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# <!-- fit --> Into the federated Universe

### Digital sovereignty through decentral communication

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###### by April John ([@april:blahaj.nyc][matrix])

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[matrix]: https://github.com/marp-team

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# Content notes

- Technical details of the activitypup protocoll
- The politics behind different fediverse servers
- Inter-project politics
- Unused potential of the Fediverse
- Does it need to be federated?
- Why dont we do peer to peer?

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April John
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@april@donotsta.re
@april:blahaj.nyc

##### Things im known for:

- Fediverse Software Maintainer
- Linux Kernel Contributor
- Professional pro-grammar kitten

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# The idea of a federated universe.

- Founding of twitter in 2006 as microblogging service
- Open Standard OStatus 2008
- Making of gnu-social 2013
- ActivityPup in 2018
- finally, a federated universe! The fediverse!

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# Fediverse? You mean Mastodon?

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