@haubles just dropped the massive news that Mastodon is going to be changing the default signup flow on mobile apps to choose an instance thats geographically close to you instead of choosing mastodon.social by default!

UPDATE: their official announcement here: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989801184595302

the internet went down and then I went to get a coffee with @douginamug! Just got back and caught the end of @bjoernsta's talk about https://savesocial.eu

@evanprodromou is up next talking about Tags.pub #HashTagsAreGreat

GitHub - social-web-foundation/tags.pub: Global hashtag server

Global hashtag server. Contribute to social-web-foundation/tags.pub development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub (github.com)

And now @cypherhippie has a lightning talk about bringing #DIDs to the fediverse

A slide of a slide of @arcalinea talking about using DIDs for ATProto

A slide of @snarfed.org agreeing with the premise of bringing DIDs to the fediverse

Core Assumptions
1) "Communities must be in control"
2) "Nobody shall be locked-in"
3) "There is NO FREE marketplace of ideas."

Next we have @django presenting some ideas about moving the ActivityPub API C2S forward

A quote from @Gargron about how C2S was seriously lacking

Oh hell yeah looks like @django used my https://iconography.fediverse.info for their slides!

After a short break we have @raffomania is presenting a new federated bookmark sharing software called 'ties'
https://github.com/raffomania/ties

The philosophy of 'ties'

Oh @raffomania wants to do full text search of an archived version of websites from 'ties'

@samvie up next with a talk about digital sovereignty!

all the orgs that signed the "open networks and democratic public spheres" alience

Fedimedia Italia presenting their association!

Who is Fedimedia Italia:

Wow Fedimedia Italia has *a lot* of instances

Oh cool and also @raccoonforfriendicaapp and #Flohra are also under their umbrella