Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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When he last spoke at XOXO in 2014, internet artist Darius Kazemi was making Twitter more fun with bots and toys. These days, Darius helps people leave centralized social media instead: showing you how to run your own social network for friends, working on his Hometown fork of Mastodon, and researching ways to make the fediverse more resilient.

Follow Darius on Mastodon: https://friend.camp/@darius
Darius's homepage: tinysubversions.com
Run Your Own Social: https://runyourown.social/
Support his work on Patreon: patreon.com/tinysubversions

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Recorded in August 2024 at XOXO, an experimental festival in Portland, Oregon for independent artists and creators who work online. For more, visit https://xoxofest.com.

Intro music: "For Her" by Lidérc, from Pixabay
Video production by No Sunrise Wasted
Captions by White Coat Captioning