What a whirlwind 72 hours in #Brussels for #FOSDEM!

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

What a whirlwind 72 hours in #Brussels for #FOSDEM! Everyone I met has been working so so hard to build technology explicitly trying to break out of a broken system of corporate hegemony. There were so many different fields present here but I primarily focused on the #fediverse track.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

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My trip started off with getting to spend most of the first day hanging out with @hongminhee and @2chanhaeng, and discussing how our various cultures differed and aligned. How our social upbringings brought us to where we are. And how the politics of inclusively and multiculturalism are at the center of many of the technologies we care about. Then randomly seeing this fediverse/peertube news on live French tv while eating shawarma at an Iranian shop really jumpstarted the experiance.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

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Later that night we all went to the activityPUB night that @swf set up

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

While at the bar I got to meet @django for the first time, whom I had interacted with for a long time in fedi context. We first interaracted years ago when they were looking for a name for their new fediverse post embedding @WordPress plugin and I had the suggestion of the name #FediEmbedi which ended up being used: https://mediaformat.org/fediembedi

Now they are working on pushing forward the ActivityPub C2S and we got to chat about that a bit.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

While talking about what it is like to visit Korea with @reiver and @hongminhee, my friend @douginamug showed up and filled out the spectrum of different social bubbles I am engaged in. Doug I mostly know from organizing #Solpunk together over the years

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

While we were sitting there I noticed an @inventaire sticker on the table and @maxlath saw me pick it up and and introduced themselves. I had thought I saw something about #Inventaire stopping to use AP and said something of the sort and they were like "noooo I actively working on improving it!"

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

I had been told that there were gonna be some people at the bar working on fediverse "event federation" but hadn't found them yet and was complaining to @douginamug who then told me they knew what one of them looked like and jumped into action to search the bar for the famous @mayel whom I had never met afk

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

There happened to be a whole little table in the back filled with the Lauti crew (@klasse_methode) and @Bonfire crew and I was very excited to get to talk to them all

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

After I said bye to everyone night one, I left to head back to the Boiling the Ocean flavored AirBnB (what a sentence) and got to talk @cas and @tbernard and crew about some of the happenings in the @postmarketOS and @gnome worlds.