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FediMTL Livestream
Here we go!
Since FediCon last year I try to do a livestream of the fedi events I go to. This is the start of the FediMTL livestream.
Let's see how well I can keep this up 😅
FediMTL streaming tickets still available! 50% off for fedi friends with code SWF50 😊
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For the latest updates about FediMTL, follow @info@social.fedimtl.ca
For all the chatter on all things FediMTL beyond what I post here in-thread, follow @fedimtl which automatically boosts anything with the #FediMTL hashtag!
Having some FOMO for FediMTL since it’s in my hometown.
But appreciate @julian live-tooting the event!
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@django@social.coop were you in Montreal? Next time we should plan a meet up!
@julian I wasn't (based in Edmonton now). Meet up would be great, hope I can time my next visit with one of Foulab's monthly fediverse nights !
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Met up with @matt@writing.exchange for a mini Longformers reunion ✍️
Lots of discussion about Writefreely, NodeBB, WordPress, Ghost, contexts, group federation, and much more.
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A balmy -13°C this morning in Montreal. 😅
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Doors open and the participants are starting to arrive.
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The venue, Le Ministère, is an intimate concert venue housed in a former bank.
Super cool! The closest thing we have to that at home is a former bank turned shawarma joint. Still neat, but not the same 😏
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@randydjohnston@qlub.social introducing and welcoming us to the first edition of FediMTL!
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr starting off with hard truths about how Canada sucks at regulating American tech
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This slide deck is absolutely bonkers, I love it.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr answering a question about Threads defederation, noting that it is "reactionary", and that the ones you hurt are the users, the "normie friends" you want to talk to.
The act of defederating from threads assumes that the people on Threads are the problem, not the fact that it's owned by Meta. (says Cory)
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Q: How can/should Canadian technologists sell escape hatches to other companies?
A: Cory reminding us about John Deere DRM'd tractors. John Deere bricked hundreds of tractors taken from the Ukraine by the Russians to Chechnya.
Cool from a cyberpunk POV but absolutely chilling when you realize that Trump tomorrow could order John Deere to trigger kill switches on every one of their tractors operating in Canada. (says Cory)
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Q: is it better to pick a fight with big tech, or is it better to build open alternatives?
Cory:
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Christine Lemmer-Webber is up next!
Going completely slide-less today!
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Reflecting on her article about How Decentralized Bluesky is, and asking introspectively whether ActivityPub can win big in the wake of ATProto's surging popularity.
Drawing parallels to Lisp vs UNIX.
"The fediverse has a lot of people who care about the ethics of the technology — we need to run with that."
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@cwebber@social.coop on Age Verification
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@cwebber@social.coop: Data centers represent a centralization of power. We should be doing the complete opposite, this is what we're working on at the Spritely Institute
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@box464@mastodon.social is doing another live stream in parallel here:
https://mastodon.social/@box464/116125983228506874
I won't be able to talk about my own talk in real time, so check out that stream too!
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Q: how should we grow the fediverse?
A: we should worry less about growth, and more about empowerment of the end user
@cwebber@social.coop "I am pro fediverse but I am more pro empowerment... The majority of people on the fediverse were somewhere else first. Then something bad happened."
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@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com on Canadian Civil and the fediverse!
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A breakdown into how content creation is funded.
(The secret funding source is Patreon btw)
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@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com discussing how Canadian Civil is using Ghost to build their own Patreon alternative.
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@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com making it clear that @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz has an opportunity here to take a chunk of Patreon.
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Back from lunch I regret to inform that I am not able to provide a good commentary on @catouma@qlub.social's presentation as I only barely passed Grade 9 French. 🥲
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Next up, @saskia@backend.newsmast.org talking about building community on the social web!
Fun fact, this was also the original title of my talk, but Saskia beat me to it!
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"[Gen Z] moving towards smaller, more meaningful societies"
Yes! Bring it on!
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@saskia@backend.newsmast.org about to lay on some hard truths about what normies think of the fediverse
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"What is the fediverse"?
Oh boy. The language we use matters.
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@saskia@backend.newsmast.org going through many of the apps they've built for projects, institutions, papers, etc.
They all share a common thread, none of them talk about the fediverse, ActivityPub, Mastodon, Bonfire, etc.
They all also have split DMs away from the public feed. Heh 😏
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After travel delays, @evan@cosocial.ca has made it to FediMTL!
Wait, this presentation isn't about the fête d'hiver?
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How corporate social media uses algorithmic feeds to make you stay on-platform
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Huh. Food for thought.
(The China flag later flips to an American flag)
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@evan@cosocial.ca asks for a show of hands of people who have quit a social network and later gone back.
More than a few hands go up.
"And this is in a room of people who are really good at quitting social networks... and making their own"
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Oh hey look!
Evan reporting 43k+ independent servers operating as of today.
These open source projects get those larger organizations on to the fediverse.
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Oh here's a hot take.
"To a large extent, media still thinks corporate social media matters, even if they were kicked off of X or Facebook" (paraphrased)
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@evan@cosocial.ca being asked what types of fediverse apps he's excited about, considering that there is a lot of "this is xyz but federated"
Shoutouts to @bonfire@bonfire.cafe @fedify@hollo.social @benpate@mastodon.social (Emissary!)
Forums and threadiverse apps got shoutouts ad well.
@julian isn't it a great spot?
