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MOBILIZE WITHOUT MONOPOLIES: Federated Event Organizing Beyond Big Tech — Mobilizon — E97
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Update: inspired by @thisislieven I tweaked the design and used an actual "O" behind the Fediverse symbol... So that people wouldn't confuse the word with "HAPE" or "HYPE".
I've ordered a tee in blue and another in red. I hope they turn out ok! 😅
@_elena@mastodon.social @thisislieven@c.im I love this. Is there a way to make it stand out more on the white? What if the O shifted colors of the points touching it?
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CORRECTION!
Sunday Aug 30th at 20:00 EASTERN.
I THINK this is Monday Aug 31st 00:00 UTC.
Time zones always screw me up! 😁
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New episode of Works On My Machine LIVE!
We put developers and their docs through the test to see how idiot proof it is. Installing their application live on stream for everyone to watch, ask questions, get to know the project and the developer. JOIN US!
01/09/2026 00:00 UTC
This episode:
PieFed
A Lemmy/Mbin alternative written in Python with Flask.
Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to. No fancy design patterns or algorithms.
Easy setup, easy to manage - few dependencies and extra software required.
AGPL.
First class moderation tools.
Project goals
To build a federated discussion and link aggregation platform, similar to Reddit, Lemmy, Mbin interoperable with as much of the fediverse as possible.
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@veronica
Maybe @ozoned can help here. He manages @firesidefedi.
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I just use Peertube as it has rss built in.
But @evoterra@podvibes.co and @phillycodehound@indieweb.social are the ones I'd suggest.
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
Special Guest: @mobilizon@framapiaf.org
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It will happen on 26/08/26 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
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Dear #fediverse friends, I HAVE SUCH AN EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!!
🥳🥳 Per Oct 1st, I'll be starting as Head of GovTech at the best #opensource company: @openproject 🥳🥳
And best of all, it's a 100% remote role, SO I'LL FINALLY GET TO MOVE ABROAD 😭🌞
It's bittersweet leaving @BZKopensource . I've had a great time there with @bo , @PeterGiskes , @marlenabcn , @johan , @manfredzielinski , @tomootes and many others. Fortunately we'll still see each other at conferences ❤️
Blog: https://ginaplat.com/en/posts/20260810-goodbye-ospo-hello-openproject/
@Gina@fosstodon.org congratulations!
Just found out about #fediverse #radio radio.eldritch.cafe/ .
And a new #app from @apps@toot.fedilab.app , the #Fedilab creator, #fediHood fedihood.social/home
@johannab@cosocial.ca what are we supposed to update them to? Is this a thing? Idk how to social network!
Learned a lot of great things at #FOSSY
First and foremost, us #fediverse folks NEED to have a Fediverse primer for a session. Fossy is more focused on general FOSS and a LOT of folks there didn't know what the Fediverse was or how to use it. Hoping to start work on a "The Fediverse Is..." presentation that I can hopefully give next year.
The amazing @benpate@mastodon.social suggested us having a Fedi related booth. We can help folks onboard with QR codes, answer questions, have starter packs, etc.
And thank you to @karen@floss.social for excellent advice on presenting and speaking.
It was an incredible time and I recommend everyone go next year and donate to sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
Not certain if I can go next year yet, but I'll remain hopeful.
Finally home and updated my #bonfire ehich appears to be happy again, so I can see messages and things.
I had such an amazing time at #FOSSY and I'm excited for the future of #fediverse .
Loius Rossman is doing a "Own Your Sh*t" tour and he's coming to Raleigh and Steve from Gamers Nexus will be there. I already got a free ticket. It'd be awesome to have an open social web group to push for "Own Your Socials" as well.
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I can't find any of the folks in the Fediverse, so if anyone finds them, please @ them. If we can't find them we should reach out and ask for them to join.
Also if folks are attempting to reach me here or on my firesidefedi@btfree.social , I'm not able to really check due to some server issue and lack of data connectivity. Feel free to reach me on embark, matrix or signal are best.
I'm doing some videos of the Vancouver trip in tubefree.org. I'm so my best to get pictures and video of everyone as well. If folks are interested.
Also Tracy, the head of FOSSY, said the presentations will be recorded and some will be live streamed. I'll get the link when I can, again if anyone is interested.
SUPER excited to announce that not only do I get to do a panel at #Fedicon2026 during #FOSSY2026 , but I now get to do my presentation on "The Fediverse Isn't..." !
I'm seriously SO excited. I hope people push back on my presentation, make points, ask questions. I want everyone walking away looking at the #Fediverse different and that includes me!
For those interested it'll be 2PM on Friday in the Fedicon room.
I hope to see you folks there and talk about the future of the open social web!
TITLE: The Fediverse Isn't...
ABSTRACT: There is a word we use loosely, sometimes carelessly. We point to servers, apps, instances, logos—and say this is it. But what if all of that is merely the furniture, not the house? What if we're measuring by the wrong units entirely?
What if the real thing—the actual Fediverse—cannot be found in any repository, cannot be forked from GitHub, cannot be described in a protocol specification?
It's not Mastodon. Not Pixelfed. Not Lemmy. Not your instance's uptime statistics or the purity of your ActivityPub implementation. These are vessels. Vessels can break, can fork, can fade into obscurity. Yet something persists through them all.
And here's the uncomfortable part: the walled gardens haven't left yet. They never did. The infrastructure exists for them to step across, to shed their walls, to breathe freely alongside everyone else. Whether they choose to is not a question of compatibility. It's a question of courage.
We have been building monuments when we should have been tending fires. Protocols don't gather. Servers don't trust each other. Tools don't make friends. People do. Communities do.
This talk will walk through what we've mistaken the Fediverse for—and more importantly, what remains hidden beneath our assumptions. We'll discuss why platform-building is a dead end, why community-building is the only path forward, and why choosing between ActivityPub and ATProto might be the very wrong battle to fight.
You came expecting answers. You'll leave with better questions. That's the point. #fedi #protocol #activitypub #ATProto #openSocial #twitter #bsky #facebook #openWeb #web #community #conference
I don't have a clue why I'd ever walk up to someone and introduce myself and say I have a daughter (which I don't), but if it's ever required! I'm READY!
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Lots of #gaming #fun tonight on #owncast !
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