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Day 1 of FediCon
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Is there a video livestream?
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evan@cosocial.ca fielding some real hardballs in this question session!
Topics have touched on protocol wars, blockchain, and authoritarian regimes 😬
quillmatiq@mastodon.social talking about "The Last Network Effect", anew.social, bridgyfed, and more.
We can debate endlessly about which protocol is GOAT, or how to define decentralization...
Next up is j12t@j12t.social — "From Millions to Billions: A plausible narrative for growing the Open Social Web"
j12t@j12t.social "now I realize I am standing between you and Lunch"
Poor Johannes, at FOSDEM he was standing between us and dinner, too.
chris@socialbc.ca discussing his petition to the Government of Canada to adopt a free and open social media network for communication to all Canadians.
chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca talking about starting up SocialBC is inspiring!
Makes me wonder if something like this could happen in Ontario... esp. rural communities.
The number of interesting apps and services running off BlueSky is staggering.
Just. What.
I think they're having more fun over there in ATProto land than us AP folk.
Mm, where are we today?
Man, the past 5 years 😭
Dan building up onboarding tools to directly counter instance paralysis. YES!
Dan proposing some big ideas to solve AP problems with tech. Nice.
"The Fediverse is a refuge because there are assholes in the world"
High level overview of what we need to do to cross the chasm to reach the early adopters.
A quick shout-out to reiver@mastodon.social who is literally still doing conference org work during the conference.
"The cells in the body are less important than the body itself."
Am loving how benpate@mastodon.social is focusing on getting creators onto the fediverse. Important work to cross that chasm!
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dawn@cosocial.ca presenting an interesting history of how coop@cosocial.ca came to be.
I love how both we have representation from both CoSocial.ca and SocialBC!
dawn@cosocial.ca makes the point that it's important that cosocial members buy at least the share into the coop so as to have a stake in the coop itself.
It's more of a commitment than just filling in a form.
johannab@cosocial.ca on Digital Third Spaces!
Back in the day forums were that digital third space. Social media took that over and they've dropped the ball.
Let's bring them back (with more forums obviously)
Someone's got Mastodon open on their device with sound on and it keeps dinging, and I'm having a Pavlovian urge to check my phone.
I don't even use the Mastodon web app wth
Analog or digital, humans are the glue that holds together third spaces.
@julian
TLDR; but if it's akin to a viable microparyment service, then let's use it to pay rights holders for their IP. It could be commission-free small amounts that are still greater than the royalties proprietary incumbents pay and could attract a critical mass through a/ better pay & b/ ethical tech.
@reiver
@julian I hadn’t noticed the sound at all until I read this post, now I can’t stop hearing the ding too hahaha
I forget who caught me in the after party chaos and so wisely noted that Social Media != Social Network and among my FediUrbanism 2.0 revisions needs to be the idea that an online Social Network can possibly come closest to a true Third Space, but Social Media contains too many antithetical attributes.