Speaker - Darius Kazemi

Darius has been working on federated, decentralized, FOSS social media since his Mozilla Open Web Fellowship in 2018. He maintains several federated social media software projects including Hometown (a small community focused fork of Mastodon), and published Run Your Own Social, a guide to hosting a small social media site for your friends. He is an independent researcher based in Portland, Oregon, and is co-authoring an ethnographic study of the governance of small-to-medium size Fediverse social media servers funded by the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund.