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title: The Fediverse @ Your Library
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2022/program/proposals/880
beginning: '2022-11-04T11:55:00.000-07:00'
end: '2022-11-04T12:25:00.000-07:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2022-Alex_Byrne-The_Fediverse_at_Your_Library
  slides_url: https://heofhishirts.neocities.org/presentations/
presenters:
- name: Alex Byrne
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/1415
  gravatar_id: 3fb162df7a745e78839684fe8ad65b47
  biography: I get paid to be silly in front of other people and put them at ease
    using technology. I think that's extremely well suited to my skill set.
---

Fediverse enthusiasts and public libraries have a shared interest in preserving privacy, control, and a smaller, more intimate, and non-commercial community for their users, but they're not collaborating as much as they could on those shared values to provide easy ways for potential Fediverse users to get started, either as a user or as an instance host.

Librarians often lack the technical resources to implement and maintain Fediverse instances on their own, but could work with enthusiasts to help themselves and their users create and manage their own instances of / accounts on the Fediverse.

This presentation will take a high-level look at how a collaboration might work between a public library and Fediverse enthusiasts, including benefits and possible pain points for both sides along the way.
