Convener: Erin Kissane (@kissane@mas.to), Darius Kazemi

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Jaz-Michael King (@jaz@mastodon.iftas.org)
• @BjornW@mastodon.social)
• @nigini@social.coop)
• Saskia (@saskia@newsmast.social)
• Ruud (@ruud@mastodon.world)
• Jon (@jdp23@blahaj.zone and @thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange)
• Sean Tilley (@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org)
• Emelia Smith (@thisismissem@hachyderm.io)
• Tommi (@tommi@pan.rent)

Tags / links to resources / technology discussed, related to this session:

The report can be found here: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Short report of best practices: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/images/quick-start.pdf

Opportunities for funders and devs and institutions: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/images/opportunities.pdf

Notes

Digital Infrastructures Insights Fund (https://infrastructureinsights.fund/) funded this research.

The research focussed on 11 servers mostly medium to large servers from different backgrounds/cultures/locales. Servers using Hometown & Mastodon software.

A better way to pick a server to create an account is one of the findings one of the participants found interesting to dig further into.

W3C SWICG has an ActivityPub Trust & Safety task force that is forming partly inspired by the release of the paper: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/

For connecting and continuing conversations with Moderators on the fediverse, there’s IFTAS Connect: https://connect.iftas.org

Big agreement on “there is a need for a space to have conversations in the social (not technical) perspective of Fediverse matters.”

“An ActivityPub space bridged to Matrix would go a long way.”

PeerTube is trying a model where they go do some User Research (co-design) with their clients…

People are not necessarily clear about how to bootstrap this and make it feel legitimate.

I am guessing legitimacy amongst the larger public will come from who they heard things from… I believe people in the FediForum have a powerful extended network to kick start a “call for legitimate” a process+space.

ALSO, there is the “little” issue of funds… can we engage the public that is needing things to cheap in right away?