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I'm working on a YouTube mini series explaining the Fediverse!!
Who are the most knowledgeable people in this realm who I should definitely talk to?
What do you think is important to include in my series? I want to hear thoughts!!
I would say Cory Doctorow because he's had a lot of practice explaining the Fediverse from high level, close up, and different angles.
@taylorlorenz I think it's definitely important to include that 2008's StatusNet is what eventually became ActivityPub
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Things to talk about: The history of the fediverse before Mastodon.
People to talk to who haven't been mentioned ITT yet: @silverpill . He has written standards for self-custody of keys on fedi.
@taylorlorenz My name came up in a non-public subthread.
A lot of what I would have to say has been documented in the "people's history" type articles written about a decade back by Robek and Strypey, about the early, pre-Masto Fediverse from a user and social perspective, but I could be helpful with clarifications. (I'll try to locate those articles)
Like many others have pointed out, I would say Evan, CWebber and Gargron have key perspectives not to leave out from a history, protocol, development and hosting perspective, and for modern hosting perspectives and broadness of software and ways of running communities, I'd talk to Jerry and Darius.
I think all of these people have been at-mentioned elsewhere in the thread and I won't spam them further here.
Another interesting branch of the Fediverse historically is the one with Quitter, En Kompis Kompis, Freesocial and the Umeå Hackerspace, but I'm not sure where to find mmn, pettter and peer2hannes these days. If I @ them here, my server gives me the defunct Umeå Hackerspace server.
Oh, and I hope someone digs out that beautiful fedi software landscape poster from that workshop a few years ago.
@cwebber ? She co-authored the protocol !
@taylorlorenz @ntnsndr if he hasn’t gotten on your list yet.
perhaps one issue to bring up that most others won't is the perspective of the widely blocked servers.
they say it's their non left perspectives. admins who block them will say it's mostly harassment and that their users post hate and misinfo.
managing this is a struggle on a truly decentralized network. no algo means people can mostly not see what they don't want to. to grow, we should want conservatives here too, but we'll also lose users if there's lots of unwanted tagging.
perhaps one issue to bring up that most others won't is the perspective of the widely blocked servers.
they say it's their non left perspectives. admins who block them will say it's mostly harassment and that their users post hate and misinfo.
managing this is a struggle on a truly decentralized network. no algo means people can mostly not see what they don't want to. to grow, we should want conservatives here too, but we'll also lose users if there's lots of unwanted tagging.
imo they post more misinfo than others but that's not a reason to defederate anyone. just don't follow them or reply with corrections. obv don't boost it.
it would be like trying to get browsers to not show certain sites re J6 and fighting over that forever.
or russiagate, where the establishment left was clearly full of misinfo. or the run-up to the Iraq War where basically everyone was
@taylorlorenz Be sure to include fediverse-aware YouTubers like @vkc / @posts and @thelinuxEXP
@taylorlorenz Be sure to include fediverse-aware YouTubers like @vkc / @posts and @thelinuxEXP
@taylorlorenz Be sure to include fediverse-aware YouTubers like @vkc and @thelinuxEXP
@taylorlorenz Be sure to include fediverse-aware YouTubers like @vkc and @thelinuxEXP
Man I didn't know you had many enemies.
You got quite the bit of defeds.
Lmfao they are you calling you a racist even though I've never seen you say anything edgy.
https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=liberal.city
@NonPlayableClown @taylorlorenz @jeffcliff @sun
I'm very glad that tool exists but so many of those servers are tiny and full of users with very eccentric opinions. just counting them up can make you think it's worse than it is.
the blocks that bother me are democracy dot town, hachyderm dot io and mastodon dot art. I feel like those have impacted me. people I want to follow on them or people I know who use them. and they are bigger AFAIK.
Your feed is still "for you", but its "by you" now.
It is not made by an algorithm that builds it for you automatically. You have the power and responsibility to build it your self. Its more work but also more freedom.
There are many different bubbles/cultures in the fediverse and thus a variety of feed possibilities. From hyper political to just the plushieverse to just pictures of moss...
The Fediverse may not house as many people but that makes it more human and calmer often.
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