2–4 Feb 2024
COEP Technological University
Asia/Kolkata timezone

Fediverse and the Power of Decentralized Social Networks.

2 Feb 2024, 14:00
30m
Conference talks

Speaker

Rishi Kumar

Description

This talk will focus on enlightening people about the Fediverse and explaining the advantages it has over today's popular social media platforms.
* Some general points this talk will focus on include:
- A general idea about the Fediverse.
- How to create an account, and become a part of the fediverse.
- Fediverse Architecture and its emphasis from a security point of view
- What's stopping the adoption of fediferse.
- The speaker's contribution to building moderation tools for Tokodon, a Mastodon client developed by KDE, while being a mentee in Google Summer of Code 2023.

Bio

Rishi Kumar is a junior at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani, pursuing a major in Computer Science and Engineering. He has been a KDE contributor for more than a year now, where he contributed to products like Tokodon, Plasma ecosystem and KDE Eco.

Description

This talk will focus on enlightening people about the Fediverse and explaining the advantages it has over today's popular social media platforms.
* Some general points this talk will focus on include:
- A general idea about the Fediverse.
- How to create an account, and become a part of the fediverse.
- Fediverse Architecture and its emphasis from a security point of view
- What's stopping the adoption of fediferse.
- The speaker's contribution to building moderation tools for Tokodon, a Mastodon client developed by KDE, while being a mentee in Google Summer of Code 2023.

Social Links

Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@rishi
Twitter: https://twitter.com/k3ystwt
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsidev/

Headshot Link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CHGr6UJOtGbbYc7FZlPqeDyrnmpkzrp3/view?usp=sharing

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