A brief introduction to the Fediverse Workshop

A brief introduction to the Fediverse workshop

This workshop will be given:
   Day 3: Sunday, 24-July-2022, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, Workshop B (D'Angelo 306)

NOTE: You do NOT need to register to take this workshop -- please show up early to ensure a seat at Workshop B (D'Angelo 306).

Abstract

The Fediverse is a collection of communities that is a bit of a throwback to a smaller, more personal time on the internet. There are services for short messaging, audio and video sharing, and event organizing, among other things.

Mastodon is a fully open source social media platform, with no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital.

It is a part of the Fediverse, a social network that is truly a network, by incorporating ideas and protocols that allow users and information to freely spread throughout a wide diaspora of servers and services. Explore how you might wish to join into the rich, new world that has more of a resemblance of the internet as it was envisioned to be.

Presenter(s)

murph

Full Description

Want to escape the greedy, dystopian algorithms of the big social networks? Let's talk about a network that is more centered on people and communities, because that's who runs them.

The Fediverse is a collection of communities that is a bit of a throwback to a smaller, more personal time on the internet. There are services for short messaging, audio and video sharing, and event organizing, among other things.

Mastodon is a fully open source social media platform, with no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital. Although each Mastodon server is independent of all other Mastodon servers, they can be federated for intercommunication with each other via a suite of standard protocols. Mastodon, however is only one of the many clients that are available in the Fediverse, and we'll discuss many of them

It is a part of the Fediverse, a social network that is truly a network, by incorporating ideas and protocols that allow users and information to freely spread throughout a wide diaspora of servers and services. Explore how you might wish to join into the rich, new world that has more of a resemblance of the internet as it was envisioned to be.

We'll talk about the history of the Fediverse, as well as how to get started.

Registration -- NOT required

You do not need to register in advance to take this workshop -- just show up early to ensure a seat.:

Required Software

There are clients a person can use, but most fediverse accounts start with simply a web browser.

What Participants Should Bring to the Workshop (if anything)

A computer with a web browser, or a smartphone should suffice.

Links

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