J12t

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npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z

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J12t@social-coop.mostr.pub

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nprofile1qqswc4vyre4kquq85qt8h4lgmpz8q4nfxd4w74jgtdy0f5u028jldrgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q8t73k9

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2024-07-30 16:54:58 UTC

For those people who consider #AI a major helper when #programming, I don't know ...
Today's experience, caused by me being too lazy to look up the APIs myself:
Me: How do I do X?
Chatgpt: yadda yadda max_redirect(0).
Me: It doesn't have a max_redirect().
Chatgpt: Sorry, yes, it doesn't have it, use requests_redirectable() instead.
Me: It doesn't have a requests_redirectable() either.
Chatgpt: Sorry, you are right, it doesn't have that either.
Should I go on?

2024-07-28 00:31:28 UTC

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More good things:
* The freedom to innovate! Anybody can write some code and connect it to the Fediverse, and we have already seen an incredible explosion of creativity that all the billions invested in the commercial social media are not matching.
* Many users also report that they have felt more accepted, less harassed, and more at home in the fediverse than they ever have anywhere else online. I have no reason to doubt them.
(cont'd)

2024-07-28 00:30:50 UTC

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However, the Fediverse also has some really major positive features, again picking some from a long list, randomly:
* No ads! No surveillance! That's a major plus in my book compared to the commercial platforms.
(cont'd)

2024-07-28 00:30:03 UTC

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Continued bad things:
* Not even the comment trees or Likes are consistent across instances. You might think nobody commented on a post, but there might be 100 comments on that post on some other instance that simply haven't been forwarded. Not good in my view.
(cont'd)

2024-07-24 16:41:15 UTC

As we start to get ready for the debates and energy of the #FediForum, I'd love to collect all of your thoughts on:
What are the most pressing issues for the #Fediverse right now and in the next 6 months? What challenges are different from those a year ago? What did we solve in the past 6 months and what didn't we? What help do we need to move the Fediverse forward?
P.s. Registration is open: https://fediforum.org/ Join us!

2024-07-23 02:25:15 UTC

Sorry for the link to the hell site, but …
I have never seen a video about a serious presidential candidate that was even remotely like this.
https://x.com/ryanlong03/status/1808510079382982870

2024-07-20 17:18:57 UTC

I wonder whether the cyber warriors in armed forced around the world sit on a bunch of Crowdstrike-like “opportunities” and in case of war, waltz into Crowdstrike-like companies and order them to deploy the bad file. For them, that’s sort of the ideal scenario, no?

2024-07-16 17:50:22 UTC

Getting a laptop with 32G RAM was a really good idea. No memory pressure ever, in spite of running VMs, sometimes more than one.
Been a long time since my first computer that had 64kB, and where I recall I had to implement a custom swap-the-middle-portion-of-the-program-from-disk for something I wrote. In BASIC.

2024-06-27 23:43:15 UTC

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@npub1mel…5c24 So why aren't more people talking about it? Baffles me ...

2024-06-15 21:42:07 UTC

#AI as a topic is a marketer’s dream. Great promise! Great peril! Ban it! No, invest more in it! Everybody will be fired! No, we will all be gods! No, the new gods will exterminate us! The Americans / Chinese / … / but not us will use this to take over the world!
Everybody can have an opinion. Headline topic in every governmental meeting and board room and the pub at the corner. Even the pope gets quoted. With almost nobody having any idea what they are actually talking about.

2024-05-31 21:04:01 UTC

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@npub1mel…5c24 The video is a bit aspirational in that respect, but people are working on it. No reason it can't be made to work.

2024-05-31 19:51:27 UTC

Nice video explanation of the fediverse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSWPj0T9IQ

2024-05-24 16:58:09 UTC

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Over on #bluesky, somebody pointed me to this very fascinating thread on this topic: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3kp7lfkssxl2q

2024-05-24 16:29:37 UTC

Imagine two identical #3social #networks with mainstream users. Same number of users, same connectedness of the social graph, same demographics etc.
Social network A only has an algorithmic feed. Social network B only has a chronological people-I-follow feed.
What would the usage numbers look like in comparison? Numbers of posts, numbers of likes/replies/boosts, growth trajectory, etc?
I would expect somebody has done some research on this. Anybody know of any public results?

2024-05-24 06:24:15 UTC

What an amazing opportunity to do the opposite of the shiny new thing called “AI”.
Let’s go.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

2024-05-17 04:19:56 UTC

The fediverse needs something like this.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/x-pushes-more-users-to-communities/

2024-05-16 21:07:50 UTC

The #Fediverse is like a startup in many ways.
Some days you are totally elated about all the amazing things that are becoming possible and within reach. We are changing the world!
Some other days you are in the depth of despair that this is never going to work and how could you possibly ever have thought otherwise.
This week definitely is the former. A movement is forming, good people are coming out of hiding and are getting excited and involved. So glad to be part of it!!

2024-04-09 18:43:16 UTC

Silly (or maybe not) question:
So what exactly is social media for?
For some, it is a way to sell ads into an addicted audience. But we are trying to get away from that with the #Fediverse. So if it's not that, what is it for, exactly?
And for you personally: if you didn't have social media, what exactly would you miss in your life? Which needs do you have that would be unmet?
I'd love a broad variety of responses. Reshare?

2024-03-31 00:45:30 UTC

The best #tech #support of any company I've ever interacted with comes from Prusa, the Czech #3D #printer maker. Consistently, they listen to what you have to say, and right away have a good answer. No how-are-you-doing-you-are-so-important-to-us bs that only aggravates everybody, but straight answers to each question, always backed up with links, sometimes with more background info than you had any reason to supposed might exist.

2024-03-29 19:21:54 UTC

Just stop using your computers. Hmm...
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

2024-03-26 05:00:24 UTC

On the question of “What’s the plan to make money?”, #bluesky CEO Jay Graeber says:
“We’ve been building marketplaces within the app, essentially. So, we’ve got information marketplaces, moderation marketplaces..”
How can that produce enough revenue to make the VCs happy? Just what kind of information marketplaces might she be thinking of that can produce those results?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview

2024-03-24 17:24:14 UTC

"Currently, Threads accounts do not see individual likes on their federated posts, instead getting a notification that says ‘4 fediverse users from 3 servers liked this post’. According to Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput, Threads cannot use profile info from fediverse accounts on Threads yet because they are not allowed to do so yet by their Legal department."
h/t @npub1qu2…uj0d

2024-03-22 15:55:30 UTC

Reviewing #FediForum session notes. One says "Making PR to Mastodon seems futile".
I don't know who made the comment or based on what experience, but Ouch!
/cc @npub1xzm…eykm @npub17ge…hgsu

2024-03-21 00:22:56 UTC

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@npub1c3w…8xn9 So I actually have a script that scrapes all @foo@bar identifiers of the Markdown that is fediforum.org, and puts it into a JSON file. That's so I can run another script which does webfinger lookups for profile pages, so we can auto-generate hrefs to the profiles from the handles for the site.
Technically, very easy to provide that intermediate JSON. However, I am not certain that everybody would appreciate that even if it's all public information and they could do it themselves.

2024-03-18 03:26:47 UTC

I wonder what average lifetime of a Fediverse handle is. Compared to an e-mail address, and handles on other social media systems.
I suspect it is much shorter. How much of this might be intentional vs inadvertent?
Examples: firefish.social disappearing. Moderation policies on a server changing. People trying out the Fediverse and only settling on a place after some trial and error.
What can we do to make this process as smooth as possible?

2024-03-15 05:52:07 UTC

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@npub1yf8…5j7z anything particular about Go that makes that more likely?

2024-03-13 18:49:56 UTC

What is and isn't acceptable for businesses to do in the #Fediverse?
Lots of opinions, many strongly held. The fact of the matter, of course, is that businesses *are* connecting to the Fediverse, from news organizations to Meta and everything in between.
Would be useful to come up with a set of acceptable things to do for businesses and unacceptable ones. Or maybe a scale.
I want to run a #FediForum session on this next week, and brainstorm with you all.
Join me? https://fediforum.org

2024-03-12 19:28:12 UTC

Time zones are the worst.
Other than time zones with daylight saving time changing on different dates.

2024-03-11 21:09:02 UTC

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@npub1k08…6xvn @npub198j…d3fm I really don't like the !group@server syntax, as a software guy this communicates "not that!" to me.
Personally I think we should use user@host, just like e-mail, and have software figure out whether it is e-mail or webfinger and what's behind it. And if I follow with an e-mail address, then I want to be sent e-mail instead of ActivityPub. Bonus feature: declare @user@host to be identical to https://host/~user and https://host/@user if you must.

2024-03-11 18:31:30 UTC

I'm observing the community has some work to do to promote the consistent use of Fediverse user handles.
I'm going through the registrations for #FediForum, and note that attendees use all sorts of variations on their handles, including @user@server, user@server, https://server/@user and @user (???)
I would guess that attendees at FediForum tend to be more knowledgeable about the Fediverse than the average user, so it seems safe to say that the world is confused about fediverse handles.

2024-02-19 17:25:36 UTC

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@npub1deq…0sus @npub1sy5…02fh Have you considered calculating a score between 0 and 1, where 1 means "definitely allowed" and 0 "definitely not', and use a threshold for approve/deny? That score then can be calculated by taking several measures into account, including weighted distance in the social graph (you have that for distance=2, as yes/no, but could be more complex including multiple paths to candidate), whether you or your friends have had successful comment threads with them etc.

2024-02-06 22:00:40 UTC

What would you say the #Bluesky people are trying to build? Why does it matter to them?
What about the #Mastodon people? What are they trying to build, and why does it matter to them?
And what about the broader #fediverse? What are we all trying to build, and why does it matter to us?
Curious what everybody thinks.

2024-01-30 23:25:14 UTC

So was he actually able to pay for Twitter then?
The way I read this sounds like they would have do undo a lot of things..
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/investing/elon-musk-pay-package-thrown-out/index.html
#elonmusk #twitter

2024-01-30 19:08:33 UTC

So @npub1yv6…ul7j, is this European Data Act something within scope of dtinit?

2024-01-30 17:48:06 UTC

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I'm not certain what this means in practice. That I can point my Nest thermostat (well, I don't have one!) to somebody else's backend, not just Google's? Do I really believe that?

2024-01-30 17:44:38 UTC

Apparently one can be an "Executive Vice-President for a Europe fit for the Digital Age"
What a title!
But more importantly, the next big tech law from Europe has arrived, the European Data Act.
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/european-data-act-enters-force-putting-place-new-rules-fair-and-innovative-data-economy

2024-01-29 23:30:16 UTC

Today it's definitely spring in Northern California.
T-Shirt weather. I'm not certain any more that long pants are preferable to short pants.
Blue skies this morning. Birds singing.
However, on my hike yesterday, only some grasses are growing and the plants are very small still. No flowers yet. Can't be far with this weather.

2024-01-23 00:49:59 UTC

Has #Medium done any Fediverse integration so far other than standing up their own Mastodon instance? And, I think, integrated their user database somehow?
(I might be terribly underinformed.)

2024-01-10 21:43:31 UTC

Interestingly, in the next two years WEF says "disinformation and misinformation" are the world's largest risks.
The Fediverse is a great tool in the toolbox to help with that. Unlike so much media, and social media, it is fundamentally constructed to not be a manipulated channel.
We really need to get those CEOs and billionaires and politicians that hang around in#Davos to understand that, and help finance building it out. After all, they just agreed it's a real problem!

2024-01-08 03:23:49 UTC

We need to reduce energy consumption, they said, to mitigate the #climate.
“By 2050, India will be among the first places where temperatures will cross survivability limits … And … the demand for air conditioners (AC) in the country is expected to rise nine-fold.”
9x
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/india/extreme-heat-india-climate-ac-intl-hnk/index.html

2024-01-02 23:36:07 UTC

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One of the questions from a listener was basically "so what can we do?"
https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/540/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page02.html#post38
It took the liberty to have some thoughts on this related to the #fediverse: ...

2024-01-02 23:34:18 UTC

There's an interesting discussion on what some call the #polycrisis -- the set of interrelated, growing problems the world faces from #climate change to #fakenews etc -- over at The Well, in the "State of the World 2024" discussion with @npub1l40…nm43 and @npub1845…x7nu
Here's a better link: https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/540/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html

2023-12-15 23:54:56 UTC

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@npub1alq…mnj6 And I would add: Meta/Threads adds momentum to the Fediverse, and that is good. Even if they turn evil with Threads, and everybody blocks them again a year or two in the future, some of the momentum will remain and that helps the rest of the fediverse.

2023-12-14 06:18:43 UTC

Hey @npub1vx0…ku9p, welcome to the #fediverse!
Mastodon says you have 4 followers. That can’t be right, but I understand you guys are rolling out things gradually, which might explain things and which obviously is a good idea.
Much opportunity, and potential peril, await us all. I hope the community finds a constructive way to navigate it all. It’s a new world for sure.

2023-12-14 01:15:12 UTC

Certainly the #Threads people are having some hiccups with their phase 1 #ActivityPub rollout today.
I can't follow @mosseri@threads.net from here because, apparently, wait for it ... an SSL certificate error!
Always very gratifying to see when the big guys have the same problems as us little guys :-)

2023-12-14 00:58:19 UTC

And here is the proof:
$ curl https://threads.net/.well-known/webfinger\?resource=acct:mosseri@threads.net
{"subject":"acct:mosseri@threads.net","links":[{"href":"https://www.threads.net/ap/users/mosseri/","rel":"self","type":"application/activity+json"}]}
#ActivityPub #Threads #fediverse #webfinger

2023-11-29 02:20:27 UTC

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Gotta wholeheartedly agree with @npub1ckm…gutz’s point in his dot social podcast: this is an amazing time. So much opportunity! It’s like the early days of the web all over again!!
@npub1lsl…9c2x thinks it’s certainly bigger than mobile, when the smartphone with apps became a thing, and I would agree with that, too.

2023-11-29 02:14:35 UTC

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@npub1lsl…9c2x and @npub1ckm…gutz, in their podcast episode, ponder what the new, compelling thing is that can be done with decentralized social media that couldn’t be done with centralized systems. They agree with each other that nobody knows yet, and that if history is any guide, the centralized systems first have to be rebuilt in a decentralized fashion before that likely becomes apparent.

2023-11-16 22:38:27 UTC

Signal costs $50m / year to run!
https://www.wired.com/story/signal-operating-costs/

2023-10-28 01:07:01 UTC

So I just shared an article to the #Lemmy group on Fediverse press coverage, and as I hit refresh, the number of Likes goes back and forth between 1 and 2. Given that both are from me, and I'm not changing them, what is going on here?
https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse_press

2023-10-24 18:47:58 UTC

No more T2/Pebble.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/pebble-the-twitter-alternative-previously-known-as-t2-is-closing-down/
#t2 #pebble #fediverse

2023-10-24 02:02:23 UTC

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@npub1u95…6wwe i want an officially authorized ca just for my network.
I know I can’t have that right this instant, but my original post was about why nobody seems to be working on this that I can.

2023-10-24 01:49:24 UTC

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@npub1u95…6wwe if it’s a ca under my control, I trust what it says. On the other hand, not everybody on my network might: teenagers suspecting parents of spying on them, for example :-) Would be nice if tying CERTs to domains were more broadly supported in browsers, I agree.

2023-10-23 18:15:05 UTC

It’s practically impossible to use #https for devices on home networks, such as #iot devices — the #certificate system simply isn’t made for servers behind firewalls.
Why?
E.g. why can’t I easily get an intermediate (and official) CA cert for my home gateway, which then could issue certs for my devices, maybe in the same breath as assigning local dns names?
Is it that simply nobody cares about this use case, and everybody is happy enough with going through vendor clouds? Or why is that?

2023-09-23 03:50:00 UTC

The Free Software Foundation Europe set up a website to help move governments from proprietary social media to the #fediverse.
Excellent idea!
https://fedigov.eu

2023-09-23 01:29:56 UTC

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@npub17k7…0nds I write j12t@social.coop on my business card. Web page. FediForum notes, whatever.
You read it, paste it into your favorite messaging app (like gmail, or Mastodon) and send me a message.
Why should you have to care that SMTP is different from ActivitiyPub? Or know that either of them exist?

2023-09-23 00:44:33 UTC

About half of the Fediverse addresses typed by FediForum attendees into the session notes are missing the leading "@".
People typed in their very own Fediverse handles. And because they came to FediForum, it's very likely they are very well acquainted with the right syntax.
Pretty strong circumstantial evidence that most people won't be able to distinguish Fediverse handles from e-mail addresses.
I have long believed that they should be the same.
#fediverse #email #address #fediforum

2023-09-15 21:19:09 UTC

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@npub1esn…9306 You don't think they know that already? Bad actors work at volume, and so I'd expect they have done their analytics.

2023-09-15 19:40:25 UTC

Reddit is now making their internal user #reputation score available. This is interesting.
We could do something rather similar for each #fedverse #instance.
https://reddit.com/r/modnews/s/ACLV3X6aUR

2023-09-15 16:46:25 UTC

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@npub1hx9…lyhl Congratulations, and thanks on behalf of “everybody”. You have been doing the world a great service fighting, and winning, that fight.

2023-09-01 21:17:13 UTC

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@npub1grx…uxfe I'm going to borrow this quote and adjust it for the times:
"The #Fediverse is where it's at. We just don't know where that is just yet."

2023-09-01 20:13:09 UTC

I think I have been on the internet for 33 years now. 1990 sounds about right.
The original wow factor for me was Usenet. You could just run this app — it wasn’t called an app then — on a close Apollo workstation, in my case, and have these incredibly knowledgeable discussions on arcane subjects you’d never find anybody in real life to talk about, and with people around the world. For free, too!
If you were patient because I think for about 30 people we had one 9600 baud line.

2023-09-01 05:31:10 UTC

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@npub1s69…l9l2 link to the graph? Can’t find it on the cdc site.

2023-09-01 03:07:30 UTC

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@npub14kh…5jxv I don't do TikTok, so I don't know about that one.

2023-09-01 01:55:25 UTC

Russia is resurrecting Stalin as a positive figure.
https://russiapost.info/politics/slo

2023-09-01 00:28:34 UTC

374 automated tests pass. Phheeewww.
Time to cook dinner. How's homemade spaghetti with homegrown zucchini? Sorry, it's a closed family event.

2023-08-31 23:18:56 UTC

#threads is beginning to do some new stuff that I hadn't seen anywhere, neither in Twitter nor Mastodon nor anywhere else.
Like this: sort posts by engagement.
https://www.threads.net/@tb_99999/post/CwnxABdAhx_
(Now you may not care about this feature. My point being is that they are innovating and going beyond the Twitter baseline, which in many ways, Mastodon is shooting for.)
How do *we* innovate in the Fediverse? Driven by user wants or delight?
(I don't think I have access to it yet; rolling deployment I guess)

2023-08-31 07:21:01 UTC

What’s the fediverse app closest to what Usenet was in its prime?
I remember hierarchical discussion trees with unread message nodes in the tree in bold. I think.

2023-08-31 06:47:44 UTC

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@npub1967…mndj exactly. And, to be blunt, it was more usable in many ways. Such as actually keeping track of conversations.

2023-08-31 04:17:22 UTC

The world is not lost yet.
USENET is back!!
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

2023-08-31 01:59:26 UTC

Amazon claims that air filters of sizes 10x20 and 20x20 and 30x20 are frequently bought together.
I am prepared to seriously doubt that. How many different-sized furnaces do people have?
Which means that the "frequently bought together" phrase is bunk. There may be something that's "frequently together", like they showed up in search together, but "bought" it ain't. (And if it is search, their product categorization is seriously flawed, too)

2023-08-31 01:08:00 UTC

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@npub10cz…xarx I was yesterday years old when I learned about inputrc from your post. Duh. Thank you!!

2023-08-30 17:22:50 UTC

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@npub1rjz…4qvh I can see the WSJ headline: "New socialist gossip network threatens serious business conversations world-wide"

2023-08-30 16:56:17 UTC

What do you all think we do here in the #fediverse?
Is it “#social #media”? (It doesn’t sound quite right to me: I post “media” only rarely)
Is it “social #networking”? (Not sure, it’s different from offline networking, and I feel networked already even without the fediverse)
I’ve been playing with the term “social #communications”: I’m here to communicate with you all, but not 1-on-1, but socially, where everybody else can overhear what’s being said.
What to you think of the term?

2023-08-28 21:49:13 UTC

Github is forcing me to download recovery codes into a file that will be saved to my hard drive. Not a fan. Copy-paste into a password manager appears to be a much better approach.

2023-08-28 18:44:12 UTC

Spell checker suggests that "FediForum" should be corrected to "Rutherfordium". That seems ... a stretch.

2023-08-26 22:34:22 UTC

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@npub14q6…4za2 Sometimes I'm wondering whether the #fediverse needs an "architecture board".

2023-08-26 18:57:48 UTC

Here's an interesting question. To me, anyway :-)
As the #fediverse grows, and an ever-broader set of apps talks #ActivityPub and extensions to #ActivityPub, how do we ensure that the overall architecture of the system remains consistent?
Example from the past: WebDAV used HTTP extensibility as it was intended, but arguably they deviated from the architectural principles. (A consequence: it remains a niche and many apps that could've used it don't)
Who else is worrying about things like that?

2023-08-26 01:29:22 UTC

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@npub1w7a…tpn3 I wonder whether it would make sense to have a SWICG meeting about this -- with other forges implementing similar things -- before too long.
cc @npub1k8d…2uh9

2023-08-25 21:02:03 UTC

A few weeks ago I asked about Fediverse apps that are as unlike as Mastodon as possible. People pointed me to some quite interesting ones, like playing chess over ActivityPub or public transport delay announcements https://social.coop/@J12t/110843539252937792
Today I hear that #Gitlab is working on decentralized merge requests over #ActivityPub! If this comes into being, this could be a really major development for the #fediverse. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

2023-08-18 17:09:25 UTC

So Elon is supposedly removing the “block” feature on Twitter. I’m struggling to understand a rationale for that — even if it is a twisted one.
Anybody any ideas?

2023-08-12 22:14:17 UTC

What do we make of this @npub15sw…j7m0 thing? What will be its place in the larger scheme of things relative to, say, #Signal, #Tor, #IPFS, #Matrix and the #fediverse? https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/12/veilid_privacy_data/ #Veilid

2023-08-11 23:15:50 UTC

Another reason I don't like "federated" as a term is this:
If somebody says something is federated, how many things do you think are federating? My default assumption would be: maybe a few dozen. Like the federated 50 US states, or the 16 states in the Federal Republic of Germany, or maybe a handful of healthcare organizations in an identity federation.
My default assumption is not: tens of thousands, as the fediverse is today, or even millions as the fediverse may be tomorrow.

2023-08-11 04:33:35 UTC

Let’s say you are the CEO of a major corporation, brought on recently to help turn it around and put it back on a growth course. Now CNN is doing an article about you. Great! What do you expect the first sentence to be?
What about: “Linda Yaccarino is living in a world of delusion.”
Hmm. And all your employees will have read it by lunchtime.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/media/linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-reliable-sources/index.html

2023-08-10 17:28:11 UTC

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@npub14kh…5jxv Why is it "the fastest growing segment of the internet" (is that true? Are there numbers?) and why is it "posed for explosive growth"?

2023-08-10 16:40:02 UTC

If you were to write an "analyst report" and you had three short bullet points to explain "why the #fediverse, and why now?", what would you write?

2023-08-08 14:52:07 UTC

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@npub1r9j…4h54 it appears to me that architectural pattern could be applied just the same to software that isn’t really a social network. A game, for example. Or a collaboration tool. Or a wiki for a particular community etc.

2023-08-07 18:48:14 UTC

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@npub1f4k…eunn Part of the problem with a term is that one can come at this from so many angles (like tech vs governance) and the terms will likely be different based on that.
Right now, what I'm personally interested in is the name for a technical architecture pattern. Like client-server, or thin client, or P2P, or LocalFirst, or ... I think "federated" or "decentralized" is insufficiently precise.

2023-08-07 18:33:01 UTC

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We need a name for the architectural style where there are many servers, many of those instances of the same software, interacting with each other over well-defined protocols (so one can temporarily forget about the many servers if one wants to), while each server is independently maintained / governed by its own community.
Ideas?

2023-08-07 18:32:34 UTC

Somebody who is not very technical asked me whether what we do in the Fediverse is "#LocalFirst software".
Which is a very catchy name, and sort of related, but of course architecturally different if we go with the Ink & Switch definition: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

2023-08-06 16:09:44 UTC

What's a #Fediverse app that is as unlike Mastodon as possible?
Something that uses #ActivityPub but is as far away from #microblogging as one could think of?

2023-08-06 04:15:49 UTC

#pixelfed is my kind of app. The only Linux distro they have specific installation instructions for is #archlinux :-)
https://docs.pixelfed.org/install-guides/arch/

2023-08-04 22:53:31 UTC

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@npub1a4t…q9yj But what does the API provider do? Relocate to outside the US?

2023-08-04 22:31:01 UTC

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@npub1a4t…q9yj and how are you supposed to test your hash algorithm?

2023-08-04 21:47:57 UTC

So possession of child pornography is illegal in the US even if your goal is to write code that can detect child pornography.
How does anybody solve this problem?
(Reading through the notes of today's SWICG's call on the subject https://github.com/swicg/meetings/tree/main/2023-08-04)

2023-08-04 19:11:40 UTC

Nice article on the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub by @npub16y5…f369 in Engadget. Found via our Press Coverage #lemmy group. Crowdsourcing yeah!
P.S. Karissa: get your Fediverse handle listed on your Engadget page?
https://lemmy.world/post/2630560

2023-08-04 16:34:06 UTC

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@npub1967…mndj I’m more interested right now in simply raising awareness that there is significant research on the subject.
But a glaring example: almost all fediverse instances are operated by what’s essentially autocrats: server admins. Only in very few (like social.coop where I am) do the governed have a say in the rule making.

2023-08-03 23:30:31 UTC

I don't think too many people in the Fediverse know of the groundbreaking, but quite accessible research Elinor Ostrom did on the Commons, which eventually won her the Nobel Price.
Commons = a resource shared by a group and that together manages that resource for the good of all.
The #Fediverse is a #Commons, but as it is today it isn't very good about several of the success criteria that #Ostrom identified. E.g. look at the list at the bottom of:
https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons/index.html
Can we do better?

2023-07-20 20:35:11 UTC

I’m starting a Lemmy group to collect mainstream press coverage of the Fediverse, ActivityPub and the like. When you see an article on a news site or such, consider submitting it there?
The idea is to “crowdsource” a repository of what the world says about us in mainstream outlets that have a significant audience.
https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse_press
@npub1gsm…5y8l

2023-07-19 18:24:53 UTC

FireFish, huh. Sure better than Calckey ! At least I can pronounce it 🙂
Congratulations @npub1kn6…ks0g and crew.