Welcome to another episode of the round-up. There’s been a big unconference this week, FediForum, which was interesting. Talking to other people who are excited about the fediverse is infectious, and gives me energy to keep working on this.
Friday was Trans Day of Visibility, and a good reminder of how influential trans people have been in shaping the fediverse. Thank you!
The links
The University of Warwick hosts a research symposium on Mastodon on 22nd and 23rd of June. The deadline for the submission of papers is until April 14th.
Flipboard releases their Mastodon integration for Android. Evan’s Promodou’s review here, he’s a fan.
Martin Holland, editor of the German tech news outlet @heiseonline has consistently keeping track of their traffic, comparing the fediverse to Twitter. He just published another update.
(for developers) The case for a native handling of fediverse actions.
The interview
Only one interview link this week, but its a major one: The Verge’s Decoder podcast did an interview with Mastodon’s Eugen Rochko. It’s an in-depth talk, Nilay Patel knows how to ask good questions. A lot is focused on how the organisation Mastodon makes money. Eugen Rochko’s answers are great, but also jarring in a way: Decoder usually interviews big-shot CEOs that manage billions and billions of dollars. The contrast with Eugen talking about funding spanning half a million over the entire lifespan of the organisation is a stark contrast to that. It shows the incredible power of decentralized software, with how little money things can actually be build. Absolutely recommended listen.
The Poll
Stefan Bohacek has created ‘A netizen’s guide to Mastodon and the fediverse‘, a site with an overview of polls about how people behave on the fediverse. This is a project I find absolutely fascinating, and as a small contribution I’ll try and regularly add a poll to the round-up for you.
This week’s poll:
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