Season 2 Episode 1: FediForum Commentary
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After a long break, we’re back to provide a pre-event commentary for FediForum 2025, which starts tomorrow! Sean and Damon were excited to launch the new season, and provide some insight on the FediForum postponement, collaboration between ActivityPub and AT Proto, and make some predictions for what topics are coming to FediForum this year.
Video Version
You can watch the video version of this episode on PeerTube below!
Show Notes
- Our delay on this new season took so long that Sean grew a beard!
- This event features several keynote speakers: Ian Forrester, Cory Doctorow, Christine Lemmer-Webber, and Laurens Hof!
- Check out Christine’s work on Spritely!
- Effective advocacy remains one of the biggest blockers to getting people on the network. Bluesky nails this when it comes to making an easy value proposition that isn’t too complicated.
- Why did Bluesky build their own protocol instead of building on ActivityPub? A big part was the Fediverse’s culture, but they also wanted to design from first principles, rather than try bolting everything on to ActivityPub.
- We talk about the controversy that delayed FediForum. It’s really unfortunate, but we think Johannes did the right thing, and put in a lot of work to make the organization better.
- Christine’s blog post about AT proto: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
