Indie Microblogging and the Fediverse
From the Organizers:
Manton Reece will talk through his background as a blogger and developer, how the problems of massive closed platforms like Twitter / X led to the founding of Micro.blog, how we can better control our content and identity on the web, and the emerging open social web with platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky. Our speaker this month is Manton Reece. Manton Reece is the founder of Micro.blog, a blogging platform and social network based on IndieWeb and fediverse standards. Micro.blog launched in 2017 and has grown into a full blogging platform with support for social web protocols like ActivityPub and AT Protocol.
Talk will be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/user/austintechlive and will later be archived at https://www.youtube.com/user/effaustin. Questions for the speaker from virtual attendees may be submitted via the Youtube livestream chat, our Twitter account, @EFFaustin, our Mastodon account, @effaustin, or our Bluesky account, @effaustin.bsky.social.
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When:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
7 pm – 9 pm CT
Where:
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street Suite 150 · Austin, TX
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/user/austintechlive
This event is organized not by EFF, but by EFF-Austin, a grassroots group participating in the Electronic Frontier Alliance. The EFA is a network of grassroots organizations across the country committed to promoting digital rights. Together, we're building a movement to promote freedom of expression, privacy, security, creativity, and access to knowledge.
