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Emissary and the Fediverse

H.2215 (Ferrer) | Day 1 | 18:30 - 19:00 | Speakers: Ben Pate

Emissary and the Fediverse
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Abstract

The "social web" is at a crossroads. To have a meaningful impact on society means growing beyond our roots among tech enthusiasts and social misfits. But growth and change cannot sacrifice the core values that differentiate the social web from closed media systems.

This talk will be one part a manifesto for the social web, and one part technology demonstration showcasing Emissary -- my proposed solutions for the challenges ahead.

https://emmissary.dev https://bandwagon.fm https://atlasmaps.org https://qwertylicious.dev

Speakers

Ben Pate

Ben Pate is a humanist and technologist with hyper-fixations in decaffeinated tea and imported chocolate. He is also a veteran startup founder and CTO whose work is driven by a love of software and of the passionate early days of the Internet - when we believed that our new technology would open doors and level the playing field between the large middlemen and individual creatives.

Ben is now the creator of Emissary - a programmable ActivityPub server that enables developers to launch custom Fediverse applications in weeks, using only HTML and JSON.

He lives with his family in Denver, Colorado, and is a fantastic drummer, atrocious guitar player, and can't wait to get home for snowboarding season.

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