
Into the Fediverse (Interview)
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This week Evan Prodromou is back to take us deeper into the Fediverse. As many of us reconsider our relationship with Twitter, Mastodon has been by-and-large the target of migration. They helped to popularize the idea of a federated universe of community-owned, decentralized, social networks. And, at the heart of it all is ActivityPub. ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol published by the W3C. It is co-authored by Evan as well as; Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, and Amy Guy. Today, Evan shares the details behind this protocol and where the Fediverse might be heading.
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Featuring:
- Evan Prodromou – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- ActivityPub - W3C Recommendation (23 January 2018)
- PeerTube
- Twitter says it’s intentionally blocking apps like Tweetbot
- Changelog.social
- Mastodon Roadmap
- The Changelog #257 with Evan Prodromou
- Medium embraces Mastodon
- Cosocial
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 1:07Sponsor: Postman
- 2:22Start the show!
- 5:21What's the story of ActivityPub?
- 10:10Mastodon's relationship to ActivityPub
- 14:14What makes a social network sticky?
- 22:40Twitter's ads are the worm
- 31:29Mozilla and Tumblr support for ActivityPub
- 32:31What is Mastodon getting right?
- 38:164 out of 5 ActivityPub authors are women
- 43:25The promise of social networking
- 48:55The confusion of federated
- 55:04Implementing new features
- 58:09What's lacking?
- 1:03:32Where do noobs go?
- 1:07:51Let's talk scaling
- 1:11:36Where is the roadmap?
- 1:14:20Closing out the show
- 1:15:49Outro