95: FOSS Social

Free Open Source Software is at the heart of the Federated Social revolution that's gathering momentum. David Chartier joins John to walk through where we are in that journey so far, the current players, the current challenges and value of having multiple social-network options.
With David Chartier and John Chidgey.

Related Article Links:

• TechDistortion: Engineered Space Take 2
• TechDistortion Fediverse Series: Own Your Social Graph

Related Episode Links:

• Pragmatic Episode 89: The Problem Is Us
• Pragmatic Episode 80: Mastodon

Fediverse Apps:

• Whalebird
• Hyperspace
• The Desk
• Mastonaut
• Tusky for Mastodon
• Subway Tooter
• Fedilab
• Tootle for Linux
• Mast
• Mast on GitHub
• Toot!
• Amaroq

Miscellaneous Links:

• Free and Open-Source Software
• The Free Software Definition
• Introducing MissKey
• An Interview with Eugen Rochko
• Pleroma ‘Compliant’ List of Applications
• Mastodon ‘Compliant’ List of Applications
• Best way to move instances on Mastodon
• How to migrate from one server to another
• Gab Explained

Message Threads of Potential Interest:

• Toot! FlakeIDs Message Thread
• Pleroma Free App Message Thread
• Gab Forking Mast as Well Message Thread
• ‘Why are there so many people for hate speech?’ Message Thread

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Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow, Joseph Antonio and Kevin Koch.