Speaker - Matt Baer

Matt is a software developer who's spent over a decade building for the social web, from closed apps to, over the last several years, the fediverse. He's the founder of Write.as, a minimalist, writer-friendly blogging platform launched in 2015. In 2018, Write.as joined the fediverse and went open source as WriteFreely, which now powers hundreds of independent writing communities and blogs around the world. He is also the admin of Writing Exchange, a Mastodon-based community for writers, as well as other online communities.

In his free time, he helps organize NYC Photo Stroll, an in-person meetup for photographers around New York City, where he is based.