@skavish@welley.social argues private communities should not be federating content outward, just granting access.

Day 3 of FOSSY aka Day 2 of FediCon starts with a panel featuring @evan@cosocial.ca @reiver@mastodon.social @django@social.coop and @ozoned@btfree.social!

First up, the panellists are asked to describe the fediverse in 6 words or less glad I'm not up there!

@django@social.coop says "when big social blows up, confettiverse" (apologies if I quoted it wrong!)

Q: "is BlueSky on the Fediverse?"

@reiver@mastodon.social "Evan why don't you take this one"

Q: "is Truth Social on the Fediverse?"

Now @ozoned@btfree.social explaining (very carefully) that Truth Social is built on the Mastodon codebase but functions like an island. It does not federate.

I did not know that @django@social.coop was based in Edmonton!

The contingent of Canadian AP developers continues to grow... No wonder all of the Fediverse conferences in the Americas are in Canada

The panelists now asked which default server they'd recommend. These questions are hard!

Even @ozoned@btfree.social wasn't sure prior to the panel.

@evan@cosocial.ca suggesting that maybe you already have one and don't know; suggests checking your orgs and associations; possibly self-hosting or checking joinmastodon.org

@django@social.coop warns about checking Instance rules to align on values.

@ozoned@btfree.social suggesting Mastodon for twitter fans, Pixelfed for Instagram fans, forums for topical based discussions (plus a shoutout for ActivityPub.Space, thanks!)

In response to the question "what should the Fediverse not be?"

@ozoned@btfree.social warning against turning it back into walled gardens.

@evan@cosocial.ca explaining that "the fediverse is quiet" is a bug, not a feature.

Good thing we have a solution for it

AP devs, fixing AP paper cuts one at a time

@evan@cosocial.ca "if the Fediverse is about connecting people to people, then Ostatus is part of the Fediverse. However usage has been dropping off.

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Philosophically yes, practically, heading towards no"

@liaizon@social.wake.st

@julian @evan so philosophically email, xmpp and matrix are part of the fediverse ohh noo

@liaizon @julian I'll take that!