One of the most exciting tech developments at the moment is the advent of the #Solid web standard, which lets people "store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. Pods are like secure personal web servers for your data."
Is it technically possible for #ActivityPub to support the Solid standard? Or this would be something apps like #Mastodon should implement?
I'm a game release specialist working on the Anvil Pipeline at Ubisoft Montreal. I've been working in #gamedev since 2005 on consoles/PC and mobile platforms. I've been a gamer and playing #videogames my entire life and actually doing a lot of #retrogaming and #emulation. Very interested in #gamepreservation and #arcade games and arcade culture. Just started learning some #nesdev as well recently.
I've also recently became interested in #WeightLoss as I've lost 250 pounds in the last year. Feel free to poke me if you're interested in how I've done it or want to know about #BariatricSurgery. I've added a link to my bio to the documentation I received when I had the surgery so that you can get an idea of what to expect: https://cloud.zerojay.com/s/BariatricSurgery
I'm also really interested in everything having to do with the #fediverse. I've collected a bunch of links that are likely to be of interest to anyone from a complete Mastodon beginner, power users and even server administrators that you can find in my bio as well as here: https://cloud.zerojay.com/s/mastodon
#cuiProdest is still useful for more roundabout proposals. For example, post.news used a #pyramidScheme for onboarding to pump up the numbers when it had barely just launched and create noise to divert from the attention #Mastodon and the #Fediverse were getting on the first #TwitterExodus. People were sharing their referrals to invite others to join post.news hoping to move faster in the queue (#WIIFY), but this was all to the benefit of the post.news' owners.
The classic trilemma goes: "Fast, cheap or good, pick any two." The Moderator's Trilemma goes, "Large, diverse userbase; centralized platforms; don't anger users - pick any two." The Moderator's Trilemma is introduced in "Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media," a superb paper from @arozenshtein U of Minnesota Law, forthcoming in the journal Free Speech Law, available as a prepub on SSRN:
Rozenshtein proposes a solution (of sorts) to the Moderator's Trilemma: federation. De-siloing social media, breaking it out of centralized walled gardens and recomposing it as a bunch of small servers run by a diversity of operators with a diversity of #ContentModeration approaches. The #Fediverse, in other words.
If you need a good example of how bad all search engines have gotten, try using "Continuous Content Generation" as query (with quotes, to help restrict the search), and see if you can find links to my article http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/continuous-content-generation/
Most other (western) search engines depend on Google or MS one way or the other, so the results they provide aren't more interesting. Maybe I should look into the Asian ones, although I doubt my website would be indexed there 8-D
On a related note: has anyone looked into and/or used YaCy? Being distributed and #peerToPeer I would assume it might be of interest to #Fediverse users https://yacy.net/
Question for those that use Mastodon clients that allow multiple accounts logged in concurrently. Is that more like a fast switching between accounts but at any one time you are a particular user or is it merging timelines/contacts/etc. across all the accounts? As part of my Relatica refactoring I think I'm going to try to add multi-account support and the former seems to be the right way to go to minimize confusion for most workflows. #Mastodon#fediverse#friendica#relatica
As we slowly watch cryptocurrency and NFTs get replaced by the next big fad in venture capitalism, AI, I'd just like to thank everyone fighting for a free and open internet. #mastodon#fediverse#indieweb#FreeAndOpenInternet
I’ve been away from the #Fediverse for a while and it seems like new platforms are popping up. My third-party Mastodon client don’t always fetch all the posts from instances like snowdin.town and #akkoma, and it seems like people are having lots of fun there too. I’d like to learn more about them. Please reply with resources!
I’ve noticed a lot of instances are using #patreon to collect instance fees and donations. Patreon is shareholder owned. When you make payments through Patreon, 7% of your payment goes to Patreon, which ultimately goes to Patreon shareholders.
That’s not a model that suits the #fediverse. Here’s an alternative: use https://opencollective.com/. It’s a co-op, and it only charges 2%, which ultimately gets used to fund new #coops. Now, that’s a more #decentralised, fediverse-style model, isn’t it!
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
I have no problems imagining a different timeline, where #ActivityPub had been already a better-established thing, and the demo #OperaUnite applications for media and photo sharing had implemented basic support for it, resulting in self-hosted lightweight alternatives to #PixelFed or #FunkWhale.
And this is actually the vision I have an ultimate goal for the #Fediverse, one where, thanks also to client support, hosting and participation become even more trivial than setting up a static website.
One of the interesting ways in which this shows up is that in addition to email, RSS and calendars, Vivaldi has also actively promoted support for #Mastodon, in a very simple yet effective way (providing a Web Panel for their instance; you can add your own). I expect the same will work on other #Fediverse platforms, as long as they provide a functional web interface with good “small screen” support (since this is effectively what the Web Panels use).
The #VivaldiBrowser is the closest thing we have to an “swiss army knife for the open Internet” today, and yet it doesn't even have feature parity with the late Opera/Presto. For example, it has no IRC client.
But in the context of my vision for the #Fediverse, the most glaring omission is the lack of an equivalent to Opera Unite, an incentive to the development of easy-to-deploy self-hosted websites.
Hallo #Fediverse! Ab heute bin ich auch auf #Mastodon unterwegs. Auf diesem Profil gibt es Einblicke in meine Arbeit als Hessischer #Ministerpräsident: Es wird getrötet über Beratungen der @landesregierung, im Hessischen Landtag oder im Bundesrat, über Interviews, Veranstaltungen, Unternehmensbesuche, über Begegnungen mit Bürgerinnen und Bürgern und noch einiges mehr. Ich freue mich auf den Austausch. In diesem Sinne: Lasst das Tröten beginnen.
I'm making an ActivityPub server for distributing transit alerts 🎉 The tool is completely open-source and fetches alerts from GTFS-realtime Service Alerts feeds
Seeing @themarkup switch to their own instance makes perfect sense. More of this please…the more you learn about the decentralised structure of the #fediverse the more there is to like.
Even when Twitter’s T&S infrastructure was at its most functional – which I’d say was 2021-mid 2022 – I sometimes saw appeals on content decisions, suspensions, etc. take 2-3 months unless I escalated to personal contacts at the company.
I keep seeing folks expect #moderation and community management decisions on volunteer-run fedi instances to happen in hours – not even days – and jumping to defederation when they don’t get immediate responses. It’s going to burn out so many admins, and makes me sad and worried about the sustainability and scalability of our communities.
Hello! I'm a Science Fiction writer interested in realism in my stories, which means plausible people having remarkable adventures in a physically plausible universe. I picked this universe because I think "space" or "physics" would be places where I can come to get my facts straight. This is my first time checking out Mastodon, let's see if I do it right.