Flying back from #SxSW where I evangelized #ActivtyPub, #Mastodon and the #Fediverse. It’s crazy how few people have even heard of this movement and all anyone could talk about was #GenerativeAI. I felt like an eccentric prophet holding a sign with scrawled writing “The end of the walled gardens is nigh”
But as many of you on Mastodon already know, the dawn of the open social web is here now and next SXSW is likely to be very different.
@mike #SXSW is now a trailing indicator. It was a leader way back when Twitter broke out there.
I think the #Fediverse needs a IRL conference like how early W3C & early OSCON ignited movements. Sign me up to help.
@dickhardt @mike We gave a talk in the exhibitors hall last year on generative AI before the text-to-image boom, and only about 6 people attended. 2022 was all about web3 and the metaverse. This year genAI is the number one buzzword and our data arts panel had over 100 attendees. Sxsw as trailing indicator is the best characterization I've read this week lol
@janeadams @DickHardt Hah! So true, Jane! You were ahead of your time!!