A Bigger, better

Evan Prodromou, Berlin Fediday, 14 Sep 2024

FEDIVERSE

Montreal

The birthplace of the Fediverse

Where the Fediverse's heart beats

Where the Fediverse's heart beats

Berlin

This talk

  • WordPress.com

  • Ghost.org

  • Flipboard

  • Threads.net

More implementers

More Bridges

  • Nostr
  • BlueSky
Platform Accounts
Mastodon ~10M
Threads ~10M (with fediverse, est'd)
Flipboard 145M (?!?)

More ACCOUNtS

more applications

FORUMS

Threaded messaging like Discourse, Lemmy, kbin

Audio

TrueFans, PodcastIndex join others

Long-form text

Ghost.org, WordPress, and WriteFreely

  • 1400 Flipboard magazines
  • social.bbc

more CONTENT

  • @potus
  • @barackobama
  • @mkbhd

more CREATORS

  • SocialCG

  • Fediforum

  • IFTAS

  • Mastodon 501(c)3

Institutions

Publications

  • WeDistribute
  • Fediverse Files
  • Dot Social

o'Reilly Book

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

Yes.

IFTAS

  • Fedicheck
  • Content Scan
  • Moderator Community
  • Issue Triage

  • Regular meetings

  • Forums

  • ActivityPub + WebFinger

  • ActivityPub + HTTP Signature

  • ActivityPub Discovery

SocialCG

data portability

  • Move content, social graph
  • "LOLA"
  • SocialCG task force
  • 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

REPLY CONTROL

  • Replies collection
  • Curated by poster
  • Notifications to recipients
  • 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

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@evan@cosocial.ca

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CFO

George

Meet the Team

CEO

Elaine

Advisor

Susan

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

– Conrad Anker

SOLO

Price $149 /mo

One project

Two designs

7-day turnaround

Premium support

PRO

Price $299 /mo

NEW

Up to three projects

Three designs/project

7-day turnaround

Premium support

PREMIUM

Price $599 /mo

Up to five projects

Five designs/project

3-day turnaround

24/7 support

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. 

1

Discovery of requirements for a project.

2

Research into the project space, competitors and the market.

3

Creating a Plan that sets the requirements for the design and build phases.

5

Review and Iterate on the designs with testing of ideas, client feedback and prototypes.

4

Design a number of iterations that capture the plans and requirements.

6

Build the project to an MVP to test and evaluate. Iterate using these learnings.

A Bigger, Better Fediverse

By Evan Prodromou

A Bigger, Better Fediverse

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