Convener: Laurens Hof (@fediversereport@mastodon.social)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Anca (@anca@mastodon.xyz)
• @Damonoutlaw.xyz
• Scott Jenson (@scottjenson@social.coop)
• Jaz-Michael King (IFTAS) (@jaz@mastodon.iftas.org)
• Kyle R. Conway (@K_REY_C@social.coop)
• Mark Reeves (@heymarkreeves@mstdn.social)
• Samir Al-Battran (@samir@m.fedica.com)
• Seth Goldstein (@phillycodehound@indieweb.social)
• David (@daj@gofer.social)
• Penar Musaraj (@pmusaraj@mstdn.ca)
• Saskia (@saskia@newsmast.social)
• Christopher Lozinski (@UncensoredNews@Mastodon.social)
• Denise Duncan
• Uriah Otchere
• Jamie (jt23@aoir.social / personal: crash_thepose@counterforce.social)
• Anthony Zone Ozoned (@ozoned@social.ozoned.net, @firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live)
• Freddie Johnson (@FreddieJ@newsmast.social)
• Mark Corbett Wilson (@mcorbettwilson@mastodon.social)
• Travis F Well (@travisfw@fosstodon.org)
• Jayne Samuel-Walker (@t)
• Eugenus Optimus (@ujeenator@ujeenator.net)

Notes

Website: https://www.fediversereport.com

travisfw: JE’s concept: Identity Page: like a website on a domain name, but … self sovereign? (is that term, “self sovereign” not generic any more and overloaded?)

PM: Does AT Protocol have some additional feature as an ID provider, beyond those of Google, etc

LH: Nothing new, it has not been explored yet

JMK: I want to express my incredible thanks for what you do. I find your holistic view fantastic. I do not know anyone who has a broad a view as you. Curious, if you have a thought over registrations of AT Protocol/Activity Pub. There is a big different.

LH: I think it had a lot to do with a fluke in time. In Fall 2024 people were more on Blueskey than on Mastodon. What you are seeing now is that Bsky’s culture has changed so many times in a year. BSky struggles with culture. Their user numbers have been declined for the last 3 or 4 months.

JMK: I think the problem is that Bluesky had a long closed beta service.

Anon: Support for Group Collaboration — can you speak about that

LH: People want this to happen, but it does not happen. I m not really sure why. I hope that Forums are the better direction for this. There is an argument for Groups and we do have funding. But it has not happened

Anon: do you see it sticking around? I still can’t make up my mind whether it will just collapse

LH: I see it sticking around short term. After a year I am not sure. They have just had a big cash injection ($700m) which is why I think they will be here for now.