Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 36 of Fireside Fedi! I’m your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you’re seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Ben Pate. Ben is apparently making a federated music app … and that’s all we have for today! I want to thank Ben … oh wait there’s more. Like the fact that Ben might be one of the most humble folks I’ve talked to. Ben is the creator of Bandwagon and Emissary.

“Bandwagon is the open social app for indie musicians and bands, giving you a trustworthy place to put your music online.”

“Emissary is the standalone Fediverse server designed for end users, app creators, and hosting admins — that gives everyone powerful new ways to join the social web.”

https://bandwagon.fm/

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 35 of Fireside Fedi! I’m your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you’re seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Robert W. Gehl. Robert is the Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University. Robert’s next book, “Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media” will be published by Oxford University Press this year.

https://robertwgehl.org/

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 34 of Fireside Fedi! I’m your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you’re seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Simon Repp. Simon is working on Media and systems with a focus on ethics, simplicity and sustainability. In 2025 working primarily on Faircamp and the Hyper 8 Video System (static site generators for audio and video publishing). (he)

@[email protected]

https://liberapay.com/simonrepp

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 33 of Fireside Fedi! I’m your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you’re seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is quintessence. quintessence leads hachyderm.io, executive director of the nivenly foundation, and is very invested in trust and safety on the Fediverse. Quintessence has come up with some amazing articles and tools that I believe any platform should leverage to teach their mods the best to deal with difficult situations. quintessence also has been limited to words no longer than 2 syllables in the past, so we’ll see if we can stick to that. And finally quintessence is one of my new favorite people, so this might be a LONG episode.

https://community.hachyderm.io/docs/hachyderm/mental-health/

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 32 of Fireside Fedi! I’m your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you’re seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Benjamin Pryor. Benjamin is a full-stack software developer, musician, graphic designer and is currently pursuing their bachelor’s and/or master’s in computer science and is always trying to grow and adapt their skills to help people in any way they can :)

https://fedi-search.com/

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 31 of Fireside Fedi! I’m your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you’re seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Lioh! Lioh is an amazing artist, developer, and teacher. Lioh was one of the original citizens of the Fediverse and helped contribute to GNU/Social. As well as being the founder of the largest german speaking news outlet on Linux and free software.

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Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 30 of Fireside Fedi! I’m your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you’re seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Emelia Smith! Emelia has a fascinating background. She entered university at 16, she’s a trans woman, she struggles with mcas, in 2020 founded of Unobvious Technology, aiming to improve the safety, #security and profitability of #sexworkers and advance the #adultindustry, she’s involved with the Nivenly Foundation, she’s involved in trust & safety with IFTAS, and finally for this intro at least, you’re probably running some of her code RIGHT NOW.

https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem

Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 29 of Fireside Fedi! I’m your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you’re seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Brother Soul and DJUpNorth! Brother soul started the LABR project with his brother, but BrotherSoul has kept it going and is bringing awesome jams to the Fediverse. Love A Brother Radio is a “24/7 online stream for soulful house music and varied genres of eclectic live dj shows and mixes from a global collective” I can honestly say if you want some awesome chill music, check out LABR. As BrotherSoul has put it, it’s the Switzerland of music. Our very own ENOENT also plays music on LABR as well.

https://ravenation.club/@labr

With me today is Franzo! Franzo is an Italian FOSS Software/Games Lover, Composer, developer. Franzo tries to help FOSS projects growing up working for them whenever possible!. Franzo streams on Peertube and uploads all msuci and shows and things to his Peertube.

https://video.hardlimit.com/a/franzopow/video-channels

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 27 of Fireside Fedi! I’m your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you’re seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Zoe Kooyman! Zoe the executive director of the Free Software Foundation, having started as a program manager in charge of public activities and communications in 2019. Zoe holds a BA in Media and Culture and a Masters in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, both from the University of Amsterdam. In true Dutch style, prefers to travel by bicycle.

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