Own Your Content

In this keynote we are having a critical look at how the web
went wrong. How we went from using common and open protocols to create a rich digital culture, to an environment were everything seems to turn into walled gardens and platforms, controlled by “big tech”, and algorithms, that can, at a whim, scupper your business.

We will look at how this control by big tech is detrimental to the open web, and open discussions, and having thriving communities.

But it doesn’t have to be like that. And in this keynote I will also show that there is a different path forward. One where we can tinker and thrive.

The ActivityPub protocol builds on top of the already existing infrastructure, providing the ways and means to build a decentralised way of interaction. Not only between people themselves, but also between different types of content,
to build out the Fediverse. Like in the beginning, when the Web was for everyone.