Turns out, you don't need to scan people's eyeballs or collect their IDs to do #BasicIncome.

Here's how we solved the Sybil Attack in Group Income while protecting our user's privacy.

https://groupincome.org/2025/06/no-eyeballs-needed/

Announcing Group Income 2.0!

Private community software with an end-to-end encrypted financial safety net

🎦 Short Film: A Group Income Future

👇 See post below for full details.

In order to support beneficial decentralization tech, we need people to hear about it in the first place.

To that end, we will be experimenting with X Premium to promote recent advancements in our work to a wider audience.

We'll start sharing these announcements very soon.

Happy #WorldTurtleDay to all ok 🐢s working on decentralization tech (and otherwise)!

Want to help beta test the next major release of Group Income?

Follow us and send us a message, and we'll DM you info. Or join our Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/okturtles/shared_invite/zt-10jmpfgxj-tXQ1MKW7t8qqdyY6fB7uyQ

🧑‍💻 Job: UI Designer – Shape the Future of Knowledge

The world is complicated, and Wikipedia is not up to task of handling that complexity.

✨ Join us to build the future of knowledge
✨ There's more to every topic than meets the eye

UI web designer extraordinaire? Is that you?

If so, apply below:

👉 https://okturtles.org/hiring/designer/

#Hiring #UIJobs #UI #UX #DesignerJobs #Designer

okTurtles Foundation is making the web both safer and more decentralized.

Support our mission to bring end-to-end encryption and decentralization to all web apps and become one of our sponsors:

https://okturtles.org/donate

Announcing Group Income 1.2:

Introduces end-to-end encrypted 🔒 web push notifications.

You can install Group Income now as a mobile web app (a so-called "PWA") to receive mobile web push notifications of group activity!

Learn more 👇

https://groupincome.org/2025/02/group-income-released/

. @okturtles will never do this.

And unlike Apple, our end-to-end encryption is both open source and open protocol.

We've been quietly working on making all Internet software more private, decentralized, & secure.

Help us in bring decentralized, end-to-end encrypted software to all, make a year-end tax-deductible donation:

https://okturtles.org/donate

Group Income v1.1.0 released!

• New Image Viewer: zoom in and out of photos with ease!
• Send direct messages to yourself!

& more!

As always, everything is private. Everything is end-to-end encrypted. And everything is open source!

https://groupincome.org

📚 Tutorial: Convert #WordPress Site to #Astro

https://blog.okturtles.org/2024/10/convert-wordpress-to-static-site/

Creating your own end-to-end encrypted private community is easy with Group Income

✅ Chat
✅ File sharing
✅ Voting
✅ Mutual aid

And more!

https://groupincome.org

Check out our new website: https://groupincome.org

#BasicIncome doesn't have to come at the cost of #privacy or #security!

Group Income is:

• Free as in beer
• Free as in open source
• End-to-end encrypted
• Completely private
• And #decentralized

#Gmail isn't delivering our newsletter to some gmail.com users. They aren't going to spam, but seemingly being black holed.

We recommend alternatives:

https://www.startmail.com/
https://tuta.com/
https://www.fastmail.com/
https://proton.me/mail

9 years in the making, Group Income 1.0 is here!

Today marks the dawn of a new era of software.

Watch the special announcement:

https://youtu.be/FoJ5WE2E5ac

#VBI #basicincome #e2e #security #privacy

See you this Sunday at the @internetarchive for the Group Income release party! 🥳

RSVP here: https://lu.ma/7t98lx7n

A New Kind of Software Architecture (2017)

Join us 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 21𝘀𝘁, 2024 at the @internetarchive for the 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵, 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱-𝘁𝗼-𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

RSVP here: https://lu.ma/7t98lx7n