I'm the closing session for this amazing track because I need to talk to you that you're
something about that you're really doing bad.
So I think we need to start a revolution.
I think we started the revolution, but then we have one huge problem, the problem that
they have is, but before talking about problem, there is a joke here, well I keep you
for you to read, I want to say something that whatever I say to you today, don't trust
me, go and verify what I said, please, and use this principle for almost everything that
you do.
So we do a bad work, so I started fighting chat control way back, I organized a community,
I spoke to a lot of people, I spoke to journalists, and they said, we don't care,
whatever happens, we don't care about using or someone scanning our devices for bad
pictures, it's okay, and I said, okay, if you feel like that's fine, then I try to
talk to journalists, think about, you need to protect your sources, PGP is one way
of doing that, I will do a training for you free, come back, I'll explain how to set it up,
there was like a zero interest, they said, we don't care about that, yeah, I'm talking
about my country, Bulgaria, okay, not like a lot of international audience, then I
don't know if you can join a few conferences in Prague, you know, we have a really strong
kind of his community there, so if you want to join the revolution of the anarchists,
you can come to Prague, I started talking to some people and they said, okay, bad words,
bad words, bad words, I'm not allowed to mention, let them try, let them try to take
my privacy back and they will see what will happen, I said, okay, then I started creating
a conference call, called Floss, Free and Libra software, an open source software, two
certified back, I went to a lot of conferences in Prague, I did them one of a few mistakes,
I spoke about, you know, two like Briler, Delta Chat, Sessions, Messenger and War, and it
was really nice, but you know, the most questions I get is, how do I tell or how
they teach my grandmother to do that and why, so that is the problem that we have today as
a community and we need to solve it, yes, the technology is this, we saw like a tons of
examples, not just here, but across the whole campus today, amazing technology, that
works, right, and we here are using it, right, when you go outside and start asking
people, hey, do you know about this cool stuff, do you know about this protocol, do you
know that, you know, you can, there are two that respect your privacy, they say, I don't
care, so this is the problem, and after that, I mean, that was the structure part of
my talk, so now it's as the unstructured front, how do we change that? I have a task for
you, so I think our goal here today and there will be a lot of text for you to read,
so our goal is to protect everyone's communication, right, I hope this is something
that we agree on, our adoption, our goal is adoption because it doesn't, you know, we can
create awesome technologies, but if no one uses them, we are failing at our mission, so
I said, okay, I'll go and start collecting feedback, asking different people in my networks
and talking to ordinary people outside of my networks, asking, you know, what is the problem,
you know, we have these tools, you know, start describing the tools, what they do, why don't
you use it, and I ask you know, people using those tools, how you will, you know, convince
your mother or grant mother or somebody else to use it, so this is the feedback on a few
slides quickly, what is the result of this research, so keep an open mind, read through the
text, and think on how you can use this in your own products, so the sources are in
how can you use MasterDone, I get a few respondents in sessions messenger, I talk about
with a lot of people on various events, and I use some not-so-free messaging networks,
you know, everyone knows, because this is where our customers are, right, we want to save them,
so some of the results, those results are, you know, from real conversation or real feedback,
maybe some of you shared this with me, I don't want to share this, so I mentioned some people
in here, but they gave me the permission to do that, so the first result is, I asked, you know,
the question, how do you can be someone to start using, you know, the decentralized tools,
and said, you know, my doctor, I asked my doctor to respect my heeperite, so this was a woman,
and she wanted to discuss something with her doctor and she didn't address other
technologies, and she said, I want, you know, encryption and privacy before I start talking to you,
the other thing is, you know, fire follow me, you know, people said, you know, I have a lot of friends,
and they obviously like me, so I will, you know, tell them, I'm on this application, come and follow me,
I try this, no one follows me, so this is, you know, it doesn't speak to quality of my friends,
there is another one that said, you know, I said this, what's our business responder
that I moved to another application, and anyone that writes me, the last feedback is from an artist,
and he is doing most of his business through this application, and they moved to the other one.
A lot of other resources, but, you know, some of this is a really nice,
I think the key is just to make the best service, so it's really that privacy and security,
it's not the selling point for us, but when I go to the most of the websites of those applications,
the first message I get, encryption, privacy, blah, blah, blah, so I think that's the first
problem that I see, is that we need to go and find another language on which we can present our
our work, so the second one is, yeah, you can see that they use this specific software, which is,
you know, present here as well, not because it's free and open source, but because they
this specific software serves a problem that they have, they don't care whether it's free software
or not, that's extra value, so if one of our products or ideas can save a problem, it doesn't matter
whether it's privacy or encryption, you know, mention this will work, what else do I have?
Yeah, people still, where the friends are, this one is really interesting, it's that I use
this kind of server, I think, and when they had a problem, most of the communication went through
certain application, so this was another way on how to get a good amount of people to my
right on our solution as a banker. But you see, the main reason behind every switch was not the
better privacy, you know, but the product, so features that some of the main strips alternative,
alternatives they don't have, and this is someone comparing, I'll say, WhatsApp with Delta Chat,
so he said, most of my people don't like WhatsApp, they like Delta Chat because, you know,
there are some interesting items there and better groups, so this is one way how to do that.
There is more, another one, they don't like a few more left, it's using, you know, the kids,
you know, in a good way of course, so they don't need to have a phone number in order to use this app,
it's a really interesting study, there is, I think, not on this slide, but on the other one,
it's, you know, again, using your use case that you have even, you know, it's for kids,
you can move people by using, you know, their way of thinking, I think it's a one, just yes,
okay, I didn't have that one, sorry, I said, on strict truth. The other results is this application
was really used or useful in my friends, we were in the until government of protest in Sofia,
because it worked offline and without the need to sell connectivity, so this is one use case as well.
Now, there is another, from the Fedivers, asking, you know, what is the reason,
the obstacle on, you know, moving this to, asking people to move to alternative, so you can see that
there is something, like the barrier of the adoption is, you know, people don't know how to do that,
or they have lack of something else, which they're really used to that. There are three more from
the chat, same majority, you know, they, how they give examples and you can read this in the slides
after that, how to convince people and why they did that with their friends and, you know,
on a certain level of success. So since we don't have a lot of time, there are few ideas I would like
to ask you to think about when you're thinking to your next decision or moving forward with your
own product or the feature, you see if it, it says if it feels radical, people won't trust it.
This is really nice because when I go and talk to some friends that I have from, you know,
anarchist community, they are like, go like, very radical, hard, you know, we have to, you know,
make them, so people won't trust that, at least for now. So it needs to be something that the
people can trust to turn the messaging towards the people. I think our success is the adoption.
What is the value for people and how often they use it? Because even if you have great technology
and no one uses it, real failing, user experience must feel like something they already, you know,
we don't have to, you know, boost or, you know, promote new ideology, as it said,
without the convenience of a really usable way of fusing it. And there are, you know, more ideas on
how to do that. And, you know, the idea is to try to pick one group, for example, people that are
in, you know, universities, students, young people, try to, you know, reach out to them, see how they
can, you know, get your product, what they, but they know and understand about it, to convince them
slowly to do that. And then use the learnings to do something else, like in scaling.
So if you need to remember one thing from all of my blabbing today, if there is no user,
there is no decentralization. That's it. And yeah, if you want to continue the conversations,
because, you know, we don't have time. Those are my contacts, yeah, I'm cool. So please reach out
and let's continue talking. And thank you for spending the day today. I don't know if you
are going to say something more. But yeah, I really appreciate your coming here and listening
even to me. Thank you very much.