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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Software freedom activist since 1992. # Copyleft theorist & # FOSS policy wonk. Expert in FOSS non-profit structures. Co-Editor-in-Chief of # copyleft - @ next . Fediverse “claim to fame”: Invented “Affero clause” of # Mastodon 's license: https:// ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/11/21/ stet-and-agplv3 Day job: Software Freedom # Conservancy ( # SFC ) — bio below 1ˢᵗ # Linux : 0.99pl12 Views expressed herein are mine & not necessarily those of any organization w/ which I'm affiliated. Pronouns:he/them
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Software freedom activist since 1992. # Copyleft theorist & # FOSS policy wonk. Expert in FOSS non-profit structures. Co-Editor-in-Chief of # copyleft - @ next . Fediverse “claim to fame”: Invented “Affero clause” of # Mastodon 's license: https:// ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/11/21/ stet-and-agplv3 Day job: Software Freedom # Conservancy ( # SFC ) — bio below 1ˢᵗ # Linux : 0.99pl12 Views expressed herein are mine & not necessarily those of any organization w/ which I'm affiliated. Pronouns:he/them
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@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr overheard at #FOSDEM
> “There is a guy who does a lot of work to help the fediverse and to push people toward it. His name is Donald Trump.”
This statement contains multitudes b/c #TruthSocial is a fork of #Mastodon. Initially, $DJT violated the #AGPLv3, but AFAIK they now comply with the license. I examined the fork & they primary code they added was an advertising platform. Obviously it doesn't have federation turned on.
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#GPL #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26 #copyleft #AGPL
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