Free Open Source Software is at the heart of the Federated Social revolution that's gathering momentum. David Chartier joins John to walk through where we are in that journey so far, the current players, the current challenges and value of having multiple social-network options.With David Chartier and John Chidgey.Related Article Links:

TechDistortion: Engineered Space Take 2
TechDistortion Fediverse Series: Own Your Social Graph

Related Episode Links:

Pragmatic Episode 89: The Problem Is Us
Pragmatic Episode 80: Mastodon

Fediverse Apps:

Whalebird
Hyperspace
The Desk
Mastonaut
Tusky for Mastodon
Subway Tooter
Fedilab
Tootle for Linux
Mast
Mast on GitHub
Toot!
Amaroq

Miscellaneous Links:

Free and Open-Source Software
The Free Software Definition
Introducing MissKey
An Interview with Eugen Rochko
Pleroma ‘Compliant’ List of Applications
Mastodon ‘Compliant’ List of Applications
Best way to move instances on Mastodon
How to migrate from one server to another
Gab Explained

Message Threads of Potential Interest:

Toot! FlakeIDs Message Thread
Pleroma Free App Message Thread
Gab Forking Mast as Well Message Thread
‘Why are there so many people for hate speech?’ Message Thread

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