The State of the Federation, with Mastodon's Eugen Rochko (flipboard.video)
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DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow (www.youtube.com)
Moderation and Migration for a Better Social Web, with Fediverse Leader Tim Chambers (flipboard.video)
Previous episode discussion...
Fediverse slander (www.youtube.com)
Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things - Dylan Beattie - NDC Oslo 2023 (youtu.be)
As email is the original federated system, it might be worth looking to our history to see our future: what was once a utopia for nice people communicating with each other has become a spam-filled arms race dominated by only a few domains....
The AD-BASED internet is DYING, and it's getting WORSE in the process (tilvids.com)
Google has shown that with enough scale, just running ads on a website is enough to keep the content free of charge. But of course, as with everything where money is involved, it went way too far. This limited the ad revenue, and so websites decided to add more ads....
A New HOPE (2022): ActivityPub Four Years Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fedi (youtu.be)
super interesting talk on activitypub/fediverse.
Introduction to Fediverse Reddit alternatives: Lemmy, /kbin (tube.jeena.net)
Find my lemmy user here: https://jemmy.jeena.net/u/jeena
Meta's 'Threads' App Is ALREADY DYING... (Because It Sucks) I think this video made me happier (www.youtube.com)
Meta recently released Threads, their competitor to Twitter. However, within just days, the metrics aren't looking good...----------------------------SOCIAL ...