Hey @andypiper, any chance that you could attend #FediCon next year?
It would have been so cool to meet you in person, and the rest of your Mastodon team!
I know it's quite far, but there were a lot of really interesting talks, and I highlighted Mastodon as a model for the fediverse in my own talk.
The Last Network Effect (FediCon 2025)
by Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq
These are the people I want to spend the rest of my life working with.
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Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025
As I write this, I'm sitting on an airplane flying over the Canadian prairies on my way home from Vancouver, BC.
What an amazing group of individuals, who took the time out of their extraordinarily busy lives to see, hear, and learn about the fediverse! The connections made and ideas discussed were so important, and you could feel the energy in the air.
You'd think after a solid six hours a day in a lecture hall would be enough, but at every opportunity in between, there were lively discussions about ActivityPub and the fediverse. It turns out when you get all of us in a group together we can talk and continue to talk about the open social web for ages.
I now have a to-do list about a kilometer long, they all need to get done ASAP!
Thank you to @reiver@mastodon.social for organizing this conference, all of those who helped out and participated, and all those who attended.
From now on, whenever someone points a camera to me, I'll picture @jaz@toot.wales saying "say FEEEEEEDIVERSE".
If you’re interested in viewing the sessions from Fedicon, follow @fedicon_videos
It’s been less than 24 hours and the first session is already listed!
I thought there were many highlight of FediCon 2025.
One of them was when @benpate did this 🙂
(Thank you to @julian for capturing this!)
I had a really interesting and productive chat with @jesseplusplus and @julian at #FediCon about comment/reply backfilling and look forward to collaborating with them on this massive UX improvement.
For those unaware, @jesseplusplus is the creator of @frequency, an innovative photo sharing platform, similar to Pixelfed! @julian is the creator of NodeBB, a gorgeous forum software!
The Fediverse is largely predicated on free, unpaid labor, with a sprinkling of donations keeping things afloat. We should be able to have entire careers in this space, building this amazing thing: IT workers, developers, designers, artists, writers, musicians, you name it!
Someone asked Dan earlier about why Sup wasn’t built on XMPP or Matrix. As someone who lived through Diaspora integrating XMPP, that kind of integration is a bad time.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
