Welcome to the fediverse: Exploring Mastodon, ActivityPub and beyond [Special]

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

For many who have been part of the recent migration of users from Twitter to Mastodon, their first encounters with the "fediverse" have been puzzling, even disorienting. Given a decade in which we've all grown accustomed to the affordances of corporate social media, it's not surprising people have questions: How does it work, exactly? How am I supposed to use it?

With so much current interest in the platform — and the wider ecosystem of which it is a part — in this special bonus episode of the Technology Podcast, Birgitta Böckeler digs into the technology and culture of Mastodon with the help of Effy Elden, Moritz Heiber and Julien Deswaef, three Thoughtworkers that have been long-time residents of the fediverse. They discuss how Mastodon works, how it sits within the broader decentralized social media landscape and whether this move to Mastodon marks the start of a new chapter in how the world views social media.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome everybody to a new episode of the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast.
0:09.2	I'm your host for this episode, Begeta Buechata Bocula.
0:12.3	I'm a technical principle with ThoughtWorks based out of Berlin.
0:16.6	And today we want to talk about Macedon and or the Fediverse and we'll talk about what the difference
0:21.9	between those two things is.
0:24.0	And for this conversation I have here today the three main initiators of the ThoughtWorks
0:29.4	Massadon instance that was set up about four years ago.
0:34.1	And so if you maybe introduce yourselves, Effie Eldon, do you want to go first?
0:38.8	Hi, my name is Effie.
0:40.0	I'm a lead infrastructure consultant with ThoughtWorks, Melbourne.
0:43.6	I've been at ThoughtWorks for about five years now, and I tend to do kind of DevOps, duct tape,
0:48.9	cloud infrastructure, all that fun stuff.
0:51.9	Thanks.
0:52.5	And then Julian.
0:53.6	Hello.
0:54.7	So Julian, I'm based in of Barcelona.
0:57.4	I was hired as a designer, but now I'm head of social change for ThoughtWorks Spain.
1:02.9	And then finally we have Moritz.
1:05.5	Yes, hello.
1:06.8	My name is Moritz.
1:08.1	I've been with ThoughtWorks for almost eight years.
1:10.4	I'm a principal infrastructure Wrangler, I would say. And I've been
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