@firesidefedi
@ozoned

—It was an abfab pleasure and a tremendous honour to be on your show! Wow!
Keep the fire burning!!!

#jugglingthefediverse #owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF
#fedivariety #socialweb #socialtrack #fediforum #mastodon #noaw #opensocialweb #publicspaces #activitypub #research #activism #ccc #fedi

@firesidefedi
@ozoned

—It was an abfab pleasure and a tremendous honour to be on your show! Wow!
Keep the fire burning!!!

#jugglingthefediverse #owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF
#fedivariety #socialweb #socialtrack #fediforum #mastodon #noaw #opensocialweb #publicspaces #activitypub #research #activism #ccc #fedi

@ozoned

Woohoo! Warm up the fire!
We're gonna be LIVE! Today!

1200 UTC-5 - 1800 Brussels time
Grab a drink… Find some snacks..

Fireside Fedi - FediVariety — We’re juggling the fediverse!

#owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF
#fedivariety #jugglingthefediverse #socialweb #socialtrack #fediforum #mastodon #noaw #opensocialweb #publicspaces #activitypub #research #activism #ccc #fedi

https://stream.firesidefedi.live

@ozoned

Woohoo! Warm up the fire!
We're gonna be LIVE! Today!

1200 UTC-5 - 1800 Brussels time
Grab a drink… Find some snacks..

Fireside Fedi - FediVariety — We’re juggling the fediverse!

#owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF
#fedivariety #jugglingthefediverse #socialweb #socialtrack #fediforum #mastodon #noaw #opensocialweb #publicspaces #activitypub #research #activism #ccc #fedi

https://stream.firesidefedi.live

Been working on this all day. Hosted on @fedihost (Canadian, no US dependencies), ready for anyone who wants a local community on the fediverse.

I'm going to be transferring my account there another day, for now I need sleep.

If you're in Ontario or connected to it, come say hi. And if you're running a Canadian instance, let's connect.

https://socialontario.ca

#Ontario #Canada #Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb

U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna is all in on open social, saying in a Creator Bill of Rights resolution he introduced in Congress on Jan. 15:

"Grant creators the ability to maintain decentralized, opt-in, direct relationships with audiences who choose to engage with their work, which enables creators to move between platforms without losing their audiences."

https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/release-rep-ro-khanna-introduces-resolution-protect-creators-modern-platform

#OpenSocial #PeopleNotPlatforms #OpenSocialWeb #SocialMedia #CreatorEconomy #Creators

Hey! Wanna get a sneak peek at our research project ‘Fediverse Integration into (EU) Public Administration’…?? — Expect ‘A Fantastic FediVariety Circus’ !!!

@FOSDEM Sat 31/01 - Start 15:40 - End 16:00 - Room H.2215 (Ferrer)

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PGB9VZ-a-fantastic-fedivariety-circus/

#jugglingthefediverse #sneakpeek #fosdem26 #socialweb #socialtrack #socialwebtrack #fediforum #fediverse #mastodon #noaw #fediverse #opensocialweb #publicspaces #activitypub #research #activism #ccc #fedi

And FULL peek on our research at

NOAW unconference — CfP!
Submit a topic! Get aboard!

"Nodes on a Web: The Fediverse in/for Public Institutions”
Thu/Fri 19/20 March 2026, Amsterdam!

https://www.fedivariety.org/unconference

#jugglingthefediverse #noaw #fediverse #event #unconference #fedi #fediforum #socialweb #opensocialweb #fossevent #OpenSocialWebSociety #publicspaces #activitypub #publicInstitutions #cfp #callforparticipation #research #activism #ccc #amsterdam

The liberal group in the European Parliament #Renew has an #Instagram campaign for leaving #BigTech platforms. That's cool.

What do you think @bartgroothuis, is that an opportunity to bring some of your colleagues over to the Fediverse?

Feel free to invite them to join our Mastodon server http://eupolicy.social - it is made specifically for the EU bubble.

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSocialWeb #LeaveX

The liberal group in the European Parliament #Renew has an #Instagram campaign for leaving #BigTech platforms. That's cool.

What do you think @bartgroothuis, is that an opportunity to bring some of your colleagues over to the Fediverse?

Feel free to invite them to join our Mastodon server http://eupolicy.social - it is made specifically for the EU bubble.

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSocialWeb #LeaveX

Hey @fediforum when I clicked on the link you just sent me in the email you just sent about your un-workshop on "Growing the Open Social Web" my email client warned me that it was a tracking link.

As I said last year,

"The "Open Social Web" is a term surveillance capitalism companies and their friends have been using since at least 2008 either as a synonym for "the Fediverse" or "the fediverses". FediForum used to be about "the Fediverse", and I'm not quite sure when they changed their focus."

Thanks for providing such a great example of the surveillance capitalism-friendly nature of so many supporters of the "Open Social Web"!

By contrast, a long-standing #fediverse value is the critique of openness. I don't know how many of you were here in 2020, but that's when the outstanding Seven Theses On The Fediverse And The Becoming Of Floss was published, and it's got an excellent section on that. Please read it!

@general

#fediverse #openSocialWeb #FediForum

Perhaps we need to accept that the phrase "social media" is widely understood to refer to abusive corporate platforms, and what we're proposing as a replacement is a "social web" Specifically an "open social web". So the fediverse and other such open networks are not "decentralised social media", but rather decentralised *replacements* for social media.

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#SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb

Perhaps we need to accept that the phrase "social media" is widely understood to refer to abusive corporate platforms, and what we're proposing as a replacement is a "social web" Specifically an "open social web". So the fediverse and other such open networks are not "decentralised social media", but rather decentralised *replacements* for social media.

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#SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb