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Leaving the City of Big Social, with Fediverse Enthusiast Chris Trottier
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When you’re building an open source community you’re a part of a collective effort with a common goal. In the fediverse, there are early adopters doing a lot of the heavy lifting now. They’re the voices you want to follow to make sense of the place.
One such person is Chris Trottier. Chris describes himself as a “fediverse enthusiast” (he’s also passionate about video games). He’s a sage presence who makes smart observations and has a 10,000-foot view of all the innovation happening on the open social web — not to mention a few ideas of his own.
Highlights of this conversation:
- Why he’s rallied around ActivityPub
- The promise of social and the promise of the fediverse
- Self-hosting an instance
- Interesting apps and products built on top of ActivityPub
- Adopting a survivability mindset (as VCs, developers)
Services mentioned in this episode include:
Friendica - https://friendi.ca/ - a decentralized social network
Misskey - https://misskey-hub.net/en/ - a microblogging platform
Akkoma - https://akkoma.social/ - “sorta like the child of Twitter and email”
Macstodon - https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon - a Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS
DOStodon - https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon - a Mastodon client for MS-DOS
Amidon - https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon - a Mastodon client for Amiga computers
Sora - https://mszpro.com/sorasns - a futuristic iOS app for Mastodon, Bluesky, Misskey; uses local machine learning to rank posts and feature contents to you
Bluesky Firehose - https://firesky.tv/ - republishes every new post/reply from the Bluesky firehose in real-time
Castling Club - https://castling.club/ - chess game built on top of ActivityPub
🔎 You can find Chris in the fediverse at @[email protected]
✚ You can connect with Mike McCue on Mastodon at @[email protected] or via his Flipboard federated account, where you can see what he’s curating on Flipboard in the fediverse, at @[email protected]
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