The Fediverse
Destination
Who am I?
Moderator at playvicious.social
Volunteer at Alameda Food Bank
Member of the IndieWeb
Native New Yorker living in the town
The "Beginning"
$NAME_OF_PLATFORM
Communal
- Networked communities
- Organized by overall "city"
- Centralized but diverse
Independent
- Site builder (Wix, Weebly/Square)
- WYSIWYG
- Had to leave to explore other "homes"
Then
Open Self-Run Communities
Echo Chambers, Fake News, People-As-Profit
Where Did it Go?
- Communities died due to site deaths.
- Friendships and data lost due to corporate funding with no legit exit strategy.
- Treated like cattle on a very "nice" factory farm.
Rest in Archives (RIA)
MOOD
mosiac07
In Case Video Ain't Play
Fediverse
Federation
A set of users (community) that defines how they'll be governed!
Universe
A collection of communities or planets or galaxies or some other massive entity.
Fediverse Report of 2018
- Nearly doubled in size
- Users
- Instances
- Posts
- More kinds of services
- Video
- Audio
- Photography
- Blogging
Mastodon
Pleroma
PeerTube
Funkwhale
IndieWeb
We Build What We Need
Platforms are designed to share and provide information when it's relevant. It's not driven by KPIs, MRR or any kind of metric tailored on making people into product cogs.
It's about people. For people.
- Too many cooks!
- Sensory overload
- Mobile = rough
- One way posts
Painpoints
How do you get in?
- Find an instance.
- Introduce yourself with hashtags.
- Follow and interact with others!
- Opt for federation over silos.
- Spread the word.
What's the Point?
(Re)claiming Digital Sovereignty
Your data.
Your experiences.
Your life.
Your say.