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@skavish@welley.social argues private communities should not be federating content outward, just granting access.
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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!
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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!)
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Q: "is BlueSky on the Fediverse?"
@reiver@mastodon.social "Evan why don't you take this one"
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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.
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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 
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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!)
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In response to the question "what should the Fediverse not be?"
@ozoned@btfree.social warning against turning it back into walled gardens.
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@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
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@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"
CoSocialEvan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (@evan@cosocial.ca)36.5K Posts, 2.46K Following, 12K Followers · He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.
Research Director, Social Web Foundation.
Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.
Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.
Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.
Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.
Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.
Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
