Huh. Food for thought.

(The China flag later flips to an American flag)

@evan@cosocial.ca asks for a show of hands of people who have quit a social network and later gone back.

More than a few hands go up.

"And this is in a room of people who are really good at quitting social networks... and making their own"

@julian thanks for the coverage!!!

Oh hey look!

Evan reporting 43k+ independent servers operating as of today.

These open source projects get those larger organizations on to the fediverse.

Oh here's a hot take.

"To a large extent, media still thinks corporate social media matters, even if they were kicked off of X or Facebook" (paraphrased)

@evan@cosocial.ca being asked what types of fediverse apps he's excited about, considering that there is a lot of "this is xyz but federated"

Shoutouts to @bonfire@bonfire.cafe @fedify@hollo.social @benpate@mastodon.social (Emissary!)

Forums and threadiverse apps got shoutouts ad well.

It really speaks to the audience a bit that every time I attend a fediverse focused conference the phrase "seize the means of production" always gets said at some point (not usually in presentation, mind you)

Here now we have @meadmin@qlub.social talking about Qlub on its 1st anniversary!

@julian @evan @Bonfire @fedify

Hey @benpate, this is all the proof you need that Emissary needs an account of its own!

@liaizon

Everything on the table:

I should do this, but have been waiting because I *really* want to self-host the main #Emissary and #Bandwagon accounts on my own software.

Right now, Emissary is a great PUBLISHER and READER, but it does a poor job with DMs. So I couldn’t really use Emissary to support questions like this one.

It’s been on my roadmap for a while, and it’s why I’m excited to build #e2ee DMs, too.

But I do plan to launch these as soon as I have a good solution for DMs.