g0v.social: a 4-year journey of distrubuted social (communal) media

One of the goal of g0v.tw is providing an open platform for civil participation. g0v.social(https://g0v.social) is a federated social media quietly running for 4 years. It's based on the Mastodon(https://joinmastodon.org/) open source project and connect to 2 millions+ global users with the "ActivityPub" open protocol.

In this talk, we'll share the 4 years journey of maintaining the community of g0v.social and experiences on the following topics:

* The pros and cons between centralized (facebook/twitter), federated, and decentralized social media.

* The first step is the hardest: How to leverage open source project and open protocol to create a network effect at the start.

* Maintaining and developing civil tech project for longevity: Open source, Funding, Human, and Mental Health.

* How to maintain a community with Mastodon

Related info:https://g0v.social

keywords:社群媒體、去中心化、長期維護

Moderator

jxtsai / Kaohsiung

(not applicable)

Former non-governmental organizations worker, interested in digital rights. Localization volunteer for various internet freedom tools projects, like Tor, Tails, SecureDrop etc.

More info:https://medium.twngo.xyz

Poga / Taipei

g0v.social

Programmer. Participate in g0v.tw since 2013. Focus on distributed system, decentralization, P2P, Privacy, and Security in recent years.

More info:https://devpoga.org

CC by 4.0 - g0v Summit 2020

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Lunch

Break

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Political Machines

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