Bookmarks tagged Podcast and Fediverse

From 2018 - We talked with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon, about where Mastodon came from and the problem it aimed to solve. How it’s not exactly Twitter alternative, although that’s its known claim to fame. Why it’s probably not going anywhere.

This week Evan Prodromou is back to take us deeper into the Fediverse. As many of us reconsider our relationship with Twitter, Mastodon has been by-and-large the target of migration. They helped to popularize the idea of a federated universe of community-owned, decentralized, social networks. And, at the heart of it all is ActivityPub.

Evan is one of the co-editors of ActivityPub and has spent more than 15 years working on distributed social network protocols. He ran an open-source social project called StatusNet, formerly chaired the W3C working group on Social Web standards, and is now the Director of Open Technology at Open Earth, where he builds digital architecture to scale climate action.

In this exciting episode, Matt Prewitt speaks with the inquisitive and captivating Christine Lemmer-Webber, who is CTO of the Spritely Institute and whose lifelong work focuses on advocating user freedom.

Chris Messina (the inventor of the hashtag) talks to the Podnews Weekly Review's Sam Sethi about ActivityPub and his work on its predecessor; podcast:txt, the person tag, and more.

Aral joins host Steve Boland to discuss decentralized social communication tools for nonprofit organizations

Content Warning: Kris Nova passed away this summer.
Kris Nova discusses her experience creating and maintaining hachyderm.io along with many other things.

A discussion of the elk client with Daniel Roe. Get a behind the scenes look at the creation and development of a great web client for Mastodon.

Anarchists discuss Mastodon and other fediverse related communication tools in relation to an FBI seizure of mastodon instance data from kolektiva.social.

From July 2023, a look at ActivityPub and mainstream platforms. While a bit dated, the discussion is worthwhile and makes some good points.