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