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.left[Transmediale 2k20<br /><br />Aymeric Mansoux (@320x200@post.lurk.org)<br />Roel Roscam Abbing (@rra@post.lurk.org)]
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-class: inverted
+class: inverted, middle, center
# Introduction
???
+WE JUST SAY OUR NAMES?
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+class: center,middle
.center.middle.quote[
## “ What if we were to accept that the goal of theory is not to extend knowledge by confirming what we already know, that the world is a place of domination and oppression? What if we asked theory instead to help us see openings, to provide a space of freedom and possibility? ”]
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.left.bottom[2008, J.K Gibson-Graham after Eve Sedgewick in *Diverse Economies: performative practices for 'other worlds'*]
???
+WE READ THE QUOTE OUT LOUD
-This is talk is not yet another one about the crisis of social media. We find that there is a lot social media critique, perhaps even a surplus, but very little attention on what people are doing concretely when they take such critiques to heart.
-
-Instead this talk will focus on the fediverse, a grassroots network of interoperating social media sites that concretely try to build one such alternative approach. With all of the flaws, surprises, complexities and lessons that such an undertaking requires.
+--
+???
+Fear not! This talk is not yet another talk about the crisis of social media.
-This presentation is not one of easy narratives or ready answers but a way to give some pointers of where something interesting is happening. The beginning of an investigation into a very concrete alternative model.
+We believe that in the past years there has been a lot of social media critique, perhaps even a surplus. On the other hand, very little attention has been given to what people are doing concretely, when they take such critiques to heart.
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+class: inverted, middle, center
+# The Fediverse
-## Fediverse <-> F/LOSS Culture
+???
+This is why this talk will focus on such a concrete effort, namely the Fediverse, a grassroots network of interoperating websites that try to establish an alternative to corporate social media.
+
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# It's complicated
???
+Even if this talk does not want to be a critique of social media, that does not mean that our presentation of the Fediverse is uncritical. On the contrary what makes the Fediverse so interesting lies in all its flaws, the issues it tries to address, and also the surprises, complexities and lessons that such an undertaking requires.
-As the fediverse is arguably part of a larger free and open source culture, this talk will do focus on exploring the mutually productive relationship between these alternative social media and free/libre open source culture.
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# It's complicated
-Crisis of social media being discussed but not enough disucssion on what other people are doing concretly, massive gap
+???
+As a result this presentation is not one of technosolutionist narratives or ready made answers for ready made problems but we hope this will give you some pointers, and hopefully encourage you to look more closely at what's happening one click away from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and whatnot.
-surplus of critique, not a lack of critique on social media,
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# 7 theses
-question of responsibility
-classic social media critique
+???
+This is the reason why we very conveniently chose to present 7 theses as an attempt to start mapping potential point of interests and direction for further exploration.
-lots of talk about decolonization, queering this or that
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# Fediverse and F/LOSS culture
-So this presentation/research should not be seen as yet another critique of social media but a way to give pointers, it's a beginning of an investigation on a very concrete model.
+???
+But these theses are not just about alternative social media. They are also linked to the becoming of Free/Libre and Open Source practices.
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# Fediverse and F/LOSS culture
+???
+With the fediverse being part of a larger free and open source culture, this talk will also focus on exploring the mutually generative relationship between this alternative social media ecosystem and FLOSS.
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+class: contain, bottom, left
+background-image: url(thefediverse.jpg)
+.caption[how_the_fediverse_self_describes.png.jpg]
-class:inverted
-# Fedi-what?
+???
+And now for the question that surely many of you have been asking yourself in the past few minutes. What the hell is the Fediverse?
+--
???
+So let's start with a quick overview.
-so let's start with a quick overview
+--
+???
+It's a network of interoperable social media platforms
+
+--
+???
+What does that mean?
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+class: contain, bottom, left
+background-image: url(thefediverse.jpg)
+.caption[how_the_fediverse_self_describes.png.jpg]
-class:inverted
+???
+It means that instead of having a single organisation having control over every things of what consitutes social media, all these things become visible and can be appropriated or shaped in all sorts of different ways.
-# Fedi-what?
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# MONOLITH STACK HERE
-a network of interoperable social media platforms
+???
+Very concretely on corporate social media, everything is conflated into the name of the product. There is no distinction between the app, the URL, community. For instance Facebook is just any and all of these different parts.
-instead of a single organization having control over software, hosting, moderation policy and development
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# MODULAR MESS HERE
???
+On the Fediverse, all these elements are up for grabbing, combining and appropriating.
-- what is alternative social media
-- what is online federation
-- what are the kind of services avail (microblog, blog, video, events)
-- server = instance = community ?
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# MODULAR MESS HERE
+
+???
+This is why the Fediverse is made up of all sorts of communities with their platforms accessible across all sorts of domain names. And the software they run can be for microblogging, or long forms, or video publishing platforms, or photo sharing, etc. And the list keeps growing.
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-class: contain, bottom, left
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# MODULAR MESS HERE
-background-image: url(thefediverse.jpg)
+???
+But what is more, is that at the networking level, all these platforms roughly agree on a communication protocol, that permits users to follow each other, comment on each other media, regardless of where they're signed from.
-.caption[how_the_fediverse_self_describes.png.jpg]
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# MODULAR MESS HERE
???
+If you're on Twitter, you can't comment on a YouTube video. But on the Fediverse, you can comment on the video of a federated video sharing platform, from your account on a microblogging platform.
-- example of diversity of type of community/companies
-- impact on the way these community are regulated
- (moving from centralised service, to reddit style dependance, to experimentation self governance with the deisgn of own TOS, CoC, etc)
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# Federation
----
-class: inverted
+???
+All of this is implementing what is referred to as federated networking. Which is pretty much how email works (at least that will remain like this unless everyone only uses gmail...)
-# HOWEVER
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# CENTRALISATION DIAGRAM HERE
-also:
+???
+MENTION THESE ARE FROM THE WORKSHOP AT TM
-* white nationalists
-* porn
-* trolls
+On a centralised network, every account relies on a central hub to carry communication across the network.
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# FEDERATED DIAGRAM HERE
+
+???
+But on a federated network like the Fediverse, users can register one or several accounts on different servers (called instances) of the network, and the instances take care of sending and receiving messages between accounts across the network.
+
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# FEDERATED DIAGRAM HERE
+
+???
+Each instance can be run by anyone or any group of people for any purpose. This means that in practice the Fediverse is a giant mess. Instances can for general purpose and have several thousands users, or they can be focussed on a specific topic, practice, subject with a handful of users. Some instances are even single user. Finally it's up to each instance to decide if they want to be open to registrations, be invite-only, if they want to publish a code of conduct, or not, etc.
+
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# FEDERATED POSTER HERE
+
+???
+To be sure, Federation is not new.
+
+--
???
+If you went to the Transmediale exhibition you may have seen this poster designed and research by Lídia Pereira from the Pervasive Labour Union with Artemis Gryllaki and Bohye Woo from the Experimental Publishing master at Piet Zwart Institute.
-Consequence: you do not join Mastodon, you join the Fediverse
+---
+class: inverted, middle, center
+# FEDERATED POSTER HERE
+
+???
+As seen on the poster, interest on federated social media has grown a lot recently and we think now more than ever it's time to look into it further.
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class:inverted
# 7 Theses
-blablabla
+???
+Here we go
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