WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:26.000 Thank you very much to having me here again, so who am I, I'm a Floss enthusiast from Berlin, 00:26.000 --> 00:36.560 and I'm on the 31st since 2008. I'm one of the last very laconicats. I am in a friendica 00:36.560 --> 00:42.880 core development team since around 2010 when I thought about setting up the aspirin and 00:42.880 --> 00:49.520 pay it miserably, but then discovered that the friendica's software stack is that easy 00:49.520 --> 00:59.040 that even I would manage to use it. I funded the Berlin 31st meet-ups 2012 or something, and 00:59.840 --> 01:07.600 some 10 years later we started to think about organizing a conference in Berlin, and we will have 01:07.600 --> 01:15.680 this third, third day in Berlin this year. And in my day drop, I'm a system administrator at the 01:15.680 --> 01:24.720 Free Software Foundation Europe, which happens to be the 25th time at Boston, and it happens to be 01:24.720 --> 01:37.440 also the 25th year for the Free Software Foundation Europe. If you like the fight for software 01:37.520 --> 01:44.160 freedom in Europe and want to support us, it would be a shame, if effort if you would not get 01:44.160 --> 01:51.200 at least 25 new supporters. If you are not yet supporting, please get in that QR code and 01:52.560 --> 02:06.960 get a badge. Yes, we would set that up. So what is friendica? Many people compare friendica with 02:06.960 --> 02:16.560 Facebook, being the Facebook alternatives on the Fediverse, and we started to be set back in 2010. 02:16.560 --> 02:23.360 I deleted my Facebook account in 2012. I have no clue what Facebook is looking at the moment, 02:23.360 --> 02:31.200 so if you say so, I'm happy with that. I cannot really drop. What we are is a decentralized social 02:31.280 --> 02:37.600 communications platform linking to other independent social networks like the Fediverse, 02:37.600 --> 02:45.840 but also to some corporate services like Tumblr, BlueSky, we have X integration, 02:45.840 --> 02:54.880 and we even had Facebook integration when it was still possible. We have a nice homepage, we have 02:54.960 --> 03:00.400 lit our code identity between GitHub and our own self-hosted, 03:02.080 --> 03:12.720 get instance, we are running on PHP, 7.4 up to 8.5. It's basically that you're an old stable 03:12.720 --> 03:22.320 most of the time, that we are still supporting and you need MariaDB. And yeah, if you haven't seen 03:22.320 --> 03:29.440 my talk from last year, please scan that other QR code, you will land up on that page and 03:29.440 --> 03:36.480 can rewatch the entire presentation there. The other question, who is friendica? It's a relatively 03:36.480 --> 03:44.160 small team, so Mike Nagov and started friendica 2010, and then the next four persons are basically 03:44.160 --> 03:50.160 the core development team, that is me, that is Mike Kerl who sits back there, so if you have any 03:50.160 --> 03:58.240 technical questions, he has to answer that for you. People like and Philip are mostly 03:58.240 --> 04:07.760 back in the back end, and over the last year, Markos and Arthur joined working on front end and 04:07.760 --> 04:15.440 back end stuff, and I'm really happy that they joined, but not only they joined, but in total 04:15.440 --> 04:24.480 some 20 new people arrived on the credits file, which I just regenerated, and if you have seen 04:24.480 --> 04:30.640 the last year's talk, you know that slide already, and the only new addition is the last line, 04:30.640 --> 04:40.080 because 2025 we didn't have any release, and that didn't just make flux the confused. Many 04:40.160 --> 04:58.640 people ask what's going on, and see images too large, I don't know, there it is, so what's going 04:58.640 --> 05:08.560 on my day time drop correlated with experiences on my little home server with kind of 05:09.520 --> 05:20.080 dedosing many services that I'm hardly maintaining, there were a lot of LLM scraping swarms, 05:20.080 --> 05:28.080 harvesting everything, and they did not only harvest data, they also drained a lot of motivation 05:28.080 --> 05:35.840 to just turn off on the computer, so I spent many days not looking on my computer, 05:36.320 --> 05:44.320 and now the next image is not showing up, great. There it is, but I was helping many people 05:44.320 --> 05:51.680 to use their old hardware, just a little bit longer by just replacing the one operation system 05:51.680 --> 05:58.800 by another operation system, because Microsoft decided to end this support for Windows 10, 05:58.880 --> 06:07.120 and many people got annoyed to have to get a new one, so in Berlin we ended up with a bunch 06:07.120 --> 06:24.000 of workshops, with a gold-old Linususau party. I see you, there it is, and then the 06:24.160 --> 06:31.760 Fediver's diplomatic costs called and asked me to do something like a presentation and workshop 06:31.760 --> 06:38.880 every month or so about the Fediver's, so I ended up spending the rest of my time for that kind of 06:38.880 --> 06:48.800 stuff, and Zandra already told you so earlier today, we need more people doing outreach for the 06:48.800 --> 07:00.640 Fediver's, yes, and it's not only giving talks and conferences, it's just like tell, 07:00.640 --> 07:07.120 I've seen something interesting on the Fediver's, just keep it in the mouth, talk about the Fediver's, 07:07.120 --> 07:13.120 and people will ask you, hey, and what is it Fediver's thing you are talking about, and then you 07:13.200 --> 07:21.840 can tell them the story of decentralized social network. Okay, other people like Michael and the 07:21.840 --> 07:30.880 other contributors, where active, working on friendica, putting things together, and I managed, 07:30.880 --> 07:37.760 saying to force them, saying to you guys, to inviting me, to have a release ready for force. 07:37.760 --> 07:45.520 So, in the last year, we got improvements for the front end, mostly in the freeer scheme. 07:45.520 --> 07:52.640 We also improved the screen reader compatibility, and we improved our mustardon compatible 07:52.640 --> 08:03.520 API, so you can use almost any mustardon client with friendica and be happy. We overhold the embedding 08:03.520 --> 08:12.400 stuff of things people post elsewhere, so that it's now actually working, and we also overhold 08:12.400 --> 08:18.480 the add-on integration stuff, so should you have written an add-on for friendica, 08:19.440 --> 08:25.040 and it's not in the main repository for add-ons, and you might need to update your code. 08:26.000 --> 08:35.680 We improved some of our supported steps, and as people always ask, hey, you're the Facebook 08:35.680 --> 08:44.640 on friend, the Fediver's right, where is the Facebook set, it's now back. So, it's based, the add-on, 08:44.640 --> 08:52.640 is based on conversations, I think, and we now finally have a website again. Thank you very much 08:52.640 --> 08:59.920 to all the contributors, new and old who made progress last year while I was fighting bots 08:59.920 --> 09:09.520 and stuff. Most important for me, the most important feature for me was already introduced in 09:09.520 --> 09:17.760 2020-3, which is user-defined algorithms. To be honest, I really hate if we are promoting the 09:17.760 --> 09:26.160 Fediver's as being a place without algorithms. I know what we mean with by that, I know that 09:26.160 --> 09:33.440 it's kind of true, but I really would love to see more places where people can define their 09:33.440 --> 09:45.600 own algorithms to sort the view on timelines, and Michael spent a lot of time into improving 09:45.600 --> 09:55.360 our channel feature, and improving the performance of that feature. So, it's just brilliantly past, 09:55.360 --> 10:04.640 I think on my Raspberry Home server, the channel view loads into seconds or something, which initially 10:04.640 --> 10:14.880 took something like 30 seconds and you had to wait to see postings in them. So, 26, what 10:15.600 --> 10:23.280 are we planning to do? Well, actually, Frenica does not really plan anything, so the sky 10:23.280 --> 10:31.360 is a limit, and we will see at the end of the year. But we want to make it really easy for 10:31.360 --> 10:39.120 node admins to import the server block lists by ifters, because I think they do a really great 10:39.200 --> 10:48.000 job there. I'm so sorry that you had just a couple of years to early. I really hope that we get 10:48.000 --> 10:57.360 ifters and Frens of ifters running again. Michael wants to do into blue sky integration just a 10:57.360 --> 11:07.920 little bit more than we actually do already. We want to have more improvements for the accessibility 11:08.000 --> 11:16.240 of Frenica, and during doing the release, we realized that parts of our tool chain 11:17.120 --> 11:24.560 need maybe some switching, so that will be something happening in the background, and I promise 11:24.560 --> 11:34.240 that there will be more releases than last year. If you want to get involved, just do. We are 11:34.320 --> 11:41.040 pretty open. The core developers are really friendly and really helpful, and spend a lot of time 11:41.040 --> 11:50.160 explaining why we did something the way we did. In the repositories, we have attacked for 11:52.160 --> 12:01.360 issues that look easy to join us. I love to see more translations of Frenica. I love to see 12:02.000 --> 12:11.120 more people working on this small address of our web front end. I like to see more people working 12:11.120 --> 12:18.720 on the accessibility, and if you want to chat with us, we have three community chats that actually 12:18.720 --> 12:25.920 are one because they are bridged altogether, and the discussion either happens in the 12:26.400 --> 12:34.400 issue trackers or actually within Frenica because we have groups and people can join groups 12:34.400 --> 12:43.120 like the developers groups. So, save some dates, please. If you are remotely part of the 12:43.120 --> 12:52.080 Frenica community and you like Frens, let's meet tomorrow at two and go down to Frenica to get 12:52.080 --> 12:59.600 some fries. Then, an offspring in Germany, we have the headache hem, which is great, which is 12:59.600 --> 13:07.040 somewhere in the nowhere of West Germany. Living in Berlin, it's kind of a long travel, and we decided 13:07.040 --> 13:13.680 to, okay, we can fry that somewhere, nowhere somewhere in Brandenburg. So, let's, let's have a 13:13.680 --> 13:22.880 free, meet up at the seaside, and then early September, Zander already told you, we will have 13:22.880 --> 13:32.320 the third Berlin Frenica and the call for participation should be out and of February, early March, 13:33.040 --> 13:40.880 and we would like to see many of you people coming to Berlin joining the conference and contribute 13:41.040 --> 13:49.200 to that. Sure, that's it. I'm open for questions, and I guess you can grab 13:49.200 --> 14:03.200 Michael off afterwards outside as well. Great, thank you to this. Does anybody have any Frenica related 14:03.280 --> 14:14.960 questions or anything about how awesome Berlin is or just generally like? Really? Evan, Evan, Evan, 14:14.960 --> 14:24.240 maybe. So, I think one thing I want to ask is it is a code base that has 14:25.360 --> 14:31.120 held together the Fediverse for the last decade and a half, right? It's been the, the throughline, 14:32.080 --> 14:37.440 but you know, sometimes we say that that's that you get technical debt and legacy, 14:37.440 --> 14:45.120 how have you dealt with having such a mature code base over time as the Fediverse has changed? 14:47.280 --> 14:56.320 How do we deal with it? I guess we have an overhaul of most of the back end every three 14:56.400 --> 15:04.160 or four years or something. To just adopt new struggle against ahead and realizing 15:04.160 --> 15:09.920 what we did there ten years ago was really not the way we should have done that and let's just 15:09.920 --> 15:25.760 screw that all up and rework everything. So, now I start. So, I will admit that I am 15:25.840 --> 15:31.040 completely new to Frenica and I just know that it's a platform on the Fediverse and I have heard 15:31.040 --> 15:37.680 it being compared to Facebook, would you say that accurate comparison? Yes. I mean, I said in the 15:37.680 --> 15:44.720 beginning, I have deleted my Facebook account 2012, I don't really know how Facebook is looking 15:44.720 --> 15:52.960 nowadays, but we have events in Frenica, we have picture albums where you can share your galleries, 15:53.040 --> 16:03.840 we have AI slopes for users, generated advertising AI slope, is that in there? I want to make 16:03.840 --> 16:12.960 my move the seamless as possible. We can, I mean, we have add-ons, we can probably create an add-on 16:12.960 --> 16:32.240 for you to add AI generated advertisements. Just for you, Andy. Yes, yes, yes. I'm excited. I didn't 16:32.240 --> 16:36.400 spot that you just done a new release, so I'm excited to check out whether the instance that I 16:36.400 --> 16:40.560 have an account on has updated and that's really exciting so thank you for sharing it. 16:40.560 --> 16:45.360 All right, one more time, thank you so much to BS.