Convener: Tommi (@tommi@pan.rent)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Jon (@jdp23@neuromatch.social))
• @scottjenson@social.coop
• @mayel@bonfire.cafe
• @ivan@bonfire.cafe
• Samvie (@samvie@chaos.social)
• Davide (@mala@fosstodon.org)
• @sturmsucht@mastodon.social
• Scott M. Stolz (@scott@loves.tech, @scott@codejournal.dev)
• Babette Knauer (@babetteknauer@mastodon.social
• Melanie Bartos (@melaniebartos@chaos.social)

Notes

Introductory context: Moving the Fediverse forward is not only about the technology and its governance, but above all is about using decentralized and open protocols to pursue social and

• Interested in groups, not just content – connecting with the people
• There are drives in current social networks that lead us to atomize and have an individual perspectives
• Interacting with people rather than content
• federation is a political system (article https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_software_for_a_burning_world/ )
• At the Uni Library Groningen (NL) we studied how academics use mastodon. Rhere’s a great desire for guidance:
  • https://www.rug.nl/library/news-events/social-media/the-ub-on-mastodon-embracing-open-science-communication?lang=en