FediMTL Livestream

[julian@activitypub.space]

@pluralistic@mamot.fr answering a question about Threads defederation, noting that it is "reactionary", and that the ones you hurt are the users, the "normie friends" you want to talk to.

The act of defederating from threads assumes that the people on Threads are the problem, not the fact that it's owned by Meta. (says Cory)

[julian@activitypub.space]

Q: How can/should Canadian technologists sell escape hatches to other companies?

A: Cory reminding us about John Deere DRM'd tractors. John Deere bricked hundreds of tractors taken from the Ukraine by the Russians to Chechnya.

Cool from a cyberpunk POV but absolutely chilling when you realize that Trump tomorrow could order John Deere to trigger kill switches on every one of their tractors operating in Canada. (says Cory)

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Q: is it better to pick a fight with big tech, or is it better to build open alternatives?

Cory:

• references Trump wanting Greenland, and then volatility of his tarrifs
• if you plan assumes America is a market you can rely on, you're being naïve
• "we should be breaking all land speed records to get away from it [specifically, the dependency on the American SWIFT system]
• when Carney says the old world order is gone, it's gone

[julian@activitypub.space]

Christine Lemmer-Webber is up next!

Going completely slide-less today!

[julian@activitypub.space]

Reflecting on her article about How Decentralized Bluesky is, and asking introspectively whether ActivityPub can win big in the wake of ATProto's surging popularity.

Drawing parallels to Lisp vs UNIX.

"The fediverse has a lot of people who care about the ethics of the technology — we need to run with that."

[julian@activitypub.space]

@cwebber@social.coop on Age Verification

• Relies on you no longer owning the hardware you run, with backdoors written in

[julian@activitypub.space]

@cwebber@social.coop: Data centers represent a centralization of power. We should be doing the complete opposite, this is what we're working on at the Spritely Institute

[julian@activitypub.space]

[@box464@mastodon.social](https://activitypub.space/user/box464%40mastodon.social) is doing another live stream in parallel here:

https://mastodon.social/[@box464](https://activitypub.space/user/box464)/116125983228506874

I won't be able to talk about my own talk in real time, so check out that stream too!

[julian@activitypub.space]

Q: how should we grow the fediverse?

A: we should worry less about growth, and more about empowerment of the end user

@cwebber@social.coop "I am pro fediverse but I am more pro empowerment... The majority of people on the fediverse were somewhere else first. Then something bad happened."

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@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com on Canadian Civil and the fediverse!

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A breakdown into how content creation is funded.

(The secret funding source is Patreon btw)

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@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com discussing how Canadian Civil is using Ghost to build their own Patreon alternative.

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@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com making it clear that @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz has an opportunity here to take a chunk of Patreon.