2026-07-11 –, P2P Portal
This talk invites three representatives from large social networks to discuss how they view the future of P2P from a broad range of expertise in the field of social networks and peer-2-peer. Daniel Holmgren from Bluesky, Matthew Hodgson from Matrix, Adz from P2Panda and Christine Lemmer-Webber from Spritely and ActivityPub.
The session will be moderated by Sammy from the Willow protocol.
There will be a space for interactive questions from audience participation.
Sammy Gwilym is a programmer and illustrator, and one half of worm-blossom. She's a co-author of Willow, a family of peer-to-peer protocols.
Christine has devoted her life to advancing user freedom. Realizing that the federated social web was fractured by a variety of incompatible protocols, she co-authored and shepherded ActivityPub's standardization. She has also contributed to many other free and open source projects, including co-founding MediaGoblin. Christine established the open source Spritely Project to solve known problems in existing centralized and decentralized social media platforms and to re-imagine the way we build networked applications - work that now continues here at the institute under her guidance as Executive Director.
Project Lead & co-founder of Matrix.org, CEO/CTO Element. Stubbornly trying to advance decentralised communication.
Core-maintainer of p2panda
❖ Fediverse: https://post.lurk.org/@adz
❖ Website: https://adz.garden
❖ GitHub: https://github.com/adzialocha
❖ Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/adz
Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, where he leads the design and development of the AT Protocol. He's worked in the DWeb space for eight years, previously founding a startup for p2p collaboration on scientific data, then serving as the founding engineer at Fission, where he built an in-browser framework for user-controlled data.