ActivityPub Four Years Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fedi(verse)
Presented by rolltime (she/her)
2022-07-22
Mastodon: @[email protected]
The Other One: @rolltimedoesbird
Introduction
Me
What is Federation?
Client-to-Server Model
Peer-to-Peer Model
Federated Model (Client-Server-Server-Client)
✨ The Fediverse ✨
A brief history of the Fediverse
- 2008: identi.ca, GNU Social
- OStatus, Diaspora- it's a mess
- W3C Social Working Group
Randall Munroe is an oracle
Technical rundown
ActivityPub Evangelism
Architectural Benefits
Cross-Platform Federation
Instance-Specific Rules & Guidelines
Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Filter
Architectural Issues
- No authentication/consent spec
- Instance Tribalism
- Communities don't live at the instance level
Implementation Benefits
Case Study: Mastodon
Fedi.guide
Mastodon UI
Alt Text
Implementation Issues
- Platform feature diversity
- Follow requests
- Language support
- Instance-only
Why is social media, anyway?
Mastodon
Lemmy
Pixelfed
Friendica
Timelines
Why?
Power to the User
More Resources
Socials:
@rolltimedoesbird
ActivityPub
Four Years Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fedi(verse) Presented by
rolltime (she/her) 2022-07-22 Mastodon: @[email protected] The
Other One: @rolltimedoesbird