@kevie We, the committee, extend our deepest thanks for your daily contributions to the welfare and mental well-being of your fellow #Fediverse members. Your radiant, uplifting messages are a beacon to us all, embodying the finest traditions and ideals of the #FOSS ethos and the purest form of camaraderie. Yours is the standard we aspire to—our hopes lit by your brilliance.
If we stand on the shoulders of giants, those giants owe you a debt of gratitude for giving them somewhere to stand.
Today I'm feeling excitement over the fediverse intro video we're making... and fear about the feedback it will generate. SO. MUCH. PRESSURE!
The #Fediverse has become my happy online place. With this video project I'm putting myself out there so much (with my face, my voice) advocating for it. I'm stepping out of my comfort zone daily... but I know it's for a great cause.
Please be kind once the video is out... it'll be the result of tens of hours of work 🥲
I am humbled and thrilled to be a member of the @fediforum Advisory Board!
It was formed to address the hard questions, and to make #FediForum the most welcoming and ispiring gathering to push our beloved #Fediverse to a brighter future.
Proudly, I am the youngest and hands-down the craziest member of the board—I joined our first meeting from @ilcubobeach, with a beer in my hand. 😎
Reach out if you have issues, questions, or ideas to raise. I am, we are, all ears.
It’s so cool to collaborate with this group of incredibly skilled people!
I’m really happy to have been asked to join the new FediForum Advisory Board that is helping to guide and steer the future of the event.
We are proud to announce the first-ever FediForum advisory board. We are very glad to have such an incredible group of committed and experienced Open Social Web pioneers and advocates come together to advise FediForum and help move the Open Social Web forward.
FediForum has been an important part of the development of the Fediverse over the past couple of years. It has provided a space for projects to share their latest releases and features, and also enabled the serendipitous sharing of needs and ideas. The Projects page on the FediForum site documents a few of the collaborations that have come out of the event already.
I particularly remember how Ben Pate came to share what he was building (Emissary), how several creators in the music space came together during the same event to discuss their hopes for new social channels to connect with their audiences, and how that evolved into both Bandwagon, and The Indie Beat FM. I’ve loved being a part of these kinds of conversations!
An unconference can be difficult to navigate to some people, but it can also enable exactly these kinds of unexpected, delightful fusions of shared interest and technical know-how. At the same time, there’s also a lot of value in more organised, formal events with agendas known in advance. My own belief is that there’s space for both formats to support the Fediverse community, and I hope to see these happen in the coming years. In the meantime, you’ll see some adjustments to the format of FediForum itself, in response to feedback heard at recent town halls.
I’ve helped to run various unconference format events in person in the past; I’m also a public speaker; and, I have been a community organiser myself. I know how complicated it can be to make events like FediForum happen! I’m grateful to have the opportunity to help keep this important shared space open, available, and valuable for the future. I’m also delighted about the wonderful group of people that are on the advisory board – we have a shared passion for the Fediverse, and more importantly, we care about the humans that are part of it.
GreatApe is a public conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo) — where an audience can listen to your conversation live.
We are very close to doing a public GreatApe release.
Here is what the OpenGraph preview card will more or less look like — when you a URL to a conversation on GreatApe.
(Although the exact look will depend on which front-end app you are using.)
Our new mod team is complete and has just started training! 😊 Over the next weeks they'll go through the CoC and modding rules, they'll handle a wide variety of practice cases, and will then move on to (already resolved) real reports. Because we're based all over the world, from Japan, South Korea, India, Europe, South Africa, to the US, the chat is asynchronous and slow. Hence the training will take a while.