So, it seems that watching me type is incredibly boring. So, even though I could live-code a custom Fediverse app in the first 10-15 minutes of a #FediForum session, it's probably better to just show it working.
It's only ~100 lines of JSON config, and less than than in HTML templates. You all won't mind if we skip my typos and get to the good stuff, will you?
Looking forward to Day 2 of the online unconference tomorrow, my speed demo, and hopefully some good follow up discussions after.
Takeaways from today’s #FediForum thoughts, although my brain is filled with all kinds of tangents right now:
Onboarding new devs sucks. There’s way too many assumptions of what developers are supposed to know before they write a single line of code. There’s cultural hostility towards things people barely take the time to learn about or understand. There’s not really much of a welcoming committee for new devs. Sash’s experience definitely came up here.
#FediForum Day1 was excellent. So many good people and awesome projects and it was cool that #Meta#Threads showed up. They are saying all of the right things.
I’m truly excited about Day2. Excellent demos set. There’s a lot in-store for us all. #Fediverse
I appreciate @pcottle's entreaty to the attendees of the #FediForum to engage with the Threads team genuinely.
Meta/Facebook have a mixed track record when it comes to open formats/standards (fool me once, etc etc); but at the same time, ushering in 130M potential new users to an open, social web is also an opportunity not to be dismissed out of hand.
I am optimistic that the current team is showing up with good intent and I intend to reflect that.
For me, it's #AttentionDemocracy. Adding an attention layer to the open web, so that now we can not only post anything to the world, but it can earn eyeballs. That we all decide what info, ideas and art should go viral, not money. It's so huge and only possible here. I fear that the failure to see this potential, or the pursuit of other goals, will impede us from getting there.
Managing to catch up on contract work more quickly than expected-- and it looks like #NotGDC and #FediForum are both this week? Anything else worth dropping into?
One of the things I'm trying to think through as a #FediAdmin is whether we want to federate with #Bluesky and #Threads. On one hand, it would be nice to be able to interface with people less familiar with the #Fediverse, on the other hand, I'm more wary of the way our instance data will be handled. #FediForum