Jeremiah Lee
Software Engineer
Stockholm, Sweden
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Jeremiah Lee develops monetization tools for digital creators. He previously worked on cloud infrastructure at Stripe, hardware integrations at Spotify, and web APIs at Fitbit. He grew up under the California sun, but now calls Stockholm home.
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ActivityPub: The Web platform’s social media API
The next great social network is just the Web. ActivityPub is a W3C standard from 2018 that mostly was ignored until 2023 when Twitter users discovered Mastodon and Reddit users discovered Lemmy. ActivityPub is now implemented by giants like WordPress and Meta Threads. This live coding session will demonstrate how the ActivityPub protocol works, how it works with the Activity Streams and WebFinger standards, and how every website can become a social media profile that can be followed, liked, and commented upon.
Harvesting Hope from Hiccups: Overcoming Standardization Hurdles
Standardization is an art, not a science. After Meta launched Threads, which promised to interoperate with the fediverse and Mastodon, some in the Interledger community became enchanted by the promise that further down the line this could positively impact the adoption of the Interledger Protocol and the W3C web monetization standard. Cynics, however, have noted that the reality of standards adoption is quite different: the developers of standards work amidst differing economic incentives, a bias towards short-term thinking, and imperfect knowledge. Standards fail even if they are technically brilliant, as large players adopt strategies like “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” to kill off standards that threaten their business models. This panel will challenge the conventional manner of assessing the success or failure of standards. Rather than solely considering whether a standard was widely adopted, the discussion redirects attention towards evaluating if the participants in the process met their objectives through their involvement in the standardization process. Drawing from a range of real-world examples and grounded in experiential knowledge from those who have participated in multistakeholder dialogues and negotiations, the panel will illustrate the diverse expectations which are embedded within standardization processes. In doing so, it proposes the idea that what might at first glance appear as a market failure could potentially be viewed as a success, particularly for some traditionally-excluded communities. Standards might not always be widely adopted, but when they’re thoughtfully developed, they can truly serve the needs of some communities.
Mastodon, micropayments, and the next era of the creator economy
Changes at Twitter and Reddit in 2023 caused millions people to rebuild their online communities on new platforms. Many chose products like Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy that were built on the Web platform’s social APIs. Instead of a single company controlling everything, thousands of independently managed communities joined together to create a social web.
Digital creators can now own their social network presences, distribution, and relationships with their audiences. It’s a significant change from a few billionaires dictating what billions of people globally can and cannot do online. The next big power shift will be changing the primary form of content monetization online from privacy-invasive advertising to direct fan-support. This change will be even bigger and bring economic opportunity to more people than ever before.
This session will cover the financial aspects of the creator economy and demonstrate how Interledger’s global payment network works within federated social network apps.
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