Link: https://video.fedihost.co/videos/watch/474b5641-db69-4def-96dd-28ed6da89140

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.

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.