Convener: Anthony Zone (@ozoned@btfree.social)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Charles Iliya Krempeaux (@reiver@mastodon.social)
• Seth Goldstein (@phillycodehound@indieweb.social)
• @mayel@bonfire.cafe
• Ryan Barrett (https://snarfed.org)

Notes

• CHARLES: a friend of mine (and others) were working on this (a Fediverse Appliance) during the pre-Musk Twitter (censorship) era, as a way of people being able to “escape” Twitter

  • I.e., there seems to be both at least a use-case for this, and seems to be some demand for this

• Single board computer with Fediverse on it

• CHARLES: FediCon (Fediverse Conference) happening in August 2026 in Vancouver, Canada as part of FOSSY https://2026.fossy.ca/

• Appliance for the Fediverse

• Appliance is a generalized term

• Easier to sell and share a product than an idea

• Dirt cheap and accessible

• Anthony has been talking Ben Pate of Emmissary to work on this idea

• ANTHONY: fediverse node on a Raspberry Pi

• Own inhome social network that connects to everyone elses

• More complex than just plugging it in but general idea

• Digital Mailbox – Anthony

• Social challenges: discovery - Mayel

  • IP address accessible???? Domain????

• Tailscale « creates a mesh network to directly access the “mailbox” without giving out IP address.

  (1) How do we the devices (2) How do we get the software installed to be tinkered with

• see https://holos.social

• Just plug in and it works « Goal

• CHARLES: an ‘appliance’ is something that you plug in and it just works. you don’t have to tinker with it or configure it to get it to work.

• Discussion about Holos

• See how holos handles domain names: https://holos.social/custom-domains

• ANONYMOUS: Why have a FediApplication rather than a free account

  • CHARLES: Your free account could be deleted or suspended. If that happens you loose all your data, and loose your identity. With a Fediverse Application you control your identity and you data. No one can take it from you. You have control and safety.

  • MAYEL: offline-only

• MAYEL: temporary instance. For example, only available during a conference and then archive it. E.g. as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone

• MAYEL: offline + temporary: could be used at protest, etc