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What a whirlwind 72 hours in #Brussels for #FOSDEM! Everyone I met has been working so so hard to build technology explicitly trying to break out of a broken system of corporate hegemony. There were so many different fields present here but I primarily focused on the #fediverse track.
What a whirlwind, I’m physically exhausted, but still feeling a bit euphoric about all the great conversations and connections at Fosdem
A view of from the plane window looking out at the tarmac at Brussels airport. À worker is seen looking at their phone
Looking down at my suitcase with a sticker with the ActivityPub logo on top, floor and shoes visible. Taken in an airport
In #Flancia we'll meet
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Great panel in the (packed) EU Policy dev room on Fediverse and the DSA focusing on how the Fediverse is stepping up to decentralise and democratise social media - and bringing it out of the shadow of US tech behemoths. #fosdem
What a whirlwind, I’m physically exhausted, but still feeling a bit euphoric about all the great conversations and connections at Fosdem
A view of from the plane window looking out at the tarmac at Brussels airport. À worker is seen looking at their phone
Looking down at my suitcase with a sticker with the ActivityPub logo on top, floor and shoes visible. Taken in an airport
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I would like the @fosdem community to embrace #accessibility
In effort of that goal I've started by recording some problems and possible solutions for the website:
https://github.com/FOSDEM/website/issues/338
This is a lot of work that together, as a community, we need to address. #FOSDEM needs to be more inclusive for people with disabilities.
25% of the population has disabilities & the are part of our community.
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I proposed an approach where #FOSDEM can provide better support for #accessibility
https://github.com/FOSDEM/website/issues/341
I will try to demo it in my session later today, but speech to text isn't that hard to add in these days. We should be encouraging text transcripts.
I am really excited to watch streams of #FOSDEM talks tomorrow concerning #Fediverse discovery and following global hashtags: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/social-web/
I believe that this all could work much better than #FediBuzz if it gets built into server implementations itself.
Ah, getting really excited about FOSDEM, and meeting up with you interesting fedi folk!!!