the new year! Let's kick off 2026 and clean out our electronics that have been pilling up.

January 11th, 2026 at @c-base.org from 12:00 - 17:00.

Register to attend and/or reserve a table: www.swapfest.berlin

Stickers for @dod.ngo and decentral.community at #39c3 arrived 😊

Next week we will have our last DoD Stammitsch in 2025 on board of @c-base.org
Let's conspire on the plan for CDC / #39c3 end of this year and what is in the air for 2026.

Please RSVP on @smokesignal.events

All creatures welcome!

smokesignal.events/did:plc:cspd...

Next week we will have our first Stammtisch in the newly renovated MainHall of @c-base.org after some skipped months due to the @c-base.org maintenance and the 30year celebrations.

Please RSVP on @smokesignal.events

smokesignal.events/did:plc:cspd...

PSA:

No Stammtisch today as @c-base.org is in maintenance mode in preparation for the 30 year celebrations.
If you come on board there will be no relaxed conversations with drinks as usual - but you will be expected to work on maintaining the space station ;-)

github.com/department-o...

Bluesky, atproto, how to hack on it and why it matters In 2019 Twitter asked a team of crypto and p2p devs to design a protocol for the next generation of permissionless social media. The protocol escaped Twitter and now drives Bluesky, the fast-growing s...

Yes, the @protocol.berlin talk is here: watch.protocol.berlin/65a90bf47932...