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Does #FediverseHouse sound interesting? At least a little bit. The "A Better Web Is Possible" talk by Molly ( @molly0xfff ) sounds interesting at least, though it's a shame that only fifteen minutes appear to be allocated to it. Kit O'Connell ( @oconnell ) is part of a talk titled "Publishers: Audience and Autonomy" that also sounds interesting. On the other hand, you've got folks from Threads and Bluesky acting as a bright blinking "CAUTION" sign.
Do I live close enough to Austin to be there in-person? I suppose. It's a three to four hour drive from Fort Worth.
On the other hand, it all feels very, very corporate. Very bourgy, networky, startupy. And all in the worst ways. Corporations hawking their walled gardens^W^W bespoke, artisanal feeds with only the best free-range, organic advertisements sprinkled in (sparingly, of course). The general strategy seems to be "see all of the fediverse through our app," a blatant and bold Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish play if ever there were one, only this time, sold as an act of "unifying" the oPeN SOciAl WeB.
Maybe I'll be there. Maybe I won't.
Yeah, it's fine that it's there, maybe even a good thing, but I see Fedi as a bottom-up (heyooo) thing, and not really the domain of people who are flying to Texas to hobnob.
Some companies want to be the gateway to Fedi and that's compatible with the open nature of it but it's not very enticing to me. Fedi wearing a suit.