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What Does a Federated Future Look Like?

/2025-10/session/1-a/

Convener: ozoned (@ozoned@social.ozoned.net)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

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)