Pronounced: βVay-lidβ. An official CULT OF THE DEAD COW projekt. Social Media shouldnβt be monetized. Users are not a commodity. Privacy Matters.
Discord community is building at Veilid.com/discord
We are welcoming all contributors to help us build a series of privacy focused, mobile friendly apps without a profit motive!
Veilid is ready for you!
Instructions for apt/yum install are live on Veilid.com
The Python library is Veilid on Pypi
The Gitlab will be open within the hour.
Come check out Veilid and join the revolution at BsidesLV!
Veilid bringing the PLUR this year!
Privacy
Liberty
United
Revolution
Come get Veilid rave candy and hang out!
ALT The Veilid booth at BSidesLV, featuring DilDog & Medus4
To celebrate the release of 0.5, our friend Lodri has organized a neat fundraiser for Veilid foundation!
$25 gets you a holo cDc sticker, and an updated "cast" sticker for the book by @josephmenn, $50 gets you all of the above plus a sweet patch! Deets:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1Fβ¦
**Veilid Framework v0.5.0 is live in all the usual places!**
The changelog is too much for a Twitter post so here's the link: gitlab.com/veilid/veilid/-/bβ¦
New:
DHT Transactions support
Automatic default record encryption
API level improvements and bug fixes
(Thread with details)
**Veilid Framework v0.5.0 is live in all the usual places!**
The changelog is too much for a Twitter post so here's the link: gitlab.com/veilid/veilid/-/bβ¦
New:
DHT Transactions support
Automatic default record encryption
API level improvements and bug fixes
(Thread with details)
As routing tables in abandoned nodes begin to flush due to lack of successful connections, the network as a whole will being to solidify as a group of updated nodes who support all the features in the correct ways.
A new VeilidChat beta will follow shortly, taking advantage of the upgrades to the framework.
β Debian packages updated
β RPM packages updated
β Pypi updated
β Rust Crates updated
What's it made of?
It's about 80-100% of something we call HDP.
Human
Designed
Privacy.
And well, it's pretty much what it sounds like. A privacy focused app framework built for humans, by humans. No vibe coding, VCs or profit motives.
We still need some space, Carol.
ALT A screenshot from the show Pluribus, with John Cena holding up our mascot, an anthromorphized brick named Ellet, and smiling.
But... and hear me out... what if you didn't have to use AWS for infrastructure??
We've spent several years building our own infrastructure, and unlike Bezos, we aren't charging for it. We want you to use it, build on it, and flip off the data economy.
1.0 expected by August.
FLOSS Weekly Episode 849: Veilid: Be a Brick:
This week Jonathan talks with Brandon and TC about Veilid, the peer-to-peer networking framework that takes inspiration from Tor, and VeilidChat, the encrypted messenger built on top of it. What was the ins⦠ift.tt/DSct9LA
If you're feeling hopeless and helpless these days: do something. It can be small (make care packages and pass them out to homeless folks), to large (donate money to your local LGBTQ+ org, the EFF, or other orgs fighting the good fight)
What's helped me