A Bigger, better

Evan Prodromou, Berlin Fediday, 14 Sep 2024

FEDIVERSE

Berlin

This talk

• WordPress.com

• Ghost.org

• Flipboard

• Threads.net

More implementers

More ACCOUNtS

more applications

• SocialCG

• Fediforum

• IFTAS

• Mastodon 501(c)3

Institutions

• ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web

• Sep 20, 2024 (e-book)
• https://evanp.me/activitypub-book/

o'Reilly Book

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Sure, it's bigger...
But is it better?

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Yes.

IFTAS

• Fedicheck
• Content Scan
• Moderator Community

• Issue Triage

• Regular meetings

• Forums

• ActivityPub + WebFinger

• ActivityPub + HTTP Signature

• ActivityPub Discovery

SocialCG

• Safe, secure chat over ActivityPub
• Number one feature for bringing in friends and family
• SocialCG task force

• Summer of Protocols project

• SocialCG report and reference implementation

End-to-End Encryption

• Opt-in networking
• Minimize damage from problematic new services

• Minimize concerns about new implementations

allowlist networking

Participation in the open social web is a human right.

Every person has a right to participate in the Fediverse.
 

Every new Fediverse user is an addition to our culture and a new node in our social graph.
 

But growth requires a quality experience. If the experience is bad, existing users will leave. If the experience is bad, new users won't join.

Why It matters

• not queer enough
• not anti-capitalist enough
• not FLOSS enough
• not hackerly enough
• not cool enough

they won't be like us

• friends
• family
• colleagues
• neighbours

they will be our people

...don't follow them. Block them, defederate them,

You have and deserve 100% absolute control of your Fediverse experience.

and if you don't care...

going further

• New SocialCG task force for user safety

• New non-profit foundation(s)
• More civil society
• More enterprises
• More universities

We are taking back control of the social network.

Once we have it, what do we want to do with it?

What kind of world do we want to make?

And what kind of people do we want to become?

federation is the starting point

@evan@cosocial.ca

On your social network

Meet the Team

CEO

Elaine

Advisor

Susan

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The Summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.

– Conrad Anker

Services & Pricing

ACME Design Inc started a two-person operation in 2011. In their hometown of Los Angeles, California, the founders came together with a vision to design and build beautiful, simple web and mobile products.

In ten years, the team has grown to over one hundred members with offices in four countries. In that time the goal has always remained the same: to design impactful solutions to complex problems.

Our History

PHILOSOPHY

Once all is removed that can be removed, that is how designs are truly in their simplest form.

We believe great things are created when teams of diverse individuals come together and organize around a centralized goal. We operate without ego or blame and we have defined processes that ensure the best option is the one chosen.

While this process is lengthy at times, the best outcomes are derived from our approach to creation.