First talk today at the Social Web Devroom we have @pfefferle talking about the state of WordPress's fediverse integration
#FOSDEM #ActivityPub #fedidev
Excited to see WordPress still using the @FediverseSymbol throughout the interface
Next up is @andypiper and @haubles talking about @Mastodon's vision
@andypiper: "mastodon is part of a movement" "it is part of the fediverse"

@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
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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
@liaizon "barebones" i'll grant, but the idea of "no notifications" is funny because the inbox is all notifications. a separate "home feed" would ideally be an, uh... separate feed. in many cases you can construct one based on the notifications you receive in your inbox! that doesn't seem to be what mastodon is going for, though, so it's no wonder they weren't keen on using it (i.e. different goals)
@liaizon what is needed for a social platform is an entire suite of apis, not just one endpoint.