The internet was once a healthy, resilient, and self-healing place..
But then things began to change...
power has moved from the many to the few...
These corporate megasites are fragile,
sometimes going out entirely...
Censorship has become rampant...
And the last year has shown surveillance to be creeping into the systems of the web.
Centralization has infected the net at the cost of our privacy and safety
while eroding user freedom.
Is there any hope for the internet we knew and loved?
But wait... something new has arrived...
Something to put power back in the hands of the people...
MediaGoblin!
MediaGoblin is a media publishing system for the web
it's decentralized and social
With MediaGoblin, you don't need to split your media across a billion separate commercial sites.
Whether you want to share images,
or video,
or audio,
or presentations,
or even 3D models...
MediaGoblin can host it all.
MediaGoblin is written in python by a community of over 75 contributors.
MediaGoblin is a GNU project which means we're all about bringing freedom back to you, the user.
MediaGoblin's key feature is Federation
With federation, we can provide user freedom and IMPROVE
the social experience of modern media publishing sites
by making the network more resilient.
When you favorite a photo,
post a comment to a video,
or share your latest drawing,
you want people to be able to see those updates.
But how do you share with people on a totally different MediaGoblin site?
With federation, people can be on entirely different MediaGoblin sites
and share as if they were in the same place!
We've been working towards this using a protocol
called the Pump API, as implemented by Pump.io.
As part of this, we've been collaborating on building a library called PyPump,
which will make it easy for python web applications of all kinds to federate.
We've got an accomplished crew of contributors that work hard and make things happen.
We've accomplished a lot, getting out 5 major releases in the last year alone.
This includes new features like
A plugin system, 3D model support, document and PDF upload support,
User-curated collections and galleries
Authentication plugins, including Mozilla Persona support
OpenID support, LDAP support,
Comment preview, Side administration and moderation tooling,
And many more...
We want to make federation happen, wrap up 1.0
add privacy features,
and bring MediaGoblin to the people
We can't do it without you.
That's why we're asking for your support
to bring the benefits of MediaGoblin to everyone.
Become a part of internet history.
Join our goblin force today,
and help us bring about a media revolution!