<![CDATA[Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet]]>

Mastodon: @cwebber@social.coop

The co-author of the ActivityPub protocol and co-founder of Spritely Institute, building the next generation of decentralized networked technology, delivers a critique of the Fediverse from one of its co-architects.

The Fediverse's real strength is participatory structure: any one server can fail and the network keeps running. But it isn't decentralized enough to survive the threats coming for it, including age-verification laws rooted in anti-queer politics, hardware-level lockdown of what you can run on your own computer, and data-centre concentration that turns information infrastructure into a kill switch. The answer is to push further: content-addressed messaging, peer-to-peer chat with no host to subpoena, and technology built around joy and empowerment rather than defensive compliance.

]]>https://forum.pierobosio.it/topic/a783e34b-873a-4408-b924-84c7a8698ffe/christine-lemmer-webber-building-a-humane-social-internetRSS for NodeFri, 08 May 2026 15:51:57 GMTTue, 28 Apr 2026 16:35:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:40:59 GMT]]>Wow, that was a great talk. I liked the bit about the importance of joy to making effective software/platforms.

]]>https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/25778173https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/25778173Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:40:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:44:50 GMT]]>FediMTL was amazing! 😁

]]>https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://piefed.ca/comment/4452622https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://piefed.ca/comment/4452622Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:44:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:42:07 GMT]]>@squirrel my 1gbps symmetric FTTH broadband?

]]>https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://vmst.io/users/maikel/statuses/116484271442385457https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://vmst.io/users/maikel/statuses/116484271442385457Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:42:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:48:58 GMT]]>@squirrel @cwebber

There's still work to be done to prepare this work for use, and to be worked on by people other than me, but it's getting close.

Distributed security through encryption, epidemic - style content addressable storage, and the like aren't there yet, but the foundations for them are.

]]>https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://indieweb.social/users/emc2/statuses/116484062503736715https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://indieweb.social/users/emc2/statuses/116484062503736715Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:48:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:46:20 GMT]]>@squirrel @cwebber

When phony stark took over Twitter, I foresaw a need for decentralized infrastructure, predicting that the Fediverse was taking on a task that required a huge SRE org to run. This would eventually cause problems.

Resilient decentralized systems is a research interest of mine, and I'd just had some IR&D projects about this kind of thing end, so I started building.

At this point I have the core of an architecture that could grow into the foundation for something.

]]>https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://indieweb.social/users/emc2/statuses/116484052145638565https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://indieweb.social/users/emc2/statuses/116484052145638565Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:46:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:23:55 GMT]]>@squirrel @cwebber

I am actively working on some of these.

]]>https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://indieweb.social/users/emc2/statuses/116483963945092673https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://indieweb.social/users/emc2/statuses/116483963945092673Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:23:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:11:40 GMT]]>Works fine here. Maybe it's your connection?

]]>https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://cake.kobel.fyi/comment/67399https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://cake.kobel.fyi/comment/67399Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:11:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:19:36 GMT]]>@squirrel is that video available somewhere that has enough bandwidth to be watchable ?

]]>https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://vmst.io/users/maikel/statuses/116483475111608376https://forum.pierobosio.it/post/https://vmst.io/users/maikel/statuses/116483475111608376Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:19:36 GMT