1 00:00:01,322 --> 00:00:03,385 What is the Fediverse? 2 00:00:04,427 --> 00:00:05,562 To exchange emails 3 00:00:05,870 --> 00:00:07,404 do you need to join the email provider 4 00:00:07,611 --> 00:00:08,505 of your penpal? 5 00:00:09,707 --> 00:00:11,305 How about their phone network? 6 00:00:11,961 --> 00:00:12,898 [Meow] 7 00:00:13,931 --> 00:00:14,829 Of course you don’t 8 00:00:14,951 --> 00:00:17,892 because standards exist to federate these services 9 00:00:17,970 --> 00:00:20,420 enabling you to communicate with anyone 10 00:00:20,607 --> 00:00:22,013 regardless of provider. 11 00:00:22,667 --> 00:00:24,078 Without federation, 12 00:00:24,308 --> 00:00:25,350 you would have to subscribe 13 00:00:25,513 --> 00:00:26,513 to multiple providers. 14 00:00:26,751 --> 00:00:27,537 Or worse, 15 00:00:27,735 --> 00:00:28,825 the services with the most users 16 00:00:29,090 --> 00:00:30,911 would hoover up everybody else, 17 00:00:31,152 --> 00:00:32,581 eventually leading to monopolies 18 00:00:32,959 --> 00:00:34,407 and open to abuses. 19 00:00:35,878 --> 00:00:37,545 So why should everyone subscribe 20 00:00:37,793 --> 00:00:40,756 to the same platform to share videos and messages. 21 00:00:40,989 --> 00:00:43,092 Why aren’t social networks federated? 22 00:00:43,935 --> 00:00:46,279 Each planet here is like a service provider. 23 00:00:47,296 --> 00:00:48,595 With a centralized approach, 24 00:00:48,888 --> 00:00:50,358 you can only interact with the people 25 00:00:50,458 --> 00:00:51,650 on the planet you live on. 26 00:00:53,286 --> 00:00:54,030 Now imagine… 27 00:00:54,984 --> 00:00:56,347 if you could communicate with people 28 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:57,360 on other planets. 29 00:00:59,173 --> 00:00:59,960 Imagine… 30 00:01:00,422 --> 00:01:02,531 if you could share videos, events 31 00:01:02,631 --> 00:01:04,655 instant messages, microblogs… 32 00:01:05,017 --> 00:01:06,295 with the whole universe. 33 00:01:07,101 --> 00:01:07,930 Imagine… 34 00:01:08,267 --> 00:01:10,735 if it didn’t matter which planet you came from. 35 00:01:12,051 --> 00:01:14,033 Standards are a common language 36 00:01:14,239 --> 00:01:15,624 for software to communicate. 37 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:18,481 Your login on any one of these services 38 00:01:18,688 --> 00:01:19,688 allows you to interact 39 00:01:19,788 --> 00:01:21,705 with a whole diverse universe 40 00:01:22,306 --> 00:01:24,508 whilst not being tied to just one corporation. 41 00:01:25,977 --> 00:01:29,004 This is… the Federated Universe. 42 00:01:29,296 --> 00:01:30,254 The Fediverse!