This week, Social Web Foundation Executive Director Mallory Knodel joined EFF’s Babette Ngene and public interest technologist Bruce Schneier for a conversation about how to build a decentralized web that truly works for all.
The discussion was part of EFF’s EFFecting Change series and explored what the fediverse can offer as an alternative to today’s centralized social platforms.
The conversation started from a question we think about a lot at the Social Web Foundation: what would it take to build an internet where people and communities have real choices about how they participate, where their data lives, and how their digital spaces are governed?
One answer is to fix the old platforms! Mallory’s message was to work on liberating people from the platforms that have walled them off for so long. This might seem like a long shot, but getting incumbents to use open social web protocols (or asking regulators to step in) is a durable and immediate tactic.
Interoperability allows people to connect with the rest of the social web without having to leave their networks.
Watch the full conversation, including audience Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8G1zqGraRA
