What Does a Federated Future Look Like?
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Convener: ozoned (@ozoned@social.ozoned.net)
Participants who chose to record their names here:
- Julian Lam (@julian@activitypub.space)
- Seth Goldstein (@phillycodehound@indieweb.social)
- Charles Iliya Krempeaux (@reiver@mastodon.social)
- Matt Graham (@mattg@recurse.social)
- Cagan Mert Islek (@islekcaganmert.me@bsky.brid.gy)
- Anca (@anca@allpeep.social, @anca@mastodon.xyz)
- Aaron Gray (@AaronNGray@fosstodon.org)
- Mark Corbett Wilson (@mcorbettwilson@mastodon.social)
- William Maggos (@wjmaggos@liberal.city)
- Jayne Samuel-Walker (@tcmuffin@toot.wales)
- Damon (@damon@social.wedistribute.org)
- Hannah Aubry, (@haubles@hachyderm.io)
- Scott Jenson (@scottjenson@social.coop)
Notes
- Ozoned Is Not A Developer!
- What does a federated future look like 50 - 100 yrs
- Think Star Trek
- Having a Digital You that you can take wherever you want
- “Digital You” and it’s all you always
- Passwords are a thing of the past???
- Private data – federated, take it with us and movable
- federated future: https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-confederation-as-the-commune-of-communes/
- Federated Identity everywhere
- TBL & Solid project
- Vision of the future <– Having more control over ourselves
- How does something go viral on federated social?
- Communities are fluid « Ozoned
- Matrix chat
- Community is a general idea and can fluctuate
- Human community
- Communities are the Vend diagrams because the overlap
- Displace this power without Elon being in the middle of the mix
- Federate and move » What would that look like?
- Essential future « local fedi servers « communities « something that
- NextDoor like fedi instance
- Social News server?
- Local communities with notices
- Mention of Firefish now Sharkey
- All devices being on the Fediverse
- Layers of federation in addition to nodes using filters
- https://revolution.social/
- Circles - it’s difficult to get people to curate so that has to be up front and center
- Personalized client based algo is ok else who would control a centralized algorithm
- FediAlgo: https://activitypub.space/topic/f5e02f9f-cf21-484d-84ce-23d353efdb74/%CF%89-%CF%89-fedialgo-v1.2.2-is-deployed-now.
- How Mastodon didn’t respond well to a Black led safety project: https://privacy.thenexus.today/the-bad-space/
- There is a lot of frustration with Mastodon, and example was Rudy on BlackSky blocking bridgy
- Discussion about “level 1” harassers which aren’t malicious but more “reply guy” style. There isn’t much technical that can be done to solve this, this is a cultural issue (and usually mostly white men)