Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet
6d 21h ago by cake.kobel.fyi/u/squirrel in fediverse from video.fedihost.co
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! 😁
Wow, that was a great talk. I liked the bit about the importance of joy to making effective software/platforms.
Fantastic and inspiring talk.
@squirrel is that video available somewhere that has enough bandwidth to be watchable ?
Works fine here. Maybe it's your connection?
As for chat I think simplex ticks a lot of decentralization boxes.
As far as I know, each single person could host their own relying server without much issues.