Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 11 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
With me today is Niccolò Ve! Niccolò Ve studies mathematics, writes Italian poetry, studies chess, is a boy scout leader, a student representative at his university and as if that isn't enough he also promotes and contributes to the open source KDE organization AND makes excellent Peertube videos. Niccolò, thank you for fitting me into your VERY busy schedule and thank you for joining me today and for all the incredible work you do.
Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 10 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
I'm very EXCITED about my guest today. I'm so excited I took a shower, shaved my head and face, wore my BEST t-shirt and shorts, and I even brushed my teeth! TO be fair I do all those things daily and I was out doing yard work earlier and needed a shower, BUT if I hadn't, I still would have done it for my guest!
With me today is Dansup! Dansup is “just a guy from canada building things for the fediverse”. No one big. You probably don't even know him ... oh wait ... I'm being told he's made a few things and that he's “an aspiring astronaut, community creator and determined dreamer. – Currently building Pixelfed.org, an ethical and federated photo sharing platform powered by ActivityPub..”
Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 9 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
With me today is Robert Kingett! Robert is a writer of fiction and nonfiction as well as a technical writer and accessibility specialist. Robert has been helping with disability access improvements in the Fediverse. His biggest contributions have been to the open source and federated book review application Bookwyrm. Robert is blind and has a stutter. He has very deep thoughts on old people, taxes, and animals. And finds Santa Claus to be very rude that he never responds to children's letters. So Robert I'm not disabled and haven't really worked around anyone that's been disabled, so if you have any suggestions for me going forward, please do not hesitate to help me learn.
Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 8 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
With me today is Paige from FediHost! Paige is an entrepreneur that started Fedihost with his friend Victor. As Paige puts it they're “just a couple of true believers who saw a need for fediverse infrastructure after learning the hard way how difficult fediverse services can be to setup.” Fedihost is a “fully managed fediverse hosting” platform.
Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 7 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
With me today is Andy Piper, Head of Communications with Mastodon! Andy is an industry veteran that brings a very unique view to the fediverse by having extensive tech and social media expertise. Andy has 20 years of open source experience. Andy has worked with IBM, Cloud Foundry and even Twitter. Around the Fediverse Andy has worked on projects involving Postmarks, social web tracker for FOSDEM, as well as working with our previous guest Johannes on FediDevs.org.
Today I interviewed Rimu from PieFed Social. It's a Python powered Forum software built on the Fediverse. It's akin to Lemmy, MBin, Reddit, etc.
It looks like a super nice tech stack, the website loads fast, it connects to everything else. I was sold on PieFed when a community member asked if I could interview Rimu.
After talking with him I knew I was going to make an account. Before I got around to it though I posted the Fireside Fedi episode to my Peertube.
Rimu pinged me because it was set to private, which I quickly realized was my own doing and I fixed it. As soon as I did he let me know that PieFed can natively sync Peertube:
THAT IS THE FEDIVERSE! Pick your software stack and sync anywhere. The power houses of the Fediverse are great, but they're kind of siloing themselves. THIS is what the Fediverse was all about.
You can watch the video from PieFed. You can comment, you can like, you can subscribe to the Forum. It all syncs with my Peertube. THAT is what this is all about! THAT is something big tech can never and will never do.
MORE of this PLEASE! :-D
Thank you again Rimu for joining me, spending your time and energy on FOSS and the Fediverse, and showing me how the Fediverse ideas are still growing and we're still in it's infancy.
Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 6 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
With me today is Rimu! Rimu is the primary developer of pyfedi, a link aggregator such as Lemmy / Mbin which is similar to Reddit, written in Python and Flask. Rimu's piefed.social is powered by his pyfedi application and the site looks very clean and looking at the software looks fairly easy to configure. Rimu thank you very much for joining me.
Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 5 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
With me today is Johannes! I met Johannes when I found out about the FediForum. FediForum is the “unconference for the people who move the open social web forward.” I want to read Johanne's description on his j12t.org page as I just love it:
“I believe the world is better if people are in control of their own destiny. In technology, that means we need to control our data, freely choose the software we use with our data and fairly negotiate the terms by which we interact with others, including which data is and isn't shared. Not a fan of overlords, in politics and in technology.
Very excited about the opportunities on the resurging open social web / the Fediverse.
Also: Facts matter. Empathy, inclusion, opportunity.”
Johannes' impressive current list of projects include Dazzle Labs, FediDevs, FediForum, FedTest and UBOS. As well as many other and previous projects.
Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 4 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
With me today is Laurin! Laurin has been a climate activist sine 2019 and is currently working part time on ActivityPods thanks to NLNet. ActivityPods are meant to bring Sir Tim Burnerss Lee's, father of the modern internet, Solid Pod technology and combine it with ActivityPub the protocol that powers the Fediverse. That has to be some of the most technical things I've ever talked about. Laurin, welcome and thank you for taking the time to talk with me.
I have deployed Castopod for those that want just an audio experience. You can follow this from any Fediverse enabled application. I THINK, though I'm not sure and I'd love to hear from those that use Podcasts, that you can also get this in your podcast app. If that doesn't work though, please let me know as I've never podcasted before.
I've also set up Mobilizon in order to manage events around when there are interviews or maybe something else in the future. I believe this is also connected to the Fediverse to follow and you can get an ics file for importing to your calendar app of choice.
I'm also hosting a Proton Calendar ICS file as well for those that want anything I add to that calendar. That'll probably be updated with the Mobilizon stuff.