The Social Web

Decentralization and Building a Better Internet

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Andy Piper

Developer Advocate, Mastodon

Open Web Enthusiast

 

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Eugen Rochko

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Today's topics

• Why decentralization matters

• Growth of the open Social Web

• Challenges to building a better internet

• The Ruby perspective

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Building a Better Internet Together

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Evolution of the Internet

By Coolcaesar at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The Problem with Closed Platforms

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Online World in 2024

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Philosophy & Principles

• user-centric

• privacy

• locality

• choice

• resilience

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source: fedidb
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Challenges

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Centralised platforms

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Decentralised platforms

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Community Standards and Moderation

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Ruby is core in the Fediverse

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Ruby 3.3

15-20% CPU usage and response time improvements

 

150k RPM peak on mastodon.social

120ms P90 response time

200m Sidekiq jobs/day on 160 CPU cores

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