Introduction to the Fediverse

Introduction to the Fediverse - especially Mastodon and ActivityPub

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1. VSHN – The DevOps Company Tobias Brunner, CTO Intro to Fediverse 1
2. VSHN – The DevOps Company Fedi…​ What? Fedi Federation Verse Universe Sharing information over boundaries of instances Interoperability with open standard: ActivityPub (W3C) et.al. 2
3. VSHN – The DevOps Company Re-decentralize the Internet Get rid of monopolies Own your data Set and enforce your rules Enable innovation Huge growth since November 2022: 10 Million+ No algorithm telling you what to read But…​ Why? 3
4. VSHN – The DevOps Company Join Mastodon 4
5. VSHN – The DevOps Company To quickly get started on Mastodon: 1. Choose a server: 2. Register 3. Enjoy 4. Optional: Choose an App OK! How? joinmastodon.org/servers 5
6. VSHN – The DevOps Company Mastodon was started 2016 in Germany Today it’s a gGmbH (non-profit) By far the most used wsoftware in Fediverse today Similar feeling to Twitter Live Demo now! Non-Fun-Facts: Ruby monolith, hard to scale and run Mastodon? 6
7. VSHN – The DevOps Company Instances Identities Similarities to SMTP Server to Server: ActivityPub Client to Server: Usually the Mastodon API Webfinger Excourse: Concepts 7
8. VSHN – The DevOps Company  Tons!  Takahē, GNU social, Pleroma (Microblogging) PixelFed (Photo sharing) PeerTube (Video sharing) Plugins to WordPress and others 1) 2) Alternatives delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-apps/ fediverse.party/ 8
9. VSHN – The DevOps Company To find and follow people: Search! To boost: Search! Use "Content Warning" to mark "sensitive" content Write an image caption if you add one For direct messages use post visibility Know the difference between Favorites and Boosts There are no quote boosts like Twitter has Follow Hashtags for example for events Posts can be edited Practical Tips 9
10. VSHN – The DevOps Company - based on Takahē Runs on APPUiO Cloud At VSHN vshn.social Why Takahē? Allows for multiple identities Easy to run Lightweight Currently missing Post scheduling Integration in marketing tools 10
11. VSHN – The DevOps Company Further Information fedi.tips/ joinfediverse.wiki/ fediverse.info/ fediverse.observer/ delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-clients/ tobru.ch/how-to-mastodon/ 11
12. VSHN – The DevOps Company Tobias Brunner, CTO – VSHN AG – Neugasse 10 – CH-8005 Zürich – +41 44 545 53 00 – – Thanks! tobias.brunner@vshn.ch vshn.ch info@vshn.ch 12
13. VSHN – The DevOps Company Questions? 13
14. VSHN – The DevOps Company curl "https://vshn.social/.well-known/webfinger? resource=acct:news@vshn.social" | jq . Backup Slide: Webfinger { "subject": "acct:news@vshn.social", "aliases": [ "https://vshn.social/@news/" ], "links": [ { "rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://vshn.social/@news/" }, { "rel": "self", "type": "application/activity+json", "href": "https://vshn.social/@news@vshn.social/" } ] } 14
15. VSHN – The DevOps Company curl -H "Accept: application/ld+json" | jq . Backup Slide: Inbox vshn.social/@news@vshn.social/ { "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" ], "id": "https://vshn.social/@news@vshn.social/", "type": "Person", "inbox": "https://vshn.social/@news@vshn.social/inbox/", "attachment": [ { "type": "http://schema.org#PropertyValue", "value": "<a href=\"https://www.vshn.ch\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://www.vshn.ch</a>", "name": "Website" } ], "endpoints": { "sharedInbox": "https://vshn.social/inbox/" }, "icon": { "type": "Image", "mediaType": "image/png", "url": "https://sos-ch-gva-2.exo.io:443/vshn-social-takahe-prod/profile_images/2023/1/17/lO9BeK_inFU48X1q }, "name": "VSHN News" 15
16. VSHN – The DevOps Company curl | jq . Backup Slide: Nodeinfo vshn.social/nodeinfo/2.0/ { "version": "2.0", "software": { "name": "takahe", "version": "0.7.0" }, "protocols": [ "activitypub" ], "services": { "outbound": [], "inbound": [] }, "usage": { "users": { "total": 3 }, "localPosts": 7 }, "openRegistrations": false, "metadata": {} } 16