Convener: Johannes Ernst

Participants (add yourself here if you want to be listed, no obligation): Name and Fediverse handle

• Shannon Clark (@rycaut@mastodon.social)
• Johannes Ernst (@j12t@social.coop)
• Day
• Fra | OpenForFuture.org

Questions:

• Why do people come to the fediverse?
• How can we attract more people?
• What does this network do for us today?
• What should we measure and improve?

Key points:

• how can the experience be improved if you aren’t active/caught up with your feed
• Lots of use cases, it’s a platform, hard to enumerate
• think not just about nodes and connections in the fediverse, but also flows: how does data flow through the network?
• a discoverable “payto:” link could be attached to any instance
• what about an extension that allows to attach a price point to a post (positive or negative – paid newsletters vs “ads”)

Outside references:

• https://framasoft.org/ - has no individual profiles but is ActivityPub
• this is the platform they made: https://joinmobilizon.org/
• Fra | OpenForFuture.org says:also they make Peertube
• this is a cool tool to visualise the fediverse: https://fediverse.space/