Hi everybody, everyone.
It's a big small dream to be here for two reasons, because we're here at Phasnam, first
time, and presenting Phasnam, which is the first Italian association dedicated to the
photographers, and that's a dream we had in the back of her head for many years.
And we did it, yeah.
So, let's start.
My name is Francesco, from I come from the IT, what developer designer, and then
my life, I took a different path, and I realized how urgent there are some urgent
battles.
For me, the most urgent one, it's the climate change, and I combine in open for future, I
combine to try to explain why speak about these two things, climate change, and Phas
Aktivism, especially followers, is very important.
I also present Philippe and Michele.
Hi, I'm Philippe de Rolyanka.
I'm one of the founders of Devol, is a group of activists.
Devol stands for the decentralized evolution, also the evolution.
And we manage about 12 physical projects, only for the Italian, and actually the president
of the media Italian.
Hi, I am Michele.
I am a sister of our Devol service, and we discovered that after this presentation.
So, we are with who are we, sorry, I'm tired.
So, Phedividian, we have a lot of independent projects in Italy, met, and decided to
start this association.
So, we are all independent, but we are a federation.
So, there is devil, which is providing this hosting, first, first softer,
based on the federation platforms, but also mixed cloud, and many other things.
Open for future, climate activists, the alternative, which is a blog about alternatives,
open source, but not only open source.
Of which it is zero, and many more.
The pillars are technology, rights, and ecology.
We are trying to build an ecosystem, not only providing services, but build community,
build community.
We also are not just an ecological approach, but also thinking about digital rights and ecology.
Here, probably it is easy, but I am also curious, who has no idea what is Fedivir's rights
your hands, okay?
Please come on, you are cheating, I know you, you are definitely cheating.
Okay, a few people before, for the few, in this case, normal is the opposite.
It is our platforms, like Maston, maybe you know Maston, they can speak to each other.
So, it is not only one platform, which is spread to several nodes, but also platforms of different kind,
like YouTube speaking with Facebook, sorry for the example.
With a mechanism, very similar to email, okay?
So, you are here familiar with email, and that is working kind of like that.
It is not only about the technological aspect, but also diversity, for me, it is really important to point out that.
So, you can build your server with your rules, showing different kind of communities with different kind of needs.
So, these are more or less the, no, these are all the platforms that we are more or less just opening every day on new platform, kind of.
We manage, complexively, all the projects.
So, there is a bit of everything, this is what we try to provide, you know, different kind of endpoints for different needs.
So, you can have an overview, there are many things.
I have time to, of course, focus on all of them, but we started basically everything started in Italy, well, not in Italy.
In, in, in over a system, everything started with Muslim.
Filippo and Michele, we, we, they will focus more on this at the end of the talk, my, after my talk.
Servitsili Berry, that it is also providing different kind of open source services.
Okay.
We open also a fedylog, so a log, a Linux user group dedicated to the Fedivers in Italy and English, it's both.
Yes, it's an official Linux user group in Italy, actually, it's the first, from the fact, it's a virtual Linux user group.
But also in English, I mean, it's multi language.
There is also a Japanese, the Linux user group from the Fedivers, they Italian, I don't know.
But it also is focused on Italy, right?
Okay. We also do, like, today, outreach events.
For example, the, the fedy-drink of before, it, it resonate a lot with me, because I tried to do something like that in Barcelona.
We, we did for seven months, a Fedivers community, didn't work well.
It was pretty hard to reach people.
Also, level group wrote a book, goodbyes that number.
We also do a software development, so I'm going to, to speak about, or projects.
I think I'll always, I'm talking about this box called Fedimida inside there are several projects.
One is, which is a Linux distributions, where you can also find direct links to, to, to, to Fedivers services.
So it's, like, an interpoint, you know, I think, always thinking, how can we reach different targets of people making easier to discover the Fedivers?
Because it's still, um, anish, many, most of the people have no idea what Fedivers is, and, and we're entering very hard to, to spread it around.
So, we have also, um, racoon, uh, two clients, one focus on, um, lemme, which is, I can, uh, kind of, ride it, open source, Federated ride it and, and, master then, and, and, and, and, and, and racoon for a friendica, a friendica and master, and,
And we open for the marketino.it, which is Flockmarked, like an eBay, let's say, that open source
for in Italy, focused on Italy.
It's also federated, so it can talk with other instances.
And now, I talk about something I'm developing.
Still in alpha.
This is a plugin for WordPress.
It is working.
It can work with activity pub.
The plugin of activity pub for WordPress or not.
It can boost posts from a student.
So it's kind of bots when you post in a, in a, in a, in a, in a, in a,
in a Muslim profile, it will boost from another Muslim profile.
Or you can also, if, if you install the activity pub plugin in WordPress,
when you publish in WordPress, nobody, if you, nobody follow you.
It's like going nowhere.
If you know how it works, the Fedivers.
So it's like pushing, boosting that from an instance where you have a profile.
It's like to spread around.
Okay.
Going fast.
This, um, a plugin, I put a lot of efforts for, for, for a lot of time.
Um, so, you know, we are in a post-truth society, where we,
we could be, we could be type control, uh,
uh, the value of, or megaphone.
Um, and I said, think, okay.
Okay.
How can, um, what's, what's, uh, the, the, how work, um, um, a physical, uh, megaphone.
Uh, and, and as, all these characteristics that make it really easy and accessible
for everybody to use it to, to use it and, and, and on it.
And, and, and, and the Fedivers is kind of the answer to this, okay.
Uh, but, but people react in this way when, when you speak about the, the Fedivers,
they are like, what, what, what is that?
No, it's too complicated.
No, no, no.
So, I started to think, how, how it should be ideally, uh, a digital megaphone.
Um, and I started to write down characteristics.
And, and I started to think, uh, what we have that is,
the closest, the closest thing to this.
And maybe you're going to laugh, but, so I do, to follow me.
Uh, people use WordPress is no, uh, all around the world.
It runs 43% of the website.
Uh, we community technology infrastructure for me is like, I see it as a,
a decentralized infrastructure.
People can easily buy own, uh, own domain, no.
Uh, the software, the data.
I mean, interesting.
And you can also expand it.
That's why, um, their, uh, WordPress is developing the activity pub plugin.
Um, and people, but what is missing?
What, what, why people are not so many people know about it,
even, even inside the WordPress community.
Um, people use messaging apps.
We don't have messaging apps, as far as I know, in the Fedivers.
And I'm really sad about that.
We will use more.
The Fedivers, if there will be.
So I'm, I started to, to, to, to, um, try a bit to, to, to, to build, uh,
uh, a, well, a prototype of a web app that is basically speaking with WordPress.
Because, um, activity pub is working with WordPress.
So when you, when you, when you publish something, you don't need to,
it doesn't matter if you have or not activity pub installed.
Um, you, you basically talk with WordPress and then activity pub extends or not,
um, the rich on the Fedivers, basically.
Um, and, and, and I, I started to think, okay, um, how it,
I, I've always, I've always, the concept of, of a website.
And I think it's really, it's really powerful.
Um, so I, I think I have to go for, really fun.
So, and it's really easy to install, because you can install the plugin from the store.
And, um, and, and you can install the, the web app everywhere,
really easily.
So it's really accessible both, uh, and the,
the UI is really familiar.
And even use it just for publishing.
Don't care about the Fedivers.
And I think it's really appealing for the WordPress community.
Uh, with or without activity pub, you can moderate comments,
even comments, uh, from everywhere.
Uh, without the Fedivers.
So, um, I think, I think we, we really need this tool.
I'm convinced this is a good idea.
Uh, but yeah, this, the, the, the kind of set part.
Um, I'm really struggling to move this project forward.
And I really, really need to, to find a little developer to, to join me,
like me, focus on design and somebody focusing on the, the coding part.
Uh, so if you, if it managed to make you fell in love with, uh,
uh, with the idea, with the, with the, with the concept,
please come to me, right me, uh, thank you.
Thank you.
Uh, hello.
Uh, this is my small guide.
Uh, our leader from zero to 80,000 subscribers,
for a local community.
This is, uh, a project that started the same years ago.
We started with, uh, domene, master them,
Dr. Uno, Uno is, uh, very important.
The name is very important because, uh,
it's sounding, the sounding is really Italian.
So, it worked very well.
And, uh, it, uh, it actually has a 6000 active, uh,
users.
This is a lot of Italian from Italian instance.
It actually is, uh, by far the biggest.
And, uh, okay.
How we can do it in seven years.
So, the launch was, uh, just this month,
or seven years ago.
And we just don't, uh,
made a marketing, and we don't ask people,
we just contact community, community of activists,
or that work on free software, on digital rights.
And, uh, uh, we talk about, uh,
about the marketing with, uh,
many communities that, uh,
for me, it was very, very important,
because the community then spread the noise
around the, uh, the users.
And, uh, after a few months,
we just started to realize that, uh,
the marketing wasn't enough.
People were asking for more, uh,
they asked for videos, for photography.
And then we started to, um,
peer to peer to peer to one,
and peer to peer to one,
just to look at the domain that the domain
we use the same, uh,
domain name, because, uh,
it's very important to, to remember,
uh, it's, uh,
and, uh, they wanted to really,
well, they don't add a lot of users,
but they add the very, um,
most of the very, uh,
useful for us, because, uh,
we contact, uh,
video maker, photographer, uh,
artists, and so we,
we expand our community,
beyond the open source water of the activities.
Okay?
So, the, after one here,
the community started to be very, very big,
so how can we manage it?
We just ask the most active people to join us,
and we just create a team of ten members.
She will ten members are enough to, uh,
to manage an instance with thousands of active people,
and we create a collective name,
and then, so, uh,
we call it diverse,
under this collective name,
uh, we create all instance,
and all the activities together,
and we create also our website,
so we can have our website,
we've all the things we can do,
so people know what we are doing.
And, uh,
and also, it's very, very important to create a group,
a group of discussion outside,
master them,
because master them is very nice,
social, but it's not nice,
for discussion.
We started with matrix,
matrix is very good,
it's centralized,
but people don't just don't use it every day,
just,
it's,
so we started after two years,
we started to,
with telegram,
a telegram,
helped a lot to spread the voice,
to increase the community.
So my advice is always to have a telegram group,
together with matrix,
and,
uh,
so after a few years,
because the money to everything was very high.
After we pay 300 euros for master them every month,
and two other euros for all other service.
Master is,
by far,
the most expensive,
we have a most of the people there,
and we use,
we still use master hostel,
because it's very important for us,
because we can think about everything,
as then hosting.
It's still very complicated to manage
6,000 people active,
so,
success fine.
Okay.
I will pay you to be pay with coffee,
be small contribution,
and with liberal pay.
Again, liberal pay is very nice,
but coffee is the better for waste money.
Okay.
That's fine.
Let's talk about the numbers quickly.
With Master.1,
we have 70,
8,000 users,
and 500,
110 gigabyte database,
one terabyte of video files,
so,
is an inactrotic website.
So,
we need a professional set,
because we follow the project
all in our spare time.
So, we use the Master.0 service,
so,
we can focus on community,
moodration,
content,
and not on technical issue,
for example,
to pay the system,
or in case of incident,
and so on.
And for all the other services,
we manage it by our own.
So, in particular,
we use some two physical service,
and this two service is
with the debion distribution,
and why you know host software,
because with this software,
we can manage it easily,
and in the hearser,
for example,
with pitchup.1,
we have more than 1,000 users,
and the data is
one terabyte,
and more.
So,
it's not too easy to keep
always up and running.
And,
we have two physical service,
but second hand,
the server,
not a new server,
but old model.
And,
we also have two VPSs,
and we use why you know host.
It includes burger for the backup.
For whatever is fundamental,
because with this kind of backup,
we can move a single application
or more than one.
From one server to another.
So, if you want to change a provider,
for example,
you can restore the application
directly from your host.
So, it's very easy to manage,
and every user can
just one click install
and start with a software Federation.
So,
if you want to create a local community,
just contact us.
We are familiar with you.
You can have our email or address.
We are very happy to have people
that want to create local community.
So, if you want to finish?
Yeah, I mean,
I got out.
I got the time wrong,
so I went super fast in my presentation.
No, I didn't think.
But we have a bit of time left.
Maybe if there are questions about something.
One device,
change my call to small mic.
Yeah, there we go.
Does anybody have any questions for our friends here?
So, I want to say a big thank you,
because we had a ton of submissions for the devroom,
and we had a ton of Italian submissions for the devroom.
So, this was kind of a,
I think it combined some combined things here.
So, thank you for accommodating that,
and being part of the day today.
Does anybody have any questions for the,
for our friends here?
There's one across here, okay?
I,
I wondered,
for the musted on Punto Uno,
instance,
you are more limited by storage,
compute,
or RAM for your infrastructure.
For infrastructure.
I know that it is managed,
but for the three components,
because what is the limit?
The,
the musted,
of the,
is a professional advice,
so they scale up,
if,
if we need more space,
they provide us easily.
We,
we don't care about resources in this case.
We,
we don't,
we care of resources for all the other,
for the rest of the,
but not for Mastergon,
because,
is included in the package.
Okay, thank you.
I,
thank you for the presentation.
So this is a non-technical question,
but maybe there is a technical answer.
So,
you work a lot with the activities,
cyber activists,
you say that one of the pillars of your project,
is the intertwining between,
ecologies,
right,
and technology, right?
So,
but then you operate in a country,
where at the moment,
there are a bit complicated,
because there is a far right ruling party,
that is,
prosecuting activities of different kind,
a lot,
as you know,
there,
there was a recent decree
decided that roadblocks are criminal offenses now,
which are a practice that is used by many,
environmental activists and so on and so forth.
So my question is,
like what kind of measure do you have in place
to protect the safety of the activists that use,
your instance and your service?
Like for example,
if the Italian police comment,
okay,
there was a roadblock and this person
who has an account on your master on uno-participated,
and we want data about the dispersion,
so what are the options that you have,
and I mean,
how could you react and what kind of data
could the police obtain from you?
Very easy to answer to this,
I'm just joking.
I think it's,
it's really complicated.
It's probably more a question for you,
it's really complicated because you manage
your master on uno-participated.
I mean,
I answered just my part.
I think we,
well,
in extension of value,
for example,
I've been in extension,
rebellion and fetus of future.
In extension of value,
there are guidelines,
okay,
to don't bring your phone,
don't bring your computer,
encrypt your,
this kind of stuff.
Then there is,
you're answering.
Master,
it's very good software for privacy.
So,
we don't store anything about the activist.
We ask to use metrics to exchange,
we have a crypt of the room,
to extension,
and we ask people to don't share
the picture of the face.
We should not,
it's forbidden to share identity about people.
So, we have a really careful about this,
to spread the name,
date,
also,
where we meet,
because we have a lot of problems
with activist,
so they ask,
also,
as to be in a very unique format.
Just,
in the rule is forbidden to share
sensitive information about the people.
So,
nobody can know what people are,
because we,
as a demonstration,
I just have an IP address,
that is the last IP address user.
So,
we don't know the IP address user,
maybe two months ago.
So, even the police ask me,
something I can only give,
or we have only the last IP.
So,
I don't know who's,
this account,
two months ago.
So,
it's really protected about this,
but we don't,
we never have a problem about this,
because we have very big,
in the very, very small,
in the world,
social,
the world.
Okay?
I think,
I also,
I think the interesting thing,
you can have a direct,
you can,
you can speak directly with,
with managing the instance,
if something happens,
you know,
it's not a company,
that,
you mean that they contact the police,
the answer to the police,
I don't know,
but,
yeah,
I just want to close,
thank you,
everybody,
and,
same, something I,
I forgot to say,
because,
I,
while working,
to,
to Fedipress,
I had,
very huge burnout,
I think we,
we have to shout,
more about,
the,
the hard part,
the human part,
to,
to bring forward,
all these ecosystem,
not only the technology,
I think we have to speak more,
the human part,
mental health,
especially.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
I think that,
it's a really important point to,
to make as well,
so I appreciate it.
Thank you.