I went to FediCon 2025!

Welcome speech at FediCon 2025. What if the Fediverse met... in real life? Last month, I had the pleasure of attending FediCon 2025 , a local conference for "decentralized social networks and the social web", held here in Vancouver, Canada. I learned about FediCon a while ago through my Mastodon feed, and I signed up for it right away (I didn't have to think much about it, given that the…