paper_hashtag_federation/talk-slides.tex

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\title[Decentralised Hashtag Federation] % (optional, use only with long paper titles)
{Decentralised Hashtag Search and Subscription
for Federated Social Networks}

\author
{Trolli Schmittlauch}
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\institute[] % (optional, but mostly needed)
{
  Department of Computer Science\\
  Technical University Dresden
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\date[APConf 2019] % (optional, should be abbreviation of conference name)
{ActivityPubConf 2019}
\datecity{Prague}
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\begin{document}

\maketitle

\note{introduce myself:\\
known as schmittlauch on the Internet\\
student of Computer Science @ TU Dresden\\
interest in federated systems and unusual social networks\\
presenting my work on a study paper from this year}


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\section{Motivation}

\begin{frame}{Welcome to ActivityPubConf!}{Motivation}


\only<1>{
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/toot_nohashtags.png}
  \note{Who has been posting about this Conference?}
}
\only<2>{
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/toot_hashtags.png}
  \note{And who used \#ActivityPubConf?}
}
\end{frame}


\subsection{Importance of \#Hashtags}

\begin{frame}{Importance of \#Hashtags}{}

Hashtags are used for marking posts about certain topics or events:
\note{mark topics of posts, make them discoverable by content. No full text search in fediverse}
  \begin{columns}
  \begin{column}{0.47\textwidth}

    \begin{itemize}
    \item<1-> \textbf{events}: \#ActivityPubConf, \#CCCamp19
    \item<2-> \textbf{political topics}: \#SaveTheInternet
    \item<3-> \textbf{general topics}: \#mastoadmin, \#Tusky
    \item<4-> \textbf{ongoing demonstrations}: \#GeziPark, \#WomensMarch
    \item<5-> \textbf{social movements}: \#MeToo
    \end{itemize}
  \end{column}
  \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
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  \only<1>{
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/APConfLogo.png}
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  \only<2>{
    \includegraphics[height=0.58\paperheight]{figures/hashtag_savetheinternet.jpg}\\
    \tiny{\href{https://www.flickr.com/photos/8183946@N05/14733648892}{"Obama in the Backseat: Rally to Save the Internet"} by \href{https://www.flickr.com/photos/8183946@N05}{Free Press Pics} is licensed under \href{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich}{CC BY-SA 2.0} \ccbysa}
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    \includegraphics[height=0.6\paperheight]{figures/Elephant_Friend_(Greeting).png}
  }
  \only<4>{
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/hashtag_gezipark.jpg}
  }
  \only<5>{
  \includegraphics[height=0.6\paperheight]{figures/hashtag_metoo.jpg}\\
  \tiny{\href{https://www.flickr.com/photos/50612692@N04/28039368079}{"IMG\_4263"} by \href{https://www.flickr.com/photos/50612692@N04}{GGAADD} is licensed under \href{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich}{CC BY-SA 2.0} \ccbysa}
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\subsection{State of Hashtags in the Fediverse}

\begin{frame}{State of Hashtags on the Fediverse}{}
{\center \Large Hashtags are used in the fediverse}
\pause 
\vspace{2em}

{\large But do they behave as expected?}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}
 \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
 \begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[height=0.65\paperheight]{figures/{activitypubconf_toot.matereal.eu}.png}
  \caption{\#activitypubconf on the single-user instance \textit{toot.matereal.eu}}
 \end{figure}
 \end{column}
 
 \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
 \begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[height=0.65\paperheight]{figures/{activitypubconf_mastodon.social}.png}
  \caption{\#activitypubconf on the large instance \textit{mastodon.social}}
 \end{figure}
 \end{column}
 \end{columns}

\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{State of Hashtags on the Fediverse}{Fragmentation}
 \begin{itemize}
  \item fragmented view on hashtag posts depending on user's instance
  \item hashtag search only on locally known posts
  \item Result: incentive to cluster on large nodes \(\Leftarrow\) centralisation
 \end{itemize}

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\begin{frame}{Reason}{Push-Federation}
  \begin{columns}
  \begin{column}{0.55\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[height=0.6\paperheight]{figures/push_federation.pdf}
  \end{column}
  
  \begin{column}{0.45\textwidth}
 \begin{itemize}
  
  \only<1>{\item subscription to \texttt{@alice@cyber.space} by contacting instance \texttt{cyber.space}}
  \only<2>{\item all future posts by alice are delivered to instances of subscribers, but \textit{not} instances without any subscriber}
  \only<3>{\item other ways for posts to reach an instance:\\ boosts, thread resolution}
 \end{itemize}
 \end{column}
 \end{columns}
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\begin{frame}{Current Solutions}
 \begin{itemize}
  \item Mastodon PubRelay or Pleroma lite-pub relay:
  \begin{itemize}
   \item centralised actor relaying all incoming posts
   \item single point of failure, which relay to choose?
   \item relaying all incoming posts \(\Rightarrow\) huge load on small instances
   \item only access to posts sent after initial subscribtion
  \end{itemize}
  \item Diaspora* SocialRelay
  \begin{itemize}
   \item similar, but allows subscribing to certain tags only
  \end{itemize}


 \end{itemize}

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\section{System Architecture}

\begin{frame}{System Architecture}{Goals}
\begin{itemize}
 \item \textbf{relay \& subscribe}: instances can subscribe to all public posts of a hashtag
 \item \textbf{store \& query}: instances can retrieve 1 year of history for a hashtag without subscription
 \item fully decentralised, no single point of authority for all tags
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{System Architecture}{adding a P2P backend to the fediverse}

core idea: distributing responsibility for tags using a \textbf{D}istributed \textbf{H}ash \textbf{T}able \note{distribute responsibility for posts of a hashtag = relaying \& storage}

\end{frame}

why even still use classic push federation?

\section{Discussion}

\begin{frame}{Discussion}{I need YOUR feedback}

I want feedback from all of you, no matter whether it's from a \textit{\LARGE technical} or from a \textit{\LARGE social perspective}.

\end{frame}

\subsection{Social Considerations}

\subsection{Technical Considerations}

CloudFlare

load and capacity factor

\section{Summary}

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    things can be \alert{highlighted}.
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    Outlook
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\appendix
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\subsection<presentation>*{For Further Reading}

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  \frametitle{References}
    
  
  
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\begin{frame}{Complete Paper}
\center
 \includegraphics[height=0.45\paperheight]{figures/qr_paper.png}\\
 \url{https://git.orlives.de/schmittlauch/paper_hashtag_federation/src/branch/master/paper_hashtag_federation.pdf}
 
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 \center\huge{Thank you for your attention!}
 
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