OK, last-minute announcement!
The #Fedicon Mini-hackathon is tomorrow!
3 Aug 2025 11am to 3pm
Waves Coffee 900 Howe St #100 (the one right by UBC Robson)
Plan to build something doable in a few hours - a document, a feature, a big fix or a POC!
Reply to RSVP or just come by. It'll be nice to hack together!
At #FediCon, there’s clear acknowledgment that the #Fediverse needs funding.
But also: developers, admins, mods, and creatives should be compensated for their work.
Activity Intents are super cool. They’re like a social button you put on websites, to get you back to your own Fediverse client, but it can be used for Likes, replies, sharing, whatever you want.
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md
The Fediverse is largely predicated on free, unpaid labor, with a sprinkling of donations keeping things afloat. We should be able to have entire careers in this space, building this amazing thing: IT workers, developers, designers, artists, writers, musicians, you name it!
“There are 8 billion humans, and we should aim to serve every single one….We can’t exactly hold up the Fediverse as a viable alternative when we leave so many people behind.”
— Ben Pate
Ben Pate from Emissary / Bandwagon is talking about the future of the #Fediverse!
The network does not just need technologists. It needs artists, musicians, writers, journalists, and all kinds of other creatives.
Just learned that @_elena runs her own #PeerTube server—with a great video channel—where she teaches you all about the #Fediverse. And her videos are pretty slick.
You can follow it @fedifuture
#Fedicon
Julian talking about this structure at #FediCon
https://evanp.me/2024/04/22/cross-server-interactions-in-activitypub/
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