Talk Beginner

Fight centralized platforms with the Fediverse

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Session Description

Most popular platforms today - WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Tumblr, Reddit, BlueSky, TikTok, YouTube, etc - are not only proprietary, but also centralized in nature, which gives them unfair power over their users.

This power is frequently abused for profit, while also degrading user privacy, promoting hate speech and disinformation, influencing elections, and eroding democracies.

We present some alternatives to centralization, focusing on federation - where independently-run servers talk to each other and form an open network.

We then talk about some prominent federated protocols and services that make up the Fediverse -

XMPP - federated chat and AV calls
Mastodon, Pleroma/Akkoma, and Misskey/Sharkey - federated microblogging (think Twitter)
Lemmy/PieFed/kbin/mbin - federated link aggregators (think Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobste.rs)
PeerTube - federated YouTube
and more - Mobilizon, Friendica, Smithereen, Flohmarkt, Funkwhale, Bookwyrm, PixelFed, Loops, Vidzy...

Finally, we talk about the durare.org community project, which aims to provide India-focused instances of these services.

References

https://fediverse.party/

https://jointhefediverse.net/

https://fedidb.com/

https://durare.org/

Session Categories

Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project

Community

Technology architecture

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Speakers

Kashish (contrapunctus) Free software advocate

Kashish is a musician and software freedom advocate. They have been an OpenStreetMap contributor since 2016, motivated by the desire to improve freedom-respecting software ("FOSS") and privacy. They regularly host OSM workshops and design OSM awareness material.

https://fe.disroot.org/@contrapunctus