Into the Fediverse - Omaha Elixir Mixer
About this talk #
As Facebook and Twitter have dominated news headlines with a series of high-profile debacles, an international, grassroots movement has quietly been building momentum. The Federated Universe - or Fediverse - offers social media alternatives with an emphasis on privacy, transparency, open source code, and local control. Using the ActivityPub protocol as a unifying standard, these applications are able to communicate across separate “instances” and even across separate applications.
The Fediverse offers a new world of possibilities for both users and developers, and Elixir is a natural fit for this world. (Spoiler alert - Jose Valim is there!)
Presented at the Omaha Elixir Mixer meetup in May 2023, this talk explores what makes the Fediverse special, what makes it challenging, and where it might grow from here.