#Fediverse at Dweb Camp FediDB tracks 29,000 instances. We mention a few below - mastodon fork hometown - local only posting, seen only by members of same instance - in jokes, private conversations - building culture - Darius Kazimi (sp?) is the creator, leader worth following in thinking and why he changed mastodon - FediForum.org, online unconference "for the people who move the Fediverse forward" coming up again Sep 12-14, 2024. Had demos from: - e.g. Matt from Right AS (sp?) - e.g. Manton from Microblog - demos in morning - last time 150 people - threads accounts with fediverse activated - want more demos ## Attendees session attendees who are comfortable with listing their name/handle here: - Johannes Ernst [@j12t@j12t.social](https://j12t.social/@j12t) - Cole: [@makeworld@merveilles.town] - Keith: [@syncop8@techhub.social] - nigini: [@nigini@social.coop] + [@read@blog.nigini.me] - Erik: [@eloquence@social.coop](https://social.coop/@eloquence) Progressive web app phanpy.social sigmoid.social - app as website that can be downloaded as local, keep link on home screen - highly capable and flexible - pwa limited support on iOS - can switch between local instances - eg art community - fetches local timeline from other servers - can interact as if was your server - can follow and drop into home feed, but cool to be able to browseo others - small web feel from 90's like geocities - don't need to have an account there - nice threading and other features - catchup / top posts -- feed w/o hidden algorithm - different ways of seeing posts - by originals, boosted, user, period (last hour) - and combine -- boosted by a single user - highlights followed hashtag differently - local timeline: - if you chose values-based server like mervaise then local is especially meaningful - local group boost from local to wider fediverse - lemmy: - OSS decentralized reddit - track what mainstream press says about fediverse - notifications from an instance, e.g. lemmy.world, can appear into your main mastadon timeline - via activityPub protocol (like hometown and publicity) - not really OSS twitter - more noun-verb: like a post, follow an account ... - timeline of things that happen that gets published - so can have new verbs and new nouns: create event - so activityPub is a social integration protocol for any website/service where users are doing stuff - but also need good graceful degradation for when someone creates new verbs/nouns and others don't know what they are - peertube (fediverse youtube) - autonomic.zone - video streaming is expensive, so bittorrent for popular videos - e.g. video.blender.org (OSS 3d / video production) - don't rely on youtube/google - pixelfed.social (federated instagram) - but currently dependent on one prolific dev Ethics view: - why reinvent social media since it's bad - doom-scrolling, bad quality discussion - just avoid algorithms optimized for corp growth, not user benefit - at your local server you can block a server or a user, so can better manage your what impacts your community - what server size ? - mastodon.social is too huge too centralized ? - server covenant - if you don't block the bad actors then at-risk people who join your server will get harassed - culturally sensitive: tell black friends don't join mastdon but instead join social.coop (has fee but more protection) - same for who to recommend the furries to - don't want everybody to be reachable by anybody - spam controls like cost to post with reach - Governance: - but is fediverse bad at agreeing on things ? -counter-examples: - server covernant (ground) - garden fence (block list you can import into your server) - opposite of covenant - who to block - High quality tech content: - Infosec.exchange ## wanna have Topic: how to organize your timeline - library of algorithms - bluesky focuses more on algorithmic choice - Phanpy.social (catch-up feature) ## Discovering accounts - [List of accounts that have left Twitter/X and where they've gone](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p5crRGK0Y9MuFsfkyOBEC--3wXxFTd71fPCUcIFPXK0/edit?gid=0#gid=0) - [Journalists on Mastodon (with activity data)](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uWj0j_AL6YQMK87U7_CFpvudK-Aygtx7Bea3fbjxgyo/edit#gid=876665327) - [Media organizations on Mastodon (with activity data)](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ixsccIFQ4uD2HFlf92Ag7VS3rNOGwa97wFsSb3JxCwo/edit?gid=876665327#gid=876665327) - [Europe/Germany/Austra/Switzerland government accounts (with activity data)](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17__HLo0Bobcx4IgvEm4_LTdYD3JxQCJjotWDNjIHNdw/edit?gid=1251927096#gid=1251927096)