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.

Social Links

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

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.

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

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