Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet
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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.
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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.
@squirrel is that video available somewhere that has enough bandwidth to be watchable ?
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@squirrel is that video available somewhere that has enough bandwidth to be watchable ?
Works fine here. Maybe it's your connection?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Works fine here. Maybe it's your connection?
@squirrel my 1gbps symmetric FTTH broadband?
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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.
FediMTL was amazing! 😁
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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.
Wow, that was a great talk. I liked the bit about the importance of joy to making effective software/platforms.
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