Reflecting on her article about How Decentralized Bluesky is, and asking introspectively whether ActivityPub can win big in the wake of ATProto's surging popularity.

Drawing parallels to Lisp vs UNIX.

"The fediverse has a lot of people who care about the ethics of the technology — we need to run with that."

@cwebber@social.coop on Age Verification

• Relies on you no longer owning the hardware you run, with backdoors written in

@cwebber@social.coop: Data centers represent a centralization of power. We should be doing the complete opposite, this is what we're working on at the Spritely Institute

Q: how should we grow the fediverse?

A: we should worry less about growth, and more about empowerment of the end user

@cwebber@social.coop "I am pro fediverse but I am more pro empowerment... The majority of people on the fediverse were somewhere else first. Then something bad happened."

@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com on Canadian Civil and the fediverse!

A breakdown into how content creation is funded.

(The secret funding source is Patreon btw)

@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com discussing how Canadian Civil is using Ghost to build their own Patreon alternative.

@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com making it clear that @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz has an opportunity here to take a chunk of Patreon.

Back from lunch I regret to inform that I am not able to provide a good commentary on @catouma@qlub.social's presentation as I only barely passed Grade 9 French. 🥲

Next up, @saskia@backend.newsmast.org talking about building community on the social web!

Fun fact, this was also the original title of my talk, but Saskia beat me to it!

"[Gen Z] moving towards smaller, more meaningful societies"

Yes! Bring it on!

@saskia@backend.newsmast.org about to lay on some hard truths about what normies think of the fediverse

"What is the fediverse"?

Oh boy. The language we use matters.

@saskia@backend.newsmast.org going through many of the apps they've built for projects, institutions, papers, etc.

They all share a common thread, none of them talk about the fediverse, ActivityPub, Mastodon, Bonfire, etc.

They all also have split DMs away from the public feed. Heh

After travel delays, @evan@cosocial.ca has made it to FediMTL!

Wait, this presentation isn't about the fête d'hiver?

How corporate social media uses algorithmic feeds to make you stay on-platform

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.