I will be speaking at Berlin Fediverse Day 2025 https://berlinfedi.day/en/My talk title and description are a stub, because I am still thinking about what I want to say.

[cwebber@social.coop]

I will be speaking at Berlin Fediverse Day 2025 https://berlinfedi.day/en/

My talk title and description are a stub, because I am still thinking about what I want to say. I am taking this talk very seriously.

Everything seems urgent and important. I believe:

- Decentralized media is the only media we have left amidst fascism
- The fediverse and the ATmosphere are the best hopes we have. But neither are sufficient.
- What are our real threats
- What we're doing at Spritely
- What we can all do

[cwebber@social.coop]

I am trying to balance this against the fact that I have said some of these things at my recent Fediforum keynote. I'm not against repeating themes, I do it often, but I don't want it to sound like it will be the same talk.

And it won't be.

Because a lot has happened, and because I haven't said everything yet.

I'm worried about the here and now, and I'm worried about our future. And I want us to build. I want us to thrive.

[dawn@gock.love]

@cwebber@social.coop is atproto actually useful?

My observations are that it seems very... deliberately centralized

[cwebber@social.coop]

@dawn It's centralized. It has some of the key pieces that the fediverse should also have though (content-addressing and portable identity), which to be fair I have been saying ActivityPub should adopt since 2017

[dawn@gock.love]

@cwebber@social.coop I dunno, like, sure its adoption has been better, but like, it's still behind hubzilla in portability

Too bad hubzilla is so half-baked. Either way, agreed, the portable identity is a desperately missing part of fedi.

That being said, it seems as though the things atproto offers are mostly smoke and mirrors enabled by the centralized architecture.

Though, tbh, I am mostly not there for it, and thus may be dismissing it in ways that are unproductive.

I think i'll stand with my opinions on its moderation though

[dawn@gock.love]

@cwebber@social.coop (Sorry for rambling at you like this lol)

[cwebber@social.coop]

@dawn It's fine! There will be some fresh critique/analysis of both ATProto and the present-day fediverse in my talk, that I can promise