Fediverse: Decentralized Social Networking and Services
Presented by:
lufthans
der.hans is a Free Software, technology and entrepreneurial veteran.
Hans is chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG); BoF organizer, jobs board maintainer, and jobs night organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE); and founder of the Free Software Stammtisch along with the Stammtisch Job Nights.
Currently leads a database support engineering team at Object Rocket, most likely anything Hans says publicly was not approved by $dayjob.
The Fediverse is a collection of decentralized, digital, and social spaces. Decentralization supports options for small groups with local community moderation while allowing worldwide interaction.
Standards like the W3C recommended ActivityPub allows disparate services to interact.
Free Software projects such as Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube, Nextcloud and Friendica are helping us decentralize the web.
Other FLOSS projects helping build the Fediverse include Matrix, Funkwhale, Pleroma, Plume, WordPress, Write Freely, Friendica, disaspora, Hubzilla, Funkwhale, Owncast and Mobilzon.
Most offer hosted instances. All enable us to self-host.
Attendees will learn about:
- advantages of decentralized social networking
- history of the Fediverse and decentralized social networking
- pros and cons of self-hosting
- data ownership
- list of some services in the Fediverse
- how to join and participate in decentralizing the web
- Date:
- 2022 April 23 - 15:00
- Duration:
- 45 min
- Room:
- Privacy/Security
- Conference:
- LinuxFest Northwest 22
- Language:
- Track:
- Privacy/Security
- Difficulty:
- 100-level
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