Project description
Safe communication environment for online discussion
Open Internet discourse is undergoing a transformative shift towards a federated safe space for online discussions, replacing traditional social networking platforms. With this in mind, the EU-funded Fediversity project exemplifies this trend, boasting nearly 10 million users. It prioritises the protection and empowerment of marginalised groups within its federated space. However, broader adoption of the Fediverse necessitates dedicated support organisations. This project aims to lay the groundwork for such support, offering reproducible deployment configurations, how-to documents, cookbooks, playbooks, and success stories. Its objective is to establish a safe and practical communication environment for public organisations to showcase open discussion tools. The project seeks to provide a viable alternative to centralised solutions owned by Big Tech.
Objective
Open internet discourse is part of the future of open collaboration and open discussion, forming a federated safe space for what used to be called social networking. The Fediverse, funded by the NGI program as an implementation of such a federated space, is already taking shape and approaching ten million users. It has special safeguards for marginalized and oppressed groups in our global society. This NGI technology is mature enough to be joined by older institutions and organizations, many tech-savvy media outlets and public institutions have already joined [^adoption]. But for wider adoption the Fediverse needs to be supported by dedicated and knowledgeable support organisations, for which this project will lay the groundwork in the form of reproducible deployment configurations, how-to documents, cookbooks, playbooks and descriptions of success stories.
Not only will we create a complete script for support organisations that want to _host_ Fediverse services and other open discussion tools on how to deploy them on their infrastructure, we will also onboard several public organisations that want to _use_ these services to show-case, and to gain and document experience on do's and don'ts. After all, public communication infrastructure, even though very practical, isn't easy to do and this project is accordingly about creating a simple to use, very practical and safe environment to communicate, assembling various powerful components that NGI and others have built into unified end-to-end services. This is where we can make a difference, especially in contrast to existing centralized solutions owned by Big Tech.
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON.2.4.6 - Next Generation Internet
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT
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1098XH Amsterdam
Netherlands
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