@reiver@mastodon.socialis there a #FediCon account? Or shall we follow you for updates?
I have to make sure I'm there this year, so I want to make sure I can start scheduling things as early as possible. 😁
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#FediForum2026 is coming up in April, 28th - 30th. If you don't know what #FediForum is, it's an online #unconference where we all get together, talk about what projects folks are working on, meet each other, etc. I've been to two of them last year and I've met so many fantastic folks there.
What other #conference are people going to that is related to the #Fediverse ?
I know #Fedicon is sometime later this year. I've already missed #FOSDEM but that'll come around again, next February I think?
Fireside Fedi 79** **- Summer in Winter - Mona and her dog Summer share their Pictures and Experiences
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Good day all!
Are there any of you out there that have any kind of stories about moving communities onto the Fediverse?
Whether that be you moved your family, you moved your friends, you moved your church.
Anyone out there have a success story?
If so, what worked for you? What didn't work for you?
I'd LOVE to hear from you, as our strength is all of us together. Let's all learn from each other!
Is anyone attempting to start a business where you attempt to sell the Fediverse to places?
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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Fireside Fedi 78** **- Digital Necropolis: A Lich’s Quest Through Abandoned Internet History
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All done with the interview! Ozoned is such an kind and welcoming host. You've gotta check out @firesidefedi I heard that a video coming up is someone who's very familar with how SEO (Search Engine Optimization) works. I'd love to see how that's devolved in recent years. 👀
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@ozoned @boilingsteam This is the trap of the slippery slope, it is unnecessary, it does not protect anybody, it just increases government overreach, you can run your own private stuff until they deem that illegal, we'll be there fast if this is not stopped, the Epstein class is getting more and anxious by the minute and they want the total control over the information they had before the internet back.
@PalePimp@poa.st @boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud I could definitely see a path there. That scares the hell out of me and I hope you're wrong. But definitely possible. Thank you for sharing.
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@boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud it'll be interesting to see how that's supposed to work. I'm not in NY so I don't fall under those laws. But I can just grab a new OS from somewhere else as I run Linux and GrapheneOS. Any third party that houses that info will be a MASSIVE target for hackers. I think these things are years away from being implemented and practical. Just because a law exists, doesn't mean it's enforceable. It'll definitely be interesting to watch. And states will be sued and it'll take years to move through courts as this is entirely new ground. So we'll have to see how they're classifying the internet and how they justify it.
I'll say this though, I'm against this kind of thing personally, but I think all of these people are attempting g to do anything they can to dig us out of the current pit we're in. The road to hell is paved with good intentions though.
@boilingsteam @ozoned The classic slippery slope switcheroo, aka the Patriot act, because you want to protect the children and our liberties isn't goy?
@PalePimp@poa.st @boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud definitely is a slippery slope. But if I run my own and you run your own, plus with the end to end encryption for DMs in the works, they'd need more than just these laws to get access to either of our servers. And anything public In post, well it's public.
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@ozoned its very easy to pass changes once the first step is taken. You start with v1, people dont complain because there are still some workarounds and give it a few years and you won't notice they tight things up progressively and by that time it will be too late.
@boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud potentially. I'm an idealist and I'm very biased in favor of the Fediverse, but I have a difficult time believing they'd want to enforce this against my running my own for my own family, let alone them actually being able to enforce this. It absolutely could impact big open platforms like mastodon.social or even my own tubefree.org. but this is a reaction to big tech getting us into this position and finding ways to reduce their power.
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@boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud yes, but that's with everything. Can you expand?
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So, I've been seeing news about all of the age verification laws, and I see a LOT of scared people.
Here's the way I see it, and I'd like to honestly get people's opinion, I think they're dumb, HOWEVER, I think the laws give ud a HUGE opportunity. YOU can run your own platform and you can verify your own age. Same with your family, same with your community. This gives us power.
Are people just going to hand over their IDs to Facebook? Probably, but it won't be me. And there will be massive fraud and issues and this will force legal degradation of centralized platforms.
Thoughts?
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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