From Millions To Billions — Johannes Ernst — FediCon 2025

Johannes Ernst gave a talk at FediCon 2025: From Millions to Billions: A plausible narrative for growing the Open Social Web.

Johannes Ernst is a Entrepreneur, Developer, Organizer who is recognized for: FediForum, the Fediverse Developer Network, FediTest, Light-Weight Identity/OpenID .

Follow Johannes Ernst at:
https://j12t.social/@j12t

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FediCon 2025 was organized by:
• Charles Iliya Krempeaux https://mastodon.social/@reiver
• Crissy Kuchisabishii Geco https://tech.lgbt/@Crissy
• Sal Rahman https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee
• Anuj Ahooja https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq

@fedicon I never thought of expanding the open social web to making all the web social! Great presentation!

Excellent talk @[email protected]

Thanks @adamtewodros !

I didn't say it explicitly in the talk, but one way to think about it is an upgrade to the web itself. In addition to websites, universal clients, hyperlinks etc, we add people as first class objects with associated retrievable information (like their social graph) and the ability to send structured content between websites.

There is no need we have to stick with the same concepts we've had since the early 90's -- and arguable those were missing even then.

@fedicon

@j12t @adamtewodros @fedicon

most newspapers websites leave those terrible un moderated boards for commenting each article

@luca It turns out that if the identities users used to comment on newspaper bulletin boards were the same as what people use in other places, if you blocked somebody on your home instance, you wouldn't see what they wrote on the newspaper site either. At least I believe this can be implemented.

@adamtewodros @fedicon

[email protected] [email protected] a number of publishers just removed the comment section wholesale, which is an even worse end result.

Bringing them back under the umbrella of the open social web would be great.