In addition to @hamishcampbell in Webinar with the European Commission and AP Community - #195 by hamishcampbell adding notes here for prep call 16 April 3pm CEST, my input for @CristinaDeLisle presentation.
Slide 1 to 11 feedback
Slide 4 Decentralization and the Web
I think it is best if this slide merely contained a Vision Statement, maybe a quote by Tim Berners-Lee or something.
The additional explanation can be in slide notes, and Cristina can briefly address these. I think most of the audience is aware of the early web and many differences, so that can be very brief.
Slide 5 How the web became centralized
Mention of web 1.0 (early web) and web 2.0 (rich web / social web) are concretely defined on Wikipedia, we can avoid mentioning them. A web 3.0 never really existed and it refers to Semantic Web.
As for the title: It is insufficient. There are a host of problems besides centralization. Maybe we can simply title “The Corporate Web” or “Towards a Corporate Web?”.
This slide highlights the trends that occurred under corporate influence: centralization, commercialisation, proprietary de-facto standards, vendor lock-in, walled gardens.
Slide contents need to be revamped imho, and the slide notes jump ahead to Slide 6: consequences
(Prior feedback at Meeting notes for prep call EC Webinar 19 April - #7 by aschrijver)
Slide 6 Web 2.0 10 years later
We can title this “The Open Web is Dying”
Here some good points listed, but the negative impact of today’s quasi-social web are way more far-reaching. Surveillance capitalism, disinformation / fake news are literally eroding society and democracies worldwide!
Tristan Harris (known from The Social Dilemma): “I am most concerned about an unraveling of the social fabric of society and civil wars” and mentioning “tech-accelerated social decay” (might be a bullet point)
We can end this slide with TBL’s “I was devastated” quote. Appearing on click (via slide fragment).
(Prior feedback at Meeting notes for prep call EC Webinar 19 April - #7 by aschrijver)
Slide 7 Re-decentralizing the web
In the explanation of Free Software might be prudent to mention that Copyleft does not mean you cannot earn money with it.
Slide 8 What is ActivityPub?
In more brief bullet points:
- W3C Recommendation since 2018
- Created by W3C Social Community WG
- Interoperable Messaging Protocol
- Facilitates decentralized (web) apps
- Not controlled by any one entity
- SocialHub / SocialCG innovation center
Slide 9 Diagrams…
Here we might include @mathewlowry’s enlightening diagrams on what distinguishes federation between diverse apps from traditional centralized social media.
It can be a quick follow-up of diagrams and does not need much time in additional explaining.
Slide 10 What is it used for?
I changed “Sharing Videos” to “Sharing Media” and then mentioned both “PeerTube (video), CastoPod (podcasts)” by @benjaminbellamy. Podcasting is a great domain to mention (PS. I have invited casto to SocialHub). They are French and they are training ppl to roll out the software in schools… (@wakest has more info).
At “Sharing Knowledge” added “Drupal, SkoHub, OLKI (Science)”. OLKI focuses on all aspects of Open Science publishing.
Added FedeProxy by @anon20068248 to “Sharing Code”. They recently received NGI DAPSI funding.
Might be good to add more than one app in most categories. United in diversity, these will eventually interoperate…
Slide 11 The Fediverse is a European take on social networking
I added the slogan “Social Media Reimagined”. I am using it a lot, didn’t discuss on the forum yet. Got very positive feedback so far for using this as a rallying cry. Would be great to see this be the credo of SocialHub community. See also: Webinar with the European Commission and AP Community - #102 by aschrijver
Can remove it from here to make room for the diagram, but I’d us to consider mentioning elsehwere then.