Not very long ago there was an opportunity at the local LUG to volunteer to do lightning talks on some subject, and as a lightning talk is easier than a full-blown talk I decided to sign up and evangalize a bit on federated social networking.

I guess this subject is only tangentially related to Linux, but related enough to be interesting. The main point of federation is that it is encouraged for as many people as possible to run their own nodes– this spreads the network around and makes it function well even if some portions of the network do get down (or are shut down).

I’m not a very good speaker, especially when I am not familiar with the audience. And this was my second time visiting the LUG in 3 years or so.

• Here is the LibreOffice ODP presentation that I used, and
• here are the slides as pdf, and
• here is a 7zip of the diagram images I created (SVG and PNG).

centralized network:

distributed network:

federated network:

federated and distributed network:

other info:

• getting started with pump.io
• pump.io wiki