Episode 137: Resistance Is Federated

Amolith, Conor and Shane discuss federated communities as resistance against big tech. They touch on AcitivityPub and the network effect problem. Then they talk about RSS.

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

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Discussion

• Loops, made by Pixelfed

• Bluesky

• Fedilab

• Free Our Feeds, as discussed on Late Night Linux

• Spritely Institute

• ActivityPub W3 Standard

• Mobilizon

• Network effect

• PeerTube

• Skymoth the Mastodon - Bluesky crossposter

• You Should Be Using an RSS Reader by Cory Doctorow

• Feeder

• Want My RSS Firefox addon

• KOReader

• Calibre

• Wallabag

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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.