Notices by hannah aubry (haubles@fosstodon.org), page 2

I understand why people are upset and concerned about #Threads joining the social web. Most of us have been burned, or considerably worse, by #Meta before.

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But this is the promise of the #SocialWeb. The point is to break down the walls. To give us all the opportunity to connect, while retaining our right and freedom to choose who and how we do so, on a personal and on a community level.

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Very sad to be missing #FediForum this time around, and can’t wait to hear about all the great conversations!

Congratulations, @renchap, who has been named the CTO of @Mastodon #mastodev!

(He admins mastodon.social &
mastodon.online too — whew!)

I've had the pleasure to get to know him in his work as a core contributor to #Mastodon through #FastForward, and I'm thrilled — his thoughtful approach and deep knowledge of networking ++ will help us scale in a sustainable and healthy way.

The #fediverse #socialweb is facing some tough problems, but we're in great hands with Renaud in this role!

@jeffjarvis This is appalling. I've really struggled to find anything redeeming about the NYT these days. I canceled my subscription ages ago.

Cooking and the fashion mag, maybe.

What a week!

...#Threads released, rate limiting on #Twitter and huge spikes in traffic to the #Fediverse, new features and the first million installs for #Bluesky...

With all this growth (and not without some pain) here are some ways we can all take care of each other and this place.

https://dev.to/fastly/its-been-a-wild-week-for-the-open-social-web-2c8o @devs #FastForward

I'm super excited to share a conversation I had recently with #FastForward program member @unascribed.

Una is the creator of #Jortage, a communal storage pool for #Fediverse instances. The project helps admins here on #Mastodon and beyond keep costs down by pooling resources and de-duplicating content storage across the 70+ #instances that use it.

So let's get into it: https://dev.to/fastly/community-spotlight-una-thompson-is-making-the-fediverse-more-manageable-with-jortage-34gk

I attended #FediForum a couple weeks ago — there was so much great conversation, and you can see notes from all sessions here: 
https://fediforum.org/2023-03/

I called a session about how companies like #Fastly can be good stewards of the #Fediverse and grow it sustainably, for people, projects, and the planet.

I’m curious what everyone on #Fedi thinks too — here's more info about we’re doing with #FastForward and @glitchdotcom now: 
https://www.slideshare.net/HannahAubry1/fast-forward-for-the-fediverse-257444373 

So what are your ideas or concerns?

@asjmcguire I'm planning to write a wrap-up of the sessions I attended, but since there were multiple tracks going on, that won't be comprehensive of the whole day.

I'd be glad to collaborate with other @fediforum #FediForum attendees on something comprehensive!

Last week, #mastodon reached 10 million users (and is already a quarter of the way to another million)!

So I asked my friends here what they thought we needed to do or add to the #fediverse to keep scaling — to share this place with more people, to ensure that growth happens with intention, and to keep people safe.

Here's what we came up with: https://dev.to/fastly/mastodon-has-10-million-users-ieo

#ActivityPub #FastForward #community #OpenSource

@bmann @fediversereport

"People join via their existing institution ID." < this is fascinating to me — it's an answer to concerns about ease-of-use, and also possibly verification. I sent this to Boris in another thread, I'm curious your thoughts on it too, Laurens... Have you seen California’s Digital ID project?

@bmann @fediversereport

I'm imagining a system which verifies your identity against the digital ID database... Then would (in this case) California host a publicly accessible instance too? At first blush that seems like a stretch to me. Then again, our taxes pay for public infrastructure like roads and highways. Why not information superhighways too!

Whoa — #Mastodon passed 10 million users yesterday. According to @mastodonusercount, the number of hours people spend on here is increasing too. That's incredible.

It's a moment to celebrate and to get excited about the work we still have ahead scaling and securing the #fediverse.

I'm starting work on a blog about what it will take to get us to the next 10 million, and I'm curious about what my friends on here think about it. What do we need, in terms of tech or otherwise, to keep growing?

@bmann yes! @mozilla and @medium have instances, who else?

governments and cities... somehow, I feel like they'll be the last to the party. Have you seen any examples of such? the only location-based instances I've encountered so far are grassroots efforts from locals.

and completely agree on the tooling and systems... it will be interesting to see what springs up for the non-technical aspects of adminning an instance, like policy drafting, community management, etc.

I’m lucky in my work to see firsthand the impact of what we do on systems and the people that run them.

We’re supporting @Mastodon through #FastForward because @Gargron, @renchap, and the entire #Mastodon team are doing important work and we want to help them scale it with integrity.

Well and it’s pretty neat to have a front-row seat (walk-on part?) to the revolution ? #TheFutureIsFederated

https://dev.to/fastly/welcome-mastodon-to-fast-forward-11g4 #ActivityPub #fediverse #OpenSource