It was an absolute honour to speak about Channel.org, growing the open social web, sport and whole lot of @fediforum on @decentered last week!
If you haven't checked it out already, you can catch the latest episode on the link below or wherever you get your podcasts 
Huge thanks to @hello for having me!
Just discovered a second podcast called Decentered (the name of the @wedistribute podcast). Listening to their fantastic interview with @rabble from Nos.social. Where he talks a lot less about the history of Titter, and a lot more about the history of Indymedia, and his more recent work with decentralised social media;
https://decentered.co.uk/building-participatory-media-with-evan-henshaw-plath-aka-rabble/
#podcasts #Decentered #TechHistory #Indymedia #IndependentMedia #decentralisation
Had a chance to listen to @pfefferle@mastodon.social on WeDistribute's Decentered podcast. Surprisingly informative, and eye opening just how locked down shared hosting providers are.
Things we take for granted like the ability to mount routes on /.well-known (they could be blocked!)... or that you can't always assume cron is available.
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/wordpress-matthias-pfefferle/
Having used a VPS for years, I would never go back to shared hosting, but you definitely cannot argue with the convenience, ease of use (CPanel, et al.), and most of all, value for money. However, those three come with significant trade-offs in terms of flexibility and power.
Kudos to you Mattias for having the patience to try to get those shared hosting providers to change. If I were in your shoes I'd just tell them to hop on over to a different provider!
Decentered S1E7: The Joy of Micro.Blog with Manton Reece
https://spectra.video/videos/watch/5b4cdbbb-2ae8-4cb6-9e88-d82a74f44a00
Decentered S1E4: Shawn Grigson and the Oliphant in the Room
https://spectra.video/videos/watch/5d665e35-a083-4aaa-9ae0-ada4731c78eb
@ruud @laurenshof @matt Could you try to find out why and how one of the biggest Wordpress hosters (#Siteground) could serve the #Fediverse? :) (or: how to get around the need for the finger protocol? Or something else, I'm not a developer ;) ) (sorry for the interruption, was just listening to Laurens on the first #Decentered #podcast https://wedistribute.org/series/decentered/ )
"We talked some about the situation with #Meta, and how this may be a tipping point for other #platforms like #Tumblr or #Flickr to justify adopting #ActivityPub themselves."
#decentered #podcast
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/decentered-s1e1-creation-and-discovery/
